Right, a buggy third-party app with an underthought UI is going to be MUCH better than iTunes. You know, the software they designed the iPod to work with.
Funny, my PowerBook G4 has an S-video port on the back . ..
Yes, FireWire is still technically better than USB 2. That extra 80 Mbps isn't impressive when one interface is isochronous and the other isn't. Add to that the massive amount of power, compared to USB 2, that FireWire can provide, and FW's ability to communicate p2p-style directly from device to device, and suddenly USB 2 isn't that impressive.
USB 2 is nice to have, but for high-speed devices like DV cams and large disk arrays, FireWire is king.
The home of Reason is www.propellerheads.se. The company is based in Sweden, land of infinite hotties. (And plenty of tasty beats, too.)
Reason is amazing software. It's the most satisfying bit of software I've ever used, in fact. (Including Mac OS X and any flavour of Linux.) There are plenty of great articles and ReFills on the Properllerheads' site. Definitely worth checking out if you have Reason, and if you don't have it, worth checking out for the demo.
As a matter of fact, when the Clinton Administration moved into the White House, their audit team discovered that things were far worse than they knew:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cl in ton/chapters/2.html
The excerpt:
Reich: Well, we knew the deficit was large. In fact, years before [Reagan budget chief] David Stockman had referred to '$200 billion-a-year deficits as far as the eye could see." And during the campaign, the president did talk about the importance of reducing the deficit, but it had been of second order priority to investing in education, in job skills, in health care, and a lot of other things that the country needed to do. But, obviously, when the president is on the cusp of actually governing the country, he's got to know how bad that deficit projection really is, how much damage has been done, what he's inherited in terms of an economic mess.
And so I headed over to the Treasury Department to talk to officials over there, officials in the Bush administration, and try to get the best estimate I possibly could as to how bad the numbers really looked, how bad that deficit was going to be the next year and likely to be in years to come.
Frontline: And you found out it was going to be worse than you had been told, and on December 7th I think it was, you go to tell the president the news. What's his reaction?
Reich: The president was not happy when he heard that the projected deficit was much larger than we had assumed, larger than we had been told, larger than the Bush administration had told the public. He knew that it meant that we couldn't do everything that he wanted to do, everything that he had promised the public. Now, he was both upset, but he was also -- I remember this very vividly, and I was surprised at the time because he was also kind of excited. He said, "Gee, that's a great challenge. We're going to really, really have to work on that." And I remember sitting there thinking, "Now, wait a minute. This is going to set a lot of our plans back. Certainly this is going to put a major crimp in all of this public investment.
The problem is that these overseas workers are full of productivity.
Executives aren't.
At least if jobs are sent overseas, the people being paid to work, not sit on their asses.;-)
. . . Though, if we sent executives' jobs overseas, perhaps the overseas workers would send them back. I mean, that's what OUR executives are doing now, right?
This is complete bullshit. You've failed to define "works".
Does it lower cost in the short-term? Yes.
Does it improve the quality of support? Arguably no.
Does it improve the quality and tightness of the product? Arguably no.
Does it strengthen the company from within? No.
Does it lower cost in a reasonably reached fashion that increases internal productivity and doesn't make the other 10,000 workers in your company pray every night that their job (that required $20,000 of schooling according to your posted job requirements two years ago) isn't going to be shipped overseas to someone else? Likely not.
I don't know if you call this "working", but I don't.
It sounds like this isn't a bug in Open Firmware (thankfully), but Apple's OF Password app. If so, we just need to wait for an update to the app, and can still set passwords with "U" manually.
Does anyone have more info regarding where this bug originates?
You cannot reset an Open-Firmware-based password via the OS X installer CD. You can reset the password on an OS install only; Open Firmware settings are not based in the OS, and therefore are autonomous.
For more information on the subject, check out a Google search:
Wow. Could you be more annoying? You sure are annoying. I mean, only an annoying person would keep putting the same annoying link in his or her post to point out (annoyingly, I might add) something that's such an annoying waste of time in the first place. It's almost like you're TRYING to be annoying.
