I don't use IE, but maybe... mixed content means pages that have both secure (SSL) and insecure (normal http). Many browsers complain about this, or give you a warning. Could be related to this.
Just in the last week (maybe two), I saw on TechTV and also on the regular news something being referred to as "Drive-by hackers." They were referring to people who used 802.11b enabled laptops to break into people's networking, including businesses.
I understand what you mean by the alternate realities, and potentially infinite futures. That's always been the way I've viewed time. Of course, without a deeper scientific understanding of time, these theories don't have much to stand on.
What I was referring to was more along the lines of creating a connection between a present time, and a future time. When that future time is achieved, there will be a connection to travel back and forth. Theoretically, this would be a two-way connection, allowing a return.
Ask all the questions you want about how and why... I won't answer them. These aren't my theories. Try reading more scientific theories based on physics. Philosophy means nothing except to provide for mental masterbation.
There's a physicist doing research on ideas surounding time travel. I think he recently published a book which is a theoretical cookbook to building a time machine.
In summary, he explains that the conflicts of meeting yourself, etc. isn't really a "problem". There's no mathematical problem that can be stated or conflicted with that philosophical question. The reason that you can't go back in time prior to the point of creation of the time machine has to do with the connecting ends of a worm hole. If the creation of the time machine creates one end of a worm hole, the other end can only be in the relative future.
I don't claim to understand the physics behind any of this, but that's what some of the leading physicists are thinking.
Yes, I don't mean ANY disrespect towards the show. I actually kind of like th cheesy dialog from time to time. It's part of what makes the show fun, since it doesn't ALWAYS take itself so seriously.
I still love that freaky ass episode with the "Amsterdam" of planets. heh. Dargo high on X (well, something like it). Woohoo! heh.
I am waiting for my friend to get his ass over here now, so we can resume out Friday night beer and Sci Fi!:)
It's still extremely cheesy. The matured style hasn't changed all that much. I think we've just watched it long enough that it's warped our minds. But hey! I'm not complaining. Some cheese is good!
Red hair chick with piercing voice! Mmmmm... I gotta admit... most shows with a bunch of gratuitous gorgeous, barely dressed babes I find to be shallow and badly written.
It's such a relief to have a show that very well written (and with good actors) AND gratuitous babes!
Mmmmmm... red hair chick in one hand, gray chick in the other.... In the immortal words of Joey (Friends), "Put your hands together!" hehehe
I have always been against the opt-out strategy for SPAM. I thought it was a stupid idea when it was first proposed as a requirement. And my reasons for this opinion... well, they pretty much started showing up immediately. False "opt-out" links.
The government (and anyone else involved in the opt-out standard) was simply beyond stupid. Although, it's a fine line between stupid an blinded by greed. How could anyone NOT see that opt-out had WAY too many loop holes that would take advantage and abuse the helpless public???
If they were to choose for opt-out, they should have gone with a central "trusted" method of removal. They do this with the post office when you want to be removed from junk mailing lists. How can it not have occured to them that the same should apply to junk-email??? Of COURSE scam artists, and corrupt business will flury with the current opt-out standard. Duh!
I would hope that SOMEONE in control would do the whole "SPAM" registration thing, for several reasons.
1. It would be clear which SPAMers are breaking the law and should be targetted (lower cost to enforce).
2. The public would be better protected.
3. We would KNOW when we should click on the "remove me" link to be removed. Or better yet... just have a standard website, with a SPAM code to enter.
Stupid, ignorant, techno-brain-dead government oficials. *sigh* The worst part being that this effect isn't unique to email. Junk mail and telemarketting fall under the same concept, and yet, have protective rules/laws in place.
Actually, I would think that if more sensitive tasks, such as credit card processing were outsourced, it would actually benefit from having a company specialized in outsourcing such services.
I work for such a company. And having come from a web hosting company that did their own credit card processing, I can definitely say the above is true in my experience.
