Confusion at best, FUD at worst. OS X has never required CD keys for home installation. The "Family Pack", which lets you install on up to five machines, has no CD keys, either. Apple has traditionally taken a "give the consumer the benefit of the doubt" view of their OS. There are no technical barriers preventing you from buying one copy of Tiger and installing it on a hundred machines, but Apple trusts you not to do so
As was mentioned above, however, OS X Server does require CD keys for installation.
First of all, "most reputable scientists" don't "believe in the abiogenic theory of oil". At best this is a fringe movement based on pseudoscience, with direct funding from the oil industry. It's likely nothing more than propaganda intended to confuse the issue and encourage people to keep consuming.
Second, even if it's true that oil is formed naturally and without the input of biological material, it's clearly not being generated at a rate even approaching our current level of consumption. Therefore, discussion of its origins is entirely academic.
The poor in this country, whom you so patronizingly label with quotation marks, are often obese because the cheapest foods are also the highest in fat and sugar while being lowest in actual nutritional content. But good job there on the attempt to imply that they're neither poor nor hardworking because they're obese.
I used a Logitech keyboard and mouse on my Mac for two years, and finally gave up on the hardware (which I loved) because LCC was such an atrocious piece of shit. Logitech basically gave no sign of caring about the Mac platform, either.
Words cannot describe the fury of a Mac user toward Logitech.
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What? Are you serious? I'm not a scholar on this topic by any means, but I'm pretty sure that Nintendo has been one of the toughest campaigners against emulation of any kind. I'm sure there will be all sorts of methods built into the new Nintendo system to prevent "misuse" of the flash memory, and I have no doubt that ROMs are one of the bigger possible "misuses".
Not all religions around today require proselytization and conversions. Judaism, for example, actively discourages conversion, and potential converts must study for an extended period of time before they are allowed to become Jewish. "Push the proselyte away with the one hand, and welcome him in with the other" is the clearest expression of this. Yet Judaism is one of the oldest, if not the oldest surviving religious tradition.
Other way around. A Rep was thought to have won, but they now now that a Dem actually did win.Many Dem votes (the ones included in a straight party ticket) had instead gone to the Libs.
I've been using GMX for years, and literally had no problems. Even when they switched to the all-German interface, I manage to make my way around (had a little German in high school). But I can't remember the last time I had a problem with it. Softhome also has similar decent service, but not quite as good, nor as reliable.
I think the MD format would be much more popular if their copyright fascism were't allowed to dictate the specs. I got a MD recorder a few years ago to make recordings of concerts, lessons, recitals, and such (I'm a music major), and while the quality is decent and the portability useful, getting the recordings off the player is impossible to do digitally. NetMD doesn't support digital uploading unless the tracks were originally digitally downloaded onto the player, using their shitty software, which of course doesn't come for Mac, and didn't even work when I tried it on my family's PC. I understand you're limited to 2x speed uploading anyway. But the only option for Mac users, and anyone wanting to transfer home-made recordings, is analog upload. I wish I had researched this more beforehand, because this is infuriating.
I think the MiniDisc format had great potential, but Sony's insistence on idiotic copyright meaures just make it way too inconvenient to gain wide acceptance. I use it mainly because (A) I already invested in it and (B) it's easy to cart around, but the format is so needlessly crippled as to be sad.
Ah, my bad. I had forgotten that SC patches take the form of a complete exectutable (due to the fact that the standalone patch usually takes so long to be available that just connecting to Bnet is much easier--that and I've been playing too much War3 lately). In that case, this is actually quite a clever solution. Has anyone tested it? Does it actually work?
Uh...sorry, but that's just not true. How exactly is this even supposed to work? If you have a PC-only disc (released months before there even EXISTED a Mac version), and install the PC binaries and support files on a PC, how is a Mac going to run that even when the files are copied over? Macs can't natively run PC binaries, and I'm sure that the PC installer spews files all over the place anyway. You at least need a copy of the original CD for Mac to get the thing installed.
So, no breakdown of how much is actually illegal, just "experts say." I wonder how much of "other files" is accounted for by bloated Microsoft critical updates, service releases and patches? How much is tasteful internet erotica? How about digital video of my daughter's college graduation sent to relatives?
None of that exists!! The Internet is only used for illegal purposes! Terrorists use it, and now these illegal downloaders! Maybe they're economic terrorists by ruining the profits of the movie studios?
