I'd be willing to bet that it will pan out like this.Either they will fail, and won't mandate any such thing, OR if they do the manufacturers will say "Fine", and double the price of the products in order to cover the cost of warranting it for 3 years.
I am implying that Hondas get better gas mileage than many new motorcycles, and calling motorcycles fuel efficient is silly today.
I don't know what motorcycles you're looking at, but my Y2k Ninja gets 45mpg consistently. I'd say that's pretty good for a vehicle that can do 0-60 in about 3 seconds.[Not that *I* have the talent to actually do that].
As a comparison, my '97 Nissan 200SX [2 door Sentra basically] gets about 33mpg [0-60 in about 9 seconds], and my gf's 98 Mazda Protoge gets about 26mpg [0-60 in about 2 years:) ].
Now sure, if I go and put on Ti headers and pipe [not quite legal], and stage 3 jet kit the mileage will go down the tubes. But that's something the owner chooses to do, and you can just as easily kill the gas mileage of a Civic.
Somewhat more on Topic, I think GM is looking in the right direction. If they can make a fuel-cell car that is viable at $20k, lasts longer, is WAY configurable, and cheaper to own [TCO] than a Honda Accord or Toyota Camery [just examples of standard cars today] then I'll definitely be in line to buy one.
When I originally read the Narnia series in 6th grade, I read it in the order that it was published [With "The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe" first].
I was kind of upset when I saw that they had renumbered the series to put "The Magician's Nephew" first. If that had been the first book I'd read, I would have never gone any further in the series. It was by far the least interesting book of the 7.
So I think it's better with "Lion" first...
Of course, Voyage of the Dawn Treador was the best:)
Wow. Because all Admins do all day anyway is just sit around. Probably the most cushiest tech job out there. If something goes wrong, that's when you spring into action.
I find that it's similar to being a fireman. You sit around all day, watching TV or doing "nothing" [or washing your fire-engine I suppose:)],until something blows up. Then you work your @ss off putting out the 'fire'.
When things are working as they're supposed to, we sysadmins may not do much. But you'd sure be bummed if we weren't around when the payroll server dies! Besides, we're not REALLY wasting time. All those Quake Deathmatch games are our way of testing the network for latency issues.
In a way, you already are. Anyone riding a fairly recent model sport-bike can do that. I believe the 'official' 0-60 time on my bike is 3.9sec [not that I can get off the line that well]
Last year my company sent out a similar email when they provided the bandwidth for a hacker convention in Las Vegas.
Except the email had a slightly different tone, more like: We don't know which genius decided to sell bandwidth to these people, but now that it's done, be careful as they have a history of having cracking contests...
My gf is a teacher,and this year she had to teach a middle school "communications" class [which was really just an English as a Second Language class].
After Sept 11th, when patriotism was running rampant, she noticed that the kids were basically mindlessly reciting the pledge each morning.
Anyway, as one of her assignments, she had her students parse the pledge of allegiance. She had them pick apart every word and phrase, and find out the definition. They they had to re-assemble the pledge in their own words, of what they thought the pledge was saying based on the definitions of the words.
Turns out most of the students were upset about what the pledge was saying, and ever since then most of them refused to recite the pledge. Even many of the kids from Chrisitan families were not happy about it.
Anyway, just thought it'd be an interesting, topical story.
As for me, I'm glad they are finally realizing how stupid it is to recite the Pledge in schools.
From the article: "Cullinan blamed the decision on a previous antitrust settlement between the two companies, which prohibits Microsoft from making any changes to the Java software that it includes in Windows.
"If there's a security hole found or a security problem found, we can't fix it," Cullinan said. "
Maybe it's just me but isn't that the same reason so many of us prefer Linux and BSD over Windows?!?!?!
Now I'm not arguing whether either side is right or wrong, but I think that one of the MAJOR problems with Microsoft is that they've gotten SO big, their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing.
Left Hand: Waa! We can't make changes to Java, so we're going to quit using it, instead of using Sun's release. Right Hand: No! You can't make changes to Windows to make it more secure! Now buy upgrades to all Microsoft products by next week or you'll lose all support!
THIS is why I think they need to be broken up. Not because I hate Microsoft per se [though I have little love for them], but because they've become too big to function effectively. I really feel that if each division were on it's own, they would be able to provide better, more stable, more efficient and more secure software.
