Despite the fact that thye no longer actually contain a half gallon, they are still clearly labelled "half gallon" on the containers (Though the ounces are properly listed, and anyone who knows how many ounces there are in a gallon knows they're being shortchanged).
Note that gallon is a unit of volume while ounce is a unit of weight; fluid ounce is a unit of volume and is often confused with ounces. One ounce of water takes one fluid ounce of space, but other substances may have different densities.
One half gallon is 64 fluid ounces, but may not weigh 64 ounces (4 lbs.). I don't know if this explains your ice cream problem or not.
I'm probably wrong about something; somebody post a correction.:-)
At least thats what they could say and just do what IBM has done with their Thinkpad MAMOTH series (the ones that are like 8lbs, but have a real P4 in them)
What exactly do you mean? Apple doesn't used stripped-down "mobility" processors in their laptops, and there's an option in System Preferences to make it run full-speed on batteries (for when speed is more important than battery life).
mostly useless Open Source OS that runs on their over priced hardware
Darwin also runs on x86 hardware, although support is VERY limited.
Apple's hardware isn't overpriced when you compare it to competing hardware with similar specs. The first problem is, Apple doesn't make low-end machines, so when you compare a low-end PC to a mid-range Mac, yeah, the Mac is more expensive. The second problem is, Motorola sucks: Apple's mid-range Macs are slower than mid-range PCs with similar features and price, so you have to get a high-end Mac to beat the speed of a mid-range PC (which won't have the other features the high-end Mac does). IBM is stepping up to the plate, though, and this issue should be resolved within the next two years.
Besides, they ship just about the only laptops you can buy that come with Perl pre-installed.;-)
P.s. If you think the G5 "Looks nice" you must have just had a stroke.
1. The VIC-20 shipped in 1980 and the Commodore 64 in 1982. The Apple I shipped in 1976 and Apple II in 1977.
2. The Amiga didn't ship until September 1985. The Macintosh shipped in January 1984 (remember the SuperBowl ad?).
3. The Amiga used the same Motorola 680x0 CISC chips the old Macs did. Only the new ones are PowerPC-based. Apple has been shipping PowerMacs since 1994.
What I'm really looking forward to is, apparently IBM is working on adding an AltiVec-compatible SIMD unit to the G3 processor, and ramping up the clock speed. A couple of those would make a sweet laptop.
Doesn't look like it runs on any of the platforms I run. AIM, Yahoo and MSN all run on OSX, AIM is available as a Slackware package, and it looks like I could get Yahoo to work on Slackware with some hacking (wouldn't surprise me if the next release has a Slackware package).
to learn more information, you need to click on a flash presentation, which requires a plugin....which is available at no cost for the most popular platforms, including yours I'll bet. If you choose not to install it, that's your business.
Yes; Summy-Birchard Music (a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner) holds the copyright on the melody. If you set the words (in Tagalog) to a new melody, I really have no idea - consult an attorney.
You may want to try to use the SpamCop BL as an alternative until SPEWS is backonline reliably.
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Perhaps you should educate your customers on proper methods instead.
How do you propose he do that before they call up and take his time? Mailbomb them? Redirect port 80 to a web page with questionaire, and don't let them back on the web until they answer all the questions correctly?
My SMTP server is set to reject mail when the "from" envelope sender doesn't resolve. This prevents spammers from using completely non-existent envelope senders. Since all unregistered.com/net domains now resolve, this restriction is no longer significant.
I've heard a few antispam proposals that involves adding new DNS records to indicate what IP addresses are allowed to send mail from a certain envelope sender domain. Since obviously not everyone has these new records set up, you'd accept anything from anyone who doesn't, and only reject mail if the domain DOES have the new records AND they don't match the IP the connection is coming from. Not a bad idea, but this breaks it.
We don't know if these things will sell yet. Simply.
Apple probably won't catch up with demand for the PowerMac G5s for another couple of months. A lot of people have been waiting for these PowerBooks, and they seem to actually be available and shipping immediately; I don't think sales will be a problem.
I wonder how long it'll take people to figure out that Apple is doing Win32 development of in-house apps coded originally for the Carbon API in less than a year? If I were a third-party developer wondering whether to take my Win32 app to the Mac, I'd start paying attention. If the development tools are this good...
