How is this new, my {Unix| Mac| Linux} system has done this for years
Your mac most definitely has not done this for years. Even updating Safari requires a reboot on OSX. My mac can't go a week without Software Update asking for a reboot.
Maybe if more Christians took more of a stand and told people to stop swearing, drinking, screwing around or watching porn the society at large would be more courteous, have less drunk drivers, and broken marriages.
Prohibition is what gave the Mafia power. I'd rather have drinking than organized crime.. maybe that's just me.
Unfortunately, it will be relatively easy for MS/Sony to match the revolution's features by releasing a motion-sensitive controller
Which would be about as effective as Sony releasing a harddrive for the PS2 to counter the xbox's built in harddrive. How many games support Sony's harddrive? One?
No FPS maker is going to support sony or ms's add-on motion sensitive controller because not everyone will have it.
Just like the eye-toy.. you'll get the game that's bundled with it, and that's it.
Unless Nintendo wants a lot of dead boxen out there, there'll be some sort of back door, so the system won't be very deterent to the determined, and by "determined" I mean "taking three seconds to Google it".
True, but the Revolution could email whoever set the password in the first place letting them know that it has been reset.
That'll prevent little billy from deactivating the password.
Secondly, parental controls have been available in TVs and DVD players for quite a while now, and people haven't had a lot of problems with those...
i would much rather have a printer dock that is independent of any computer and only requiring electricity and ink & paper...
The Kodak EasyShare printer docks are independent. You don't need to hook them up to a computer at all. You only need to do that if you want to use the easyshare software to pick which photos to print.
This page has a simple example with PostScript files. Both files have the same MD5 hash, but one is a relatively harmless letter of recommendation while the other is a grant of security clearance.
Except that if you look at the actual postscript source of both files, you'll see they *both* contain both chunks of text. The only difference between the two ps files is a byte passed to an if-statement which determines which block to display. It takes 300 bytes of hash gibberish to counter the alteration of 1 byte.
Thank God for that. I hate closing a window, and the app simply vanishing. It's like a saw that unplugs itself every time I reach the end of a board. If I want to close, I'll close, if I want to quit, I'll quit. It's another stupid ass-umption windows makes for me.
Except that Apple does this as well. Each version of OSX is more inconsistant than the last.. which isn't a suprise since they fired all their usability experts over a decade ago.
Software Update and System Preferences both quit when you close the window. So do Disk Utility, Network Utility and a bunch of other apps.
So is Apple guilty of making stupid ass-umptions now? Or can you explain why Network Utility quits when the window closes, but Airport Admin Utility doesn't?
My girlfriend uses OS X on a 600MHz G3. It's more than fast enough for their intended use.
A *used* 600Mhz G3 ibook is still $400.
So yes, you can use OSX on a laptop that costs 4x more, big woop. My TiVo is 75mhz and it runs Linux just fine.
Btw, I have that same laptop... and even if OSX is useable, Linux is much more "snappy" on the same hardware. There's just no comparison. OSX is sluggish and bloated on the same hardware that Linux is light and spry.
Actually, muscle memory makes it easy to quickly hit the same target along an edge from anywhere. It is one of those hardwired things.
Except that the target moves in OSX. Since the name of the app is the second thing in the menubar, the position of the File or Edit menus moves depending on which app you're in.
Microsoft may or may not have a centralized online service for the 360, but I don't see it being mandatory as it is now.
Not only is it mandatory, but microsoft has said that *every* game must be xbox live aware... even single player games. That means single player games will upload stats and high scores to your xbox live account. Friends can find you even if you are playing a single player game.
I could get into games with my friends and other people.
Yes, but you couldn't tell when your friend was online playing a different game. And with xbox live 360, you can tell if your friend is playing a single player game and you can send a request to him to play multiplayer.
It's really nice to just turn on the xbox, see that one of my friends is playing Madden, and send him a note that says "When you're done, wanna join me in burnout 3?"
Depends, how did it crash? The trackpad on my ibook stopped working after the first reboot. Triggering expose with the keyboard showed the mac wasn't locked up, but the mouse wouldn't move at all. I rebooted again and everything was back to normal.
