Or a computer for the elderly: a powerful CPU or GPU isn't needed, the touchscreen is a little more obvious to use than a mouse and easier on arthritic hands, expandability doesn't matter, and the price is right for someone on a fixed income who may not need or even want a netbook (or finds the keyboard too small).
At a few hundred dollars cheaper than the base iMac I could see it selling quite well, provided it isn't utter crap.
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Nerds were nerds long before the web. What is this "outside" of which you speak?
Such a human answer to seeing its own shit - we should make more shit to clean up that shit!
It's called "consolidating the problem", and its a proven method cleaning up waste: rather than having to deal with lots of little bits of shit, you make sure the shit gets collected together so you can do something with it.
Sewers work on the same principle (we have to make pipes, pumping stations and treatment plants, and that's making shit to clean up shit). Perhaps you believe it would be better if city-dwellers threw their shit out the window instead...I don't know, maybe you enjoy cholera. Or maybe its a poorly thought out pseudo-philosophical catch phrase intended to give the user a false sense of intellectual superiority without actually having to think...could you enlighten us with a non-human approach, oh exalted being, and remove this doubt?
I'll take NASA's word over yours.
I wasn't aware they'd studied such a proposal and found it unfeasible (link please?). You see, this is just a dumbed-down, scaled-up version of the approach NASA themselves used for trapping particles on the Stardust probe...
And besides, dont you realize how silly it sounds to say, "We might have to take some precautions with launch timing," and the solution involves launching something?
When launching a satellite, we don't want it to be hit, which is why they have to take precautions. With a big foam ball, we do want it to be hit, preferably by as much as possible.
Completely opposite goals.
Don't you realise how silly it sounds when you fail to grasp the situation?
In a similar vein, but a little more practical: foam. Tons of the stuff could be sent up in liquid form, then blown to make a huge ball once in the correct orbit. Something like that would probably trap the smaller particles, and if nothing else slow down the larger fragments enough to make them de-orbit sooner. The foam ball itself would be much easier to track, its high drag would make its orbit decay fairly rapidly, and the low density would ensure this Nerf meteor burns up completely on re-entry.
The only real disadvantage with this from a sci-fi fan's perspective is that is can be done relatively easily with existing technology. No little robots, high energy weapons or exotic supermaterials...yawn...
I think you have Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner confused.
Actually I chose the one who owns the larger media empire and is responsible for numerous media outlets around the world that sensationalise the issue on both sides. That being the case, I don't see how Murdoch's personal opinion is in any way relevant...if drowning polar bears sells newspapers or pulls in viewers its a good business strategy, and the more sane and moderate he appears the less people will suspect he's responsible*. Bwa-ha-ha!!!
(The obvious point here being that when someone talks about outlandish Bond-esque supervillain schemes, serious analysis is probably a waste of time)
Is it possible to just uninstall the update, or the full Quicktime and install the older version?
Yes: delete the installer package receipt from the Library folder and run the older installer. Alternatively, tools like Pacifist can be used to install the Quicktime components from any Quicktime, OS or combined update installer package.
I seem to recall that there are certain things within OS X, like Windows, which can not be "uninstalled": once it's in, it's in for keeps.
Significant parts of OS X and many applications rely on the Quicktime shared libraries, so if you did remove Quicktime in its entirety a lot would break, assuming it would even boot to the desktop in the first place. For this reason you can't simply uninstall the update. But delete the Quicktime Player application and it stays deleted (until the next update, anyway).
As for other software, I've never seen anything mysteriously reinstall itself the way things do on Windows. For the most part, when you delete the application package you delete everything except preferences (which is the whole point of the app. package concept), and those vendors that do use installers usually provide uninstaller scripts or instructions on manual removal of components. The exception is where vendors use anti-piracy measures (like iLok or whatever Adobe uses to scan your LAN) but they can still be deleted manually if you know where to look.
To be honest, I think any company that tried the "you can't uninstall me ever" trick with OS X would end up with so much bad publicity that they'd be forced to drop the scheme or leave the Mac market. Sometimes a whiny user base has its advantages...
...he should probably just nip this in the butt...
The phrase originates in gardening: to prevent a plant flowering you "nip it in the bud". I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to bite the arse that feeds him.
It could be that/. is where clever people come to exercise the idiocy that's stifled in the corporate environment. But what would I know, I work from home...
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Cello scrotum is nothing, playing the accordion can be fatal.
If you do it near me, that is.
I suspect the Australian Government was just desperate to get on a bandwagon while it was new, any bandwagon.
I'm convinced they were doing it to get this idiot on their side in the Senate.
I'm not surprised at all.
She's just happy that I have a girlfriend at all...
Or a computer for the elderly: a powerful CPU or GPU isn't needed, the touchscreen is a little more obvious to use than a mouse and easier on arthritic hands, expandability doesn't matter, and the price is right for someone on a fixed income who may not need or even want a netbook (or finds the keyboard too small).
At a few hundred dollars cheaper than the base iMac I could see it selling quite well, provided it isn't utter crap.