Let me give you an example of just how well this is working across the country:
My girlfriend, after meeting me, discovered that Windows was/not/ the end-all, be-all of OSes, and after finding viruses all over the machine, as well as Windows Cruft(tm) slowing it to a crawl, she decided it was time to entertain the idea of something else.
In this case, that something else was(is) Linux. I was all ready to start switching her over, when she brought home her Math 151 materials:
CDs and a book.
Hrm.
Yup, the CDs are Windows apps. That's not surprising, but I was, of course, hoping they'd just be some kind of Web-browser-based material supplements. They're not. Turns out, the course's quizzes, among other things, are all administered through the software. If you don't run Windows, you can't pass the course.
Now she's not too excited about Linux anymore, even though she'll be more stable, more secure, and virus-free. (And won't have to pay the MS tax.) I'm going to see if the app behaves itself in Wine, but nothing's really guaranteed, as always, with such adventures.
Microsoft knows that universities--the financial decision makers, specifically--are too dumb to consider anything other than Microsoft.
They might not have the Unix background that the Solaris guys have, but remember that Apple, before OS X, had A/UX. On top of this, Apple's full of old NeXT engineers now, who are essentially old-school Unix guys.
That article bitches about csh when it comes to programming, not interactivity.
Hold on a minute, dude. MS is a massive company, with many departments, and they're just not all asshats like that.
The Bungie guys are technically MS guys now, and they're/really fucking nice people./ They not only know their community in the game world, but tend to take part in it to a fairly noticeable extent. Matt Soell? Nice guy. Tyson Green? Nice guy. Marty O'Donnell? Nice guy.
MS may have a ton of "we rule, you suck", but just like with any really large company, they're not all like that. Windows sucks, but there are some talented coders working on it. The same applies for the people themselves.
The problem is that once you own it, you can reverse-engineer it all you like. One could take a closed word processing format and dismantle its workings (perhaps by disassembling the parent app or whatever) so other apps could use those documents, too.
Oh, wait, I'm supposed to come up with a BAD reason to own software, right?
Well, I disagree with the parent to your post on a few points, too, but you need to double-check your stuff first, too:
Also Panther, X.3, has better support for the older Macs.
Read: I've never actually done research on this, but if I use a gimmicky narrative, I'll sound accurate.
As a matter of fact, current developer seeds of Panther aren't supported on Macs that didn't come with built-in USB, which includes all beige G3s. Ten bucks says Panther isn't going to run on this guy's beige box, regardless of how you feel about that.
1. Are you picking it up every five minutes for some reason?
2. Does it not fit into a backpack or duffel bag?
3. Is it too heavy to sit on your floor or entertainment shelf?
Most likely, the answers to these were "no", "no", and "no".
Why are we complaining about a console that, for 99% of the time, just sits there anyway? (And when you DO take it to a friend's house, it's not a bitch to carry in a backpack. I know--I do it.)
Bitch about the controllers all you like, but it's much smaller than a PC you might take to a LAN party.
Perhaps you should read the posts before you point fingers.
Deregulation is a serious issue when it comes to you-need-them-or-your-life-is-hell utilities like, for example, electricity.
"The question that's probably occurring to many of us is, did late-'90s deregulation play a role in today's power event? I don't know the answer, so I'm turning it over to you -- moderators, please check links and up-mod the most informative, pro or con."
No one's explicitly blaming anyone or anything here, but I know it was one of the first things that shot to MY mind when I heard about the mass outages. Look again at the story title's last four words:
"Is There a Story?"
That's what this discussion is about. Not blame off the top, but/is/ deregulation to blame? I see nothing wrong with this question.
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Right, a buggy third-party app with an underthought UI is going to be MUCH better than iTunes. You know, the software they designed the iPod to work with.
Funny, my PowerBook G4 has an S-video port on the back . . .
Yes, FireWire is still technically better than USB 2. That extra 80 Mbps isn't impressive when one interface is isochronous and the other isn't. Add to that the massive amount of power, compared to USB 2, that FireWire can provide, and FW's ability to communicate p2p-style directly from device to device, and suddenly USB 2 isn't that impressive.
USB 2 is nice to have, but for high-speed devices like DV cams and large disk arrays, FireWire is king.
