What is NOT protected are their sources, who are breaking currently in force, legally binding confidentiality agreements to reveal the information
Oh you know this for a fact, do you? For all we know, the "leaker" doesn't even work for Apple. Apple may force everyone at Apple to sign an NDA, but Apple doesn't manufacture anything. For all we know, the leaker works in Taiwan and never signed an NDA.
I find it interesting that so many Apple fanatics are so gung ho to violate someone's privacy because he *might* have violated an NDA.
You might be making drugs in your basement, I'm going to have the police check, just to be sure.
give me a break. That conversation could've been about *any* OS. OS9 people bitched about how horrible OSX is, Win98 people bitched about win2k, win2k people bitched about winxp.
People don't like change.. and it takes a while for something new to find acceptance.
That's true, but they do pop a new window that sits on *top* of all other windows. The iChat chat win will sit above all other windows until you select it, and click "Accept". Even if you click on it, then click on another window, the accept/decline window will still sit on top.
I'd say this is a great feature: (or bugfix, however you look at it).
In the past, while typing something into one application when suddenly your instant messenger offered a chat request from your friend, your words would be typed into the chat window. Imagine if you were typing your password at the time. This should no longer happen in GNOME 2.10.
In addition, if an application takes a long time to start, your work will not be interrupted when it finally opens its window.
It really is my number one annoyance with gnome (and windows, and osx).
I will be buying a PS3 solely because the PS2 controller is the only one with actually intuitive control schemes, because of the symmetrical placement of the sticks
That just means that *both* sticks are in the wrong goddamn place.
PS2 controller is one of the worst controllers out there. With the analog sticks in an uncomfortable position, and the 4 shoulder buttons that should've been triggers, and the horrible button naming.
I wouldn't be suprised if the PS3 controller has a special button in the center that you have to hit with your nose.. with the utter lack of design that went into the PS1 and PS2 controllers.
Blogs just aren't as accountable as a major commercial entity like a magazine or newspaper.
This cracks me up. A lot of blogs are *run* by magazines and newspapers.
I work for a newspaper. We publish blogs. Our blogs that are written by real journalists.
One reporter does a border beat, he has numerous stories but his editor only wants one border story a day. So he posts the other 2 stories online in his blog. It's the exact same content that would've been put in the paper, but there wasn't enough room.
Not every blog is a teenage girl talking about how she's too fat. And not every blog is run by a dude in his basement.
Washington Post, Salon, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian... they all have blogs, blogs written by real journalists.
I don't need to install all kinds of software, upgrade drivers and put on millions of security updates?
That's a lie. Panther needs 40 megs of patches after first install (and a reboot). Jaguar needs to download over 100 megs.
I cringe whenever that software update icon starts jumping like a 5 year-old looking for attention. It's rare that even the smallest OSX update doesn't require a reboot.
Of course, for web and application development, OS X definitely blows everything else away.
Only if you use firefox instead of safari.
Safari is horrible for web development. It caches everything, it can't debug javascript at all, and the entire browser locks up while it's building connections in other tabs.
As for me, I've used Mac OS X for years and have never yet found a use for the "Services" menu. But I guess I'll keep trying...
Hehe, I just checked the Services menu, and every option was greyed out. I saw some options like "Start Speaking Text" so went back to firefox, hilighted some text... nope! Still greyed out.
Eventually, however, some statisticians did the math and found that there was no such effect at play -- in a completely random system, such "blobs" of like colors are inevitable.
Um.. considering there are only two colors, it doesn't take a statistician to tell you that there are going to be candies of the same color next to each other.
Unless you mixed the candies into a checkerboard pattern... which isn't random at all, now is it?
Those of you that think that sounds completely plausable, please step to the left.
Look up the word "payola" if you think that record execs wouldn't do this.
It doesn't need to be in the shuffle. It could be part of the AutoFill in iTunes.
Do I think it's really happening? Not really. Do I think it's plausible? Yeah... experience with radio tells me that record companies would do this if Apple let them.. and who is Apple to turn down money?
None had support for my Canon scanner, which I realize is Canon's fault. But don't tell me I need to buy a new scanner to be able to migrate to Linux.
