Monday August 8th 2005: A cloud is in the sky, NASA decides to postpone landing
Tuesday August 9th 2005: A slight breeze is detected, landing will be pushed back to Wednesday.
Wednesday August 10th 2005: Wind Chill Factor sited as cause for continued delay
Thursday August 11th 2005: A small flock of birds is spotted near the runway, landing cancelled due to safety and environmental protection concerns..
Friday August 12th 2005: Barometric Pressure Non-Optimal, landing postponed.
Saturday August 13th 2005: Humidity levels cause concern, after some deliberation it is announced that Mission Control will again delay the landing to "play it safe".
Sunday August 14th 2005: Another cloud is spotted, landing delayed.
Let's just hope they manage to get perfect weather conditions so they can land the damn thing sometime soon.
What we need is Oliver Stone to Produce and Direct "Einstein" Starring Tom Cruise who takes on the militant Newtonian Regime who are not-so-secretly pro-Axis American Scientists with German accents and monacles. Against these insurmountable odd and through sheer brawn and courage Einstein overcomes these rotten ne'er do wells and splits atoms for all mankind. The final scenes will be Albert personally dropping the fucking a-bomb over Nagasaki and then flying home victorious into the arms of Gwyneth Paltrow.
First off -- credit where it's due, it took a few days for these to show up. Unlike the mere hours it took before.
Big pat on the back to all you Windows coders out there in Redmond!
Second and most important, these are only shell scripts meant to be executed in Monad -- not some nasty Outlook/IE infecting VB script that spreads like super-flu.
No... those wont babies wont be hatching till NEXT week.
I'd say this is a marked improvement in Windows Security overall. Bill must be proud right about now.
Being an American I can only tell you that America is no longer the Home of the Free and Land of the Brave. It's the Home of Litigious Bastards and Land of the Soccer Mom.
"What? People might die in the name of furthering mankind?!?!? This will not stand!" They now say.
Since when must everything be perfect and perfectly regulated? And just when was it that America lost her back-bone and pioneering spirit? When was it that we forgot what it means to SACRIFICE?
Americas turn at the worlds wheel is about over. And China is primed and ready.
While Lynn did good work discovering this flaw I don't agree with his actions in the slightest. Cisco made the fix and released a patch in a timely fashion. Who is he to dictate how Cisco goes about announcing it? Is he the boss of Cisco because he found a flaw?
Granted, it would be advised to mark the patch as critical and give it some press. But is that required?
Personally, Lynn's the ultimate loser here. He stands to watch his career go straight down the shitter and for what? Some ego-centric power play? I don't think any corporation will want to bring him in at the risk of him pulling some stunt like this on them if he gets his nose bent out of joint.
And as to the FBI, they're just doing their job -- they got a complaint so they flat foot it a bit and check it out. I'm sure they'll bug out of it soon enough.
And while Cisco and ISS maybe playing hardball, I can understand why. The dude started a fire and they damn well sure want to stomp it out.
And it seems that both ISS and Cisco were willing to allow him to make this public disclosure -- they just wanted some PR guys their to do damage control and make sure their side was accurately reflected. But for whatever reason, Lynn would have none of that -- so he quit his job and gave them all a big F-U.
Personally, this guy sounds like a complete ass-hat and I question his real intentions here. There are many alternative ways he could have raised the issues he wanted to bring to bear. Showing up at a black hat conference and giving a how to on this exploit was certainly never going to do anything more than harm Cisco.
What I want to know, is if Lynn really did want to help out, why he couldn't have set up a blog that merely discussed the abstract points of the security update and explain why the patch was critical and then post to slashdot or other IT news site to generate the publicity?
If he'd simply cast his ego aside and thought things through a bit better, and worked with all parties involved he'd probably still have a job and the message would have gone out in a far more positive manner.
Last year I bought a Panasonic 42PHD6 series HD plasma. As you can see from the linked article, the biggest draw to this unit is the expansion slots -- plus it has damn nice resolution and very rich and dark blacks.