Seriously though, this is reaching the point of sheer ludicrousness. How is it that these guys can spew this stuff constantly without even a modicum of a challenge? I know, I know, it's because they control the media too. This is getting sick.
I got burned by a similar bug with OS 8 on my Performa 6360. The most irritating thing was that calling Apple tech support resulted in them having me reformat my hard drive. Of course the problem showed up again a few days later, and after a few more calls it turned out that I needed a new version of the disk utility. Oh, and it turns out I had never needed to reformat in the first place. Thanks, guys. I've had pretty good luck with Apple's tech support, but this was defiintely a glaring exception. Luckily I was in seventh grade at the time and only lost a bunch of stupid stories about a piece of cheese who was a fighter pilot.
Then factor in the number of people voting who haven't actually seen the movie and...uh...who can say, because this is Internet voting, and over a highly ideological topic at that.
Personally I liked what the movie had to say, and I'm glad someone is actually saying it, but as a structural work of academic integrity, I wasn't impressed. It was essentially a two-hour news broadcast such as might be seen on CNN or Fox, but with a different slant. The sad fact seems to be that such things are necessary to get one's message out today, as nobody is interested in in-depth analysis and actual discussion anymore:-\
I have a Logitech keyboard as well, and one irritating thing is that unless you have Logitech's (absolutely shit) drivers installed, the key labeled Alt/Apple/Command actually acts as an option button, and the Start/Alt/Option acts as Command.
I think he means that there are viruses for PCs that send spam, pretending to be people in that PC's address book. He's in a lot of PC address books, and hence a lot of spam seems to come from him. Nowhere is the Mac at fault.
Word up, brother. I've not yet made it to an official Apple store, but there are three places in my area that sell Macs. One is this tiny little hole in the wall that looks like some guy's garage after an earthquake. There are random machines and empty boxes strewn about. The staff respond to questions with one-word answers. It's impossible to find anything, and you can't get any help. I gather their repair business is decent, but as a reseller, this does not make Apple look good. The other one has one or two gumdrop iMacs on a shelf in the back somwhere. The final one is our good friend CompUSA, where salesmen say things like "The Mac doesn't have enough RAM to run a two-button mouse, and anyway it uses a different format for the Internet so you can't talk to your friends." It has been like this for as long as I can remember. It was worse back when places like Sears were in on the deal, too.
It's not like Apple didn't give the resellers their chance. They've had their chance for twenty years, and most have consistently blown it. I'm surprised Apple put up with this shit for this long. I'm sure there are some friendly, helpful, well-organized places run by knowledgable individuals, and they have my sympathy, but I've certainly never been to one.
It looks like a dualie, so we're talking about an extra 160 MHz here rather than 80, but still...
To me, the real value in this article is not his personal account of squeezing that relatively pitiful extra performance from the thing, but the chart detailing how to nearly double the processor speed. Of course that would be ridiculously impossible to achieve, but the point is that it makes it clear enough how to be more adventurous than this guy.
I suppose now that you bring it up, 1.25 Ghz isn't too shabby, but also remember that the iMacs don't have nearly as much L2 cache (and no L3 at all), and the graphics card is weaker (and non-upgradeable). I know it doesn't seem like much, but I can tell you from personal experience that the difference is noticeable, even when compared to a 1.25 Ghz G4 tower. And the G5 tower is just unbelievably fast--I can't imagine what it'll be like when the software becomes optimized for it.
Only oven mitts on an overclocked TI-99? You'd be toast! I used to burn my hands on the damn thing just from running "Alpiner"!! I can't imagine what it would take to keep that thing cool if it were overclocked...
You're right, you shouldn't need a hex editor to do that. Luckily you don't. You know that in Mac OS you can drag the file onto the icon for an application that you want to open it in, and that application will do its best to read that file, right? You don't need ResEdit at all. It's been a while since I used OS 9, but you might be able to drag the file to the icon in the Application Switcher as well. If you want to change the default application for when you double-click, you can just save the file from within the new program to change its creator code. And this is all in OS 9. In OS X you can do either this or right-(control-)click and select "Open with...". There's even an "Other" menu item that brings up a standard file dialog, where you can choose any application on your drive. You can try to open.jpg files in TextEdit or Chess, if you want.
The Finder is really much more powerful than it might seem. I can understand your gripe, but there's quite an easy way to do what you seem to think ResEdit is necessary for.
