It's a mac - anti virus isn't worth having. I've had a mac for years and have never had any viruses. The rest of the 'idea' is what they were providing for free anyway. The only thing I really want is the mac.com email address but that isn't worth $100 a year. I have some pics up on my free mac homepage but they can be moved to my ISP's if Apple start charging - hell I can host them from home they're only meant for friends and family so DSL provides enough bandwidth.
If this is the big announcement at MWNY then it's going to take one hell of a reality distotion field to swing this one past the faithful.
The Carbon API is present in some form on MacOS 9.x and OS X. Only OS X has the full implementation so a pure Carbon app may not run on MacOS 9.x but if it does run on MacOS 9.x it will run natively on OS X too. Think of Win32 - you need an NT based OS to use all the API - try calling NT specific stuff on a Win9X platform and it will fail. An example of something in Office.X that won't work in MacOS 9.x is the pretty translucent graphs in Excel - these use Quartz and Quartz certainly isn't in MacOS 9.x.
Another misconception that needs clearing up is that Carbon and Cocoa are just APIs. One is not inherently superior to the other and both are sitting on top of BSD and Mach anyway. If you have a large C++ codebase you are not about to re-write it all in Objective-C and even if you did you are not going to get the miraculous speed-ups and free beer that some people expect. If you want an informed opinion on the Cocoa vs Carbon debate please take a read of the president of Ambrosia Software's admittedly dated but still correct open letter.
In summer I usually go to the far end of Cornwall - the bit that sticks out in the sea in the SW of England. At 11 o'clock the Air France Concorde passes by and it *is* supersonic you hear a definite boom and if it is closer to the coast than it should be then it really rattles the windows!
Without him we'd probably be living in a D3D only world on the desktop.
True for games but all serious 3D modelling packages use OpenGL - partly because D3D is platform specific but mostly because it is inadequate for anything but games.
The Honorable Mr. Boucher will be branded either a nut case or a heretic by the rest of the house.
Sad but true I'm afraid. However it is nice to see there is at least one US politician that knows the difference between copyright protection and copy protection; pity he won't make a difference. Even more of a pity for us Europeans who seem to be a test bed for all these copy^H^H^H^Hfair rights protected CDs. All power to him but I fear that the RIAA will get their way in the US and then force it on everyone else - and let's not even mention Palladium.
but that's okay because there are other options to choose from. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, etc. (no, don't bother to point out that all of those also have their shortcomings....
Typical enivronmentalist stance: we should be using all this wonderful technology - please don't point out why it is ineffective as that makes baby Gaia cry.
o Solar: This could work but to make it work efficiently you want your (expensive) panels close to the Equator. Problem is most equatorial countries are basket cases.
o Wind: Nice for a small rural community but the windmills are v. unpopular with those that live near them - ooops rules out small rural communities then - and tend to be put on top of pretty hills spoiling the view. Putting them out at sea is expensive. They are also troubled by both lack of wind and too much wind so end up not producing electricity for substantial yet unpredictable periods of time.
o Geothermal: great if you live in Iceland.
o Hydroelectric: You forgot greenies don't like this as you have to build a dam and dams are baaaaad.
One you didn't mention is tidal - in some ways this is better than wind as there is a more predictable and consistent energy source to be tapped but again cost is a problem. Renewable supplies may well be the future but they are not ready to replace Coal/Gas/Nuclear anytime soon.
Yeah, but that's like a stopped clock is correct twice a day. Apple were always going to release a flat panel iMac sometime just like they will release a G5 some time - not next week. The problem is the rumour sites hype things up way too far and the fools that believe them end up getting pissed at Apple for not releasing 4x5GHz G5 PowerMacs.
Dr Who coming back to the TV after far to many years abandoned in the wilderness by the BBC is worthwhile news in a way that Buffy doesn't win a prize isn't. For once the editors have got it right with a pop culture story.
