Except Sun and microsoft aren't talking about the cost of hardware being negligeable to them. They're talking about it being negligeable to the consumer. The whole free phone pay for service deal. You really think that phone you have only cost $20? No not at all, it cost a decent chunk of money, but they make that back in the service plan. But to you the cost is negligeable (for the hardware) as opposed to the cost of the service, so for all intents and purposes, the hardware was free.
Hmm, I think the mouse problem is a smaller (though still valid issue) than the different layout problem. Of all the left handed people I know (myself included) only one of them regularly mouses with his left hand, and that's because his right hand is disabled.
I suppose the best way to do this would be to set up keyboard mappers similar to what OS X does except in reverse, where isntead of changing the soft letter location it changes the soft command location.
So for example, if you were using the keyboard layouts in OS X, and you wanted to use dvorak, then despite what your keys said, where you what you typed would be the equivilent of using a dvorak keyboard.
This would just be another layout setting (another layer perhaps) and so you could map your command soft presses to any key on your keyboard. Define a standard of mod-c does copy and then have the users specify which key = c when holding down the mod key
Does this mean the program is about to get better or worse now that everyone can put their hands on the code, because last I used it shareazza was shitty as hell, and wouldn't let me turn off outgoing streams when I wanted to.
It's certainly not the only time in the next 4 years. Among other things, you'll have oportunities to elect (or re-elect) congress critters, as well as state and local politicians as well, which can all have an influence on this system.
The point is, this is the model that's being pushed. Consoles are already sold at a loss, and the money is made up in licensing and services. It's the same thing, just extending it further into the future. The cost of the box will be negligeable and the cost of the software and the upkeep will make up for it.
See EverQuest / SIMS online etc etc, the number of active users on these things isn't some anomoly. You're an exception. You don't buy these types of games, but you're also of the generation that has a use for MAME, that fully remembers the days of such games. These teenagers and 20 somethings you have such disdain for are the people that will be buying this stuff in the future. They are the consumers. So while you will be sitting happily playing MAME, you and your type of gamer will become more and more rare.
Well it isn't like companies aren't pushing for the glorified terminal setup. You buy games now that you can't play unless you pay your monthly subscription to the server. Microsoft has been pushing for the license not purchase system for a while. Sun may be off by a few years, but they may not be wrong.
Where as I can pay $50/month and pick up local and long distance, unlimited night and weekend, unlimited calling to other mobile phones, roll over minutes, 3 way calling, voice mail, and I get to take the phone anywhere and turn the damn thing off.
Er, the only reason it would want you Administrator password is if you tried to install APE to/Library/Frameworks or a module to/Library/Application Enhancers.
Both APE and the modules allow you to choose whether you install localy or for all users on the machine.
For every iPod story, there are roughly 15 comments complaing about lack of.ogg support, and I guarantee at most 2 of them have actualy requested it from Apple. The rest of the people are just looking for reasons to bitch.
I mean, really, anything that makes the computer, at any level, unstable is not worth using.
So can I take this to mean the only thing you're running on your computer is a hand coded BIOS that you have personaly coded to ensure that there is no possible way it could cause a crash?
I don't suppose those orders would have anything to do with things like network security and system security? I know it's a joke where microsoft is concerned, but introducing any untested system into a network, no matter how secure you think it is, is a liability.
Of course it was the weakest of reasons, but it was also the one that made the best headlines, ergo, it's the only thing the media, and consequently the politicians talked about.
As for the sarin gas shell, I suggest you do some research into sarin gas, that shell if properly used coud have caused quite a bit of mass carnage. Remember the tokyo attack was a small (on the order of ounces) sized attack. This would have been 4 litres.
Why don't you check how many UN resolutions Israel is in violation of - and we're not talking Security Council resolutions, these are resolutions about Israeli human rights violations that the ENTIRE WORLD voted for except the US. Are we going to invade them next? I doubt it.
Why make more enemies when we have enough to deal with already?