Many Win32 developers are completely clueless about how things are supposed to work on a Mac, but many Mac developers are familiar with a cross-platform way of thinking, and Apple already has a lot of experience developing for win32 (QuickTime, iPod drivers, etc.). Plus, iTunes has already been ported from OS9 to OSX - not that big a jump, I know, but not as trivial as Apple originally tried to get people to believe - and that process will make it slightly easier for them to port it again (I expect the code probably got cleaned up quite a bit during that process).
Apple's development tools are very good though. How much of Windows do you suppose is actually built with VisualStudio.NET? Not much. Apple actually uses ProjectBuilder (now Xcode) in-house almost exclusively, and they ship it FREE with Mac OS X.
A reasonable alternative to the right button is a "click and a half" action. Basically do a double click action expect hold on the second click. That could pop up a context menu.
That would mean if I actually wanted to single-click on something, the app would have to wait until it was sure I wasn't going to click again before performing the single-click action. Doesn't matter for icons in the Finder, does matter for links on a web page.
The alternative actually used is a simple click-and-hold.
My pet peeve: why do most other keyboard manufacturers keep moving the normal keys around? I've seen huge enter keys with the backslash either squished up beside the backspace (making it harder to hit the backspace), or squished to the right of the shift key (I keep hitting \ by mistake because I use my right pinky to shift). I've seen ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn moved down a row to make room for extra keys above them, so when I try to hit a particular key, I hit the wrong one because they've been moved - and the one I hit might be one of their weird ones like Sleep, which will probably crash Windows (I've rarely seen Windows machines that can sleep properly).
My main complaint with Apple's Pro keyboard (and the new Bluetooth) is, there's almost no gap between the function keys and the number row. I suppose I've gotten used to it now, but it bugged me for a long time. Adding an extra 1/4" to the size of the keyboard really wouldn't have hurt anything. In fact, I wouldn't mind if the function keys were smaller (vertically) to make the gap.
My other complaint is the lack of a power key. I don't mind using ctrl-eject to sleep/restart/shut down, but not being able to turn the machine on from the keyboard or force a reboot after a kernel panic is annoying (to reboot my eMac I have to reach around the side of the machine and hold the power button for 4 seconds to turn it off, then press the button again to turn it on).
The volume keys are nice though, and the eject key is marvelous for those who keep their tower under their desk.
Perhaps they could program the touchpad software so two simultaneous touches (two fingers) could be interpreted as the second button.
I'm not sure it's sensitive enough to pick this up with any accuracy. Currently, the trackpad basically picks the center of all points that are being pressed and uses that to track movement, so you can use the tip of your pinky, or the side of your thumb, or two fingers together, or whatever works for you, and it'll still track the average motion. Try using two fingers together, and notice the way this works. Brilliant design IMHO, and probably compensates for many potential issues sensing exactly where your finger is and isn't.
How exactly do you define "simultaneous"?;-)
The trackpad does have a normal clickable button. You can optionally click by tapping the pad, but I don't think that's even on by default.
It's probably more to do with the brain not wired to realise subconsciously that the button even exists. I'm sure if they played games that requires reflexive right button clicking, they'll learning pretty quickly to realise that its there.
Precisely. The mouse becomes an extension of your arm, and you point to things with it. People don't normally use different fingers to point to things and mean completely different things depending on which finger they used (obscene gestures excepted).
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Despite the fact that thye no longer actually contain a half gallon, they are still clearly labelled "half gallon" on the containers (Though the ounces are properly listed, and anyone who knows how many ounces there are in a gallon knows they're being shortchanged).
:-)
Note that gallon is a unit of volume while ounce is a unit of weight; fluid ounce is a unit of volume and is often confused with ounces. One ounce of water takes one fluid ounce of space, but other substances may have different densities.
One half gallon is 64 fluid ounces, but may not weigh 64 ounces (4 lbs.). I don't know if this explains your ice cream problem or not.
I'm probably wrong about something; somebody post a correction.
Ah, but C64 owners can gloat about having 64 kilobytes, while G5 owners are stuck with just 64 bits.
At least thats what they could say and just do what IBM has done with their Thinkpad MAMOTH series (the ones that are like 8lbs, but have a real P4 in them)
What exactly do you mean? Apple doesn't used stripped-down "mobility" processors in their laptops, and there's an option in System Preferences to make it run full-speed on batteries (for when speed is more important than battery life).
