Then why did Sr write a book about why he didn't try to overthrow Saddam in the Gulf War, citing his main reason as there being no support for the action and no real exit strategy for the US troops. Almost all of the things he warned about in his book have come to pass under his son's presidency.
Who cares about how true it is (there have been 2 such updates) but still, I laughed.
Like Microsoft, Apple issues periodic security patches, but they are less frequent than the Windows patches -- and some of them are needed to repair flaws in the software programs Microsoft writes for the Mac.
For buyers of 10.0 or crafty upgrders who knew how to "hack" the free upgrade CDs available at participating locations. That said, 10.0 was unusable atrocity and there is no way Jobs could have gotten away with charging for 10.1.
The fast user switching animation isn't that gratuitous... It's cool for non-tech people to see a nifty metaphor for multiple desktops and if the graphics card can't handle it without looking terrible, it just doesn't do the animation. It's a pretty good concept.
The instant claim just sounds like an "instant rebate" deal. Sure, there are forms to fill out etc, and if one bounces or is denied for whatever reason, the person will be billed for the products or services they acquired under the instant approval option. I'd assume the person gets billed for the things they buy but once completed, the claim gets used as credit.
Only frauds are hurt by this. I did read the article but am I missing anything important here? Microsoft is angry why?
Carnegie Mellon has several CS labs filled with flat iMacs running a custom install of OS X. I visited the campus and it all works perfectly. The top tech school in the US pulled it off, why not follow their lead?
To a certain degree that's true. History does have a good track record of people being afraid of technology, but never before since electricity has an invention like the silicon chip and all the other technologies that came with it (digital optical storage media, PCs, the Internet, etc) invaded so quickly and had such an impact on society. That sort of impact our grandparents may have caught the very tail end of (they were children of the electrical age, just like most of us are children of the computer age.) Not very much changed in the way average people conducted everyday life in my parent's lifetime. They've lived their whole lives without a change as dramatic as the silicon chip.
My dad can't figure out for the life of him how to set a digital, embedded clock. Microwaves, cars, alarm clocks, watches, VCRs (which people joke about but it's honestly not that hard).. it just baffles him. I bet most of us here are able to recognize the regular patterns and behaviors of electronic controls for such things. It's not something that can be easily taught. You can't teach instinct. I believe that every time something truly revolutionary comes around, people who were born without it have an extremely difficult time adapting. The competency line moves up and down in relation to the general population.
Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, addresses this in one of his books. He calls it the competancy line. It's rising every day. He realized that he'd been overtaken it when a trip to the airport to sign up for a flight, use free airline miles, and run through the whole process got so complex that he couldn't do it all by himself. The problem is, it's a pretty scary truth. People these days have to remeber how to do so many things just to get through everyday life!
Most of us are so used to all the things we need to know by now but many people out there, my parents for example, are afraid of ATM machines, TiVo, computers, cell phones, fax machines, digital answering machines, call waiting, cd players, DVD players (why do you need a menu, I want to push in the tape and press play!). They just simply can't deal with much modern technology. My mother doesn't want to have to remeber how to do anything. If she can't figure it out on intuition, then she won't be bothered. That said, many Slashdotters may be aware of the sudden loss of literacy many people suffer from wjile in front of a computer:^D
(I get a call in my room at school. It's my mother. It's [I assume the computer] asking me: "Do you wish to save this document," what should I do? Well, do you want to save it? Yes. Then press Save. Oh, ok, that took care of it, thanks, click)
I end up being goaded into doing all her typing because she simply doesn't want to learn how to use a word processor. They can't cope for some reason.
I, however seem to maybe force a bit too much of it on them because I'm a huge technophile. Gotta go, my mother is in the next room screaming: "What is this TiVo central thing. WHERE IS MY TELEVISION!"
Depending on how all those MMORPG cases turn out, I think I might sue the mods here for THEFT OF KARMA. Had I given it out in a troll, that would have been one thing. I didn't, it was a joke. Chill back.
Darwin 6.8 sequesters all available computing power and peripherals, sets fire to your house, kills you and you family, and on certain machines disables the ethernet port.
Users in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned flaws.
Be de de de duleee de de de... be dum, be dum, chchchchchchchchhchchcococococococococococoeeckeck eckeckecec!!!
