They also have the ability to travel terrifically long distances. Sumatra to India isn't a small stretch, even if they're relative neighbours.
What I'd like to know is - did the wave reach the east coast of Africa? Madagascar? did the Seychelles feel any of the effect? It was only this year a BBC documentary about tsunamis indicated they could easily travel across the largest oceans, but there hasn't been any news of African flooding.
Not only the existence of the bug, but Microsoft's attitude towards the last one like this.
From Microsoft Help & Support. "The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER."
This may be very presumptuous of me, but I adored the rust image so much, and read your comment about the soft focus - I couldn't resist attempting a repair. This is it.
As a complete newbie to digital cameras a year ago, I bought an A70, mainly because it was still a cheap consumer cam, but looked to be about the only one with manual controls on almost everything.
For me, for now, I don't need a SLR. I might want one, and surely within a couple of years I'll have one, but until then it's great to learn the basics on. If anyone had an inkling of taking up photography as a serious hobby, I'd recommend going for a cheapie with as many manual settings as you can get - unless you have no problems spending $1k+ on something you may not use much in 6 months, and whose size has become a hindrance for everyday snapshots.
A PHB doesn't care what applications they have, they care what solution can be provided to them by a vendor
This is part of what helps companies like Apple, Sun and SGI get a core of users who'll follow them to the ends of the earth. Buy the machine, you also get the software & the support from the company that made both. There's no buck passing, like when you contact $OS_PROVIDER for support and find them blaming your $HW_PROVIDER, or vice versa.
It doesn't always work, but it can do phenomenal things for customer loyalty if done right.
What many people who make similar comments to this don't realise that many computer users are hackers and use computers for their hobby and/or their job. If linux ever fails to accomidate them, not only will it loose its core user base, but its volenteer development will grind to a halt and it will pretty much cease to exist.
I think Linux will stay able to accomodate the geeks among us. That's where the leading edge of development is, really.
It helps to think of Linux not in terms of "Linux" in the same way that MS has "Windows" and Apple has "Mac OS X". There isn't really one Linux. If the people who want an easy to use, simple distro that any Average Joe off the street could operate because Average Joes need an operating system too, that's not going to detract from the latest Debian, Gentoo or Slachware releases.
Apple get criticism sometimes for 'dumbing down' Unix to make OS X for example; perhaps that's a valid observation as effort put into the GUI of OSX could have been put into geekier parts of the OS if Apple redirected their labor pool. It's not so with "Linux" as what the Xandros team do is pretty much independent of Gentoo, say.
So yeah - all that my rant has said basically is... don't fear for the geeky versions of linux. geeks will still keep making those, and others will make a linux for n00bs, that's the beauty of free/open source here:).
> These designs all require some kind of special material or > parts that aren't so easily available in many areas.
The lunar ones I find interesting, because up there it's likely there will be none of the typical materials, but plenty of technology. No wood, plant matter, not even water for mud bricks. The idea of a fused magma dome generated by focused sunlight is just too cool:)
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Wow, that's the plastic case one? That keyboard is in great condition! My 128D was purchased on eBay w/o keyboard, so I had to use the SX-64 keyboard. Also, the front panel has three holes in it from switches. They're not even nice holes, but raggedy ones. Then a 128D keyboard showed up on eBay but it was missing keys. Your 128D looks new!
It's a plastic one indeed!. The case seems to be a vaguely pink colour that hasn't yellowed in the slightest - I guess those west germans liked to make things pretty solidly, right down to the UV resistant plastic (and a million screws & plates of metal inside)
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I just picked up a Commodore 128D and surprisingly, some of the old C64 disks still work just as well as they ever did. These are floppies I've carted with me through move after move, and probably date back to the mid 1980s. Reminiscing is nice:).
I love the idea of this book's images of the old machinery. Taking photos of the older stuff I've collected is a hobby of mine, unfortunately it's still only one of those things I ought to spend more time on. poke around here for some of mine.
From all reports yes it booted but the color map was broken on the x server so it didn't look really great. Here is what it looks like. I think it took slightly less long than expected, only four and a half days.
nooooo. no no no.
