I wasn't saying that modern iPhones have this hardware. Older versions did via the wifi chip, but Apple never built in the additional features that would be needed to enable it.
I agree, based on how they've built the things, turning your phone into a radio via a software update is just not possible.
And it's impressive how they figured out a decade ago how they were going to remove the headphone jack in the future *so they could turn off FM*.
No... They planned to remove the headphone jac ka decade ago as that's about the time they thought the market would be saturated with products that utilized the headphone jack, and the profits would have dried up.
So the move was more of a way to ensure a steady income as consumers who wanted to stick with a familiar product upgraded all of their peripherals.
You should understand this... It speak volumes about what motivates them these days. (Hint: It's not what's best for the consumer!)
Cancelled, you wish you had stock in this "disaster of a company." I do, and it pays for my iPhone and Verizon contract.
More money? Sure... Why not?
But explain again the rationale of putting the profits from your Apple stock, which you paid for, back into the company paying you dividends?
You buy their stock.
You buy their products with the profit from their stock (this is a one way road btw, you're not making money on this "investment")
I mean... If you make lots of money from your stock and have other play things, great! It sounds more like you have just enough stock to pay for your phone and contract (which again goes directly to Apple for the phone, a portion of your Verizon contract is also shared w/Apple, I believe), which is cool I guess, but does not overly impress me.
It's actually kind of fanboy'ish. But to each their own...
I see a morally bankrupt company who's lost their direction, forgot their mission, and are out of original ideas.
You see an easy way to save $100 a month and get a "free" iPhone.
My Samsung uses the headset as an antenna. It's do-able, but in this case the statement's correct: Apple prevented this in order to ensure that users had to pay for services.
I'm not a fan of the FCC, but in this case they're right.
And I imagine the reason it's not in the most recent Apple phones is that Apple foresaw this day possibly coming, and thought "Fuck them! If we don't put it in the phone (and we're not legally required to), then we eliminate the potential loss of revenue down the road if and when someone figures out how to enable these things"
The sooner people realize Apple is in it solely for Apple, and not to elevate their users, the sooner this disaster of a company goes away.
I've said it before... They started so good! Steve Jobs was brilliant and had good intentions, but somewhere along the way he sold his soul.
Now that he's gone, Tim Cook, who appears to have little to offer the company, continues his masters work.
Once that notebook of future plans that Steve left behind runs out, Apple isn't looking too good. The stagnant release of the latest iPhone and the continued decline of the Mac are evidence of what Tim's brought to the table. Removing features powers users want, and offering new features that competitors have been offering for years. Wow.
I'm not talking about the plugins and extensions breaking, although that is also a potential deal breaker for me, but my Autohotkey scripts will not fire when the latest Firefox Developer Edition has the focus (v.57).
They won't fucking work, no matter what's ran. Trackpad gestures, nothing. Overlays and hotkeys, nada.
Even opening WindowSpy shows noting when FF has the focus. What the fuck??? My scripts are not app-specific, and work in every browser, including older versions of FF and the alpha and beta versions.
Now... It's the developer edition, and perhaps there's some esoteric setting that's user configurable which will allow me to correct this, although I seriously doubt it.
The problem is that these kind of unique-to-Firefox problems, coupled with them breaking most of their extensions makes Firefox a huge time sink on top of everything else.
Not only do we need to reconfigure the FF configuration we've spent years tailoring to our unique work styles and needs, but now we have to spend hours troubleshooting random weirdness such as this AHK problem. How much is a user supposed to endure, considering the quality of FF's competitors?
I find FF's live bookmarks indispensable and use them daily. I hate to lose this feature... For now, I am sticking with Waterfox, but I find myself more drawn to Chrome based solely on the performance of its mobile browser. FF on any mobile device I've used is SLOW and displays things oddly. Try loading the dailymail on your phone in FF mobile to see what I mean.
Damn you Mozilla! You've completely fucked up my computer experience and are requiring me to make some very big choices for my Internet browsing needs... And for what? A Chrome clone which lacks it's best features?
You are obviously part of the problem. You've brainwashed yourself (or been brainwashed by others) into thinking that people don't matter. The media has done a number on you boy... Between your opinion on the value of people, and your strong anti-American sentiment, you clearly fall into the "sheeple" category.
Your argument is really sad... Let me see if I can paraphrase it for you (dumb American that I am): The education system in the US is a mess and people are too dumb to govern themselves or have a valid opinion... Thus we should be led like cattle to whatever fate the government decides for us?? Is that really your argument???
Take your bigoted, racist views and shove them up your liberal rear-end ! You've bought into the media's propaganda... America is to blame for all the world's ills. Americans are dumb. American's need to be taught a lesson... blah, blah, blah. Do you get your rhetoric straight from the dailymail, or do you read a lot of Reddit? You've obviously drank the kool-aid - Did it at least taste good going down?
Face it - America may not be perfect, but there's a reason so many people are trying to get into it, and why there's so many asshats like yourself sitting at home typing at their big boy keyboards, filling the Internet with anti-American diatribe. It's still the best country to be in, and despite the best efforts of little bigots like yourself, it continues to set the standard.
