I don't know how succesfull this can be... There are 2 potential markets (leaving kids with portables as a marginal marketshare)
- people of paris : why would they subsribe to such service ? They likely have a home in paris, with internet access a lot cheaper, more reliable and more secure.
- visiting bussinessmen : why would they subsrcibe either ? Most hotels have access for a reasonable fee, and are not subscription based.
Additionally, I seriously wouldn't want to sit with my portable open on a bench near a subway entrance in autumn/winter when it gets dark after 19:00. Subway stations are not exactly known for their safety, and walking around with a 2000Euro piece of electronics is asking for trouble.
Additionally, i consider it silly to first sit in the subway for 15 minutes wit haportable and no connection, and then finally getting out in the open where you have to sit again to connect. Wouldn't it be much better to put the base stations INSIDE the trains ?
Call me stupid, but my guess is that they'd better focus on appartment buildings : place a wifi hotspot on top of it, and you've got you whole building connected for low fee and without having to rewire the damd thing.
well, i wouldn't overestimate it. On a mac, making CD-R backups is peanuts (insert, fomat, copy, eject). Restoring is a even easier (insert, drag back, click ok to replace, eject)
restoring the OS is simple too (boot with jaguar CD while holding down the c key. Click 'next' & 'ok' until finish. The installer restores the BSD layer & system folder leaving the/Users folder untouched)
I honestly would try this on a windows machine. Nor linux (system resotre is to complex)
The only thing I had to stress to the kids was to save their files in their home folders, not hidden all over the hardisk. But when you explain why this is usefull, they never make mistakes again. Honestly : my father who uses OSX fulltime makes a bigger mess of his machine then my kids do:-) More even : when he noodles up his mac again, my daughter often comes to his rescue:-)
You'd be amazed at how intelligent the remarks of a 5 year old can be when he sees the goatse man.
Apparently you don't have kids. First of all, 5 year olds are not interested in porn. If they bump into it, the first time they ask 'whats that, daddy ?' and I explain 'those are naked people who like to show themselves on the internet. Some people like looking at that'. 'Oh. okay.(closes window)'
It's by demonizing things that you make them interested. If you teach your kid about it, they understand (on their own level) and fit it into their world. If you don't teach them, they sooner or later bump into it and have to wring it into their world with a concept of forbidden stuff.
Then you are what we call a "bad parent"...
lol. Good one. You can shoot again.
So I am assuming that since you eschew control, all your kids have root level access on all your computers at home.
Read my post again. They have their iMac. They are root on it, yes. They know how to backup, they know how to restore, they know how to reinstall the OS if they terminally damage it.
New parental controls let parents determine when and how kids use the computer.
This is one of the things I truly hate about windows : control, control, control !
They drive it so far that a parent (me) has to control how kids use the computer. That's insane. We have 1 iMac at home for our kids (age 10,7 and 5) and they have to figure outTHEMSELVES when and how to use it. If they have a quastion, they can ask away. If they have a fight, i turn off the machine. It took 3 weeks to find a balance, and now they manage perfectly. No control needed.
Control is like a handbrake on kids efforts to solve conflicts. You'de be amazed how intelligent the remarksof a 5year old can be if he is forced to find his own words. Quite often, he's capable of handling his big sister better than I ever could !
albeit only running at 14 fps, the alpha is mighty scaring. I remember the first confrontation with the beast in the urinoir room. I emptied all my ammo just to get some light. Then, without ammo, it sneaked up behind me.
Pee leakeding from the ceiling, crap splattering from my PCs fan. You know how it goes.
Back up your mp3 collection before you downloadn & install iTunes4. iTunes2 did some funky stuff with my home folder, and iMovie3 is (still, at 3.0.2) a disaster that screwed up 3 of my home-mde movies. hours of work lost:-(
I'm not installing it for a few weeks, until the guinnea pigs (that's you, dumbo) have spotted the bugs.
