Also, there's a difference between M$ providing software that defaults (and only provides access to) their own search engine, and Mozilla using Google as the default search.
Mozilla and Google may be partnered in a way, but they're not the same company. If Google made a web browser and it defaulted to Google search (or if Firefox defaulted to a new MozillaSearch function), then I would feel more troubled.
Although, I do agree, that if IE7 simply offered [easily changeable] choices for search, I'd see no reason to cause a fuss.
Bonjour is also more than just named machines on a CIFS/samba network, too.
for those that don't know, bonjour enables a machine to not only broadcast a DNS name for itself ("hey everyone, I'm alberto.local!), but it also the services it offers ("hey, I do ftp, http, and jabber!").
When it first became available I was pretty vocal about how I could get the same thing done with host files... but as I've gotten older and the number of machines on my network have grown, it's become a lot easier to access the OSX machines without needing to know their IPs, and configuring the host files of my 4 linux servers is a pain in the ASS.
This is also available for linux, but I haven't gotten it working properly (or really tried, for that matter). I believe the packages are called Howl and mdnsResponder.
I'm not sure if you're referring to DCLinux or the schematic.
DCLinux was cake. At the time I was only mildly experienced with linux and I managed to get the thing running with no issues whatsoever....although the only thing I ever did with it was play asteroids and the doom clone that was on there (prboom?).
if you're referring to the schematic, then yeah. I agree with you.
the broadband adapter IS significant if you're going to use the machine as a lightweight linux server. There's also schematics available for an IDE/Ethernet bridge for the ISA port.
The graphics shouldn't stretch. Quake3 doesn't have widescreen support, per se. When I play Quake3 on my Dell FPW2005 or on my Powerbook, it puts black bars at the sides. it doesn't stretch and distort the view.
It's a matter of properly programming the video code to compensate for strange resolutions....spike
No tech will repair somethign that's intermittent that you can't reproduce in front of them unless it's a known problem.
I had issues with my titanium powerbook for about a year before I was finally able to get it fixed. it was a display issue that usually reared its ugly head during heavy usage. it took me forever to reproduce the problem, but I was able to do it by playing 2 DivX files, a DVD, running quake3 and tenebrae quake1 all at the same time. it would glitch out in about 4 seconds.
their answer was to replace the LCD (which had some dead pixels from being bumped too often), but when the problem still didn't go away, they replaced the logicboard. then the LCD, again. and finally, they realized it was bad RAM, which I got replaced and all was good.
so, you really need to reproduce the problem in front of them. for all they know, it's interference from something else at your place or you're lying or something.
I thought one of microsoft's main anti-linux FUD points was that if you use M$ technologies that you'll be protected against patent troubles like this...
It's going to take an innovative proposition. In five years are people really going to carry two devices? One device that is their communication device, one device that is music? There's going to be a lot of opportunities to get back in that game. We want to be in that game. Expect to see announcements from us in that area in the next 12 months.
But the market is already doing this. Apple is already in on this. First with the ROKR phone (which was horrid) and now with the SLVR. In the near future, with holographic storage and other miniaturization, we'll be seeing phones with 30gb to 300gb+ capacity in no time.
He's saying to look for announcements in the next 12 months. I think in 12 months, the market is going to be vastly different from now. More phones will have mp3 playing features. higher capacities.
But I forgot. M$'s definition of "innovation" is to follow everyone else.;)
One of the main benefits of running a user content driven site is that you have to do minimal work. Basically, it's the ideal site for a developer. You keep the backend working and your users do all the work of creating the content and getting people to visit. You just sit there and let the ad revenue roll in.
Google's AdSense has made this method of doing sites MUCH more lucrative for everyone in that you don't have generic, blanket advertising for every user's space, and if you want targeted ads, you don't have to rely so heavily on the user selecting the proper catagory or fitting the category at all.
Also, in the future, it should be possible to google's advertising engine to detect the language of the page that the ads are being displayed on, so you shouldn't have as many restrictions for joining user-content driven sites. Currently, most web advertising companies require that the pages you display their ads on be in english.
Another reason that Google is helping out the user-driven sites is that their ads are so much targeted and actually catch the eye of visitors that are only posting on their friend's messageboard or blog.
PSP is fine for many things. If you're doing web stuff, it suffices, if not shines.
however, PSP is NOT a production application. it doesn't do CMYK. it doesn't do color separation. beyond that, I'm not even sure if it supports highres files or any color mode other than RGB.