People like you should just go join ISIS and be honest about your hatred - Stop trying to pretend you're anything other than an a hater who wants to take down the top dog. It's sickening that racist, bigoted views such as yours are accepted simply because it's Americans that you're picking on.
If you look at (fairly) recent history, I think you'll see a pattern with the 2 main parties: Republicans are open about what they plan to do, so people take offense with it and treat them as "haters", painting them to be old fashioned religious zealots (and to be fair, some are).
Democrats on the other hand have a tendency to say whatever the voting public wants to hear in order to get votes, but they often lie and do something different once in office. Obama has lots of example of this behavior, as does Hillary (and many others, but they're the focus due to the election)
Personally, I prefer honesty and openness vs. lies and half-truths. I'm sick of being lied to, and Obama has lied a lot.
There's a big difference between an elected official who understands they're there to represent the people, versus an elitist who thinks that the people are not capable of making the right decisions. The latter is the "nanny government" mentality, which is what we're dealing with here.
For that matter, what does this say about Slashdot?
It says that Slashdot's principles have been compromised. Rather than stand up for free speech, the users of Slashdot would prefer to not enter into the fray and be attacked by these bigots.
It is sad - Slashdot used to be full of free thinkers. Now it's full of prejudice and hate.:(
And for those politically correct bigots who think they are just standing up for what's right, look at how you do it. You're no different than the racists and homophobic people who you claim to be standing up against.
You use insults, bullying tactics, and outright harass of those you disagree with. The same tactics you claim to oppose.
Face it - You're all a bunch bully's who are out to silence those you hate. Just like a racist, a nazi, or any other hateful group you can think of. The problem is that your prejudices prevent you from seeing this.
Doesn't work... There's a huge number of people who feel they're entitled to special treatment, who abuse the system you describe. It's this crazy viewpoint that you and a whole generation of coddled, entitled people have, which is eroding all the good in this country.
Your black and white view of not imprisoning non-violent offenders has led to abuses of power at all levels, from your neighborhood meth dealers, to the criminals using the Ferguson tragedy as an excuse to steal from innocent small business owners.
This guy in particular is a great example. Police originally just warned him not to do anything, and so instead of abiding he says "Damn! If nothing's going to be done to me for doing this, I'm going to share this movie some more - What they gonna do?"
He also sold physical copies, so this is not a guy just putting something online for others. He's knowingly committing a criminal act for profit, after he's been caught and was not "forced into a cage" as you put it.
Think he'll continue with this pattern of behavior after being locked up with a bunch of violent thugs? Probably not... Is prison the answer? Not for everything, but for buffoons like this guy who won't learn any other way, yes.
It's damaged the country (beyond repair?), ruined Reddit, and it's rotted away at/.'s integrity. Everything here now comes back to politics and bullying those who might have an original, independent thought into submission.
I'm not in support of spying on American citizens at all. Having said that, the country has some obligation to try and root out Islamist extremists and unfortunately, until they have the minority report up and running at 100%, spying on people you suspect of having connections to terrorists is one of our only tools to determine if the threat is real.
Should they continue to spy after confirming the person is verified as not being a threat? Of course not, but all of the barbs aimed at Republicans and Democrats in this thread, in addition to the blanket statements made about what should and should not be done, all goes to again show that it's sheeple on/., not free thinking individuals.
Many of you appear to have been "programmed" to believe that any disagreement is wrong, and that any cultural differences should be eliminated entirely. Let me share something with you... It's these differences that drives societies.
America has many things going for it, but the absolute hatred towards our country shown in this thread (and elsewhere on/. - Just search for the word 'Republican') is only weakening us as a nation. This belief that "my view is the only correct one" is the cancer slowly eating away at us. It's not based in reality, and it's not sustainable in the long run.
/. has turned into a sheeple paradise. Unless you have a better solution, don't begin insulting others just because you don't agree with it. This kind of bullying is quickly replacing older, more physical forms of bullying, but it is still bullying! Nowadays instead of the bully's being jocks though, it's a bunch of narrow minded people who will publicly try to shame those they disagree with, rather than having an open discourse.
It's sad... I remember when/. was a place for intelligent people to have great debates and conversation. Now it's a place where those who post their honest opinions are quickly attacked and called names by the bullies that disagree. How is this an open forum when this continues to happen?
Between the new/. look and the diatribe being posted, it's no wonder/. is in a downward spiral.
In case you did not know, you can download optimized Mac versions of a number of browsers from here
Specifically, one of the browsers available is a 64-bit optimized version of FF 3.7 for Snow Leopard.
I finally installed it the other night, after eyeing it warily for the last month or so (as I worked through the latest 3.6 optimized builds). I finally installed it last night, and have to say that it's the biggest improvement to FF that I've came across.
It loads faster, uses less CPU & memory than previous builds, and it's mega fast. My impressions are that it's now as fast as Safari is on a Mac.
It's now my main browser. If you run Snow Leopard, you should check it out.
I feel really bad that she is "afraid to leave her yard"
Sounds like terrorism to me! And since the country's on an "ignore the real problems and focus on the terrorists" kick as-of-late, I'd imagine that it should be fairly easy to track and prosecute the problem.
Seems pretty straightforward...