Man, I used to hear that at least 10-11 times every day for over 6 years. I guess I kind of miss it now, what, with DSL and all. I still hum it sometimes. That and the Epson printer startup procedure. Sometimes I even do into the double head cleaning extended version!
to resolve the ethernet, battery and backlit keyboard issues. My only question is: how is Apple going to get the update to G4 users whose only method of getting the patch is via what it's repairing? This could turn out to be costly for Apple and quite annoying for a few people.
The more communication devices in a pub, the greater likelyhood for social disaster. Every single guy who drunkenly IMs his girlfriend to tell her about the hottie he's been mackin' in the bar will be out for your head.
Actually, on a real Windows machine with IE 6, it renders perfectly. Apple took the time to adjust the page to IE's quirks and it shows. When you take the IE quirk code and render it in Safari, of course the result is going to look odd.
I was more contrasting Apple's development of Mac OS X to that of Windows XP. When Apple took NeXt Step, it was about as far as Windows NT 3 in terms of usability on a modern consumer desktop. Then they banged out an NT 4 equivalent in the public beta back in 1999. They pulled off 10.0 to 10.1 around 2001 to meet Windows 2000. Then came Jaguar in 2002 to meet Windows XP. They kept up with Microsoft and were, in fact, blasting by them. Longhorn has been delayed to 2005. Mac OS X 10.3 comes out late this year! Apple is blasting through with Mac OS X in hyper-development. It's costing a lot put the point is, they have nowhere near the type of resources Microsoft has! Not even close! But they're dong it and Apple fans like myself are footing the bill (quite literally, I'm happy to do it, $120 a year is cool for this speed of OS progression, though others think not)
I think Apple likes it very much when someone buys their hardware and runs Linux on it. The large margins on their boxen help cover OS X R&D (which is more expensive than you could possibly fathom, a full modern OS in 4 years, wait, what?!). They even have a reseller that is allowed to sell Macs pre-installed with Linux, unlike MS, who threaten any Wintel PC makers who try to offer Linux on their boxes with expensive licensing.
Plus, Mac OS X plays very nicely with Linux boxes and they know it. I just hope Apple will help the small Linux on Mac community integrate their software and proprietary hardware for at least full functionality. I have a feeling they will.
The way iTunes DRM works makes things much simpler and less controlling but also takes away the user's ability to transfer songs. When you download a song, Apple attaches a DRM "lock" to the actual music file. Then, when you register your computer with Apple they give you the "key." That way, you only need to be online to get your computer the key. Other than that, iTunes never phones home about any use of the songs. In order to transfer a song, Apple would need to make the original purchase invalid and create a new one. There is no way to invalidate just one purchase under the system. You'd have to give the buyer your whole account. Or yourself a whole new account. Even then, you could easily keep all your old (and sold!) music on another machine that hasn't synced to the internet. The beauty of Apple's system is the freedom it gives the user, like true ownership. No cage comes down around the music if you have no network connection.
On the bright side, let's say you want to unload your whole collection of music. You could literally SELL your whole account with all your music after removing your credit info. Now that seems like a realistic sale. Selling just one song 99 makes little sense. Selling hundreds to someone who likes your taste just might work very well. The buyer of your account would know if you were still holding on to an authorization key because iTunes would tell them so.
Does not play iTMS DRMed files Costs the same amount as the iPod ($399, 20GB Models) Is larger and heavier than the iPod: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz. vs 4.1" x 2.4" x.62", 5.6oz. Cannot use Firewire or USB 2.0 without a special "backpack" (iPod uses a USB/2.0 adaptor kit to translate pins) Not nearly as good looking Difficult syncing No smart playlists No Mac support
Your average listener does not have any OGG Vorbis files. The FM transmitter and tuner sound cool but not cool enough. Apple will add voice recording to the iPod with a firmware update, the hardware to do so is already in place. This player sounds cool but it's by no means at all an iPod killer. Has any one out there actually used one as well as an iPod? How do their features compare? Ease of use?
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Then why did Sr write a book about why he didn't try to overthrow Saddam in the Gulf War, citing his main reason as there being no support for the action and no real exit strategy for the US troops. Almost all of the things he warned about in his book have come to pass under his son's presidency.
I disagree with you about GB Sr. He was a pretty good president and reasonably intelligent man. His son is far more right wing and far more dangerous.
Who cares about how true it is (there have been 2 such updates) but still, I laughed.