It came pre-equiped with VGA and Component Inputs occupying the 2nd and 3rd slots, but slot 1 is wide open. And since Panasonic already puts out an HDMI inerface board I should have no worries about future compatability .
I recommend all HDTV buyers look into commercial grade and not consumer grade HD-Display Units since typically only commercial units offer expansion slots.
From the article: "She can only sit though at present, so we're a long way from Blade Runner yet."
Nice to see someone is working hard trying to create new jobs for all the unemployed US tech workers. I'm sure a few./ers would settle for a "Blade Sitter" position in the mean time.
Judging by the naming I'd assume they plan on Repliee Q8 (pronounced rep-lee-kate) as the commercial version of this thing.
And Judging by the quote: "Repliee Q1 can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying..." I'd say the good Dr and his crew no longer consider themselves single.
I fail to see how this is news. Microsoft software has always been closed source.
So why should anyone expect Microsoft to suddenly make public their source of innovation? Especially when Windows Ti^H^H^H Vista is so close to going gold!
However, per Department of Justice guidelines, select Microsoft Development Partners may opt in and license the map for 1 Infinite Loop at a nominal licensing fee after signing an NDA.
I live in a crappy little loft in downtown SF since I'm an indigent bastard who can't yet afford the million dollars for a home on my paltry 6 figure income you insensitive clod!
And I'm not sure if you're aware of just how low the frequencies are on that recording... or the effects of low frequencies on physical objects -- it makes them bump and funk and do the wild thang.
Man.... I cranked that bad boy up to 12db on my AV Reciever -- and it was like totally awesome man! Like everything started rumbling and shaking and it was like being in an earthquake or something man! And you like close your eyes and you're like there man! Yeah! It was like IMAX® but without being able to see anything. Far out!
I actually did RTFA and II saw no mention what so ever about Chainsaw Hands.
While I may expect this to save me tons on Old Glory Robot Insurance premiums, I would still not have the ability to rip through their nanocarbon exoskeleton, tear out their still beating fusion generator and smash it to pieces.
Is it really so much to ask for??? Gimme Chainsaw Hands DAGNABBIT!!
One thing I noticed about this movie is that the Brothers W (or is that Siblings W now?) is that they've handed the directors chair to a cheifly 2nd Unit and Assistant Director who's worked on both the Matrix Trilogy and the Star wars Prequels.
Considering this guy's worked on the top grossing scifi trilogies of the last few years, he must have some potential. And the bros W might have realized that while they have some great concepts, they aren't the greatest at directing.
And if you get a chance, check out the trailer in Quicktimes new HD format, I got to say it looked rather sweet on my plasma. And the premise seems rather timely and entertaining -- Though I'm a bit worried that a Terrorist Tactic using Anti-hero might get be offensive to quite a few overly defensive Christian Neo-Arch-Conservative types, it should at least produce lots of press for the film after it's release.
However, I suspect that any paralels they make to the current state of affairs will go just as unnoticed as the paralels they made in the Star Wars Prequels.
The trailer realease is rather timely however considering this week saw a fresh round of bombings in London and the renewal of the Patriot Act in US Congress.
"The iBooks are already close to the PowerBook, and if they dont upgrade the PowerBooks the difference will be insignificant."
As having been the owner of both a 2004 800mhz G4 iBook and a 2002 800mhz G4 powerbook... I can firmly attest that when used side by side, the 2002 powerbook was far more responsive and "snappier"® than the iBook.
For about $400.00 more you can get the 12" powerbook. I'd really recommend you at least check it out before commiting to an iBook, not that an iBook is bad per se.... but there's a definite lack of performance when compared to their power series. I'm absolutely certain Apple pulls some of it's punches on the iBook and iMac and I was rather appalled that a 2yr old model would outperform a brand new model with the same processor and memory specs.