The boot failed due to a byte-order issue with drive images made on PCs, and failed at the four and a half day mark. I'm not sure where you got the URL for the image, I can only presume once it was pasted on IRC it spreads everywhere:). That image is of the Centris display, but it's my Athlon's PearPC session merely using X11 on the Centris.
I'll have it booting sometime soon, just not this week:).
...s that the update is provided for two Panther releases, 10.3.5 AND for 10.3.4. From apple's Security Announce list:
Given the relatively recent release of the Mac OS X v10.3.5 Software Update, this security update is available for both Mac OS X v10.3.4 and Mac OS X v10.3.5. Customers who are still evaluating Mac OS X v10.3.5 for large-scale deployment can apply the security update for Mac OS X v10.3.4 to increase the security of their systems during the evaluation period. After updating to Mac OS X v10.3.5, Security Update 2004-09-07 should be installed onto Mac OS X v10.3.5 even if it was previously installed on a Mac OS X v10.3.4 system.
From memory some of the other security updates could be put on before the release they came with, but I wouldn't trust just my memory as far as I could throw it. Anyway, it's specifically noted this time.
I don't think it's anywhere near the style of the G4 iMac either. The screen tilts back & forth (and with cables moving back & forth as it tilts, I fear some may end up pulling out). To me it's plain, but not plain in that simple excellent design way, just a bit dull.
That being said, I own an eMac. Hardly a stunning piece of equipment to look at, but using it I don't notice the bulbous rear end. I rather suspect using the iMac you wouldn't notice how thin it is either.
Here is a larger view of the inside of the machine. It's one hell of a lot more accessible than the last imac (or any of the imacs to date, for that matter).
Reminds me of the layout of my favourite pizzabox machines - just standing up:)
Indeed, this looks AWESOME, but it's lack of the magical iPod Click Wheel will be the singular feature that kills this product.
But it has that other magical iPod mini feature.
scarcity
I'm only partly joking. The scarcity helps keep the hype up longer, and I'm sure has helped make the iPod mini -wanted- all the more by many - creating fanatically loyal users, kinda. Works for gmail too.
I once read of someone using a 68040 on their keychain. It sounded like a good idea until the drilling came, and it took more than one rather tough jeweller's drill bit to make the hole in the corner.
It turns out that those older chips (and some new ones I think) are made from an aluminum oxide (al2o3) ceramic. That's the second hardest substance, just after diamond. I'm guessing the only reason it didn't go through more drill bits is that it's not a single crystal of the stuff (if it were you'd have sapphire or ruby CPUs:).
According to this Reuters article, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the operators of Grokster and StreamCast are not liable for copyright infringement. On the other hand the *AA is appealing the decision to the Supreme Court, and has no intention of ceasing litigation against these or other P2P services.
These rulings may weaken the case of the MPAA and RIAA if they get to the point of getting to a court, but I suspect their whole idea of litigation is much like the threats against individuals - no matter if they had a solid case against the MPAA/RIAA, just going through those motions would cost more than settling, so they'll push operators into a settlement under *AA terms.
As far as I know, none of the individuals that the RIAA/MPAA have "sued" ended up actually being sued, just settling due to the threats.
Is this what the MPAA/RIAA are doing now, despite the court's decision that p2p operators are not liable for copyright infringement?
In a nutshell Apple is standardizing their marketing incentives for 3rd parties to come and take as they see fit. I would expect a steady stream of revenue coming from this program for a number of years. Just like the creation of iTunes gift certificates and allowances lets parents bot keep tabs on things and give a present at the same time, these volume certificates will allow universities and corporations to do the same.
Given the fact a few colleges & universities have already gone the supply-music-to-students-legally route, it makes sense for Apple to get in here too. A university may buy a block of 100k songs. All AAC encoded, and if the students want to get a music player to listen to all their legal school-supplied music, there's only one on the market...
With the onset of countless online music stores, Is it only a matter of time now before we can download feature legnth divx movies to these players? I hope so!
Maybe, maybe not. I get the feeling that once bandwidth speeds up to the point where downloading movies becomes trivial like downloading music is, it'll still be a far smaller number of people who'll sit & watch a full length movie on a device like this, compared to those who'll listen to music. Of course, I could be wrong, and there's no reason to think a smaller market than MP3 players can't be profitable:).