And for those of use who have MacOS, well shit, I don't feel like downloading a new program just to play some pr0n. Apple gave me a perfectly good Quicktime Player with MacOS. Not to mention a variety of Web Browsers, E-mail Client, Instant message program...
No it's utterly redundant - reading the article and the replies to the comment you linked to reveals that all that hot metal is nicely insulated in ceramic so no harm comes to the microwave. He was even lifting the ceramic block containing the +900C metal with bare hands.
At least the manufacturers aren't sealing the hoods and putting mustard gas inside to prevent repairs (yet).
The Audi A2 has a sealed hood^H^H^H^Hbonnet. Stuff you need to access like the windsreen fluid refill live behind a small flap at the front of the car otherwise entry is verbotten. Don't go giving them ideas about the mustard gas though.
PWP - page widening posts as popularised by Klerck. I won't post an example as that would be impolite but check out Klerck's user page if you're using IE and want an example.
I was in India at the start of the year and DVDs were not at all common. Even at the international airport there were just half a dozen Bollywood flicks on a wooden desk - I stocked up on cheap DVDs at the stopover in Dubai. The newspapers do feature lots of adverts for VCD players but that is not the same thing!
Over here in the UK you can get Bollywood DVDs if that's your thing but they tend to be very lazy dumps of the video - no special features just the film and maybe a TV trailer if your lucky.
Proves nothing except 'touch' is case insensitive.
NTFS is another filesystem that appears to be case-insensitive - create a file called foo and try and create another called Foo from Explorer and it wll barf. Write your own version of 'touch' using the NT Native API and you can create foo, Foo, FOO and foO in the same directory - the downside is you confuse the hell out of all the Windows apps. You can also create files with reserved or 'illegal' names like '....', ' leadingSpace' and 'prn'. These tend to crash Explorer if tou try and use them!
In summary a filesystem can be case-senstive and behave as HFS+ (or NTFS) does if the OS does not expose the case-sensitivity.
That's what I did when this unholy bill was first announced asking why any of the listed groups could have access to emails, mobile phone and ISP logs without so much as a warrant. Read that list - it's beyond belief what they're trying to get away with. The only one I can see a justification for is the Home Office as they deal with crime and internal security.
Within two days I received a reply signed by the man himself which suggested that he agreed that there were privacy concerns here and he has forwarded my concerns to the home secretary. So I await Blunkett's justification for all this with baited breath.
It's nice to see that they have delayed the debate but the House of Commons is so stuffed with New Labour drones that they will be able to whip whatever fascist legislation they want through there. Still if this proposed legislation does concern you write to your MP and let your views be known. Who knows maybe even New Labour will deign to listen to the electorate if enough people kick up a fuss.
Well, I have never had a Mac hard drive crash. Ever. A different last year's suitemate seemed to think that the OS factored into it.
I don't see how the OS could have anything to do with HD life - unless we're talking about the C64 and its suicide drive hacks. My parents' Mac (G4 350) suffered a crashed drive - it's the only thing that kernel panicked it since they put OS X on - so it does happen. Incidently Apple replaced the drive free of charge.
I'd imagine that c is their upper limit as it is for all things with a real mass. The fastest recorded steam train is the Mallard which recorded a speed of 126 mph 202km/h in the 1930s.
Seriously, no one cares about you. Maybe your immediate family, but certainly not the government.
You may well think that but you don't know the UK government. When a group of people committed the thoughtcrime of criticising a govenment minister the Labour party's first reaction was to dig for dirt. If government departmnets could trawl through private email and phone records they would.
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especially the anti virus
It's a mac - anti virus isn't worth having. I've had a mac for years and have never had any viruses. The rest of the 'idea' is what they were providing for free anyway. The only thing I really want is the mac.com email address but that isn't worth $100 a year. I have some pics up on my free mac homepage but they can be moved to my ISP's if Apple start charging - hell I can host them from home they're only meant for friends and family so DSL provides enough bandwidth.
If this is the big announcement at MWNY then it's going to take one hell of a reality distotion field to swing this one past the faithful.