Anticompetitive against whom? The VCR Manufacturers? Nope, they make DVDplayers too. The MPAA isn't going to mind going solely to DVD as it's cheaper to produce than vhs, so it helps them too.
And if Joe Blow is too dumb to go somewhere else to get the same thing cheaper, then that's his problem. Then again, if he shops for tech widgets ONLY at Circuit City, that should tell you the same thing.:)
What I'm hoping, is that since there will be much more shelf space for DVD's, they will be more likely to carry the less 'blockbuster' titles that are hard to find at retail stores. And it will also hopefully convice the movie companies to release some of the movies that haven't yet come out on DVD, such as Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future.
Ender
PS. On a similar note, I was rather dissapointed a few years ago when I realized that Six String Samauri was on DVD before The Princess Bride! [Not that I didn't enjoy Six String Samauri of course]
I was also an earthquake virgin. It was a pretty easy one. The desk I was sitting at started squeaking, so I got up and stood in the doorway. I live about 10 miles from the epicenter [Salinas], so the shaking was definite, but mostly an easy roll.
While I have no interest in being in a huge quake, with massive damage or loss of life, I must admit to being completely fascinated by earthquakes. I'd like to be outside for a smallish one to get a better view of the ground rolling.
of course, I'm also kind of fascinated by tornadoes, so maybe I'm just a nut:)
Then again, raisins scare me. They're the undead of the fruit world.
They're just humiliated grapes:)
Now for something ontopic...
Am I the only one who finds it extra depressing that Sat morning is the time we get this news?
I too grew up watching Looney Toons Sat mornings. I haven't watched a Sat morning cartoon since they stopped showing them. It's just not worth getting up early on Sat if there are no Looney Toons to watch.
Now with Mel Blan, Fritz Freleng and Chuck Jones gone, it hardly seems worth getting up at all...
Hopefully there will be a lithograph for CJ as there was for: Mel Blanc and Fritz Freleng [Can't seem to find an image of it].
Of course if you go to the Warner Brothers web site, the front page has an ad for a new Chuck Jones Web cartoon called Timberwolf.
This story mentions airdropping of leaflets, and I know they were doing a lot of that in Afghanistan itself.
So my question is: Who the hell is going to clean up this mess?!?!
If *I* were to suddenly drop thousands of pieces of paper over a US city, I'd be picked up and fined HEAVILY for littering. Why the hell is it ok for the US to litter over other countries?
Despite being a US citizen, I think it's high time NATO or the UN [or whoever] gets around to fining the US for this littering of our planet! And for the many other stupid-ass things this country keeps doing.
Then again, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong [apologies to Denis Miller]
AFAIK, this may be implying that by possessing such a book, you may be in violation of copyright law, but I do not know for sure
I don't think it's a matter of violating copyright law. If the book has no cover, it was stolen.
I used to work at Waldenbooks and instead of sending unsold paperbacks to the publisher, we were told to tear off the cover, and destroy the rest of the book. Only the cover was sent to the publisher. I spent many an hour tearing paperback's in half [along the spine, I'm not THAT strong!:) ]
As a very avid reader this always pissed me off, as I'm sure there are thousands of libraries or schools that would LOVE to have some books donated. At the very least the paper could be recycled, but the publishers won't even allow that.
I think the mistake was trusting an incomplete NTFS driver. I was under the impression that Kerlnel NTFS support for Windows XP's NTFS was at the beta stage or something and had known problems. I use FAT32 for the things I need to share between Linux and Windows on my dekstop (XP and RedHat)
I don't believe it was an issue with the NTFS support in the kernel though. I didn't even mount the NTFS partitions at all, and I've NEVER mounted an NTFS partition as writable. I KNOW that's bad ju-ju!:)
I think it was just the partitioning during the Mandrake installed that killed my NTFS partition. I have a 40 gig drive. The first 20 gig is split into two partitions for NTFS. The rest was partitioned for Linux [had Slackware running].
When I went to install Mandrake, I simply told it to use the already existing linux partitions. But somehow it corrupted the NTFS partition. Actually after I fixed it, I tried installing Mandrake again, and it corrupted it a second time. So It's in the install partitioning that the NTFS part got corrupted, not from the kernel NTFS driver.
