It was a response to this:
I have a feeling that Spaces is "supposed to" separate things by application, not necessarily by window. Linux and Windows throw all windows into one huge Alt-Tab clusterfsck, where Apple says: Command-Tab is for switching applications, and Command-` is for switching windows within an application. So it's the equivalent of Command-` on a Mac - switching between windows (or tabs) within an application. Well, the problem is, many apps don't support it - the Explorer at least doesn't. And while switching between tabs (in Firefox) is nice, I also can do this in Safari (Apple-Shift-Arrow key) - but why then can't I switch between windows too (not with the key-command that's supposed to be switching between windows at least)?
Nice sig BTW. Thanks.
is seriously outdated. Ermm, yes. It was updated almost 9 months ago, and that was a quiet update. And all I know is Apple just lowered the Euro price for it - which could either mean they are trying to get rid of the old models to introduce a new one, or that an update will not be coming soon.
Unfortunately I think they're using the same asus case I ordered for a media center PC I wanted to put together. That just sucks, I need to find something quiet. Hey, they should have tested the machine in the case before they pasted the photo of the case on their website.
If some little outfit had built a homebrew box that ran the XBOX360 or PS3 system, you'd all be throwing bouquets of roses at them, even if it was loud as hell. That's because that would make it quieter than either.
Hackintoshes apparently are Slashdot-worthy now. Ridiculous. Hey, it seems to be hard to get Linux working on these things - maybe that's why it got trough.
Is the new/. meme going to be "does it run OS X?" probably, but does it run linux
According to the Wikipedia link, "Many people posting on handtops.com [4] have reported at least partial success" running Linux on them. Does that count?
You just proved the point: the only thing the iPhone has over the competition is slick looks, in actual useful features it is below par. And you buy it as if it is a huge advantage. Given the context (business use), this is a prime example of someone drinking the Marketing Kool-Aid.
Mart IOW: Your phone is a better business phone than the iPhone because not only does it have an FM radio built in, its also near impossible using that radio.
Why you were modded troll and the guy you responded to was modded Insightful, I'll never know. Because the only better way to Karma-whore than by posting how much Apple and their products suck is by claiming that that is actually the best way to get modded down.
as recently as 100 million years ago - Go stick your inconvenient truth where your argument works. Ooh, the deniers are in full force today. Go mod me down again, suckers.
it has to be man made. the sun and natural effects couldn't possibly change the weather! Nope, it was Martian made, and they died out 100 million years ago because of it. Repent, sinners, for you repeat the sins of GOD's first try!
Might want to think hard about what's on your laptop if you're going to be passing through a US international airport.
Might want to think hard about making a trip to the states even if you don't have anything untoward on your laptop. Might want to think about making an international trip that transits through (or might just be re-routed through) the United States without you actually legally entering the US. You might be interrogated for hours - and because you haven't entered the US, you of course have no rights whatsoever. Examples: Paul Emile Dupret and Peter Nowak (in German).
On April 4 Roger Harrabin posted a story on the fact that world temperatures have not continued to rise in the past 10 years, and this year will fall to a level markedly below the average of the past two decades. The first part is so stupidly worded and misleading(*) and the other (if true) just means it will still be warmer than any year before 1980 despite being so "cold". And it still remains to be seen: Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets
We have recently changed the way that the smoothed time series of data were calculated. Data for 2008 were being used in the smoothing process as if they represented an accurate esimate of the year as a whole. This is not the case and owing to the unusually cool global average temperature in January 2008, it looked as though smoothed global average temperatures had dropped markedly in recent years, which is misleading.
(*) Why misleading, you ask? Because the last ten years were the warmest, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th and 12th warmest on record. Claiming acooling trend based on the fact that 1998 was the warmest year is plain stupid.
Actually you can have open source software without being GPL. So? The article suggests that even the names of the API functions from the iPhone SDK might be Apple's trade secret. If this is true, no open source software can be released for the iPhone. So? The article also suggests that all open source licenses will be replaced by GPLv3 sooner or later, because somebody will include GPLv3ed code in all open source apps sooner or later. IOW the article is rather "suggestive", if you catch my drift.
When I read "A german newspaper reports", I thought "Uh-oh, another Bild article about "killer astroids", so if it isn't made up, it's totally blown out of proportions." Hey, it wasn't Bild, but none the less false - says The Register. So take that with a grain of salt, too.
And yet, it will probably not look worse than subpixel rendering on a LCD connected via a noisy VGA cable - let alone a LCD driven at non native resolution or even a LCD with the wrong subpixel geometry.
This is why sub-pixel rendering works on LCDs but not CRTs (which turn on and off [or shade] specific color points digitally), because we know the exact shape and color layout of each pixel. Yawn. Improved subpixel font rendering for Feisty Fawn "...that improved the rendering of fonts on LCD screens (but also CRTs with Trinitron layout). "
Any biometric system worth anything utilizes a combination of the sample analysis and comparison with various "liveness checks" or other heuristics to determine that the sample given came from the appropriate person. While it is worth having a debate on the relative effectiveness of these techniques, to dismiss biometrics based on the flawed "once you've lost your fingerprint..." argument is wrong.
Example checks might be:
- Fingerprint: measuring temperature, bloodflow through the finger, resistance of finger, etc Funny you should mention this: fingerprint systems can still be easily tricked
(Google's translation is just too damn bad, so this is actually mine)
Even if they measure if the blood flows through the finger, the pulse beats, or if the print can be deformed, to trick the system we just need to "find the right material." [...] Only for measuring sweat we can't spontaneously think of a way to defeat that, but since that will jack up prices, it would only be used in high security tests.
Because movies are... fictions? Essentially build on the scenarist's need to wright a plot. The funny thing is: the CCC has already fooled quite a lot of fingerprint scanners without the need to chop off somebody's finger (as seen in many movies).
Capturing another persons fingerprint and then distributing it to the general public ostensibly for "faking" the identity of that individual... sure seems like grounds for criminal action to me. Well, first of all you could only fake the identity of someone with a fingerprint if only the fingerprint would be used to identify him. Point two: Schäuble keeps saying that the use of fingerprints for the biometric IDs would be unfakeable - so he can hardly complain.
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According to the Wikipedia link, "Many people posting on handtops.com [4] have reported at least partial success" running Linux on them. Does that count?
You just proved the point: the only thing the iPhone has over the competition is slick looks, in actual useful features it is below par. And you buy it as if it is a huge advantage. Given the context (business use), this is a prime example of someone drinking the Marketing Kool-Aid.
Mart IOW: Your phone is a better business phone than the iPhone because not only does it have an FM radio built in, its also near impossible using that radio.Oh, and it's the size of a Shuffle. So I get twice the capacity
The iPod Shuffle also has 2 GB and 3.5 mm phone jack.I wonder how much smaller/lower-power an Intel CPU were that just offered x86-64.
as recently as 100 million years ago - Go stick your inconvenient truth where your argument works.
When I read "A german newspaper reports", I thought "Uh-oh, another Bild article about "killer astroids", so if it isn't made up, it's totally blown out of proportions." Hey, it wasn't Bild, but none the less false - says The Register. So take that with a grain of salt, too.
And yet, it will probably not look worse than subpixel rendering on a LCD connected via a noisy VGA cable - let alone a LCD driven at non native resolution or even a LCD with the wrong subpixel geometry.
Example checks might be:
- Fingerprint: measuring temperature, bloodflow through the finger, resistance of finger, etc Funny you should mention this: fingerprint systems can still be easily tricked