That is is why I specified lower-case xerox machines, such as the ones made by Canon. Canon does not make Xerox, but they do make xerox (noun) machines.
"Xerox is a trademark and as such only Xerox has the right to use or grant use of "Xerox"."
Sorry, Big X. The horse is already out of the barn on this one.
"just takes ya back to the saying "the most secure server is one that's offline":)"
The most secure server is first locked, then secured with a Kryptonite lock. After this, some real Kryptonite is attached to it (remember, it is never secure as long as Superman can bust into it). After this, it is encased in carbonite with a scarecrow wearing a Jar Jar Binks mask. The entire assembly is left in Jabba's palace. Don't worry, no one's gonna even be thinking of approaching the thing to rescue Jar Jar.
Just in case anyone does, we have an "I Love the Bee Gees" bumper sticker on the side. Also, we've moved it to a position standing right behind Jabba's toilet. I dare you to approach it.
Yes, this does work better in the Windows PC world than in the Mac world. How can anyone argue that jamming a tiny paper clip in a pinhole is a better eject methed than just pressing the eject button?
Microsoft is a singular word (not plural), so the appropriate usage is "Has Microsoft dropped it's...". ("Have" would have fit if the sentence instead read "Have Microsoft and Apple dropped it's..."). Also, the possessive word "its" never has an apostrophe.
Other than that, you make a lot of good points about meaningless UI scrambling that has no purpose other than to infuriate users. Microsoft has done this in a bad way with other Windows versions. This includes such features as search (which they wrecked by the time of XP) and making it harder to fix the date and time settings. And, since "start, run" is a common click sequence, they decided to wreck that by moving the run button a ways away as well.
The browser name in the browser should be configurable. You end up with browser nazi sites like this one run by an anti-IE-nazi that put up nasty messages based on your browser. The ability to change the browser name could help get around this type of bad web site design.
3,000 sounds like the expected total for Longhorn/ "Vista" security gaps and bugs. Hmmm. Produce software, patent the bugs, sue for revealing trade secrets if anyone reports them. Profit!
" Atari hired great people who wished to create a new computer environment. Atari's 'management' saw Apples's work and realised that it could make them rich. Atari copied it, slapped a $1,000 price on it, sat back, did next to nothing with it, and watched it bomb, and have its central concept get stolen by the first hungry people to see it."
What specifically was this? It sounds almost like the ST, but the facts do not match the ST situation. The ST was a copy of the Mac ("Jackintosh") and did not have its central concept re-stolen by others. What is it that you refer to?
"Is this why Xerox sued them for theft late?r... It asserted that the screen display of Apple's Macintosh computer unlawfully used copyrighted technology that Xerox had developed"
What you describe further on is copyright infringement, not theft. Were you earlier referring to a case of actual theft that you did not describe?
"It should be noted that in OS X, you don't drag to the trash. The trash becomes an Eject symbol and you drag to that."
Yes, they finally got around to taking the OS game seriously with OS-X. This is one of the reasons they are not the "Apple? Oh, is that company still around? Didn't they go bankrupt in 1987?" company anymore.
"Are you the kind of person that calls tissue Kleenex or video game consoles Nintendo?"
Like everyone else, I call kleenex kleenex, no matter what the brand. Even if it is Kleenex brand Kleenex, with the capital K. Like everyone else, I know Nintendo is a latecomer to the videogame industry, and it is just one "videogame" among many offerings from many companies.
Photocopying was commonly called xeroxing before the Xerox company started to throw fits about it. See this definition page.
The solution is to make sure that the MacMini has Aqua pre-installed. You have to do it the proper way with the installation disc. Merely splashing it on the case will cause trouble.
I did the same sort of thing with my Dell running Windoes ME. Only it was my office, not my kitchen. It did not take much effort or thought. It was really more of a spur of the moment thing. That final blue creen was the last straw. Seconds later, the Dell was embedded in the drywall halfway up on the other side of the room.
Also, a hint: If you have a G4 Cube you wish to hide in your kitchen, merely replace the current heating elements in your oven with the ol G4 Cube. It is both sightly and functional this way.
"to say they stole belittles the desktop innovations they did: Pull down menus, overlapping windows and a desktop trash bin."
....the last of which, Apple did not get right by "mangling the metaphor": it makes no sense to use the trash can for ejecting media (without deleting files) AND for just deleting files.
"Hm... I prefer the OS9 interface. OSX has an ugly gaudy feeling to it."
Does this have anything to do with Aqua? I don't know the timeline of this. Aqua was a step backwards, not progress: if you think "white on very light blue" is readable, you are kicking usability out the door.
There's a reason that black-on-white has been a standard for readable text for.... let's see.... 4,000 years?
"You have some upside-down view of the world. Stealing is not when you buy something."
Get with it. Read any article on questionable music copying/downloading. On Slashdot, the word "steal" is used to mean "any activity the writer does not like".
They really only got serious about it with OS-X. Their previous attempts were rather crippled. Apple's OS only got great and user friendly once they allowed/embraced the CLI.
Probably Xerox, one of the leading makers of xerox machines. I've had xerox machines from both Canon and Xerox:). They've done pretty good for a company that sounds like the name of Zaphod's brother.
