Checking my online banking messages while reading the FTA, I was amused to note one of the ideas already being rolled out by my bank. The message follows:
Date: 17/08/05 17:06 Subject: SMS payment security registration invitation Account: No Account Reference: SB10143677 Register now for SMS payment security - a new service that provides an extra security layer when you make Internet Banking Bill payments and Funds transfers to other people. Once registered, you will be sent a one-time only code via SMS to your mobile phone that you will need to enter in the payment confirmation screen to complete the payment.
As part of our ongoing commitment to Internet Banking security, this service is free.
To complete the registration you need:
1. To read the terms and conditions below
2. Reply to this message asking to register and
3. Call us now on 1300 651 656 to register your mobile phone number. This is the mobile phone number that the one time only sms code will be sent to.
When you complete steps 2 and 3, this will confirm your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.
Please do not hesitate to contact us via this secure Messaging Service, or call on 1300 651 656 in Australia or Internationally on +61 3 8641 - 9886 between 8:00am - 9:00pm (EST) Monday to Friday and 9:00am - 6:00pm (EST) Saturday & Sunday.
National Internet Banking Support Team
Terms and conditions 1. You agree to notify the National promptly of any change to the registered mobile number or your exclusive use of that number; 2. You authorise the National to provide the registered mobile number and your payment amount to the telecommunication service provider used by the National to enable you to receive an SMS message with the payment amount and the authentication code generated by the National, for use by you within Internet Banking; and 3. You agree the Terms and Conditions for Internet Banking (effective 7 February 2005) will change as follows: A new definition is added. "user authentication" means the authentication service made available by the National to a user when using the service to make certain payments.
A new clause 18A is added. "18A [User authentication]. In the event the National receives an instruction from a user to make a BPAY Payment or payment to a third party account and that user has user authentication, the National will require the user provide the identifier generated by the National in accordance with user authentication. This requirement is in addition to any password or other information a user must give to the National when providing an instruction using the service.
The user should contact National Internet Banking Support in the event the National does not accept any instruction using the user authentication identifier. Provision of this identifier does not alter your responsibility for the transaction.
Sculley was VP not CEO when Jobs hired him, although he would have become CEO had he stuck around.
Jobs championed the Macintosh, a project to create a cheaper version of the Lisa when he wasn't allowed to run Lisa. Thus he directly went against the Lisa project.
I don't know where you're getting your info, but I installed a pre-release version of Panther on my iPod a while back and ran it for a few weeks as normal and I had no issues and the iPod is still fine (touches wood very quickly).
So although that isn't what it's designed for, if it's that dead that it's constantly hooked up to a power supply, I reckon it'd be worth trying.
Tibco has a trademark for use of a word in a specific context. They have a right to market their product using this work and not have their marketing screwed by people getting the product they are marketing mixed up with any other product.
Think for a second of a non-computer nerd: s/he knows nothing about zero configuration blah blah software _or_ "enterprise blah-blah-ware". One network software that doesn't require you to put in those funny number thingies to do things like chatting. The other one lets you set up meetings with fellow workers without having to muck around with settings. Hmm.. yup, sounds potentially confusing.
Zeroconf and Rendezvous are different. That's what.
Zerconf is a standard, Rendezvous is one implementation of that standard. So Rendezvous provides a set of APIs and services that can be used in software products.
Hence to simply name it the underlying standard would probably end up being confusing and misleading. That's why Apple's rendezvous/= IEEE's zeroconf.