The Carbon API is present in some form on MacOS 9.x and OS X. Only OS X has the full implementation so a pure Carbon app may not run on MacOS 9.x but if it does run on MacOS 9.x it will run natively on OS X too. Think of Win32 - you need an NT based OS to use all the API - try calling NT specific stuff on a Win9X platform and it will fail. An example of something in Office.X that won't work in MacOS 9.x is the pretty translucent graphs in Excel - these use Quartz and Quartz certainly isn't in MacOS 9.x.
Another misconception that needs clearing up is that Carbon and Cocoa are just APIs. One is not inherently superior to the other and both are sitting on top of BSD and Mach anyway. If you have a large C++ codebase you are not about to re-write it all in Objective-C and even if you did you are not going to get the miraculous speed-ups and free beer that some people expect. If you want an informed opinion on the Cocoa vs Carbon debate please take a read of the president of Ambrosia Software's admittedly dated but still correct open letter.
In summer I usually go to the far end of Cornwall - the bit that sticks out in the sea in the SW of England. At 11 o'clock the Air France Concorde passes by and it *is* supersonic you hear a definite boom and if it is closer to the coast than it should be then it really rattles the windows!
Without him we'd probably be living in a D3D only world on the desktop.
True for games but all serious 3D modelling packages use OpenGL - partly because D3D is platform specific but mostly because it is inadequate for anything but games.
Cute Kids (tm) Saving the Situation (tm), which IMO is the only conceivable way it could get worse. Gaaaack.
s/Cute Kids/Ewoks/g and you've got Return of the Jedi.
The Honorable Mr. Boucher will be branded either a nut case or a heretic by the rest of the house.
Sad but true I'm afraid. However it is nice to see there is at least one US politician that knows the difference between copyright protection and copy protection; pity he won't make a difference. Even more of a pity for us Europeans who seem to be a test bed for all these copy^H^H^H^Hfair rights protected CDs. All power to him but I fear that the RIAA will get their way in the US and then force it on everyone else - and let's not even mention Palladium.
but that's okay because there are other options to choose from. Solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, etc. (no, don't bother to point out that all of those also have their shortcomings....
Typical enivronmentalist stance: we should be using all this wonderful technology - please don't point out why it is ineffective as that makes baby Gaia cry.
o Solar: This could work but to make it work efficiently you want your (expensive) panels close to the Equator. Problem is most equatorial countries are basket cases.
o Wind: Nice for a small rural community but the windmills are v. unpopular with those that live near them - ooops rules out small rural communities then - and tend to be put on top of pretty hills spoiling the view. Putting them out at sea is expensive. They are also troubled by both lack of wind and too much wind so end up not producing electricity for substantial yet unpredictable periods of time.
o Geothermal: great if you live in Iceland.
o Hydroelectric: You forgot greenies don't like this as you have to build a dam and dams are baaaaad.
One you didn't mention is tidal - in some ways this is better than wind as there is a more predictable and consistent energy source to be tapped but again cost is a problem. Renewable supplies may well be the future but they are not ready to replace Coal/Gas/Nuclear anytime soon.
Yeah, but that's like a stopped clock is correct twice a day. Apple were always going to release a flat panel iMac sometime just like they will release a G5 some time - not next week. The problem is the rumour sites hype things up way too far and the fools that believe them end up getting pissed at Apple for not releasing 4x5GHz G5 PowerMacs.
Romana#2's real name is Lalla Ward and she's now married to creationist fanboy Richard Dawkins.
Dr Who coming back to the TV after far to many years abandoned in the wilderness by the BBC is worthwhile news in a way that Buffy doesn't win a prize isn't. For once the editors have got it right with a pop culture story.
And for those of use who have MacOS, well shit, I don't feel like downloading a new program just to play some pr0n. Apple gave me a perfectly good Quicktime Player with MacOS. Not to mention a variety of Web Browsers, E-mail Client, Instant message program...
