I use the Dock proficiently (though granted you have never seen me do it). I use a techique I like to call "Remembering which icon goes to which program" and things tend to work out ok.
Now I generally don't have more than four or five apps running at any given time (and often only a couple) but it's not all that hard to understand. The only people I have ever seen complain about the Dock are people who loved it "the way it used to be". I have not once spoken with a new OSX user (who had no previous exposure to MacOS) that had the slightest problem with the Dock.
Yeah it is. Go easy on him though. I see "ACC" all the time and I find myself doing it too. Not sure why I keep mistyping that. Strange.
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I don't know, I can't think of a company more due for the wrong end of the shitty stick than Microsoft.
And how "restricted" are the people really. It seems to me that both companies are pimping their own "standard" but a majority of devices out there support Microsofts standard PLUS mp3 or Apples standard PLUS mp3. Granted mp3 isn't a truly "open" standard either but it's at least non-aligned in this particular feud.
So what's so restrictive. I'd feel more inclined to think it was restrictive if the iPod only played ACC.
The clone manufacturers had a sweetheart deal that let them eat away Apple sales while in no way pushing the platform to greater market share.
It was lousy Apple management that allowed that deal to happen (a bad idea, the time for licensing clones was long past) but it was Jobs who said basically "This isn't helping, it's hurting" and pulled the plug. Call the guy slime for keeping the company alive if you like. I don't see it though.
That was his point. Mp3 is the standard and the other two exist because big companies push them on people and those big companies ain't going away so niether are their formats. Mp3 is it basically. It's what the people know and it's got the mindshare. Ogg might be cool and all but it's got no real reason to impact things as they are with the masses.
Well, then I'm thinking your best bet is to go out and find yourself a used blue and white G3 (can be had very reasonably priced on ebay IF you take your time and don't rush it) and follow that with a CPU upgrade. They're coming down to a fairly comfortable price for those machines. Get that B&W going about 500Mhz and add Panther. Don't worry about the price of Panther (I figure if you're going to pirate XP then why pay for Panther?) and you got your firsthand look at OSX.
I pretty much did it that way and then decided I loved this shit enough to give them $3K to see it run on their new machines. I'm not the least bit disappointed either.
Everybody's different but as far as I'm concerned to hell with Windows and screw waiting on Linux to get it's collective desktop shit together. OSX beats both.
"American components, Russian components...ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
Of course in this case it's all made in mainland China now but that shouldn't stop anyone from inserting their cleverest version of "In Soviet Russia...." right about here.
I always knew Gene and Paul were evil and looking to grab whatever they could to make some more money (That's why Ace and Peter left) but this is simply unbelievable. KISS has done a lot of things in their time but this one takes the cake!
That's the last time I pay to see their "Farewell" tour.
RTFA? Oh wait, just a second.....nevermind about all that.
Love the software and the project and I've only really ever had one complaint about anything and everything Mozilla related.
Did these guys corner the market on sucky software names or what? Mozilla? Firebird? Thunderbird? Camino? (Chimera wasn't bad but naturally someone made them stop using it) Galeon?
Epiphany sounds ok but I expect it will also change at some point since it doesn't fit the name scheme (must suck in some way).
Man I agree that Apple shouldn't get a free ride and no, iTunes for Windows should be considered a "Best of 2003" app but it's not like the rest of that made much sense.
Four codec options is fine. Does anything outside of wav, mp3, and AAC matter anyway? Does it matter to 90% of the people who will use this? Converting AAC files out of AAC isn't a pain either. You're burning a CD. Most everyone is burning a CD of what they bought anyway if for no other reason than to throw it in a CD wallet to drag out to their car. Once you burned it you can rip it to whatever floats your boat.
It's not the best, and it's not all that original either so no awards for this one. On the other hand it's not got nearly the downside you make it sound like.
Maybe he's looking at the "iron fist" that each of them have and noting similarities in their willingness to use it?
As long as Israel thinks it's no big deal to leave millions of Palestinians in refugee camps nobody should be surprised that they have no real problem with the concept of walking into a populated area and blowing themselves up.