Determine IP's of user(s) who left the comments
File a lawsuit, and work with their provider to determine who used the IP at the time the comments were left
And finally, have the person arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats
It's pretty straight-forward to me. Though I'm not familiar with individual, or the site the comments were made on, the people who made the comments have probably been a member for awhile, and there are likely other posts to help identify the user, in addition to whatever information was provided when the user account was opened.
Seems like this would be a better solution then hiding from life, and worrying about who made what comments. Identify them for the cowards they are, and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. Once this happens a few time, people will begin to understand that they aren't totally protected by the anonymity of the Internet.
For that matter, it'll be nice to see a website-related case that isn't tied to the RIAA make it to court for a change. 8)
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But can you boot off of your shiny new SATA controller ? Last I checked , there wasn't a single SATA II controller available for the G5 range of macs that you can boot from.
Follow that link in my original post - I boot off my Raptor via this add-in card daily. My Mac's SATA controller's only used for a couple of older internal 160GB drives I have raided together for file storage
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I have an older (but not too old) dual G-5 Mac. Nice box, and still very relevent speed/performance-wise.
I found out last year, after purchasing 2 150GB Raptor drives, that the older G-5's don't support the newer SATA drives. You can Google on the subject for more info, but suffice it to say that Raptors & older G-5 Macs are by no means a guaranteed thing. It seems to work for some, but many find it highly unreliable. As it turns out, the Mac chipset doesn't fully support the SATA standard, and thus doesn't support some of the newer drives coming out.
After cursing Steve Jobs and his short-sighted engineers, I stopped staring at my expensive, unusable drives, and did some research, eventually opting to go the eSATA route by purchasing a 4-port Firmtek eSATA card. After all, I'm a Mac owner these days, and historically the mantra of the Mac owners is "If something doesn't work as it should, throw more money at it". And so I did.
But it was a good decision to make - This card's pretty amazing, and lets me boot off my Raptors, rather than making me reply on the slower drives inside the Mac. Additionally, you can combine multiple cards to run even more drives, if needed.
I admit that the vendors don't make it easy to get up to speed on eSATA though. Too many offer competing products, with various external connectors and terms (SATA, SATA II, eSATA, external SATA). Some vendors are also selling eSATA to SATA adapters. I appreciate consumers having choices, but would rather see a vendor specialize in one area, rather than trying to sell something for every possible option, when it comes to this kinda stuff.
After settling on a eSATA adapter, I took a quick trip to Cooldrives to get a nice external case, and voila! In my situation, it's allowed me to avoid the upgrade cycle for a few more years by letting me take advantage of the latest in drives, without requiring me to upgrade to a newer, more-compatible Mac. And the performance... Let's just say that my Mac's never been faster.
>> No, I think the author *really* needs to get laid.
Does he jack off while using Vista?
Personally, I find it unlikely that many Slashdotters are waking up with women in their beds, much less dangerous, beautiful ones
And if they do, my guess is that safety & predictability will be the last thing on their minds...
A better analogy for/. would be something like "Okay, you have a beowulf cluster of drives. Now the drives are Maxtors, and they're kinda flaky and a unreliable, but -And I can't emphasize this enough - you have a beowulf cluster of hard drives!
Based on a lot of our techs at work, sumo wrestling would be a better pastime for some of these IT folks! They already have the correct physique... Put them in a diaper, point them towards the ring, and they're all ready to go!
Slightly outside the realm of IT, but if you want some real serious sumo wrestling, I'd start a fight club with people who answer calls for a living! While some of my IT brethren may indeed be very overweight, at least they do get up on occasion to mess with computers. People who don't have to get up at all for a living tend to get very large...
In fact, when I was a member of a call support team (previous to my illustrious IT career), I used to get tons of ads for everything from headsets to office furnishings. One of these direct mail advertisers hit the nail on the head though... One day I get this postcard advertising specialized chairs for phone representatives. The only difference between this chair and other copmpetitors office chairs was advertised in large letters, next to the product description: "Holds up to 400 lbs!!". They definately know their target audience!
All kidding aside, the 1st poster had this right: This whole fight club sounds like a buncha nerds trying to make themselves into something they're not... Jocks!
As a quickie introduction to our fine state, we're a little like the bible belt, but without all the religious fanatics, and a with a little less inbreeding. As a whole, we probably smoke as many cigarettes as Tenessee and as much dope as California, but we temper that with our high alcohol tolerance, and our summer bonfires and keggers.
We are associated with such nationally known treasures as the Great Lakes, The Mackinaw Bridge/Island, and Detroit. Not to mention our wildlife variety.
On the other hand, we're also responsible for nationally recognized tragedies, such as the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, the Michigan Militia, and to a larger degree, their association with Timothy McVeigh, and Detroit.
We've produced Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Bob Seger, Kid Rock, and Big Chief, to name a few. We've also shat' out the likes of Motown, M&M (yeah, I know), and Sponge, so it's not like we're 100% hitsville here either.
"Michigan: Ya gotta love it."
"Or wonder for 8 months out of the year what's keeping you here"
Based on how few people I'm aware of who have spent the cash on a new HDTV set, I predict that HD-DVD will be a failure in the USA, at least for the next few years.
