I went absolutely nuts updating machines in my workplace for the MS Blaster worm. Take a look of one of my user's desktop for an example of why.
I have to say: updating these machines is a completely and utter waste of my time and skills but it definatly keeps me employed. My boss is so apathetic that he never wants to make changes. I've offered on several occasions of virus outbreaks in the company to switch everyone to mozilla mail so we'd stop getting those Lookout (Outlook) viruses. But no!
I swear if i ever own my own company, everyone will Linux dummy terminals or iMacs, etc -- something ease to remotely update and maintain.
Not when you manage a webserver and mailserver yourself, and can put a free webmail program on the webserver. I couldn't live without webmail sometimes, especially on the go. It's actually easy to set up even if all you have is the webserver portion. If your mail server supports imap and authenticated smtp, then you just need a machine that can run php/apache with a static ip.
It's "homogenized." I spelled it properly, so it should be no problem for you if you read my post.
pardon me, i didn't know you were a spelling nazi. if you looked at my post, you'd notice i spelled it properly the first time but screwed it up the second.
And macs still constitute like 1% or 2% of the total desktops, so even if you managed to infect every mac out there the effect on the net would hardly be noticeable.
I love it. every good troll has to slip in a comment that has nothing to do with the argument in the first place, being that macs are harder to infect with viruses, irreguardless of the market share (which is more like 3%).
macs are a bit more homogenized, so if a virus came out that effected os x, it would pretty much work on every os x machine. however, unix by it's nature is a more secure design. separation of privledges (root/users) and a general better trackrecord of security flaws in general shows that it is more secure than windows will/if ever be.
with linux it gets even better. the words "homoginized" and "linux" barely to go together at all. linux has different directory layouts, libraries, and services per distro. the only way you could guarantee to get a virus to run in linux is to staticly compile it. all in all if everyone were using mac or osx tomorrow, viruses would become a very rare occurance in the computer world, and the speed at which a patch is released would be 10 times faster than windows.
Futurama (made by Matt Groening) was a lot better than Simpsons ever was. Though i'm sure that will start a holy war.
The simspsons was geared a lot towards children usually, where I always felt Futurama was more for adults (Any one remember the death by snu-snu joke in the amazon woman episode?)
Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix:(
I've always been a firm believer that if I wasn't as technologically compotent as I am, I'd probably be a much happier person in general. But you can't unlearn, and I've come to realize that I'd rather be aware of technology than let it overleap me.
i agree with you, having used expose. however, there is absolutely no elegant replacement for some of the benefits you get out of tabs. one such benefit (albet funny but a perfectly valid example) is porn. when i have a page of 20 thumbnails, by god i want to cmd+click all 20 and let them load in separate threads, all isolated to one convient minimizable/closable window. a feature like this might be replicable with a complex system of open new window under (so the window doesn't lose focus) or some other bizzare workaround, but the simple fact is tabs are here to stay in browsers. it's like releasing a browser without bookmarks -- it's practically expected and it's practically a standard. if IE 7 with longhorn doesn't have tabs, you can gleefully take joy in the fact that microsoft's browser war will lose horribly.
A friend of mine, Hani, who is from Egypt told me a joke once. "What do you call a person that only speaks one language?"
A: An american
It's quite true when you think about it. He said in when he was growing up he had a choice between going to a french school or an english school where the given language was tought just as much as arabic. Americans really need to be tought french or spanish at a MUCH younger age (say 5 right as they start kindergarden).
DRM is always bad, especially if you notice it when it's too late.
This is what people many don't realize, unfortunatly. The words "Digital Rights Management" impose the wrong feeling on people in the first place. It sounds more like it's empowering the user, when instead it's empowering the media corporations.
I hope the users will learn from this and boycott the iTunes store unless they remove the DRM from their songs.
Unfortunatly, as many have already said, this is the RIAA's doing, not Apple. It's kind of like the region encoded DVD situation. there is no good reason for the consumer why DVD X should only work in country Y. But it's there due to international restrictions/licensing/laws etc.
First off, kudos for doing whole albums instead of track-by-track. This allows experimentation and breadth of style.
First off, kudos for doing track-by-track and not whole albums. This allows me to sample individual songs and not have to pay the full price of an album if the first few tracks sucked.
HOPEFULLY? This has always been one of the things that pissed me off about my cable internet provider. Not only does my service get slower due to incremental caps of bandwidth, but they don't drop the price, or have any future intent of improving the service.
I mean why should they bother? It's not like I can get up and switch to a faster service that costs the same or less.
The.box file format simply contains a short header with some useful metadata, like maybe a checksum, and the filing system it contains (maybe that isn't needed).