"Yup, anti-windows zealot right there. I guess I should fill you in: if you have any amount of computer knowledge none of those will get you even without a firewall/antivirus program"
Got me there -- I'm, a Windows hater without a clue. Let's see -- operated multiple OS's since '92 and have ran Windows since 3.1 and not a single virus. But I don't like seeing the crapload of vbScripts that became so in vogue, the constants attacks at IIS, the daily exploit discover for MS services. And that's perfectly in my right.
Hey -- maybe you're fine with Windows, and if I were you, I'd be fine with it too. But I have more demanding needs that Windows can not fulfill and nor can Linux on their own. So I use OS X which fills them nicely. You think I'm perfectly satified? Hell no. Personally I could do without the pretty hardware that they charge a premium for -- exp after dropping $3700 for a dual 2.7Ghz G5 a couple weeks back.
But it seems the only fanboy here is you. I didn't drop any insults on you, but you've made quite a few.
So I'll have my go before I wrap it up with you --
Personally you strike me a total fucktard who isn't even listening. Just another asshat who runs around invoking godwins law on ones self and calling everyone who disagrees with your world view "zealots" and making insulting statements in some childish form of debate.
You see -- if you'd read my post I use a lot of operating systems and will continue to do so. I bought Microsofts VPC Windows XP Pro -- so I am still a MS customer and windows user. But since I don't do it "YOUR WAY" and use an OS you don't like, I'm the zealot. Or so you say.
In a nutshell, you're just like any other small minded biggot with a tiny world view and lack of a proper and objective education.
So with that said, end of conversation since you have nothing meaningfull nor insightfull to input here.
You know what pisses me off is all the Windows fanboys who don't fucking bother to check out other operating system features outside their own.
Once again YET ANOTHER feature that has been standard with Apple for sometime is accredited as a "NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY" approach to user interaction.
And I quote the article: "Fold n' Drop is a new interaction technique for seamlessly dragging and dropping between overlapping windows."
How about dropping the word "new" and replacing it with "proposed" and appending "for Windows" after the word technique?
And to quote again: " Although it is still a research prototype, having it integrated into most popular window managers is technically conceivable."
So from this statement, it's a research prototype and is soooo very cutting edge that it's only concievable, not completely fucking do-able -- not to mention has already been done.
And no -- I'm not an "Apple fanboy", I stopped using Macs after the Pentium+Win95 hit. In the mid through the late 90's, Windows worked just fine for me. After OS X came out, I switched back to the Mac -- no more need for a dual-boot Win2K+Linux pain in the ass.
I still currently run Linux servers and have run some BSD variants, own a Octane with Irix and run Virtual PC for Win XP Pro inside OS X. After the crap-flood of spyware, malware, viruses and script-kiddie exploits for Windows became so prevailing, Virtual PC is the only way I'll ever run Windows again.
Excersize: Step one:open two windows Step two: select a file in window "A" and drag over window "B" (which is overlapped and beneath window "A") Step three: Wait half a second for window "B" become the modal window and release. Step four: ??? Step five: PROFIT!!!!
Perhaps next time you get some wild idea about a revolution in user interaction, you head on over to the Apple store first.
If you look at the pics which illustrate this ground breaking idea -- it does what OS X already does, except OS X doesn't bother with "folding" or "bending" the window, it's just makes it modal (brings it to front) to let you know it's ready to recieve your interaction. Combined with a Apple+`, you can cycle through a large amount of windows dragging and dropping between them. The "folding" effect looks like nothing more than a cheap gimmick that would only chew up cpu/gpu cycles. Sorta like OS X's "genie effect" for window minimizing -- which is always the first thing I disable on a new Mac.
Granted, I have been independent for several years, but here in the US, a skilled and knowledgeable contractor can get 100-200k per year.
It's funny reading your rant, because I've been on the phone since 8am entertaining a slew of job offers today after posting my resume online yesterday and while the majority want to pay 60-85k per year, 7 are actively persuing me even though I have stated I am 30-50k over their budgeted amount. And that's just in 24 hours of looking -- and not looking very hard might I add.