Like Microsoft, Apple issues periodic security patches, but they are less frequent than the Windows patches -- and some of them are needed to repair flaws in the software programs Microsoft writes for the Mac.
For buyers of 10.0 or crafty upgrders who knew how to "hack" the free upgrade CDs available at participating locations. That said, 10.0 was unusable atrocity and there is no way Jobs could have gotten away with charging for 10.1.
The fast user switching animation isn't that gratuitous... It's cool for non-tech people to see a nifty metaphor for multiple desktops and if the graphics card can't handle it without looking terrible, it just doesn't do the animation. It's a pretty good concept.
Personally, I own the C++ loop code.
for ([number type] [variable] = [starting number]; [variable] [operator] [ending condition value]; [variable][shorthand operator])
{
// Code goes here
};
PAY UP, CHUMPS!
The iTunes burning feature supports sorting and renaming songs for MP3 CDs, even creating playlists based on folders right from the program.
The instant claim just sounds like an "instant rebate" deal. Sure, there are forms to fill out etc, and if one bounces or is denied for whatever reason, the person will be billed for the products or services they acquired under the instant approval option. I'd assume the person gets billed for the things they buy but once completed, the claim gets used as credit.
Only frauds are hurt by this. I did read the article but am I missing anything important here? Microsoft is angry why?
I can't guess if this is flamebait or misinformation. Eh, probably flamebait. Go away.
Carnegie Mellon has several CS labs filled with flat iMacs running a custom install of OS X. I visited the campus and it all works perfectly. The top tech school in the US pulled it off, why not follow their lead?
To a certain degree that's true. History does have a good track record of people being afraid of technology, but never before since electricity has an invention like the silicon chip and all the other technologies that came with it (digital optical storage media, PCs, the Internet, etc) invaded so quickly and had such an impact on society. That sort of impact our grandparents may have caught the very tail end of (they were children of the electrical age, just like most of us are children of the computer age.) Not very much changed in the way average people conducted everyday life in my parent's lifetime. They've lived their whole lives without a change as dramatic as the silicon chip.
My dad can't figure out for the life of him how to set a digital, embedded clock. Microwaves, cars, alarm clocks, watches, VCRs (which people joke about but it's honestly not that hard).. it just baffles him. I bet most of us here are able to recognize the regular patterns and behaviors of electronic controls for such things. It's not something that can be easily taught. You can't teach instinct. I believe that every time something truly revolutionary comes around, people who were born without it have an extremely difficult time adapting. The competency line moves up and down in relation to the general population.
Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, addresses this in one of his books. He calls it the competancy line. It's rising every day. He realized that he'd been overtaken it when a trip to the airport to sign up for a flight, use free airline miles, and run through the whole process got so complex that he couldn't do it all by himself. The problem is, it's a pretty scary truth. People these days have to remeber how to do so many things just to get through everyday life!
:^D
Most of us are so used to all the things we need to know by now but many people out there, my parents for example, are afraid of ATM machines, TiVo, computers, cell phones, fax machines, digital answering machines, call waiting, cd players, DVD players (why do you need a menu, I want to push in the tape and press play!). They just simply can't deal with much modern technology. My mother doesn't want to have to remeber how to do anything. If she can't figure it out on intuition, then she won't be bothered. That said, many Slashdotters may be aware of the sudden loss of literacy many people suffer from wjile in front of a computer
(I get a call in my room at school. It's my mother. It's [I assume the computer] asking me: "Do you wish to save this document," what should I do? Well, do you want to save it? Yes. Then press Save. Oh, ok, that took care of it, thanks, click)
I end up being goaded into doing all her typing because she simply doesn't want to learn how to use a word processor. They can't cope for some reason.
I, however seem to maybe force a bit too much of it on them because I'm a huge technophile. Gotta go, my mother is in the next room screaming: "What is this TiVo central thing. WHERE IS MY TELEVISION!"
This is offtopic, not a troll. Would the mods please put down the crack pipe here?
Heh, worse. It got modded down as overrated!
Depending on how all those MMORPG cases turn out, I think I might sue the mods here for THEFT OF KARMA. Had I given it out in a troll, that would have been one thing. I didn't, it was a joke. Chill back.
Don't make a topic joking about the flaws in 10.2.8 carrying over to Darwin though, then you might have you post modded as a troll!