I've been long wanting a transparent "boxing" system like this on a per file system basis, to the extent that we could erradicate and at the same time standardize the metadata format of all files instead of having different headers to parse for mp3s, avis, mpgs, pdfs, jpgs, etc etc. The biggest issue with a system like this though, is once you want the changes to move from one system to another you're stuck with the same problem Mac OS 9 (and rarely but occasionaly mac os x) still had -- you can't save that extra data without zipping it up in a file format that has the ability to save that information and truncate it on operating systems where there is no mechanism to store it. Then you're left with a container, wrapped in a container, containing finally the file. It's a pickle, and one that would greatly benefit the end user if we could just standardize cross-platform external file meta data, but don't expect Redmond to comply any time between now and the next few years. Maybe Longhorn's SQL middle man will be able to fix this gap for the microsoft camp.
I had the pleasure of sitting in on a "Q and A" session with an adobe rep, while I was at RIT. The rep (perhaps not the position of the entire company) basically didn't like the mac platform. He complained about how it was more to support, and changed more frequently than the windows counterpart. This of course costs them more in development and support. Granted this was not long after the OS 9 -> OS X transition, so of course adobe is going to bitch that the platform changes too much because they just dumped the whole API adobe products were based off of. Carbon helped fill this gap but it's by no stretch a the cure-all.
I wonder if this is the general feel of Adobe developers however.
not that i don't agree with you mr. AC, but i think he makes an excellent point. For the vast majority of society he's seen as one of the most prominant leaders, and he's got that position for many well deserved reasons. the kernel he made is certainly an important part of that position, but look at how ridigely he tries to stand in the middle of this entire dynamically changing OSS community as an unwavering leader.
if linus were tomorrow start working at red hat and only code additional changes for their version of linux, the entire community would become lopsided.
the socialogical and economic changes for the betterment of the world linus has sparked are in many ways directly because of his contributions to the linux kernel, and isn't that what the peace prize is about?
Their scheme for OS X is the equivalent of Microsoft charging $100+ for a service pack, I just don't understand it.
The difference is, for that $100 you fund R&D for a better operating system with better apps than their windows counterparts. i mean come on, lets look at the list:
Windows Media Player - QuickTime/iTunes: iTunes has a music store and superior interface
Windows Messenger - iChat AV: Messenger only works with messenger, at least iChat works with every other AIM Client and can also work with ICQ Lite now. Not to mention they just added phone and video conferencing.
Outlook express - Mail: Mail wins hands down: junk control, integration with the operating system's address book and iChat, and no slew of viruses in it's history (granted it's new, but still impressive).
iCal: the closest windows counterpart is Outlook's Calendar, and that isn't free
there's a heck of a lot more than that, too.
But until I win the lottery, I'll stick with my cheap x86 machines
That argument really is flawed. I went to newegg.com one day and added the equivalent parts (dual xeons, 1gb ram, 160gig sata drive, aluminum case, ati 9600, etc) and the cost was $2500 before tax. Add on the cost of windows xp you've got $2700. for $300, i'm willing to pay for better programs, a better operating system as well as performance that is on par and often faster than that equivalent x86 machine, and the 1 year apple care service contract. You get what you pay for.
Well the answer to that is pretty simple. If you need a desktop on the go, a 17" notebook can do the job very well. screen sizes of most laptops aren't comparable to a good quality screen on a desktop, so this has it's niche. now 21 inch i could see being a little obsurd, but i'm sure i'll eat my words later
my apologies. the links were supposed to go to the front page of my news, but my news page automatically archives articles every month! so since today is the first it didn't show up. here is a direct link to apple's expose info. and here is a direct link to my news article.
I've been using the Panther preview for about a week now. and I have to say that Expose is one of the coolest ideas in the past few years I've seen come out of apple.
It basically eliminates the need for multiple desktops. I'm sure you're probably saying: "Well why not just use multiple desktops in the first place." The best answer to that is, apple likes to make simple/easy to use software. Multiple desktops are too much of a poweruser feature, and are confusing to use for the first time for many -- and that first time is KEY to adoption (afterall, the first impression you get about something is most likely to be the most important). Much like apple's aversion to tabbed interfaces, though tabbed browsing is one of those exceptions apple can't get past because it's too entrenched in browsers today.
this is one of the things that has always bothered me when i see netscape installed on someone's machine. To the average user netscape and IE are the only two browsers in existance.
mozilla has very little exposure outside the geek world. i know it's catching on, but 99% of the people at work have never heard of it.
why? that's one of the very first things you'll notice if you ever use a mac. it's elegant and simple. i almost never complain about the features of mac apps even they they are simple to use. this, is because of elegant design. you can't achieve a simple and feature rich piece of software without it.
