Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an invincible powerful nation with a great national power enough to firmly defend its just idea, system and cause, stresses Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The DPRK is an indestructible political power in which the whole party, the entire army and all the people get united in one mind and an ever-victorious military power, the article says, and goes on:
The socio-political foundation of the DPRK government which has been consolidated on the basis of the worker-peasant alliance led by the working class and in reliance on the united front of the popular masses has been immensely strengthened as the singleheartedly united force of the whole party, the entire army and all the people.
As powerfully demonstrated to the world once again by the election of deputies to the 11th term Supreme People's Assembly and the military parade and mass demonstration for celebrating the 55th anniversary of the DPRK, the DPRK is the great political power where the whole party, the entire army and all the people are singledheartedly united with the headquarters of the revolution as its hard core. The singlehearted unity of the party, the army and the people is a true and solid unity and cohesion which can neither be destroyed by nuclear weapons nor be toppled down by any crafty psychological warfare as it is an ideological, willful and moral unity based on the revolutionary faith and comradeship.
The DPRK has a powerful might enough to decisively check and frustrate the imperialists' vicious moves of aggression and war. We are firmly armed with the war method of Juche in the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of laying down our life as a human bullet and bomb and the spirit of self-blasting explosion and has ever-victorious revolutionary strong army of Mt. Paektu equipped with modern offensive and defensive means and the powerful independent defense industry.
The imperialist bellicose forces should clearly know that any "preemptive nuclear attack" , "aerial and sea strike" and "precision strike" are impotent before the military power of the DPRK and there is no place on the planet to escape the powerful retaliatory strike of its revolutionary armed forces.
Our army and people value the peace of the country and do not want a war but will not beg for peace while having their sovereignty and dignity encroached upon. If the U.S. imperialists and their stooges ignite a new war, our army and people will deal an annihilating blow at the aggressors with the singlehearted unity and great military power consolidate
Yeah, any cocoa-app supports emacs-bindings by default.
Oh, I don't use the laptop to view the movies. I connect it to the TV (with included S-video) and watch them there.
To quickly make it recognize the TV, press cmd-F2. Use presentation mode in QuickTime (cmd-shift-f) or switch video device in VLC. Or just hit F7 and turn on mirror mode (you might want to change resolutions depending on wether you use NTSC or PAL).
Best of luck with your new mac. I added you to my friends-list here.:-)
The only few gripes that I have right now are:
1) The aluminum keyboard feels like dragging my nails on a chalkboard if my nails (esp thumb) hit the hey instead of flesh.
Cut your nails;)
I have long nails and so does my girlfriend. We have not had this kind of trouble on our PowerBook 17".
2) The integrated Google search doesn't have buttons that let me search directly to images and/or discussions, and when the search comes up, there aren't buttons of the words that I just searched for allowing me to search within that document.
That _would_ be a cool feature in Safari. Send it to Apple, they listen. Meanwhile Ambrosia has a cool utility called iSeek that does exactly what you want, but puts the search in the menu bar.
3) Many web pages totally break using Safari - I am going to debug one page that I use all of the time and send the fixes (JavaScript) to the person that maintains it since it is sommething I use daily when analyzing stock charts (well, nightly).
As I'm sure you know, it is up to the developer to create webpages that adhere to standards, not Microsoftisms. Dave Hyatt, who is a standards and perfection nut is one of the developers on Safari. He has a web blog discussing Safari here.
4) The resolution on this laptop isn't so great - but the screen does look fantastic.
It could be better, but most users are not used to user elements being tiny. Until resolution-independent interfaces are developed, I think the resolution is just right for the display size (17" and 1440x900 for me). This is all in my humble opinion of course;)
5) I'm not sure that my backlit keyboard works. It is turned on and no matter what changes I make via F9/F10, I still see no backlighting. Not a huge deal, but still a gripe.
As people have mentioned. It need to be dark for it to kick in. There are two sensors, one below each grill.
