Because an anthropomorphic bomb is so much more informative.
You mean that bomb that went away what, seven or eight years ago with OS9?
Yes, "Home" and "Business" are such enigmatic choices.
Never mind they come in several flavours each and there's also "Ultimate".
You are actually asserting that nobody ever had to upgrade a mac in order to use the latest operating system?
Because it's correct. I'm running OSX 10.5 on a eight years old unmodified PowerMac G4 which was bought when OSX didn't even exist as a product. You can't install OSX 10.5 on G3-based machines, but try to install Vista or XP on a Pentium I which was state of the art when the G3 machines came out.
You know, I wish all those ignorant merkins would stop whining about $4/gallon when all of Europe already pays $9.70 per gallon, and that *still* doesn't cover the monetary damage done to the environment. From a German's perspective, your fuel prices are fscking heaven. If the USD keeps dropping like a rock (and I see no reason why it should stop), we'll be at $10+/gallon in a matter of days to weeks.
What are you doing once you hit $10/gallon, invade some oil-producing country?;) (SCNR.)
The positive effect of those high fuel prices is that people actually started buying smaller cars and reducing unnecessary driving around. That's a move in the right direction.
BTW, there are experts saying that we might hit $11/gallon this year. We are approaching the point where people can't afford driving to work. That will prove interesting, in a bad way.
In general, it would be OK, but Twitter having performance problems is something I just can't understand at all.
I mean, look at it. What does it do that couldn't be scaled by putting up web site load balancing, a DB cluster, and some clever caching?
I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely interested. Someone please enlighten me. I'm building web applications for almost ten years now and have no idea how they manage to perform so badly. And no, "RoR doesn't scale, n00b!" does not count. There are quite some examples of complex RoR sites that perform well in spite of heavy traffic (see Xing and Multiply among others).
Word is known for fucking up larger documents literally for decades.;)
I was talking about Macs, too - I've used XPress since version 3.3 (on Mac OS 7.5.something), and the problem was always the same: Quitting XPress with unsaved documents will ask "Save?", do so, and corrupt the files in the process. Saving the documents beforehand solves the problem. Then again, sometimes loading certain images into an XPress layout will corrupt the file on save, sometimes even updating images will lead to that. What can I say - there's a reason Quark lost their monopoly position. Actually, there's lots of reasons, namely XPress 4, XPress 5, and XPress 6. XPress 7 seems to be better, but it's too little, too late.
Oh, and XPress 6 regularly throws a "Application died unexpectedly" error in the OS when being quit. I usually comment that as "well, it's not as unexpected to ME" and click ignore. And the Quark Licensing Server will go to 100% CPU regularly so that I've set up a cron job to restart it once every 15 minutes because otherwise it will be unresponsive, resulting in my users not being able to fsking WORK.
Quark sucks, and it lead to them losing their monopoly. I have good hopes that we will see that with Microsoft in a few years, too. If they tank Windows 7 like they did with Vista, there will be a LOT of damage done.
Yes, we're running about 15 installations of CS3 Suite Premium, both on OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.5. No Windows here, I'm sorry. (No, actually I'm rather glad.)
Apart from the fact that updating those doesn't work about half of the time, FUBARs the complete installation every time on some machines but not others (with both machines having identical hardware and booting off the same base image) and non-working virtual PDF printers on 10.5, they work reliably. Dreamweaver CS3 fucks up when using Spaces (obviously the palettes and document windows are different animals, leading to some funny effects when switching spaces with Dreamweaver active in the foreground), but that about is it. And as Windows doesn't have anything like Spaces, that won't be an issue.;)
Quark XPress, the former de facto standard in DTP software, regularly had and has corrupted files. But that's no wonder - they're really worse than Microsoft in about every aspect. They were a monopolist, delivered (and still deliver) a crappy product with lots of bugs and are arrogant as hell. They won't even *talk* to you about giving out the file format specs, even if you tell them "here's the checkbook, how much do you want?"
Nowadays almost everything we get is Adobe InDesign, but Adobe's not much better, also in almost every aspect. Installation-corrupting auto-update anyone? Legit-license-disabling DRM anyone? Go Adobe, go. You're the champion. Oh, and it would be nice if we could get working PDF printers in 10.5. It's not as if it weren't out for a while now or as if the 10.5 release had been a sudden surprise.