The difference between Apple and MS (or GNOME), though, is that Apple didn't _change_ their file browser' they just added functionality (without removing the old). The great thing about what Mac OS X does is that you can use one of three different modes, and you can set this option for each individual window. There is absolutely no reason why there should be a conflict between "spatial" and "browser" file management, because the two serve very different functions, and each has its own strengths. The fact that Apple has implemented an easy way to use whichever works best in a given situation shows that this whole debate is simply a matter of ideology and stubbornness more than anything else.
In OS X, the "View" menu has the options: "as Icons", which would be the equivalent of "spatial", "as Columns", which is closer to the Explorer thing (though not quite the same, and much faster in my experience), or "As List", which is like Icon view, but with drop arrows that let you browse folder structure hierarcharchaically (sorry, spelling). Note that "As List" has been around since at least System 7, so we're not exactly talking about spanking-new technology here.
The fact that this setting is retained individually for each window makes my life a lot easier--folders where I need to quickly go several levels deep stay in Column mode, while folders that I often copy files to stay in Icon mode. It's the best of both worlds. I have no idea why this guy is ranting so fervently against _extra_ functionality for the sake of the (random and to most people irrelevant) goal of the perfect metaphor. Experience has shown that focusing solely on emulating real-world objects is pointlessly frustrating for the user, while failing to take advantage of abstractions offered by the computer.
Now, granted, this guy isn't quite insisting that a file browser make use of drawer handles and coffee cup stains on the blotter, but it seems that most of the comments here agree that he's way out of wack in his adherence to metaphor over usability. I don't want to make blanket statements like "any time an interface designer tells a user that it's their problem, he's wrong", because there are always exceptions, but this article is about the farthest thing from an exception that I've ever seen.
I personally stopped using GNOME about a year ago, when I got a computer fast enough to handle OS X (Debian felt about ten times faster on my old iBook than did Jaguar, but my G4 is fine in OS X), but already there were a few things creeping in that bothered me; most glaringly the removal of viewports from Sawfish. It's a shame that so many developers see customizability as mutually exclusive with intuitiveness. It's even worse when guys like this rail on against both of them for no apparent reason other than bizarre ideology.
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Confusion at best, FUD at worst. OS X has never required CD keys for home installation. The "Family Pack", which lets you install on up to five machines, has no CD keys, either. Apple has traditionally taken a "give the consumer the benefit of the doubt" view of their OS. There are no technical barriers preventing you from buying one copy of Tiger and installing it on a hundred machines, but Apple trusts you not to do so
As was mentioned above, however, OS X Server does require CD keys for installation.
First of all, "most reputable scientists" don't "believe in the abiogenic theory of oil". At best this is a fringe movement based on pseudoscience, with direct funding from the oil industry. It's likely nothing more than propaganda intended to confuse the issue and encourage people to keep consuming.
Second, even if it's true that oil is formed naturally and without the input of biological material, it's clearly not being generated at a rate even approaching our current level of consumption. Therefore, discussion of its origins is entirely academic.
The poor in this country, whom you so patronizingly label with quotation marks, are often obese because the cheapest foods are also the highest in fat and sugar while being lowest in actual nutritional content. But good job there on the attempt to imply that they're neither poor nor hardworking because they're obese.
Uh...because the other products that could compete got driven out of the market?
I used a Logitech keyboard and mouse on my Mac for two years, and finally gave up on the hardware (which I loved) because LCC was such an atrocious piece of shit. Logitech basically gave no sign of caring about the Mac platform, either.
Words cannot describe the fury of a Mac user toward Logitech.
What? Are you serious? I'm not a scholar on this topic by any means, but I'm pretty sure that Nintendo has been one of the toughest campaigners against emulation of any kind. I'm sure there will be all sorts of methods built into the new Nintendo system to prevent "misuse" of the flash memory, and I have no doubt that ROMs are one of the bigger possible "misuses".
Not all religions around today require proselytization and conversions. Judaism, for example, actively discourages conversion, and potential converts must study for an extended period of time before they are allowed to become Jewish. "Push the proselyte away with the one hand, and welcome him in with the other" is the clearest expression of this. Yet Judaism is one of the oldest, if not the oldest surviving religious tradition.
Other way around. A Rep was thought to have won, but they now now that a Dem actually did win.Many Dem votes (the ones included in a straight party ticket) had instead gone to the Libs.
He has a list of games being sold. Since there are over 1300 pieces, and 300 of those are systems, presumably there are a lot of games as well.