6) I have yet to figure out where the graphical FTP client is - so far I am largely just treating this like a Linux laptop and using a lot lof command line stuff.
The FTP is integrated in Finder. Use connect to server (cmd-K) and type and FTP-adress. Upload and passworded servers do not work. This is done for two reasons, one is to not alienate 3rd party developers (I use Fetch myself), and the second is security. Apple is focused on security these days, and sending clear-text passwords isn't very secure:)
8) The trackpad is not responsive - it is almost like accelaration is turned on, but I didn't see anything that would indicate that in any mouse menu.
Acceleration is always on, because that is the Apple Way. Mac Users love it, PC-users shouldn't have a great difficulty adjusting to it since it's makes sense. Set the speed to full if you want it to be closer to Windows' hyper-active mousing;)
10) I'm still getting used to the kepay layout for shortcuts - fortunately my misstrokes have yet to do anyuthing harmful.
I'm sure you will find that the cmd-combination is much easier on your hands as you can reach more keys without straining your wrist. Also most shortcuts are consistent across applications on the mac platform, another bonus.
11) The spell checking thing doesn't let you bring up a quick selection of the word/words that it suggests - innstead you have to open the full spell window and then it wants to continue on - I miss the ability in Windows to right click and the first few words on that menu were the suggested words and you could just choose one and move on.
No! Do NOT get the Mac-version! The PC-version is $100 cheaper and the flashing is painless! There have been NO PROBLEMS at all with my flashed Radeon 8500 and it was the best thing I ever did for my old G4 400. (Oh, and the 1.2 GB of RAM helped too;)
Except that as a number of people already have pointed out: Panther runs a lot faster on existing hardware be it the original iMac (large speedboost) to the latest G5 (too fast to notice any change probably).
Obviously EETimes has totally missed the boat here. Here's what I use built in bluetooth for with my 17" PowerBook and Sony Ericsson T610:
1) Remote control iTunes, DVD-player, VLC, QuickTime, Keynote, PowerPoint, even the mouse (with screen zooming) through Salling Clicker. iTunes is particularly spectacular with live updating and searching from the Phone.
2) Use adress book to send and receive calls and SMS. SMSing really rocks, you can read and reply to messages on screen without having to take your phone out of your pocket!
3) Connect to the internet when no wireless access point is nearby.
And if I had the wireless keyboard and mouse I'd add a fourth point here. Oh well, a man can dream.
According to ThinkSecret, and confirmed by an image on the international Apple Stores, tomorrow we get recording accessories and memory card readers to store digital pictures and more. Wicked!
A pro keyboard has the right "feel", i.e. the feedback you get from the keys. This new keyboard, being based on the emac-keyboard feels cheap and spongy. It also has no USB (although they propably would have problems with bandwith over bluetooth here) and is NON-adjustable.
Ideally one would shrink/move/remove the useless caps-lock key and the damn help-key...
Do I have to test my public-access TV show on multiple channels, on multiple different TVs, just to make sure it works on all of them?
Actually yes. The amount of your screen different TVs show varies. That's why you have title-safe areas and action-safe areas. Not to mention PAL vs NTSC.
As a mac user I don't play many games (even though there are plenty of games to keep any gamer occupied), but Deus Ex were one of my favorites on the platform. What are the plans for the sequel?
Yes, NeXTStep had it right 15 years ago, but Apple had it right 20 years ago (and therefore NeXTStep did then - what with Steve Jobs coming from Apple and all).
Not content with staying with the current trend, Apple, who a few years back simplified their name Apple Computers to just Apple, has innovated once again by rebranding as appleTwo.
Of course, you should undoubtedly use caution when burning at speeds not recommended (and in fact restricted) by Apple: Use on a flat surface in no more than room temperature conditions. If you are extra cautious, you can purchase a cooling fan, put it in the refrigerator or heck, even resort to not installing this unsupported firmware.