I know a bunch of people that completely refuse to use Leopard. They have the first version MacBooks, where Tiger runs faster than Leopard. They completely hate the visual effects on Leopard. You know, I'm typing this from a recent MBP, but I have an ages-old G4 1,25 GHz with a mere 768 MB RAM at home, both running 10.5.3. Actually I have no idea what those people you know are talking about. What "visual effects"? They can't possibly mean the transparent menu bar which can be turned back to solid or Spaces, which are disabled by default (but are too great to miss out!).
As for performance - my G4 has half the horsepower than the abovementioned MacBooks, and it runs 10.5 just fine, without any noticeable delays or slowdowns, even with all thumbnail-generating, background-indexing etc. turned on, *and* Time Machine running in the background.
Spaces and Time Machine alone would be reason enough to run 10.5. Spaces really boost productivity, and Spaces + Exposé make people want to cry when I show it to them. We're mainly on Macs, and everybody who has seen 10.5 wanted to upgrade immediately. So either the people you quote are imaginary (which is what I guess), or they're boneheads.
Anyway, I would advise not listening to them (or me, actually) and instead having a look at 10.5 yourself. It's pretty amazing, even on old hardware.
(Oh, and of course there were problems with the migration from 10.4 to 10.5 - as usual, Adobe didn't get their shit together and even after several updates (from Adobe, mind you!) some things don't work correctly (such as the Adobe PDF printers), but that's hardly Apple's fault.)
SPF doesn't do the same thing at all. It relies on the receiver MTA to do something about the non-matching SPF records I'm not talking about a remote receiver, I'm talking about bounces. SPF, at least the way it's implemented here, includes a custom header in outbound messages which our mail scanner recognizes when bounces arrive. Frankly I thought that was the standard way of implementing it, but considering your and especially nuzak's posting, I stand corrected.
That said, after being sick and tired with the subject and the rising amount of work involved, I bought the "ESG service" (E-Mail Scanning Gateway) from our ISP for a few bucks a month and be done with it. With it comes antivirus (infected mail never hits my mail server because it's filtered at the gateway), SPF, and a chain of several different anti-spam tools. I've never looked back.
Unless you like playing around with your user's machines a lot, you should better implement that at the MTA level and configure your mail server(s) so that they include the header.
Or you could just use SPF, which basically does the same thing, only more elegantly.
Clearly, something is wrong with this chain of thinking. Can you figure out what it is? Yes, I can. When I've seen both envelopes, I don't have to calculate the odds to know whether to switch back to the first envelope.;)
It is entirely possible that I misremember the artist. Her site is blocked from work, I will have to check when I get home. Please do, I'm always interested in new, insightful music. If you only remembered it, it could well be that it was someone else - I googled "i am god site:hersitedontremember" and came up with nothing.
The quote was largely mentioned as a joke. (yes, a lame one. for what is lamer that a joke without context? it is worse than a pun) Oh, I like puns big time. Just go ahead. And if you feel like dancing or getting naked, don't worry about me.;)
gives your victim just that little bit longer to realise that they're being conned There have been worms that came in encrypted zip files the user had to save and open using a password and still people did it.
If the user thinks it's something they want, they'll do anything. Hell, if people search google for hours to find out how to play the codec du jour they downloaded their moviez in, they'll jump through *any* hoops the instructions include, even if it were a 20-step "guide".
I have never heard of her, but I'm no merkin. Whatever you quote isn't in the lyrics section of her homepage, neither. If she, however, thinks that realizing the divine in oneself makes one an idiot, I'm not sure whether I want to hear what she's saying, because she's obvisously pretty ignorant in regard to religion and philosophy apart from Christian stuff then. I don't listen to creationists much, neither. Fortunately we don't have many of those nuts over here.
God made them to suffer, so only God can make it stop Funnily, if you replace "God" with "you yourself", you get what Buddha taught, and those teachings don't require me to believe in invisible beings at whose mercy I am.
That said, NEVER install hardware drivers from Windows Update. I have *never ever* seen this option working, not even for the most common of on-board sound or NIC. Frankly I've thought it was an alibi "feature" which just sent a packet to NIL so that it looks as if it looked up drivers and that pretty much was it... so I've not ever seen it actually finding drivers. What kind of drivers are on MS Update?
One of the things I've tried to get across in the article was how much people were impressed by her before she got married to Bill," he says." Well, I'd say that isn't of any value. Most people are actually easy to impress.
I can't find it anymore, but I read a study on fingerprints that essentially said that they are not viable evidence at all, because even though the fingerprints themselves might differ, the way of describing them was deficient so that lots of people end up with "identical" fingerprints. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember calculating that in my 650,000 people home town there were a three-digit number of people with fingerprints "identical" to mine.