I wonder if the technicalities of the device may influence the movies to be played on it. If a 2" diagonal screen looks OK at 160x90 pixels, it may make for a smaller & cheaper movie download
While origami where no cuts happen (is that the only form that's truly 'origami'? I'm not sure) is more impressive, you reminded me of this site with paper cut out models of Apple gear.
Scrolling down to some of the constructed models shows how cool they can look:)
Perhaps the most curious is the Seymour Butts 900, a lifelike elderly rear end, complete with just about every affliction that could affect an arse.
The model number has me wondering if there were previous lesser butts - a Seymour Butts 500 perhaps. I dare not think about the ailments on the Seymour Butts 2000.
What the poster failed to mention was that the patent also included that it was customizable via a software program. You could open the "case prefs" and sets your case to have stripes, polka dots, etc. I am sure it could probably be animated too.
Last time a discussion of this patent was raised, the iBook and eMac power light came up as fulfilling some what apple's described. The on-light is undetectable while the machine is off, lights up a small section of the case, and seems software controllable - it acts differently under OSX and OS9, depending on whether the machine is awake, the display is sleeping, or the entire machine is put to sleep. (it pulses in os9 when the machine's display is asleep, but not when the osx display sleeps, and pulses in a different manner when the whole machine is asleep). It looks like this when the emac is on
What it ends up being in reality is just a white LED behind the translucent casing.
Something nifty like that seems a bit more apple than the first impression of the new imac given by the latest Think Secret article.
A quick & dirty apple-ification of the Vaio W series they compare it to in vague terms comes up looking like this little piece. Certainly looks like it could be made by apple, but with the history of the iMac really being something unique, I suspect it'll be Just That Bit More.
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They also have the ability to travel terrifically long distances. Sumatra to India isn't a small stretch, even if they're relative neighbours.
What I'd like to know is - did the wave reach the east coast of Africa? Madagascar? did the Seychelles feel any of the effect? It was only this year a BBC documentary about tsunamis indicated they could easily travel across the largest oceans, but there hasn't been any news of African flooding.
Not only the existence of the bug, but Microsoft's attitude towards the last one like this.
From Microsoft Help & Support. "The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER."
Just defeat the purpose of hyperlinks. Thanks MS!
This may be very presumptuous of me, but I adored the rust image so much, and read your comment about the soft focus - I couldn't resist attempting a repair. This is it.
As a complete newbie to digital cameras a year ago, I bought an A70, mainly because it was still a cheap consumer cam, but looked to be about the only one with manual controls on almost everything.
:)
For me, for now, I don't need a SLR. I might want one, and surely within a couple of years I'll have one, but until then it's great to learn the basics on. If anyone had an inkling of taking up photography as a serious hobby, I'd recommend going for a cheapie with as many manual settings as you can get - unless you have no problems spending $1k+ on something you may not use much in 6 months, and whose size has become a hindrance for everyday snapshots.
For now, I'm happy still learning on the A70, and there's plenty to learn... one day I might just get out of macro mode...
A PHB doesn't care what applications they have, they care what solution can be provided to them by a vendor
This is part of what helps companies like Apple, Sun and SGI get a core of users who'll follow them to the ends of the earth. Buy the machine, you also get the software & the support from the company that made both. There's no buck passing, like when you contact $OS_PROVIDER for support and find them blaming your $HW_PROVIDER, or vice versa.
It doesn't always work, but it can do phenomenal things for customer loyalty if done right.
What many people who make similar comments to this don't realise that many computer users are hackers and use computers for their hobby and/or their job. If linux ever fails to accomidate them, not only will it loose its core user base, but its volenteer development will grind to a halt and it will pretty much cease to exist.
:).
I think Linux will stay able to accomodate the geeks among us. That's where the leading edge of development is, really.
It helps to think of Linux not in terms of "Linux" in the same way that MS has "Windows" and Apple has "Mac OS X". There isn't really one Linux. If the people who want an easy to use, simple distro that any Average Joe off the street could operate because Average Joes need an operating system too, that's not going to detract from the latest Debian, Gentoo or Slachware releases.