Artists like Brittney, who have 1 hit and then poop out 12 extra tracks to fill a 11$ CD, will now only get 1$ income. If made-up artists want to sell as much as they do now, the overall quality will have to increase
Applemusic guarantees quality poop all the way:-)
read my post : i said But Berlusconi is a whole other matter.
thats' why i'm so afraid of the situation. In the usa, you know that the bigshots can be kept happy by keeping the public quiet and the bigshots rich. Berlusconi gives the impression that that isn't eonough for him. I mean, the guy is a fucking billionaire ! He's stinking rich. He doesn't need to be prime minister to achieve power & wealth because he allready had those BEFORE he went into politics. The guy is quite hard to pinpoint on the political field.
he does remind be though of a few illustrous 'politicians' 70 years or some ago...
I agree with you, but compare this to the situation in the past : 100 years ago, we had the same issue with industrialists. 200 years ago with big farmers vs small farmers. 300 years ago with big guns vs small guns. Don't pretend this to be the disease of the 21st century just because we're using the law instead of money or guns. And then again, the laws have always been bent by the guys in charge.
While i don't approve of it, it seems to be the nature of the human beast. It's amazing how we haven't exterminated ourselves.
As a side note : i find the way Berlusconi is CEO of Italy far more frightening than what the US is doing. After all, we europeans excpect US politicians to be puppets in the hands of the big corporations. But Berlusconi is a whole other matter.
I don't know what it is with my bowels, but I've been farting like a rocket for the past few days. Probably not enough to take off, but it will motivate folks to get off the earth asap...
prolly a ridiculous comment that will get modded away, but it was honestly the first thing that crossed my mind (and my nose) when I saw the article title
the link in your sig doesn't work.
thanks... bizarre. They seem to be down... I'll keep an eye on it and if they're still down tomorrow, i'll have to change sig.
In case you wanted to know : it's a page about the US oppression in iraq.
this whole after effects comparision is a joke. Mac users use Final Cut (pro or express) or Shake. You can not compare these apps with AE in terms of computation time, as they are algoritmically different.
Give it a rest. Go compare
iMovie3 on the other hand, sux so hard it would put Miss Lewinsky to shame. Goddamit Apple, how could you release such a POS ????? It's not even worthy of an alpha label !!!!!!
The article starts with It's hard to predict what life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will drive flying cars, that zoning laws will be relaxed to allow buildings hundreds of stories tall, that it will be dark most of the time, and that women will all be trained in the martial arts.
doh ? I'm not a visionary, but any article starting with such predictions loses quite some credibility.
The end of the article is kinda silly too : When you see these ideas laid out like that, it's hard not to think, why not try writing the hundred-year language now?
Yes indeed mister know-it-all : why not ?
The summary of his article is : future languages are gonna be way kewl, l33t and 5hit. They're gonna be dead simple, and anyone will be able to write them. If given to us now, we'd be able to use them right away. The stupid languages (read : every language that exists today) will die and this new thingie will rise and save our butts.
Basicallly, he's repeating what managers & analysts are saying since ENIAC. And as those 2 groups, he has no solution, no roadmap, no ideas, no nuthin. You know what ? When I read such shit, I feel all warm & fuzzy, comforted knowing that I'm gonna keep on coding C for a long time to come.
I don't think theu'll support the OSX version of IE for very long anymore. MSN might hold out a little while longer, but even MSH will die withing a few years IMHO.
And that's not a good thing. We all know that MS would really like to abandon the mac platform : even though the mac office suite still makes money for MS, they know that due to slipping mac marketshare plus slipping office marketshare on mac will slowly make the MBU a loss-only division.
With Apple bringing out more and more software that directly competes with MS, i fear that MS will leave the mac path entirely.
This is bad because : a) competition is a good thing. b) subjective perception of no MS Office on mac will turn down potential corporate buyers. c) Office v. X is a good piece of software (albeit bloated)
And, interestingly, that site's editor is a really nice bloke. It's amazing how much time he's spending on his site : he verifies each hint, posts comments regularly and checks for dupes of submitted hints. Insane. I don't know how he keeps it going, but sure as hell he's an example to other portal sites.
Additionally, he runs it without ad revenue, keeps it free of subscriptions. Quite an achievement.
I really, really hope his book sells well. He deserves it !
it's been said here before I think, but this is a great site with tons of usefull (also sometimes stupid) osx info.