Then again, I'm not your typical developer and I know how to swing a deal.
That Pols inserting their heads up their ass whenever it comes to technology is not a USA only thing.
But with a recent NYTimes piece making a case for the death penalty for script kiddies... and the pervasive atmosphere of ignorance driven hysteria towards IT, my question is how long before we actually start seeing the witch hunts begin in an earnest attempt to gain strong governement control of the internet?
Now, screenshots aren't a fair or accurate way to judge an OS and User Experience... but I have to say, if the article was titled Bored 15 year old creates Yet Another Windows theme, I sure as hell wouldn't know the difference.
While the UI skin look nicer than XP IMHO, looking at the dialogues and options/settings... it's the same as XP... just a few more items thrown in as far as permissions and security. So what exactly has Microsoft been up to for the last few years? This is the mind blowing, paradigm smashing rewrite? This is innovation?
What really gets me is the same old tired icons and maze-like system of hierchy-tree gui navigation to be found in all the system level dialogues. That really grabbed me... it seriously gave me the impression that this Longhorn thing was nothing more than a candy shell slapped on top of the same shit MS has been selling for years.
I think it's very telling how seamless the user experience will be when the microsoft.com address in pic #2 is returning a server not found error... but let's pretend that the computer was unplugged from the net and the user typed in the redirect parameters in the url by hand.
So I'm left scratching my head... if this was indeed a complete rewrite from the bottom up as MS promised, then why the complete similarity to XP/2000/98/95???? Perhaps all their energy and focus was on real security considerations? Maybe that explains all the jettisoned features... Or maybe when they meant rewrite, they really meant pushing some code under the mat, swapping some API's out and splashing on a quick paint job oer the whole shebang to make the old look new again?
Of course, Longhorn is just XP with a new UI and added security with tighter.Net integration. What startles me is that it's taken years to get this far... that does not bode well at all.
Personally, I'm thinking about ditching Verizon
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It may sound fickle, but the fact that Verizon likes to pretend that Windows is the only operating system in the world and they cripple Bluetooth to the point of uselessness makes me want to switch to another carrier.
I'm hesitant though, since I've been with Verizon so long, love the quality of customer service support and have no coverage issues at all.
But, seeing how they are willing to commit fraud by selling something pretending to be what it isn't i.e. calling it Bluetooth instead of CrippledBy VerizonToRapeYourWalletTooth -- there is currently a class action suite against them for that -- pisses me off to no end. And personally, I think speak volumes of their attitude torward both technology and their user base in general.
So I've heard T-Mobile dosn't jack their bluetooth phones... Is this the case? Personally, I'm thinking about just waiting for the Apple/Motorola iPhone and switching to whatever carrier has that (if and when it does come out) since it is the phone most likely not to be fucked with by a greedy carrier and it should integrate seamlessly with my all Apple home network.
Any readers online who have words of praise for cell carriers in the SF Bay Area that offer quality coverage, reasonable customer service and serve bluetooth straight up with no feature lockdowns?
WTF are ou talking about? The parent post mentioned nothing about.mov.
But when I went and saw WMP load in Safari, I clicked out. Not because I'm anti-MS, but anti any propriatory format posted online -- it's just tactless and shows a complete lack of understanding of just what the hell the internet is.
Personally, the only acceptable file format for the web at large is mpeg..wmv,.mov and others should be used only for offline/in-house purposes or specialty cases.
As an aside, I agree with your rant about Quicktime. The fact that just about every feature in that app requires a 49.00 upgrade to pro after spending $3,500.00 on a brand new dual 2.7ghz G5 really pisses me off.
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Here's this weeks timeline in advance:
Monday August 8th 2005: A cloud is in the sky, NASA decides to postpone landing
Tuesday August 9th 2005: A slight breeze is detected, landing will be pushed back to Wednesday.
Wednesday August 10th 2005: Wind Chill Factor sited as cause for continued delay
Thursday August 11th 2005: A small flock of birds is spotted near the runway, landing cancelled due to safety and environmental protection concerns..
