Actually, mentioning 9/11 is quite relevant when discussing Spider-Man...one of the key scenes in the movie involving the twin towers was removed.
Actually it was a scene in the trailer and in the opening credits. It had NOTHING to do with the content of the movie itself.
It's interesting to note, however, that the modification of the trailer resulted in a delay in the relese of the Mac OS X.1 update. The CD had a copy of the original trailer on it. Apple scrapped the first run and created them all over again, this time sans towers.
Actually, there esd s memo leaked from the Bush (Sr.) administration saying that the Iraqui invasion of Kuwait would be the perfect excuse to maintain Cold War level military spending. You have to remember that Hussein was put into power by the US government. He worked for the CIA. Kuwait was drilling diagonally and stealing Iraqui oil. He ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO INVADE! The US said it would "look the other way" -- which is when the memo was written.
I'm at work now but I do have documentation for what I'm saying.
As far as the current crisis goes, read Stupid White Men. The US was planning to invaid Afghanistan last August. Don't forget the connections between Bush's oil company and Bin Laden (they were partners). Enron was involved too. Don't forget that Enron flew Bush to his campaign stops on their corporate jet. They were also having trouble convincing the Taliban to let them build a pipeline in Afghanistan. Enron may be no more, but who do you think is going to build the pipeline now? If you guessed that the same people who were involved in Bush's oil company and Enron are going to build the pipeline, you'd be right. Is it any surpise? The Bush familly was involved heavilly in the S&L crisis too. Of course, they KEPT the money that we (as tax payers) will have to pay for.
This is not a news site, but then again there are few "real" news organizations left in this country. Almost none of them bothers to make connections between world events. They report things like the Gulf War, Bush's (Sr.) ratings, campaign finance, and oil prices as if they were unrelated.
I think that pretty soon its not going to matter what you run as more applications are geared toward usage on any platform (think Virtual PC or M$ Word on a Mac).
I know that this is not exactly on topic, but we are talking about education and computers. Microsoft Word was once a Macintosh only product. It came out first for the Mac and has never been out of production.
Back to the topic...
I do think that education should not push one platform or another but expose students to the various alternatives. In driver's ed, they don't make students drive Hondas because it's probably what they will drive later in life. Computer classes shouldn't buy one particular OS/HW combination because the students will use it later in life either. Before I got to college, I used Apples, Macs, and Amigas, as well as PCs running everything from DOS to Windows 98 (but never OS/2). We even used BSD at one point. Now I use OS X, Linux, Win2k, Solaris, and more. Teaching students to use what is currently popular will just make them that much less adaptable, because in the "real world" things change.
In my school district, we are facing even more budget cuts, yet I never hear anyone talk about how to reduce costs other than cutting back on salaries or materials. We should be cutting back on other costs like electricity and software. By using 12v lighting, and putting solar panels on the roof of every school we could save a lot of cash. By requiring special permits for not using free (as in beer) software, we could save money there too.
The reason I emphasise the use of "free" in the monetary sense is that I'm talking about school budgets, not software philosophy. Of course once people are into using free (as in beer) software, then you can more easilly talk to them about free (as in speech) software.
Wow. I used to use Earthlink and while driving from Miami to Niagara Falls(Canadian side) and back, I was NEVER without a local phone number -- even in Canada. The same goes for the time I drove from Denver to Phoenix with one exception that I can recall. But that place didn't have a local ISP. Hell, they didn't even have cellular service.
Earthlink often shares POPs w/ other ISPs, requiring the ELN/ perfix for usernames. This sharing system gives them a huge range.
Regarding the original topic, I cancelled with Earthlink with no hassle at all. They asked for the account info, username, and pw. When I told them my username, the rep was surprized because she didn't it contained an underscore. Since I'd signed up, they had banned the use of underscores. When she asked why I was cancelling after so many years, I told her that I didn't want to, but only BellSouth and Telocity were offering DSL in my area. Earthlink still didn't offer service here for many months after I was hapily using my Telocity account. Too bad. They had great customer service.
Cantwell is an ex-exec of RealNetworks. That would put her in the same corner as the record companies and DMCA lovers.
Please don't forget that Real Networks was once Progressive Networks, a progressive (politically) company. They used their streaming technology to broadcase Pacifica Radio, Jim Hightower's show, etc. Even when they switched names, NPR was a default channel. Progressive Networks was a truly great company.
most of the people targetted should know better or shouldn't have a domain name in the first place.
In my case, I transfered my domain from Verisign to GoDaddy at the last minute. I was informed by GoDaddy that the transfer might fail because it might not get processed in time.