I've been using GMX for years, and literally had no problems. Even when they switched to the all-German interface, I manage to make my way around (had a little German in high school). But I can't remember the last time I had a problem with it. Softhome also has similar decent service, but not quite as good, nor as reliable.
I think the MD format would be much more popular if their copyright fascism were't allowed to dictate the specs.
I got a MD recorder a few years ago to make recordings of concerts, lessons, recitals, and such (I'm a music major), and while the quality is decent and the portability useful, getting the recordings off the player is impossible to do digitally. NetMD doesn't support digital uploading unless the tracks were originally digitally downloaded onto the player, using their shitty software, which of course doesn't come for Mac, and didn't even work when I tried it on my family's PC. I understand you're limited to 2x speed uploading anyway. But the only option for Mac users, and anyone wanting to transfer home-made recordings, is analog upload. I wish I had researched this more beforehand, because this is infuriating.
I think the MiniDisc format had great potential, but Sony's insistence on idiotic copyright meaures just make it way too inconvenient to gain wide acceptance. I use it mainly because (A) I already invested in it and (B) it's easy to cart around, but the format is so needlessly crippled as to be sad.
Ah, my bad. I had forgotten that SC patches take the form of a complete exectutable (due to the fact that the standalone patch usually takes so long to be available that just connecting to Bnet is much easier--that and I've been playing too much War3 lately). In that case, this is actually quite a clever solution. Has anyone tested it? Does it actually work?
Uh...sorry, but that's just not true. How exactly is this even supposed to work? If you have a PC-only disc (released months before there even EXISTED a Mac version), and install the PC binaries and support files on a PC, how is a Mac going to run that even when the files are copied over? Macs can't natively run PC binaries, and I'm sure that the PC installer spews files all over the place anyway. You at least need a copy of the original CD for Mac to get the thing installed.
So, no breakdown of how much is actually illegal, just "experts say." I wonder how much of "other files" is accounted for by bloated Microsoft critical updates, service releases and patches? How much is tasteful internet erotica? How about digital video of my daughter's college graduation sent to relatives?
None of that exists!! The Internet is only used for illegal purposes! Terrorists use it, and now these illegal downloaders! Maybe they're economic terrorists by ruining the profits of the movie studios?
Seriously though, this is reaching the point of sheer ludicrousness. How is it that these guys can spew this stuff constantly without even a modicum of a challenge? I know, I know, it's because they control the media too. This is getting sick.
...is a lot more entertaining when you don't know that "Swingin' Ape" is the name of a company.
I got burned by a similar bug with OS 8 on my Performa 6360. The most irritating thing was that calling Apple tech support resulted in them having me reformat my hard drive. Of course the problem showed up again a few days later, and after a few more calls it turned out that I needed a new version of the disk utility. Oh, and it turns out I had never needed to reformat in the first place. Thanks, guys. I've had pretty good luck with Apple's tech support, but this was defiintely a glaring exception. Luckily I was in seventh grade at the time and only lost a bunch of stupid stories about a piece of cheese who was a fighter pilot.
Then factor in the number of people voting who haven't actually seen the movie and...uh...who can say, because this is Internet voting, and over a highly ideological topic at that.
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Personally I liked what the movie had to say, and I'm glad someone is actually saying it, but as a structural work of academic integrity, I wasn't impressed. It was essentially a two-hour news broadcast such as might be seen on CNN or Fox, but with a different slant. The sad fact seems to be that such things are necessary to get one's message out today, as nobody is interested in in-depth analysis and actual discussion anymore
I have a Logitech keyboard as well, and one irritating thing is that unless you have Logitech's (absolutely shit) drivers installed, the key labeled Alt/Apple/Command actually acts as an option button, and the Start/Alt/Option acts as Command.
I think he means that there are viruses for PCs that send spam, pretending to be people in that PC's address book. He's in a lot of PC address books, and hence a lot of spam seems to come from him. Nowhere is the Mac at fault.
Word up, brother. I've not yet made it to an official Apple store, but there are three places in my area that sell Macs. One is this tiny little hole in the wall that looks like some guy's garage after an earthquake. There are random machines and empty boxes strewn about. The staff respond to questions with one-word answers. It's impossible to find anything, and you can't get any help. I gather their repair business is decent, but as a reseller, this does not make Apple look good. The other one has one or two gumdrop iMacs on a shelf in the back somwhere. The final one is our good friend CompUSA, where salesmen say things like "The Mac doesn't have enough RAM to run a two-button mouse, and anyway it uses a different format for the Internet so you can't talk to your friends." It has been like this for as long as I can remember. It was worse back when places like Sears were in on the deal, too.