I really have no problem with Mandrake, the best, most stable, usable desktop I've ever had was an old Mandrake 7.x beta. And I would happily use Mandrake again, I simply will only trust it as the sole OS on the box.
I had a similar problem. I installed Mandrake 8.1 as a dual boot with WinXP. And somehow Mandrake hosed my second partition [20 gig D drive space where I kept most of my stuff in Windows]
Luckily I have a program called Restorer 2000 Which managed to recover all the data from the corrupted NTFS partition.
It will be awhile before I trust Mandrake as a second OS again...
You are confusing two different issues. One is the auto-killfile that I perform on myself, not allowing anyone using outlook to read my mails. The second is the "dress code" for posting to a mailing list I run. They're two different efforts.
The first says "I don't care if windows users can't read my mail"
The second says "I don't want windows users posting to my mailing list"
There is a distinction.
You are correct, but they have one thing in common. Anyone has the right to do either one.
If he wants to make it so windows users can't read his mail, that's his problem. And if he wants to exclude windows users from posting to his mailing list, well it's his mailing list, he can moderate it any way he wants to.
Now, is this polite? No not really.There are certainly better ways of getting your point across. Perhaps he would be better served by warning people upon joining his mailing list that windows clients are frowned upon for whatever reasons and pointing them to some equivalent free software.
Perhaps/. can warn sites that they're gonna link to them?
The funny part is that the "Augustus" that submitted the article is from linuxhardware.org . Which leads me to believe that they knew what was coming...
It's amazing that my little K62-350 stood up to the/. effect on 09-11-01 with no problem. Yet a fairly major web site can't handle it. Hmm...
No OS needs more than one mouse button but life is sure a hell-of-a-lot easier with multiple buttons (especially the scroll button).
I think this is quite a valid point.
I see it like this:
You could drive a car with just 1 pedal. Push it to go, and let off to stop. But adding a second [brake] pedal sure makes it easier to control, doesn't it? And then there's the clutch pedal for those who want even more control.
So the way I figure it, sure, a 1 button mouse is certainly functional, and if that's all you need, then use away. But the second and third buttons make the system much more friendly for anything more complicated than surfing the web.
On another note, as a long time mac-hater, I have to give props to Apple. They are finally making things that *I* would consider paying money for. I've never had a problem with their hardware, but their OS and software have just never seemed to have enough of an advantage over Windows and Linux to be worth paying for. However,I LOVED the demo of iPhoto. That's just bad@ss!
It seems to solve all of the issues I have with taking pictures with my digital camera.
1. I tend to lose them. I just never seem to get around to burning them onto CD [my fault I know]
2. Getting them set up to be put on my web page is a bit of a pain
3. Most of my family isn't connected. Making it THAT easy to have photo prints made is a work of genius on the part of Apple [yeah I know WinXP is supposed to make it that easy, but not only does that PhotoBook look sweet, but I SERIOUSLY doubt the MS software is as well integrated and usable as iPhoto. Resizing the thumbnails like that was just tight as hell:) ]
The point is, they are finally starting to make computers what I dreamed they would be growing up, and what I've seen of OSX makes me think Apple will keep it all going in the right direction.
Unfortunately,I'm less than fond of the new iMac [not enough power for me], and I'm sure when the new PowerMacs come out, they will be WAY out of my price range.
I feel Hugo Weavings performance in lotr was very similar to that of the Matrix (playing Agent Smith).
Heh...I was thinking that during the movie. As a matter of fact, when he started in on "Pleased to meet you...[pause]...Mr Frodo", it started out so much like some of his lines in the Matrix that myself and at least 2 others piped in with "...Mr Anderson" as he said Mr Frodo. We had the timing down perfect:)
I don't want to hear what was left out of the book or see/hear about how certain parts of the book were portrayed.
That's why I've been avoiding all the trailers and commercials and told my friends who'll see the movie before me that I'll tear them a new goatse.cx sized asshole if they tell me anything about the movie.
Um...then why are you reading this article/comment thread?
MS can only be a monopoly if it forces other competitors off the market. As far as I know thats not true. MS Just bundles software with their OS much like Redhat does with their linux distro [Damn they have netscape, must be a monopoly
This isn't even close to a valid statement.
There is no competition because MS has already crushed it.