I really hate upgrading operating systems. It's a safe bet you'll have a smoother experience with the new software by just installing it from scratch.
I've never had any problems upgrading classic Mac OS. I don't know about OSX yet, but you may be right.
I always do clean installs when upgrading Slackware, and if I had to run Windows I'd probably do clean installs even when I wasn't upgrading.
mostly useless Open Source OS that runs on their over priced hardware
;-)
Darwin also runs on x86 hardware, although support is VERY limited.
Apple's hardware isn't overpriced when you compare it to competing hardware with similar specs. The first problem is, Apple doesn't make low-end machines, so when you compare a low-end PC to a mid-range Mac, yeah, the Mac is more expensive. The second problem is, Motorola sucks: Apple's mid-range Macs are slower than mid-range PCs with similar features and price, so you have to get a high-end Mac to beat the speed of a mid-range PC (which won't have the other features the high-end Mac does). IBM is stepping up to the plate, though, and this issue should be resolved within the next two years.
Besides, they ship just about the only laptops you can buy that come with Perl pre-installed.
P.s. If you think the G5 "Looks nice" you must have just had a stroke.
Hey man, what have you got agaist cheese graters?
1-3 belong to commedore.(Amiga)
1. The VIC-20 shipped in 1980 and the Commodore 64 in 1982. The Apple I shipped in 1976 and Apple II in 1977.
2. The Amiga didn't ship until September 1985. The Macintosh shipped in January 1984 (remember the SuperBowl ad?).
3. The Amiga used the same Motorola 680x0 CISC chips the old Macs did. Only the new ones are PowerPC-based. Apple has been shipping PowerMacs since 1994.
What I'm really looking forward to is, apparently IBM is working on adding an AltiVec-compatible SIMD unit to the G3 processor, and ramping up the clock speed. A couple of those would make a sweet laptop.
...run MacOS? :-P
:-P
Only in BlueBox.
Doesn't look like it runs on any of the platforms I run. AIM, Yahoo and MSN all run on OSX, AIM is available as a Slackware package, and it looks like I could get Yahoo to work on Slackware with some hacking (wouldn't surprise me if the next release has a Slackware package).
AIM also has an enterprise version.
But they can't expect miracles.
;-)
Of course they can, and do. They won't get them, but that's different.
to learn more information, you need to click on a flash presentation, which requires a plugin. ...which is available at no cost for the most popular platforms, including yours I'll bet. If you choose not to install it, that's your business.
Even if you sing it in Tagalog?
Yes; Summy-Birchard Music (a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner) holds the copyright on the melody. If you set the words (in Tagalog) to a new melody, I really have no idea - consult an attorney.
You may want to try to use the SpamCop BL as an alternative until SPEWS is backonline reliably.
Note that bl.spamcop.net is completely automated, based on complaints received; IPs are NOT verified by anyone at SpamCop before being added to the blacklist. For this reason, SpamCop asks that you not use their list to bounce mail! Use it to flag potential spam for review, not to reject messages blindly.
Perhaps you should educate your customers on proper methods instead.
How do you propose he do that before they call up and take his time? Mailbomb them? Redirect port 80 to a web page with questionaire, and don't let them back on the web until they answer all the questions correctly?
Welcome to the real world.
whoa, holy crap, I hadn't even thought of that.
.com/net domains now resolve, this restriction is no longer significant.
My SMTP server is set to reject mail when the "from" envelope sender doesn't resolve. This prevents spammers from using completely non-existent envelope senders. Since all unregistered
I've heard a few antispam proposals that involves adding new DNS records to indicate what IP addresses are allowed to send mail from a certain envelope sender domain. Since obviously not everyone has these new records set up, you'd accept anything from anyone who doesn't, and only reject mail if the domain DOES have the new records AND they don't match the IP the connection is coming from. Not a bad idea, but this breaks it.
How is this any different from me buying mispelled domains to profit off other company's trademarks?
.com and .net are not USA TLDs, they're generic TLDs.
One difference is, the domains Verisign is squatting on can still be registered like normal, through your registrar of choice.
Another difference is, Verisign didn't have to buy the domains, it just started using them without paying anything.