There is another reason for mac users (in general) beind more capable than windows users. Windows and all the associated apps: word, explorer, etc are:
a) obfuscated into oblivion to stop competitors gaining access to underlying hooks: hence applications and the OS
(i) act in strange and, upon first impression, inexplicable ways
(ii) hack around problems in strange and inexplicable ways
(iii) due to (i) and (ii) is inexplicable; b) the apps and OS all hook into each other in wierd and wonderful ways: has its advantages (eg, speed) but means that users never have the chance to gain a conceptual understanding of their computer. c) interface is horribly designed
For instance, using Mac OS 7, I noticed that applications I was running had their icons "greyed out", upon some exploration I learnt that there was a difference between closing (a window) and quitting (an application). Most windows users never learn there is a difference. Why? there is no conceptual difference in the user interface
So like it or not, mac users make more sense of their machines (yay alliteration)
I've been using panther for a few days, and just thought I'd share some observations that no one else has yet mentioned:
* Fonts on brushed metal are a lot more solid. Especially at small font sizes, with smoothing off (on a powerbook's screen) the fonts are very crisp. I think some of the fonts are more "inset" in the metal than they were before
* Extremely cool searching in preview.app. A drawer is opened and search results come up as you type, per iTunes and now Finder. The drawer has little summaries of the surrounding text and page number... so useful! Just like a search eninge on the web.
* The new finder's icon: had to mention it: looks like it was drawn by a child. Yuck!
* Breaks uControl, which gave me virtual scrolling on my touchpad: so frickin hard to live without! Shall I have to buy a mouse?
* the menu item separators are now inset, like the aqua gel buttons: very slick, everything looks more solid, and less stuck on as an afterthought.
* iChat AV's voice feature is so great. I don't have video, while it would be cool, I'd have to look interested when talking to my parents (and not surf the web;)
* All the updates to the finder and system put together means that aside from the dock not having multiple tabs or some such, I can finally use my computer as efficiently and _intuitively_ as I could ever wish:
- expose lets me see my desktop quickly for my commonly used items
- find in the finder window finally is usable and useful
- with the places holder on the left, it's somehow a lot easier to use the column view and jump to required place than when the icons were up in the toolbar (separation of concerns perhaps?
- everything just fits, like it was a handcrafted piece of woodwork: Beautiful =)
* This has been mentioned, but I'll mention it again: milk and brushed metal: I like both of them: in isolation. Thrown all together my machine now kinda looks like a badly designed KDE theme... all these different ways of viewing things mushed together. Even the volume level in iChat AV is out of place. As I say, they all look great in isolation, so hopefully the full release will meld these elements a bit better!
* To reply to themexican: I agree that customisability is lacking, especially if apple keeps changing its own ideas of how its computer should look.
* Also agree with themexican that it would be very cool if the action menu could auto send files like screensavers, etc to the right folder, but remember there's more than one "right folder"; ie: all users or just for this one, not that that couldn't be overcome of course!
* Disagree: Finder windows still take up too much screen real estate. If apple used small scrollbars it would save a significant # of pixels per window.
Make scrollbars too thin and they get hard to use: they take up space, but they are necessarily large so they are easy to use.
* Dock should act more like dragthing/tabbed windows pre-X. Or at least it should allow the use of separators a la toolbar
* Scrolling in Safari is much nicer. Smooth and all:^D
* themexican: My suggestion to enhance the multiple user experience would be to have an easy way for families to share iApp libraries between users.
You know, I always thought that it was odd that amongst enumerated powers such as trade and commerce, defence, external affairs that Australia's Constitution gives the Federal Government here power over lighthouses... Now I know why!
I live in Australia, and I have NEVER been asked for personal information at a store, Tandy (RadioShack) or otherwise. It truly amazes me that this is something you poor bastards have to put up with. What a rip-off. Something tells me if they tried it here, they'd just get laughed at and told to piss off.
Actually, Woz's position (according to his webpage, which I can't be bothered finding) is that he thinks os x is great, but it doesn't fit the way he uses the computer _at the moment_: he says os 9 suits his workflow just fine... (i read this a while ago, but i believe that's about accurate)
That quote is actually from the article (last page) where it talks about the fact that most mobile manufacturers are impressed with Opera just because they're surviving against MS, and as another poster has pointed out, because of MS' licensing deals being ridiculously restrictive...
