I honestly don't mean this as a personal attack, but why do you think that the Chinese government would listen to anything "we" have to say, given their general distrust of the West?
Did you read the parent? The parent was joking about how QuickTime 5 no longer has any mention on the site. Then this guy said "nope, they say it at least once".
To be fair, this isn't nearly as obvious a knockoff as those iMac "clones". I saw a picture of the eMachines beastie once; that was infringement waiting to happen.
You also have to remember that the iMac was an almost completely unique design at the time (or, if not, at least it was the first of its kind to become widespread). It's a lot easier to say "hey, we did that first" with a fruity all-in-one system that nobody had really seen before Apple came out with it than it is to say the same of a tower whose major features are plastic sides and "seamless" drive bays.
Therefore, I doubt if they will make a huge stink about this, or if they do, that it will get very far.
He said he was musing about it while he was working with his 80 year old grandfather. Presumably he's had many such experiences in the past, and the combined severity and duration of the problems with his grandfather have caused him to reflect on all other such incidents of all levels that he's ever had to deal with.
I think we could solve this complex engineering puzzle by flipping the fan.
Wouldn't that suck lots of dust inside? Dust and computer components have a long-standing feud, and you don't want them fighting it out inside your case.
I think he means Apple was the first to bring semi-affordable DVD burners to consumer products. Of course they didn't invent the damned things. Don't tell me you honestly believed that's what he meant.
That's the point exactly! When the original poster said "Why do you hate Australia?", he was being sarcastic--parodizing those who say such things in order to villanize those who disagree with them. I agree completely with what you said, but I think you missed the sarcasm inherent in the original:)
Yes, but he--unlike governments--doesn't need to villanize those who disagree with him in order to maintain a high enough level of public support to prevent him from being elected out of office or overthrown.
Certainly the "you disagree with the government therefore you hate the country" mentality is fairly rampant these days in the US, though I'm not implying by any means that it's the only place.
Instead, each class of server has it's own username/password structure
If I'm reading what you wrote correctly, you're talking about a pattern for choosing similar passwords within a class of machines, which is not only very clever but sounds like a good idea. It's not quite the same thing as identical passwords, though, which is what the parent was talking about.
In addition to what's already been said about the common root password idea, it wouldn't even provide that many advantages were it not for the many, many drawbacks. Is the team really so large that it can't keep track of a separate password for each machine in an effective manner? If so, maybe you have bigger problems on your hands:)
Hey, yeah! Those things were awesome! My dad threatened my brother and me with death if we lost it (as we were apt to do with lots of things). I acutally uncovered it a couple days ago while rooting through his drawer to find some driver disk--funny that he still has that but probably lost the disk before the computer it was on died.
I think the point was that he didn't cost the company lots of money, because he "(got) approval of directors/dept. heads first of course". Meaning they knew there would be downtime. If they allowed him to do it at a time that they knew it would have cost lots of money, then the company is headed for the crapper anyway, because its management is a bunch of idiots.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but as I read it, that guy showing up to scream about lost money was recruited solely for that purpose, in order to increase the realism of the situation. Presumably, he was "in" on it.
I thought the Lisa came with a full meg of RAM, plus an internal hard disk. As I recall it, the prices were proportional to the hardware you got. The Lisa, IIRC, was not compatible with Mac programs (because of disagreements between the two teams), and also, $10K was waay too much for any system, hard disk or no.
Read Stephen Levy's "Insanely Great" for a really interesting retelling of the story.
I assume he meant "The only time the 'brand new thing' should be adopted if you just finished compiling it (after writing it yourself)" (meaning that now you can test it yourself).
Yeah, the OS X Finder sucks (hopefully only for now). But there is a decent shareware replacement. I haven't messed with it too much (I gave up on OS X), but it seemed pretty full featured. It's called SNAX. I do remember it being wicked fast, though. And this isn't by any means a defense of Apple or an implication that the user is at fault, just a suggestion to the parent poster to make his life easier with the hardware he already has.
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I honestly don't mean this as a personal attack, but why do you think that the Chinese government would listen to anything "we" have to say, given their general distrust of the West?
Wouldn't selling the car count as distributing their work?
Wouldn't that be M(O)T?
I thought the bullet was figurative?
Did you read the parent? The parent was joking about how QuickTime 5 no longer has any mention on the site. Then this guy said "nope, they say it at least once".
:)
Pretty amusing, if you ask me
To be fair, this isn't nearly as obvious a knockoff as those iMac "clones". I saw a picture of the eMachines beastie once; that was infringement waiting to happen.
