A friend and I had an argument about the orientation of the moon. I believe that the same side of the moon always faces the earth. He believes that the same side of the moon always faces the sun, and that the dark side never gets light. Who's right?
Finding more advanced ways of killing people was about 16 billion dollars more important according to this graph showing how the US Government divided its finances for 2004. Military spending (not including Iraq) was 399 billion. Non-military spending (NASA, education, EPA, energy, health, etc.) was 383 billion. The numbers on the graph are from the Office of Management and Budget
I own a mini and I can say that the 9200 isn't that much of a drag. Expose is pretty smooth and there aren't any good mac games anyway. The real question is whether they corrected the VGA undervolting. My mini has muted color and the VGA output is below spec. On an LCD it looks fine, but its definitely subpar on a nice CRT.
This part is so damn annoying I just want to pull my hair out. There are few things worse than losing hours of work because you get "The has been a script error, do you wish to keep running scripts on this page" when trying to plot #$%*!!!!!!!!!1
Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share.
I'd be pretty frustrated too. You can't say with a straight face that MIT deserves 16 million addresses.
I have to second your complaint about the green button in OSX. It seems for most apps that the green button makes the window the full length of the screen and does nothing to the width.
I disagree about your 3rd point though. Having been a windows user for a long time, it took me a little while to get used to having to quit manually, but I've gotten the hang of it and find it to be really helpful for a lot of apps like itunes or ichat where you don't always need a window open.
Cisco should be rewarding him for protecting them against losses they would no doubt have experienced in the future if this flaw went unreported.
If the project is open source, there should be a push to have the flaw (and technical details) examined by the largest number of eyes possible (so that they can develop fixes).
If the software is closed source, the only person that can fix the flaw is the vendor and giving presentations to a bunch of hackers about exploiting the vulnerability doesn't seem very responsible.
I think Mac OS X is really the only operating system out there whose got bragging rights. My iBook when it only had 256MB of ram... flew, and I was very impressed.
Bullshit. Open up Activity Monitor and see how much memory different processes are using. Activity Monitor alone uses something like 10 megs. OS-X is probably the single most memory hungry OS in existance and is only really usuable when you get 512 mb or more. My mini (currently with 256) with no programs (or widgets) running has something like 20 megs of free memory. Open up safari or itunes and your going to be staring at the beachball for a while.
When you get 512 mb, the experience smoothes out a lot and you can have several programs open without having to worry about paging (which is pretty painful on 4200 rpm drives).
Simply bumping the VRAM to 64mb wouldn't do much of anything. The parts of core-image (mainly the ripple effect) that don't work on the mini don't work because of the chipset; the Radeon 9200 (a derivative of the radeon 8500). I own a mini and while a diff gfx card would be nice, the 9200 is still fast enough to play quake3 (only mac game I own).
Don't let the mini's gfx card scare you off. There aren't that many mac games and the 9200 does a fine job on stuff like Expose (and the dashboard ripple effect isn't that cool).
The only thing wrong with the mini (that I can tell) is that the VGA output isn't at proper voltages and the color quality suffers a little. If you have the mini hooked up to a DVI monitor the color should be just fine.
The best bargain is getting the $599 model off ebay. I got mine new in box for $500 (the same model from apple would have been over 600 with tax). I'm a little miffed that I got one before they put 512 RAM as standard (OSX isn't worth running with 256), but cracking open the mini and upgrading the RAM wasn't that hard (just search for mac mini service manual and you get the apple manual for dealers that explains everything).
I see this point brought up a lot and its just wrong. 99.9% of users can't read source code and can't modify programs in any meaningful way, and they gain nothing from having a program be open source.
The BSD liscense has the right idea. The people that can actually use the code (programmers/developers) are the ones with the most freedoms. This benefits the end user waaaaay more than being able to download source code.
With BSD code, anyone can use the code freely and create great software for me, the user. Sometimes that comes in the form of open software but other times it comes to me in the form of closed software (like OSX).
The GPL is a lot like militant islam; it is always seeking to force others to take its viewpoint, and seeks to eliminate all other faiths. The BSD liscense is more like the Unitarian Universalists; believe what you believe. If we agree, great. If not, you're still welcome here.
On my mac, I have a picture file called "war.jpg". Spotlight never finds it. Ever. It finds all other pictures in the folder, but no the one I'm looking for.
Lets talk about the reality of the automotive industry. When you design a vehicle, you generally take 2 to 3 years to produce a model from scratch. 2 or 3 years ago, gasoline was hovering below $1.50 and one summer, it even dropped below a dollar. Gas was cheap and people started to buy SUVs. Auto companies saw this trend and all rushed to produce the biggest, baddest, SUVs and really gave fuck-all consideration to gas mileage.
The EPA shares at least partial fault since they classify SUVs as light-trucks instead of passenger vehicles. A car getting 12 MPG pays a fairly stiff "gas guzzler" tax, which a 10 MPG Hummer does not.
I see the problem of SUVs as largely self correcting (The new Hummer 3 is much smaller and Ford is starting to offer hybrid engines in its Escape); rising fuel costs will lower demand and car companies will produce fewer SUVs.
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A friend and I had an argument about the orientation of the moon. I believe that the same side of the moon always faces the earth. He believes that the same side of the moon always faces the sun, and that the dark side never gets light. Who's right?
Finding more advanced ways of killing people was about 16 billion dollars more important according to this graph showing how the US Government divided its finances for 2004. Military spending (not including Iraq) was 399 billion. Non-military spending (NASA, education, EPA, energy, health, etc.) was 383 billion. The numbers on the graph are from the Office of Management and Budget
haha, I knew I wasn't the only one annoyed by the chamferred corners.