Ents were walking trees.
No it's utterly redundant - reading the article and the replies to the comment you linked to reveals that all that hot metal is nicely insulated in ceramic so no harm comes to the microwave. He was even lifting the ceramic block containing the +900C metal with bare hands.
Maybe an economist can explain to me what more than 100% is supposd to mean in this context. WTF?
Perhaps someone here would be able to explain.
At least the manufacturers aren't sealing the hoods and putting mustard gas inside to prevent repairs (yet).
The Audi A2 has a sealed hood^H^H^H^Hbonnet. Stuff you need to access like the windsreen fluid refill live behind a small flap at the front of the car otherwise entry is verbotten. Don't go giving them ideas about the mustard gas though.
MS wrote the C64's BASIC - seems they never learn:
for(;;) printf("\t\b\b");
kills the NT based Windows OSes.
You can also use this link to fax your MP - I did and am happy that this bill has been kicked into touch.
PWP - page widening posts as popularised by Klerck. I won't post an example as that would be impolite but check out Klerck's user page if you're using IE and want an example.
But since AOL has moved over to Mozilla we might actually see some change. I can't say yet, but time will tell.
Don't forget slashdot's refusal to fix PWPs for IE - it made me switch to Mozilla at work as well as at home!
I was in India at the start of the year and DVDs were not at all common. Even at the international airport there were just half a dozen Bollywood flicks on a wooden desk - I stocked up on cheap DVDs at the stopover in Dubai. The newspapers do feature lots of adverts for VCD players but that is not the same thing!
Over here in the UK you can get Bollywood DVDs if that's your thing but they tend to be very lazy dumps of the video - no special features just the film and maybe a TV trailer if your lucky.
Proves nothing except 'touch' is case insensitive.
NTFS is another filesystem that appears to be case-insensitive - create a file called foo and try and create another called Foo from Explorer and it wll barf. Write your own version of 'touch' using the NT Native API and you can create foo, Foo, FOO and foO in the same directory - the downside is you confuse the hell out of all the Windows apps. You can also create files with reserved or 'illegal' names like '....', ' leadingSpace' and 'prn'. These tend to crash Explorer if tou try and use them!
In summary a filesystem can be case-senstive and behave as HFS+ (or NTFS) does if the OS does not expose the case-sensitivity.
That's what I did when this unholy bill was first announced asking why any of the listed groups could have access to emails, mobile phone and ISP logs without so much as a warrant. Read that list - it's beyond belief what they're trying to get away with. The only one I can see a justification for is the Home Office as they deal with crime and internal security.
Within two days I received a reply signed by the man himself which suggested that he agreed that there were privacy concerns here and he has forwarded my concerns to the home secretary. So I await Blunkett's justification for all this with baited breath.
It's nice to see that they have delayed the debate but the House of Commons is so stuffed with New Labour drones that they will be able to whip whatever fascist legislation they want through there. Still if this proposed legislation does concern you write to your MP and let your views be known. Who knows maybe even New Labour will deign to listen to the electorate if enough people kick up a fuss.
Well, I have never had a Mac hard drive crash. Ever. A different last year's suitemate seemed to think that the OS factored into it.
I don't see how the OS could have anything to do with HD life - unless we're talking about the C64 and its suicide drive hacks. My parents' Mac (G4 350) suffered a crashed drive - it's the only thing that kernel panicked it since they put OS X on - so it does happen. Incidently Apple replaced the drive free of charge.
Isn't 88mph their upper limit?
I'd imagine that c is their upper limit as it is for all things with a real mass. The fastest recorded steam train is the Mallard which recorded a speed of 126 mph 202km/h in the 1930s.
Seriously, no one cares about you. Maybe your immediate family, but certainly not the government.
You may well think that but you don't know the UK government. When a group of people committed the thoughtcrime of criticising a govenment minister the Labour party's first reaction was to dig for dirt. If government departmnets could trawl through private email and phone records they would.