it can't click both the left and right button at the same time, and register them as a (left+right) click. Instead, (according to the review) it just gets registered as a left click. Additionally, people who rest their fingers on the mouse buttons are going to be annoyed, because they have to lift their index finger in order to right-click.
Hey, sounds like a great hack just waiting to be done! Go for it, or convince others to... or get a TurboMouse etc. and use their drivers. Or better, save your wrist and explore System Preferences>Keyboard & Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts. Mice, like most things, should be used in moderation.
What makes you think a driver can't call home and register your IP Address to the printer serial number?
Let's see... because I'm a responsible network user and filter outgoing traffic?
Little Snitch works well for me, filters by watching applications rather than ports, and so long as the driver doesn't use a kernel module, catches everything unusual. You might want to look into something like that.
Um, hello geographically-challenged 'murrican AC... I'm reading this thread because I'm about to drive HALFway across the country over the course of a steady six days of driving. Oh, and that would be your larger neighbour to the north, the rather more obvious omission from your list.
ultimately customers will decide that DRM and related tech will fail
Great, just like we got rid of that hated Macrovision. Almost all I talk to about it say "what?" Then they just stay resigned that they can't copy VHS's or DVD's, despite having two decks, and there being obscure but easily obtained circumvention devices.
The vast majority don't know the modern definition of the word "rip." So how are they/we going to make DRM fail through consumer choice, when it's in EVERYthing they buy?
Hardware-wise it's a bit more difficult.
Yes, that's the crux of it. It will be pervasive, like Macrovision and regions. [/cynic]
don't think MS will be able to engineer a position where they are the only technology route to this new type of content. Intel are part of the cadre of vendors working on this, and with Apple working so closely with Intel now, any hooks into this new technology will also be available to Apple
Hm. Another guess why Apple didn't go with AMD: only Intel is strong enough to stand up to MS anti-trust tactics.
Patrick Moore is no longer with GreenPeace, and in fact is one if its harshest critiques. He runs a site called GreenSpirit, which at first glance appears to be "environmentalism for those who aren't brain dead".
Yes, he does hold out the promise of a reasonable approach, but unfortunately he's a highly compromised advocate for industry. His history as a shill is fairly well known locally in BC, once it was outed how tightly he was wound up with the nasty spinmeisters at Burson Marstellar, but elsewhere he's held up as a poster boy. Too bad.
---- Burson Marstellar - Managing perceptions that drive performance -- their slogan.
Even though you weren't alive when he was president.
Now now, whippersnapper. I enjoyed watching Tricky Dick cry live on TV.
I didn't say they ended it honorable, only that it was ended. To be fiar, Nixon also STARTED meddling elsewhere.
That really is a stretch, to think that they actually stopped meddling anywhere, instead of going fully covert, and moving more deeply into economic geopolitics. Kissinger had a keen hand in all of it, along with McNamara (World Bank, '68-81).
Nixon ended America's ineffectual meddling in another nation's internal matters.
Ahahahahaa! {wipes tears} --good one.
Wouldn't you just love to have a frank conversation with Kissinger about how honorably they ended their meddling? Or Poppy "CIA" Bush, for that matter.
Besides running the "greatest" and "latest" OS, why would that bother a DTP professional uses that huge Mac for design on a Apple Talk network?... I mean OS X native or not.
Quark crashes. + Time is money. + Rebooting is slow = OS X smart for a DTP professional. Graphics apps crash, as do the many specialized and networking apps used in publishing. Having an OS that doesn't require rebooting is just money in the bank.
Well, you seem to be Mr. Snarky Iron rather than Mr. Waffle, so I won't insintuate anything obvious like the fact that you're running Panther on the margins, or your chosen resolution may not work very well in OS X with that video card.
But, you may want to look to the fact that some savvy users running new Systems on old Macs with small video cards tweak the settings in serious ways to get things working well. For instance, if you're running panther on a beige g3 (you didn't say) and have done some googling you'd know that it was shoehorned onto that box. If it's a blue and white, then someone may have been using TinkerTool. Just an idea.
