Nobody's suggesting it couldn't happen to them, but you may want to check their website and see just how obsessed they are with security. However, this doesn't mean those silly systems where you get a random number through the post and have to input various digits every now and then, which you promptly forget. Their security is simple but effective. Coupled with great customer service, I can totally see where the original poster is coming from.
And hey - how many other banks have two rabid fans that are prepared to stand up and say 'Hey, my bank's great!' for no reason at all other than they've had a great customer experience? Yeah, so I guess it's very nearly off-topic, but there you go. Online banking is a valid alternative to places like Nationwide, and because they're on the internet security seems to be more of a concern for these banks.
Look, I'm clearly being thick. Can anyone explain to me what this story is actually about, in really simple terms, because the story summary makes as much sense as dressing an avocado in knickers, and I'm really not used to that.
I had this bright idea to compose a six-word reply. Then I realised that wasn't witty. It was derivative. Or something. I mean, I only realised once I'd logged on and noticed everyone else doing it. Please stop. Please stop now. Really. I'm weeping because I want you to stop. And stabbing my legs with pencils. Please stop it.
I can't help but agree wholeheartedly. It also would help if Mr Baby did a proof-read before he published things on his website. There are so many mangled sentences in there that it's no wonder the editors of the magazine he submitted it to snipped out massive portions and replaced various parts. I gave up after the third game; it's not funny, and it certainly isn't big or clever, either. Waste of ten minutes good reading time, if you ask me.
I'm not sure what you mean. If option-dragging (copies automatically on MacOS) or control-dragging (you're given a choice about what you want to do) is too difficult for you, copying a file in KDE can hardly be easier. Or am I missing something.
I couldn't agree more. I read through the whole article, then I read through the articles I was directed to read before reading the article, and then I realised how much the author wanted it all to be beautiful and good. He really wants Microsoft to produce something wonderful, something that will stop Firefox dead. And by the end of it I was wondering why I was bothering to read it. "I was talking to the team...' - great. Well done. Tell them not to bother.
Last month we had the dual touchscreen displays with the Matrix music. At least this is entirely original.
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Abandonware isn't a legal term; it means nothing. Just because the company hasn't done anything with their game doesn't mean they aren't entitled to enforce their copyright. Morally, we could discuss it ad nauseum. Technically, however, it's illegal to distribute such games.
"Mac Office is one of those "software in the large" projects. There's really no way a team of our size would be able to adequately test all of Office without the use of automated testing. Every day we get a new build of Office from the build machines, we copy it to our Xserve RAID connected to our dual G5 Xserve for access by our 249 automation machines. We then run thousands and thousands of tests on the new build. Typically we get 4 builds of Office each day: English Ship, English Debug, Japanese Ship and Japanese Debug. We run our entire battery of tests against all the builds and then report any failures to testers via email. The testers investigate the failures, log any bugs and then move on to their other duties as testers. This turns out to be very effective, if used properly, and over time it allows testers to focus on things humans do best, while letting computers verify the repetitious and mundane, but necessary, testing. It all started with our Blue and White G3s years ago. At first when testers would upgrade their test machines, instead of recycling the machines, "The Lab" would get them to add them to our automation machine pool. I think we had about 20 machines to begin with."
So how is it when I attempt to view a word document I always manage to hit the error. I'm not being a wiseass - it's not every time. But if this takes place, why do I see so many difficulties when I attempt to view a word-for-windows document?
You forgot to mention that no matter where he's walking and no matter who he's dressed as he's always moving at a painfully slow speed with his head tilted approximately 15 degrees to the left. If the bad guys just started shooting people who walked slowly with an off-centre head they'd have no more trouble with hitmen, I guarantee.
You're telling me the odd place is selling a Nintendo console designed to rival the PS2 is now available for about thirty-five quid, and games are changing hands for ridiculously cheap quantities?
The article mentions Game, along with HMV and other major retailers. Woolworths? When was the last time I stepped into one of these?
Let's put it together - cheap consoles, second hand. Cheap games, second hand. Sounds fun to me. I'm on the lookout.