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As I understand, though, unlike when the Victorian State Government in Australia put a moratorium on IVF research in that State, US bans on research into areas such as cloning typically ban government funding, but *not* research itself (ie, by the private sector)
Well, I'm a mac person myself, and would love for that to be true, but still now, I can't do internet banking cuz my bank only offers a windoze solution...
When we have true interoperability, I'll be happy, but while.Net continues to grow and flourish, MS still has its way...
As pointed out on As the Apple Turns, the difference is, while the PowerMacs reach higher performance levels (233 vs 217 Gflops) they take up a whole heap more space than a single rack of 42 IU servers...
A quick note to all the Americans crapping on about free speech and censorship and how f*ckin' great the 1st Amendment is.
Australia does not have a general right to free speech. But, there is a right to freedom of political communication. And more important in some cases than the substantive rights that are written on paper (important though they may be) is the way they are applied and protected. In the 50's, when the US Supreme Court buckled under political pressure and allowed blatantly illegal acts by the US Government against the Communist Party of the USA (which by the way is exactly the same way segregation was apartheid took hold in South Africa), the Australian High Court refused to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party in Australia. Our High Court has, by and large, assured that when the Government steps on our rights (even though they aren't specifically defined, which they should be) they're put back in their place
i can't believe you people modded this up: what if I ask for an x86 box that runs os x or for apple to adopt be os for os xi? honestly what sparky wants for christmas is hardly insightful now is it?
to "Slashdote" (verb), when a geek stares in awe at something technology related, cooing over it, showering it in praise. (Derived from modern English: slash from slashdot and dote from... well... dote)
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Checking my online banking messages while reading the FTA, I was amused to note one of the ideas already being rolled out by my bank. The message follows:
Date: 17/08/05 17:06
Subject: SMS payment security registration invitation
Account: No Account
Reference: SB10143677
Register now for SMS payment security - a new service that provides
an extra security layer when you make Internet Banking Bill
payments and Funds transfers to other people. Once registered, you
will be sent a one-time only code via SMS to your mobile phone that
you will need to enter in the payment confirmation screen to
complete the payment.
As part of our ongoing commitment to Internet Banking security,
this service is free.
To complete the registration you need:
1. To read the terms and conditions below
2. Reply to this message asking to register and
3. Call us now on 1300 651 656 to register your mobile phone
number. This is the mobile phone number that the one time only sms
code will be sent to.
When you complete steps 2 and 3, this will confirm your acceptance
of the terms and conditions below.
Please do not hesitate to contact us via this secure Messaging
Service, or call on 1300 651 656 in Australia or Internationally on
+61 3 8641 - 9886 between 8:00am - 9:00pm (EST) Monday to Friday
and 9:00am - 6:00pm (EST) Saturday & Sunday.
National Internet Banking Support Team
Terms and conditions
1. You agree to notify the National promptly of any change to the
registered mobile number or your exclusive use of that number;
2. You authorise the National to provide the registered mobile
number and your payment amount to the telecommunication service
provider used by the National to enable you to receive an SMS
message with the payment amount and the authentication code
generated by the National, for use by you within Internet Banking;
and
3. You agree the Terms and Conditions for Internet Banking
(effective 7 February 2005) will change as follows:
A new definition is added. "user authentication" means the
authentication service made available by the National to a user
when using the service to make certain payments.
A new clause 18A is added. "18A [User authentication]. In the event
the National receives an instruction from a user to make a BPAY
Payment or payment to a third party account and that user has user
authentication, the National will require the user provide the
identifier generated by the National in accordance with user
authentication. This requirement is in addition to any password or
other information a user must give to the National when providing
an instruction using the service.
The user should contact National Internet Banking Support in the
event the National does not accept any instruction using the user
authentication identifier. Provision of this identifier does not
alter your responsibility for the transaction.
this is a bit stale, but for the sake of history:
Sculley was VP not CEO when Jobs hired him, although he would have become CEO had he stuck around.