Netscape was a business competitor. But it was crushed because MS made IE part of the OS, then forbade OEM's to install any other browser on their systems. Now Netscape was forced to give away the browser, completely destroying their business model.
OS/2 was a competitor. But MS crushed them as well, using contracts with OEMs that forbade them to use any other OS on their systems.
Word Perfect was a competitor, but MS crushed them as well, by having file formats that changed every version, as well as using their growing OS monopoly [gee, I have a MS OS, I might as well use their Office suite too since it also comes bundled with my system].
That's just a few examples. I'm not just anti-anything Microsoft. They have forced quite a few competing non-open source companies to either go out of business, or make them so un-important that many people think they ARE out of business.
It's not just the including software that made them a monopoly. It's using their growing power to stop OEMs from allowing any other software the chance to be used.
Many people and darn near all businesses have at least one Windows app. that they simply cannot give up. I'd take running 90% Linux native stuff + 1 Windows app. over running 100% Windows any day.
Bingo! Congratulations! Give that man/woman a cigar!
This is the exact issue I have. Right now I'm 80% of the way to using only Linux at work. What's stopping me?
1. MS Exchange - we use Outlook 2000 for email/calendaring etc. This will be solved when I purchase [yes I will pay] the plugin for Evolution
2. MS Office - we use Word and Excel and Access for various things. The open source Office clones are getting better, but they are still not quite good enough for what I need.
3. Remedy - There is no remedy client for linux. Sorry, gotta have it to do trouble tickets.
So I run everything else from Linux on my laptop. DVD, cdburning, personal email etc. But until I have those things, I either have to keep a separate Windows box going, or run something like Lindows.
I'd rather run Lindows for a couple apps than Windows for a couple apps.
Of course, there is one other thing I run Windows for. Diablo II. [sigh]
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I'd be willing to bet that it will pan out like this.Either they will fail, and won't mandate any such thing, OR if they do the manufacturers will say "Fine", and double the price of the products in order to cover the cost of warranting it for 3 years.
Ender
I don't know what motorcycles you're looking at, but my Y2k Ninja gets 45mpg consistently. I'd say that's pretty good for a vehicle that can do 0-60 in about 3 seconds.[Not that *I* have the talent to actually do that].
As a comparison, my '97 Nissan 200SX [2 door Sentra basically] gets about 33mpg [0-60 in about 9 seconds], and my gf's 98 Mazda Protoge gets about 26mpg [0-60 in about 2 years
Now sure, if I go and put on Ti headers and pipe [not quite legal], and stage 3 jet kit the mileage will go down the tubes. But that's something the owner chooses to do, and you can just as easily kill the gas mileage of a Civic.
Somewhat more on Topic, I think GM is looking in the right direction. If they can make a fuel-cell car that is viable at $20k, lasts longer, is WAY configurable, and cheaper to own [TCO] than a Honda Accord or Toyota Camery [just examples of standard cars today] then I'll definitely be in line to buy one.
Ender
When I originally read the Narnia series in 6th grade, I read it in the order that it was published [With "The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe" first].
:)
I was kind of upset when I saw that they had renumbered the series to put "The Magician's Nephew" first. If that had been the first book I'd read, I would have never gone any further in the series. It was by far the least interesting book of the 7.
So I think it's better with "Lion" first...
Of course, Voyage of the Dawn Treador was the best
Ender
Wow. Because all Admins do all day anyway is just sit around. Probably the most cushiest tech job out there. If something goes wrong, that's when you spring into action.
:)],until something blows up. Then you work your @ss off putting out the 'fire'.
I find that it's similar to being a fireman. You sit around all day, watching TV or doing "nothing" [or washing your fire-engine I suppose
When things are working as they're supposed to, we sysadmins may not do much. But you'd sure be bummed if we weren't around when the payroll server dies! Besides, we're not REALLY wasting time. All those Quake Deathmatch games are our way of testing the network for latency issues.
Ender
- Omniscient Sys-Admin Guru [in training]
In a way, you already are. Anyone riding a fairly recent model sport-bike can do that.
I believe the 'official' 0-60 time on my bike is 3.9sec [not that I can get off the line that well]
Ender
Last year my company sent out a similar email when they provided the bandwidth for a hacker convention in Las Vegas.