Similarly, when the HDTV broadcast deadline rears its ugly head, I think you'll see the cable companies offering digital to analog converters to allow their subscriberts (those who haven't upgraded their TV's) to continue getting their television, which means that their current DVD players will continue to meet their needs.
Don't get me wrong... I think HDTV's great, but there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade to it, and based on HDTV sales, at least here in Michigan, I think most people are in the same boat.
The economy's in the tank, jobs are scarce (particularly in my neck of the woods thanks for the ineptitude of GM, and their multiple plant closings), and people are understandably hesitent to spend a grand or more to replace e television that's still serving them well.
Add in the higher media costs, the lack of uses, the lack of pre-recorded content, and the lack of players for the media, and it all spells doom for the format. If it's still around in a few years when more people have upgraded to HDTV (assuming old TV's continue to die, and the economy begins a turnaround some day), maybe it'll have a chance at becoming a standard then. For now, it's a waste of money for most people.
With all the TPB news going around lately, I thought it might be interesting to get an opinion on the whole thing from an actual Swedish citizen. It took a bit of translating to bring this to you, but here's an excerpt from the interview:
Q: Hello, and thanks for taking a moment out of your busy schedule to discuss The Pirate Bay, and your opinions on it. Would you care to introduce yourself to our audience?
A: Thunk yuoo! I em zee vurld femuoous "Svedeesh Cheff", und vheele-a I oofftee du vurk ooootseede-a ooff my neteefe-a cuoontry, I em a pruood ceetizee ooff Svedee.
Persunelly, I feeoo zee Purete-a Bey vebseete-a seemiler tu hoo I feeoo fuud: It's oone-a ooff zee theengs vheech meke-a leeffe-a a leettle-a better fur iferyune-a.
Bork Bork Bork!
Q: I see. And can you expound upon that?
A: Certeeenly! Yuoo see-a... Fuud is a necceseety ooff leeffe-a, boot in thet sense-a it's joost nuooreeshment. Fuud leeke-a I meke-a is but better fur yuoo, und better testeeng. Thoos it mekes ieteeng mure-a thun joost tekeeng in nuooreeshment, toorneeng it intu un ifent untu itselff.
Seemilerly, teecheeng, und shereeng inffurmeshun is sumetheeng thet dues, oor et leest shuoold effffect iferyune-a iqooelly. A better idooceted suceeety veell hefe-a mure-a deeferse-a interests, es vell es a mure-a stebeel icunumy.
TPB is ectooelly feceeliteting zee free-a ixchunge-a ooff inffurmeshun. Zee RIEA oon zee oozeer hund is tryeeng tu steeffle-a thet floo, ellooeeng inffurmeshun tu oonly be-a geefee tu zee preefeledged foo vhu ere-a veelling und eble-a tu effffurd it.
Bork Bork Bork!
Q: That makes perfect sense. What do you think sets Sweden apart from the rest of the world, as far as the attitude towards music piracy, and data sharing goes?
A: Ve-a Svedes leefe-a fur foon und interteeenment. Joost luuk et sume-a ooff oooor iruteec feelms... Ve-a Svedes trooly beleeefe-a thet inffurmeshun vunts tu be-a free-a, und ve-a beleeefe-a thet shereeng thet inffurmeshun cun oonly leed tu a mure-a ceefil, better idooceted suceeety.
Und Muuse-a. Ve-a Svede-a's lufe-a a guud chucelte-a muuse-a ifery noo und zeen. In fect iff yuoo'fe-a cooght my shoo, yuoo'll knoo thet I meke-a oone-a meun muuse-a!
Q: Finally Mr. Chef, I'd like to ask you one last question: Have you yourself ever downloaded anything illegally?
A: Ooh yes! Joost zee oozeer dey I doonlueded a cullecshun ooff receepes, und yesterdey I ves vetcheeng sume-a ooff zee Treeeler Perk Buys ipeesudes I'fe-a doonlueded. Thuse-a gooys... Zeey're-a joost leeke-a me-a und my freeends, oonly insteed ooff treeeler perks, ve-a ell leefe-a in chelet's. Thet Reecky... He-a's sumetheeng ilse-a.
Bork Bork Bork!
So there you have it... An honest opinion from a totally non-bias'd Swedish citizen. Love live the Swedes!
I can't believe that an internationally recognized source of news can't hire people with the talent & knowledge to know the difference between "breaking" something (ie, "breaking" something so that it no longer works), and braking something (ie, "braking" the car, in order to slow it down).
I really don't know why I still have them as my home page... Daily I see tons of grammatical errors on their site, which naturally leads me to question how reliable their news stories are.
I'd love to have a simple "tablet" that allowed me to flip pages with a simple button, and which allows me to take it anywhere easily. This would allow me to comfortably read my many ebooks, at my leisure, and wherever I wanted to.
I hate being tied to a PC when I just want to read a book. Laptops are too bulky, and are really overkill for a simple PDF/ebbok reader.
Ideally, i'd like something the size of my older Wacom drawing tablet (6x4, I believe), with a simple forward and backward button at the base of it. But rather than a drawing surface, I want the surface to display the book/magazine/periodical I'm reading. The drawing tablet's a good example for another reason: It's small, light, and thin. I always thought it'd be the perfect size/aspect for a handheld reader, and if a CD or DVD could slide in the side for reading in files/ebooks, it'd be even better.