Heh. I gotta admit, as much as Apple has led the pack with certain technologies, sticking with the 1-button mouse was a bad idea.
Having to click and hold WILL take longer than a quick right-click.
I've always been hesitant to accept the scroll wheel movement as well. But once I had one at work, I found it more annoying to not have one at home (when I was strictly a PC/Linux guy), and had to get one. The first thing I got after my new Mac was a Logitech 3 button mouse with scroll wheel!
Glad I did. Maya PLE wouldn't even be usable without the 3 buttons. More input sources, while minimizing motion. Sounds like a good interface choice to me.:)
One thing I've heard rumors of and would REALLY like to see is a better printer subsystem. I was wondering why I couldn't print to my USB printer that's connected to my other Mac via OS X. Today, I read an article about how the printer drivers are currently responsible for the connection method as well.
I dunno how true that is, but it is consistent with what I've heard about the limitations. It would be nice to see printer drivers only being responsible for preparing the data for the printer, and let the OS determine where to send it. Would make sense for the future, especially if we start to see things such as wireless/bluetooth printers, etc. No need to wait an eternity for the manufacturer to create new drivers only for the connection method, if the printer is essentially the same as another. Same driver, different connection.:)
I remember the days when my dad's friend built me a rubber band gun. He was good with crafting things with wood. It had a wheel with pegs on the upper back part of the gun, with which you would load several rubber bands, and rotate the wheel for each one.
I think it could load 4-5 rubber bands, and pulling the trigger shot one and loaded the next one. Not quite a machine gun, but considering that this was about 20 years ago (Damn, I can't believe I can say that!) it was pretty damn cool.
But really, using the word "maturity" in reference to the internet is nonsense. The internet is flexible, and new uses for it will be found continually. There is no "goal" for what the internet should become. It will simply evolve, step by step, web-site by website, idea by idea.
I agree with this entirely. I think the article incorrectly stated what they were really talking about. The internet itself is as you say, growing and being flexible, and not necessarily becoming more "mature".
I think the article was referring to the companies on the internet are becoming more mature. That was kind of expected I think. Any gold rush, eventually comes down to those that made out best continuing and becoming more conservative/mature.
I wonder if getting approval to use nuclear weapons is mostly for the threat factor, as with the cold war... Although, considering the suicidal tactics of the terrorist, this argument could be flawed.
Hmmmm...
-Alex
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Although I generally agree with your statement, I have to point out that he indicated the "first" time. If you've not used niutil, you need to figure out the options, then query the tree a couple times to find see how a user is structured. Then you have to go through adding the fields.
I dunno if I consider myself "hardcore", but I've been using/admin'ing UNIX for the last 10 years, and it took me a little less than 30 minutes to figure this out for the first time. Now, it takes less than a minute. NetInfo is similar to something like NIS, but still has its querks that need to be worked out on first attempt.
yeah... the Dock definitely has it's limitations. Personally, they haven't really annoyed me all that much. If they did, I'd get a Dock replacement. I've heard of a few Dock replacements that still have a nice look, but much more functionality.
Unforunately, I don't know the names of any of them, as I haven't had a need to seek one out.
I agree, in terms of what kind of user we're talking about. I still use Linux for server work.
I disagree about the GUI shielding you. I mean... you can pretty much do everything on the command line... you just need to figure out the commands. Hell, I can create a user, vi files, configure server processes, etc. by hand on the command line. No... it's not exactly like how Linux and a few other UNIX's do it... some of which is a little annoying... but it's possible. The real frustration just being "that's not how I used to do it." But lets face it... anyone who is a *real* user should understand/appreciate the difference between frustration due to lack of ability of a system and frustration due to a learning curve.
I still use Linux for my servers however... MacOS X is entirely for my development machine and personal toy.:)
Cheers, -Alex
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A lot of things have been fixed since the 10.0 days. There were some things I wasn't as happy with them.