Funny how the world works ain't it. Who would have figured that Israel would become the new Nazis?
I base this assertion on nothing more than the observation that the last guy standing always seems to be the one who did the least and tells the tallest tales. When it's all said and done Ringo will be alive, Paul will be dead (despite years of living healthy) and nobody will be around (at least nobody who was really one of the Beatles (Pete Best honestly counts for nothing) to contradict him. Our children will be reading his account of the day he woke up and the words to "Yesterday" popped into his head.
Yes, half of them are dead. I think it's almost going to be a slam dunk that Paul dies before Ringo and then, because the world is a funny place, the last remaining Beatle will also be the least talented of the lot. Figures.
Apple Corp needs to be destroyed. It's a company that produces nothing and merely waits around for someone to do something that they can sue over. Completely worthless legal leeches.
Actually no, Longhorn burgers are not good. Nobody raised Longhorns because they were "good eatin!". They raised them because you could stick one out on a range and ignore it for most of it's life and it wouldn't die. They were tough and there were tons of them in the wild at a time when the east was clamoring for beef so all that needed to be done was to round them up and drive them to the railheads.
As soon as it became practical the Longhorn was replaced with better breeds that maybe required a little more maintenance but yielded much more (and better) beef.
All of that may be true but since the total number of people who even know that these products (or company's for that matter) even exist can be numbered in the dozens it's safe to say that Apple doesn't real spend a lot of time worrying about their new "real competition".
YOu CAN'T look back on SCO's year without in some way incorporating their IP in the article. Doing so means that SCO owns the article and thus the website it's published on, the servers that run the website, and so forth.
Nobody in their right mind would risk doing a look back at SCO's year article.
Mayne you make it back to this post and maybe you don't but I just got back to take a look at it and of course just saying "SMTP has got to go" doesn't solve anything.
I'm not a programmer and I don't have a "better solution" waiting in the wings to spring on the world. I can see that the present way of doing this has been compromised and that it won't be much longer before something better will be needed.
You can spot a bad actor without being an actor (good or otherwise). It doesn't take someone who has a deep understanding of SMTP to see that email as we know it is in trouble either.
email is good stuff but a bunch of assholes have found it fairly easy to turn it into as much of a problem as it is a benefit. This thing you speak of, signing all of your email with a key, sounds interesting. Can it be made mandatory? Leaving this as something that everyone must "agree" to do isn't going to make any difference.
I'm not a terribly knowledgable person in this area but I think that it's kind of obvious that the eventual solution to this is going to be an SMTP2 or something along those lines and that it will (in time) be either that or email becomes a fragmented mess (as you alude to wherein people block whole blocks of IP addresses).
SMTP is doing exactly what it was meant to do. Fine. Good for SMTP and we're all proud of it. The landscape has changed though and what SMTP was meant to do has been corrupted into something it was never intended to do. SMTP changes to correct this abuse or eventually gets replaced with something that does will be the answer to that.
By saying "SMTP has got to go" I'm not saying it's broken or bad or that it's done something wrong. People have done something wrong with it and it's got to be rethought to stop this from happening in the future.
Agreed and good points all. I think you underestimate the size of the hole in anti-spam laws though. It's closer to the size an aircraft carrier can be U-turned through.
Aside from that one small point, perfect.
SMTP has got to go. It was great while it lasted but obviously the human race, or some small percentage of it is incapable of not screwing something sweet like this up. We need something that can literally put an end to this before it begins.
I'm not the original poster (obviously) but I also found it not all that good. It wasn't "all that bad" either though. I've been trying to figure out why I didn't like about it or what threw me since I watched it but I was out after three episodes. My wife (both of us watched the hell out of Buffy and still watch Angel) was the same way.
The dialog didn't grab me the same way the better writing on Joss's other two shows did (admittedly not every episode has/had "better writing") and I never warmed up much to the characters. I thought the effects were very well done though.
That's what happened when I watched it. Why is still something I'm trying to figure out. I'm thinking about renting the DVD's (or possibly even buying them) to give it another shot.