You cannot be infected by this unless you do all of the following:
1) Are somehow sent (via email, iChat, etc.) or download the "latestpics.tgz" file
2) Double-click on the file to decompress it
3) Double-click on the resulting file to "open" it...and then for most users, you must also enter your Admin password.
You cannot simply "catch" the virus. Even if someone does send you the "latestpics.tgz" file, you cannot be infected unless you unarchive the file, and then open it.
It's the not having to interact with normal people that does it for me.
What, seriously? Oh, okay - choice, convenience, price, the fact that you can queue up things to watch based on how desperate you are to see them. Oh, and not having to interact with normal people, now I come to think of it!
In which case any image sent to my email could appear on my hard drive and be considered. There are far reaching implications for this case regarding the data on my hard disk. Not all of it is there at my request.
Regardless, if I organise the data on my hard disk and burn it to a CD, am I not claiming some sort of ownership. I might quickly knock off a music CD for my mate, or rip a couple of VIDEO_TS folders off for someone else. I'm taking the data and changing it.
In a case like this, taking child porn, reorganising it and committing it to CD is surely asking for trouble. 'It's only for my personal use' is hardly an argument. What possible personal use could there be that's acceptable? Can anyone stand up and say that organising child porn on your hard disk in any way is legal?
But then we extend it to other formats. MP3s. Well, it's either legal for you to burn a CD or not, isn't it. If it's not, then don't; it's hardly like 'Well, if you're downloading child porn you can do this, so why can't I do this with the latest blah-blah album?'. How can child porn be compared to burning a music track. Either the item you're burning is legal or it isn't. Child porn isn't. Your music might be. Go figure.
Hopefully the clunky box exterior is some kind of prototype. It as ugly as hell.
It'd be nice to see some Apple-style design work go into this, unless Sony are hoping the buzz about the display will put people off looking at the case.
Once again, grammar rears its ugly head. The last sentence requires a semicolon, not a hyphen. Offtopic, yes. Irrelevent, yes. Part of a professional website... er... no, or so it appears.
Except I use it all the time. Every day in fact. I use it on my interactive whiteboard to teach my class. We start the day with the dashboard displayed, showing weather, iCal class events, the weather in Stockholm (or other areas of interest depending on our geography topic) and, until recently, a countdown to Christmas.
Then throughout the day I have instant access to a calculator, the dictionary or thesaurus; it's invaluable. Sure, it's fun, too, but it's got that functional edge to it as well, and being able to fling up the calculator and suchlike without having to trail through applications is great.
I don't get RSS either. Safari has it built in and I can't see the point. The RSS headlines on the BBC news are so short you have to click on the stories to read them anyway. Similarly for sites like MacUpdate; I want a nice compact list and the RSS list is more trouble than it's worth.
I'd genuinely like to be shown a good reason for me to use RSS, but I know of nobody who uses it. What is the big deal with RSS? There must be something, I know; I'm not arrogant enough to say it's completely useless, but I am honest enough to say I have no idea why I'd want to use it and have, so far, found it to be almost but not entirely pointless.
I think the most jarring difference is the font. Each pixel is actually a pixel, to put it bluntly. There's no sub-pixel antialiasing on any of those screenshots and it's all just painfully computerised. Yeah, I'm another MacOS fanboy, it's true, but the whole user experience looks good and it has a purpose. I can read it, for a start off...
It looks like iTunes, yeah, but it doesn't. There's no antialiasing, there's no shading, there's no thought gone into it. It looks like a very advanced version of Limewire: ugly and clunky. Where's the elegance? I know we don't need it to look pretty, but we're not talking rocket science here: it *can* look pretty and little graphical effects and quirks can actually be useful.
There's more to MacOS buttons and so on than you initially realise. A lot more.
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Nobody's suggesting it couldn't happen to them, but you may want to check their website and see just how obsessed they are with security. However, this doesn't mean those silly systems where you get a random number through the post and have to input various digits every now and then, which you promptly forget. Their security is simple but effective. Coupled with great customer service, I can totally see where the original poster is coming from.
