For a box running both OS9 and OSX on the same drive, you get the case insensitivity as it'll be formatted in the older HFS+. Reformat the iBook as UFS for an OSX only partition and it's as case sensitive as you'd like
It may be a waste of Karma by duplicating what you've said, but I have to agree and double your comments. Kids are inexperienced by definition... Supervise them. They can't always tell good from bad... Supervise them. Kids do impulsive things... Supervise them. As a parent you're responsible for your kids... Supervise them. Kids can be incredibly easily conned... Supervise them. Kids take in -everything- they see... Supervise them.
Give them the ability to learn how to use a chatroom in a safe manner, by learning from your own judgments while they're there in front of you. My niece started chatting online when she was 9, and until she was 13 it was only ever while I was there with her. She's 17 now and the only person she met online before face-to-face was a guy from a different year in her school.
My original post was little more than a prod for curiosity - I'm on an archaic hardware kick at the moment, however another thought struck me which may have relevance. Legislated & enforced copy protection on this level isn't going to happen in a worldwide sense - at least not immediately - the countries who escape the effects are not only going to run on computer systems unburdened by anti-copy-everything protection, but may even end up with hardware manufacturers relocating, if the US goes the wrong way.
My predictions however, can be usually counted on to mean bugger all - but it's a thought.
Agreed in part! There are some minor problems that aren't going away, but on my G3/400 RC2 feels far more usable. Or perhaps it's just the weekend, and I'm in a better mood than when I downloaded RC1.
Chimera is nowhere near as complete guiwise, but it's oh so lovely to look at...
...and all new hardware required, and implemented horrifically draconian anti-copy-anything protection which both took away the ability to copy for reasonable use, or took away nick the l337 h4X0r's ability to copy 'stuff', ancient second hand hardware, free hardware, is going to become rather desirable. Best start warehousing a few spare boxies.
OK, that's tongue in cheek, but it's one end of an extreme where computers are pushed to being made less and less useful. When I look at it bringing about such strong change like that, it feels it can't happen. Am I being too optimistic?
Besides - if all your old hardware gets too slow - buy a few more and beow.... you get the idea:D
Those spikes look absolutely fascinating - and I'm sure it'll be my descendants who run around going "whoa... this looks so cool...". All us mildly arty types will go camping out under the spikes
What I find a bit funny is for such a dangerous place, the concept sketches seem to show -tourists- running around the place. Best hope they have x-ray film in their cameras...:)
It took me an enormous AT tower to make a self-contained water cooled desktop.
Perhaps the use of the fact laptops move n shift about constantly could be used somehow to help shift fluid around. It wouldn't help while the machine is on a desk, but as a little extra aid in-transit when quietness may be more necessary it may make the difference
Notebooks are doing some incredible things in the way of upping power/features/screen size/etc while shrinking drastically in size and weight - and ending up with some problems such as heat dissipation. In my mind the biggest advantage to a notebook apart from its' portability, is the weight issue - not size. Surely giving quite a bit more space inside the box isn't going to add all that much to weight, may bring a laptop an extra half inch higher while increasing air cooling possibilities incredibly.
I can see that laptops have a high 'just plain sexy' component, which isn't likely to go away. A rep in a former workplace of mine insisted on one of the top Compaq notebooks, when his only need was for a PDA. Thin does sell for many people, but for me an iBook or TiBook would be just as nice at twice the depth.
One thing we have as well as a possible limitation on our own brainpower by using speech while thinking, is that in an office full of machines - or even a house with a family and a dog - using a computer with speech is going to pollute the people next to you with your thoughts/computer use, and they with yours - at least in the realm of using the computer as a tool.
We're pretty well-adapted to using tools with our hands and getting feedback on what they're doing with video/audio/feel coming back from that tool, but not the other way. Speaking works naturally for nattering with friends:)
There's no way I'd advocate the -stopping- of speech systems research, as there are people who have incredible trouble typing due to various impediments. Besides the direct uses, every piece of research had a dozen uses other than it's intended purpose.
When it comes to movies, Time Travel is one of those excellent devices when used well. We've all pondered going back... or forward in time to various levels, and it's much like a semi-famous description of the Enterprise in ST - it's much less a spaceship, than a vehicle for drama. Nobody watched Lost In Space for an explanation of possible time travel...
Time travel as a movie-science doesn't yet have any real rules except those which are chosen by scriptwriters, and that reflects everything about science in movies. The suspension of belief is critical, and is achieved by some level of consistency within the realm of the movie.
It seems the arguments/possibilities/claims about potential time travel irl is a LOT less consistent than time travel in say, Back To The Future. That for me, is what makes the movies work:)
That's my thoughts, when it comes down to the reality of it. VCR recordings, while not automatically removing advertisements (though I'd heard rumours of ones that did) do give consumers the ability to skip through ads. I'm sure most of us who've taped television with advertisements have been able to fast-forward and almost press 'stop' right on the exact moment our fave show re-starts. It's only one small step up from this, to automagically removing ads.
