The 10.1 upgrade was $19. So from 10.0 to 10.1, $19; from 10.1 to 10.2, $129, makes $148. From 10.2 to 10.3, $129, makes $277. From 10.3 to 10.4 $129, makes $406. From 10.4 to 10.5, $129, makes $535. From NT 5.0 to NT 5.1 (Professional, which tracks more closely with OS X), $199. From NT 5.1 to NT 6 (Business again, I won't go with the Ultimate price, though Ultimate may be a better track to Leopard), $199, for $398. So in other words, if you bought all the upgrades released by both Microsoft and Apple to their main OS product from 2001 to 2007, you'd have paid $137 more for OS X - NOT FOUR TIMES the cost (which would be ~$1600).
*As a device*, I love my Sony Reader. When I can find a good copy of a good book in a format that works with the software, it's a very pleasant experience (and yes, I do bring it into the bathroom, though not into the tub - but then I would never bring a paperback into the tub, either). Unfortunately, the Connect software is so bad that it makes it pretty damned hard to get the kind of use out of it I would prefer. The Connect bookstore is atrocious: I'd say as much as 10% of the books are mis-categorized (since when is St. Augustine's *City of God* "Contemporary Fiction?"), the selection is terrible (10,000 books? That's about the size of a little airport bookstore - and like the airport bookstore, there are multiple copies of some books), the interface is frustrating (nothing like having two scroll bars, and why do ebookstores insist on listing only 10 books per page - well, probably so it will seem like they have a bigger selection), and the quality is very uneven. Converting anything other than an RTF is irritating - for text, Connect can't figure out when it should run lines together and when it should preserve line breaks, and it doesn't ask, and PDFs are simply scaled rather than being reflowed, so most of my PDFs (like O'Reilly books) aren't readable unless I go through a laborious cut-and-paste process or find some software of dubious legality to decrypt them). There's no mechanism for updating fonts (sure, I could hack into the machine, which runs a Linux, and add them myself, but I don't have time for that), and I need to keep a Windows VM for the Connect software (which looks so bad it might as well have been written in Swing and at least been cross-platform). Finally, there's no commercially available software for formatting your own books, except for a Japanese program sold by Canon for the Librie and a bunch of mediocre freeware that never quite does a good enough job.
Yes, because of course it is an entirely rational argument to claim that differences in punctuation invalidate a ratification (they don't), or that Ohio didn't become a state until 1953.
Labels/smart folders aren't really a "replacement" for directories, they are rather a better UI abstraction for how to organize files for the user that should be overlaid on top of directories.
Unconstitutional? There's a Constitutional amendment, the sixteenth, that explicitly authorizes income taxes, ratified in 1913. To quote:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Now, as most of our rights are guaranteed by amendments to the Constitution (like the right to keep and bear arms), and as most of the time when laws are struck down it is because the violate the terms of the amendments and not of the original articles (particularly those pesky first ten amendments), I think you're going to have a hard time arguing against the validity of the sixteenth amendment.
By the way, by definition, amendments have priority over the text of the articles - after all, they are *amendments*. Any discrepancy between an amendment and the articles must be resolved in favor of the amendment.
Longhorn is a ski chalet near Whistler-Blackcomb. I would expect that the Vienna used as a code word at Microsoft is somehow associated with that skiing area. Then again, Windows 95 was originally called Chicago, Windows 98 Memphis, Windows NT 3.5 Daytona, and it's possible that Vienna extends that series and not the ski resort series. Of course, it's also possible that whoever choses the code names has changed skiing venues to Austria.
So a feature that prevents you from looking at porn at work is protecting employees from their employers?
Yes, because in theory, you shouldn't be looking at anything on the web that would even accidentally lead you to pr0n (he says as he posts to/. from work), and so if you are caught with something NSFW on your screen, it will be painfully obvious that you aren't working (unless you have a job that requires you to read e.g./. everyday - yeah, I know, I've used the "but it's one of the best channels for information gathering" excuse too).
It also depends upon the vendor who writes the web client you're using at work to provide support both in the rendering engine and in the configuration (i.e., depends upon a user interface to turn the feature on or off). Now, a good percentage of business still "standardize" (and I use that term loosely) on IE. Do you really think that Microsoft, the company whose business model is all about pandering to IT departments, is going to add a feature that will be used to protect employees from their employers? Or that if they do, there won't be a way to use Group Policy to shut the feature off (one of the bits of particularly useful pandering to IT departments that has helped MS build its market share), rendering the whole thing useless?
No, the way to do this is to write a proxy service that can filter out pages rated (by third parties) NSFW.
Good thought, but I doubt it. I had no problems browsing, and just slowdowns adding to my cart, but when I tried to redeem a gift card, iTunes threw some kind of error that looked more like an overloaded server error than a comm error.