As for not including the Dev Tools... that's messed up. I would have called Apple and asked, where is my Dev Tools CD!?!? Without the dev tools, you lose access to a large amount of the OSS stuff.
I feel yer pain, but I think your situation was less than common.
The directories are definitely a little different. It's like a combination of standard UNIX, NeXT (similar to many BSD's), and Apple's existing structure. I'd been a UNIX/Linux guy for a good number of years, and was thrown off a little, but quickly adjusted. In all honesty, I kind of like some of the differences... especially the way some of the local user directories are setup. But there are still a few things that are annoying, such as the lack of use of the/etc directory in many situations.
It was the strangest thing to not see my user account in the password file... then I discovered the NetInfo tools (similar to NDIS).
I am not waiting for my second Mac to show up (next week)... a low end Titanium Powerbook. Can't wait!
Cheers, -Alex
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This is an argument that has gone back and forth. I laugh when someone tells me they can get a comparable PC for $1000, compared to the top of the line Dual 1GHz G4.
Yes, I think you could get it for cheaper, but not by much IF you are getting hardware of the same quality. Quality is really the key. The last time I dealt with that $1000 PC argument, I told the guy to go through the cost of the components. The first thing I pointed out was the video card (GeForce4 Titanium). That took away a lot of that $1000 budget right there. After going through it all, and me keeping him in check on quality of the PC parts, the equiv PC came out to about $3000-3500 with no monitor. The top-line G4 runs for about $4300.
Oh... that $3000-3500 for the PC... it doesn't include the licensing for Windows XP, and other applications to bring usability up to par. Yes, you could get Linux, but then there's a loss in hardware compatibility and main-stream application support. The Mac price was with pretty much all the software a typical person would use/need and be quite happy with.
I believe in customization. But I have to agree that refusing to learn the "interface components" as one post said it from the beginning is just stupid. How does one expect to be able to customize a system that they have no understanding of.
I came to OS X via the Linux/PC route (and Windows at work). I took the time to go with the defaults. I figured... why not see what is done for me FIRST before tweaking the hell out of it.
What I found was that I didn't really have to tweak much. At first, I was in my habits from Linux, but came to like the structure of OS X as a guideline.
Since, I've modified a few things. I even have my Linux GNOME toolbar remotely displaying on my OS X desktop (XDarwin in rootless mode), for those Linux apps I still enjoy using.
So... while it's not unreasonable to expect something to be done your way... you shouldn't change something you don't understand and then expect it to behave the way you think it should. Learn first, then customize. Seems like that would be common sense to me. Too bad the average computer user doesn't think that way.
Heck, how many people here NEVER get rid of a computer? Okay, well, maybe not never, but not for a very long time! Even the computers I got through get passed on to my family. I still have my old 386 in a closet here somewhere. No, I'll probably end up using the mother board as art for my wall, but it hasn't been tossed in the trash yet.
Sooo... why would I be paying a recycling tax? Oh yeah! It's so the government can take my money about 5-10 years before they actually use it! This is worse than the notion of social security in the US!!
I mean the government bitches if you owe money to them in taxes. And if you don't have taxes deducted from your checks, they get really pissed if you don't file taxes quarterly. Whine whine whine that they don't have their money immediately. And yet, they expect me to give them my money for use in 5-10 years! Screw that! Bastards!
Yes, I live in California. This is BS! The I'm all for recycling (although I don't do it ALL the time), but the friggen recycle hippies have gone TOO far. This sounds a lot more like political abuse and ignorance to me.
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I don't use IE, but maybe... mixed content means pages that have both secure (SSL) and insecure (normal http). Many browsers complain about this, or give you a warning. Could be related to this.
*shrug*
-Alex
Just in the last week (maybe two), I saw on TechTV and also on the regular news something being referred to as "Drive-by hackers." They were referring to people who used 802.11b enabled laptops to break into people's networking, including businesses.
Looks like we need to shut down the roads too.
