Also tell verizon, qwest, etc. that they have to provide you with bandwidth free of charge. Obviously you've missed the part of the plan where somebody on the executive board of one of those companies bribes a few members of Congress to slip the funding for this project into some bill. Congress then approves the bill, the military sends a big chunk of it over to the company, and the executive makes a tidy profit.
Slashdot needs a system so that people can RATE THE MODERATORS, because anyone who lets something such blatant fake-grassroot marketing material on the front-page should not be in that position. Slashdot has a system so that people can rate the moderators; it's called meta-moderation. What you're looking for is a system so that people can rate the editors who post these stories.
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I believe it was 1999; these were not the original 233MHz Bondi Blue iMacs, but the later five-fruit ones. I still have the shirt they sent me to wear; it's a white long-sleeve polo with "Apple Representative" on the front, and five iMacs on the back, below which it says "Yum!"
It's also possible I'm mistaken about which game I installed. I think it was UT, because UT requires a second mouse button for the alternate fire; you can play Quake 3 with a single button with no problem.
Ever tried to go online directly (without firewall/router) with a fresh installed Windows XP? It will be infected with trojans/virii within a few seconds. Uh, sure, but nobody actually does that anymore. Just about the only end users going online without NAT are people on dialup, and they can turn the software firewall on before they connect.
The difference is that Mac OS X has an "archive and install" option, which will preserve your home directory and a few other things like network settings while doing a clean install of the OS. All your data and preferences come out intact. A few applications that install "helper" bits and pieces might be broken, but for most people it's usually trivial problems that are easy to fix (worst case, reinstall the app).
Those of us who muck around with the UNIX side of things don't get off quite so easy, but it's still not too bad.
That was always my problem with Macs, and why I switched to PCs a long time ago. On my PC, compared to on my Macs, I was relatively encouraged to understand and tweak my system. Funny, one of the things I didn't like about PCs was not being able to tweak things as much. On the Mac, I had ResEdit.
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I like the Apple Pro mouse (for a one-button mouse); it doesn't feel that different from the old ADB mouse. The Mighty Mouse is the same shape, with added features.
My only complaint about the Mighty Mouse is that because the left and right buttons aren't separate buttons, if I try to right-click without first lifting my left finger off the button, it'll register as a left-click. Aside from that, it seems to work pretty well.
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I spent a couple days as an Apple representative in Circuit City, making sure their sales guys knew what iMacs could do. In addition to Apple's demo software, I brought in a copy of Unreal Tournament and an Ethernet crossover cable. Of course you can't really play UT without a two-button mouse, and iMacs at that time were shipping with hockey pucks, so I asked the sales guys if there was a PC with an extra USB mouse we could borrow.
They had no idea that an HP USB mouse could be plugged into a Mac.
They had also never heard of Unreal Tournament before, although a very attractive girl from the appliances department wandered over and mentioned that she had seen her boyfriend playing it at home. I was shocked that none of the computer salesmen were aware of such a popular game. It was definitely an eye-opening experience.
This is why Apple now has their own retail stores.
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True, it used USB (like the PowerMac G3 before it), The Blue&White PowerMac G3 was released after the iMac, not before. The beige G3 did not have USB.
People weren't criticizing USB on the iMac as a replacement for ADB; they were criticizing it as a replacement for serial and parallel. When the iMac was announced, there were no USB printers on the market. None. That would mean that if you bought an iMac, you couldn't print from it. And the only USB scanner most people had ever seen was this one.
Of course, the release of the iMac created a huge market for USB peripherals; Epson was the first to step up to the plate and release a USB printer. It was translucent blue.
Every other article on any tech website is about the copyright abuse, especially by the *AA. How much will it take for people to actually stop buying CDs and stop feeding and outdated business model? Simple:
When every other article on non-tech web sites are about copyright abuse, people will stop buying CDs. Most people buying CDs have never heard of Slashdot.
Consumers do play games... so providing games should still be a priority... which clearly it isn't... I'm not aware that any of my clients or my relatives play games beyond Solitaire and various Flash-based things. My roommates are gamers, but they seem to prefer the XBox 360.
Yes, computer-based gaming is an important market, but it's not quite as all-encompassing as you think it is.
1.) Hardware-accelerated 2D eye-candy, which frees up your CPU from having to render all that transparency and animated effects, which can actually improve productivity if implemented correctly (I'm not suggesting Apple's current implementation is correct, of course).
2.) It depends on what your corporation does. One of my clients is an architecture firm; they routinely shuffle around massively huge PDFs full of high-resolution photos. Another client is a fabrication shop that uses AutoCAD drawings.
and for the sight-impaired, how about a read description or definition of something? "this thing is the entrance to a house or a room" => door I've been experimenting with this kind of thing; it's a lot harder than it sounds. Computers aren't very good at answering questions like that... but they're not very good at asking questions like that either. The problem is, you don't want a human to have to think up every single question, because that severely limits the number of possible answers, and when the number of possible answers is limited, it becomes possible to just pick one randomly.