What makes you assume that i'm American? Im a half dutch, half east indian man who has lived in Canada for 4 years. It seems you are guilty of the very generalization that you are accusing me of. What im trying to say is: Lighten up and take it back, you bastard!
Now how is that for courteous behaviour? Some adjustment to Canadian norms still under way, eh?
I didn't identify you as American, nor did I ascribe any racial values to your persona, read the post. I wrote that that kind of discourse is what bugs me about the Åmerican Way; you merely provided the opportunity, as the viewpoint on/. is overwhelmingly American, as are the readers. Being a neo-canuck doesn't preclude infection by American memes. In fact, it's the primary battleground in Canadian culture right now.
Dutch and Indian societies have their own variations on the racial insanity front to deal with, from colonialism and caste to immigration and fundamentalism. And you, dear nouveau-canuckian, are evidently not immune from history.
actually have what it takes to put out a paper that singles out a race and shows its genetic differences when compared with the rest of us
See, that discourse about human genetics is one of the things that bothers me most about American mainstream society; the non-biologists (& IANAB) do things like ascribe a "race" to the Ashkenazi. Even though TFA points out this is mainly about culture, the impulse to ascribe genetic details to "race" is just too strong.
Much of the whole polluted discussion about "political correctness" is driven by the aftermath of the political doctrines about race. To a lesser degree, other nations deal with it too, but in the USA daily thought and practice about this is so reductionist and polarized by history that visiting there is always like a nasty dream: the persistent segregation and economic stats, the way people talk about race as though it were some immutable wall. Anti-semitism and zionism are strangely woven into the mix.
These kinds of opportunities to generalize about groups seems very important to Americans. It means that when someone publishes an article on the topic, the hounds are released by someone, no matter the conclusions.
Well, I imagine they can always say "There must be some incompatibility, but since you're running Linux, talk to Linus" and it's gonna be damn hard to disprove. Quite frankly, I'd be running it the other way around; running Windows under Linux (or maybe in the not-so-distant future under MacOS).
Mmm. Imagine a triple-boot system, all native os's, each able to run the others in a separate process. It sounds like Apple might let this happen, Schiller suggested letting third-parties develop a way to run Winders on a Mac:
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
The start of a good day of cross-platform testing: booting up OS X 10.5 and loading $LinuxDistro and WinXYZ in separate processes, at near-native speeds. Or viceversa, if you must. Compatibility complaints will wither.
Apple will be a hardware company for a long while to come, I think.
Dyslexia does not exist. Stupid children who cannot read do exist.
All the dyslexics I know are very smart. One was a civil engineer who went back and got a B.A. in English Lit, Honours. He took three times as long to read everything, because the page distorted into strange patterns for him. His essays were brilliant.
Another is my stepbrother, a respected geomorphologist. I helped him overcome the reading barrier, as the letters rearranged themselves into non-english. He improved. His parents were both highly literate professionals, and he had excellent elementary education.
Another one I'm working with right now has the whole page look like it's shifting into hyperspace, or like some funky concrete poetry. She's a psychologist working on a post-doc. All intelligent, ad nauseum.
I also used to tutor stupid kids who couldn't read. They invariably had too much cathode ray tube exposure and no books in the house, and stupid parents who never read to them. None of them were dyslexic.
Likewise with the rest of your cadged assertions... these are real problems that have been overdiagnosed, undoubtedly, to the detriment of the real sufferers. I know an actual ADD sufferer (runs her own successful web publishing and video business), and I know kids who had ritalin forced on them due to misdiagnosis. Your muddying of the waters, however, is a troll.
the classic Mac was also hit very hard in the past
There were many nasty malware traps for the pre-Mach Mac. Disinfectant (freeware) easily took care of the early ones and some simple precautions took care of many others.
I was always prudent with the Macs I supported (all heavily networked from the 80's on), but it was nowhere near the gut-wrenching havoc we had to fend off on DOS and its offspring.