Friday August 12th 2005: Barometric Pressure Non-Optimal, landing postponed.
Saturday August 13th 2005: Humidity levels cause concern, after some deliberation it is announced that Mission Control will again delay the landing to "play it safe".
Sunday August 14th 2005: Another cloud is spotted, landing delayed.
Let's just hope they manage to get perfect weather conditions so they can land the damn thing sometime soon.
Well well well... You've just earned yourself a trip to Gitmo son.
What we need is Oliver Stone to Produce and Direct "Einstein" Starring Tom Cruise who takes on the militant Newtonian Regime who are not-so-secretly pro-Axis American Scientists with German accents and monacles. Against these insurmountable odd and through sheer brawn and courage Einstein overcomes these rotten ne'er do wells and splits atoms for all mankind. The final scenes will be Albert personally dropping the fucking a-bomb over Nagasaki and then flying home victorious into the arms of Gwyneth Paltrow.
Booyeah baby!
First off -- credit where it's due, it took a few days for these to show up. Unlike the mere hours it took before.
Big pat on the back to all you Windows coders out there in Redmond!
Second and most important, these are only shell scripts meant to be executed in Monad -- not some nasty Outlook/IE infecting VB script that spreads like super-flu.
No... those wont babies wont be hatching till NEXT week.
I'd say this is a marked improvement in Windows Security overall. Bill must be proud right about now.
Let China and others take the lead.
Being an American I can only tell you that America is no longer the Home of the Free and Land of the Brave.
It's the Home of Litigious Bastards and Land of the Soccer Mom.
"What? People might die in the name of furthering mankind?!?!?
This will not stand!" They now say.
Since when must everything be perfect and perfectly regulated?
And just when was it that America lost her back-bone and pioneering spirit? When was it that we forgot what it means to SACRIFICE?
Americas turn at the worlds wheel is about over.
And China is primed and ready.
Good luck.
While Lynn did good work discovering this flaw I don't agree with his actions in the slightest. Cisco made the fix and released a patch in a timely fashion. Who is he to dictate how Cisco goes about announcing it? Is he the boss of Cisco because he found a flaw?
Granted, it would be advised to mark the patch as critical and give it some press. But is that required?
Personally, Lynn's the ultimate loser here. He stands to watch his career go straight down the shitter and for what? Some ego-centric power play? I don't think any corporation will want to bring him in at the risk of him pulling some stunt like this on them if he gets his nose bent out of joint.
And as to the FBI, they're just doing their job -- they got a complaint so they flat foot it a bit and check it out. I'm sure they'll bug out of it soon enough.
And while Cisco and ISS maybe playing hardball, I can understand why. The dude started a fire and they damn well sure want to stomp it out.
And it seems that both ISS and Cisco were willing to allow him to make this public disclosure -- they just wanted some PR guys their to do damage control and make sure their side was accurately reflected. But for whatever reason, Lynn would have none of that -- so he quit his job and gave them all a big F-U.
Personally, this guy sounds like a complete ass-hat and I question his real intentions here. There are many alternative ways he could have raised the issues he wanted to bring to bear.
Showing up at a black hat conference and giving a how to on this exploit was certainly never going to do anything more than harm Cisco.
What I want to know, is if Lynn really did want to help out, why he couldn't have set up a blog that merely discussed the abstract points of the security update and explain why the patch was critical and then post to slashdot or other IT news site to generate the publicity?
If he'd simply cast his ego aside and thought things through a bit better, and worked with all parties involved he'd probably still have a job and the message would have gone out in a far more positive manner.
-- Just calling it as I see it.
Last year I bought a Panasonic 42PHD6 series HD plasma.
As you can see from the linked article, the biggest draw to this unit is the expansion slots -- plus it has damn nice resolution and very rich and dark blacks.