I'm amazed. Only microsoft could buy a program that I used to run on my 120mhz Powermac in like 1997 that would have performance issues described by "Microsoft has recommended relatively high system specifications for Acrylic, saying consumers should preferably run the software on an Intel Pentium 4 machine, with Windows XP Service Pack 2, 512MB of memory..."
Expression was neat at the time, but the stylus illustrator plugin improved on it and illustrator 9 or 10 blew it out of the water.
Also, I really see this "Photoshop Killer" being Paint Shop Pro on steroids. I honestly can't see microsoft competing in the pro market at all. The only competing they do is when we get the do-it-yourselfers sending us M$ Publisher files or Powerpoint files that are to be used for output; which results in us needing to rebuild their files from the elements, if possible. or just do a complete re-create.
Really think about what happens when there is a massive emergency: "All circuts are currently busy, please try again"... thats right phone service goes right out the window, special magical paint or not.
I'm really mostly talking about small-scale emergencies, which is what I'm talking about.
People lived through emergencies of all kinds before there were cell phones, or any sort of phones at all.
also, sure, people survived for thousands of years without modern medicine. But if something happens where you need to make a call, then what?
Let's say you're at some event in an auditorium and some asshole pulls a knife and stabs someone in the neck and everyone runs out in a panic. So you're sitting there, holding your buddy, pressing a piece of your torn tee shirt to his jugular... you're not gonna leave him to go find a phone when you've got a perfectly good cell phone on you. oh. and oops, the guy in charge of activating/deactivating the paint is sleeping on the job. your cell is no good. hopefully someone is coming to help.
Cell phones have no bussiness inside a theater where people paid to see a show. There is NOTHING to preclude people from walking out to the lobby every 10 minutes to check for a missed call if it is that important for them.
I'm not disagreeing with you, there. that's why we have these great announcements before said shows reminding you to turn off your cell. for the most part 99% of people seem to set their phones to silent or turn them off. I can't remember the last time I heard someone's cell go off at a movie or musical or whatever.
I'm not a fan of being forced into being polite. I'm not a fan of being forced into doing anything. Courtesy is a choice and it isn't anyone's place but the individual's when it comes to that.
But what happens when there's a disaster (earthquake, hurricane, explosion, etc) and people get trapped in said facility? Or there's an emergency, like someone breaking their arm or having a heartattack?
How do you call for help? How do you let people know you're in there?
Blocking a means of emergency communications should be illegal. Especially with something that can't be turned off.
Sure, cell phones are a disturbance and a distraction, but they're not a danger to society or anything close to being an epidemic.
I don't hear any claims that school is a "danger to teens". It's time we stopped blaming technology for merely giving people opportunities to show their moral fibre.
I disagree. School is more private. Myspace is a danger to anyone who would make a good target to anyone. I mean, sure, the internet in general puts everyone at risk, but myspace is a very concentrated source on information for specific targets.
I've posted in the past about possible scenarios ranging from seeing "Michelle" working at the local BurgerKing and being able to find out her interests as a potential foot in the door for meeting (meating) her. however, I've realized some additional threats.
perfect example:
itunes' billionth song contest. They announce the winner's name and location. Go on myspace. search for that person's name. 3 come up. one is in that location. wow. I now know the kid's age and what he looks like as well as a couple of his friends. You also know where the kid goes to school. you know his interests. mmmmm $10,000 itunes gift certificate and 10 60GB ipods. hmmmmmmmm.......
myspace is really cool. I use it to get chicks. but I really think they could do more to prevent possible problems. one idea is to not allow minors to be searched by name. if they want their friends to find them, have them use the myspace.com/$USERNAME URL. they should also require profiles owned by minors to be private. and also put in BIG BOLD LETTERS information on how they can protect themselves when setting up their profile. there should be more warnings as the user is younger and no warnings once they're over 20.
Right, but my point was that if I had a White Supremacist Klan (ok, we welcome non-whites too, but only if you acknowledge that whites are the supreme race. even over the undead and the orcs), that wouldn't be tolerated.
Not only would it not be tolerated outside of WoW, but the Klan would be harassed by anyone with a brain.
Harassment, whether deserved or not, is still harassment, and Blizzard is trying to prevent that in every way they can.
not to mention the over-the-top harassment that said 13 year olds will dump on the GLBT-friendliness. They'll only see it as a clan of "fags" and other types of "queers"
So they can setup a policy that every avatar has to look like a naked 11 year old and it is perfectly legal? Of course not. They have to abide by laws, if they are behind closed doors or not
well... you've gotta look at it from Blizzard's angle. They're trying to keep a friendly environment. They're not trying to silence GLBTs because they're GLBTs. I'm sure that any clan that's based on personal qualities that may cause friction with other players would be shot down in WoW's play world.