Why not? Microsoft told me I need to buy a new scanner to migrate to 2000 and XP. XP and 2k don't support my Microtek Slimscan USB scanner. There are some user-made hacked together drivers that hang my system.. and that's about it.
Look at your netflix history and tell me how long it takes them to retrun a movie? How many do you get on an average month?
It's still rather quick. So far in february, I've gotten 17 movies. I'm due for another one on friday.
Over the past 5 months, I've averaged 16 movies a month.
I almost always get the movie the day before netflix predicts it will arrive. I've never gotten a movie *after* their prediction.. but sometimes I do get it right on the prediction.
I only live 120 miles away from the nearest netflix hub though.
Apple continues to make MacOS X Server more and more robust, and if they could reduce the price on the XServes, then for many environments why not run MacOS X?
Because the Darwin kernel has pisspoor I/O. Which makes for a slow server.
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Kitchens are expensive real estate, grocers are always packed
Yogi Berra? Is that you?
What is NOT protected are their sources, who are breaking currently in force, legally binding confidentiality agreements to reveal the information
Oh you know this for a fact, do you? For all we know, the "leaker" doesn't even work for Apple. Apple may force everyone at Apple to sign an NDA, but Apple doesn't manufacture anything. For all we know, the leaker works in Taiwan and never signed an NDA.
I find it interesting that so many Apple fanatics are so gung ho to violate someone's privacy because he *might* have violated an NDA.
You might be making drugs in your basement, I'm going to have the police check, just to be sure.
I haven't heard that the Finder in OSX was in no way similar to the Finder from OS9
Um, OS9 finder was spacial.. OSX wasn't.
give me a break. That conversation could've been about *any* OS. OS9 people bitched about how horrible OSX is, Win98 people bitched about win2k, win2k people bitched about winxp.
People don't like change.. and it takes a while for something new to find acceptance.
I don't want to have to switch discs, look for their little boxes and expose them to dust, moisture, Pepsi, whatever, inbetween gaming sessions.
So I take it you don't watch DVDs, huh?
I mean seriously, for such an apparent tech savvy site, a lot of you seem to be clueless or did the initials MS throw most of you off?
It's a combination of clueless people and the standard reaction to change that most slashdotters have.
"Oh my god, they're going to change the way things work! I hate it!"
Slashdotters are the most unadaptable group of people outside of an old folks home.
why is this modded insightful? TiVo already lets you do everything you just mentioned.
In the future, TiVo will let you pause live tv!
Ralph Maccio's apocalyptic guitar-off against satanic Steve Vai must sit on the shelf and gather real physical dust
:)
The funny part is that it was actually Steve Vai versus himself. The karate kid knows neither karate, nor shredding.
Why do I know that? Probably for the same reason you own the damn movie
Chat windows do not steal focus in OSX.
That's true, but they do pop a new window that sits on *top* of all other windows. The iChat chat win will sit above all other windows until you select it, and click "Accept". Even if you click on it, then click on another window, the accept/decline window will still sit on top.
I'd say this is a great feature: (or bugfix, however you look at it).
In the past, while typing something into one application when suddenly your instant messenger offered a chat request from your friend, your words would be typed into the chat window. Imagine if you were typing your password at the time. This should no longer happen in GNOME 2.10.
In addition, if an application takes a long time to start, your work will not be interrupted when it finally opens its window.
It really is my number one annoyance with gnome (and windows, and osx).
I will be buying a PS3 solely because the PS2 controller is the only one with actually intuitive control schemes, because of the symmetrical placement of the sticks
That just means that *both* sticks are in the wrong goddamn place.
PS2 controller is one of the worst controllers out there. With the analog sticks in an uncomfortable position, and the 4 shoulder buttons that should've been triggers, and the horrible button naming.
I wouldn't be suprised if the PS3 controller has a special button in the center that you have to hit with your nose.. with the utter lack of design that went into the PS1 and PS2 controllers.
Blogs just aren't as accountable as a major commercial entity like a magazine or newspaper.
This cracks me up. A lot of blogs are *run* by magazines and newspapers.
