holding down the shift key and scrolling the wheel on my mouse changes the vertical scroll to a horizontal scroll, just like bbedit does (and unfortunately mozilla does not)... and as a web developer, I find this feature to be extremely nice for long sql statements, html lines, etc...
I could see IBM, Adobe, or Sun ending up with Macromedia in the end.
I think the "spite" factor of IBM or Sun buying MM out from under M$ is as bad a fate as M$ actually getting them. IBM and Sun don't produce prosumer shrink wrap software on the same field as MM does. It's not their market, they'd end up dropping it and breaking it like a nice piece of stemware.
Adobe would run into serious problems with antitrust regs because they're the only competition, only _real_ competition in the eyes of content creators, with Macromedia. Corel is the only company that makes anything like high grade content creation tools for consumers. (that's being generous) I could see them being clear of problems from the DOJ for acquiring MM, but that's just crazy talk.
the whole thing is silly, really. Most every creative agency based content creator I've ever known have been on a mac, and therefore are adverse to M$. M$ acquiring MM would be further driving more people away from M$, and more towards Adobe and the SVG alliance. Flash would be crippled, SVG would become more prominent, and M$ would be yet again feeling frustrated at their lack of ability to rule the world.
Next year they'll float a rumor of thinking of acquiring Lockheed Martin, KFC, and Kiwi Shoe polish.
The one thing I can tell you will happen is that they will sell a bunch of these, because people want to ride them. Disney, Paramount, 6 flags, they'll all buy them as a loss leader to get people into the park. In fact what will probably happen, if my last visit to Paramount's Great America is any indicator, is that they'll charge you 40-50 bucks to get in to the park, then they'll charge you another 10-20 bucks (not 5... maybe 5 bucks in 1989) for the experience of this roboflailing.
never underestimate people's desire to experience new crap, or big corporate entertainment greed;)
Benevolent scientists do something useful that ends up being worth a lot of money(maybe), announce that they have this valuable thing but aren't going to make it available because they realize it's value. Enter the evil foreign terrorist network boss, out to fund their evil terrorist plots. They commission a spy to penetrate the heat-sensoring, lazer beam-protected, ultra high security vault (because that's surely where they're keeping these maps, right?)and steal the maps. City mayor decries the burglary, gets on the $superhero."phone", and commissions the slightly sociopathic secret superhero to "get those maps back!"
Besides pulverizing concrete, it can pulverize small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don't like it.
Aggressive product placements -- such as Ericsson's hip new cell phone, which doubled as a lock pick and laser gun -- were featured in the 1997 film. Ericsson says sales of the unit doubled after the movie.
Dude, they won't even update our effing 12 striped American flag icon. Don't get your hopes up. That kind of administrative stuff is just too boring to bear.:)
that's all anyone ever does. Gateway with their commercial of their computer jumping over imacs, ms copying apple's switcher ads, everyone comparing their MP3 players to an ipod...
if nothing else, apple innovates...
It's _so_ cool. There's a few useful unix tools online, it may not be the full SSH you want, but nonetheless, I needed to ping my home machine's gateway because my server went down, and pinging it from work wasn't working, so I tried pinging it from a web-based ping tool on my sidekick, and it was working... so it turned out to be that backbone issue from earlier today affecting access at my machine at work...
This is _so_ cool.;)
Yesss, apple is a hardware company. They're the "premium class" hardware company, look at their ipods, and all their computers. Does it mean they aren't making a lot of money because they're the high-design-high-price-high-value in what they do? No, they sell a lot of hardware.
Notice the switch to sustainable revenue streams? Consumer electronics, internet services, OS upgrades. Downplay the hardware, make cash on sustainable income streams, invest r&d into software, port to x86...
THEN...
you continue to have best-of-breed premium hardware that just works. Your market who needs seamless interoperability of devices and editing/authoring capabilities will still come to you, continuing the self-proclaimed snobbery of owning a "real mac" (hey, I own 3 macs), while providing an entry path to the masses for the OS. Somehow help the development of WINE, and you've got a serious plan for giving people options for an easy-to-use consumer OS (sure, your distro's easy for you to use). And hey, charge me $200 for an intel version, I'll do it. My wintel laptop is ready.
Risky? Yes. Unreversable? No. Remember, When all Apple had was hardware, they licensed other manufacturers to make MacOS machines, and changed their mind. (wisely, at the time) Now they're much more focused on driving sales of consumer electronics, internet services, and the OS than they used to be in the early 90's.
Since I spend 3+ hours a day on the computer working and playing, I figured that it should be comfortable. Here's a short description of my journey to create the ultimate sitting experience.
Sheesh, if I only spent 3 hours a day on my computer, I don't think I'd need a BMW workstation.. more like honda civic.
Slashdot Mirror
HA ha! [/nelson]
Just a nicety I just noticed about Safari:
holding down the shift key and scrolling the wheel on my mouse changes the vertical scroll to a horizontal scroll, just like bbedit does (and unfortunately mozilla does not)... and as a web developer, I find this feature to be extremely nice for long sql statements, html lines, etc...
yay!
I could see IBM, Adobe, or Sun ending up with Macromedia in the end.