I think a running DVD-burn will consume power off the charts either way, but I have a pretty well informed hunch running a 1x burn for an hour will consume more battery than a 2x burn for 30 minutes.
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Hmmm, gotta love this story:
DPRK, Dignified Powerful Nation
Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an invincible powerful nation with a great national power enough to firmly defend its just idea, system and cause, stresses Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The DPRK is an indestructible political power in which the whole party, the entire army and all the people get united in one mind and an ever-victorious military power, the article says, and goes on:
The socio-political foundation of the DPRK government which has been consolidated on the basis of the worker-peasant alliance led by the working class and in reliance on the united front of the popular masses has been immensely strengthened as the singleheartedly united force of the whole party, the entire army and all the people.
As powerfully demonstrated to the world once again by the election of deputies to the 11th term Supreme People's Assembly and the military parade and mass demonstration for celebrating the 55th anniversary of the DPRK, the DPRK is the great political power where the whole party, the entire army and all the people are singledheartedly united with the headquarters of the revolution as its hard core. The singlehearted unity of the party, the army and the people is a true and solid unity and cohesion which can neither be destroyed by nuclear weapons nor be toppled down by any crafty psychological warfare as it is an ideological, willful and moral unity based on the revolutionary faith and comradeship.
The DPRK has a powerful might enough to decisively check and frustrate the imperialists' vicious moves of aggression and war. We are firmly armed with the war method of Juche in the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of laying down our life as a human bullet and bomb and the spirit of self-blasting explosion and has ever-victorious revolutionary strong army of Mt. Paektu equipped with modern offensive and defensive means and the powerful independent defense industry.
The imperialist bellicose forces should clearly know that any "preemptive nuclear attack" , "aerial and sea strike" and "precision strike" are impotent before the military power of the DPRK and there is no place on the planet to escape the powerful retaliatory strike of its revolutionary armed forces.
Our army and people value the peace of the country and do not want a war but will not beg for peace while having their sovereignty and dignity encroached upon. If the U.S. imperialists and their stooges ignite a new war, our army and people will deal an annihilating blow at the aggressors with the singlehearted unity and great military power consolidate
And why shouldn't he be the only one allowed on the internet? He invented it after all...
The american dictator by 2000 ;-)
Like all technology, batteries will evolve too you know ;)
Drive sizes will keep being useful the larger they are if you want uncompressed audio. And I think we'll be heading there eventually.
But already now my 40 GB iPod is an external firewire harddrive that just happens to play music as well.
Isn't it about time we change the name of that planet to end that stupid joke once and for all?
I propose Urectum.
The fans are software controlled, if you start it up without OS X, say with Linux, or in FireWire Target mode, the fans default to full speed.
Yeah, any cocoa-app supports emacs-bindings by default.
:-)
Oh, I don't use the laptop to view the movies. I connect it to the TV (with included S-video) and watch them there.
To quickly make it recognize the TV, press cmd-F2. Use presentation mode in QuickTime (cmd-shift-f) or switch video device in VLC. Or just hit F7 and turn on mirror mode (you might want to change resolutions depending on wether you use NTSC or PAL).
Best of luck with your new mac. I added you to my friends-list here.
Cut your nails ;)
I have long nails and so does my girlfriend. We have not had this kind of trouble on our PowerBook 17".
That _would_ be a cool feature in Safari. Send it to Apple, they listen. Meanwhile Ambrosia has a cool utility called iSeek that does exactly what you want, but puts the search in the menu bar.
As I'm sure you know, it is up to the developer to create webpages that adhere to standards, not Microsoftisms. Dave Hyatt, who is a standards and perfection nut is one of the developers on Safari. He has a web blog discussing Safari here.
It could be better, but most users are not used to user elements being tiny. Until resolution-independent interfaces are developed, I think the resolution is just right for the display size (17" and 1440x900 for me). This is all in my humble opinion of course ;)
As people have mentioned. It need to be dark for it to kick in. There are two sensors, one below each grill.