Except that they don't do that now, and probably won't in the future.
While there certainly is less and less investigative reporting (much to my dismay, reporting current events is something for the AP wire), it does still exist.
I can think of two recent examples from my local paper alone. One is how DHS lied about how many people die crossing the border and how their numbers don't match up with the actual recorded deaths. Congress actually ended up using the newspaper's database to show how DHS was playing fast and loose with the numbers.
The other one is a report on how inaccurate the local gas pumps are. They claim they output a gallon but they really shortchange you. There was even a nice little map that showed which stations were the worst and by how much.
Bloggers are fairly lazy. They won't hound their local city government for raw data... if it's not on google, then it doesn't exist.
am amazed that the mouse manufacturers treat 10% of the population this way.
Probably because it's *not* 10% of the population. I'm left handed, my brother is left handed, there are a lot of people at my work who are left handed.. we all use a right handed mouse with our right hands.
It's more like 1% of the computer using population uses a left handed mouse.
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Well, one thing that's special is the fact that it's the *only* distro I've seen that has a PPC LiveCD.
Other than that, it's the best PPC linux distro I've used. I'm using it on this ibook right now actually.
How is this new, my {Unix| Mac| Linux} system has done this for years
Your mac most definitely has not done this for years. Even updating Safari requires a reboot on OSX. My mac can't go a week without Software Update asking for a reboot.
Maybe if more Christians took more of a stand and told people to stop swearing, drinking, screwing around or watching porn the society at large would be more courteous, have less drunk drivers, and broken marriages.
Prohibition is what gave the Mafia power. I'd rather have drinking than organized crime.. maybe that's just me.
Unfortunately, it will be relatively easy for MS/Sony to match the revolution's features by releasing a motion-sensitive controller
Which would be about as effective as Sony releasing a harddrive for the PS2 to counter the xbox's built in harddrive. How many games support Sony's harddrive? One?
No FPS maker is going to support sony or ms's add-on motion sensitive controller because not everyone will have it.
Just like the eye-toy.. you'll get the game that's bundled with it, and that's it.
Does it take place in outer space? What if it's set entirely on another planet?
Or on ours!
I nominate Capricorn One. It's the most scientifically accurate "space" movie... we all know that Mars is really a soundstage.
Well, a technology with a name such as "HyperThreading" is targeted more to end users who don't know about processors,
Which is odd, since most things that begin with hyper aren't good things.
Hyperventilation, hypertension, and now hyperthreading.
If you have port {whatever this week's virus uses} forwarded, you are just as vulnerable as if you don't use NAT.
That's a pretty big if there. I'd say the majority of NAT users don't have *any* ports forwarded.
While it's a cool idea, it isn't even practical or useful
Woah woah woah.. you're saying that fingerpaint that isn't going to stain my carpet is neither practical nor useful?
Unless Nintendo wants a lot of dead boxen out there, there'll be some sort of back door, so the system won't be very deterent to the determined, and by "determined" I mean "taking three seconds to Google it".
True, but the Revolution could email whoever set the password in the first place letting them know that it has been reset.
That'll prevent little billy from deactivating the password.
Secondly, parental controls have been available in TVs and DVD players for quite a while now, and people haven't had a lot of problems with those...
i would much rather have a printer dock that is independent of any computer and only requiring electricity and ink & paper...
The Kodak EasyShare printer docks are independent. You don't need to hook them up to a computer at all. You only need to do that if you want to use the easyshare software to pick which photos to print.
This page has a simple example with PostScript files. Both files have the same MD5 hash, but one is a relatively harmless letter of recommendation while the other is a grant of security clearance.
Except that if you look at the actual postscript source of both files, you'll see they *both* contain both chunks of text. The only difference between the two ps files is a byte passed to an if-statement which determines which block to display. It takes 300 bytes of hash gibberish to counter the alteration of 1 byte.
Thank God for that. I hate closing a window, and the app simply vanishing. It's like a saw that unplugs itself every time I reach the end of a board. If I want to close, I'll close, if I want to quit, I'll quit. It's another stupid ass-umption windows makes for me.