I think it's misstating the case to say that classic Macs were hard-hit in comparison.
I can't with a straight face tell people in the real world running small business that they are going to be happier with Macs. Because the first time a customer or vendor says, "ya get the image file, its in our proprietary format", just download the software for it. ( it will only run on a Windows machine ).
To which there are two answers: download Graphic Converter (shareware) to open up damn near anything, or "can't you just use a simple TIFF/PDF/JPG/$COMMONFORMAT?"
Of course the other option for Mac users dealing in graphics is VirtualPC, for just this purpose plus testing... or an old P3 500 in a closet for emergencies.
Small businesses often find Macs cheaper due to lack of downtime and no need for a service contract, as well as the ease of deployment, simpler user support, better security, and a longer upgrade cycle. ROI is very good as well, not to mention slower depreciation. The main reason to avoid Macs for small business is being wedded to some niche program like ACCPAC... but that can be limited to that one machine that needs it.
When a customer buys gadget X, it will work with windows.
Yes, after your witch doctor is done blessing it.:-P
Mac ownership = installed user base... don't have figures on that but in the late 90's it was around 50 million.
Market share means percentage of what's being sold, a useful figure for projecting influence and company health, but it's generally confused with 'how many Macs are out there being used' -- especially by trade press.
The long service life of Macs adds significantly to the installed user base. I'd like to see more reliable recent figures, if anyone knows where I can find them.
These stats are part of an overall climate of FUD, the fog of commercial war; the stats on media player usage are equally confusing.
I've had numerous problems on numerous B&W G3's with various versions of Panther including.0, and most often it is the same blankscreen noboot problem, requiring a total motherboard reset (take out battery, let capacitors drain, CUDA switch, NVRAM, etc.). I've been up and down and all over this one, and it keeps cropping up, have practically rebuilt one to eliminate all the hardware gotchas (RAM, rev. 1 HD probs, cabling, etc.). I've had enough of this to move from anecdote to data.
This isn't speed related, or bad RAM. I'm posting from a slow G3 that has run all versions of Panther flawlessly since it came out, and I've updated dozens of low-end G3's.
My advice? the Blue and White is a great OS 9 machine.
I know you're tring to be funny, but for those that take the parent seriously, that wasn't innovation, that was another aspect of chronic feature-itis. Looks like innovation at first, but merely a decent idea (not all that new either) horribly implemented. How very MS.
Yes, well, I'm about to move to a rural place that is within eyeshot of Vancouver, yet v.90 is still the best bet, unless you're living on one of the hills that gets good wireless. No DSL yet, despite petitioning for years. About 30 households in the community get cable access, no more cable will be run. So no, broadband is not everywhere, sadly for me.
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Hey, sounds like a great hack just waiting to be done! Go for it, or convince others to... or get a TurboMouse etc. and use their drivers. Or better, save your wrist and explore System Preferences>Keyboard & Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts. Mice, like most things, should be used in moderation.
Let's see... because I'm a responsible network user and filter outgoing traffic?
Little Snitch works well for me, filters by watching applications rather than ports, and so long as the driver doesn't use a kernel module, catches everything unusual. You might want to look into something like that.
Um, hello geographically-challenged 'murrican AC... I'm reading this thread because I'm about to drive HALFway across the country over the course of a steady six days of driving. Oh, and that would be your larger neighbour to the north, the rather more obvious omission from your list.
To paraphrase an old saw: Power doesn't come from the end of a gun. Power comes from the look in peoples' eyes.
The death knell for a repressive regime sounds when hundreds of thousands take to the streets... unless you're in the USA.
Great, just like we got rid of that hated Macrovision. Almost all I talk to about it say "what?" Then they just stay resigned that they can't copy VHS's or DVD's, despite having two decks, and there being obscure but easily obtained circumvention devices.
The vast majority don't know the modern definition of the word "rip." So how are they/we going to make DRM fail through consumer choice, when it's in EVERYthing they buy?
Hardware-wise it's a bit more difficult.