I don't know anyone who -purposely- watches ads in a recorded show, but I have from time to time played a damned good, funny ad back and had a chuckle. How about that - make better ads that people don't laugh at for the wrong reasons:P
Perhaps if you had a 'jammer' which was really a very low-power mobile base-station that allowed cell phones of all types to connect to you, you could rebroadcast random calls to other random phones within your rf field. You could get the groups of gits with mobiles who stand around in a circle talking to their friends miles away WHILE they're with other friends on mobiles, talking to the people who're actually WITH them.
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Mine already does that! along with the whole ROOM often turning black during a blackout:)
Seriously, it could depend on just how the LCD is able to display colour. Would you really want a completely backlit wall? That may suit some people and work wonderfully for effects (think open sky, clouds, the moon above... while inside) but in a bright enough room, a reflective-only panel could give completely different subtle patterns.
(disclaimer: I have no clue whatsoever if the reflective type is/will be possible with colour - but this article wasn't about LCD's now:)
Absolutely spot on. I've bought one brand new mac in my life (an iMac 400 - nothing spectacular) and it's so often presumed I'm a clueless know-nothing user because of it. Even more so being female.
As much as the all-white is part of the Apple lineup now, it doesn't seem the ideal 'colour' for a school environment. Being a rather smooth plastic however, is another matter that counts in the positives. I could really see the use in grubby-finger-hiding-patterns. Keep it fun for the littleuns too...
Apart from being a fairly heavy net user to start with, I'm finding that the larger the net grows, the quicker I'm able to find info about what I'm looking for.
Whenever my family needs to know some odd little factoid, look up some news quickly or the like, it's also my job to go find it - it's all becoming so much quicker. Yesterday my mother wondered what whalemeat tasted like, and I could tell her within minutes that about a dozen people online said it was much like beef. 3 years ago I'd be lucky to find that information online within 20 minutes, if it were even there.
The net might be getting more passe, but in ways it's a lot more efficient. Blame google!
I used to use Amigas exclusively, until I spilled coffee into my A1200, which worked for a week afterwards (cleaned & all) but eventually fried itself not much later.
After phoning an Amiga vendor in Sydney, I asked about the prices for a new A1200, and chatted about Amigas in general - A1200's were still pretty expensive, around $1000 australian for one, and I commented on the price, also noting I'd been looking at a second hand powermac for a fifth of what he was charging.
In all seriousness he told me "An Amiga can emulate a macintosh faster than the fastest Mac runs".
This was apparently true for a few months When the first 68040 Amigas came out, but I'm damned sure quoting it to me in 2000 when G4's were hitting 500Mhz is just a small lie:P.
It's nice to see 'case mods' reach a point where they're more than a simple light or hole in the case.
Take a look at the modifications that extreme custom car builders do to their transport, not out of any practical reason, but for the love of building something with the most extreme quality. With imagination and hard work you can inject a LOT of style into your PC. I'd like to see systems with some insane 'tidying'... the auto customisers hidden wiring tricks, colour coded everything, even components laid out in an aesthetic manner. Not for practicality, but just -because-
If that's not your thing however - good for you. Everyone has a little excess (read: pointless but pretty) style in their life. Like the friend of mine who derides Mac cases for their 'prettiness' and claims function means all the most to her, but drives a more expensive bespoilered sporty looking car with no more performance than an average one.
If the government provides you with free access, does that give them the right to censor it? I couldn't begin to speak to the Australian constitutionality of this, but I've always wondered about the American constitutionality of similar schemes.
If it were the -only- method of access, then it would be US-unconstitutional, and I'd say morally so as well. As a classroom situation, kids are in commerce to learn about commerce, english to learn english, physics to learn physics - none of them need porn. (or 95% of the net, truly). It's like televisions in schools - they all have them, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone defending the right of a schoolkid to watch Springer while Chemistry is in session...
I've worked at the NSW Department of Education, and it's well-known that no, we cannot block every site out there that may be 'unsuitable' for whatever definition you want to put on that word, but it's not the only reason to go blocking. For starters the NSW state school system is a massive network - over 2200 schools across a state the size of texas and a half - network connections vary from satellite, isdn, dialup, adsl - all depending on what's available.
It's not a tiny network, and it's all publicly funded - wherever there can be a cent saved it will be, and stopping a few million children from all jumping online to check out the newest site-of-the-week from a school connection is one priority. The political motivations are obvious - no government is going to want to hear of children coming home to parents talking about the crap that can be found online - it is a school environment and isn't designed to accomodate checking out the newest recipes from manbeef.com. This doesn't mean everything "icky" is banned - having been a part of this banning process, it's rather moderate in practice.