Except the email had a slightly different tone, more like: We don't know which genius decided to sell bandwidth to these people, but now that it's done, be careful as they have a history of having cracking contests...
Don't think we had any trouble though.
Ender-
Some of you might find this interesting.
My gf is a teacher,and this year she had to teach a middle school "communications" class [which was really just an English as a Second Language class].
After Sept 11th, when patriotism was running rampant, she noticed that the kids were basically mindlessly reciting the pledge each morning.
Anyway, as one of her assignments, she had her students parse the pledge of allegiance. She had them pick apart every word and phrase, and find out the definition. They they had to re-assemble the pledge in their own words, of what they thought the pledge was saying based on the definitions of the words.
Turns out most of the students were upset about what the pledge was saying, and ever since then most of them refused to recite the pledge. Even many of the kids from Chrisitan families were not happy about it.
Anyway, just thought it'd be an interesting, topical story.
As for me, I'm glad they are finally realizing how stupid it is to recite the Pledge in schools.
Ender
From the article: "Cullinan blamed the decision on a previous antitrust settlement between the two companies, which prohibits Microsoft from making any changes to the Java software that it includes in Windows.
"If there's a security hole found or a security problem found, we can't fix it," Cullinan said. "
Maybe it's just me but isn't that the same reason so many of us prefer Linux and BSD over Windows?!?!?!
Now I'm not arguing whether either side is right or wrong, but I think that one of the MAJOR problems with Microsoft is that they've gotten SO big, their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing.
Left Hand: Waa! We can't make changes to Java, so we're going to quit using it, instead of using Sun's release.
Right Hand: No! You can't make changes to Windows to make it more secure! Now buy upgrades to all Microsoft products by next week or you'll lose all support!
THIS is why I think they need to be broken up. Not because I hate Microsoft per se [though I have little love for them], but because they've become too big to function effectively. I really feel that if each division were on it's own, they would be able to provide better, more stable, more efficient and more secure software.
Ender
Anticompetitive against whom? The VCR Manufacturers? Nope, they make DVDplayers too. The MPAA isn't going to mind going solely to DVD as it's cheaper to produce than vhs, so it helps them too.
:)
And if Joe Blow is too dumb to go somewhere else to get the same thing cheaper, then that's his problem. Then again, if he shops for tech widgets ONLY at Circuit City, that should tell you the same thing.
What I'm hoping, is that since there will be much more shelf space for DVD's, they will be more likely to carry the less 'blockbuster' titles that are hard to find at retail stores.
And it will also hopefully convice the movie companies to release some of the movies that haven't yet come out on DVD, such as Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future.
Ender
PS. On a similar note, I was rather dissapointed a few years ago when I realized that Six String Samauri was on DVD before The Princess Bride! [Not that I didn't enjoy Six String Samauri of course]
I was also an earthquake virgin. It was a pretty easy one. The desk I was sitting at started squeaking, so I got up and stood in the doorway.
:)
I live about 10 miles from the epicenter [Salinas], so the shaking was definite, but mostly an easy roll.
While I have no interest in being in a huge quake, with massive damage or loss of life, I must admit to being completely fascinated by earthquakes. I'd like to be outside for a smallish one to get a better view of the ground rolling.
of course, I'm also kind of fascinated by tornadoes, so maybe I'm just a nut
Ender
I hear Frys is having a sale on breeder reactors and gas difusion plants. You should pop down there.
Speaking of which, does anyone else think it's a bad idea to have a Tesla Coil, and a 10kw Jacob's Ladder in an electronics store or is that just me?
Ender
Then use a permanent marker, silly
Ender
Then again, raisins scare me. They're the undead of the fruit world.
:)
They're just humiliated grapes
Now for something ontopic...
Am I the only one who finds it extra depressing that Sat morning is the time we get this news?
I too grew up watching Looney Toons Sat mornings. I haven't watched a Sat morning cartoon since they stopped showing them. It's just not worth getting up early on Sat if there are no Looney Toons to watch.
Now with Mel Blan, Fritz Freleng and Chuck Jones gone, it hardly seems worth getting up at all...
Hopefully there will be a lithograph for CJ as there was for:
Mel Blanc and
Fritz Freleng [Can't seem to find an image of it].
Of course if you go to the Warner Brothers web site, the front page has an ad for a new Chuck Jones Web cartoon called Timberwolf.