Yes, that's the crux of it. It will be pervasive, like Macrovision and regions. [/cynic]
Hm. Another guess why Apple didn't go with AMD: only Intel is strong enough to stand up to MS anti-trust tactics.
Yes, he does hold out the promise of a reasonable approach, but unfortunately he's a highly compromised advocate for industry. His history as a shill is fairly well known locally in BC, once it was outed how tightly he was wound up with the nasty spinmeisters at Burson Marstellar, but elsewhere he's held up as a poster boy. Too bad.
----
Burson Marstellar - Managing perceptions that drive performance -- their slogan.
Now now, whippersnapper. I enjoyed watching Tricky Dick cry live on TV.
I didn't say they ended it honorable, only that it was ended. To be fiar, Nixon also STARTED meddling elsewhere.
That really is a stretch, to think that they actually stopped meddling anywhere, instead of going fully covert, and moving more deeply into economic geopolitics. Kissinger had a keen hand in all of it, along with McNamara (World Bank, '68-81).
Ahahahahaa! {wipes tears} --good one.
Wouldn't you just love to have a frank conversation with Kissinger about how honorably they ended their meddling? Or Poppy "CIA" Bush, for that matter.
Quark crashes. + Time is money. + Rebooting is slow = OS X smart for a DTP professional. Graphics apps crash, as do the many specialized and networking apps used in publishing. Having an OS that doesn't require rebooting is just money in the bank.
Toe. Toe the party line. As in "Toe the line, you grunts!"
Someone who tows the party line is a leader, making changes.
Well, you seem to be Mr. Snarky Iron rather than Mr. Waffle, so I won't insintuate anything obvious like the fact that you're running Panther on the margins, or your chosen resolution may not work very well in OS X with that video card.
But, you may want to look to the fact that some savvy users running new Systems on old Macs with small video cards tweak the settings in serious ways to get things working well. For instance, if you're running panther on a beige g3 (you didn't say) and have done some googling you'd know that it was shoehorned onto that box. If it's a blue and white, then someone may have been using TinkerTool. Just an idea.
An Intel Apple: Mac programmer, meet divide-by-zero errors.
Now how is that for courteous behaviour? Some adjustment to Canadian norms still under way, eh?
I didn't identify you as American, nor did I ascribe any racial values to your persona, read the post. I wrote that that kind of discourse is what bugs me about the Åmerican Way; you merely provided the opportunity, as the viewpoint on /. is overwhelmingly American, as are the readers. Being a neo-canuck doesn't preclude infection by American memes. In fact, it's the primary battleground in Canadian culture right now.
Dutch and Indian societies have their own variations on the racial insanity front to deal with, from colonialism and caste to immigration and fundamentalism. And you, dear nouveau-canuckian, are evidently not immune from history.
See, that discourse about human genetics is one of the things that bothers me most about American mainstream society; the non-biologists (& IANAB) do things like ascribe a "race" to the Ashkenazi. Even though TFA points out this is mainly about culture, the impulse to ascribe genetic details to "race" is just too strong.
Much of the whole polluted discussion about "political correctness" is driven by the aftermath of the political doctrines about race. To a lesser degree, other nations deal with it too, but in the USA daily thought and practice about this is so reductionist and polarized by history that visiting there is always like a nasty dream: the persistent segregation and economic stats, the way people talk about race as though it were some immutable wall. Anti-semitism and zionism are strangely woven into the mix.
These kinds of opportunities to generalize about groups seems very important to Americans. It means that when someone publishes an article on the topic, the hounds are released by someone, no matter the conclusions.
Mmm. Imagine a triple-boot system, all native os's, each able to run the others in a separate process. It sounds like Apple might let this happen, Schiller suggested letting third-parties develop a way to run Winders on a Mac:
The start of a good day of cross-platform testing: booting up OS X 10.5 and loading $LinuxDistro and WinXYZ in separate processes, at near-native speeds. Or viceversa, if you must. Compatibility complaints will wither.
Apple will be a hardware company for a long while to come, I think.