Some really funky applescript stuff, some lame bash scripts & much gui tweaks, but I've found a lot of fixes for problems that no apple docs could help me with.
well, on the new iMac, i've got OSX with multiple users. The old machine was a performa running MacOS 8.something. Multiuser was a big no-no on a machine with only 32MB Ram.
As far as my wife goes : she's the one with a machine exclusively for herself. Am i supposed to be worried now, doc ?
I run a small business from home too, and until recently, my kids used the same computer for games as I did for my mail. The amount of obscene spam i receive from guys like him made my buy an extra iMac for the kids.
If he doesn't respect my privacy, i honestly can't sympathise with him either. As harsh as it may sound, I often have the impression that spammers are like kids : you can talk & explain all you want, but unless you send them to their rooms to cry out loud for a while, they won't stop being naughty.
A student with a modicum amount of Unix experience and the root password could have RTFM and installed PVM in a few days.
Probably. But the machine was new, expensive, and thus securely locked away from all student access except for poor thesis dudes like me. They were overly protective of their machine, which is understandeable since they'd fall flat on their face if students turned out to be better at administrating a god-knows-how-many-million-dollar-machine. Like I said : they had no skilled personel. The few operators that had a bit of mainframe knowledge were busy keeping the old 370 running (which was cracking under the load. The SP2 was supposed to take some of that load away, but never got configured properly for most software.)
I am afraid that your college was just as clueless as most colleges.
lol. That's even an understatement
15 years ago, in college, our uni bought a (then new) IBM SP2 machine (only the 32 processor (2x16) if I recall correctly).
I had to do my thesis about multiprocessor interval-based polynomial factoring on it. I wasted a solid 3 months finding someone who could get the PVM installed. They had NO skilled personel back then. I can't imagine they will find them now.
Mainframe experts are a bit like those iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The dudes in charge claim that tey exist, but no-one has ever seen one:-)
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I don't know how succesfull this can be... There are 2 potential markets (leaving kids with portables as a marginal marketshare)
- people of paris : why would they subsribe to such service ? They likely have a home in paris, with internet access a lot cheaper, more reliable and more secure.
- visiting bussinessmen : why would they subsrcibe either ? Most hotels have access for a reasonable fee, and are not subscription based.
Additionally, I seriously wouldn't want to sit with my portable open on a bench near a subway entrance in autumn/winter when it gets dark after 19:00. Subway stations are not exactly known for their safety, and walking around with a 2000Euro piece of electronics is asking for trouble.
Additionally, i consider it silly to first sit in the subway for 15 minutes wit haportable and no connection, and then finally getting out in the open where you have to sit again to connect. Wouldn't it be much better to put the base stations INSIDE the trains ?
Call me stupid, but my guess is that they'd better focus on appartment buildings : place a wifi hotspot on top of it, and you've got you whole building connected for low fee and without having to rewire the damd thing.
this taxation neglects the issues of virii that install smpt servers on John Q. Average's computer trhu which spam gets sent. Kinda hard to tax.
,if such a bill passes, I can imagine tons of new virii popping up that use VB to send daisy chaned spam from one client to another.
Additionally
Whitelists are the way to go for me.
well, i wouldn't overestimate it. On a mac, making CD-R backups is peanuts (insert, fomat, copy, eject). Restoring is a even easier (insert, drag back, click ok to replace, eject)
/Users folder untouched)
:-) :-)
restoring the OS is simple too (boot with jaguar CD while holding down the c key. Click 'next' & 'ok' until finish. The installer restores the BSD layer & system folder leaving the
I honestly would try this on a windows machine. Nor linux (system resotre is to complex)
The only thing I had to stress to the kids was to save their files in their home folders, not hidden all over the hardisk. But when you explain why this is usefull, they never make mistakes again. Honestly : my father who uses OSX fulltime makes a bigger mess of his machine then my kids do
More even : when he noodles up his mac again, my daughter often comes to his rescue
You'd be amazed at how intelligent the remarks of a 5 year old can be when he sees the goatse man.
Apparently you don't have kids. First of all, 5 year olds are not interested in porn. If they bump into it, the first time they ask 'whats that, daddy ?' and I explain 'those are naked people who like to show themselves on the internet. Some people like looking at that'. 'Oh. okay.(closes window)'
It's by demonizing things that you make them interested. If you teach your kid about it, they understand (on their own level) and fit it into their world. If you don't teach them, they sooner or later bump into it and have to wring it into their world with a concept of forbidden stuff.