Sure, Saddam was a 'bad guy', but let's not forget we created him.
Irellevant, but don't you think that's reason enough for us to stop him too?
And if we're going to go after all the 'bad guys', there are many worse than Saddam we should start with.
And can you explain what military sense it makes to go after someone else when Iraq is taking pot shots at your planes? Futhermore, there's always "someone worse". If we had started with NK, it woud have been cries about Liberia, if we started in Liberia, it would have been cries about NK or some other country. But you have to start somewhere. And need I remind you that we started with Afganistan.
And yes, please show me a link between Saddam and terrorists.
You mean aside fromt the multi thousand dollar checks he's been cutting?
Further, Bush did lie about Saddam trying to buy plutonium from Africa - that happened over 20 years ago and the CIA knew it was unsuccessful.
So wait did it happen or not? If it did happen, doesn't that show that sadam has an interest in aquiring nuclear weapons? Isn't that the case that was made?
Iraq posed no imminent threat to the US Other than the planes he'd been shooting at.
Where are all these weapons that he was supposed to have been able to use to attack us?
We're still looking. It took the UN 12 years, give us 12. BTW, Sarin gas + mortar shell == WMD. And where there's smoke, 99% of the time, there's fire.
Nevermind that these are weapons that WE (the US) gave him because we didn't like the Iranians.
So wait, we gave him weapons, we know we did. And they haven't all been accounted for by the UN's admissions. And yet you somehow make the conclusion that this means he doesn't have them?
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Except Sun and microsoft aren't talking about the cost of hardware being negligeable to them. They're talking about it being negligeable to the consumer. The whole free phone pay for service deal. You really think that phone you have only cost $20? No not at all, it cost a decent chunk of money, but they make that back in the service plan. But to you the cost is negligeable (for the hardware) as opposed to the cost of the service, so for all intents and purposes, the hardware was free.
Hmm, I think the mouse problem is a smaller (though still valid issue) than the different layout problem. Of all the left handed people I know (myself included) only one of them regularly mouses with his left hand, and that's because his right hand is disabled.
I suppose the best way to do this would be to set up keyboard mappers similar to what OS X does except in reverse, where isntead of changing the soft letter location it changes the soft command location.
So for example, if you were using the keyboard layouts in OS X, and you wanted to use dvorak, then despite what your keys said, where you what you typed would be the equivilent of using a dvorak keyboard.
This would just be another layout setting (another layer perhaps) and so you could map your command soft presses to any key on your keyboard. Define a standard of mod-c does copy and then have the users specify which key = c when holding down the mod key
So we need a third application in the mix now?
And this is better because.........
Does this mean the program is about to get better or worse now that everyone can put their hands on the code, because last I used it shareazza was shitty as hell, and wouldn't let me turn off outgoing streams when I wanted to.
It's certainly not the only time in the next 4 years. Among other things, you'll have oportunities to elect (or re-elect) congress critters, as well as state and local politicians as well, which can all have an influence on this system.
The point is, this is the model that's being pushed. Consoles are already sold at a loss, and the money is made up in licensing and services. It's the same thing, just extending it further into the future. The cost of the box will be negligeable and the cost of the software and the upkeep will make up for it.
I didn't say it was a rip off, I said that's the model that many developers are pushing into the mainstream.
See EverQuest / SIMS online etc etc, the number of active users on these things isn't some anomoly. You're an exception. You don't buy these types of games, but you're also of the generation that has a use for MAME, that fully remembers the days of such games. These teenagers and 20 somethings you have such disdain for are the people that will be buying this stuff in the future. They are the consumers. So while you will be sitting happily playing MAME, you and your type of gamer will become more and more rare.
Well it isn't like companies aren't pushing for the glorified terminal setup. You buy games now that you can't play unless you pay your monthly subscription to the server. Microsoft has been pushing for the license not purchase system for a while. Sun may be off by a few years, but they may not be wrong.