It came pre-equiped with VGA and Component Inputs occupying the 2nd and 3rd slots, but slot 1 is wide open. And since Panasonic already puts out an HDMI inerface board I should have no worries about future compatability .
I recommend all HDTV buyers look into commercial grade and not consumer grade HD-Display Units since typically only commercial units offer expansion slots.
From the article:
./ers would settle for a "Blade Sitter" position in the mean time.
"She can only sit though at present, so we're a long way from Blade Runner yet."
Nice to see someone is working hard trying to create new jobs for all the unemployed US tech workers. I'm sure a few
Judging by the naming I'd assume they plan on Repliee Q8 (pronounced rep-lee-kate) as the commercial version of this thing.
And Judging by the quote:
"Repliee Q1 can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying..."
I'd say the good Dr and his crew no longer consider themselves single.
I fail to see how this is news.
Microsoft software has always been closed source.
So why should anyone expect Microsoft to suddenly make public their source of innovation? Especially when Windows Ti^H^H^H Vista is so close to going gold!
However, per Department of Justice guidelines, select Microsoft Development Partners may opt in and license the map for 1 Infinite Loop at a nominal licensing fee after signing an NDA.
I live in a crappy little loft in downtown SF since I'm an indigent bastard who can't yet afford the million dollars for a home on my paltry 6 figure income you insensitive clod!
And I'm not sure if you're aware of just how low the frequencies are on that recording... or the effects of low frequencies on physical objects -- it makes them bump and funk and do the wild thang.
Man.... I cranked that bad boy up to 12db on my AV Reciever -- and it was like totally awesome man! Like everything started rumbling and shaking and it was like being in an earthquake or something man! And you like close your eyes and you're like there man! Yeah! It was like IMAX® but without being able to see anything. Far out!
I actually did RTFA and II saw no mention what so ever about Chainsaw Hands.
While I may expect this to save me tons on Old Glory Robot Insurance premiums, I would still not have the ability to rip through their nanocarbon exoskeleton, tear out their still beating fusion generator and smash it to pieces.
Is it really so much to ask for???
Gimme Chainsaw Hands DAGNABBIT!!
One thing I noticed about this movie is that the Brothers W (or is that Siblings W now?) is that they've handed the directors chair to a cheifly 2nd Unit and Assistant Director who's worked on both the Matrix Trilogy and the Star wars Prequels.
Considering this guy's worked on the top grossing scifi trilogies of the last few years, he must have some potential. And the bros W might have realized that while they have some great concepts, they aren't the greatest at directing.
And if you get a chance, check out the trailer in Quicktimes new HD format, I got to say it looked rather sweet on my plasma.
And the premise seems rather timely and entertaining -- Though I'm a bit worried that a Terrorist Tactic using Anti-hero might get be offensive to quite a few overly defensive Christian Neo-Arch-Conservative types, it should at least produce lots of press for the film after it's release.
However, I suspect that any paralels they make to the current state of affairs will go just as unnoticed as the paralels they made in the Star Wars Prequels.
The trailer realease is rather timely however considering this week saw a fresh round of bombings in London and the renewal of the Patriot Act in US Congress.
"The iBooks are already close to the PowerBook, and if they dont upgrade the PowerBooks the difference will be insignificant."
As having been the owner of both a 2004 800mhz G4 iBook and a 2002 800mhz G4 powerbook... I can firmly attest that when used side by side, the 2002 powerbook was far more responsive and "snappier"® than the iBook.
For about $400.00 more you can get the 12" powerbook.
I'd really recommend you at least check it out before commiting to an iBook, not that an iBook is bad per se.... but there's a definite lack of performance when compared to their power series. I'm absolutely certain Apple pulls some of it's punches on the iBook and iMac and I was rather appalled that a 2yr old model would outperform a brand new model with the same processor and memory specs.
Just an FYI.
"Yup, anti-windows zealot right there. I guess I should fill you in: if you have any amount of computer knowledge none of those will get you even without a firewall/antivirus program"
Got me there -- I'm, a Windows hater without a clue.