-Alex
Most of these theories are philosophical however.
I understand what you mean by the alternate realities, and potentially infinite futures. That's always been the way I've viewed time. Of course, without a deeper scientific understanding of time, these theories don't have much to stand on.
What I was referring to was more along the lines of creating a connection between a present time, and a future time. When that future time is achieved, there will be a connection to travel back and forth. Theoretically, this would be a two-way connection, allowing a return.
Ask all the questions you want about how and why... I won't answer them. These aren't my theories. Try reading more scientific theories based on physics. Philosophy means nothing except to provide for mental masterbation.
-Alex
There's a physicist doing research on ideas surounding time travel. I think he recently published a book which is a theoretical cookbook to building a time machine.
In summary, he explains that the conflicts of meeting yourself, etc. isn't really a "problem". There's no mathematical problem that can be stated or conflicted with that philosophical question. The reason that you can't go back in time prior to the point of creation of the time machine has to do with the connecting ends of a worm hole. If the creation of the time machine creates one end of a worm hole, the other end can only be in the relative future.
I don't claim to understand the physics behind any of this, but that's what some of the leading physicists are thinking.
-Alex
Yes, I don't mean ANY disrespect towards the show. I actually kind of like th cheesy dialog from time to time. It's part of what makes the show fun, since it doesn't ALWAYS take itself so seriously.
:)
I still love that freaky ass episode with the "Amsterdam" of planets. heh. Dargo high on X (well, something like it). Woohoo! heh.
I am waiting for my friend to get his ass over here now, so we can resume out Friday night beer and Sci Fi!
-Alex
I hope that they release it for the updates for Standard OS X. I mean, it DOES ship with Apache.
:)
Crossing those fingers.
-Alex
It's still extremely cheesy. The matured style hasn't changed all that much. I think we've just watched it long enough that it's warped our minds. But hey! I'm not complaining. Some cheese is good!
-Alex
Red hair chick with piercing voice! Mmmmm... I gotta admit... most shows with a bunch of gratuitous gorgeous, barely dressed babes I find to be shallow and badly written.
It's such a relief to have a show that very well written (and with good actors) AND gratuitous babes!
Mmmmmm... red hair chick in one hand, gray chick in the other.... In the immortal words of Joey (Friends), "Put your hands together!" hehehe
Cheers,
-Alex
I have always been against the opt-out strategy for SPAM. I thought it was a stupid idea when it was first proposed as a requirement. And my reasons for this opinion... well, they pretty much started showing up immediately. False "opt-out" links.
The government (and anyone else involved in the opt-out standard) was simply beyond stupid. Although, it's a fine line between stupid an blinded by greed. How could anyone NOT see that opt-out had WAY too many loop holes that would take advantage and abuse the helpless public???
If they were to choose for opt-out, they should have gone with a central "trusted" method of removal. They do this with the post office when you want to be removed from junk mailing lists. How can it not have occured to them that the same should apply to junk-email??? Of COURSE scam artists, and corrupt business will flury with the current opt-out standard. Duh!
I would hope that SOMEONE in control would do the whole "SPAM" registration thing, for several reasons.
1. It would be clear which SPAMers are breaking the law and should be targetted (lower cost to enforce).
2. The public would be better protected.
3. We would KNOW when we should click on the "remove me" link to be removed. Or better yet... just have a standard website, with a SPAM code to enter.
Stupid, ignorant, techno-brain-dead government oficials. *sigh* The worst part being that this effect isn't unique to email. Junk mail and telemarketting fall under the same concept, and yet, have protective rules/laws in place.
*sigh*
-Alex
Actually, I would think that if more sensitive tasks, such as credit card processing were outsourced, it would actually benefit from having a company specialized in outsourcing such services.
I work for such a company. And having come from a web hosting company that did their own credit card processing, I can definitely say the above is true in my experience.