I think the "spite" factor of IBM or Sun buying MM out from under M$ is as bad a fate as M$ actually getting them. IBM and Sun don't produce prosumer shrink wrap software on the same field as MM does. It's not their market, they'd end up dropping it and breaking it like a nice piece of stemware.
Adobe would run into serious problems with antitrust regs because they're the only competition, only _real_ competition in the eyes of content creators, with Macromedia. Corel is the only company that makes anything like high grade content creation tools for consumers. (that's being generous) I could see them being clear of problems from the DOJ for acquiring MM, but that's just crazy talk.
the whole thing is silly, really. Most every creative agency based content creator I've ever known have been on a mac, and therefore are adverse to M$. M$ acquiring MM would be further driving more people away from M$, and more towards Adobe and the SVG alliance. Flash would be crippled, SVG would become more prominent, and M$ would be yet again feeling frustrated at their lack of ability to rule the world.
Next year they'll float a rumor of thinking of acquiring Lockheed Martin, KFC, and Kiwi Shoe polish.
The one thing I can tell you will happen is that they will sell a bunch of these, because people want to ride them. Disney, Paramount, 6 flags, they'll all buy them as a loss leader to get people into the park. In fact what will probably happen, if my last visit to Paramount's Great America is any indicator, is that they'll charge you 40-50 bucks to get in to the park, then they'll charge you another 10-20 bucks (not 5... maybe 5 bucks in 1989) for the experience of this roboflailing.
;)
never underestimate people's desire to experience new crap, or big corporate entertainment greed
Bahahaha!!!
XP is vulnerable to MP3's? I don't know if I should be in awe or laugh my head off.
Benevolent scientists do something useful that ends up being worth a lot of money(maybe), announce that they have this valuable thing but aren't going to make it available because they realize it's value. Enter the evil foreign terrorist network boss, out to fund their evil terrorist plots. They commission a spy to penetrate the heat-sensoring, lazer beam-protected, ultra high security vault (because that's surely where they're keeping these maps, right?)and steal the maps. City mayor decries the burglary, gets on the $superhero."phone", and commissions the slightly sociopathic secret superhero to "get those maps back!"
antics ensue...
Besides pulverizing concrete, it can pulverize small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don't like it.
What, the jellyfish do??
I think considering 95 percent of us dont own any intellectual propery, why should we try so hard to protect it? It reduces our freedom.
+1 insightful, except when does my financial and medical data become open and unprotectable?
ok, ok, you're Canadian, we get it, mister shaky hands... ;)
That's what makes good sci-fi to me. It's all this great technology, but how it becomes subverted, ala Niven, Sterling, Gibson, Stephenson.
Aggressive product placements -- such as Ericsson's hip new cell phone, which doubled as a lock pick and laser gun -- were featured in the 1997 film. Ericsson says sales of the unit doubled after the movie.
ah, so they sold another one. Bravo...
2. Slashdot crew, update the Corel logo!
:)
Dude, they won't even update our effing 12 striped American flag icon. Don't get your hopes up. That kind of administrative stuff is just too boring to bear.
just to point out that $129 is how much Mac OSX 10.2 Jaguar costs, too. yeah, yeah, yeah, hardware costs, lame mouse, blah blah blah.
that's all anyone ever does. Gateway with their commercial of their computer jumping over imacs, ms copying apple's switcher ads, everyone comparing their MP3 players to an ipod... if nothing else, apple innovates ...
All apologies to the CGI geniuses out there, but there is no way in hell your graphics will match the insanity that was Akira.
:)
with all due respect, Akira was not a cgi script.
It's _so_ cool. There's a few useful unix tools online, it may not be the full SSH you want, but nonetheless, I needed to ping my home machine's gateway because my server went down, and pinging it from work wasn't working, so I tried pinging it from a web-based ping tool on my sidekick, and it was working... so it turned out to be that backbone issue from earlier today affecting access at my machine at work... This is _so_ cool. ;)
I just got mine, it's unlimited for the first year, then 15Megs a month, then $3 per meg over the initial 15.
Notice the switch to sustainable revenue streams? Consumer electronics, internet services, OS upgrades. Downplay the hardware, make cash on sustainable income streams, invest r&d into software, port to x86... THEN... you continue to have best-of-breed premium hardware that just works. Your market who needs seamless interoperability of devices and editing/authoring capabilities will still come to you, continuing the self-proclaimed snobbery of owning a "real mac" (hey, I own 3 macs), while providing an entry path to the masses for the OS. Somehow help the development of WINE, and you've got a serious plan for giving people options for an easy-to-use consumer OS (sure, your distro's easy for you to use). And hey, charge me $200 for an intel version, I'll do it. My wintel laptop is ready.
Risky? Yes. Unreversable? No. Remember, When all Apple had was hardware, they licensed other manufacturers to make MacOS machines, and changed their mind. (wisely, at the time) Now they're much more focused on driving sales of consumer electronics, internet services, and the OS than they used to be in the early 90's.
you can partially thank my brother for contextual menus in system 8.something.
the poster of this article...
essential reality has a product that looks extremely interesting
holy shite, i just found documentation for a hook called "hijaakUserMachine()" ... hmmmm...
Sheesh, if I only spent 3 hours a day on my computer, I don't think I'd need a BMW workstation.. more like honda civic.
At least Apple isn't cramming DRM down your throat. Quite the opposite.