Dammit, I really can't remember even the title. If someone has a link, please post it. If I *ever* get into a trial where fingerprints are used as evidence, I'd like to have a copy of that document for my lawyer.
I don't want to discuss the patent itself, but the notion in the summary that if would prevent standardisation if the patent were granted.
Because, you know, just because someone has a patent to a way of interacting with a computer doesn't mean everybody else has to find different ways. I'm sure the keyboard is patented, as is using a mouse.
If Apple would get said patent and provide a set of gestures that gets widespread enough to be considered standard, I'm sure Apple would like the extra cash that licensing the gestures would put into their pockets.
So if you're wondering who tagged the story 'justfuckinglicenseit', that was me.
Because, I'm sick and tired of the industry finding excuses for being unable to put together standards nowadays.
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some of the song lyrics are racist and at least one of them is x-rated
What am I supposed to do with this information? WTF?
I need a complete list with links, or better yet a torrent, so I can download them all at once and play them to my MIL.
Yup. And I remember how I was amazed by the blazing speed of those G3's. Heh.
Because an anthropomorphic bomb is so much more informative.
You mean that bomb that went away what, seven or eight years ago with OS9?
Yes, "Home" and "Business" are such enigmatic choices.
Never mind they come in several flavours each and there's also "Ultimate".
You are actually asserting that nobody ever had to upgrade a mac in order to use the latest operating system?
Because it's correct. I'm running OSX 10.5 on a eight years old unmodified PowerMac G4 which was bought when OSX didn't even exist as a product. You can't install OSX 10.5 on G3-based machines, but try to install Vista or XP on a Pentium I which was state of the art when the G3 machines came out.
Insightful my ass, really.
gas at $4.00+ per gallon
You know, I wish all those ignorant merkins would stop whining about $4/gallon when all of Europe already pays $9.70 per gallon, and that *still* doesn't cover the monetary damage done to the environment. From a German's perspective, your fuel prices are fscking heaven. If the USD keeps dropping like a rock (and I see no reason why it should stop), we'll be at $10+/gallon in a matter of days to weeks.
What are you doing once you hit $10/gallon, invade some oil-producing country? ;) (SCNR.)
The positive effect of those high fuel prices is that people actually started buying smaller cars and reducing unnecessary driving around. That's a move in the right direction.
BTW, there are experts saying that we might hit $11/gallon this year. We are approaching the point where people can't afford driving to work. That will prove interesting, in a bad way.
virtualization is not a solution to application compatibility
And the reasoning behind this was what exactly? (I assume you've asked him.)
And really, that's OK.
In general, it would be OK, but Twitter having performance problems is something I just can't understand at all.
I mean, look at it. What does it do that couldn't be scaled by putting up web site load balancing, a DB cluster, and some clever caching?
I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely interested. Someone please enlighten me. I'm building web applications for almost ten years now and have no idea how they manage to perform so badly. And no, "RoR doesn't scale, n00b!" does not count. There are quite some examples of complex RoR sites that perform well in spite of heavy traffic (see Xing and Multiply among others).
Word is known for fucking up larger documents literally for decades. ;)
I was talking about Macs, too - I've used XPress since version 3.3 (on Mac OS 7.5.something), and the problem was always the same: Quitting XPress with unsaved documents will ask "Save?", do so, and corrupt the files in the process. Saving the documents beforehand solves the problem. Then again, sometimes loading certain images into an XPress layout will corrupt the file on save, sometimes even updating images will lead to that. What can I say - there's a reason Quark lost their monopoly position. Actually, there's lots of reasons, namely XPress 4, XPress 5, and XPress 6. XPress 7 seems to be better, but it's too little, too late.
Oh, and XPress 6 regularly throws a "Application died unexpectedly" error in the OS when being quit. I usually comment that as "well, it's not as unexpected to ME" and click ignore. And the Quark Licensing Server will go to 100% CPU regularly so that I've set up a cron job to restart it once every 15 minutes because otherwise it will be unresponsive, resulting in my users not being able to fsking WORK.
Quark sucks, and it lead to them losing their monopoly. I have good hopes that we will see that with Microsoft in a few years, too. If they tank Windows 7 like they did with Vista, there will be a LOT of damage done.
Yes, we're running about 15 installations of CS3 Suite Premium, both on OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.5. No Windows here, I'm sorry. (No, actually I'm rather glad.)