But that's just a dream/ideal... I'm personally keeping an eye on MS's Origami project as possibly being the answer to what I'm looking for.
I wonder if Apple is going to go this route next. It would be certainly far more usable than a dedicated gaming console.
Thats my biggest gripe about this new version:
Everyone's bitching about how this isn't the game machine they were hoping for, which just blows me away. This is obviously not Apples market historically speaking, and I doubt they'd jump into suck a market at all, much less in the middle of the way-overblown "PS3 vs. XBox360 vs. Nintendo Revolution" fight we keep reading about.
If you guys were saving up for some mythical, never before heard of Mac game box, it's no wonder you're disapointed. But why you'd be expecting such a beast is beyond me
But while I was wondering about the whole gaming thing, I was wondering if the new Mini (specifically the dual core) would be able to play recorded HD content recorded with Apple's H.264 codec. I love H.264's quality/size capabilities, but am unable to play them on my current PVR outfit (an aging, but still more than capable AMD1600 mated with a 8500DV vid' card).
I've been considering a Mini for a HD-capable PVR, but while I can purchase & record HD content using a Elgato's EyeTV-500 capture setup, I don't want to put my Mac, which is my main machine, in the living room, and the 1st generation Mini's are incapable of playing back high resolution video consistently. This new Mini sounds like it might do the trick.
And as for the games, I'm sure that the Mini will be more than capable of running Mame, ZSNES, and a variety of other gaming platforms that while not cutting edge 3-D FPS's, will entertain me and my friends for hours and hours.
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I wasn't saying that modern iPhones have this hardware. Older versions did via the wifi chip, but Apple never built in the additional features that would be needed to enable it.
I agree, based on how they've built the things, turning your phone into a radio via a software update is just not possible.
And it's impressive how they figured out a decade ago how they were going to remove the headphone jack in the future *so they could turn off FM*.
No... They planned to remove the headphone jac ka decade ago as that's about the time they thought the market would be saturated with products that utilized the headphone jack, and the profits would have dried up.
So the move was more of a way to ensure a steady income as consumers who wanted to stick with a familiar product upgraded all of their peripherals.
You should understand this... It speak volumes about what motivates them these days. (Hint: It's not what's best for the consumer!)
Cancelled, you wish you had stock in this "disaster of a company." I do, and it pays for my iPhone and Verizon contract.
More money? Sure... Why not?
But explain again the rationale of putting the profits from your Apple stock, which you paid for, back into the company paying you dividends?
You buy their stock.
You buy their products with the profit from their stock (this is a one way road btw, you're not making money on this "investment")
I mean... If you make lots of money from your stock and have other play things, great! It sounds more like you have just enough stock to pay for your phone and contract (which again goes directly to Apple for the phone, a portion of your Verizon contract is also shared w/Apple, I believe), which is cool I guess, but does not overly impress me.
It's actually kind of fanboy'ish. But to each their own...
I see a morally bankrupt company who's lost their direction, forgot their mission, and are out of original ideas.
You see an easy way to save $100 a month and get a "free" iPhone.
C'est la vie
My Samsung uses the headset as an antenna. It's do-able, but in this case the statement's correct: Apple prevented this in order to ensure that users had to pay for services.
I'm not a fan of the FCC, but in this case they're right.
And I imagine the reason it's not in the most recent Apple phones is that Apple foresaw this day possibly coming, and thought "Fuck them! If we don't put it in the phone (and we're not legally required to), then we eliminate the potential loss of revenue down the road if and when someone figures out how to enable these things"
The sooner people realize Apple is in it solely for Apple, and not to elevate their users, the sooner this disaster of a company goes away.
I've said it before... They started so good! Steve Jobs was brilliant and had good intentions, but somewhere along the way he sold his soul.
Now that he's gone, Tim Cook, who appears to have little to offer the company, continues his masters work.
Once that notebook of future plans that Steve left behind runs out, Apple isn't looking too good. The stagnant release of the latest iPhone and the continued decline of the Mac are evidence of what Tim's brought to the table. Removing features powers users want, and offering new features that competitors have been offering for years. Wow.
It fucking breaks EVERYTHING!!!
I'm not talking about the plugins and extensions breaking, although that is also a potential deal breaker for me, but my Autohotkey scripts will not fire when the latest Firefox Developer Edition has the focus (v.57).
They won't fucking work, no matter what's ran. Trackpad gestures, nothing. Overlays and hotkeys, nada.
Even opening WindowSpy shows noting when FF has the focus. What the fuck??? My scripts are not app-specific, and work in every browser, including older versions of FF and the alpha and beta versions.
Now... It's the developer edition, and perhaps there's some esoteric setting that's user configurable which will allow me to correct this, although I seriously doubt it.
The problem is that these kind of unique-to-Firefox problems, coupled with them breaking most of their extensions makes Firefox a huge time sink on top of everything else.
Not only do we need to reconfigure the FF configuration we've spent years tailoring to our unique work styles and needs, but now we have to spend hours troubleshooting random weirdness such as this AHK problem. How much is a user supposed to endure, considering the quality of FF's competitors?