A few weeks later, I got one of those bogus letters from Verisign. I verified by whois, but that letter still worried me. I didn't want Verisign to send the bill to a collections agency and ruin my credit. I thought that I was getting billed because of the timing of my request. In the end, the "bill" was one of these scam letters. It was just made particularly believable by the circumstances.
The gist of my post was that while individual tasks may seem slower under OS X, you are actually getting more done. OS X does more at once than OS 9 did.
My G4 450 (yes, the original, top of the line G4 in 1999) runs OS X just fine. It still uses the original ATI Rage 128 video card and still has the 384 megs of ram it came with from the factory. I've gotten a larger and faster hardrive, but that's it.
I don't see why people complain about OS X being slow. Sure 9 was faster in some ways, but it didn't do as much. It certainly wasn't running Apache and PostgreSQL.
I'm on one now, using Netscape on wmaker. I'm trying to convince the administration to give me a G4 instead. At least they don't have me stuck on that Win2k box anymore. Yech!
At my job we use IM for internal communication. I also let my non-coworker buddies reach me over IM. If one IMs me, I tell them that I'm at work, and I'll call them back on my break. It works better than having to check my voicemail and lets them send me simple announcements that don't require replies. It's really great for scheduling meetings with my friends.
For example:
What's up?
I'm at work
Ok, just wanted to let you know that we're going to the beach tonight to see a play - it's free for students
Details?
It's at such-and-such theater at such and such time
Soft Wi-Fi is just for access points. This has nothing to do with making winmodem-like 802.11 devices. Their idea is that if you have a few computers with wi-fi cards, you might as well use one as a bridge to the internet rather than buying a wi-fi router.
You'd think that on Slashdot people would be familliar with the concept of sharing an internet connection by using a spare computer as a router. Oh that's right, this particular solution has "Microsoft" in the title, therefore it must be bad.
sudo open does not work. It was linked to a major security hole and Apple shut it down. If you need to sudo a gui app, you need to run sudo path/to/actual/binary/in/pkg
I disagree. I've written many JavaScripts that enhance sites. For instance, an order form I created automatically validates your order in JavaScript before sending it to the back end. The back end does its own validation, but the JavaScript code means that my user won't have to wait for a page load just to turn the "!" in the quantity field into a "1" etc.
I've taught JavaScript at my local community college and I've always had at least one lectureon the ethical use of JavaScript. I teach my students how to use the language in general. I teach them how to enhance websites with it. I don't teach them how to abuse their users other than telling them how not to get into infinite loops, etc. IF they want to abuse their viewers, they can figure it out themselves.
JavaScript has its place, but like any technology, it can be abused.
[iCab] limits the javascript that a site can execute
Last time I ran iCab, it limited javascript execution by:
a) failing to support a simple, standard script properly
or b) crashing so frequently thet I had to turn off the scripting feature.
If you like that kind of control, my friend has a car for sale that you can't get a speeding ticket in! Of course it hasn't left her driveway since it was totalled...
She did get the SOS right, but she didn't pause long enough betreen repititions or even between letters. Then again, the fact that she wasn't good at sending morse fits her character.
"would we ever find tiny pockets of life on a planet (assuming sufficient time for life to evolve/expand)??"
Life expands until it encounters a limiting factor. In this way, you can compare the expansion of life to a chemical reaction (appropriate, since the functions of life ARE chemical reactions).
100H2 + 100O2 ---> 100H2O +50O2
In such a case you wouldn't complain about all that "extra" oxygen. Now we apply the same thing to resources required for life -- such as water. If there's only 1 square meter of water on Mars, would you be surprised to see only tiny pockets of life? No.
If there is life on Mars, it may only exist in tiny pockets -- we may not even be able to deduce what the limiting factors are.
Simulations are things like Flight Sims and Racing Games-- the accuracy is as important as the gameplaywhy/ we play games! Nothing can be as important, no matter what type of game it is. If realism is important to a game, it is only because it contributes to the gameplay.
The more they try to make these characters look real, the more it becomes apparent(and comical) that they aren't.
This is one of the reasons that they scaled back the details of the princess in Shrek. She got so realistic that it ruined the cartoon feel of the movie. Personally, I think they got it just right. The technology should add to the experience, not detract from it.
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Actually, mentioning 9/11 is quite relevant when discussing Spider-Man...one of the key scenes in the movie involving the twin towers was removed.
Actually it was a scene in the trailer and in the opening credits. It had NOTHING to do with the content of the movie itself.
It's interesting to note, however, that the modification of the trailer resulted in a delay in the relese of the Mac OS X.1 update. The CD had a copy of the original trailer on it. Apple scrapped the first run and created them all over again, this time sans towers.
