My third-party Gmail notifier works fine. I use Gmail Notifier 0.3.3 extension for FireFox. A few weeks ago, Google changed something in the login process that broke an older version of the extension, but as of the version I'm using, it works fine.
I don't suppose there's any way to get a copy of "Pink" is there? It would be interesting to hack around with something like MacOS on a i386-based machine. Probably jsut wishful thinking.
If you are really bent upon defragmenting your HFS+ volume, a more appropriate way would be to write your own defragmentation tool.
Does anyone else think that statement is a bit odd? Maybe it's just me, but I think he's being a little bit presumptuous about the programming skills of the average geek site browser.
The EPA test "has inherent shortcomings, irrespective of what kind of car is being driven," says Philip Schmidt, professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Emphasis mine. So at least they do a half-ass job of touching on the issue.
Why is it that some people are so quick to abdicate control and responsibility of their children to a government beaurocracy?
And furthermore, people should realize that schools have enough to do managing their bastard kids while they're on school grounds. They don't have the time or resources to find out what they're up to when they're off campus.
It's time for people to stop blaming the school system and making out kids the taxpayers' problem. If your kid is a fuck-up, be a goddamned parent and put them in their place!
Amen to that! Any bullying going on should be done by the parents to their rat bastard kids.
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I never even considered buying a Mac until I had played with OS X quite a bit.
Me either. The main reason I got my iBook was because OS X had the power (and in my case, the familiarity) of Unix but with an actually good GUI and industry-standard applications.
The classic MacOS sucked balls and it showed when one faulty application could lockup the entire OS. As far as I can tell that's still the case with OS 9 which I've tried for a grand total of 45 minutes.
Yep, OS9 does indeed suck balls. I have to use it every day at work (I'm using it now) and I can assure you it is as crashy as Win98 and has worse VM management. Sometimes all it takes is one app crashing, and the whole system goes down like a Tai hooker.
I look back at the Windows world and for the same price as a high end iBook or the low end Powerbook I can get a screaming fast Dell P4 laptop.
For me, the price is hefty, but its worth it. All I use my windows box for now is playing games. I like the UI of OS X so much better than Windows, that I'm willing to pay more for a system that rarely crashes and "just works"
You don't remember correctly. Educators paid around USD70.00 for 10.2
Not so, my friend. Okay, maybe some educators paid for it, but I got it free through a deal Apple was running to send it to educators for free. All you had to do was fill out a form and provide your school address and they'd send you a free copy of 10.2 to your school mail box. I actually got 3 copies free because I convinced a few friends to sign up and then give me their CDs.
It's like the Apple Stores. The stores are barely breaking even
Actually, the Apple retail stores just recorded their first profitable quarter of business. Take a look at this recent Apple press release which links to a broadcast of the 4th quarter investor conference call that gives the details about the recent profitiability of the retail outlets (among many other things). It didn't take long for the retail stores to start generating profits, and I would imagine the Music Store will become profitable in the next year or so. But I could just be full of shit.
If they were to start licensing the BIOS out AND port OS X to x86, they'd be sunk.
Maybe I'm just stupid, but wouldn't it be possible for Apple to license their technology (BIOS, et al) to a select group of 3rd-party manufacturers? Couldn't they opt not to take money in licensing fees from Dell, Gateway, and others and thus not give them permission to build and sell OS X systems or offer OS X bundles with a new PC?
If my ignorance of licensing law is showing, consider me blushing.
A somewhat similar kind of DRM (or "document security") is already implemented in Acrobat and has been since at least version 4. I'm no MS fanboy, but I don't see the big deal with setting read/write/print rights on a document. It could actually come in handy.
If this move locks out other office suites (like OO), that sucks, but I doubt most people will find the feature important enough to exclude the possiblity of using alternative solutions.
So if an OS is of questionable importance then it is should be not considered?
Anything can be considered. But in the grand scheme of things, only important things are important. Does that make sense at all?
I do hope you realize that you just said since Apple has only about 2-3% of the annual sales market that a PPC is of QUESTIONAL importance.
I hope you realize that is the most illogical statement I've heard in months. I said nothing of the sort. Yes, a 2-3% market share is less significant than 95%+. But 2-3% is also far more significant than.00004% market share. It's all relative.