And hey - how many other banks have two rabid fans that are prepared to stand up and say 'Hey, my bank's great!' for no reason at all other than they've had a great customer experience? Yeah, so I guess it's very nearly off-topic, but there you go. Online banking is a valid alternative to places like Nationwide, and because they're on the internet security seems to be more of a concern for these banks.
Look, I'm clearly being thick. Can anyone explain to me what this story is actually about, in really simple terms, because the story summary makes as much sense as dressing an avocado in knickers, and I'm really not used to that.
I had this bright idea to compose a six-word reply. Then I realised that wasn't witty. It was derivative. Or something. I mean, I only realised once I'd logged on and noticed everyone else doing it. Please stop. Please stop now. Really. I'm weeping because I want you to stop. And stabbing my legs with pencils. Please stop it.
I can't help but agree wholeheartedly. It also would help if Mr Baby did a proof-read before he published things on his website. There are so many mangled sentences in there that it's no wonder the editors of the magazine he submitted it to snipped out massive portions and replaced various parts. I gave up after the third game; it's not funny, and it certainly isn't big or clever, either. Waste of ten minutes good reading time, if you ask me.
I'm not sure what you mean. If option-dragging (copies automatically on MacOS) or control-dragging (you're given a choice about what you want to do) is too difficult for you, copying a file in KDE can hardly be easier. Or am I missing something.
> Remind me again why they are considerd the good IT company?
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That's Steve's reality distortion field. Duh!
I couldn't agree more. I read through the whole article, then I read through the articles I was directed to read before reading the article, and then I realised how much the author wanted it all to be beautiful and good. He really wants Microsoft to produce something wonderful, something that will stop Firefox dead. And by the end of it I was wondering why I was bothering to read it. "I was talking to the team...' - great. Well done. Tell them not to bother.
Last month we had the dual touchscreen displays with the Matrix music. At least this is entirely original.
Abandonware isn't a legal term; it means nothing. Just because the company hasn't done anything with their game doesn't mean they aren't entitled to enforce their copyright. Morally, we could discuss it ad nauseum. Technically, however, it's illegal to distribute such games.
I love the comment:
"Mac Office is one of those "software in the large" projects. There's really no way a team of our size would be able to adequately test all of Office without the use of automated testing. Every day we get a new build of Office from the build machines, we copy it to our Xserve RAID connected to our dual G5 Xserve for access by our 249 automation machines. We then run thousands and thousands of tests on the new build. Typically we get 4 builds of Office each day: English Ship, English Debug, Japanese Ship and Japanese Debug. We run our entire battery of tests against all the builds and then report any failures to testers via email. The testers investigate the failures, log any bugs and then move on to their other duties as testers. This turns out to be very effective, if used properly, and over time it allows testers to focus on things humans do best, while letting computers verify the repetitious and mundane, but necessary, testing. It all started with our Blue and White G3s years ago. At first when testers would upgrade their test machines, instead of recycling the machines, "The Lab" would get them to add them to our automation machine pool. I think we had about 20 machines to begin with."
So how is it when I attempt to view a word document I always manage to hit the error. I'm not being a wiseass - it's not every time. But if this takes place, why do I see so many difficulties when I attempt to view a word-for-windows document?
You forgot to mention that no matter where he's walking and no matter who he's dressed as he's always moving at a painfully slow speed with his head tilted approximately 15 degrees to the left. If the bad guys just started shooting people who walked slowly with an off-centre head they'd have no more trouble with hitmen, I guarantee.
Bollocks.
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But this is fantastic! Surely?
You're telling me the odd place is selling a Nintendo console designed to rival the PS2 is now available for about thirty-five quid, and games are changing hands for ridiculously cheap quantities?
The article mentions Game, along with HMV and other major retailers. Woolworths? When was the last time I stepped into one of these?
Let's put it together - cheap consoles, second hand. Cheap games, second hand. Sounds fun to me. I'm on the lookout.
Note the following from http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtop ic=102379 :
...and then for most users, you must also enter your Admin password.