It's not like Apple didn't give the resellers their chance. They've had their chance for twenty years, and most have consistently blown it. I'm surprised Apple put up with this shit for this long. I'm sure there are some friendly, helpful, well-organized places run by knowledgable individuals, and they have my sympathy, but I've certainly never been to one.
It looks like a dualie, so we're talking about an extra 160 MHz here rather than 80, but still...
To me, the real value in this article is not his personal account of squeezing that relatively pitiful extra performance from the thing, but the chart detailing how to nearly double the processor speed. Of course that would be ridiculously impossible to achieve, but the point is that it makes it clear enough how to be more adventurous than this guy.
I suppose now that you bring it up, 1.25 Ghz isn't too shabby, but also remember that the iMacs don't have nearly as much L2 cache (and no L3 at all), and the graphics card is weaker (and non-upgradeable). I know it doesn't seem like much, but I can tell you from personal experience that the difference is noticeable, even when compared to a 1.25 Ghz G4 tower. And the G5 tower is just unbelievably fast--I can't imagine what it'll be like when the software becomes optimized for it.
Only oven mitts on an overclocked TI-99? You'd be toast! I used to burn my hands on the damn thing just from running "Alpiner"!! I can't imagine what it would take to keep that thing cool if it were overclocked...
You're right, you shouldn't need a hex editor to do that. Luckily you don't. You know that in Mac OS you can drag the file onto the icon for an application that you want to open it in, and that application will do its best to read that file, right? You don't need ResEdit at all. It's been a while since I used OS 9, but you might be able to drag the file to the icon in the Application Switcher as well. If you want to change the default application for when you double-click, you can just save the file from within the new program to change its creator code. And this is all in OS 9. In OS X you can do either this or right-(control-)click and select "Open with...". There's even an "Other" menu item that brings up a standard file dialog, where you can choose any application on your drive. You can try to open .jpg files in TextEdit or Chess, if you want.
The Finder is really much more powerful than it might seem. I can understand your gripe, but there's quite an easy way to do what you seem to think ResEdit is necessary for.
The difference between Apple and MS (or GNOME), though, is that Apple didn't _change_ their file browser' they just added functionality (without removing the old). The great thing about what Mac OS X does is that you can use one of three different modes, and you can set this option for each individual window. There is absolutely no reason why there should be a conflict between "spatial" and "browser" file management, because the two serve very different functions, and each has its own strengths. The fact that Apple has implemented an easy way to use whichever works best in a given situation shows that this whole debate is simply a matter of ideology and stubbornness more than anything else.
In OS X, the "View" menu has the options: "as Icons", which would be the equivalent of "spatial", "as Columns", which is closer to the Explorer thing (though not quite the same, and much faster in my experience), or "As List", which is like Icon view, but with drop arrows that let you browse folder structure hierarcharchaically (sorry, spelling). Note that "As List" has been around since at least System 7, so we're not exactly talking about spanking-new technology here.
The fact that this setting is retained individually for each window makes my life a lot easier--folders where I need to quickly go several levels deep stay in Column mode, while folders that I often copy files to stay in Icon mode. It's the best of both worlds. I have no idea why this guy is ranting so fervently against _extra_ functionality for the sake of the (random and to most people irrelevant) goal of the perfect metaphor. Experience has shown that focusing solely on emulating real-world objects is pointlessly frustrating for the user, while failing to take advantage of abstractions offered by the computer.
Here's a good example from IBM.
Apple itself has been guilty of this as well.
Now, granted, this guy isn't quite insisting that a file browser make use of drawer handles and coffee cup stains on the blotter, but it seems that most of the comments here agree that he's way out of wack in his adherence to metaphor over usability. I don't want to make blanket statements like "any time an interface designer tells a user that it's their problem, he's wrong", because there are always exceptions, but this article is about the farthest thing from an exception that I've ever seen.
I personally stopped using GNOME about a year ago, when I got a computer fast enough to handle OS X (Debian felt about ten times faster on my old iBook than did Jaguar, but my G4 is fine in OS X), but already there were a few things creeping in that bothered me; most glaringly the removal of viewports from Sawfish. It's a shame that so many developers see customizability as mutually exclusive with intuitiveness. It's even worse when guys like this rail on against both of them for no apparent reason other than bizarre ideology.