This is pretty pathetic. It just emphasizes the idea I've had rattling around in my head that computer manufacturers and operating system makers are continuing to pander to the lowest common denominator (Joe Windows).
Hell, most of the people who will fire up this emulator for a quick game of Hired Guns, for example, will probably pirate it. That is, if they don't pirate the bloody emulator in the first place.
UAE works nice and fine under Mac OS 8.1 (on a 120mhz 604) and OS X 10.1 (on a 600mhz iMac). I doubt if it runs well on Windows, but I don't really care (even Basilisk II is slow under XP).
Welcome to the legal system. Bullshit like this happens far too often. It's part of the reason why the EFF is so popular and why the average idiot is so sadly uninformed.
I like the ones with the big bright yellow SERIOUS RISK OF ELECTRICAL SHOCK inside. Those are just the ultimate "please open me up and poke around at my insides while i'm plugged in" sign for the true techies.
Didn't they have those radio tags that you could attach to keys, etc at the CES? I remember looking at the article for those and thinking, "Wow... that's useful."
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GPS, now? Hmmm.... maybe it's some sort of huge global game of tag. Why would a personal organizer need GPS?
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I seriously doubt Woz would ever go back to Apple.
More pop-ups, ads and broken scripts than anyone needs. They harvest your email addy and sell it to spammers, too. That is, if the servers aren't dead slow.
Profanity
Pornography or sexually explicit content
Drug-related content
Content promoting or depicting terrorism or racial/ethnic hatred.
Content promoting or depicting violence in schools
Programs made exclusively for cheating (e.g. fake memory-clearing programs)
Copyright or trademark violations (e.g. calculator ROMs, text or graphics that violate others' copyrights or trademarks)
This pretty much describes the entire software library for the TI series of calculators.
any person IN THE COMPANY who sends an attachment to another person in the company that's rejected by the mail server because the recipient hadn't filled in the form has his or her email account locked for 24 hours to stop the virus from spreading.
Well, I know that if I told Stan from accounting I was going to send him a file, and in his normal scatterbrain manner, completely forgot about it, and subsequently had the attachment bounced and my account locked, Stan from accounting would lose his legs. But otherwise, this plan is good, if a little draconian. Maybe just filters against certain executable file types would be a better idea.
Yeah, I can just imagine that, considering the constant attempts of my school board to notify everyone that they shouldn't use the heavily-monitored, automatically-admin-cc'ed email service for spreading chain letters, porn, etc. because it wastes their precious bandwidth. Then again, this is from the same school board that says kids can't use the comps for playing games that involve the keyboards, because they wear out quickly that way. They're only allowed to play "mouse games". Technology has passed these people by. Actually, I don't think we'd ever see something like this because most people I talk to think worms are caused by the Internet or something and act completely stupified when I tell them it's actual people who write them.
The school that I'm forced to attend features labs full of slow Win95 machines, connected to an NT server (with some NT machines littered around). I understand this is fairly common practice in most schools. I suppose they still need 95 for running some older programs, but considering that the computers are usually used for nothing but personal surfing...
Right on. Low-cost desktop enclosure all the way. Maybe even like a NeXT slab, if Steve's feeling like a trip down memory lane. Maybe we don't even need a flat panel... most people still use huge friggin' CRTs.
Maybe they could even do a G4/G5 version of the 7100 case. Plenty of expansion for one of those. Who knows, it might be all the translucent plastic that's driving the price up:p
Yeah, it's surprising how much the Mac has gotten better after a brief (2 year) stint with Windows. When I left, it was a bunch of boring, expensive, slow off-white boxen. Now it's a bunch of expensive, cool-looking, stylish boxen with more (open-source, mind you) software than most people need. Hopefully, it'll attract a lot more unix users, because as we all know, windows users are stupid and stubborn.
Yes, but I don't think a company of Microsoft's stature (which is mostly funded by people not knowing/not caring about all the bugs) wants to have their dirty laundry aired during install. The XP install hung three times on my machine (ran out of space with 5gb free!), requiring a boot into DOS to wipe files each time.
We have a problem on Slashdot that many people who read Slashdot don't work with Microsoft products enough to know how bad things really are.
Hopefully, most of us have a small thing called a job, usually at a corporation running on a Microsoft-based foundation. I think we do know, and that's why we use something else at home (except for those of us who still need to keep a windows box around for games..).
I feel somewhat the same way. Interchangability is really what makes for a more effective, quick adapting, faster-to-build system. Unfortunately, the most popular OS on the planet (Win32) has naturally ignored this (and most other) logic.
It might just be me, but I think this is where Windows will go in the future, thanks to Microsoft's wonderful thiev^H^H^H^H^H feature programmers. (though I'd rather see better-protected memory for XP before any kind of interchangability)
GUI's, too, under unix, are somewhat of a pain. They're large, cumbersome, and slow. I'm probably the only person in my town who believes that a command-line is far superior to clicking on icons - and I started with a Mac.
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This is pretty pathetic. It just emphasizes the idea I've had rattling around in my head that computer manufacturers and operating system makers are continuing to pander to the lowest common denominator (Joe Windows). Hell, most of the people who will fire up this emulator for a quick game of Hired Guns, for example, will probably pirate it. That is, if they don't pirate the bloody emulator in the first place.
