User: Hawthorne01

Wireless. Smaller size than a Shuffle.

On: iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone

Lame. :-)

Given that cingular.com is getting crushed right now, I'd say that the iTunes Phone will be a hit. Personally, I was hoping for a higher-res camera, as I want a 4-1 gadget to take with me (Phone, PDA, iPod, camera). Looks like I'll have to wait longer.

Re:Visicalc != Apple II

On: The First Killer App: VisiCalc

I was about to spank you on that. :-)

1981, we had a Commodore CBM. 40char green ascii screen. 32k memory and 2 5 1/4" drives. No VisiCalc, or if we did, I never played with it. I was too busy playing Adventure! or the *original* Oregon Trail, or doing lame BASIC tricks.

Re:Visicalc != Apple II

On: The First Killer App: VisiCalc

IIRC (and this is going back to my high school days), it was CP/M machines that benefitted the most from Visicalc. The real 1337 business machine back then was a Kaypro or Osbourne with VisiCalc and a WordStar.

And not one, but *two* 5 1/4" drives.

Now you're playing with power.

Re:I wonder...

On: Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway

As long as he doesn't try to dance.

Re:Why? Why?

On: Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns

Yes.

Memo to His Steveness:

On: Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot

From: pschiller@apple.com
To:sjobs@apple.com

Steve,
I think we've found the perfect price point to really boost Mac sales. I'll have marketing look into it, but as best I can figure, we'll lose money on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume.

See you in Paris next month,

Phil

Re:Business plan for success...

On: Microsoft Leveraging iPod Patent?

"Also, though a lot of lawyers are great people, a lot are completeassholes, and all of them have an ego, which makes the assholes harder to deal with."

And this makes them different from coders...How?

/me runs and ducks. :)

Re:It does sound silly, but...

On: FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA

But information (and shipping boxes) WANT to be free... :-)

Re:It's unbelievable at times

On: Spyware Based ID Theft Ring Uncovered

Too slow. I prefer snail IP.

Re:It's unbelievable at times

On: Spyware Based ID Theft Ring Uncovered

Downloaded on my Mac, burned to CD, installed on the ThinkPad. Next question.

It's unbelievable at times

On: Spyware Based ID Theft Ring Uncovered

My Dad bought a new ThnkPad, and before I let him anywhere near it, I spent an hour downloading CWSShredder, Spybot, Ad-Awaare, et al before I connected to the 'net. It's been 10 years since I owned a Windows machine, and this was the first one I'd set up since then. It was an eye-opener for me as to just how bad it is out there in the Windows world.

Re:Active v Passive

On: The Social Impact of Gaming

Gaming's greatest bane, then, is that almost anyone can pick up a musical instrument, and within a reasonable amount of time, begin to play songs they like from other artists, and eventually go on to make original music, and do this even as a hobby. Not true of games. There's hobbyist modders out there, to be sure, but the learning curve is much steeper than a chord progression or 4/4 time.

It's simple.

On: Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty?

*Your* information wants to be free.

Mine doesn't.

Next question. :-)

But, but,

On: How Computers Work -- Circa 1979

There's no mention of Windows(tm) anywhere! How do computers work without Windows?

So if I read the article right...

On: DRM Advocate Violates DRM

Good DRM = Good. Don't try to go around it, that's bad.

Bad DRM = Bad. It's good to circumvent it if you need to.

Um, so who gets to decide what's good and what's bad?

In the words of Homer, "Ummn, I don't know, the Coast Guard?"

Same is it always is

On: Apple to Lock OSXi to Apple Hardware

Slashdot giveth,
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/14/ 1322208&tid=181&tid=3
and Slashdot taketh away
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/14/144 2212&tid=93&tid=3

"Rules?"

On: Ground Rules for the Windows vs. Mac War

"...in a knife fight?"

The purpose of the WiFi was

On: A Coffeeshop's Weekends Without Wi-Fi

to attract *paying* customers. Once again, the actions of a few spoil it for everyone else.

Eventually, some sort of ettiquette will work it's way to the surface, as it has with bulletin boards or email. I make it a point to a) seek out coffee shops with free wifi (www.delocator.net) and buy something as a sign of appreciation for the free connection. Would it kill the freeloaders to buy a small cup of decaf at the very least?

And while they're at it,

On: Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security?

"simeltaneous"

It looks like their spellchecker could use an update, too...

"They do not fly,

On: Howto - Flying Snakes

so much as plummet."

-Monty Python

(Ok, it was sheep. but after watching those videos, I think it fits.)

Re:As Seen On TV is in trouble....

On: I, Cringely On A Momentous Week

So now we have a Slashdot article about a tech writer who referenced a Slashdot post who wrote to the writer and mentioned it in the comments in the comments of the Slashdot article about a tech writer who referenced a Slashdot poster who...

--CTRL - BREAK --

Phew. Got out of that one... :-)

Re:Whether it's a security problem or not,

On: Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets

That was my point. I just figured that people here could figure it out.

And then I realized I was on /. ;-)

And before anybody blasts me for Mac hatred, look at my posting history, I love my Macs, and will defend what they do right to my dying breath.

But this kind of thing dissapoints me. It's the kind of mis-prioritzing ease of use vs. security that we're used to seeing in Windows.

Still, my worst day on a Mac is better than my best day on Windows.

Re:Whether it's a security problem or not,

On: Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets

Sonavagun, I did that. And then I pressed F12. And lo and behold, there were them thar widgets again. Thanks for playing.

Whether it's a security problem or not,

On: Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets

All I want is the ability to turn off Dashboard from the GUI. completely. Not individual widgets, the whole darn thing. I can do that with Konfabulator, but Dashboard is always on.

THERE'S the real security hole, IMO.

Great!

On: IBM Gives SCO the Works

Let's use those "detailed (snide?) set of instructions on exactly how to search for that stolen code." to look for other non-existent things.

Like Bigfoot, for example.