What good is peddling scumware if you can't get ppl to bundle it?
I own a mini and I can say that the 9200 isn't that much of a drag. Expose is pretty smooth and there aren't any good mac games anyway. The real question is whether they corrected the VGA undervolting. My mini has muted color and the VGA output is below spec. On an LCD it looks fine, but its definitely subpar on a nice CRT.
"Is AJAX or a browser an appropriate vehicle for heavyweight office productivity software? Absolutely not." - Jonathan Schwartz (Sun COO)
including basing core functionality on IE6
This part is so damn annoying I just want to pull my hair out. There are few things worse than losing hours of work because you get "The has been a script error, do you wish to keep running scripts on this page" when trying to plot #$%*!!!!!!!!!1
Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share.
I'd be pretty frustrated too. You can't say with a straight face that MIT deserves 16 million addresses.
I have to second your complaint about the green button in OSX. It seems for most apps that the green button makes the window the full length of the screen and does nothing to the width.
I disagree about your 3rd point though. Having been a windows user for a long time, it took me a little while to get used to having to quit manually, but I've gotten the hang of it and find it to be really helpful for a lot of apps like itunes or ichat where you don't always need a window open.
gmail.google.com
talk.google.com
thats pretty weird... When I right click on a dock icon, the top list item is "Remove from Dock"
by SoIP?
I'm sorry, but people that can afford a $40,000 Tahoe or Hummer aren't going to be too bothered by $3 gasoline.
At least on Linux, most/all the software is free and you can sleep at night knowing that everything on your PC is legal.
Unless you want to play DVDs
Cisco should be rewarding him for protecting them against losses they would no doubt have experienced in the future if this flaw went unreported.
If the project is open source, there should be a push to have the flaw (and technical details) examined by the largest number of eyes possible (so that they can develop fixes).
If the software is closed source, the only person that can fix the flaw is the vendor and giving presentations to a bunch of hackers about exploiting the vulnerability doesn't seem very responsible.
I think Mac OS X is really the only operating system out there whose got bragging rights. My iBook when it only had 256MB of ram ... flew, and I was very impressed.
Bullshit. Open up Activity Monitor and see how much memory different processes are using. Activity Monitor alone uses something like 10 megs. OS-X is probably the single most memory hungry OS in existance and is only really usuable when you get 512 mb or more. My mini (currently with 256) with no programs (or widgets) running has something like 20 megs of free memory. Open up safari or itunes and your going to be staring at the beachball for a while.
When you get 512 mb, the experience smoothes out a lot and you can have several programs open without having to worry about paging (which is pretty painful on 4200 rpm drives).
Simply bumping the VRAM to 64mb wouldn't do much of anything. The parts of core-image (mainly the ripple effect) that don't work on the mini don't work because of the chipset; the Radeon 9200 (a derivative of the radeon 8500). I own a mini and while a diff gfx card would be nice, the 9200 is still fast enough to play quake3 (only mac game I own).
Don't let the mini's gfx card scare you off. There aren't that many mac games and the 9200 does a fine job on stuff like Expose (and the dashboard ripple effect isn't that cool).
The only thing wrong with the mini (that I can tell) is that the VGA output isn't at proper voltages and the color quality suffers a little. If you have the mini hooked up to a DVI monitor the color should be just fine.
The best bargain is getting the $599 model off ebay. I got mine new in box for $500 (the same model from apple would have been over 600 with tax). I'm a little miffed that I got one before they put 512 RAM as standard (OSX isn't worth running with 256), but cracking open the mini and upgrading the RAM wasn't that hard (just search for mac mini service manual and you get the apple manual for dealers that explains everything).
I'd like to see someone like IEEE control it.
Who gives a fuck, you're using it to pay taxes. Any whining about free-as-in-freedom seems kinda silly when the govt. is forcing you to pay.
What the hell is wrong with you people? London has suffered the most horrific terrorist attacks in recent history and you people can only talk about Internet Explorer? Get some priorities!!!
I see this point brought up a lot and its just wrong. 99.9% of users can't read source code and can't modify programs in any meaningful way, and they gain nothing from having a program be open source.
The BSD liscense has the right idea. The people that can actually use the code (programmers/developers) are the ones with the most freedoms. This benefits the end user waaaaay more than being able to download source code.
With BSD code, anyone can use the code freely and create great software for me, the user. Sometimes that comes in the form of open software but other times it comes to me in the form of closed software (like OSX).
The GPL is a lot like militant islam; it is always seeking to force others to take its viewpoint, and seeks to eliminate all other faiths. The BSD liscense is more like the Unitarian Universalists; believe what you believe. If we agree, great. If not, you're still welcome here.
Because warez groups don't generally move around or live in remote areas.
ON a side note, anyone know which, if any, release groups(like Fairlight or Class) were netted?
On my mac, I have a picture file called "war.jpg". Spotlight never finds it. Ever. It finds all other pictures in the folder, but no the one I'm looking for.
Lets talk about the reality of the automotive industry. When you design a vehicle, you generally take 2 to 3 years to produce a model from scratch. 2 or 3 years ago, gasoline was hovering below $1.50 and one summer, it even dropped below a dollar. Gas was cheap and people started to buy SUVs. Auto companies saw this trend and all rushed to produce the biggest, baddest, SUVs and really gave fuck-all consideration to gas mileage.
The EPA shares at least partial fault since they classify SUVs as light-trucks instead of passenger vehicles. A car getting 12 MPG pays a fairly stiff "gas guzzler" tax, which a 10 MPG Hummer does not.
I see the problem of SUVs as largely self correcting (The new Hummer 3 is much smaller and Ford is starting to offer hybrid engines in its Escape); rising fuel costs will lower demand and car companies will produce fewer SUVs.