Hell, starting a white-only klan is perfectly within my rights. it's perfectly legal. but Blizzard would silence me, and I'd be hated by the world if I threatened them with legal action.
I hate how certain groups (feminists, GLBTs, minorities, etc) scream that they want equal rights, yet complain loudly when they're not given greater rights than the majority. Look at Oprah with that whole racism thing. Look at how women were complaining in the military when they are forced to do the same things (carry heavy objects, etc) as the male soldiers.
The whole thing is stupid. Everyone should have equal rights to do things (however, everyone is not created equal).
It's not like FireWire 800 drive is suddenly going to stop working.
If I get the 800 enclosure, it's kinda a waste of money if my next machine doesn't support it. or if I can't swap it to a new powerbook (which I've been eyeing up for the last year), then I don't see the point. I should just pick up an SATA and pop it inside my tower.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone lament the lack of a floppy drive on the new Macs as well.
everyone I know who was using a mac at the time that happened was already done using floppies. I hadn't used floppies since I had gotten my Zip drive and a CD burner, and when apple finally stopped shipping macs with floppies, I didn't even miss it. I was shocked at the time, but it didn't affect me beyond that.
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Also, there's a difference between M$ providing software that defaults (and only provides access to) their own search engine, and Mozilla using Google as the default search.
Mozilla and Google may be partnered in a way, but they're not the same company. If Google made a web browser and it defaulted to Google search (or if Firefox defaulted to a new MozillaSearch function), then I would feel more troubled.
Although, I do agree, that if IE7 simply offered [easily changeable] choices for search, I'd see no reason to cause a fuss.
the 15" is actually 100$ more expensive.
...spike
And the 17" has a better burner and more ports.
the 15" doesn't look like such a hot deal, anymore.
I just hope the 12" has a backlit keyboard and a decent screen (unlike the G4 12").
Bonjour is also more than just named machines on a CIFS/samba network, too.
for those that don't know, bonjour enables a machine to not only broadcast a DNS name for itself ("hey everyone, I'm alberto.local!), but it also the services it offers ("hey, I do ftp, http, and jabber!").
When it first became available I was pretty vocal about how I could get the same thing done with host files... but as I've gotten older and the number of machines on my network have grown, it's become a lot easier to access the OSX machines without needing to know their IPs, and configuring the host files of my 4 linux servers is a pain in the ASS.
This is also available for linux, but I haven't gotten it working properly (or really tried, for that matter). I believe the packages are called Howl and mdnsResponder.
I'm not sure if you're referring to DCLinux or the schematic.
...although the only thing I ever did with it was play asteroids and the doom clone that was on there (prboom?).
DCLinux was cake. At the time I was only mildly experienced with linux and I managed to get the thing running with no issues whatsoever.
if you're referring to the schematic, then yeah. I agree with you.
the broadband adapter IS significant if you're going to use the machine as a lightweight linux server. There's also schematics available for an IDE/Ethernet bridge for the ISA port.
links:
http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/
http://dreamcast.fuzzymuzzle.com/dc-ide.htm
The graphics shouldn't stretch. Quake3 doesn't have widescreen support, per se. When I play Quake3 on my Dell FPW2005 or on my Powerbook, it puts black bars at the sides. it doesn't stretch and distort the view.
...spike
It's a matter of properly programming the video code to compensate for strange resolutions.
yeah, like I said. my problem went on for a year before I was finally able to reproduce it for the tech. my problem was this intermittent thing, too.
No tech will repair somethign that's intermittent that you can't reproduce in front of them unless it's a known problem.
I had issues with my titanium powerbook for about a year before I was finally able to get it fixed. it was a display issue that usually reared its ugly head during heavy usage. it took me forever to reproduce the problem, but I was able to do it by playing 2 DivX files, a DVD, running quake3 and tenebrae quake1 all at the same time. it would glitch out in about 4 seconds.
their answer was to replace the LCD (which had some dead pixels from being bumped too often), but when the problem still didn't go away, they replaced the logicboard. then the LCD, again. and finally, they realized it was bad RAM, which I got replaced and all was good.
so, you really need to reproduce the problem in front of them. for all they know, it's interference from something else at your place or you're lying or something.
OMG GOOGLE ROMANCE conical-penis-with-balls, conical-penis-with-balls, conical-penis-with-balls
those are actually ass-cream cones.
