Don't know about everyone else, but I belive the AEK II was the finest keyboard ever made. The shit apple has bundled with Macs since are just a travesty to users.
BTW, remember when macs didn't come with keyboards? Just a mouse. Fun.
I find the replay's blue led annoying, they don't belong on home theater equipment.
The worst one I've seen is on the Canopus ADVC-100. Not only do they have a blinding blue LED on it, but there is tiny, red writing RIGHT NEXT to the LED. On a black case, this is illegible unless you turn the unit off and shine a bright spotlight directly on it.
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A lot of them remind me of Kalidescope themes as far back as System 7. A couple are cool but thats all.
You bring up an interesting (somewhat OT) point. Multinational companies can take advantage of a global industrial marketplace and labor force, yet build artificial market segmentation at the consumer level. Essentially, they want to say "we cut your job because an Indian programmer will do your job for less, but we will still charge you more for our end product because the consumer market will bear the price and we get to keep the profit."
How bad was console piracy when games were on cartridges?
Developers could put a special memory card in the box with the game. The game would only run if that memory card was slotted and you would be unable to copy its contents.
I do the same thing on my Mac when I read sites like boingboing or plastic, but not usually with search results. Safari's snapback is a convenient way to return to a search results page with 1 click no matter how far you've travelled into a linked site.
I have been in the situation where I knew I visited a site recently, but couldn't find it in the history for one reason or another. Current history schemes of pure chronological and domain-sorting don't really help if all you can remember is that "I found the link in a blog somewhere", but providing the history as a tree structure of links clicked would be a big step in the right direction.
They could potentially have a good channel once they throw away all of the crappy stuff from each network. They might even have enough content to avoid the amazing repetition of g4. Although the informercials would probably have to stay.
Current, I can't get techtv, even though nearby counties have it. Since I get G4, I'm hoping that now I'll get the "combined" channel.
"It's incredibly difficult today for the retailer to tell a customer which new model corresponds to the old one. But we could fix that with RFID. That's a great sales tool."
That one made me laugh. Instead of just *educating* the retailers, they make up insane excuses to use this technology.
"Servers appear on the desktop and in Finder window Sidebars...and you can disconnect a server by dragging its icon on the desktop to the Trash or by clicking the Eject icon in the Sidebar."
10.3 already did this, at least for my Mac shares. Am I missing something here?
They list a 1986 MSDS on the site, and a search confirms the entry. However, a search for the manufacturer points back to the hoax website. I think maybe msdsonline has falled for it, probably through lack of due diligence.
"Your analogy was of new technology coming in and displacing the old. But the analogy is wrong, and it doesn't event make sense, because there is no "new music" coming in and replacing the "old music." What has happened is that technology has given us a way to very easily deny artists compensation for their work."
Thats not whats really happening. Recorded music WAS a new technology and income stream to musicians when it was invented. Before that, as someone mentioned, the only way for musicians to make money was live performance or commisioned compositions. Now, that income stream is drying up and the smart musicians are moving on and using recordings as advertising for thier shows or other media products.
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So CAN-SPAM means "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing"? What I want to now is, where was all this unsolicited porn?! I sure didn't get any. Now that the law is in place, I'll NEVER get any.;)
Seriously, this acronym is ridiculous. Any porn-like junk mail IS marketing. No one ever sends out free, non-solicited porn.
I heard somewhere about an company that was pressured by the stockholding board to outsource programming jobs to india because amercan workers expected near-twice the salary of similarly-skilled indian workers. HR didn't want to do this, so they advertised the jobs in the US but with india-level salaries. "Deplorable!" you say? Apparently not, the jobs filled up fast.
My mom and stepdad have been using an eMac for a while now. I rarely get 'problem' questions, just 'usage' questions. When I suggested an update to 10.3, telling them I could be over to install it in a few days, they asked me where to buy it and installed it themselves that afternoon.
DSLnet has done this to us in the past. We've got a bunch of static IPs with our dsl account. They informed us of the problematic IP and told us they would disable just that IP (not the entire modem) until we informed them that the PC on that IP was cleaned. Considering we have a bunch of non-firewalled boxes on the net through this modem, I was grateful they didn't shut the whole modem off. They even told me what port they detected a problem on and what virus was associated with that port.
My boss used to come around the office around 6 or 7 and say "stop working, its time for a Marathon game." There's nothing more stress relieving than stalking around claustrophobic hallways with 2 shotguns, waiting to blow your boss's (eh, his character's) head off. When we switched to UT, he couldn't really keep up and stopped gathering games.
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Don't know about everyone else, but I belive the AEK II was the finest keyboard ever made. The shit apple has bundled with Macs since are just a travesty to users.
BTW, remember when macs didn't come with keyboards? Just a mouse. Fun.
I find the replay's blue led annoying, they don't belong on home theater equipment.