(I think PC's now account for almost 50% of musicians PC's)
Just remember that 79% of all statistics are made up on the fly.
Correction:
The home of Reason is www.propellerheads.se. The company is based in Sweden, land of infinite hotties. (And plenty of tasty beats, too.)
Reason is amazing software. It's the most satisfying bit of software I've ever used, in fact. (Including Mac OS X and any flavour of Linux.) There are plenty of great articles and ReFills on the Properllerheads' site. Definitely worth checking out if you have Reason, and if you don't have it, worth checking out for the demo.
As a matter of fact, when the Clinton Administration moved into the White House, their audit team discovered that things were far worse than they knew:
l in ton/chapters/2.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/c
The excerpt:
Reich: Well, we knew the deficit was large. In fact, years before [Reagan budget chief] David Stockman had referred to '$200 billion-a-year deficits as far as the eye could see." And during the campaign, the president did talk about the importance of reducing the deficit, but it had been of second order priority to investing in education, in job skills, in health care, and a lot of other things that the country needed to do. But, obviously, when the president is on the cusp of actually governing the country, he's got to know how bad that deficit projection really is, how much damage has been done, what he's inherited in terms of an economic mess.
And so I headed over to the Treasury Department to talk to officials over there, officials in the Bush administration, and try to get the best estimate I possibly could as to how bad the numbers really looked, how bad that deficit was going to be the next year and likely to be in years to come.
Frontline: And you found out it was going to be worse than you had been told, and on December 7th I think it was, you go to tell the president the news. What's his reaction?
Reich: The president was not happy when he heard that the projected deficit was much larger than we had assumed, larger than we had been told, larger than the Bush administration had told the public. He knew that it meant that we couldn't do everything that he wanted to do, everything that he had promised the public. Now, he was both upset, but he was also -- I remember this very vividly, and I was surprised at the time because he was also kind of excited. He said, "Gee, that's a great challenge. We're going to really, really have to work on that." And I remember sitting there thinking, "Now, wait a minute. This is going to set a lot of our plans back. Certainly this is going to put a major crimp in all of this public investment.
And I'll take 'The Rapists' for $800, if we're talking about the U.S. Government.
It's a good thing the planet was renamed Urectum, otherwise, we'd have a ton of dirty jokes in this thread . . .
Step 1: Announce next-generation video game console
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
The problem is that these overseas workers are full of productivity.
;-)
Executives aren't.
At least if jobs are sent overseas, the people being paid to work, not sit on their asses.
. . . Though, if we sent executives' jobs overseas, perhaps the overseas workers would send them back. I mean, that's what OUR executives are doing now, right?
This is complete bullshit. You've failed to define "works".
Does it lower cost in the short-term? Yes.
Does it improve the quality of support? Arguably no.
Does it improve the quality and tightness of the product? Arguably no.
Does it strengthen the company from within? No.
Does it lower cost in a reasonably reached fashion that increases internal productivity and doesn't make the other 10,000 workers in your company pray every night that their job (that required $20,000 of schooling according to your posted job requirements two years ago) isn't going to be shipped overseas to someone else? Likely not.
I don't know if you call this "working", but I don't.
Actually, MS doesn't want people talking about security holes they find in MS software:
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defau
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,63784
As Steve Jobs once said, "Every security scheme that is based on secrets eventually fails."
Ask and ye shall receive.
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http://www.securemac.com/openfirmwarepasswordpr
It sounds like this isn't a bug in Open Firmware (thankfully), but Apple's OF Password app. If so, we just need to wait for an update to the app, and can still set passwords with "U" manually.
Does anyone have more info regarding where this bug originates?
You cannot reset an Open-Firmware-based password via the OS X installer CD. You can reset the password on an OS install only; Open Firmware settings are not based in the OS, and therefore are autonomous.
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For more information on the subject, check out a Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=open%20firmware%
I think the tech support guy was jus worried that hackers would try to break into your RAMs and steal your megahertz.
Wow. Could you be more annoying? You sure are annoying. I mean, only an annoying person would keep putting the same annoying link in his or her post to point out (annoyingly, I might add) something that's such an annoying waste of time in the first place. It's almost like you're TRYING to be annoying.