You also have to remember that the iMac was an almost completely unique design at the time (or, if not, at least it was the first of its kind to become widespread). It's a lot easier to say "hey, we did that first" with a fruity all-in-one system that nobody had really seen before Apple came out with it than it is to say the same of a tower whose major features are plastic sides and "seamless" drive bays.
Therefore, I doubt if they will make a huge stink about this, or if they do, that it will get very far.
You mean like they're smart enough to delete broken downloads?
He said he was musing about it while he was working with his 80 year old grandfather. Presumably he's had many such experiences in the past, and the combined severity and duration of the problems with his grandfather have caused him to reflect on all other such incidents of all levels that he's ever had to deal with.
Wouldn't it make more sense to announce it during the Expo, but not AT it, thus drawing attention away from everything else at the Expo?
I dunno. It's late and I drank 128 ounces of iced tea today. That may not be a very coherent thought.
Obviously none of them used Mac OS X on a G3 :)
I liked it, but its slowness--while not prohibitive--just got annoying eventually.
I think we could solve this complex engineering puzzle by flipping the fan.
Wouldn't that suck lots of dust inside? Dust and computer components have a long-standing feud, and you don't want them fighting it out inside your case.
Yeah! Just like citizens here in the U.S. had a say in the Copyright Extension Act....oh, wait.
Disney furthers the corruption of the counties government. That's a whole 'nother level of (pick your description).
Um. Have you ever read "IBM and the Holocaust"? That's a "whole 'nother level".
I think he means Apple was the first to bring semi-affordable DVD burners to consumer products. Of course they didn't invent the damned things. Don't tell me you honestly believed that's what he meant.
That's the point exactly! When the original poster said "Why do you hate Australia?", he was being sarcastic--parodizing those who say such things in order to villanize those who disagree with them. I agree completely with what you said, but I think you missed the sarcasm inherent in the original :)
Yes, but he--unlike governments--doesn't need to villanize those who disagree with him in order to maintain a high enough level of public support to prevent him from being elected out of office or overthrown.
Certainly the "you disagree with the government therefore you hate the country" mentality is fairly rampant these days in the US, though I'm not implying by any means that it's the only place.
Instead, each class of server has it's own username/password structure
If I'm reading what you wrote correctly, you're talking about a pattern for choosing similar passwords within a class of machines, which is not only very clever but sounds like a good idea. It's not quite the same thing as identical passwords, though, which is what the parent was talking about.
In addition to what's already been said about the common root password idea, it wouldn't even provide that many advantages were it not for the many, many drawbacks. Is the team really so large that it can't keep track of a separate password for each machine in an effective manner? If so, maybe you have bigger problems on your hands :)
Hey, yeah! Those things were awesome! My dad threatened my brother and me with death if we lost it (as we were apt to do with lots of things). I acutally uncovered it a couple days ago while rooting through his drawer to find some driver disk--funny that he still has that but probably lost the disk before the computer it was on died.
About half of what it'll be after the MPAA finds out that people are using white fabric to copy movie film.
I think the point was that he didn't cost the company lots of money, because he "(got) approval of directors /dept. heads first of course". Meaning they knew there would be downtime. If they allowed him to do it at a time that they knew it would have cost lots of money, then the company is headed for the crapper anyway, because its management is a bunch of idiots.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but as I read it, that guy showing up to scream about lost money was recruited solely for that purpose, in order to increase the realism of the situation. Presumably, he was "in" on it.
I thought the Lisa came with a full meg of RAM, plus an internal hard disk. As I recall it, the prices were proportional to the hardware you got. The Lisa, IIRC, was not compatible with Mac programs (because of disagreements between the two teams), and also, $10K was waay too much for any system, hard disk or no.
Read Stephen Levy's "Insanely Great" for a really interesting retelling of the story.
From reports of devel seeds, they changed the spinning ball to some blue blobby thing.
:)
So technically they can now claim that you'll NEVER see the spinning disk after 10.2, and be right
I assume he meant "The only time the 'brand new thing' should be adopted if you just finished compiling it (after writing it yourself)" (meaning that now you can test it yourself).
Yeah, the OS X Finder sucks (hopefully only for now). But there is a decent shareware replacement. I haven't messed with it too much (I gave up on OS X), but it seemed pretty full featured. It's called SNAX. I do remember it being wicked fast, though. And this isn't by any means a defense of Apple or an implication that the user is at fault, just a suggestion to the parent poster to make his life easier with the hardware he already has.