The FTP is integrated in Finder. Use connect to server (cmd-K) and type and FTP-adress. Upload and passworded servers do not work. This is done for two reasons, one is to not alienate 3rd party developers (I use Fetch myself), and the second is security. Apple is focused on security these days, and sending clear-text passwords isn't very secure :)
Acceleration is always on, because that is the Apple Way. Mac Users love it, PC-users shouldn't have a great difficulty adjusting to it since it's makes sense. Set the speed to full if you want it to be closer to Windows' hyper-active mousing ;)
I'm sure you will find that the cmd-combination is much easier on your hands as you can reach more keys without straining your wrist. Also most shortcuts are consistent across applications on the mac platform, another bonus.
I don't see how you m
No! Do NOT get the Mac-version! The PC-version is $100 cheaper and the flashing is painless! There have been NO PROBLEMS at all with my flashed Radeon 8500 and it was the best thing I ever did for my old G4 400. (Oh, and the 1.2 GB of RAM helped too ;)
*ducks*
I would say INCLUDING those that are attempting to clone the iTunes interface.
Except that as a number of people already have pointed out: Panther runs a lot faster on existing hardware be it the original iMac (large speedboost) to the latest G5 (too fast to notice any change probably).
Obviously EETimes has totally missed the boat here. Here's what I use built in bluetooth for with my 17" PowerBook and Sony Ericsson T610:
1) Remote control iTunes, DVD-player, VLC, QuickTime, Keynote, PowerPoint, even the mouse (with screen zooming) through Salling Clicker. iTunes is particularly spectacular with live updating and searching from the Phone.
2) Use adress book to send and receive calls and SMS. SMSing really rocks, you can read and reply to messages on screen without having to take your phone out of your pocket!
3) Connect to the internet when no wireless access point is nearby.
And if I had the wireless keyboard and mouse I'd add a fourth point here. Oh well, a man can dream.
According to ThinkSecret, and confirmed by an image on the international Apple Stores, tomorrow we get recording accessories and memory card readers to store digital pictures and more. Wicked!
I think he performed terribly well on the Monty Python reunion show a couple of years back...
A pro keyboard has the right "feel", i.e. the feedback you get from the keys. This new keyboard, being based on the emac-keyboard feels cheap and spongy. It also has no USB (although they propably would have problems with bandwith over bluetooth here) and is NON-adjustable.
Ideally one would shrink/move/remove the useless caps-lock key and the damn help-key...
These are not Pro keyboards! We need a PRO keyboard (and a multiple-button scroll mouse to boot) now.
And please make it match the feel of the new Powerbook-keyboards and aluminum-colored!
Do I have to test my public-access TV show on multiple channels, on multiple different TVs, just to make sure it works on all of them?
Actually yes. The amount of your screen different TVs show varies. That's why you have title-safe areas and action-safe areas. Not to mention PAL vs NTSC.
As a mac user I don't play many games (even though there are plenty of games to keep any gamer occupied), but Deus Ex were one of my favorites on the platform. What are the plans for the sequel?
By the time Longhorn is released in 2007 it will be dubbed Longtooth.
Yes, NeXTStep had it right 15 years ago, but Apple had it right 20 years ago (and therefore NeXTStep did then - what with Steve Jobs coming from Apple and all).
Not content with staying with the current trend, Apple, who a few years back simplified their name Apple Computers to just Apple, has innovated once again by rebranding as appleTwo.
Of course, you should undoubtedly use caution when burning at speeds not recommended (and in fact restricted) by Apple: Use on a flat surface in no more than room temperature conditions. If you are extra cautious, you can purchase a cooling fan, put it in the refrigerator or heck, even resort to not installing this unsupported firmware.
I think a running DVD-burn will consume power off the charts either way, but I have a pretty well informed hunch running a 1x burn for an hour will consume more battery than a 2x burn for 30 minutes.