I find FF's live bookmarks indispensable and use them daily. I hate to lose this feature... For now, I am sticking with Waterfox, but I find myself more drawn to Chrome based solely on the performance of its mobile browser. FF on any mobile device I've used is SLOW and displays things oddly. Try loading the dailymail on your phone in FF mobile to see what I mean.
Damn you Mozilla! You've completely fucked up my computer experience and are requiring me to make some very big choices for my Internet browsing needs... And for what? A Chrome clone which lacks it's best features?
You are obviously part of the problem. You've brainwashed yourself (or been brainwashed by others) into thinking that people don't matter. The media has done a number on you boy... Between your opinion on the value of people, and your strong anti-American sentiment, you clearly fall into the "sheeple" category.
Your argument is really sad... Let me see if I can paraphrase it for you (dumb American that I am): The education system in the US is a mess and people are too dumb to govern themselves or have a valid opinion... Thus we should be led like cattle to whatever fate the government decides for us?? Is that really your argument???
Take your bigoted, racist views and shove them up your liberal rear-end ! You've bought into the media's propaganda... America is to blame for all the world's ills. Americans are dumb. American's need to be taught a lesson... blah, blah, blah. Do you get your rhetoric straight from the dailymail, or do you read a lot of Reddit? You've obviously drank the kool-aid - Did it at least taste good going down?
Face it - America may not be perfect, but there's a reason so many people are trying to get into it, and why there's so many asshats like yourself sitting at home typing at their big boy keyboards, filling the Internet with anti-American diatribe. It's still the best country to be in, and despite the best efforts of little bigots like yourself, it continues to set the standard.
People like you should just go join ISIS and be honest about your hatred - Stop trying to pretend you're anything other than an a hater who wants to take down the top dog. It's sickening that racist, bigoted views such as yours are accepted simply because it's Americans that you're picking on.
If you look at (fairly) recent history, I think you'll see a pattern with the 2 main parties: Republicans are open about what they plan to do, so people take offense with it and treat them as "haters", painting them to be old fashioned religious zealots (and to be fair, some are).
Democrats on the other hand have a tendency to say whatever the voting public wants to hear in order to get votes, but they often lie and do something different once in office. Obama has lots of example of this behavior, as does Hillary (and many others, but they're the focus due to the election)
Personally, I prefer honesty and openness vs. lies and half-truths. I'm sick of being lied to, and Obama has lied a lot.
There's a big difference between an elected official who understands they're there to represent the people, versus an elitist who thinks that the people are not capable of making the right decisions. The latter is the "nanny government" mentality, which is what we're dealing with here.
For that matter, what does this say about Slashdot?
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It says that Slashdot's principles have been compromised. Rather than stand up for free speech, the users of Slashdot would prefer to not enter into the fray and be attacked by these bigots.
It is sad - Slashdot used to be full of free thinkers. Now it's full of prejudice and hate.
And for those politically correct bigots who think they are just standing up for what's right, look at how you do it. You're no different than the racists and homophobic people who you claim to be standing up against.
You use insults, bullying tactics, and outright harass of those you disagree with. The same tactics you claim to oppose.
Face it - You're all a bunch bully's who are out to silence those you hate. Just like a racist, a nazi, or any other hateful group you can think of. The problem is that your prejudices prevent you from seeing this.
Doesn't work... There's a huge number of people who feel they're entitled to special treatment, who abuse the system you describe. It's this crazy viewpoint that you and a whole generation of coddled, entitled people have, which is eroding all the good in this country.
Your black and white view of not imprisoning non-violent offenders has led to abuses of power at all levels, from your neighborhood meth dealers, to the criminals using the Ferguson tragedy as an excuse to steal from innocent small business owners.
This guy in particular is a great example. Police originally just warned him not to do anything, and so instead of abiding he says "Damn! If nothing's going to be done to me for doing this, I'm going to share this movie some more - What they gonna do?"
He also sold physical copies, so this is not a guy just putting something online for others. He's knowingly committing a criminal act for profit, after he's been caught and was not "forced into a cage" as you put it.
Think he'll continue with this pattern of behavior after being locked up with a bunch of violent thugs? Probably not... Is prison the answer? Not for everything, but for buffoons like this guy who won't learn any other way, yes.
Political Correctness.
/.'s integrity. Everything here now comes back to politics and bullying those who might have an original, independent thought into submission.
/., not free thinking individuals.
/. - Just search for the word 'Republican') is only weakening us as a nation. This belief that "my view is the only correct one" is the cancer slowly eating away at us. It's not based in reality, and it's not sustainable in the long run.
/. has turned into a sheeple paradise. Unless you have a better solution, don't begin insulting others just because you don't agree with it. This kind of bullying is quickly replacing older, more physical forms of bullying, but it is still bullying! Nowadays instead of the bully's being jocks though, it's a bunch of narrow minded people who will publicly try to shame those they disagree with, rather than having an open discourse.
/. was a place for intelligent people to have great debates and conversation. Now it's a place where those who post their honest opinions are quickly attacked and called names by the bullies that disagree. How is this an open forum when this continues to happen?
/. look and the diatribe being posted, it's no wonder /. is in a downward spiral.