Apple get criticism sometimes for 'dumbing down' Unix to make OS X for example; perhaps that's a valid observation as effort put into the GUI of OSX could have been put into geekier parts of the OS if Apple redirected their labor pool. It's not so with "Linux" as what the Xandros team do is pretty much independent of Gentoo, say.
So yeah - all that my rant has said basically is... don't fear for the geeky versions of linux. geeks will still keep making those, and others will make a linux for n00bs, that's the beauty of free/open source here
> These designs all require some kind of special material or
:)
> parts that aren't so easily available in many areas.
The lunar ones I find interesting, because up there it's likely there will be none of the typical materials, but plenty of technology. No wood, plant matter, not even water for mud bricks. The idea of a fused magma dome generated by focused sunlight is just too cool
Wow, that's the plastic case one? That keyboard is in great condition! My 128D was purchased on eBay w/o keyboard, so I had to use the SX-64 keyboard. Also, the front panel has three holes in it from switches. They're not even nice holes, but raggedy ones.
Then a 128D keyboard showed up on eBay but it was missing keys. Your 128D looks new!
It's a plastic one indeed!. The case seems to be a vaguely pink colour that hasn't yellowed in the slightest - I guess those west germans liked to make things pretty solidly, right down to the UV resistant plastic (and a million screws & plates of metal inside)
I just picked up a Commodore 128D and surprisingly, some of the old C64 disks still work just as well as they ever did. These are floppies I've carted with me through move after move, and probably date back to the mid 1980s. Reminiscing is nice :).
I love the idea of this book's images of the old machinery. Taking photos of the older stuff I've collected is a hobby of mine, unfortunately it's still only one of those things I ought to spend more time on. poke around here for some of mine.
From all reports yes it booted but the color map was broken on the x server so it didn't look really great. Here is what it looks like. I think it took slightly less long than expected, only four and a half days.
:). That image is of the Centris display, but it's my Athlon's PearPC session merely using X11 on the Centris.
:).
nooooo. no no no.
The boot failed due to a byte-order issue with drive images made on PCs, and failed at the four and a half day mark. I'm not sure where you got the URL for the image, I can only presume once it was pasted on IRC it spreads everywhere
I'll have it booting sometime soon, just not this week
...s that the update is provided for two Panther releases, 10.3.5 AND for 10.3.4.
From apple's Security Announce list:
Given the relatively recent release of the Mac OS X v10.3.5 Software
Update, this security update is available for both Mac OS X v10.3.4
and Mac OS X v10.3.5. Customers who are still evaluating Mac OS X
v10.3.5 for large-scale deployment can apply the security update for
Mac OS X v10.3.4 to increase the security of their systems during the
evaluation period. After updating to Mac OS X v10.3.5, Security
Update 2004-09-07 should be installed onto Mac OS X v10.3.5 even if it
was previously installed on a Mac OS X v10.3.4 system.
From memory some of the other security updates could be put on before the release they came with, but I wouldn't trust just my memory as far as I could throw it. Anyway, it's specifically noted this time.
I don't think it's anywhere near the style of the G4 iMac either. The screen tilts back & forth (and with cables moving back & forth as it tilts, I fear some may end up pulling out). To me it's plain, but not plain in that simple excellent design way, just a bit dull.
That being said, I own an eMac. Hardly a stunning piece of equipment to look at, but using it I don't notice the bulbous rear end. I rather suspect using the iMac you wouldn't notice how thin it is either.
At least it's nicer on the inside, upgradewise.
Here is a larger view of the inside of the machine. It's one hell of a lot more accessible than the last imac (or any of the imacs to date, for that matter).
:)
Reminds me of the layout of my favourite pizzabox machines - just standing up
Indeed, this looks AWESOME, but it's lack of the magical iPod Click Wheel will be the singular feature that kills this product.
But it has that other magical iPod mini feature.
scarcity
I'm only partly joking. The scarcity helps keep the hype up longer, and I'm sure has helped make the iPod mini -wanted- all the more by many - creating fanatically loyal users, kinda. Works for gmail too.
I once read of someone using a 68040 on their keychain. It sounded like a good idea until the drilling came, and it took more than one rather tough jeweller's drill bit to make the hole in the corner.