What are you talking about, that SATA should sooner or later propagate to 2.5 inch drives? I have a 2.5 SATA drive in my hands right now (from a MacBook).
Have you heard of the Sony Rootkit? How about the bullshit lawsuits against Lik-Sang or Bleem? How about their viral marketing campaign "All I want for Xmas is a PSP"? How about the fictitious movie reviewer they created called David Manning who always gave glowing reviews for Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures, while real critics gave the same movies extremely poor reviews?
Well, this is a tad overwrought. Don't you think that it would be a better argument for you to prove that Toshiba has a long track record of creating successful industry standards?
There was one format that Sony pioneered with one other company, Phillips, that was relatively successful. You may even have heard of it: the Audio Compact Disk, or CD. Sure, Phillips did most of the technical work (PDF) on it, but Sony was there from the start.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between Tiger and OS X. Tiger is OS X 10.4; OS X was originally released in mid-2001, at version 10.0. Aqua was the original UI for OS X 10.0, and that's where all the UI elements Pogue is suggesting that Vista ripped off came from.
I'm guessing that you almost never use a Mac. I use Windows at work, and Mac at home, and came to both from a UNIX environment. I've also been testing Vista. Frankly, it is far *less* usable than XP. Too many layers to drill through to get to something.
I'd suggest that you watch the video. It's not the 3D graphics that he's talking about.
Also, I've had OS X on my laptop since July of 2001. Aqua was first released to the world in an OS X alpha build presented at MacWorld in January of 2000. According to the Wikipedia article (if we can trust that), work on Vista started in May of 2001. And Aero (even if not by that name) has only been in Vista since build 4074 (according to the Wikipedia article on Aero); Paul Thurrott's images of that build are dated May 5, 2004.
So, some might "remember" that even before OS X was launched for its first version, the "Vista Road Map" had been published clearly stating that Aero has always been slated as part of the operating system - but they'd be remembering wrong.
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The 10.1 upgrade was $19. So from 10.0 to 10.1, $19; from 10.1 to 10.2, $129, makes $148. From 10.2 to 10.3, $129, makes $277. From 10.3 to 10.4 $129, makes $406. From 10.4 to 10.5, $129, makes $535. From NT 5.0 to NT 5.1 (Professional, which tracks more closely with OS X), $199. From NT 5.1 to NT 6 (Business again, I won't go with the Ultimate price, though Ultimate may be a better track to Leopard), $199, for $398. So in other words, if you bought all the upgrades released by both Microsoft and Apple to their main OS product from 2001 to 2007, you'd have paid $137 more for OS X - NOT FOUR TIMES the cost (which would be ~$1600).
*As a device*, I love my Sony Reader. When I can find a good copy of a good book in a format that works with the software, it's a very pleasant experience (and yes, I do bring it into the bathroom, though not into the tub - but then I would never bring a paperback into the tub, either). Unfortunately, the Connect software is so bad that it makes it pretty damned hard to get the kind of use out of it I would prefer. The Connect bookstore is atrocious: I'd say as much as 10% of the books are mis-categorized (since when is St. Augustine's *City of God* "Contemporary Fiction?"), the selection is terrible (10,000 books? That's about the size of a little airport bookstore - and like the airport bookstore, there are multiple copies of some books), the interface is frustrating (nothing like having two scroll bars, and why do ebookstores insist on listing only 10 books per page - well, probably so it will seem like they have a bigger selection), and the quality is very uneven. Converting anything other than an RTF is irritating - for text, Connect can't figure out when it should run lines together and when it should preserve line breaks, and it doesn't ask, and PDFs are simply scaled rather than being reflowed, so most of my PDFs (like O'Reilly books) aren't readable unless I go through a laborious cut-and-paste process or find some software of dubious legality to decrypt them). There's no mechanism for updating fonts (sure, I could hack into the machine, which runs a Linux, and add them myself, but I don't have time for that), and I need to keep a Windows VM for the Connect software (which looks so bad it might as well have been written in Swing and at least been cross-platform). Finally, there's no commercially available software for formatting your own books, except for a Japanese program sold by Canon for the Librie and a bunch of mediocre freeware that never quite does a good enough job.
Do you know what the version number is of Windows XP? It's Windows NT 5.1. Care to guess what the version number was of Windows 2000? Windows NT 5.0.
Where else can you find a driver for the iSight?
Yes, because of course it is an entirely rational argument to claim that differences in punctuation invalidate a ratification (they don't), or that Ohio didn't become a state until 1953.
Labels/smart folders aren't really a "replacement" for directories, they are rather a better UI abstraction for how to organize files for the user that should be overlaid on top of directories.