At any rate, this little pissing contest is not what I intended to get into. The bottom line is that there are more than 2 OS options for PPC. Can you agree with that statement?
Since my hardware platform is essential the rest of the market.
Well, it's mine, too. I have an X86 machine (2 of them, actually) and a Mac. I like both platforms quite a bit.
With all do respect, I don't think anyone will be dissapointed that they can't run AtheOS, Minix, Plan9, or QNX on their PPC machines (and BeOS and OS/2 are of questionable importance).
Yes, there are many more obscure OSes that you can run on X86 over PPC. But I wasn't arguing that. I was refuting the original statement that there are only two OS options for PPC-based machines.
My Mac essentially has two choices OSX or Linux from Yellow Dog.
Heh? Actually, your Mac (if you still owned it) has more than just two choices. In addition to OS X and Yellow Dog Linux, you can also choose from GNU-Darwin, NetBSD, various linux distros (including Gentoo, LinuxPPC, Debian, and Mandrake) and let's not forget good old MacOS 9 and older versions. On top of that, you can run (basically) any X86-based OS via Virtual PC.
Limited? Only by how much you know (or don't know, in this case).
He was living in the US when he bought that songs, then Apple took them away
Not true. According to the article, he bought the songs, moved to Canada, and then reinstalled the base OS. When you do that, you have to reauthorize your computer to play the Apple songs (I know, because I had to do it recently). Since he was now trying to use the songs outside of the TOS, he was unable to do so. The files are still on his computer, and had he not needed to reauthorize his machine, the songs would have worked fine. RTFA
We can argue about it being reasonable (and I do agree with you to some extent), but that's not the point. The point is that Apple stated upfront that the music is not viable outside the US. If buyers find this unreasonable, they have the option not to buy. It's not like a secret that you discover after you buy music. If you read the TOS, you know upfront that you can't use the music outside the US.
That's great, but it isn't available yet. Is everybody supposed to stand around and hold their cocks until Avid is good and ready to release the free stuff?
As it stands now, FCP is better than Avid's Free DV since Avid's product isn't available.
Truly, I just assumed so much in my first post. I had not idea that there would be so many high-level sys-admins watching and posting here. Foolish me. I have no idea what I was thinking.
MS-SQL is the best thing ever. It is the only DB that can handle big loads. IT was the first and only. Yeah, Oracle is crappy. I had no trouble talking my way into a $15k standard version for my company. What was I thinking?
When I need advice, I assume I can count on this convocation of true nerds to help me out?
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My third-party Gmail notifier works fine. I use Gmail Notifier 0.3.3 extension for FireFox. A few weeks ago, Google changed something in the login process that broke an older version of the extension, but as of the version I'm using, it works fine.
Sounds like FUD to me.
Damnit! I knew I should've gone to Duke instead of NC State!
Oh wait, that's right! I couldn't get in nor could I afford the tuition.
Wolfpack rules!
It was reported by DSN Retailing Today in their April 5, 2004 issue in this article.
I don't suppose there's any way to get a copy of "Pink" is there? It would be interesting to hack around with something like MacOS on a i386-based machine. Probably jsut wishful thinking.
Does anyone else think that statement is a bit odd? Maybe it's just me, but I think he's being a little bit presumptuous about the programming skills of the average geek site browser.
The EPA test "has inherent shortcomings, irrespective of what kind of car is being driven," says Philip Schmidt, professor of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Emphasis mine. So at least they do a half-ass job of touching on the issue.
Or just snag a serial number off the net.
And furthermore, people should realize that schools have enough to do managing their bastard kids while they're on school grounds. They don't have the time or resources to find out what they're up to when they're off campus.
Amen to that! Any bullying going on should be done by the parents to their rat bastard kids.
Yep, OS9 does indeed suck balls. I have to use it every day at work (I'm using it now) and I can assure you it is as crashy as Win98 and has worse VM management. Sometimes all it takes is one app crashing, and the whole system goes down like a Tai hooker.