I thought one of microsoft's main anti-linux FUD points was that if you use M$ technologies that you'll be protected against patent troubles like this...
wtf happened?
Think you can you crack the iPod market?
;)
It's going to take an innovative proposition. In five years are people really going to carry two devices? One device that is their communication device, one device that is music? There's going to be a lot of opportunities to get back in that game. We want to be in that game. Expect to see announcements from us in that area in the next 12 months.
But the market is already doing this. Apple is already in on this. First with the ROKR phone (which was horrid) and now with the SLVR. In the near future, with holographic storage and other miniaturization, we'll be seeing phones with 30gb to 300gb+ capacity in no time.
He's saying to look for announcements in the next 12 months. I think in 12 months, the market is going to be vastly different from now. More phones will have mp3 playing features. higher capacities.
But I forgot. M$'s definition of "innovation" is to follow everyone else.
One of the main benefits of running a user content driven site is that you have to do minimal work. Basically, it's the ideal site for a developer. You keep the backend working and your users do all the work of creating the content and getting people to visit. You just sit there and let the ad revenue roll in.
Google's AdSense has made this method of doing sites MUCH more lucrative for everyone in that you don't have generic, blanket advertising for every user's space, and if you want targeted ads, you don't have to rely so heavily on the user selecting the proper catagory or fitting the category at all.
Also, in the future, it should be possible to google's advertising engine to detect the language of the page that the ads are being displayed on, so you shouldn't have as many restrictions for joining user-content driven sites. Currently, most web advertising companies require that the pages you display their ads on be in english.
Another reason that Google is helping out the user-driven sites is that their ads are so much targeted and actually catch the eye of visitors that are only posting on their friend's messageboard or blog.
PSP is fine for many things. If you're doing web stuff, it suffices, if not shines.
however, PSP is NOT a production application. it doesn't do CMYK. it doesn't do color separation. beyond that, I'm not even sure if it supports highres files or any color mode other than RGB.
That's hilarious that they had this to say:
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.
about the muslim who attempted to build a flying machine.
I'm amazed. Only microsoft could buy a program that I used to run on my 120mhz Powermac in like 1997 that would have performance issues described by "Microsoft has recommended relatively high system specifications for Acrylic, saying consumers should preferably run the software on an Intel Pentium 4 machine, with Windows XP Service Pack 2, 512MB of memory..."
Expression was neat at the time, but the stylus illustrator plugin improved on it and illustrator 9 or 10 blew it out of the water.
Also, I really see this "Photoshop Killer" being Paint Shop Pro on steroids. I honestly can't see microsoft competing in the pro market at all. The only competing they do is when we get the do-it-yourselfers sending us M$ Publisher files or Powerpoint files that are to be used for output; which results in us needing to rebuild their files from the elements, if possible. or just do a complete re-create.
all I can say is 'ugh.'
Really think about what happens when there is a massive emergency: "All circuts are currently busy, please try again"... thats right phone service goes right out the window, special magical paint or not.
I'm really mostly talking about small-scale emergencies, which is what I'm talking about.
People lived through emergencies of all kinds before there were cell phones, or any sort of phones at all.
also, sure, people survived for thousands of years without modern medicine. But if something happens where you need to make a call, then what?
Let's say you're at some event in an auditorium and some asshole pulls a knife and stabs someone in the neck and everyone runs out in a panic. So you're sitting there, holding your buddy, pressing a piece of your torn tee shirt to his jugular... you're not gonna leave him to go find a phone when you've got a perfectly good cell phone on you. oh. and oops, the guy in charge of activating/deactivating the paint is sleeping on the job. your cell is no good. hopefully someone is coming to help.
Cell phones have no bussiness inside a theater where people paid to see a show. There is NOTHING to preclude people from walking out to the lobby every 10 minutes to check for a missed call if it is that important for them.
I'm not disagreeing with you, there. that's why we have these great announcements before said shows reminding you to turn off your cell. for the most part 99% of people seem to set their phones to silent or turn them off. I can't remember the last time I heard someone's cell go off at a movie or musical or whatever.
I'm not a fan of being forced into being polite. I'm not a fan of being forced into doing anything. Courtesy is a choice and it isn't anyone's place but the individual's when it comes to that.
But what happens when there's a disaster (earthquake, hurricane, explosion, etc) and people get trapped in said facility? Or there's an emergency, like someone breaking their arm or having a heartattack?
How do you call for help? How do you let people know you're in there?