Don't let the debate make you imagine this is the only method the department is focusing on to keep proper-use of school resources. More than anything else, schools have been urged to put in place their own systems for tracking the net use in their schools, and supervising their classes/resources properly.
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For a box running both OS9 and OSX on the same drive, you get the case insensitivity as it'll be formatted in the older HFS+. Reformat the iBook as UFS for an OSX only partition and it's as case sensitive as you'd like
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CNet is running a story about reconstructing the display of a computer by using special hardware and the reflected glow of the monitor."
...like a mirror!
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It may be a waste of Karma by duplicating what you've said, but I have to agree and double your comments. Kids are inexperienced by definition... Supervise them. They can't always tell good from bad... Supervise them. Kids do impulsive things... Supervise them. As a parent you're responsible for your kids... Supervise them. Kids can be incredibly easily conned... Supervise them. Kids take in -everything- they see... Supervise them.
...and she avoided turning into a scriptkiddie :)
Give them the ability to learn how to use a chatroom in a safe manner, by learning from your own judgments while they're there in front of you. My niece started chatting online when she was 9, and until she was 13 it was only ever while I was there with her. She's 17 now and the only person she met online before face-to-face was a guy from a different year in her school.
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Of course, such "circumvention" will have to be made illegal.
If only to protect those likely to nuke their new manuals... demo CD and all.
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walk out of the shop
take it home
microwave it on high for 15 seconds
enjoy
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My original post was little more than a prod for curiosity - I'm on an archaic hardware kick at the moment, however another thought struck me which may have relevance. Legislated & enforced copy protection on this level isn't going to happen in a worldwide sense - at least not immediately - the countries who escape the effects are not only going to run on computer systems unburdened by anti-copy-everything protection, but may even end up with hardware manufacturers relocating, if the US goes the wrong way.
My predictions however, can be usually counted on to mean bugger all - but it's a thought.
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Agreed in part! There are some minor problems that aren't going away, but on my G3/400 RC2 feels far more usable. Or perhaps it's just the weekend, and I'm in a better mood than when I downloaded RC1.
Chimera is nowhere near as complete guiwise, but it's oh so lovely to look at...
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...and all new hardware required, and implemented horrifically draconian anti-copy-anything protection which both took away the ability to copy for reasonable use, or took away nick the l337 h4X0r's ability to copy 'stuff', ancient second hand hardware, free hardware, is going to become rather desirable. Best start warehousing a few spare boxies.
:D
OK, that's tongue in cheek, but it's one end of an extreme where computers are pushed to being made less and less useful. When I look at it bringing about such strong change like that, it feels it can't happen. Am I being too optimistic?
Besides - if all your old hardware gets too slow - buy a few more and beow.... you get the idea
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Those spikes look absolutely fascinating - and I'm sure it'll be my descendants who run around going "whoa... this looks so cool...". All us mildly arty types will go camping out under the spikes
:)
What I find a bit funny is for such a dangerous place, the concept sketches seem to show -tourists- running around the place. Best hope they have x-ray film in their cameras...
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It took me an enormous AT tower to make a self-contained water cooled desktop.
Perhaps the use of the fact laptops move n shift about constantly could be used somehow to help shift fluid around. It wouldn't help while the machine is on a desk, but as a little extra aid in-transit when quietness may be more necessary it may make the difference
a grrl & her server
Notebooks are doing some incredible things in the way of upping power/features/screen size/etc while shrinking drastically in size and weight - and ending up with some problems such as heat dissipation. In my mind the biggest advantage to a notebook apart from its' portability, is the weight issue - not size. Surely giving quite a bit more space inside the box isn't going to add all that much to weight, may bring a laptop an extra half inch higher while increasing air cooling possibilities incredibly.
I can see that laptops have a high 'just plain sexy' component, which isn't likely to go away. A rep in a former workplace of mine insisted on one of the top Compaq notebooks, when his only need was for a PDA. Thin does sell for many people, but for me an iBook or TiBook would be just as nice at twice the depth.
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One thing we have as well as a possible limitation on our own brainpower by using speech while thinking, is that in an office full of machines - or even a house with a family and a dog - using a computer with speech is going to pollute the people next to you with your thoughts/computer use, and they with yours - at least in the realm of using the computer as a tool. :)
We're pretty well-adapted to using tools with our hands and getting feedback on what they're doing with video/audio/feel coming back from that tool, but not the other way. Speaking works naturally for nattering with friends
There's no way I'd advocate the -stopping- of speech systems research, as there are people who have incredible trouble typing due to various impediments. Besides the direct uses, every piece of research had a dozen uses other than it's intended purpose.