Cheers,
-Alex
Either that, or that use that high heat-conductive foam mentioned a few days ago. :)
:P
See, I pay attention!
Cheers,
-Alex
Sounds nice. Haven't seen one in person... but I can't see spending an additional $1000 for only 1 more inch. I love my 22" though! :)
-Alex
Heh. I gotta admit, as much as Apple has led the pack with certain technologies, sticking with the 1-button mouse was a bad idea.
:)
Having to click and hold WILL take longer than a quick right-click.
I've always been hesitant to accept the scroll wheel movement as well. But once I had one at work, I found it more annoying to not have one at home (when I was strictly a PC/Linux guy), and had to get one. The first thing I got after my new Mac was a Logitech 3 button mouse with scroll wheel!
Glad I did. Maya PLE wouldn't even be usable without the 3 buttons. More input sources, while minimizing motion. Sounds like a good interface choice to me.
-Alex
One thing I've heard rumors of and would REALLY like to see is a better printer subsystem. I was wondering why I couldn't print to my USB printer that's connected to my other Mac via OS X. Today, I read an article about how the printer drivers are currently responsible for the connection method as well.
I dunno how true that is, but it is consistent with what I've heard about the limitations. It would be nice to see printer drivers only being responsible for preparing the data for the printer, and let the OS determine where to send it. Would make sense for the future, especially if we start to see things such as wireless/bluetooth printers, etc. No need to wait an eternity for the manufacturer to create new drivers only for the connection method, if the printer is essentially the same as another. Same driver, different connection. :)
Just my $0.02. :)
-Alex
I remember the days when my dad's friend built me a rubber band gun. He was good with crafting things with wood. It had a wheel with pegs on the upper back part of the gun, with which you would load several rubber bands, and rotate the wheel for each one.
I think it could load 4-5 rubber bands, and pulling the trigger shot one and loaded the next one. Not quite a machine gun, but considering that this was about 20 years ago (Damn, I can't believe I can say that!) it was pretty damn cool.
-Alex
I agree with this entirely. I think the article incorrectly stated what they were really talking about. The internet itself is as you say, growing and being flexible, and not necessarily becoming more "mature".
I think the article was referring to the companies on the internet are becoming more mature. That was kind of expected I think. Any gold rush, eventually comes down to those that made out best continuing and becoming more conservative/mature.
Just my $0.02...
-Alex
I wonder if getting approval to use nuclear weapons is mostly for the threat factor, as with the cold war... Although, considering the suicidal tactics of the terrorist, this argument could be flawed.
Hmmmm...
-Alex
Although I generally agree with your statement, I have to point out that he indicated the "first" time. If you've not used niutil, you need to figure out the options, then query the tree a couple times to find see how a user is structured. Then you have to go through adding the fields.
I dunno if I consider myself "hardcore", but I've been using/admin'ing UNIX for the last 10 years, and it took me a little less than 30 minutes to figure this out for the first time. Now, it takes less than a minute. NetInfo is similar to something like NIS, but still has its querks that need to be worked out on first attempt.
-Alex
yeah... the Dock definitely has it's limitations. Personally, they haven't really annoyed me all that much. If they did, I'd get a Dock replacement. I've heard of a few Dock replacements that still have a nice look, but much more functionality.
Unforunately, I don't know the names of any of them, as I haven't had a need to seek one out.
-Alex
I agree, in terms of what kind of user we're talking about. I still use Linux for server work.
:)
I disagree about the GUI shielding you. I mean... you can pretty much do everything on the command line... you just need to figure out the commands. Hell, I can create a user, vi files, configure server processes, etc. by hand on the command line. No... it's not exactly like how Linux and a few other UNIX's do it... some of which is a little annoying... but it's possible. The real frustration just being "that's not how I used to do it." But lets face it... anyone who is a *real* user should understand/appreciate the difference between frustration due to lack of ability of a system and frustration due to a learning curve.
I still use Linux for my servers however... MacOS X is entirely for my development machine and personal toy.