Nerds were nerds long before the web. What is this "outside" of which you speak?
There, fixed that for you.
Well, we could add green dye, put big googly eyes on it and call it the "Space Blob". At least the Roger Corman fans will be happy.
Such a human answer to seeing its own shit - we should make more shit to clean up that shit!
It's called "consolidating the problem", and its a proven method cleaning up waste: rather than having to deal with lots of little bits of shit, you make sure the shit gets collected together so you can do something with it.
Sewers work on the same principle (we have to make pipes, pumping stations and treatment plants, and that's making shit to clean up shit). Perhaps you believe it would be better if city-dwellers threw their shit out the window instead...I don't know, maybe you enjoy cholera. Or maybe its a poorly thought out pseudo-philosophical catch phrase intended to give the user a false sense of intellectual superiority without actually having to think...could you enlighten us with a non-human approach, oh exalted being, and remove this doubt?
I'll take NASA's word over yours.
I wasn't aware they'd studied such a proposal and found it unfeasible (link please?). You see, this is just a dumbed-down, scaled-up version of the approach NASA themselves used for trapping particles on the Stardust probe...
And besides, dont you realize how silly it sounds to say, "We might have to take some precautions with launch timing," and the solution involves launching something?
When launching a satellite, we don't want it to be hit, which is why they have to take precautions. With a big foam ball, we do want it to be hit, preferably by as much as possible.
Completely opposite goals.
Don't you realise how silly it sounds when you fail to grasp the situation?
In a similar vein, but a little more practical: foam. Tons of the stuff could be sent up in liquid form, then blown to make a huge ball once in the correct orbit. Something like that would probably trap the smaller particles, and if nothing else slow down the larger fragments enough to make them de-orbit sooner. The foam ball itself would be much easier to track, its high drag would make its orbit decay fairly rapidly, and the low density would ensure this Nerf meteor burns up completely on re-entry.
The only real disadvantage with this from a sci-fi fan's perspective is that is can be done relatively easily with existing technology. No little robots, high energy weapons or exotic supermaterials...yawn...
Sounds more like a job for Andy Griffith.
I can fit my entire porn collection on just 4 discs
Pfft, amateur.
Hi, I'm here to serve notice: rectal cancer is suing for defamation.
I think you have Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner confused.
Actually I chose the one who owns the larger media empire and is responsible for numerous media outlets around the world that sensationalise the issue on both sides. That being the case, I don't see how Murdoch's personal opinion is in any way relevant...if drowning polar bears sells newspapers or pulls in viewers its a good business strategy, and the more sane and moderate he appears the less people will suspect he's responsible*. Bwa-ha-ha!!!
(The obvious point here being that when someone talks about outlandish Bond-esque supervillain schemes, serious analysis is probably a waste of time)
No, and Rupert Murdoch will head north and drown them personally if he has to.
Is it possible to just uninstall the update, or the full Quicktime and install the older version?
Yes: delete the installer package receipt from the Library folder and run the older installer. Alternatively, tools like Pacifist can be used to install the Quicktime components from any Quicktime, OS or combined update installer package.
I seem to recall that there are certain things within OS X, like Windows, which can not be "uninstalled": once it's in, it's in for keeps.
Significant parts of OS X and many applications rely on the Quicktime shared libraries, so if you did remove Quicktime in its entirety a lot would break, assuming it would even boot to the desktop in the first place. For this reason you can't simply uninstall the update. But delete the Quicktime Player application and it stays deleted (until the next update, anyway).
As for other software, I've never seen anything mysteriously reinstall itself the way things do on Windows. For the most part, when you delete the application package you delete everything except preferences (which is the whole point of the app. package concept), and those vendors that do use installers usually provide uninstaller scripts or instructions on manual removal of components. The exception is where vendors use anti-piracy measures (like iLok or whatever Adobe uses to scan your LAN) but they can still be deleted manually if you know where to look.
To be honest, I think any company that tried the "you can't uninstall me ever" trick with OS X would end up with so much bad publicity that they'd be forced to drop the scheme or leave the Mac market. Sometimes a whiny user base has its advantages...
Which, the quote or the gerbil? If its the latter, I'd let him keep it...
That's a Richard Gere quote, isn't it?
I have the feeling that Zuckerberg's girlfriend wasn't real happy when he tried to introduce her to anal sex.
"Honey, are the lawyers really necessary?"
"I want to be sure we're doing it right, so I called in the experts".
Not necessarily: they could see past that hard exterior and be attracted to the inner mutant.
Is an extermophile someone who gets turned on by Daleks?
I feared I was woefully unhip for my apparent ignorance of the meaning of "yellow light" and how it might be "short."
Something to do with midget lap-dancers, I suspect.
The topic is licenses for proprietary software...I know what I meant.
...he should probably just nip this in the butt...
The phrase originates in gardening: to prevent a plant flowering you "nip it in the bud". I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to bite the arse that feeds him.
It could be that /. is where clever people come to exercise the idiocy that's stifled in the corporate environment. But what would I know, I work from home...