You cannot be infected by this unless you do all of the following:
1) Are somehow sent (via email, iChat, etc.) or download the "latestpics.tgz" file
2) Double-click on the file to decompress it
3) Double-click on the resulting file to "open" it
You cannot simply "catch" the virus. Even if someone does send you the "latestpics.tgz" file, you cannot be infected unless you unarchive the file, and then open it.
It's the not having to interact with normal people that does it for me.
What, seriously? Oh, okay - choice, convenience, price, the fact that you can queue up things to watch based on how desperate you are to see them. Oh, and not having to interact with normal people, now I come to think of it!
In which case any image sent to my email could appear on my hard drive and be considered. There are far reaching implications for this case regarding the data on my hard disk. Not all of it is there at my request.
Regardless, if I organise the data on my hard disk and burn it to a CD, am I not claiming some sort of ownership. I might quickly knock off a music CD for my mate, or rip a couple of VIDEO_TS folders off for someone else. I'm taking the data and changing it.
In a case like this, taking child porn, reorganising it and committing it to CD is surely asking for trouble. 'It's only for my personal use' is hardly an argument. What possible personal use could there be that's acceptable? Can anyone stand up and say that organising child porn on your hard disk in any way is legal?
But then we extend it to other formats. MP3s. Well, it's either legal for you to burn a CD or not, isn't it. If it's not, then don't; it's hardly like 'Well, if you're downloading child porn you can do this, so why can't I do this with the latest blah-blah album?'. How can child porn be compared to burning a music track. Either the item you're burning is legal or it isn't. Child porn isn't. Your music might be. Go figure.
Have to agree. I have an old 40GB hard drive from a Toshiba Satellite and a five quid USB enclosure from eBay that works just fine.
Hopefully the clunky box exterior is some kind of prototype. It as ugly as hell.
It'd be nice to see some Apple-style design work go into this, unless Sony are hoping the buzz about the display will put people off looking at the case.
Once again, grammar rears its ugly head. The last sentence requires a semicolon, not a hyphen. Offtopic, yes. Irrelevent, yes. Part of a professional website... er... no, or so it appears.
Slightly off-topic, but does the new firmware support target disk mode?
Except I use it all the time. Every day in fact. I use it on my interactive whiteboard to teach my class. We start the day with the dashboard displayed, showing weather, iCal class events, the weather in Stockholm (or other areas of interest depending on our geography topic) and, until recently, a countdown to Christmas.
Then throughout the day I have instant access to a calculator, the dictionary or thesaurus; it's invaluable. Sure, it's fun, too, but it's got that functional edge to it as well, and being able to fling up the calculator and suchlike without having to trail through applications is great.
I don't get RSS either. Safari has it built in and I can't see the point. The RSS headlines on the BBC news are so short you have to click on the stories to read them anyway. Similarly for sites like MacUpdate; I want a nice compact list and the RSS list is more trouble than it's worth.
I'd genuinely like to be shown a good reason for me to use RSS, but I know of nobody who uses it. What is the big deal with RSS? There must be something, I know; I'm not arrogant enough to say it's completely useless, but I am honest enough to say I have no idea why I'd want to use it and have, so far, found it to be almost but not entirely pointless.
I think the most jarring difference is the font. Each pixel is actually a pixel, to put it bluntly. There's no sub-pixel antialiasing on any of those screenshots and it's all just painfully computerised. Yeah, I'm another MacOS fanboy, it's true, but the whole user experience looks good and it has a purpose. I can read it, for a start off...
It looks like iTunes, yeah, but it doesn't. There's no antialiasing, there's no shading, there's no thought gone into it. It looks like a very advanced version of Limewire: ugly and clunky. Where's the elegance? I know we don't need it to look pretty, but we're not talking rocket science here: it *can* look pretty and little graphical effects and quirks can actually be useful.
There's more to MacOS buttons and so on than you initially realise. A lot more.
Strangely, Bill fits in perfectly with all the demons and other mutants. I reckon it's the coat that does it.
I know I'm not the first, but is it so hard to spellcheck?