$22/month for local service only.
Where as I can pay $50/month and pick up local and long distance, unlimited night and weekend, unlimited calling to other mobile phones, roll over minutes, 3 way calling, voice mail, and I get to take the phone anywhere and turn the damn thing off.
Well that was certainly a huge load of propaganda.
Not quite, becuase if it did do that right, it would have found my NTLDR file which went missing or reinstalled it. It did neither.
Er, the only reason it would want you Administrator password is if you tried to install APE to /Library/Frameworks or a module to /Library/Application Enhancers.
Both APE and the modules allow you to choose whether you install localy or for all users on the machine.
For every iPod story, there are roughly 15 comments complaing about lack of .ogg support, and I guarantee at most 2 of them have actualy requested it from Apple. The rest of the people are just looking for reasons to bitch.
So you run no plugins? No flash, no java? No frameworks at all?
I mean, really, anything that makes the computer, at any level, unstable is not worth using.
So can I take this to mean the only thing you're running on your computer is a hand coded BIOS that you have personaly coded to ensure that there is no possible way it could cause a crash?
Doesn't the meaning of the word "fashion" imply that a lot of people ought to be using Apple computers, rather than a miniscule fraction of users?
How many people do you see walking around in Armani suits, driving a ferrari and wearing rolex'?
Not to be an ass, but maybe you should have considered ripping into a more supported format?
See if you can find a copy of AOL 2.0 and try and find the adress bar.
That isn't the internet.
go to ~/Library/Application Enhancers
delete the file for the haxie you want gone.
I have to throw in another negative data point. It didn't seem to work here.
Are you sure, I just gave it a try and the first one worked.
I don't suppose those orders would have anything to do with things like network security and system security? I know it's a joke where microsoft is concerned, but introducing any untested system into a network, no matter how secure you think it is, is a liability.
Of course it was the weakest of reasons, but it was also the one that made the best headlines, ergo, it's the only thing the media, and consequently the politicians talked about.
As for the sarin gas shell, I suggest you do some research into sarin gas, that shell if properly used coud have caused quite a bit of mass carnage. Remember the tokyo attack was a small (on the order of ounces) sized attack. This would have been 4 litres.
Why don't you check how many UN resolutions Israel is in violation of - and we're not talking Security Council resolutions, these are resolutions about Israeli human rights violations that the ENTIRE WORLD voted for except the US. Are we going to invade them next? I doubt it.
Why make more enemies when we have enough to deal with already?
Sure, Saddam was a 'bad guy', but let's not forget we created him.
Irellevant, but don't you think that's reason enough for us to stop him too?
And if we're going to go after all the 'bad guys', there are many worse than Saddam we should start with.
And can you explain what military sense it makes to go after someone else when Iraq is taking pot shots at your planes? Futhermore, there's always "someone worse". If we had started with NK, it woud have been cries about Liberia, if we started in Liberia, it would have been cries about NK or some other country. But you have to start somewhere. And need I remind you that we started with Afganistan.
And yes, please show me a link between Saddam and terrorists.
You mean aside fromt the multi thousand dollar checks he's been cutting?
Further, Bush did lie about Saddam trying to buy plutonium from Africa - that happened over 20 years ago and the CIA knew it was unsuccessful.
So wait did it happen or not? If it did happen, doesn't that show that sadam has an interest in aquiring nuclear weapons? Isn't that the case that was made?
Iraq posed no imminent threat to the US Other than the planes he'd been shooting at.
Where are all these weapons that he was supposed to have been able to use to attack us?
We're still looking. It took the UN 12 years, give us 12. BTW, Sarin gas + mortar shell == WMD. And where there's smoke, 99% of the time, there's fire.
Nevermind that these are weapons that WE (the US) gave him because we didn't like the Iranians.
So wait, we gave him weapons, we know we did. And they haven't all been accounted for by the UN's admissions. And yet you somehow make the conclusion that this means he doesn't have them?