It's damaged the country (beyond repair?), ruined Reddit, and it's rotted away at
I'm not in support of spying on American citizens at all. Having said that, the country has some obligation to try and root out Islamist extremists and unfortunately, until they have the minority report up and running at 100%, spying on people you suspect of having connections to terrorists is one of our only tools to determine if the threat is real.
Should they continue to spy after confirming the person is verified as not being a threat? Of course not, but all of the barbs aimed at Republicans and Democrats in this thread, in addition to the blanket statements made about what should and should not be done, all goes to again show that it's sheeple on
Many of you appear to have been "programmed" to believe that any disagreement is wrong, and that any cultural differences should be eliminated entirely. Let me share something with you... It's these differences that drives societies.
America has many things going for it, but the absolute hatred towards our country shown in this thread (and elsewhere on
It's sad... I remember when
Between the new
For all you Snow Leopard users...
In case you did not know, you can download optimized Mac versions of a number of browsers from here
Specifically, one of the browsers available is a 64-bit optimized version of FF 3.7 for Snow Leopard.
I finally installed it the other night, after eyeing it warily for the last month or so (as I worked through the latest 3.6 optimized builds). I finally installed it last night, and have to say that it's the biggest improvement to FF that I've came across.
It loads faster, uses less CPU & memory than previous builds, and it's mega fast. My impressions are that it's now as fast as Safari is on a Mac.
It's now my main browser. If you run Snow Leopard, you should check it out.
Sounds like terrorism to me! And since the country's on an "ignore the real problems and focus on the terrorists" kick as-of-late, I'd imagine that it should be fairly easy to track and prosecute the problem.
Seems pretty straightforward...
- Determine IP's of user(s) who left the comments
- File a lawsuit, and work with their provider to determine who used the IP at the time the comments were left
- And finally, have the person arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats
It's pretty straight-forward to me. Though I'm not familiar with individual, or the site the comments were made on, the people who made the comments have probably been a member for awhile, and there are likely other posts to help identify the user, in addition to whatever information was provided when the user account was opened.Seems like this would be a better solution then hiding from life, and worrying about who made what comments. Identify them for the cowards they are, and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. Once this happens a few time, people will begin to understand that they aren't totally protected by the anonymity of the Internet.
For that matter, it'll be nice to see a website-related case that isn't tied to the RIAA make it to court for a change. 8)
But can you boot off of your shiny new SATA controller ? Last I checked , there wasn't a single SATA II controller available for the G5 range of macs that you can boot from.
Follow that link in my original post - I boot off my Raptor via this add-in card daily. My Mac's SATA controller's only used for a couple of older internal 160GB drives I have raided together for file storage
I have an older (but not too old) dual G-5 Mac. Nice box, and still very relevent speed/performance-wise.
I found out last year, after purchasing 2 150GB Raptor drives, that the older G-5's don't support the newer SATA drives. You can Google on the subject for more info, but suffice it to say that Raptors & older G-5 Macs are by no means a guaranteed thing. It seems to work for some, but many find it highly unreliable. As it turns out, the Mac chipset doesn't fully support the SATA standard, and thus doesn't support some of the newer drives coming out.
After cursing Steve Jobs and his short-sighted engineers, I stopped staring at my expensive, unusable drives, and did some research, eventually opting to go the eSATA route by purchasing a 4-port Firmtek eSATA card. After all, I'm a Mac owner these days, and historically the mantra of the Mac owners is "If something doesn't work as it should, throw more money at it". And so I did. But it was a good decision to make - This card's pretty amazing, and lets me boot off my Raptors, rather than making me reply on the slower drives inside the Mac. Additionally, you can combine multiple cards to run even more drives, if needed.
I admit that the vendors don't make it easy to get up to speed on eSATA though. Too many offer competing products, with various external connectors and terms (SATA, SATA II, eSATA, external SATA). Some vendors are also selling eSATA to SATA adapters. I appreciate consumers having choices, but would rather see a vendor specialize in one area, rather than trying to sell something for every possible option, when it comes to this kinda stuff.
After settling on a eSATA adapter, I took a quick trip to Cooldrives to get a nice external case, and voila! In my situation, it's allowed me to avoid the upgrade cycle for a few more years by letting me take advantage of the latest in drives, without requiring me to upgrade to a newer, more-compatible Mac. And the performance... Let's just say that my Mac's never been faster.
>> No, I think the author *really* needs to get laid. Does he jack off while using Vista?
/. would be something like "Okay, you have a beowulf cluster of drives. Now the drives are Maxtors, and they're kinda flaky and a unreliable, but -And I can't emphasize this enough - you have a beowulf cluster of hard drives!
Personally, I find it unlikely that many Slashdotters are waking up with women in their beds, much less dangerous, beautiful ones
And if they do, my guess is that safety & predictability will be the last thing on their minds...
A better analogy for
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Flame away gentlemen...
Based on a lot of our techs at work, sumo wrestling would be a better pastime for some of these IT folks! They already have the correct physique... Put them in a diaper, point them towards the ring, and they're all ready to go!
Slightly outside the realm of IT, but if you want some real serious sumo wrestling, I'd start a fight club with people who answer calls for a living! While some of my IT brethren may indeed be very overweight, at least they do get up on occasion to mess with computers. People who don't have to get up at all for a living tend to get very large...