Then you are what we call a "bad parent"...
lol. Good one. You can shoot again.
So I am assuming that since you eschew control, all your kids have root level access on all your computers at home.
Read my post again. They have their iMac. They are root on it, yes. They know how to backup, they know how to restore, they know how to reinstall the OS if they terminally damage it.
New parental controls let parents determine when and how kids use the computer.
This is one of the things I truly hate about windows : control, control, control !
They drive it so far that a parent (me) has to control how kids use the computer. That's insane. We have 1 iMac at home for our kids (age 10,7 and 5) and they have to figure outTHEMSELVES when and how to use it. If they have a quastion, they can ask away. If they have a fight, i turn off the machine. It took 3 weeks to find a balance, and now they manage perfectly. No control needed.
Control is like a handbrake on kids efforts to solve conflicts. You'de be amazed how intelligent the remarksof a 5year old can be if he is forced to find his own words. Quite often, he's capable of handling his big sister better than I ever could !
albeit only running at 14 fps, the alpha is mighty scaring. I remember the first confrontation with the beast in the urinoir room. I emptied all my ammo just to get some light. Then, without ammo, it sneaked up behind me.
Pee leakeding from the ceiling, crap splattering from my PCs fan. You know how it goes.
Back up your mp3 collection before you downloadn & install iTunes4. iTunes2 did some funky stuff with my home folder, and iMovie3 is (still, at 3.0.2) a disaster that screwed up 3 of my home-mde movies. hours of work lost :-(
I'm not installing it for a few weeks, until the guinnea pigs (that's you, dumbo) have spotted the bugs.
Artists like Brittney, who have 1 hit and then poop out 12 extra tracks to fill a 11$ CD, will now only get 1$ income. :-)
If made-up artists want to sell as much as they do now, the overall quality will have to increase
Applemusic guarantees quality poop all the way
read my post : i said But Berlusconi is a whole other matter.
thats' why i'm so afraid of the situation. In the usa, you know that the bigshots can be kept happy by keeping the public quiet and the bigshots rich. Berlusconi gives the impression that that isn't eonough for him. I mean, the guy is a fucking billionaire ! He's stinking rich. He doesn't need to be prime minister to achieve power & wealth because he allready had those BEFORE he went into politics. The guy is quite hard to pinpoint on the political field.
he does remind be though of a few illustrous 'politicians' 70 years or some ago...
I agree with you, but compare this to the situation in the past : 100 years ago, we had the same issue with industrialists. 200 years ago with big farmers vs small farmers. 300 years ago with big guns vs small guns.
Don't pretend this to be the disease of the 21st century just because we're using the law instead of money or guns. And then again, the laws have always been bent by the guys in charge.
While i don't approve of it, it seems to be the nature of the human beast. It's amazing how we haven't exterminated ourselves.
As a side note : i find the way Berlusconi is CEO of Italy far more frightening than what the US is doing. After all, we europeans excpect US politicians to be puppets in the hands of the big corporations. But Berlusconi is a whole other matter.
I don't know what it is with my bowels, but I've been farting like a rocket for the past few days. Probably not enough to take off, but it will motivate folks to get off the earth asap...
prolly a ridiculous comment that will get modded away, but it was honestly the first thing that crossed my mind (and my nose) when I saw the article title
the link in your sig doesn't work.
thanks... bizarre. They seem to be down... I'll keep an eye on it and if they're still down tomorrow, i'll have to change sig.
In case you wanted to know : it's a page about the US oppression in iraq.
reminds me of the internet in its infancy, where we allready had the really big button that doesn't do anything
this whole after effects comparision is a joke. Mac users use Final Cut (pro or express) or Shake. You can not compare these apps with AE in terms of computation time, as they are algoritmically different.
Give it a rest.
Go compare
iMovie3 on the other hand, sux so hard it would put Miss Lewinsky to shame. Goddamit Apple, how could you release such a POS ????? It's not even worthy of an alpha label !!!!!!
this means that we'll keep on getting music for free ! I can not see MS create a safe, closed system being hacked in less than a month.