Jobs championed the Macintosh, a project to create a cheaper version of the Lisa when he wasn't allowed to run Lisa. Thus he directly went against the Lisa project.
I don't know where you're getting your info, but I installed a pre-release version of Panther on my iPod a while back and ran it for a few weeks as normal and I had no issues and the iPod is still fine (touches wood very quickly).
So although that isn't what it's designed for, if it's that dead that it's constantly hooked up to a power supply, I reckon it'd be worth trying.
Tibco has a trademark for use of a word in a specific context. They have a right to market their product using this work and not have their marketing screwed by people getting the product they are marketing mixed up with any other product.
Think for a second of a non-computer nerd: s/he knows nothing about zero configuration blah blah software _or_ "enterprise blah-blah-ware". One network software that doesn't require you to put in those funny number thingies to do things like chatting. The other one lets you set up meetings with fellow workers without having to muck around with settings. Hmm.. yup, sounds potentially confusing.
Zeroconf and Rendezvous are different. That's what.
/= IEEE's zeroconf.
Zerconf is a standard, Rendezvous is one implementation of that standard. So Rendezvous provides a set of APIs and services that can be used in software products.
Hence to simply name it the underlying standard would probably end up being confusing and misleading. That's why Apple's rendezvous
There is another reason for mac users (in general) beind more capable than windows users. Windows and all the associated apps: word, explorer, etc are:
a) obfuscated into oblivion to stop competitors gaining access to underlying hooks: hence applications and the OS
(i) act in strange and, upon first impression, inexplicable ways
(ii) hack around problems in strange and inexplicable ways
(iii) due to (i) and (ii) is inexplicable;
b) the apps and OS all hook into each other in wierd and wonderful ways: has its advantages (eg, speed) but means that users never have the chance to gain a conceptual understanding of their computer.
c) interface is horribly designed
For instance, using Mac OS 7, I noticed that applications I was running had their icons "greyed out", upon some exploration I learnt that there was a difference between closing (a window) and quitting (an application). Most windows users never learn there is a difference. Why? there is no conceptual difference in the user interface
So like it or not, mac users make more sense of their machines (yay alliteration)
I've been using panther for a few days, and just thought I'd share some observations that no one else has yet mentioned:
;)
:^D
* Fonts on brushed metal are a lot more solid. Especially at small font sizes, with smoothing off (on a powerbook's screen) the fonts are very crisp. I think some of the fonts are more "inset" in the metal than they were before
* Extremely cool searching in preview.app. A drawer is opened and search results come up as you type, per iTunes and now Finder. The drawer has little summaries of the surrounding text and page number... so useful! Just like a search eninge on the web.
* The new finder's icon: had to mention it: looks like it was drawn by a child. Yuck!
* Breaks uControl, which gave me virtual scrolling on my touchpad: so frickin hard to live without! Shall I have to buy a mouse?
* the menu item separators are now inset, like the aqua gel buttons: very slick, everything looks more solid, and less stuck on as an afterthought.
* iChat AV's voice feature is so great. I don't have video, while it would be cool, I'd have to look interested when talking to my parents (and not surf the web
* All the updates to the finder and system put together means that aside from the dock not having multiple tabs or some such, I can finally use my computer as efficiently and _intuitively_ as I could ever wish:
- expose lets me see my desktop quickly for my commonly used items
- find in the finder window finally is usable and useful
- with the places holder on the left, it's somehow a lot easier to use the column view and jump to required place than when the icons were up in the toolbar (separation of concerns perhaps?
- everything just fits, like it was a handcrafted piece of woodwork: Beautiful =)
* This has been mentioned, but I'll mention it again: milk and brushed metal: I like both of them: in isolation. Thrown all together my machine now kinda looks like a badly designed KDE theme... all these different ways of viewing things mushed together. Even the volume level in iChat AV is out of place. As I say, they all look great in isolation, so hopefully the full release will meld these elements a bit better!
* To reply to themexican: I agree that customisability is lacking, especially if apple keeps changing its own ideas of how its computer should look.