# Natalie Portman.
# Carrie-Anne Moss.
# Liv Tyler.
# Jennifer Garner.
# Cowboy Neal.
And guess which one I'm not going to sleep with.
. . . Sorry, Liv.
Let me give you an example of just how well this is working across the country:
/not/ the end-all, be-all of OSes, and after finding viruses all over the machine, as well as Windows Cruft(tm) slowing it to a crawl, she decided it was time to entertain the idea of something else.
My girlfriend, after meeting me, discovered that Windows was
In this case, that something else was(is) Linux. I was all ready to start switching her over, when she brought home her Math 151 materials:
CDs and a book.
Hrm.
Yup, the CDs are Windows apps. That's not surprising, but I was, of course, hoping they'd just be some kind of Web-browser-based material supplements. They're not. Turns out, the course's quizzes, among other things, are all administered through the software. If you don't run Windows, you can't pass the course.
Now she's not too excited about Linux anymore, even though she'll be more stable, more secure, and virus-free. (And won't have to pay the MS tax.) I'm going to see if the app behaves itself in Wine, but nothing's really guaranteed, as always, with such adventures.
Microsoft knows that universities--the financial decision makers, specifically--are too dumb to consider anything other than Microsoft.
They might not have the Unix background that the Solaris guys have, but remember that Apple, before OS X, had A/UX. On top of this, Apple's full of old NeXT engineers now, who are essentially old-school Unix guys.
That article bitches about csh when it comes to programming, not interactivity.
Hold on a minute, dude. MS is a massive company, with many departments, and they're just not all asshats like that.
/really fucking nice people./ They not only know their community in the game world, but tend to take part in it to a fairly noticeable extent. Matt Soell? Nice guy. Tyson Green? Nice guy. Marty O'Donnell? Nice guy.
The Bungie guys are technically MS guys now, and they're
MS may have a ton of "we rule, you suck", but just like with any really large company, they're not all like that. Windows sucks, but there are some talented coders working on it. The same applies for the people themselves.
Two cents and some balance.
Right, because two of the icons/images in this look nothing like this (or any of the icons from previous versions).
The problem is that once you own it, you can reverse-engineer it all you like. One could take a closed word processing format and dismantle its workings (perhaps by disassembling the parent app or whatever) so other apps could use those documents, too.
/always/ do that. ;-)
Oh, wait, I'm supposed to come up with a BAD reason to own software, right?
Shit. I
Well, I disagree with the parent to your post on a few points, too, but you need to double-check your stuff first, too:
Also Panther, X.3, has better support for the older Macs.Read: I've never actually done research on this, but if I use a gimmicky narrative, I'll sound accurate.
As a matter of fact, current developer seeds of Panther aren't supported on Macs that didn't come with built-in USB, which includes all beige G3s. Ten bucks says Panther isn't going to run on this guy's beige box, regardless of how you feel about that.
Here's a series of questions for you:
1. Are you picking it up every five minutes for some reason?
2. Does it not fit into a backpack or duffel bag?
3. Is it too heavy to sit on your floor or entertainment shelf?
Most likely, the answers to these were "no", "no", and "no".
Why are we complaining about a console that, for 99% of the time, just sits there anyway? (And when you DO take it to a friend's house, it's not a bitch to carry in a backpack. I know--I do it.)
Bitch about the controllers all you like, but it's much smaller than a PC you might take to a LAN party.
Perhaps you should read the posts before you point fingers.
/is/ deregulation to blame? I see nothing wrong with this question.
Deregulation is a serious issue when it comes to you-need-them-or-your-life-is-hell utilities like, for example, electricity.
"The question that's probably occurring to many of us is, did late-'90s deregulation play a role in today's power event? I don't know the answer, so I'm turning it over to you -- moderators, please check links and up-mod the most informative, pro or con."
No one's explicitly blaming anyone or anything here, but I know it was one of the first things that shot to MY mind when I heard about the mass outages. Look again at the story title's last four words:
"Is There a Story?"
That's what this discussion is about. Not blame off the top, but