Actually, there esd s memo leaked from the Bush (Sr.) administration saying that the Iraqui invasion of Kuwait would be the perfect excuse to maintain Cold War level military spending. You have to remember that Hussein was put into power by the US government. He worked for the CIA. Kuwait was drilling diagonally and stealing Iraqui oil. He ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO INVADE! The US said it would "look the other way" -- which is when the memo was written.
I'm at work now but I do have documentation for what I'm saying.
As far as the current crisis goes, read Stupid White Men. The US was planning to invaid Afghanistan last August. Don't forget the connections between Bush's oil company and Bin Laden (they were partners). Enron was involved too. Don't forget that Enron flew Bush to his campaign stops on their corporate jet. They were also having trouble convincing the Taliban to let them build a pipeline in Afghanistan. Enron may be no more, but who do you think is going to build the pipeline now? If you guessed that the same people who were involved in Bush's oil company and Enron are going to build the pipeline, you'd be right. Is it any surpise? The Bush familly was involved heavilly in the S&L crisis too. Of course, they KEPT the money that we (as tax payers) will have to pay for.
This is not a news site, but then again there are few "real" news organizations left in this country. Almost none of them bothers to make connections between world events. They report things like the Gulf War, Bush's (Sr.) ratings, campaign finance, and oil prices as if they were unrelated.
I think that pretty soon its not going to matter what you run as more applications are geared toward usage on any platform (think Virtual PC or M$ Word on a Mac).
I know that this is not exactly on topic, but we are talking about education and computers. Microsoft Word was once a Macintosh only product. It came out first for the Mac and has never been out of production.
Back to the topic...
I do think that education should not push one platform or another but expose students to the various alternatives. In driver's ed, they don't make students drive Hondas because it's probably what they will drive later in life. Computer classes shouldn't buy one particular OS/HW combination because the students will use it later in life either. Before I got to college, I used Apples, Macs, and Amigas, as well as PCs running everything from DOS to Windows 98 (but never OS/2). We even used BSD at one point. Now I use OS X, Linux, Win2k, Solaris, and more. Teaching students to use what is currently popular will just make them that much less adaptable, because in the "real world" things change.
In my school district, we are facing even more budget cuts, yet I never hear anyone talk about how to reduce costs other than cutting back on salaries or materials. We should be cutting back on other costs like electricity and software. By using 12v lighting, and putting solar panels on the roof of every school we could save a lot of cash. By requiring special permits for not using free (as in beer) software, we could save money there too.
The reason I emphasise the use of "free" in the monetary sense is that I'm talking about school budgets, not software philosophy. Of course once people are into using free (as in beer) software, then you can more easilly talk to them about free (as in speech) software.
Wow. I used to use Earthlink and while driving from Miami to Niagara Falls(Canadian side) and back, I was NEVER without a local phone number -- even in Canada. The same goes for the time I drove from Denver to Phoenix with one exception that I can recall. But that place didn't have a local ISP. Hell, they didn't even have cellular service.
Earthlink often shares POPs w/ other ISPs, requiring the ELN/ perfix for usernames. This sharing system gives them a huge range.
Regarding the original topic, I cancelled with Earthlink with no hassle at all. They asked for the account info, username, and pw. When I told them my username, the rep was surprized because she didn't it contained an underscore. Since I'd signed up, they had banned the use of underscores. When she asked why I was cancelling after so many years, I told her that I didn't want to, but only BellSouth and Telocity were offering DSL in my area. Earthlink still didn't offer service here for many months after I was hapily using my Telocity account. Too bad. They had great customer service.
Cantwell is an ex-exec of RealNetworks. That would put her in the same corner as the record companies and DMCA lovers.
Please don't forget that Real Networks was once Progressive Networks, a progressive (politically) company. They used their streaming technology to broadcase Pacifica Radio, Jim Hightower's show, etc. Even when they switched names, NPR was a default channel. Progressive Networks was a truly great company.
most of the people targetted should know better or shouldn't have a domain name in the first place.
In my case, I transfered my domain from Verisign to GoDaddy at the last minute. I was informed by GoDaddy that the transfer might fail because it might not get processed in time.
A few weeks later, I got one of those bogus letters from Verisign. I verified by whois, but that letter still worried me. I didn't want Verisign to send the bill to a collections agency and ruin my credit. I thought that I was getting billed because of the timing of my request. In the end, the "bill" was one of these scam letters. It was just made particularly believable by the circumstances.
VPC does this too, at least if the host is Win2k or newer
On a Mac, VPC has done this for any guest OS since at least 3.0. I used it to do cgi work using SuSE before OS X came out.
The gist of my post was that while individual tasks may seem slower under OS X, you are actually getting more done. OS X does more at once than OS 9 did.