:).
It turns out that those older chips (and some new ones I think) are made from an aluminum oxide (al2o3) ceramic. That's the second hardest substance, just after diamond. I'm guessing the only reason it didn't go through more drill bits is that it's not a single crystal of the stuff (if it were you'd have sapphire or ruby CPUs
According to this Reuters article, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the operators of Grokster and StreamCast are not liable for copyright infringement. On the other hand the *AA is appealing the decision to the Supreme Court, and has no intention of ceasing litigation against these or other P2P services.
These rulings may weaken the case of the MPAA and RIAA if they get to the point of getting to a court, but I suspect their whole idea of litigation is much like the threats against individuals - no matter if they had a solid case against the MPAA/RIAA, just going through those motions would cost more than settling, so they'll push operators into a settlement under *AA terms.
As far as I know, none of the individuals that the RIAA/MPAA have "sued" ended up actually being sued, just settling due to the threats.
Is this what the MPAA/RIAA are doing now, despite the court's decision that p2p operators are not liable for copyright infringement?
In a nutshell Apple is standardizing their marketing incentives for 3rd parties to come and take as they see fit. I would expect a steady stream of revenue coming from this program for a number of years. Just like the creation of iTunes gift certificates and allowances lets parents bot keep tabs on things and give a present at the same time, these volume certificates will allow universities and corporations to do the same.
Given the fact a few colleges & universities have already gone the supply-music-to-students-legally route, it makes sense for Apple to get in here too. A university may buy a block of 100k songs. All AAC encoded, and if the students want to get a music player to listen to all their legal school-supplied music, there's only one on the market...
With the onset of countless online music stores, Is it only a matter of time now before we can download feature legnth divx movies to these players? I hope so!
:).
Maybe, maybe not. I get the feeling that once bandwidth speeds up to the point where downloading movies becomes trivial like downloading music is, it'll still be a far smaller number of people who'll sit & watch a full length movie on a device like this, compared to those who'll listen to music. Of course, I could be wrong, and there's no reason to think a smaller market than MP3 players can't be profitable
I wonder if the technicalities of the device may influence the movies to be played on it. If a 2" diagonal screen looks OK at 160x90 pixels, it may make for a smaller & cheaper movie download
How is this slashdot worthy? Are we all a bunch of revenge-warring geeks looking for some deserved payback on the bullies of yesteryear?
DIE SCO DIE *stab stab stab*
ahhhhhh.
of course not.
Ha. I shall power my entire house with my army of one button mice
While origami where no cuts happen (is that the only form that's truly 'origami'? I'm not sure) is more impressive, you reminded me of this site with paper cut out models of Apple gear.
:)
Scrolling down to some of the constructed models shows how cool they can look
I love the names for some of these medical training aids.
Perhaps the most curious is the Seymour Butts 900, a lifelike elderly rear end, complete with just about every affliction that could affect an arse.
The model number has me wondering if there were previous lesser butts - a Seymour Butts 500 perhaps. I dare not think about the ailments on the Seymour Butts 2000.
What the poster failed to mention was that the patent also included that it was customizable via a software program. You could open the "case prefs" and sets your case to have stripes, polka dots, etc. I am sure it could probably be animated too.
Last time a discussion of this patent was raised, the iBook and eMac power light came up as fulfilling some what apple's described. The on-light is undetectable while the machine is off, lights up a small section of the case, and seems software controllable - it acts differently under OSX and OS9, depending on whether the machine is awake, the display is sleeping, or the entire machine is put to sleep. (it pulses in os9 when the machine's display is asleep, but not when the osx display sleeps, and pulses in a different manner when the whole machine is asleep). It looks like this when the emac is on
What it ends up being in reality is just a white LED behind the translucent casing.
Something nifty like that seems a bit more apple than the first impression of the new imac given by the latest Think Secret article.
A quick & dirty apple-ification of the Vaio W series they compare it to in vague terms comes up looking like this little piece. Certainly looks like it could be made by apple, but with the history of the iMac really being something unique, I suspect it'll be Just That Bit More.
# Keyboard: with LOL, OMG, >_< and WTF keys
Most important feature, that.