* Also agree with themexican that it would be very cool if the action menu could auto send files like screensavers, etc to the right folder, but remember there's more than one "right folder"; ie: all users or just for this one, not that that couldn't be overcome of course!
* Disagree: Finder windows still take up too much screen real estate. If apple used small scrollbars it would save a significant # of pixels per window.
Make scrollbars too thin and they get hard to use: they take up space, but they are necessarily large so they are easy to use.
* Dock should act more like dragthing/tabbed windows pre-X. Or at least it should allow the use of separators a la toolbar
* Scrolling in Safari is much nicer. Smooth and all
* themexican: My suggestion to enhance the multiple user experience would be to have an easy way for families to share iApp libraries between users.
Hell yes!!
You know, I always thought that it was odd that amongst enumerated powers such as trade and commerce, defence, external affairs that Australia's Constitution gives the Federal Government here power over lighthouses... Now I know why!
I live in Australia, and I have NEVER been asked for personal information at a store, Tandy (RadioShack) or otherwise. It truly amazes me that this is something you poor bastards have to put up with. What a rip-off. Something tells me if they tried it here, they'd just get laughed at and told to piss off.
Actually, Woz's position (according to his webpage, which I can't be bothered finding) is that he thinks os x is great, but it doesn't fit the way he uses the computer _at the moment_: he says os 9 suits his workflow just fine... (i read this a while ago, but i believe that's about accurate)
Come on people, you can't blame him...
That quote is actually from the article (last page) where it talks about the fact that most mobile manufacturers are impressed with Opera just because they're surviving against MS, and as another poster has pointed out, because of MS' licensing deals being ridiculously restrictive...
As I understand, though, unlike when the Victorian State Government in Australia put a moratorium on IVF research in that State, US bans on research into areas such as cloning typically ban government funding, but *not* research itself (ie, by the private sector)
Well, I'm a mac person myself, and would love for that to be true, but still now, I can't do internet banking cuz my bank only offers a windoze solution...
.Net continues to grow and flourish, MS still has its way...
When we have true interoperability, I'll be happy, but while
works fine on a mac too... apparently you can get it for only $19!
must say, mac warez are easier to find...
As pointed out on As the Apple Turns, the difference is, while the PowerMacs reach higher performance levels (233 vs 217 Gflops) they take up a whole heap more space than a single rack of 42 IU servers...
errr... the 19th century? dude, you need to take that tin-foil hat off now
pick one...
i just tried the same query on altavista Australia: it doesn't return google on the first page at all...
A quick note to all the Americans crapping on about free speech and censorship and how f*ckin' great the 1st Amendment is.
Australia does not have a general right to free speech. But, there is a right to freedom of political communication. And more important in some cases than the substantive rights that are written on paper (important though they may be) is the way they are applied and protected. In the 50's, when the US Supreme Court buckled under political pressure and allowed blatantly illegal acts by the US Government against the Communist Party of the USA (which by the way is exactly the same way segregation was apartheid took hold in South Africa), the Australian High Court refused to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party in Australia. Our High Court has, by and large, assured that when the Government steps on our rights (even though they aren't specifically defined, which they should be) they're put back in their place
not *impossible*, you could always run mac-on-linux on your pc... (i think)
... but I think you mean that the Mac and Windows versions "interoperate" very well:
interpolate
v 1: estimate the value of; in mathematics [syn: extrapolate]
2: insert words into texts [syn: alter, falsify]
i can't believe you people modded this up: what if I ask for an x86 box that runs os x or for apple to adopt be os for os xi? honestly what sparky wants for christmas is hardly insightful now is it?
to "Slashdote" (verb), when a geek stares in awe at something technology related, cooing over it, showering it in praise. (Derived from modern English: slash from slashdot and dote from... well... dote)
Um, you don't actually code better, you just *think* you do. Just like blondes *think* they have more fun - it's all about your grip on reality ;)