Unconstitutional? There's a Constitutional amendment, the sixteenth, that explicitly authorizes income taxes, ratified in 1913. To quote:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Now, as most of our rights are guaranteed by amendments to the Constitution (like the right to keep and bear arms), and as most of the time when laws are struck down it is because the violate the terms of the amendments and not of the original articles (particularly those pesky first ten amendments), I think you're going to have a hard time arguing against the validity of the sixteenth amendment.
By the way, by definition, amendments have priority over the text of the articles - after all, they are *amendments*. Any discrepancy between an amendment and the articles must be resolved in favor of the amendment.
Longhorn is a ski chalet near Whistler-Blackcomb. I would expect that the Vienna used as a code word at Microsoft is somehow associated with that skiing area. Then again, Windows 95 was originally called Chicago, Windows 98 Memphis, Windows NT 3.5 Daytona, and it's possible that Vienna extends that series and not the ski resort series. Of course, it's also possible that whoever choses the code names has changed skiing venues to Austria.
Actually, the one I know would be perfect with no changes: Found On Road Dead.
I stand corrected: it is indeed 110 yards, which is 100.584 meters. As others have said, it is ten yards in three downs.
Canadian football fields. It is a Canadian publication, and a Canadian ice shelf, so they must be Canadian Football Fields. 100 meters, not yards.
So a feature that prevents you from looking at porn at work is protecting employees from their employers?
Yes, because in theory, you shouldn't be looking at anything on the web that would even accidentally lead you to pr0n (he says as he posts to /. from work), and so if you are caught with something NSFW on your screen, it will be painfully obvious that you aren't working (unless you have a job that requires you to read e.g. /. everyday - yeah, I know, I've used the "but it's one of the best channels for information gathering" excuse too).
It also depends upon the vendor who writes the web client you're using at work to provide support both in the rendering engine and in the configuration (i.e., depends upon a user interface to turn the feature on or off). Now, a good percentage of business still "standardize" (and I use that term loosely) on IE. Do you really think that Microsoft, the company whose business model is all about pandering to IT departments, is going to add a feature that will be used to protect employees from their employers? Or that if they do, there won't be a way to use Group Policy to shut the feature off (one of the bits of particularly useful pandering to IT departments that has helped MS build its market share), rendering the whole thing useless?
No, the way to do this is to write a proxy service that can filter out pages rated (by third parties) NSFW.
Good thought, but I doubt it. I had no problems browsing, and just slowdowns adding to my cart, but when I tried to redeem a gift card, iTunes threw some kind of error that looked more like an overloaded server error than a comm error.
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They called that version Sim Earth back in what, 1995?
What are you talking about, that SATA should sooner or later propagate to 2.5 inch drives? I have a 2.5 SATA drive in my hands right now (from a MacBook).
Have you heard of the Sony Rootkit? How about the bullshit lawsuits against Lik-Sang or Bleem? How about their viral marketing campaign "All I want for Xmas is a PSP"? How about the fictitious movie reviewer they created called David Manning who always gave glowing reviews for Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures, while real critics gave the same movies extremely poor reviews?
Well, this is a tad overwrought. Don't you think that it would be a better argument for you to prove that Toshiba has a long track record of creating successful industry standards?
There was one format that Sony pioneered with one other company, Phillips, that was relatively successful. You may even have heard of it: the Audio Compact Disk, or CD. Sure, Phillips did most of the technical work (PDF) on it, but Sony was there from the start.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between Tiger and OS X. Tiger is OS X 10.4; OS X was originally released in mid-2001, at version 10.0. Aqua was the original UI for OS X 10.0, and that's where all the UI elements Pogue is suggesting that Vista ripped off came from.
I'm guessing that you almost never use a Mac. I use Windows at work, and Mac at home, and came to both from a UNIX environment. I've also been testing Vista. Frankly, it is far *less* usable than XP. Too many layers to drill through to get to something.
I'd suggest that you watch the video. It's not the 3D graphics that he's talking about.
Also, I've had OS X on my laptop since July of 2001. Aqua was first released to the world in an OS X alpha build presented at MacWorld in January of 2000. According to the Wikipedia article (if we can trust that), work on Vista started in May of 2001. And Aero (even if not by that name) has only been in Vista since build 4074 (according to the Wikipedia article on Aero); Paul Thurrott's images of that build are dated May 5, 2004.
So, some might "remember" that even before OS X was launched for its first version, the "Vista Road Map" had been published clearly stating that Aero has always been slated as part of the operating system - but they'd be remembering wrong.
Well, does anyone? Their site is down for the count . . .
Twenty years. 10 years in Troy, 10 years wandering. And ancient Argus, who was a puppy when Odysseus left, died of joy at seeing his master's face.
Sorry, it's not as good as the slide to Robot Hell ... a cartoon homage to Dante's Inferno.
You'll pay for every crime!
Knee-deep in electric slime!
You'll suffer 'till the end of time,
enduring tortures, most of which rhyme,
trapped forever, here in Robot Hell!