You need a way to automatically generate the questions by combining things together such that there is only one correct answer to any given question, but the number of possible questions is virtually infinite. Try it, it's harder than you think.
The conclusion I came to was that I'm not smart enough to design a CAPTCHA that can defeat a botnet.
They can simply cancel your contract for T&C violation, leaving you with an expensive but shiny brick. Until you hack it to work on T-Mobile's network. But yeah, fair point.
Presumably Apple can associate an iPhone serial number with an AT&T account and thus a phone number, and associate the serial number with the MAC address the device shipped with. Try guessing which MAC address to spoof that corresponds to the phone number you're using...
Well no, not necessarily strangers, but certainly anyone you'd ever like to talk to on the phone. And are you suggesting that AT&T should block their paying customers from being able to use a service they're entitled to just because some of their acquaintances are exploiting AT&T's shoddy lack of security?
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What would you say this sounds like? 2.5" Fujitsu drive.
Uh, on a laptop? are you kidding?
Add the Control key to copy to the clipboard instead.
You fail at enharmonics.
Yes of course, thank you. It's been awhile!
What do you mean by "pivoting" mice?
I may be mistaken about which game I installed, but it wasn't Unreal. This wasn't 1998, it was later, possibly 1999 or maybe even 2000.
I believe it was 1999; these were not the original 233MHz Bondi Blue iMacs, but the later five-fruit ones. I still have the shirt they sent me to wear; it's a white long-sleeve polo with "Apple Representative" on the front, and five iMacs on the back, below which it says "Yum!"
It's also possible I'm mistaken about which game I installed. I think it was UT, because UT requires a second mouse button for the alternate fire; you can play Quake 3 with a single button with no problem.
The difference is that Mac OS X has an "archive and install" option, which will preserve your home directory and a few other things like network settings while doing a clean install of the OS. All your data and preferences come out intact. A few applications that install "helper" bits and pieces might be broken, but for most people it's usually trivial problems that are easy to fix (worst case, reinstall the app).
Those of us who muck around with the UNIX side of things don't get off quite so easy, but it's still not too bad.
I like the Apple Pro mouse (for a one-button mouse); it doesn't feel that different from the old ADB mouse. The Mighty Mouse is the same shape, with added features.
My only complaint about the Mighty Mouse is that because the left and right buttons aren't separate buttons, if I try to right-click without first lifting my left finger off the button, it'll register as a left-click. Aside from that, it seems to work pretty well.
I spent a couple days as an Apple representative in Circuit City, making sure their sales guys knew what iMacs could do. In addition to Apple's demo software, I brought in a copy of Unreal Tournament and an Ethernet crossover cable. Of course you can't really play UT without a two-button mouse, and iMacs at that time were shipping with hockey pucks, so I asked the sales guys if there was a PC with an extra USB mouse we could borrow.
They had no idea that an HP USB mouse could be plugged into a Mac.
They had also never heard of Unreal Tournament before, although a very attractive girl from the appliances department wandered over and mentioned that she had seen her boyfriend playing it at home. I was shocked that none of the computer salesmen were aware of such a popular game. It was definitely an eye-opening experience.
This is why Apple now has their own retail stores.
People weren't criticizing USB on the iMac as a replacement for ADB; they were criticizing it as a replacement for serial and parallel. When the iMac was announced, there were no USB printers on the market. None. That would mean that if you bought an iMac, you couldn't print from it. And the only USB scanner most people had ever seen was this one.
Of course, the release of the iMac created a huge market for USB peripherals; Epson was the first to step up to the plate and release a USB printer. It was translucent blue.
When every other article on non-tech web sites are about copyright abuse, people will stop buying CDs. Most people buying CDs have never heard of Slashdot.
Yes, computer-based gaming is an important market, but it's not quite as all-encompassing as you think it is.
1.) Hardware-accelerated 2D eye-candy, which frees up your CPU from having to render all that transparency and animated effects, which can actually improve productivity if implemented correctly (I'm not suggesting Apple's current implementation is correct, of course).
2.) It depends on what your corporation does. One of my clients is an architecture firm; they routinely shuffle around massively huge PDFs full of high-resolution photos. Another client is a fabrication shop that uses AutoCAD drawings.
That was the obvious answer that came to mind, yes.
You need a way to automatically generate the questions by combining things together such that there is only one correct answer to any given question, but the number of possible questions is virtually infinite. Try it, it's harder than you think.
The conclusion I came to was that I'm not smart enough to design a CAPTCHA that can defeat a botnet.
Presumably Apple can associate an iPhone serial number with an AT&T account and thus a phone number, and associate the serial number with the MAC address the device shipped with. Try guessing which MAC address to spoof that corresponds to the phone number you're using...
Well no, not necessarily strangers, but certainly anyone you'd ever like to talk to on the phone. And are you suggesting that AT&T should block their paying customers from being able to use a service they're entitled to just because some of their acquaintances are exploiting AT&T's shoddy lack of security?