Apart from the fact that updating those doesn't work about half of the time, FUBARs the complete installation every time on some machines but not others (with both machines having identical hardware and booting off the same base image) and non-working virtual PDF printers on 10.5, they work reliably. Dreamweaver CS3 fucks up when using Spaces (obviously the palettes and document windows are different animals, leading to some funny effects when switching spaces with Dreamweaver active in the foreground), but that about is it. And as Windows doesn't have anything like Spaces, that won't be an issue. ;)
Quark XPress, the former de facto standard in DTP software, regularly had and has corrupted files. But that's no wonder - they're really worse than Microsoft in about every aspect. They were a monopolist, delivered (and still deliver) a crappy product with lots of bugs and are arrogant as hell. They won't even *talk* to you about giving out the file format specs, even if you tell them "here's the checkbook, how much do you want?"
Nowadays almost everything we get is Adobe InDesign, but Adobe's not much better, also in almost every aspect. Installation-corrupting auto-update anyone? Legit-license-disabling DRM anyone? Go Adobe, go. You're the champion. Oh, and it would be nice if we could get working PDF printers in 10.5. It's not as if it weren't out for a while now or as if the 10.5 release had been a sudden surprise.
As for performance - my G4 has half the horsepower than the abovementioned MacBooks, and it runs 10.5 just fine, without any noticeable delays or slowdowns, even with all thumbnail-generating, background-indexing etc. turned on, *and* Time Machine running in the background.
Spaces and Time Machine alone would be reason enough to run 10.5. Spaces really boost productivity, and Spaces + Exposé make people want to cry when I show it to them. We're mainly on Macs, and everybody who has seen 10.5 wanted to upgrade immediately. So either the people you quote are imaginary (which is what I guess), or they're boneheads.
Anyway, I would advise not listening to them (or me, actually) and instead having a look at 10.5 yourself. It's pretty amazing, even on old hardware.
(Oh, and of course there were problems with the migration from 10.4 to 10.5 - as usual, Adobe didn't get their shit together and even after several updates (from Adobe, mind you!) some things don't work correctly (such as the Adobe PDF printers), but that's hardly Apple's fault.)
...but actually I think it's insightful. We keep getting such stupid mail, too, and I've done exactly what you suggest, with good results. ;)
...can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkdWkAs9qmo
It might not have occurred to you, but they might actually *like* their country. It might suck in several ways, but it's still their *home*.
That said, after being sick and tired with the subject and the rising amount of work involved, I bought the "ESG service" (E-Mail Scanning Gateway) from our ISP for a few bucks a month and be done with it. With it comes antivirus (infected mail never hits my mail server because it's filtered at the gateway), SPF, and a chain of several different anti-spam tools. I've never looked back.
Unless you like playing around with your user's machines a lot, you should better implement that at the MTA level and configure your mail server(s) so that they include the header.
Or you could just use SPF, which basically does the same thing, only more elegantly.
If the user thinks it's something they want, they'll do anything. Hell, if people search google for hours to find out how to play the codec du jour they downloaded their moviez in, they'll jump through *any* hoops the instructions include, even if it were a 20-step "guide".
I have never heard of her, but I'm no merkin. Whatever you quote isn't in the lyrics section of her homepage, neither. If she, however, thinks that realizing the divine in oneself makes one an idiot, I'm not sure whether I want to hear what she's saying, because she's obvisously pretty ignorant in regard to religion and philosophy apart from Christian stuff then. I don't listen to creationists much, neither. Fortunately we don't have many of those nuts over here.
But hey, to each his own I always say.
I can't find it anymore, but I read a study on fingerprints that essentially said that they are not viable evidence at all, because even though the fingerprints themselves might differ, the way of describing them was deficient so that lots of people end up with "identical" fingerprints. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember calculating that in my 650,000 people home town there were a three-digit number of people with fingerprints "identical" to mine.
Dammit, I really can't remember even the title. If someone has a link, please post it. If I *ever* get into a trial where fingerprints are used as evidence, I'd like to have a copy of that document for my lawyer.
I don't want to discuss the patent itself, but the notion in the summary that if would prevent standardisation if the patent were granted.
Because, you know, just because someone has a patent to a way of interacting with a computer doesn't mean everybody else has to find different ways. I'm sure the keyboard is patented, as is using a mouse.
If Apple would get said patent and provide a set of gestures that gets widespread enough to be considered standard, I'm sure Apple would like the extra cash that licensing the gestures would put into their pockets.
So if you're wondering who tagged the story 'justfuckinglicenseit', that was me.
Because, I'm sick and tired of the industry finding excuses for being unable to put together standards nowadays.
...and I'm not falling for this 2girls1cup shit *again*.