Let's see -- operated multiple OS's since '92 and have ran Windows since 3.1 and not a single virus. But I don't like seeing the crapload of vbScripts that became so in vogue, the constants attacks at IIS, the daily exploit discover for MS services. And that's perfectly in my right.
Hey -- maybe you're fine with Windows, and if I were you, I'd be fine with it too. But I have more demanding needs that Windows can not fulfill and nor can Linux on their own. So I use OS X which fills them nicely. You think I'm perfectly satified? Hell no. Personally I could do without the pretty hardware that they charge a premium for -- exp after dropping $3700 for a dual 2.7Ghz G5 a couple weeks back.
But it seems the only fanboy here is you.
I didn't drop any insults on you, but you've made quite a few.
So I'll have my go before I wrap it up with you --
Personally you strike me a total fucktard who isn't even listening.
Just another asshat who runs around invoking godwins law on ones self and calling everyone who disagrees with your world view "zealots" and making insulting statements in some childish form of debate.
You see -- if you'd read my post I use a lot of operating systems and will continue to do so. I bought Microsofts VPC Windows XP Pro -- so I am still a MS customer and windows user.
But since I don't do it "YOUR WAY" and use an OS you don't like, I'm the zealot. Or so you say.
In a nutshell, you're just like any other small minded biggot with a tiny world view and lack of a proper and objective education.
So with that said, end of conversation since you have nothing meaningfull nor insightfull to input here.
You know what pisses me off is all the Windows fanboys who don't fucking bother to check out other operating system features outside their own.
Once again YET ANOTHER feature that has been standard with Apple for sometime is accredited as a "NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY" approach to user interaction.
And I quote the article:
"Fold n' Drop is a new interaction technique for seamlessly dragging and dropping between overlapping windows."
How about dropping the word "new" and replacing it with "proposed" and appending "for Windows" after the word technique?
And to quote again:
" Although it is still a research prototype, having it integrated into most popular window managers is technically conceivable."
So from this statement, it's a research prototype and is soooo very cutting edge that it's only concievable, not completely fucking do-able -- not to mention has already been done.
And no -- I'm not an "Apple fanboy", I stopped using Macs after the Pentium+Win95 hit. In the mid through the late 90's, Windows worked just fine for me. After OS X came out, I switched back to the Mac -- no more need for a dual-boot Win2K+Linux pain in the ass.
I still currently run Linux servers and have run some BSD variants, own a Octane with Irix and run Virtual PC for Win XP Pro inside OS X. After the crap-flood of spyware, malware, viruses and script-kiddie exploits for Windows became so prevailing, Virtual PC is the only way I'll ever run Windows again.
On OSX I've ben doing this for ages.
Excersize:
Step one:open two windows
Step two: select a file in window "A" and drag over window "B" (which is overlapped and beneath window "A")
Step three: Wait half a second for window "B" become the modal window and release.
Step four: ???
Step five: PROFIT!!!!
Perhaps next time you get some wild idea about a revolution in user interaction, you head on over to the Apple store first.
If you look at the pics which illustrate this ground breaking idea -- it does what OS X already does, except OS X doesn't bother with "folding" or "bending" the window, it's just makes it modal (brings it to front) to let you know it's ready to recieve your interaction. Combined with a Apple+`, you can cycle through a large amount of windows dragging and dropping between them. The "folding" effect looks like nothing more than a cheap gimmick that would only chew up cpu/gpu cycles. Sorta like OS X's "genie effect" for window minimizing -- which is always the first thing I disable on a new Mac.
Since when is 6 figures minimum wage?
Granted, I have been independent for several years, but here in the US, a skilled and knowledgeable contractor can get 100-200k per year.
It's funny reading your rant, because I've been on the phone since 8am entertaining a slew of job offers today after posting my resume online yesterday and while the majority want to pay 60-85k per year, 7 are actively persuing me even though I have stated I am 30-50k over their budgeted amount. And that's just in 24 hours of looking -- and not looking very hard might I add.