Blocking a means of emergency communications should be illegal. Especially with something that can't be turned off.
Sure, cell phones are a disturbance and a distraction, but they're not a danger to society or anything close to being an epidemic.
How do you propose to verify age?
you do fill your age out when you create your profile. (although there ARE a lot of 99 year olds that look 16).
perhaps have a "real age" thing and a "public age" thing? I dunno.
I'm not saying to verify age the same way you would on a pr0n site. but just for people who fill out their shit as being so young.
I don't hear any claims that school is a "danger to teens". It's time we stopped blaming technology for merely giving people opportunities to show their moral fibre.
I disagree. School is more private. Myspace is a danger to anyone who would make a good target to anyone. I mean, sure, the internet in general puts everyone at risk, but myspace is a very concentrated source on information for specific targets.
I've posted in the past about possible scenarios ranging from seeing "Michelle" working at the local BurgerKing and being able to find out her interests as a potential foot in the door for meeting (meating) her. however, I've realized some additional threats.
perfect example:
itunes' billionth song contest. They announce the winner's name and location. Go on myspace. search for that person's name. 3 come up. one is in that location. wow. I now know the kid's age and what he looks like as well as a couple of his friends. You also know where the kid goes to school. you know his interests. mmmmm $10,000 itunes gift certificate and 10 60GB ipods. hmmmmmmmm.......
myspace is really cool. I use it to get chicks. but I really think they could do more to prevent possible problems. one idea is to not allow minors to be searched by name. if they want their friends to find them, have them use the myspace.com/$USERNAME URL. they should also require profiles owned by minors to be private. and also put in BIG BOLD LETTERS information on how they can protect themselves when setting up their profile. there should be more warnings as the user is younger and no warnings once they're over 20.
that's my take.
the kid actually has hot [chick] friends. he's got a myspace page.
another reason that I think myspace is evil.
actaully, Quake3 came out in either 1999 or 2000... the Test was open in 1999, and I was playing it the summer before I went to college, so yeah. =)
Right, but my point was that if I had a White Supremacist Klan (ok, we welcome non-whites too, but only if you acknowledge that whites are the supreme race. even over the undead and the orcs), that wouldn't be tolerated.
Not only would it not be tolerated outside of WoW, but the Klan would be harassed by anyone with a brain.
Harassment, whether deserved or not, is still harassment, and Blizzard is trying to prevent that in every way they can.
not to mention the over-the-top harassment that said 13 year olds will dump on the GLBT-friendliness. They'll only see it as a clan of "fags" and other types of "queers"
So they can setup a policy that every avatar has to look like a naked 11 year old and it is perfectly legal? Of course not. They have to abide by laws, if they are behind closed doors or not
well... you've gotta look at it from Blizzard's angle. They're trying to keep a friendly environment. They're not trying to silence GLBTs because they're GLBTs. I'm sure that any clan that's based on personal qualities that may cause friction with other players would be shot down in WoW's play world.
Hell, starting a white-only klan is perfectly within my rights. it's perfectly legal. but Blizzard would silence me, and I'd be hated by the world if I threatened them with legal action.
I hate how certain groups (feminists, GLBTs, minorities, etc) scream that they want equal rights, yet complain loudly when they're not given greater rights than the majority. Look at Oprah with that whole racism thing. Look at how women were complaining in the military when they are forced to do the same things (carry heavy objects, etc) as the male soldiers.
The whole thing is stupid. Everyone should have equal rights to do things (however, everyone is not created equal).
People need common sense.
The exploit won't be cross platform, but the vulnerability sure can be.
actually with proper coding a Universal binary, the exploit could be cross platform.
although, it would be a pain in the ass to create a script to generate the proper NOP sled and shellcode that would work on both architectures.
Since it appears that the vulnerabilities he's describing require user intervention, I guess a universal binary could be used. hmmmm....
it would be interesting if Rosetta had vulnerabilities where it would allow privilege escalation on malformed code.
It's not like FireWire 800 drive is suddenly going to stop working.
If I get the 800 enclosure, it's kinda a waste of money if my next machine doesn't support it. or if I can't swap it to a new powerbook (which I've been eyeing up for the last year), then I don't see the point. I should just pick up an SATA and pop it inside my tower.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone lament the lack of a floppy drive on the new Macs as well.
everyone I know who was using a mac at the time that happened was already done using floppies. I hadn't used floppies since I had gotten my Zip drive and a CD burner, and when apple finally stopped shipping macs with floppies, I didn't even miss it. I was shocked at the time, but it didn't affect me beyond that.