When it comes to movies, Time Travel is one of those excellent devices when used well. We've all pondered going back... or forward in time to various levels, and it's much like a semi-famous description of the Enterprise in ST - it's much less a spaceship, than a vehicle for drama. Nobody watched Lost In Space for an explanation of possible time travel...
:)
Time travel as a movie-science doesn't yet have any real rules except those which are chosen by scriptwriters, and that reflects everything about science in movies. The suspension of belief is critical, and is achieved by some level of consistency within the realm of the movie.
It seems the arguments/possibilities/claims about potential time travel irl is a LOT less consistent than time travel in say, Back To The Future. That for me, is what makes the movies work
Not only that, y'all read about it on the internet. What more convincing do you need...
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That's my thoughts, when it comes down to the reality of it. VCR recordings, while not automatically removing advertisements (though I'd heard rumours of ones that did) do give consumers the ability to skip through ads. I'm sure most of us who've taped television with advertisements have been able to fast-forward and almost press 'stop' right on the exact moment our fave show re-starts. It's only one small step up from this, to automagically removing ads. :P
I don't know anyone who -purposely- watches ads in a recorded show, but I have from time to time played a damned good, funny ad back and had a chuckle.
How about that - make better ads that people don't laugh at for the wrong reasons
Seriously, it could depend on just how the LCD is able to display colour. Would you really want a completely backlit wall? That may suit some people and work wonderfully for effects (think open sky, clouds, the moon above... while inside) but in a bright enough room, a reflective-only panel could give completely different subtle patterns.
(disclaimer: I have no clue whatsoever if the reflective type is/will be possible with colour - but this article wasn't about LCD's now :)
Yes I love my iMac, but I also love OSX, I love the -underneath- of OSX, and I love my Linux-powered-Quadra-605-webserver
I certainly don't know everything there is about all things IT, but I can throw myself in pretty deep sometimes.
As much as the all-white is part of the Apple lineup now, it doesn't seem the ideal 'colour' for a school environment. Being a rather smooth plastic however, is another matter that counts in the positives. I could really see the use in grubby-finger-hiding-patterns. Keep it fun for the littleuns too...
Whenever my family needs to know some odd little factoid, look up some news quickly or the like, it's also my job to go find it - it's all becoming so much quicker. Yesterday my mother wondered what whalemeat tasted like, and I could tell her within minutes that about a dozen people online said it was much like beef. 3 years ago I'd be lucky to find that information online within 20 minutes, if it were even there.
The net might be getting more passe, but in ways it's a lot more efficient. Blame google!
After phoning an Amiga vendor in Sydney, I asked about the prices for a new A1200, and chatted about Amigas in general - A1200's were still pretty expensive, around $1000 australian for one, and I commented on the price, also noting I'd been looking at a second hand powermac for a fifth of what he was charging.
In all seriousness he told me "An Amiga can emulate a macintosh faster than the fastest Mac runs".
This was apparently true for a few months When the first 68040 Amigas came out, but I'm damned sure quoting it to me in 2000 when G4's were hitting 500Mhz is just a small lie :P.
Take a look at the modifications that extreme custom car builders do to their transport, not out of any practical reason, but for the love of building something with the most extreme quality. With imagination and hard work you can inject a LOT of style into your PC. I'd like to see systems with some insane 'tidying'... the auto customisers hidden wiring tricks, colour coded everything, even components laid out in an aesthetic manner. Not for practicality, but just -because-
If that's not your thing however - good for you. Everyone has a little excess (read: pointless but pretty) style in their life. Like the friend of mine who derides Mac cases for their 'prettiness' and claims function means all the most to her, but drives a more expensive bespoilered sporty looking car with no more performance than an average one.
If the government provides you with free access, does that give them the right to censor it? I couldn't begin to speak to the Australian constitutionality of this, but I've always wondered about the American constitutionality of similar schemes. If it were the -only- method of access, then it would be US-unconstitutional, and I'd say morally so as well. As a classroom situation, kids are in commerce to learn about commerce, english to learn english, physics to learn physics - none of them need porn. (or 95% of the net, truly). It's like televisions in schools - they all have them, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone defending the right of a schoolkid to watch Springer while Chemistry is in session...
It's not a tiny network, and it's all publicly funded - wherever there can be a cent saved it will be, and stopping a few million children from all jumping online to check out the newest site-of-the-week from a school connection is one priority. The political motivations are obvious - no government is going to want to hear of children coming home to parents talking about the crap that can be found online - it is a school environment and isn't designed to accomodate checking out the newest recipes from manbeef.com. This doesn't mean everything "icky" is banned - having been a part of this banning process, it's rather moderate in practice.
Don't let the debate make you imagine this is the only method the department is focusing on to keep proper-use of school resources. More than anything else, schools have been urged to put in place their own systems for tracking the net use in their schools, and supervising their classes/resources properly.