Then again, I'm not your typical developer and I know how to swing a deal.
That Pols inserting their heads up their ass whenever it comes to technology is not a USA only thing.
But with a recent NYTimes piece making a case for the death penalty for script kiddies... and the pervasive atmosphere of ignorance driven hysteria towards IT, my question is how long before we actually start seeing the witch hunts begin in an earnest attempt to gain strong governement control of the internet?
And if a programer floats like a duck, what then?
Now, screenshots aren't a fair or accurate way to judge an OS and User Experience... but I have to say, if the article was titled Bored 15 year old creates Yet Another Windows theme, I sure as hell wouldn't know the difference.
... it's the same as XP ... just a few more items thrown in as far as permissions and security. So what exactly has Microsoft been up to for the last few years? This is the mind blowing, paradigm smashing rewrite? This is innovation?
.Net integration. What startles me is that it's taken years to get this far ... that does not bode well at all.
While the UI skin look nicer than XP IMHO, looking at the dialogues and options/settings
What really gets me is the same old tired icons and maze-like system of hierchy-tree gui navigation to be found in all the system level dialogues. That really grabbed me... it seriously gave me the impression that this Longhorn thing was nothing more than a candy shell slapped on top of the same shit MS has been selling for years.
I think it's very telling how seamless the user experience will be when the microsoft.com address in pic #2 is returning a server not found error... but let's pretend that the computer was unplugged from the net and the user typed in the redirect parameters in the url by hand.
So I'm left scratching my head... if this was indeed a complete rewrite from the bottom up as MS promised, then why the complete similarity to XP/2000/98/95???? Perhaps all their energy and focus was on real security considerations? Maybe that explains all the jettisoned features... Or maybe when they meant rewrite, they really meant pushing some code under the mat, swapping some API's out and splashing on a quick paint job oer the whole shebang to make the old look new again?
Of course, Longhorn is just XP with a new UI and added security with tighter
It may sound fickle, but the fact that Verizon likes to pretend that Windows is the only operating system in the world and they cripple Bluetooth to the point of uselessness makes me want to switch to another carrier.
I'm hesitant though, since I've been with Verizon so long, love the quality of customer service support and have no coverage issues at all.
But, seeing how they are willing to commit fraud by selling something pretending to be what it isn't i.e. calling it Bluetooth instead of CrippledBy VerizonToRapeYourWalletTooth -- there is currently a class action suite against them for that -- pisses me off to no end. And personally, I think speak volumes of their attitude torward both technology and their user base in general.
So I've heard T-Mobile dosn't jack their bluetooth phones...
Is this the case? Personally, I'm thinking about just waiting for the Apple/Motorola iPhone and switching to whatever carrier has that (if and when it does come out) since it is the phone most likely not to be fucked with by a greedy carrier and it should integrate seamlessly with my all Apple home network.
Any readers online who have words of praise for cell carriers in the SF Bay Area that offer quality coverage, reasonable customer service and serve bluetooth straight up with no feature lockdowns?
WTF are ou talking about? .mov.
.wmv, .mov and others should be used only for offline/in-house purposes or specialty cases.
The parent post mentioned nothing about
But when I went and saw WMP load in Safari, I clicked out. Not because I'm anti-MS, but anti any propriatory format posted online -- it's just tactless and shows a complete lack of understanding of just what the hell the internet is.
Personally, the only acceptable file format for the web at large is mpeg.
As an aside, I agree with your rant about Quicktime.
The fact that just about every feature in that app requires a 49.00 upgrade to pro after spending $3,500.00 on a brand new dual 2.7ghz G5 really pisses me off.
The requested URL (science/05/06/21/2251211.shtml?tid=160&tid=126&t
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Unfortunately I can't locate a google cache for the missing spacecraft.
Anyone able to post a mirror?
I'm sure a lot of other people will or have said it,
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but iCal synched with iPod is bliss.
Additionally, you can post your iCal schedule online and share it with