For me, the price is hefty, but its worth it. All I use my windows box for now is playing games. I like the UI of OS X so much better than Windows, that I'm willing to pay more for a system that rarely crashes and "just works"
Not so, my friend. Okay, maybe some educators paid for it, but I got it free through a deal Apple was running to send it to educators for free. All you had to do was fill out a form and provide your school address and they'd send you a free copy of 10.2 to your school mail box. I actually got 3 copies free because I convinced a few friends to sign up and then give me their CDs.
Actually, the Apple retail stores just recorded their first profitable quarter of business. Take a look at this recent Apple press release which links to a broadcast of the 4th quarter investor conference call that gives the details about the recent profitiability of the retail outlets (among many other things). It didn't take long for the retail stores to start generating profits, and I would imagine the Music Store will become profitable in the next year or so. But I could just be full of shit.
If my ignorance of licensing law is showing, consider me blushing.
Two details stuck out to me from that posting:
1) there was actual email "arpanet mail" back in '83
2) they were calling it "snail" mail back in '83 (while I was still in pre-school)
Jeez, I feel really behind the curve.
If only I had mod points to dole out to your wisdom!
(the wisdom of Heironymus Seafood is with us, oh my Danny!)
A somewhat similar kind of DRM (or "document security") is already implemented in Acrobat and has been since at least version 4. I'm no MS fanboy, but I don't see the big deal with setting read/write/print rights on a document. It could actually come in handy.
If this move locks out other office suites (like OO), that sucks, but I doubt most people will find the feature important enough to exclude the possiblity of using alternative solutions.
I hope you realize that is the most illogical statement I've heard in months. I said nothing of the sort. Yes, a 2-3% market share is less significant than 95%+. But 2-3% is also far more significant than
At any rate, this little pissing contest is not what I intended to get into. The bottom line is that there are more than 2 OS options for PPC. Can you agree with that statement?
Well, it's mine, too. I have an X86 machine (2 of them, actually) and a Mac. I like both platforms quite a bit.
With all do respect, I don't think anyone will be dissapointed that they can't run AtheOS, Minix, Plan9, or QNX on their PPC machines (and BeOS and OS/2 are of questionable importance).
Yes, there are many more obscure OSes that you can run on X86 over PPC. But I wasn't arguing that. I was refuting the original statement that there are only two OS options for PPC-based machines.
Heh? Actually, your Mac (if you still owned it) has more than just two choices. In addition to OS X and Yellow Dog Linux, you can also choose from GNU-Darwin, NetBSD, various linux distros (including Gentoo, LinuxPPC, Debian, and Mandrake) and let's not forget good old MacOS 9 and older versions. On top of that, you can run (basically) any X86-based OS via Virtual PC.
Limited? Only by how much you know (or don't know, in this case).
I disagree. I think the last thing we need is another friggin' lawsuit. Litigious greed is what got us into this mess to begin with.
Not true. According to the article, he bought the songs, moved to Canada, and then reinstalled the base OS. When you do that, you have to reauthorize your computer to play the Apple songs (I know, because I had to do it recently). Since he was now trying to use the songs outside of the TOS, he was unable to do so. The files are still on his computer, and had he not needed to reauthorize his machine, the songs would have worked fine. RTFA
We can argue about it being reasonable (and I do agree with you to some extent), but that's not the point. The point is that Apple stated upfront that the music is not viable outside the US. If buyers find this unreasonable, they have the option not to buy. It's not like a secret that you discover after you buy music. If you read the TOS, you know upfront that you can't use the music outside the US.
I think the Apple Music Store's DRM is the only reasonable implementation I've seen.
Bottom line is that you have to read the EULA or TOS (or whatever) before you buy. Crying after the fact is just crying.
That's great, but it isn't available yet. Is everybody supposed to stand around and hold their cocks until Avid is good and ready to release the free stuff?
As it stands now, FCP is better than Avid's Free DV since Avid's product isn't available.
Truly, I just assumed so much in my first post. I had not idea that there would be so many high-level sys-admins watching and posting here. Foolish me. I have no idea what I was thinking.
MS-SQL is the best thing ever. It is the only DB that can handle big loads. IT was the first and only. Yeah, Oracle is crappy. I had no trouble talking my way into a $15k standard version for my company. What was I thinking?
When I need advice, I assume I can count on this convocation of true nerds to help me out?