UAE works nice and fine under Mac OS 8.1 (on a 120mhz 604) and OS X 10.1 (on a 600mhz iMac). I doubt if it runs well on Windows, but I don't really care (even Basilisk II is slow under XP).
Welcome to the legal system. Bullshit like this happens far too often. It's part of the reason why the EFF is so popular and why the average idiot is so sadly uninformed.
I like the ones with the big bright yellow SERIOUS RISK OF ELECTRICAL SHOCK inside. Those are just the ultimate "please open me up and poke around at my insides while i'm plugged in" sign for the true techies.
Didn't they have those radio tags that you could attach to keys, etc at the CES? I remember looking at the article for those and thinking, "Wow... that's useful."
GPS, now? Hmmm.... maybe it's some sort of huge global game of tag. Why would a personal organizer need GPS?
I seriously doubt Woz would ever go back to Apple.
The Classic MacOS (dunno if OS X supports it) can read/write/format ProDOS filesystems natively. It can even burn ProDOS cd's.
It's physically impossible to run XP that fast. Especially once you start running programs.
More pop-ups, ads and broken scripts than anyone needs. They harvest your email addy and sell it to spammers, too. That is, if the servers aren't dead slow.
I had my LC I serving pages before. Unfortunately, serving webpages over 33.6k dialup was not the best method.
The reason it wouldn't run is because Apple has custom-made ROMs for the MacOS. There are probably emulators.
Maybe we can solve world hunger... if we slashdot that world hunger ad clicking site
Profanity
Pornography or sexually explicit content
Drug-related content
Content promoting or depicting terrorism or racial/ethnic hatred.
Content promoting or depicting violence in schools
Programs made exclusively for cheating (e.g. fake memory-clearing programs)
Copyright or trademark violations (e.g. calculator ROMs, text or graphics that violate others' copyrights or trademarks)
This pretty much describes the entire software library for the TI series of calculators.
Nobody will install the patch anyways. Don't get too worked up about it.
any person IN THE COMPANY who sends an attachment to another person in the company that's rejected by the mail server because the recipient hadn't filled in the form has his or her email account locked for 24 hours to stop the virus from spreading.
Well, I know that if I told Stan from accounting I was going to send him a file, and in his normal scatterbrain manner, completely forgot about it, and subsequently had the attachment bounced and my account locked, Stan from accounting would lose his legs. But otherwise, this plan is good, if a little draconian. Maybe just filters against certain executable file types would be a better idea.
Yeah, I can just imagine that, considering the constant attempts of my school board to notify everyone that they shouldn't use the heavily-monitored, automatically-admin-cc'ed email service for spreading chain letters, porn, etc. because it wastes their precious bandwidth.
Then again, this is from the same school board that says kids can't use the comps for playing games that involve the keyboards, because they wear out quickly that way. They're only allowed to play "mouse games".
Technology has passed these people by. Actually, I don't think we'd ever see something like this because most people I talk to think worms are caused by the Internet or something and act completely stupified when I tell them it's actual people who write them.
The school that I'm forced to attend features labs full of slow Win95 machines, connected to an NT server (with some NT machines littered around). I understand this is fairly common practice in most schools. I suppose they still need 95 for running some older programs, but considering that the computers are usually used for nothing but personal surfing...
Right on. Low-cost desktop enclosure all the way. Maybe even like a NeXT slab, if Steve's feeling like a trip down memory lane. Maybe we don't even need a flat panel... most people still use huge friggin' CRTs. Maybe they could even do a G4/G5 version of the 7100 case. Plenty of expansion for one of those. Who knows, it might be all the translucent plastic that's driving the price up :p
People would still open and run it anyway.
Yeah, it's surprising how much the Mac has gotten better after a brief (2 year) stint with Windows. When I left, it was a bunch of boring, expensive, slow off-white boxen. Now it's a bunch of expensive, cool-looking, stylish boxen with more (open-source, mind you) software than most people need. Hopefully, it'll attract a lot more unix users, because as we all know, windows users are stupid and stubborn.
Yes, but I don't think a company of Microsoft's stature (which is mostly funded by people not knowing/not caring about all the bugs) wants to have their dirty laundry aired during install. The XP install hung three times on my machine (ran out of space with 5gb free!), requiring a boot into DOS to wipe files each time.
We have a problem on Slashdot that many people who read Slashdot don't work with Microsoft products enough to know how bad things really are.
Hopefully, most of us have a small thing called a job, usually at a corporation running on a Microsoft-based foundation. I think we do know, and that's why we use something else at home (except for those of us who still need to keep a windows box around for games..).
This is a step away from the "unix-way"
I feel somewhat the same way. Interchangability is really what makes for a more effective, quick adapting, faster-to-build system. Unfortunately, the most popular OS on the planet (Win32) has naturally ignored this (and most other) logic.
It might just be me, but I think this is where Windows will go in the future, thanks to Microsoft's wonderful thiev^H^H^H^H^H feature programmers. (though I'd rather see better-protected memory for XP before any kind of interchangability)
GUI's, too, under unix, are somewhat of a pain. They're large, cumbersome, and slow. I'm probably the only person in my town who believes that a command-line is far superior to clicking on icons - and I started with a Mac.
Those of you in shaw-land, make sure it's shawmail.(two-letter abbrev for city).shawcable.net - it's hidden damn well on their site.