Darwin 6.8 sequesters all available computing power and peripherals, sets fire to your house, kills you and you family, and on certain machines disables the ethernet port. Users in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned flaws.
Be de de de duleee de de de... be dum, be dum, chchchchchchchchhchchcococococococococococoeeckeck eckeckecec!!!
Man, I used to hear that at least 10-11 times every day for over 6 years. I guess I kind of miss it now, what, with DSL and all. I still hum it sometimes. That and the Epson printer startup procedure. Sometimes I even do into the double head cleaning extended version!
to resolve the ethernet, battery and backlit keyboard issues. My only question is: how is Apple going to get the update to G4 users whose only method of getting the patch is via what it's repairing? This could turn out to be costly for Apple and quite annoying for a few people.
The more communication devices in a pub, the greater likelyhood for social disaster. Every single guy who drunkenly IMs his girlfriend to tell her about the hottie he's been mackin' in the bar will be out for your head.
Actually, on a real Windows machine with IE 6, it renders perfectly. Apple took the time to adjust the page to IE's quirks and it shows. When you take the IE quirk code and render it in Safari, of course the result is going to look odd.
I was more contrasting Apple's development of Mac OS X to that of Windows XP. When Apple took NeXt Step, it was about as far as Windows NT 3 in terms of usability on a modern consumer desktop. Then they banged out an NT 4 equivalent in the public beta back in 1999. They pulled off 10.0 to 10.1 around 2001 to meet Windows 2000. Then came Jaguar in 2002 to meet Windows XP. They kept up with Microsoft and were, in fact, blasting by them. Longhorn has been delayed to 2005. Mac OS X 10.3 comes out late this year! Apple is blasting through with Mac OS X in hyper-development. It's costing a lot put the point is, they have nowhere near the type of resources Microsoft has! Not even close! But they're dong it and Apple fans like myself are footing the bill (quite literally, I'm happy to do it, $120 a year is cool for this speed of OS progression, though others think not)
I think Apple likes it very much when someone buys their hardware and runs Linux on it. The large margins on their boxen help cover OS X R&D (which is more expensive than you could possibly fathom, a full modern OS in 4 years, wait, what?!). They even have a reseller that is allowed to sell Macs pre-installed with Linux, unlike MS, who threaten any Wintel PC makers who try to offer Linux on their boxes with expensive licensing.
Plus, Mac OS X plays very nicely with Linux boxes and they know it. I just hope Apple will help the small Linux on Mac community integrate their software and proprietary hardware for at least full functionality. I have a feeling they will.
The way iTunes DRM works makes things much simpler and less controlling but also takes away the user's ability to transfer songs. When you download a song, Apple attaches a DRM "lock" to the actual music file. Then, when you register your computer with Apple they give you the "key." That way, you only need to be online to get your computer the key. Other than that, iTunes never phones home about any use of the songs. In order to transfer a song, Apple would need to make the original purchase invalid and create a new one. There is no way to invalidate just one purchase under the system. You'd have to give the buyer your whole account. Or yourself a whole new account. Even then, you could easily keep all your old (and sold!) music on another machine that hasn't synced to the internet. The beauty of Apple's system is the freedom it gives the user, like true ownership. No cage comes down around the music if you have no network connection.
On the bright side, let's say you want to unload your whole collection of music. You could literally SELL your whole account with all your music after removing your credit info. Now that seems like a realistic sale. Selling just one song 99 makes little sense. Selling hundreds to someone who likes your taste just might work very well. The buyer of your account would know if you were still holding on to an authorization key because iTunes would tell them so.
Does not play iTMS DRMed files .62", 5.6oz.
Costs the same amount as the iPod ($399, 20GB Models)
Is larger and heavier than the iPod: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz. vs 4.1" x 2.4" x
Cannot use Firewire or USB 2.0 without a special "backpack" (iPod uses a USB/2.0 adaptor kit to translate pins)
Not nearly as good looking
Difficult syncing
No smart playlists
No Mac support
Your average listener does not have any OGG Vorbis files. The FM transmitter and tuner sound cool but not cool enough. Apple will add voice recording to the iPod with a firmware update, the hardware to do so is already in place. This player sounds cool but it's by no means at all an iPod killer. Has any one out there actually used one as well as an iPod? How do their features compare? Ease of use?