Cheers,
-Alex
A lot of things have been fixed since the 10.0 days. There were some things I wasn't as happy with them.
/etc directory in many situations.
As for not including the Dev Tools... that's messed up. I would have called Apple and asked, where is my Dev Tools CD!?!? Without the dev tools, you lose access to a large amount of the OSS stuff.
I feel yer pain, but I think your situation was less than common.
The directories are definitely a little different. It's like a combination of standard UNIX, NeXT (similar to many BSD's), and Apple's existing structure. I'd been a UNIX/Linux guy for a good number of years, and was thrown off a little, but quickly adjusted. In all honesty, I kind of like some of the differences... especially the way some of the local user directories are setup. But there are still a few things that are annoying, such as the lack of use of the
It was the strangest thing to not see my user account in the password file... then I discovered the NetInfo tools (similar to NDIS).
I am not waiting for my second Mac to show up (next week)... a low end Titanium Powerbook. Can't wait!
Cheers,
-Alex
This is an argument that has gone back and forth. I laugh when someone tells me they can get a comparable PC for $1000, compared to the top of the line Dual 1GHz G4.
Yes, I think you could get it for cheaper, but not by much IF you are getting hardware of the same quality. Quality is really the key. The last time I dealt with that $1000 PC argument, I told the guy to go through the cost of the components. The first thing I pointed out was the video card (GeForce4 Titanium). That took away a lot of that $1000 budget right there. After going through it all, and me keeping him in check on quality of the PC parts, the equiv PC came out to about $3000-3500 with no monitor. The top-line G4 runs for about $4300.
Oh... that $3000-3500 for the PC... it doesn't include the licensing for Windows XP, and other applications to bring usability up to par. Yes, you could get Linux, but then there's a loss in hardware compatibility and main-stream application support. The Mac price was with pretty much all the software a typical person would use/need and be quite happy with.
Hope that kinda answered your Q...
-Alex
I believe in customization. But I have to agree that refusing to learn the "interface components" as one post said it from the beginning is just stupid. How does one expect to be able to customize a system that they have no understanding of.
I came to OS X via the Linux/PC route (and Windows at work). I took the time to go with the defaults. I figured... why not see what is done for me FIRST before tweaking the hell out of it.
What I found was that I didn't really have to tweak much. At first, I was in my habits from Linux, but came to like the structure of OS X as a guideline.
Since, I've modified a few things. I even have my Linux GNOME toolbar remotely displaying on my OS X desktop (XDarwin in rootless mode), for those Linux apps I still enjoy using.
So... while it's not unreasonable to expect something to be done your way... you shouldn't change something you don't understand and then expect it to behave the way you think it should. Learn first, then customize. Seems like that would be common sense to me. Too bad the average computer user doesn't think that way.
Cheers,
-Alex
Heck, how many people here NEVER get rid of a computer? Okay, well, maybe not never, but not for a very long time! Even the computers I got through get passed on to my family. I still have my old 386 in a closet here somewhere. No, I'll probably end up using the mother board as art for my wall, but it hasn't been tossed in the trash yet.
Sooo... why would I be paying a recycling tax? Oh yeah! It's so the government can take my money about 5-10 years before they actually use it! This is worse than the notion of social security in the US!!
I mean the government bitches if you owe money to them in taxes. And if you don't have taxes deducted from your checks, they get really pissed if you don't file taxes quarterly. Whine whine whine that they don't have their money immediately. And yet, they expect me to give them my money for use in 5-10 years! Screw that! Bastards!
Yes, I live in California. This is BS! The I'm all for recycling (although I don't do it ALL the time), but the friggen recycle hippies have gone TOO far. This sounds a lot more like political abuse and ignorance to me.
-Alex
Hmmm.... I wonder what the increase of mass due to increased population does to the rate of rotation. Hmmmm... Anyone do the math on that?
*smile*
-Alex