I work for a newspaper. We publish blogs. Our blogs that are written by real journalists.
One reporter does a border beat, he has numerous stories but his editor only wants one border story a day. So he posts the other 2 stories online in his blog. It's the exact same content that would've been put in the paper, but there wasn't enough room.
Not every blog is a teenage girl talking about how she's too fat. And not every blog is run by a dude in his basement.
Washington Post, Salon, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian... they all have blogs, blogs written by real journalists.
has the benefit of iTunes' excellent UI
That is ceasing to be true. iTunes is an awful mess now. They keep cramming in things, making iTunes more and more unweildy.
Just look at the Autofill stuff they added for the shuffle. It's ugly!
2 oz gin + dash vermouth.
Olive.
Glass.
Might as well ask google how to make ice water.
XBox accessories are in short supply in the US as well.
I looked everywhere for an xbox live headset. Every Circuit City and Best Buy (and Gamestop and EBGames) was sold out in the city of tucson.
Gamestop was selling those crappy 3rd party "Halo2" branded headsets, but everyone else was out of everything.
I ended up having to buy the thing on circuit city's website (bestbuy's website says they're backordered).
I don't need to install all kinds of software, upgrade drivers and put on millions of security updates?
That's a lie. Panther needs 40 megs of patches after first install (and a reboot). Jaguar needs to download over 100 megs.
I cringe whenever that software update icon starts jumping like a 5 year-old looking for attention. It's rare that even the smallest OSX update doesn't require a reboot.
Of course, for web and application development, OS X definitely blows everything else away.
Only if you use firefox instead of safari.
Safari is horrible for web development. It caches everything, it can't debug javascript at all, and the entire browser locks up while it's building connections in other tabs.
As for me, I've used Mac OS X for years and have never yet found a use for the "Services" menu. But I guess I'll keep trying...
Hehe, I just checked the Services menu, and every option was greyed out. I saw some options like "Start Speaking Text" so went back to firefox, hilighted some text... nope! Still greyed out.
Eventually, however, some statisticians did the math and found that there was no such effect at play -- in a completely random system, such "blobs" of like colors are inevitable.
Um.. considering there are only two colors, it doesn't take a statistician to tell you that there are going to be candies of the same color next to each other.
Unless you mixed the candies into a checkerboard pattern... which isn't random at all, now is it?
Those of you that think that sounds completely plausable, please step to the left.
Look up the word "payola" if you think that record execs wouldn't do this.
It doesn't need to be in the shuffle. It could be part of the AutoFill in iTunes.
Do I think it's really happening? Not really. Do I think it's plausible? Yeah... experience with radio tells me that record companies would do this if Apple let them.. and who is Apple to turn down money?
take 'if (!ptr)' instead of 'if (ptr==NULL)'
Once again, C# wouldn't allow the first, only the second. That's because you cannot implicitly cast things to boolean.
it also won't let you screw up the second and say if (ptr=NULL) on accident.
None had support for my Canon scanner, which I realize is Canon's fault. But don't tell me I need to buy a new scanner to be able to migrate to Linux.
Why not? Microsoft told me I need to buy a new scanner to migrate to 2000 and XP. XP and 2k don't support my Microtek Slimscan USB scanner. There are some user-made hacked together drivers that hang my system.. and that's about it.
Works under linux, however.
Look at your netflix history and tell me how long it takes them to retrun a movie? How many do you get on an average month?
It's still rather quick. So far in february, I've gotten 17 movies. I'm due for another one on friday.
Over the past 5 months, I've averaged 16 movies a month.
I almost always get the movie the day before netflix predicts it will arrive. I've never gotten a movie *after* their prediction.. but sometimes I do get it right on the prediction.
I only live 120 miles away from the nearest netflix hub though.
Apple continues to make MacOS X Server more and more robust, and if they could reduce the price on the XServes, then for many environments why not run MacOS X?
Because the Darwin kernel has pisspoor I/O. Which makes for a slow server.
There is no way your 246 compiles that fast. How can that be?
Easy.. caching. He compiled it at least twice in a row. I bet if he did a clean boot it would take a lot longer.