I know one thing that's maybe got something to do with my not going for it. It's superficial so maybe I can get past it but I absolutely despise damn near every western ever made. The one that comes to mind that I like was "Unforgiven". I think the western "feel" to the series probably made it tough for me to jump onboard. Maybe if it had stayed on the air a season or two I might have come around and given it another look.
Ok, like some others responding to you I have to grant that "it sucked" is hardly insightful.
On the other hand saying someone who didn't like it must be too used to crap to enjoy it is roughly about the same amount of "dumb as fuck" as the guy you're replying to.
Firefly did not do anything for me either. It doesn't mean I don't know good SciFi when I see it. It simply was not my cup of tea. I did see some good things there, I just didn't care much for the show overall. I think Joss got stretched pretty thin about that time and nothing with his name on it was at it's best during the time Firefly was being made and on TV.
*Note: in my OPINION and for the record "my opinion" isn't the last word on anything and I understand that.
Did anyone else read this part and hear Dennis Leary's voice saying it?
"Music in the digital age is being stifled. We want music in compressed format. We want our collection to be available at the click of a mouse. We want to be able to get new music off the internet. We want to have matchbook-sized MP3 players so we can toss those huge clunky CD players that only hold an hour music. We want the ability to search for new music and expand our tastes. We want to pay on a per-song basis instead of being forced to buy an album containing music we may not want."
Very true. At one time or another the "hot spot" has been located in various places and each of them sooner or later yielded this to another rising culture/region/people. There's nothing out there carved in stone to say that Westerners will keep the lead from here on out.
We've had a really good run and I'm not saying it's over but it's not like it can't be over either. All we have to do is take a break, kick back and decide that we're on top for good and the next thing you know we're listening to people talk about how the west hasn't contributed anything since the early 21st century.
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I use the Dock proficiently (though granted you have never seen me do it). I use a techique I like to call "Remembering which icon goes to which program" and things tend to work out ok.
Now I generally don't have more than four or five apps running at any given time (and often only a couple) but it's not all that hard to understand. The only people I have ever seen complain about the Dock are people who loved it "the way it used to be". I have not once spoken with a new OSX user (who had no previous exposure to MacOS) that had the slightest problem with the Dock.
Yeah it is. Go easy on him though. I see "ACC" all the time and I find myself doing it too. Not sure why I keep mistyping that. Strange.
I don't know, I can't think of a company more due for the wrong end of the shitty stick than Microsoft.
And how "restricted" are the people really. It seems to me that both companies are pimping their own "standard" but a majority of devices out there support Microsofts standard PLUS mp3 or Apples standard PLUS mp3. Granted mp3 isn't a truly "open" standard either but it's at least non-aligned in this particular feud.
So what's so restrictive. I'd feel more inclined to think it was restrictive if the iPod only played ACC.
The clone manufacturers had a sweetheart deal that let them eat away Apple sales while in no way pushing the platform to greater market share.
It was lousy Apple management that allowed that deal to happen (a bad idea, the time for licensing clones was long past) but it was Jobs who said basically "This isn't helping, it's hurting" and pulled the plug. Call the guy slime for keeping the company alive if you like. I don't see it though.
That was his point. Mp3 is the standard and the other two exist because big companies push them on people and those big companies ain't going away so niether are their formats. Mp3 is it basically. It's what the people know and it's got the mindshare. Ogg might be cool and all but it's got no real reason to impact things as they are with the masses.
Yes, next question?
Well, then I'm thinking your best bet is to go out and find yourself a used blue and white G3 (can be had very reasonably priced on ebay IF you take your time and don't rush it) and follow that with a CPU upgrade. They're coming down to a fairly comfortable price for those machines. Get that B&W going about 500Mhz and add Panther. Don't worry about the price of Panther (I figure if you're going to pirate XP then why pay for Panther?) and you got your firsthand look at OSX.
I pretty much did it that way and then decided I loved this shit enough to give them $3K to see it run on their new machines. I'm not the least bit disappointed either.
Everybody's different but as far as I'm concerned to hell with Windows and screw waiting on Linux to get it's collective desktop shit together. OSX beats both.