You would be looking for the MacHairdryer, then. Not as quiet, but fast, and dual function if you put it at head height!
All the dyslexics I know are very smart. One was a civil engineer who went back and got a B.A. in English Lit, Honours. He took three times as long to read everything, because the page distorted into strange patterns for him. His essays were brilliant.
Another is my stepbrother, a respected geomorphologist. I helped him overcome the reading barrier, as the letters rearranged themselves into non-english. He improved. His parents were both highly literate professionals, and he had excellent elementary education.
Another one I'm working with right now has the whole page look like it's shifting into hyperspace, or like some funky concrete poetry. She's a psychologist working on a post-doc. All intelligent, ad nauseum.
I also used to tutor stupid kids who couldn't read. They invariably had too much cathode ray tube exposure and no books in the house, and stupid parents who never read to them. None of them were dyslexic.
Likewise with the rest of your cadged assertions... these are real problems that have been overdiagnosed, undoubtedly, to the detriment of the real sufferers. I know an actual ADD sufferer (runs her own successful web publishing and video business), and I know kids who had ritalin forced on them due to misdiagnosis. Your muddying of the waters, however, is a troll.
There were many nasty malware traps for the pre-Mach Mac. Disinfectant (freeware) easily took care of the early ones and some simple precautions took care of many others.
I was always prudent with the Macs I supported (all heavily networked from the 80's on), but it was nowhere near the gut-wrenching havoc we had to fend off on DOS and its offspring.
I think it's misstating the case to say that classic Macs were hard-hit in comparison.
I think ... something was lost in translation, there. What are you trying to say?
To which there are two answers: download Graphic Converter (shareware) to open up damn near anything, or "can't you just use a simple TIFF/PDF/JPG/$COMMONFORMAT?"
Of course the other option for Mac users dealing in graphics is VirtualPC, for just this purpose plus testing... or an old P3 500 in a closet for emergencies.
Small businesses often find Macs cheaper due to lack of downtime and no need for a service contract, as well as the ease of deployment, simpler user support, better security, and a longer upgrade cycle. ROI is very good as well, not to mention slower depreciation. The main reason to avoid Macs for small business is being wedded to some niche program like ACCPAC... but that can be limited to that one machine that needs it.
When a customer buys gadget X, it will work with windows.
Yes, after your witch doctor is done blessing it. :-P
Mac ownership = installed user base... don't have figures on that but in the late 90's it was around 50 million.
Market share means percentage of what's being sold, a useful figure for projecting influence and company health, but it's generally confused with 'how many Macs are out there being used' -- especially by trade press.
The long service life of Macs adds significantly to the installed user base. I'd like to see more reliable recent figures, if anyone knows where I can find them.
These stats are part of an overall climate of FUD, the fog of commercial war; the stats on media player usage are equally confusing.
I've had numerous problems on numerous B&W G3's with various versions of Panther including .0, and most often it is the same blankscreen noboot problem, requiring a total motherboard reset (take out battery, let capacitors drain, CUDA switch, NVRAM, etc.). I've been up and down and all over this one, and it keeps cropping up, have practically rebuilt one to eliminate all the hardware gotchas (RAM, rev. 1 HD probs, cabling, etc.). I've had enough of this to move from anecdote to data.
This isn't speed related, or bad RAM. I'm posting from a slow G3 that has run all versions of Panther flawlessly since it came out, and I've updated dozens of low-end G3's.
My advice? the Blue and White is a great OS 9 machine.
I know you're tring to be funny, but for those that take the parent seriously, that wasn't innovation, that was another aspect of chronic feature-itis. Looks like innovation at first, but merely a decent idea (not all that new either) horribly implemented. How very MS.
Yes, well, I'm about to move to a rural place that is within eyeshot of Vancouver, yet v.90 is still the best bet, unless you're living on one of the hills that gets good wireless. No DSL yet, despite petitioning for years. About 30 households in the community get cable access, no more cable will be run. So no, broadband is not everywhere, sadly for me.