"the first commercial computer with a graphical interface"
The Lisa was the first major one with a sophisticated non-text graphical interface for file access. However, it was not the first to use such an interface at all. Earlier offerings from Apple, Atari, Commodore, etc had many individual programs that had interactive graphic (non-text) interface and control. Probably would be better to say that it was the first commercial offering featuring the early version of today's GUI.
You are correct. This has nothing to do with censorship. This is an expression of free speech. The phone company in question has every right to choose with to "publish" or not. In this case, they chose not to publish a web site run by a hate group that contained false information and was calling for violence against its employees.
The union has a right to publish this lowlife web site, but it is not censorship if others refuse to distribute it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Xerox is a trademark and as such only Xerox has the right to use or grant use of "Xerox"."
Sorry, Big X. The horse is already out of the barn on this one.
The most secure server is first locked, then secured with a Kryptonite lock. After this, some real Kryptonite is attached to it (remember, it is never secure as long as Superman can bust into it). After this, it is encased in carbonite with a scarecrow wearing a Jar Jar Binks mask. The entire assembly is left in Jabba's palace. Don't worry, no one's gonna even be thinking of approaching the thing to rescue Jar Jar.
Just in case anyone does, we have an "I Love the Bee Gees" bumper sticker on the side. Also, we've moved it to a position standing right behind Jabba's toilet. I dare you to approach it.
Yes, this does work better in the Windows PC world than in the Mac world. How can anyone argue that jamming a tiny paper clip in a pinhole is a better eject methed than just pressing the eject button?
yes. I had to check it out when someone in the article mentioned that IE-only "special" front end.
Microsoft is a singular word (not plural), so the appropriate usage is "Has Microsoft dropped it's...". ("Have" would have fit if the sentence instead read "Have Microsoft and Apple dropped it's..."). Also, the possessive word "its" never has an apostrophe.
Other than that, you make a lot of good points about meaningless UI scrambling that has no purpose other than to infuriate users. Microsoft has done this in a bad way with other Windows versions. This includes such features as search (which they wrecked by the time of XP) and making it harder to fix the date and time settings. And, since "start, run" is a common click sequence, they decided to wreck that by moving the run button a ways away as well.
The browser name in the browser should be configurable. You end up with browser nazi sites like this one run by an anti-IE-nazi that put up nasty messages based on your browser. The ability to change the browser name could help get around this type of bad web site design.
yeah, but who (as you claimed happened) stole from Atari?
3,000 sounds like the expected total for Longhorn/ "Vista" security gaps and bugs. Hmmm. Produce software, patent the bugs, sue for revealing trade secrets if anyone reports them. Profit!
What specifically was this? It sounds almost like the ST, but the facts do not match the ST situation. The ST was a copy of the Mac ("Jackintosh") and did not have its central concept re-stolen by others. What is it that you refer to?
What you describe further on is copyright infringement, not theft. Were you earlier referring to a case of actual theft that you did not describe?
Yes, they finally got around to taking the OS game seriously with OS-X. This is one of the reasons they are not the "Apple? Oh, is that company still around? Didn't they go bankrupt in 1987?" company anymore.
Like everyone else, I call kleenex kleenex, no matter what the brand. Even if it is Kleenex brand Kleenex, with the capital K. Like everyone else, I know Nintendo is a latecomer to the videogame industry, and it is just one "videogame" among many offerings from many companies.
Photocopying was commonly called xeroxing before the Xerox company started to throw fits about it. See this definition page.
The solution is to make sure that the MacMini has Aqua pre-installed. You have to do it the proper way with the installation disc. Merely splashing it on the case will cause trouble.
"Sorry, I could not get it ejected from the oven. The entire kitchen was locked up for hours after the iMac server got slashdotted."
Also, a hint: If you have a G4 Cube you wish to hide in your kitchen, merely replace the current heating elements in your oven with the ol G4 Cube. It is both sightly and functional this way.
Does this have anything to do with Aqua? I don't know the timeline of this. Aqua was a step backwards, not progress: if you think "white on very light blue" is readable, you are kicking usability out the door.
There's a reason that black-on-white has been a standard for readable text for.... let's see.... 4,000 years?
Where o where is the damning photo of Steve Jobs holding an imaginary phone and telling Woz how they won't succeed without ninjas and bears?
Get with it. Read any article on questionable music copying/downloading. On Slashdot, the word "steal" is used to mean "any activity the writer does not like".
They really only got serious about it with OS-X. Their previous attempts were rather crippled. Apple's OS only got great and user friendly once they allowed/embraced the CLI.
Probably Xerox, one of the leading makers of xerox machines. I've had xerox machines from both Canon and Xerox :). They've done pretty good for a company that sounds like the name of Zaphod's brother.
The Lisa was the first major one with a sophisticated non-text graphical interface for file access. However, it was not the first to use such an interface at all. Earlier offerings from Apple, Atari, Commodore, etc had many individual programs that had interactive graphic (non-text) interface and control. Probably would be better to say that it was the first commercial offering featuring the early version of today's GUI.
The union has a right to publish this lowlife web site, but it is not censorship if others refuse to distribute it.
The "government censorship" you refer to is just one of those redundant terms that floats around. Excuse me while I go to use my ATM machine.
Come to think of it, they are addicting. Once you pop, you really can't stop. Count me in.