"American components, Russian components...ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
Of course in this case it's all made in mainland China now but that shouldn't stop anyone from inserting their cleverest version of "In Soviet Russia...." right about here.
I always knew Gene and Paul were evil and looking to grab whatever they could to make some more money (That's why Ace and Peter left) but this is simply unbelievable. KISS has done a lot of things in their time but this one takes the cake!
That's the last time I pay to see their "Farewell" tour.
RTFA? Oh wait, just a second.....nevermind about all that.
Actually no, we probably couldn't do it without saying "fuck it".
We'd lose that caution to the wind, devil may care edge that most of us crave if we did that.
I know I'm not participating unless "fuck it" is the official battle cry of this movement.
Damn! Lost track of where I was and replied to the Mozilla article on the wrong thread!
Elf needs coffee badly. Bracing for "Off Topic" moderation impact.
Love the software and the project and I've only really ever had one complaint about anything and everything Mozilla related.
Did these guys corner the market on sucky software names or what? Mozilla? Firebird? Thunderbird? Camino? (Chimera wasn't bad but naturally someone made them stop using it) Galeon?
Epiphany sounds ok but I expect it will also change at some point since it doesn't fit the name scheme (must suck in some way).
Man I agree that Apple shouldn't get a free ride and no, iTunes for Windows should be considered a "Best of 2003" app but it's not like the rest of that made much sense.
Four codec options is fine. Does anything outside of wav, mp3, and AAC matter anyway? Does it matter to 90% of the people who will use this? Converting AAC files out of AAC isn't a pain either. You're burning a CD. Most everyone is burning a CD of what they bought anyway if for no other reason than to throw it in a CD wallet to drag out to their car. Once you burned it you can rip it to whatever floats your boat.
It's not the best, and it's not all that original either so no awards for this one. On the other hand it's not got nearly the downside you make it sound like.
Microsoft can do anything and the Justice Department seems to agree with that assumption.
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What's the point of being Microsoft if you can't do "anything"?
Maybe he's looking at the "iron fist" that each of them have and noting similarities in their willingness to use it?
As long as Israel thinks it's no big deal to leave millions of Palestinians in refugee camps nobody should be surprised that they have no real problem with the concept of walking into a populated area and blowing themselves up.
Funny how the world works ain't it. Who would have figured that Israel would become the new Nazis?
I base this assertion on nothing more than the observation that the last guy standing always seems to be the one who did the least and tells the tallest tales. When it's all said and done Ringo will be alive, Paul will be dead (despite years of living healthy) and nobody will be around (at least nobody who was really one of the Beatles (Pete Best honestly counts for nothing) to contradict him. Our children will be reading his account of the day he woke up and the words to "Yesterday" popped into his head.
Yes, half of them are dead. I think it's almost going to be a slam dunk that Paul dies before Ringo and then, because the world is a funny place, the last remaining Beatle will also be the least talented of the lot. Figures.
Apple Corp needs to be destroyed. It's a company that produces nothing and merely waits around for someone to do something that they can sue over. Completely worthless legal leeches.
Actually no, Longhorn burgers are not good. Nobody raised Longhorns because they were "good eatin!". They raised them because you could stick one out on a range and ignore it for most of it's life and it wouldn't die. They were tough and there were tons of them in the wild at a time when the east was clamoring for beef so all that needed to be done was to round them up and drive them to the railheads.
As soon as it became practical the Longhorn was replaced with better breeds that maybe required a little more maintenance but yielded much more (and better) beef.
I don't think so.
All of that may be true but since the total number of people who even know that these products (or company's for that matter) even exist can be numbered in the dozens it's safe to say that Apple doesn't real spend a lot of time worrying about their new "real competition".
YOu CAN'T look back on SCO's year without in some way incorporating their IP in the article. Doing so means that SCO owns the article and thus the website it's published on, the servers that run the website, and so forth.
Nobody in their right mind would risk doing a look back at SCO's year article.
Mayne you make it back to this post and maybe you don't but I just got back to take a look at it and of course just saying "SMTP has got to go" doesn't solve anything.