Except that Apple does this as well. Each version of OSX is more inconsistant than the last.. which isn't a suprise since they fired all their usability experts over a decade ago.
Software Update and System Preferences both quit when you close the window. So do Disk Utility, Network Utility and a bunch of other apps.
So is Apple guilty of making stupid ass-umptions now? Or can you explain why Network Utility quits when the window closes, but Airport Admin Utility doesn't?
My girlfriend uses OS X on a 600MHz G3. It's more than fast enough for their intended use.
A *used* 600Mhz G3 ibook is still $400.
So yes, you can use OSX on a laptop that costs 4x more, big woop. My TiVo is 75mhz and it runs Linux just fine.
Btw, I have that same laptop... and even if OSX is useable, Linux is much more "snappy" on the same hardware. There's just no comparison. OSX is sluggish and bloated on the same hardware that Linux is light and spry.
Actually, muscle memory makes it easy to quickly hit the same target along an edge from anywhere. It is one of those hardwired things.
Except that the target moves in OSX. Since the name of the app is the second thing in the menubar, the position of the File or Edit menus moves depending on which app you're in.
A woman I used to date said it is absolutely true. I wonder if using the CD instead of an album would screw up the timing.
We did it at the college movie theater when I was in college. Called it Dark Side of the Rainbow, sold tickets. We used the CD, it worked great.
The HTML/CSS document model simply doesn't work well for desktop quality applications.
iTunes uses XML/CSS to do the iTMS. Seems to work well enough for Apple.
Microsoft may or may not have a centralized online service for the 360, but I don't see it being mandatory as it is now.
Not only is it mandatory, but microsoft has said that *every* game must be xbox live aware... even single player games. That means single player games will upload stats and high scores to your xbox live account. Friends can find you even if you are playing a single player game.
I could get into games with my friends and other people.
Yes, but you couldn't tell when your friend was online playing a different game. And with xbox live 360, you can tell if your friend is playing a single player game and you can send a request to him to play multiplayer.
It's really nice to just turn on the xbox, see that one of my friends is playing Madden, and send him a note that says "When you're done, wanna join me in burnout 3?"
Mine is 000-00-0002 (Damn Roosevelt!)
Depends, how did it crash? The trackpad on my ibook stopped working after the first reboot. Triggering expose with the keyboard showed the mac wasn't locked up, but the mouse wouldn't move at all. I rebooted again and everything was back to normal.
Mac users, even many of the experienced ones do it. Everything is on their desktop
That's because the Finder Sucks(tm). Everytime I open a directory on OSX, I feel like I'm launching an application. Slowest file manager ever.
Except that they don't do that now, and probably won't in the future.
While there certainly is less and less investigative reporting (much to my dismay, reporting current events is something for the AP wire), it does still exist.
I can think of two recent examples from my local paper alone. One is how DHS lied about how many people die crossing the border and how their numbers don't match up with the actual recorded deaths. Congress actually ended up using the newspaper's database to show how DHS was playing fast and loose with the numbers.
The other one is a report on how inaccurate the local gas pumps are. They claim they output a gallon but they really shortchange you. There was even a nice little map that showed which stations were the worst and by how much.
Bloggers are fairly lazy. They won't hound their local city government for raw data... if it's not on google, then it doesn't exist.
Instant delivery, little cost, up-to-date. How can newspapers compete?
Investigative reporting. That's still where the newspaper outpaces all other forms of news.
The hardcopy might go away, but newspapers have their own websites.
The sub-genre Hard sci-fi is sci-fi that only contains science that is possible.
Wouldn't that just be considered "fiction" then? Otherwise, CSI is the most popular sci-fi show on tv.
am amazed that the mouse manufacturers treat 10% of the population this way.
Probably because it's *not* 10% of the population. I'm left handed, my brother is left handed, there are a lot of people at my work who are left handed.. we all use a right handed mouse with our right hands.
It's more like 1% of the computer using population uses a left handed mouse.