It looks like they are abusing their right to manage the USA TLDs along with violating RFCs.
As someone else pointed out,
For me, the DNS resolution works, but nmap says port 80 on that IP is filtered. So, somebody's firewalling it somewhere, apparently.
We don't know if these things will sell yet. Simply.
Apple probably won't catch up with demand for the PowerMac G5s for another couple of months. A lot of people have been waiting for these PowerBooks, and they seem to actually be available and shipping immediately; I don't think sales will be a problem.
Probably when the G5 is able to shrink and run cool with less power for a power book.
Apparently IBM has figured out how to add an AltiVec unit to a G3 processor. I have no idea how Apple will market that, but I want one.
I wonder how long it'll take people to figure out that Apple is doing Win32 development of in-house apps coded originally for the Carbon API in less than a year? If I were a third-party developer wondering whether to take my Win32 app to the Mac, I'd start paying attention. If the development tools are this good...
Many Win32 developers are completely clueless about how things are supposed to work on a Mac, but many Mac developers are familiar with a cross-platform way of thinking, and Apple already has a lot of experience developing for win32 (QuickTime, iPod drivers, etc.). Plus, iTunes has already been ported from OS9 to OSX - not that big a jump, I know, but not as trivial as Apple originally tried to get people to believe - and that process will make it slightly easier for them to port it again (I expect the code probably got cleaned up quite a bit during that process).
Apple's development tools are very good though. How much of Windows do you suppose is actually built with VisualStudio.NET? Not much. Apple actually uses ProjectBuilder (now Xcode) in-house almost exclusively, and they ship it FREE with Mac OS X.
A reasonable alternative to the right button is a "click and a half" action. Basically do a double click action expect hold on the second click. That could pop up a context menu.
That would mean if I actually wanted to single-click on something, the app would have to wait until it was sure I wasn't going to click again before performing the single-click action. Doesn't matter for icons in the Finder, does matter for links on a web page.
The alternative actually used is a simple click-and-hold.
My pet peeve: why do most other keyboard manufacturers keep moving the normal keys around? I've seen huge enter keys with the backslash either squished up beside the backspace (making it harder to hit the backspace), or squished to the right of the shift key (I keep hitting \ by mistake because I use my right pinky to shift). I've seen ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn moved down a row to make room for extra keys above them, so when I try to hit a particular key, I hit the wrong one because they've been moved - and the one I hit might be one of their weird ones like Sleep, which will probably crash Windows (I've rarely seen Windows machines that can sleep properly).
My main complaint with Apple's Pro keyboard (and the new Bluetooth) is, there's almost no gap between the function keys and the number row. I suppose I've gotten used to it now, but it bugged me for a long time. Adding an extra 1/4" to the size of the keyboard really wouldn't have hurt anything. In fact, I wouldn't mind if the function keys were smaller (vertically) to make the gap.
My other complaint is the lack of a power key. I don't mind using ctrl-eject to sleep/restart/shut down, but not being able to turn the machine on from the keyboard or force a reboot after a kernel panic is annoying (to reboot my eMac I have to reach around the side of the machine and hold the power button for 4 seconds to turn it off, then press the button again to turn it on).
The volume keys are nice though, and the eject key is marvelous for those who keep their tower under their desk.
Perhaps they could program the touchpad software so two simultaneous touches (two fingers) could be interpreted as the second button.
;-)
I'm not sure it's sensitive enough to pick this up with any accuracy. Currently, the trackpad basically picks the center of all points that are being pressed and uses that to track movement, so you can use the tip of your pinky, or the side of your thumb, or two fingers together, or whatever works for you, and it'll still track the average motion. Try using two fingers together, and notice the way this works. Brilliant design IMHO, and probably compensates for many potential issues sensing exactly where your finger is and isn't.
How exactly do you define "simultaneous"?
The trackpad does have a normal clickable button. You can optionally click by tapping the pad, but I don't think that's even on by default.
It's probably more to do with the brain not wired to realise subconsciously that the button even exists. I'm sure if they played games that requires reflexive right button clicking, they'll learning pretty quickly to realise that its there.
Precisely. The mouse becomes an extension of your arm, and you point to things with it. People don't normally use different fingers to point to things and mean completely different things depending on which finger they used (obscene gestures excepted).