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I went absolutely nuts updating machines in my workplace for the MS Blaster worm. Take a look of one of my user's desktop for an example of why.
I have to say: updating these machines is a completely and utter waste of my time and skills but it definatly keeps me employed. My boss is so apathetic that he never wants to make changes. I've offered on several occasions of virus outbreaks in the company to switch everyone to mozilla mail so we'd stop getting those Lookout (Outlook) viruses. But no!
I swear if i ever own my own company, everyone will Linux dummy terminals or iMacs, etc -- something ease to remotely update and maintain.
Not when you manage a webserver and mailserver yourself, and can put a free webmail program on the webserver. I couldn't live without webmail sometimes, especially on the go. It's actually easy to set up even if all you have is the webserver portion. If your mail server supports imap and authenticated smtp, then you just need a machine that can run php/apache with a static ip.
It's "homogenized." I spelled it properly, so it should be no problem for you if you read my post.
pardon me, i didn't know you were a spelling nazi. if you looked at my post, you'd notice i spelled it properly the first time but screwed it up the second.
And macs still constitute like 1% or 2% of the total desktops, so even if you managed to infect every mac out there the effect on the net would hardly be noticeable.
I love it. every good troll has to slip in a comment that has nothing to do with the argument in the first place, being that macs are harder to infect with viruses, irreguardless of the market share (which is more like 3%).
actually you're wrong. partially at least.
macs are a bit more homogenized, so if a virus came out that effected os x, it would pretty much work on every os x machine. however, unix by it's nature is a more secure design. separation of privledges (root/users) and a general better trackrecord of security flaws in general shows that it is more secure than windows will/if ever be.
with linux it gets even better. the words "homoginized" and "linux" barely to go together at all. linux has different directory layouts, libraries, and services per distro. the only way you could guarantee to get a virus to run in linux is to staticly compile it. all in all if everyone were using mac or osx tomorrow, viruses would become a very rare occurance in the computer world, and the speed at which a patch is released would be 10 times faster than windows.
Slashdot always posts these kind of mind bogling conundrums when it's too early in the morning for my brain to comprehend it.
Futurama (made by Matt Groening) was a lot better than Simpsons ever was. Though i'm sure that will start a holy war.
:(
The simspsons was geared a lot towards children usually, where I always felt Futurama was more for adults (Any one remember the death by snu-snu joke in the amazon woman episode?)
Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix
We can rebuild it.
We have the technology.
We have the capability to make...
bah nevermind.
I've always been a firm believer that if I wasn't as technologically compotent as I am, I'd probably be a much happier person in general. But you can't unlearn, and I've come to realize that I'd rather be aware of technology than let it overleap me.
i agree with you, having used expose. however, there is absolutely no elegant replacement for some of the benefits you get out of tabs. one such benefit (albet funny but a perfectly valid example) is porn. when i have a page of 20 thumbnails, by god i want to cmd+click all 20 and let them load in separate threads, all isolated to one convient minimizable/closable window. a feature like this might be replicable with a complex system of open new window under (so the window doesn't lose focus) or some other bizzare workaround, but the simple fact is tabs are here to stay in browsers. it's like releasing a browser without bookmarks -- it's practically expected and it's practically a standard. if IE 7 with longhorn doesn't have tabs, you can gleefully take joy in the fact that microsoft's browser war will lose horribly.
A friend of mine, Hani, who is from Egypt told me a joke once.
"What do you call a person that only speaks one language?" A: An american
It's quite true when you think about it. He said in when he was growing up he had a choice between going to a french school or an english school where the given language was tought just as much as arabic. Americans really need to be tought french or spanish at a MUCH younger age (say 5 right as they start kindergarden).
DRM is always bad, especially if you notice it when it's too late.
This is what people many don't realize, unfortunatly. The words "Digital Rights Management" impose the wrong feeling on people in the first place. It sounds more like it's empowering the user, when instead it's empowering the media corporations.
I hope the users will learn from this and boycott the iTunes store unless they remove the DRM from their songs.
Unfortunatly, as many have already said, this is the RIAA's doing, not Apple. It's kind of like the region encoded DVD situation. there is no good reason for the consumer why DVD X should only work in country Y. But it's there due to international restrictions/licensing/laws etc.
this is just a library ontop of the already existing RFC specifications. This is more or less a platform to create SVG images easier.
First off, kudos for doing whole albums instead of track-by-track. This allows experimentation and breadth of style.
First off, kudos for doing track-by-track and not whole albums. This allows me to sample individual songs and not have to pay the full price of an album if the first few tracks sucked.
HOPEFULLY? This has always been one of the things that pissed me off about my cable internet provider. Not only does my service get slower due to incremental caps of bandwidth, but they don't drop the price, or have any future intent of improving the service.