Ender
How about this?
This story mentions airdropping of leaflets, and I know they were doing a lot of that in Afghanistan itself.
So my question is:
Who the hell is going to clean up this mess?!?!
If *I* were to suddenly drop thousands of pieces of paper over a US city, I'd be picked up and fined HEAVILY for littering. Why the hell is it ok for the US to litter over other countries?
Despite being a US citizen, I think it's high time NATO or the UN [or whoever] gets around to fining the US for this littering of our planet! And for the many other stupid-ass things this country keeps doing.
Then again, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong [apologies to Denis Miller]
Ender
AFAIK, this may be implying that by possessing such a book, you may be in violation of copyright law, but I do not know for sure
:) ]
I don't think it's a matter of violating copyright law. If the book has no cover, it was stolen.
I used to work at Waldenbooks and instead of sending unsold paperbacks to the publisher, we were told to tear off the cover, and destroy the rest of the book. Only the cover was sent to the publisher. I spent many an hour tearing paperback's in half [along the spine, I'm not THAT strong!
As a very avid reader this always pissed me off, as I'm sure there are thousands of libraries or schools that would LOVE to have some books donated. At the very least the paper could be recycled, but the publishers won't even allow that.
Ender
I think the mistake was trusting an incomplete NTFS driver. I was under the impression that Kerlnel NTFS support for Windows XP's NTFS was at the beta stage or something and had known problems. I use FAT32 for the things I need to share between Linux and Windows on my dekstop (XP and RedHat)
:)
I don't believe it was an issue with the NTFS support in the kernel though. I didn't even mount the NTFS partitions at all, and I've NEVER mounted an NTFS partition as writable. I KNOW that's bad ju-ju!
I think it was just the partitioning during the Mandrake installed that killed my NTFS partition. I have a 40 gig drive. The first 20 gig is split into two partitions for NTFS. The rest was partitioned for Linux [had Slackware running].
When I went to install Mandrake, I simply told it to use the already existing linux partitions. But somehow it corrupted the NTFS partition. Actually after I fixed it, I tried installing Mandrake again, and it corrupted it a second time. So It's in the install partitioning that the NTFS part got corrupted, not from the kernel NTFS driver.
I really have no problem with Mandrake, the best, most stable, usable desktop I've ever had was an old Mandrake 7.x beta. And I would happily use Mandrake again, I simply will only trust it as the sole OS on the box.
Ender
I had a similar problem. I installed Mandrake 8.1 as a dual boot with WinXP. And somehow Mandrake hosed my second partition [20 gig D drive space where I kept most of my stuff in Windows]
Luckily I have a program called Restorer 2000 Which managed to recover all the data from the corrupted NTFS partition.
It will be awhile before I trust Mandrake as a second OS again...
Ender
You are confusing two different issues. One is the auto-killfile that I perform on myself, not allowing anyone using outlook to read my mails. The second is the "dress code" for posting to a mailing list I run. They're two different efforts.
The first says "I don't care if windows users can't read my mail"
The second says "I don't want windows users posting to my mailing list"
There is a distinction.
You are correct, but they have one thing in common. Anyone has the right to do either one.
If he wants to make it so windows users can't read his mail, that's his problem. And if he wants to exclude windows users from posting to his mailing list, well it's his mailing list, he can moderate it any way he wants to.
Now, is this polite? No not really.There are certainly better ways of getting your point across. Perhaps he would be better served by warning people upon joining his mailing list that windows clients are frowned upon for whatever reasons and pointing them to some equivalent free software.
Ender
Um, maybe it was explained in another thread.... what was your computer doing on September 11th?
It was mirroring every bit of news/pic/vid I could get my hands on since all the news sites at the time were useless.
Ender
Perhaps /. can warn sites that they're gonna link to them?
/. effect on 09-11-01 with no problem. Yet a fairly major web site can't handle it. Hmm...
The funny part is that the "Augustus" that submitted the article is from linuxhardware.org . Which leads me to believe that they knew what was coming...
It's amazing that my little K62-350 stood up to the
Ender
No OS needs more than one mouse button but life is sure a hell-of-a-lot easier with multiple buttons (especially the scroll button).
:) ]
:^(
I think this is quite a valid point.