I'm not a programmer and I don't have a "better solution" waiting in the wings to spring on the world. I can see that the present way of doing this has been compromised and that it won't be much longer before something better will be needed.
You can spot a bad actor without being an actor (good or otherwise). It doesn't take someone who has a deep understanding of SMTP to see that email as we know it is in trouble either.
email is good stuff but a bunch of assholes have found it fairly easy to turn it into as much of a problem as it is a benefit. This thing you speak of, signing all of your email with a key, sounds interesting. Can it be made mandatory? Leaving this as something that everyone must "agree" to do isn't going to make any difference.
I'm not a terribly knowledgable person in this area but I think that it's kind of obvious that the eventual solution to this is going to be an SMTP2 or something along those lines and that it will (in time) be either that or email becomes a fragmented mess (as you alude to wherein people block whole blocks of IP addresses).
SMTP is doing exactly what it was meant to do. Fine. Good for SMTP and we're all proud of it. The landscape has changed though and what SMTP was meant to do has been corrupted into something it was never intended to do. SMTP changes to correct this abuse or eventually gets replaced with something that does will be the answer to that.
By saying "SMTP has got to go" I'm not saying it's broken or bad or that it's done something wrong. People have done something wrong with it and it's got to be rethought to stop this from happening in the future.
Agreed and good points all. I think you underestimate the size of the hole in anti-spam laws though. It's closer to the size an aircraft carrier can be U-turned through.
Aside from that one small point, perfect.
SMTP has got to go. It was great while it lasted but obviously the human race, or some small percentage of it is incapable of not screwing something sweet like this up. We need something that can literally put an end to this before it begins.
I'm not the original poster (obviously) but I also found it not all that good. It wasn't "all that bad" either though. I've been trying to figure out why I didn't like about it or what threw me since I watched it but I was out after three episodes. My wife (both of us watched the hell out of Buffy and still watch Angel) was the same way.
The dialog didn't grab me the same way the better writing on Joss's other two shows did (admittedly not every episode has/had "better writing") and I never warmed up much to the characters. I thought the effects were very well done though.
That's what happened when I watched it. Why is still something I'm trying to figure out. I'm thinking about renting the DVD's (or possibly even buying them) to give it another shot.
I know one thing that's maybe got something to do with my not going for it. It's superficial so maybe I can get past it but I absolutely despise damn near every western ever made. The one that comes to mind that I like was "Unforgiven". I think the western "feel" to the series probably made it tough for me to jump onboard. Maybe if it had stayed on the air a season or two I might have come around and given it another look.
Ok, like some others responding to you I have to grant that "it sucked" is hardly insightful.
On the other hand saying someone who didn't like it must be too used to crap to enjoy it is roughly about the same amount of "dumb as fuck" as the guy you're replying to.
Firefly did not do anything for me either. It doesn't mean I don't know good SciFi when I see it. It simply was not my cup of tea. I did see some good things there, I just didn't care much for the show overall. I think Joss got stretched pretty thin about that time and nothing with his name on it was at it's best during the time Firefly was being made and on TV.
*Note: in my OPINION and for the record "my opinion" isn't the last word on anything and I understand that.
Did anyone else read this part and hear Dennis Leary's voice saying it?
"Music in the digital age is being stifled. We want music in compressed format. We want our collection to be available at the click of a mouse. We want to be able to get new music off the internet. We want to have matchbook-sized MP3 players so we can toss those huge clunky CD players that only hold an hour music. We want the ability to search for new music and expand our tastes. We want to pay on a per-song basis instead of being forced to buy an album containing music we may not want."
Very true. At one time or another the "hot spot" has been located in various places and each of them sooner or later yielded this to another rising culture/region/people. There's nothing out there carved in stone to say that Westerners will keep the lead from here on out.
We've had a really good run and I'm not saying it's over but it's not like it can't be over either. All we have to do is take a break, kick back and decide that we're on top for good and the next thing you know we're listening to people talk about how the west hasn't contributed anything since the early 21st century.