Want to strike a blow for freedom and democracy? Stop wasting your time bitching about the MPAA and instead organize a boycott of Cisco, a company whose actions imperil the freedom of four times as many people as are affected by the DMCA.
That's a great idea! From now on, I won't allow any Cisco product to touch my packets. That'll teach 'em! Oh, wait... never mind.
The streaming MP3 capabilities or whatever they are could actually prevent one minor type of piracy. Consider this: If the average person wants their music on more than one computer in their house, what do they do? They copy it over, of course. That's "piracy". With an Airport network and Jaguar, they wouldn't need to do this. It would be EASIER to stream their music over the network.
Wow, we slashdotted one of the major Mac news sites. Just for kicks, can we try Maccentral while we're at it? Then we could just sit back and wait for the/. posts about the big anti-Apple conspiracy.
Well, the AI module already exists. Microsoft built it into Windows XP, in fact. With XP, you don't need to think; Microsoft does that for you. So what that it's only 4% accurate? Once everyone learns to let Microsoft think for them, no one will even notice!
Somewhat related, but a little bit more extreme, is the concept of Waldorf Schools. Coincidentally, there was an article in today's Daily Camera about Waldorf schools in the Boulder, CO area.
This guy's actually pretty funny- most of the time, he actually takes credit for his comment(s), though. Look up user "BSD is dying", and check out all of his posts.
Before anyone moderates this down any more, you should look at this person's history. Then you'll see that what appears to be the post of a troll is actually just dry sarcasm. Pretty funny, too.
Apple has announced that they will reimburse customers for the money that they shell out for Norton or Techtool if they bought it to recover data lost due to the iTunes installer.
I'm one of the stupid people who download and install everything the moment it comes out, and thus I installed iTunes 2.0 for OS X. Both of my partitions have spaces in their names, but I was saved by the fact that I had moved iTunes 1.2.1 into a subdirectory of my/Applications directory. Close call!
I could be wrong, but I don't think DOS is gone from Windows XP; it's just that XP isn't built on top of DOS. There is still a command prompt in XP, and as a matter of fact, I used it to run emacs, etc., the same way as you would in any previous version of Windows or DOS.
This isn't evil, unless you count downgrading a feature as evil. All Microsoft is doing is making a feature of their software less useful. Who actually uses Word as the definitive reference on the English language anyway? This will only make people trust Microsoft products less.
Using a regular user account is all well and good, but the vast majority of OS X users will be using an admin account, since the OS setup process creates an admin account for the main user. Most people won't think to create another account.
BTW, I tested this hole, and it is as bad as it sounds. Macslash.com has a nice little demo that you can try yourself if you're running 10.1.
Not only is it time to start thinking more seriously about using the 4 other senses...
My computer already makes use of the sense of smell... "My processor's melting, my processor's melting!!"
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Want to strike a blow for freedom and democracy? Stop wasting your time bitching about the MPAA and instead organize a boycott of Cisco, a company whose actions imperil the freedom of four times as many people as are affected by the DMCA.
That's a great idea! From now on, I won't allow any Cisco product to touch my packets. That'll teach 'em! Oh, wait... never mind.
Does michael have a sudden obsession with "cute?" I have to wonder when both of his posts this morning end in "Cute Idea!"
...if they were just a little more sensitive:
"Psst... Hey Flipper! I'll give you ten clams to squeak right into that microphone over there!"
You think that's bad... check out the lead Wired article today.
The streaming MP3 capabilities or whatever they are could actually prevent one minor type of piracy. Consider this: If the average person wants their music on more than one computer in their house, what do they do? They copy it over, of course. That's "piracy". With an Airport network and Jaguar, they wouldn't need to do this. It would be EASIER to stream their music over the network.
I first went online when I was 12 years old and I very quickly learned to steer clear of sites explicitly for kids...
That certainly dates you...
Wow, we slashdotted one of the major Mac news sites. Just for kicks, can we try Maccentral while we're at it? Then we could just sit back and wait for the /. posts about the big anti-Apple conspiracy.
someone writes a virus that spreads through the Kazaa or gnutella network. I thought Kazaa was a virus.
Well, the AI module already exists. Microsoft built it into Windows XP, in fact. With XP, you don't need to think; Microsoft does that for you. So what that it's only 4% accurate? Once everyone learns to let Microsoft think for them, no one will even notice!
Obviously he ordered the high end model, because those are the only ones that have shipped.
But can you really call an iMac a "box"? That just strikes me as a little bit of a misnomer.
Wouldn't you love to see this thing on Robot Wars? ;-)
In the space of an hour, Kathleen got:
1 proposal, 1 slashdotting, and +1 informative! What excitement!
Somewhat related, but a little bit more extreme, is the concept of Waldorf Schools. Coincidentally, there was an article in today's Daily Camera about Waldorf schools in the Boulder, CO area.
1 2p waldo.html
http://www.thedailycamera.com/livingarts/youth/
This guy's actually pretty funny- most of the time, he actually takes credit for his comment(s), though. Look up user "BSD is dying", and check out all of his posts.
Before anyone moderates this down any more, you should look at this person's history. Then you'll see that what appears to be the post of a troll is actually just dry sarcasm. Pretty funny, too.
Could you install Linux on one of these things? What about making a Beowulf cluster of them? That would be SO COOL!!!
Apple has announced that they will reimburse customers for the money that they shell out for Norton or Techtool if they bought it to recover data lost due to the iTunes installer.
/Applications directory. Close call!
I'm one of the stupid people who download and install everything the moment it comes out, and thus I installed iTunes 2.0 for OS X. Both of my partitions have spaces in their names, but I was saved by the fact that I had moved iTunes 1.2.1 into a subdirectory of my
I could be wrong, but I don't think DOS is gone from Windows XP; it's just that XP isn't built on top of DOS. There is still a command prompt in XP, and as a matter of fact, I used it to run emacs, etc., the same way as you would in any previous version of Windows or DOS.
This isn't evil, unless you count downgrading a feature as evil. All Microsoft is doing is making a feature of their software less useful. Who actually uses Word as the definitive reference on the English language anyway? This will only make people trust Microsoft products less.
The term 'PPC' includes G3 and G4 machines, not just the original PPC architecture. So yes, there are a lot of PPC machines out there.
Using a regular user account is all well and good, but the vast majority of OS X users will be using an admin account, since the OS setup process creates an admin account for the main user. Most people won't think to create another account.
BTW, I tested this hole, and it is as bad as it sounds. Macslash.com has a nice little demo that you can try yourself if you're running 10.1.
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Not only is it time to start thinking more seriously about using the 4 other senses...
My computer already makes use of the sense of smell...
"My processor's melting, my processor's melting!!"
Or, on my laptop, since I'd have to hold down Function to enable the F-keys, that would be a... sextuple-bucky!.
Of course, I really can't see people using a desktop computer with a 15 inch screen to play DVD's. DVD playback is much more important on portables.