I mean why should they bother? It's not like I can get up and switch to a faster service that costs the same or less.
The .box file format simply contains a short header with some useful metadata, like maybe a checksum, and the filing system it contains (maybe that isn't needed).
I've been long wanting a transparent "boxing" system like this on a per file system basis, to the extent that we could erradicate and at the same time standardize the metadata format of all files instead of having different headers to parse for mp3s, avis, mpgs, pdfs, jpgs, etc etc. The biggest issue with a system like this though, is once you want the changes to move from one system to another you're stuck with the same problem Mac OS 9 (and rarely but occasionaly mac os x) still had -- you can't save that extra data without zipping it up in a file format that has the ability to save that information and truncate it on operating systems where there is no mechanism to store it. Then you're left with a container, wrapped in a container, containing finally the file. It's a pickle, and one that would greatly benefit the end user if we could just standardize cross-platform external file meta data, but don't expect Redmond to comply any time between now and the next few years. Maybe Longhorn's SQL middle man will be able to fix this gap for the microsoft camp.
I had the pleasure of sitting in on a "Q and A" session with an adobe rep, while I was at RIT. The rep (perhaps not the position of the entire company) basically didn't like the mac platform. He complained about how it was more to support, and changed more frequently than the windows counterpart. This of course costs them more in development and support. Granted this was not long after the OS 9 -> OS X transition, so of course adobe is going to bitch that the platform changes too much because they just dumped the whole API adobe products were based off of. Carbon helped fill this gap but it's by no stretch a the cure-all.
I wonder if this is the general feel of Adobe developers however.
not that i don't agree with you mr. AC, but i think he makes an excellent point. For the vast majority of society he's seen as one of the most prominant leaders, and he's got that position for many well deserved reasons. the kernel he made is certainly an important part of that position, but look at how ridigely he tries to stand in the middle of this entire dynamically changing OSS community as an unwavering leader.
if linus were tomorrow start working at red hat and only code additional changes for their version of linux, the entire community would become lopsided.
the socialogical and economic changes for the betterment of the world linus has sparked are in many ways directly because of his contributions to the linux kernel, and isn't that what the peace prize is about?
Self correction: that should be 512mb ram, not 1gb (for those who care)
The difference is, for that $100 you fund R&D for a better operating system with better apps than their windows counterparts. i mean come on, lets look at the list:
there's a heck of a lot more than that, too.
But until I win the lottery, I'll stick with my cheap x86 machines
That argument really is flawed. I went to newegg.com one day and added the equivalent parts (dual xeons, 1gb ram, 160gig sata drive, aluminum case, ati 9600, etc) and the cost was $2500 before tax. Add on the cost of windows xp you've got $2700. for $300, i'm willing to pay for better programs, a better operating system as well as performance that is on par and often faster than that equivalent x86 machine, and the 1 year apple care service contract. You get what you pay for.
Who needs 17" to carry around?
Well the answer to that is pretty simple. If you need a desktop on the go, a 17" notebook can do the job very well. screen sizes of most laptops aren't comparable to a good quality screen on a desktop, so this has it's niche. now 21 inch i could see being a little obsurd, but i'm sure i'll eat my words later
so far i've only noticed that toast doesn't work anymore. everything else seems to function fine.
the command+tab task switching isn't any different, and I agree that needs work. i haven't tried lightswitchX so i might give it a try.
my apologies. the links were supposed to go to the front page of my news, but my news page automatically archives articles every month! so since today is the first it didn't show up. here is a direct link to apple's expose info. and here is a direct link to my news article.
I've been using the Panther preview for about a week now. and I have to say that Expose is one of the coolest ideas in the past few years I've seen come out of apple.
It basically eliminates the need for multiple desktops. I'm sure you're probably saying: "Well why not just use multiple desktops in the first place." The best answer to that is, apple likes to make simple/easy to use software. Multiple desktops are too much of a poweruser feature, and are confusing to use for the first time for many -- and that first time is KEY to adoption (afterall, the first impression you get about something is most likely to be the most important). Much like apple's aversion to tabbed interfaces, though tabbed browsing is one of those exceptions apple can't get past because it's too entrenched in browsers today.
I can give you more info but you're best looking at apple's preview.
this is one of the things that has always bothered me when i see netscape installed on someone's machine. To the average user netscape and IE are the only two browsers in existance.
mozilla has very little exposure outside the geek world. i know it's catching on, but 99% of the people at work have never heard of it.
why? that's one of the very first things you'll notice if you ever use a mac. it's elegant and simple. i almost never complain about the features of mac apps even they they are simple to use. this, is because of elegant design. you can't achieve a simple and feature rich piece of software without it.