I see it like this:
You could drive a car with just 1 pedal. Push it to go, and let off to stop. But adding a second [brake] pedal sure makes it easier to control, doesn't it? And then there's the clutch pedal for those who want even more control.
So the way I figure it, sure, a 1 button mouse is certainly functional, and if that's all you need, then use away. But the second and third buttons make the system much more friendly for anything more complicated than surfing the web.
On another note, as a long time mac-hater, I have to give props to Apple. They are finally making things that *I* would consider paying money for. I've never had a problem with their hardware, but their OS and software have just never seemed to have enough of an advantage over Windows and Linux to be worth paying for. However,I LOVED the demo of iPhoto. That's just bad@ss!
It seems to solve all of the issues I have with taking pictures with my digital camera.
1. I tend to lose them. I just never seem to get around to burning them onto CD [my fault I know]
2. Getting them set up to be put on my web page is a bit of a pain
3. Most of my family isn't connected. Making it THAT easy to have photo prints made is a work of genius on the part of Apple [yeah I know WinXP is supposed to make it that easy, but not only does that PhotoBook look sweet, but I SERIOUSLY doubt the MS software is as well integrated and usable as iPhoto. Resizing the thumbnails like that was just tight as hell
The point is, they are finally starting to make computers what I dreamed they would be growing up, and what I've seen of OSX makes me think Apple will keep it all going in the right direction.
Unfortunately,I'm less than fond of the new iMac [not enough power for me], and I'm sure when the new PowerMacs come out, they will be WAY out of my price range.
What a crappy dillema!
Ender
I feel Hugo Weavings performance in lotr was very similar to that of the Matrix (playing Agent Smith).
:)
Heh...I was thinking that during the movie. As a matter of fact, when he started in on "Pleased to meet you...[pause]...Mr Frodo", it started out so much like some of his lines in the Matrix that myself and at least 2 others piped in with "...Mr Anderson" as he said Mr Frodo. We had the timing down perfect
Ender
You can still spoil the movie.
I don't want to hear what was left out of the book or see/hear about how certain parts of the book were portrayed.
That's why I've been avoiding all the trailers and commercials and told my friends who'll see the movie before me that I'll tear them a new goatse.cx sized asshole if they tell me anything about the movie.
Um...then why are you reading this article/comment thread?
Ender
MS can only be a monopoly if it forces other competitors off the market. As far as I know thats not true. MS Just bundles software with their OS much like Redhat does with their linux distro [Damn they have netscape, must be a monopoly
This isn't even close to a valid statement.
There is no competition because MS has already crushed it.
Netscape was a business competitor. But it was crushed because MS made IE part of the OS, then forbade OEM's to install any other browser on their systems. Now Netscape was forced to give away the browser, completely destroying their business model.
OS/2 was a competitor. But MS crushed them as well, using contracts with OEMs that forbade them to use any other OS on their systems.
Word Perfect was a competitor, but MS crushed them as well, by having file formats that changed every version, as well as using their growing OS monopoly [gee, I have a MS OS, I might as well use their Office suite too since it also comes bundled with my system].
That's just a few examples. I'm not just anti-anything Microsoft. They have forced quite a few competing non-open source companies to either go out of business, or make them so un-important that many people think they ARE out of business.
It's not just the including software that made them a monopoly. It's using their growing power to stop OEMs from allowing any other software the chance to be used.
Ender
Many people and darn near all businesses have at least one Windows app. that they simply cannot give up. I'd take running 90% Linux native stuff + 1 Windows app. over running 100% Windows any day.
Bingo! Congratulations! Give that man/woman a cigar!
This is the exact issue I have. Right now I'm 80% of the way to using only Linux at work. What's stopping me?
1. MS Exchange - we use Outlook 2000 for email/calendaring etc. This will be solved when I purchase [yes I will pay] the plugin for Evolution
2. MS Office - we use Word and Excel and Access for various things. The open source Office clones are getting better, but they are still not quite good enough for what I need.
3. Remedy - There is no remedy client for linux. Sorry, gotta have it to do trouble tickets.
So I run everything else from Linux on my laptop. DVD, cdburning, personal email etc. But until I have those things, I either have to keep a separate Windows box going, or run something like Lindows.
I'd rather run Lindows for a couple apps than Windows for a couple apps.
Of course, there is one other thing I run Windows for. Diablo II. [sigh]
Ender