The worst one I've seen is on the Canopus ADVC-100. Not only do they have a blinding blue LED on it, but there is tiny, red writing RIGHT NEXT to the LED. On a black case, this is illegible unless you turn the unit off and shine a bright spotlight directly on it.
A lot of them remind me of Kalidescope themes as far back as System 7. A couple are cool but thats all.
Today would be a good day for 3d realms to announce the release of DNF.
You bring up an interesting (somewhat OT) point. Multinational companies can take advantage of a global industrial marketplace and labor force, yet build artificial market segmentation at the consumer level. Essentially, they want to say "we cut your job because an Indian programmer will do your job for less, but we will still charge you more for our end product because the consumer market will bear the price and we get to keep the profit."
How bad was console piracy when games were on cartridges?
Developers could put a special memory card in the box with the game. The game would only run if that memory card was slotted and you would be unable to copy its contents.
I do the same thing on my Mac when I read sites like boingboing or plastic, but not usually with search results. Safari's snapback is a convenient way to return to a search results page with 1 click no matter how far you've travelled into a linked site.
I have been in the situation where I knew I visited a site recently, but couldn't find it in the history for one reason or another. Current history schemes of pure chronological and domain-sorting don't really help if all you can remember is that "I found the link in a blog somewhere", but providing the history as a tree structure of links clicked would be a big step in the right direction.
Damn legislators! I want my unsolicited pr0n back!
Maybe this will help.
Yeah, my 61" tv is much easier to carry than my 21' monitor.
They could potentially have a good channel once they throw away all of the crappy stuff from each network. They might even have enough content to avoid the amazing repetition of g4. Although the informercials would probably have to stay.
Current, I can't get techtv, even though nearby counties have it. Since I get G4, I'm hoping that now I'll get the "combined" channel.
Here is a suggested use from the article:
"It's incredibly difficult today for the retailer to tell a customer which new model corresponds to the old one. But we could fix that with RFID. That's a great sales tool."
That one made me laugh. Instead of just *educating* the retailers, they make up insane excuses to use this technology.
Almost 7 years ago I tried a product that does allow left/right control of a videogame:
http://www.other90.com/
Will peter jackson come deliver a personal apology if the deliverator didn't get it to you in 30 minutes?
Microsoft doesn't make mice and keyboards, they outsource that. I doubt that microsoft employees even design them.
"Servers appear on the desktop and in Finder window Sidebars...and you can disconnect a server by dragging its icon on the desktop to the Trash or by clicking the Eject icon in the Sidebar."
10.3 already did this, at least for my Mac shares. Am I missing something here?
They list a 1986 MSDS on the site, and a search confirms the entry. However, a search for the manufacturer points back to the hoax website. I think maybe msdsonline has falled for it, probably through lack of due diligence.
"Your analogy was of new technology coming in and displacing the old. But the analogy is wrong, and it doesn't event make sense, because there is no "new music" coming in and replacing the "old music." What has happened is that technology has given us a way to very easily deny artists compensation for their work."
Thats not whats really happening. Recorded music WAS a new technology and income stream to musicians when it was invented. Before that, as someone mentioned, the only way for musicians to make money was live performance or commisioned compositions. Now, that income stream is drying up and the smart musicians are moving on and using recordings as advertising for thier shows or other media products.
So CAN-SPAM means "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing"? What I want to now is, where was all this unsolicited porn?! I sure didn't get any. Now that the law is in place, I'll NEVER get any. ;)
Seriously, this acronym is ridiculous. Any porn-like junk mail IS marketing. No one ever sends out free, non-solicited porn.
I heard somewhere about an company that was pressured by the stockholding board to outsource programming jobs to india because amercan workers expected near-twice the salary of similarly-skilled indian workers. HR didn't want to do this, so they advertised the jobs in the US but with india-level salaries. "Deplorable!" you say? Apparently not, the jobs filled up fast.
This merger makes perfect sense: one mediocre computer company buying another mediocre one.
I actually thought gateway was trying to move OUT of the PC business, with all the consumer electronics they introduced recently. Guess not.
There are a bunch of companies that do this now
My mom and stepdad have been using an eMac for a while now. I rarely get 'problem' questions, just 'usage' questions. When I suggested an update to 10.3, telling them I could be over to install it in a few days, they asked me where to buy it and installed it themselves that afternoon.
Now how will I earn my free dinners?
DSLnet has done this to us in the past. We've got a bunch of static IPs with our dsl account. They informed us of the problematic IP and told us they would disable just that IP (not the entire modem) until we informed them that the PC on that IP was cleaned. Considering we have a bunch of non-firewalled boxes on the net through this modem, I was grateful they didn't shut the whole modem off. They even told me what port they detected a problem on and what virus was associated with that port.
Good one!
My boss used to come around the office around 6 or 7 and say "stop working, its time for a Marathon game." There's nothing more stress relieving than stalking around claustrophobic hallways with 2 shotguns, waiting to blow your boss's (eh, his character's) head off. When we switched to UT, he couldn't really keep up and stopped gathering games.