I still have an old boot disk with System 4.2 and Crystal Quest on it. It is the oldest version of the Mac OS that I've ever used.
My G4 450 (yes, the original, top of the line G4 in 1999) runs OS X just fine. It still uses the original ATI Rage 128 video card and still has the 384 megs of ram it came with from the factory. I've gotten a larger and faster hardrive, but that's it.
I don't see why people complain about OS X being slow. Sure 9 was faster in some ways, but it didn't do as much. It certainly wasn't running Apache and PostgreSQL.
... But only if you use the Mercedes logo.
Who uses Sun boxes as workstations?
I'm on one now, using Netscape on wmaker. I'm
trying to convince the administration to give
me a G4 instead. At least they don't have me
stuck on that Win2k box anymore. Yech!
At my job we use IM for internal communication. I also let my non-coworker buddies reach me over IM. If one IMs me, I tell them that I'm at work, and I'll call them back on my break. It works better than having to check my voicemail and lets them send me simple announcements that don't require replies. It's really great for scheduling meetings with my friends.
For example:
What's up?
I'm at work
Ok, just wanted to let you know that we're going to the beach tonight to see a play - it's free for students
Details?
It's at such-and-such theater at such and such time
ok. I'll see you there, save me a seat
later
Soft Wi-Fi is just for access points. This has nothing to do with making winmodem-like 802.11 devices. Their idea is that if you have a few computers with wi-fi cards, you might as well use one as a bridge to the internet rather than buying a wi-fi router.
Apple hit this years ago.
You'd think that on Slashdot people would be familliar with the concept of sharing an internet connection by using a spare computer as a router. Oh that's right, this particular solution has "Microsoft" in the title, therefore it must be bad.
So "Wireless Video" is somethere around "Wireless Gigabit Ethernet" in terms of feasibility
What about just using an hdtv modulator? You would want something more secure than that, but it proves that it CAN be done.
Need a GUI app as root? sudo open.
sudo open does not work. It was linked to a major security hole and Apple shut it down. If you need to sudo a gui app, you need to run sudo path/to/actual/binary/in/pkg
All Javascript is evil.
I disagree. I've written many JavaScripts that enhance sites. For instance, an order form I created automatically validates your order in JavaScript before sending it to the back end. The back end does its own validation, but the JavaScript code means that my user won't have to wait for a page load just to turn the "!" in the quantity field into a "1" etc.
I've taught JavaScript at my local community college and I've always had at least one lectureon the ethical use of JavaScript. I teach my students how to use the language in general. I teach them how to enhance websites with it. I don't teach them how to abuse their users other than telling them how not to get into infinite loops, etc. IF they want to abuse their viewers, they can figure it out themselves.
JavaScript has its place, but like any technology, it can be abused.
[iCab] limits the javascript that a site can execute
Last time I ran iCab, it limited javascript execution by:
a) failing to support a simple, standard script properly
or b) crashing so frequently thet I had to turn off the scripting feature.
If you like that kind of control, my friend has a car for sale that you can't get a speeding ticket in! Of course it hasn't left her driveway since it was totalled...
She did get the SOS right, but she didn't pause long enough betreen repititions or even between letters. Then again, the fact that she wasn't good at sending morse fits her character.
Lo and behold, on her first night living there, three evildoers bust into her home and come after her and her precocious kid.
Not quite. They didn't even know that people had moved into the house yet. They were after something left in the house by the previous owner.
Any more details would spoil the film for anyone who still wants to see it.
"would we ever find tiny pockets of life on a planet (assuming sufficient time for life to evolve/expand)??"
Life expands until it encounters a limiting factor. In this way, you can compare the expansion of life to a chemical reaction (appropriate, since the functions of life ARE chemical reactions).
100H2 + 100O2 ---> 100H2O +50O2
In such a case you wouldn't complain about all that "extra" oxygen. Now we apply the same thing to resources required for life -- such as water. If there's only 1 square meter of water on Mars, would you be surprised to see only tiny pockets of life? No.
If there is life on Mars, it may only exist in tiny pockets -- we may not even be able to deduce what the limiting factors are.
How long till somone starts putting these bugs in lollipops or serving then with ketchup?
Simulations are things like Flight Sims and Racing Games-- the accuracy is as important as the gameplaywhy/ we play games! Nothing can be as important, no matter what type of game it is. If realism is important to a game, it is only because it contributes to the gameplay.
The more they try to make these characters look real, the more it becomes apparent(and comical) that they aren't.
This is one of the reasons that they scaled back the details of the princess in Shrek. She got so realistic that it ruined the cartoon feel of the movie. Personally, I think they got it just right. The technology should add to the experience, not detract from it.