The article starts with It's hard to predict what life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will drive flying cars, that zoning laws will be relaxed to allow buildings hundreds of stories tall, that it will be dark most of the time, and that women will all be trained in the martial arts.
doh ? I'm not a visionary, but any article starting with such predictions loses quite some credibility.
The end of the article is kinda silly too : When you see these ideas laid out like that, it's hard not to think, why not try writing the hundred-year language now?
Yes indeed mister know-it-all : why not ?
The summary of his article is : future languages are gonna be way kewl, l33t and 5hit. They're gonna be dead simple, and anyone will be able to write them. If given to us now, we'd be able to use them right away. The stupid languages (read : every language that exists today) will die and this new thingie will rise and save our butts.
Basicallly, he's repeating what managers & analysts are saying since ENIAC. And as those 2 groups, he has no solution, no roadmap, no ideas, no nuthin. You know what ? When I read such shit, I feel all warm & fuzzy, comforted knowing that I'm gonna keep on coding C for a long time to come.
I don't think theu'll support the OSX version of IE for very long anymore. MSN might hold out a little while longer, but even MSH will die withing a few years IMHO.
And that's not a good thing. We all know that MS would really like to abandon the mac platform : even though the mac office suite still makes money for MS, they know that due to slipping mac marketshare plus slipping office marketshare on mac will slowly make the MBU a loss-only division.
With Apple bringing out more and more software that directly competes with MS, i fear that MS will leave the mac path entirely.
This is bad because : a) competition is a good thing. b) subjective perception of no MS Office on mac will turn down potential corporate buyers. c) Office v. X is a good piece of software (albeit bloated)
And, interestingly, that site's editor is a really nice bloke. It's amazing how much time he's spending on his site : he verifies each hint, posts comments regularly and checks for dupes of submitted hints. Insane. I don't know how he keeps it going, but sure as hell he's an example to other portal sites.
Additionally, he runs it without ad revenue, keeps it free of subscriptions. Quite an achievement.
I really, really hope his book sells well. He deserves it !
it's been said here before I think, but this is a great site with tons of usefull (also sometimes stupid) osx info.
Some really funky applescript stuff, some lame bash scripts & much gui tweaks, but I've found a lot of fixes for problems that no apple docs could help me with.
well, on the new iMac, i've got OSX with multiple users. The old machine was a performa running MacOS 8.something. Multiuser was a big no-no on a machine with only 32MB Ram.
As far as my wife goes : she's the one with a machine exclusively for herself. Am i supposed to be worried now, doc ?
I run a small business from home too, and until recently, my kids used the same computer for games as I did for my mail. The amount of obscene spam i receive from guys like him made my buy an extra iMac for the kids.
If he doesn't respect my privacy, i honestly can't sympathise with him either. As harsh as it may sound, I often have the impression that spammers are like kids : you can talk & explain all you want, but unless you send them to their rooms to cry out loud for a while, they won't stop being naughty.
A student with a modicum amount of Unix experience and the root password could have RTFM and installed PVM in a few days.
Probably. But the machine was new, expensive, and thus securely locked away from all student access except for poor thesis dudes like me. They were overly protective of their machine, which is understandeable since they'd fall flat on their face if students turned out to be better at administrating a god-knows-how-many-million-dollar-machine. Like I said : they had no skilled personel. The few operators that had a bit of mainframe knowledge were busy keeping the old 370 running (which was cracking under the load. The SP2 was supposed to take some of that load away, but never got configured properly for most software.)
I am afraid that your college was just as clueless as most colleges.
lol. That's even an understatement
the title alone promotes war, portrays it as a skill, as something to strive for and improve on !
And solitaire, what kind of an asocial name with an egoist attitude is that ?
15 years ago, in college, our uni bought a (then new) IBM SP2 machine (only the 32 processor (2x16) if I recall correctly).
:-)
I had to do my thesis about multiprocessor interval-based polynomial factoring on it. I wasted a solid 3 months finding someone who could get the PVM installed. They had NO skilled personel back then. I can't imagine they will find them now.
Mainframe experts are a bit like those iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The dudes in charge claim that tey exist, but no-one has ever seen one