In fact, when I was a member of a call support team (previous to my illustrious IT career), I used to get tons of ads for everything from headsets to office furnishings. One of these direct mail advertisers hit the nail on the head though... One day I get this postcard advertising specialized chairs for phone representatives. The only difference between this chair and other copmpetitors office chairs was advertised in large letters, next to the product description: "Holds up to 400 lbs!!". They definately know their target audience!
All kidding aside, the 1st poster had this right: This whole fight club sounds like a buncha nerds trying to make themselves into something they're not... Jocks!
Two words: Unpublished numbers.
Two more words: "Greedy politicians"
Boy, Michigan must be a technological backwater
Hi. You must be new to this country.
As a quickie introduction to our fine state, we're a little like the bible belt, but without all the religious fanatics, and a with a little less inbreeding. As a whole, we probably smoke as many cigarettes as Tenessee and as much dope as California, but we temper that with our high alcohol tolerance, and our summer bonfires and keggers.
We are associated with such nationally known treasures as the Great Lakes, The Mackinaw Bridge/Island, and Detroit. Not to mention our wildlife variety.
On the other hand, we're also responsible for nationally recognized tragedies, such as the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, the Michigan Militia, and to a larger degree, their association with Timothy McVeigh, and Detroit.
We've produced Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Bob Seger, Kid Rock, and Big Chief, to name a few. We've also shat' out the likes of Motown, M&M (yeah, I know), and Sponge, so it's not like we're 100% hitsville here either.
"Michigan: Ya gotta love it."
"Or wonder for 8 months out of the year what's keeping you here"
Based on how few people I'm aware of who have spent the cash on a new HDTV set, I predict that HD-DVD will be a failure in the USA, at least for the next few years.
Similarly, when the HDTV broadcast deadline rears its ugly head, I think you'll see the cable companies offering digital to analog converters to allow their subscriberts (those who haven't upgraded their TV's) to continue getting their television, which means that their current DVD players will continue to meet their needs.
Don't get me wrong... I think HDTV's great, but there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade to it, and based on HDTV sales, at least here in Michigan, I think most people are in the same boat.
The economy's in the tank, jobs are scarce (particularly in my neck of the woods thanks for the ineptitude of GM, and their multiple plant closings), and people are understandably hesitent to spend a grand or more to replace e television that's still serving them well.
Add in the higher media costs, the lack of uses, the lack of pre-recorded content, and the lack of players for the media, and it all spells doom for the format. If it's still around in a few years when more people have upgraded to HDTV (assuming old TV's continue to die, and the economy begins a turnaround some day), maybe it'll have a chance at becoming a standard then. For now, it's a waste of money for most people.
I can't believe that an internationally recognized source of news can't hire people with the talent & knowledge to know the difference between "breaking" something (ie, "breaking" something so that it no longer works), and braking something (ie, "braking" the car, in order to slow it down).
I really don't know why I still have them as my home page... Daily I see tons of grammatical errors on their site, which naturally leads me to question how reliable their news stories are.
I'd love to have a simple "tablet" that allowed me to flip pages with a simple button, and which allows me to take it anywhere easily. This would allow me to comfortably read my many ebooks, at my leisure, and wherever I wanted to.
I hate being tied to a PC when I just want to read a book. Laptops are too bulky, and are really overkill for a simple PDF/ebbok reader.
Ideally, i'd like something the size of my older Wacom drawing tablet (6x4, I believe), with a simple forward and backward button at the base of it. But rather than a drawing surface, I want the surface to display the book/magazine/periodical I'm reading. The drawing tablet's a good example for another reason: It's small, light, and thin. I always thought it'd be the perfect size/aspect for a handheld reader, and if a CD or DVD could slide in the side for reading in files/ebooks, it'd be even better.
But that's just a dream/ideal... I'm personally keeping an eye on MS's Origami project as possibly being the answer to what I'm looking for.
I wonder if Apple is going to go this route next. It would be certainly far more usable than a dedicated gaming console. Thats my biggest gripe about this new version:
Everyone's bitching about how this isn't the game machine they were hoping for, which just blows me away. This is obviously not Apples market historically speaking, and I doubt they'd jump into suck a market at all, much less in the middle of the way-overblown "PS3 vs. XBox360 vs. Nintendo Revolution" fight we keep reading about.
If you guys were saving up for some mythical, never before heard of Mac game box, it's no wonder you're disapointed. But why you'd be expecting such a beast is beyond me
But while I was wondering about the whole gaming thing, I was wondering if the new Mini (specifically the dual core) would be able to play recorded HD content recorded with Apple's H.264 codec. I love H.264's quality/size capabilities, but am unable to play them on my current PVR outfit (an aging, but still more than capable AMD1600 mated with a 8500DV vid' card).
I've been considering a Mini for a HD-capable PVR, but while I can purchase & record HD content using a Elgato's EyeTV-500 capture setup, I don't want to put my Mac, which is my main machine, in the living room, and the 1st generation Mini's are incapable of playing back high resolution video consistently. This new Mini sounds like it might do the trick.
And as for the games, I'm sure that the Mini will be more than capable of running Mame, ZSNES, and a variety of other gaming platforms that while not cutting edge 3-D FPS's, will entertain me and my friends for hours and hours.