Mac's notoriously difficult... yay book
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Fix a Troubled Mac
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Since I have years behind me in both the mac and PC world, I can honestly say that while Mac's have fewer problems, their problems are more serious, cryptic, and otherwise annoying. I am glad to see a book that compiles the often hard-to-find information... the big question: does it come with a paper clip for that disk drive button?:)
UPC labels and those little "plus cards",plus credit card numbers equals it's very, very easy to track people's purchasing. If you think they'll come to your house and use an antenna to see what you have inside, forget it. It's way easier to just watch people walking out of the store, and see what they buy, and what car they drive, for example.
I have tried the noise reduction headphones, and I can hear the cancellation noise just as loud as the other noise. I am guessing this affects other people too. If noise cancellation is an issue, why not run another fan exactly out of phase, rather than try to generate a noise that is the "opposite"? I think you'd have better results if it was a real fan (despite that the power drain would be 2x).
Let's see... product has leftover nanotube dust on it, and said dust can permeate essentially anything, including skin cells... hmmm. That doesn't sound promising!
Within minutes? Is that a good thing?
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Open Source Hotspots
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· Score: 3, Funny
So within minutes, my stuff can be available over wireless... or, within minutes, my cable modem can be saturated with pringles cans from miles(?) away! Wheee! That sounds like a plan. Hey, all I need is that 92 TB router, and then I just uncap my cable modem and watch as time warner's bw usage goes to the moon.
Is that owned by the same SCO that is going after Linux? If so, it would be great if Microsoft could just prove that SCO in fact had some of *their* code... cause it sure sounds like Microsoft's lawyers would whoop SCO to the ground. They probably wouldn't, though, because it's too much fun having someone else fight Linux for them.
We had a mac in 1984, and we definitely called the windows windows. Nothing about the Microsoft version is their property, except for the code they stole^H^H^H^H^Hbought from other people.
Isn't that sort of like trying to trace the sources of popular fables after years of circulation? I agree that for any new module, the author information should be included. For existing modules, however, trying to figure that out is gonna be really hard. Except for the guy that has the patent on the blinking cursor, and other places where a clear intent to earn $ was present from the get-go. Unlike SCO, which seems to only care since Linux became^H^H^H^H^H^H started looking like a threat to UNIX.
I'd be more interested to know how many people were entered into the system... isn't that pertinent here? I mean, if they only put in 120,000 and they all came back as terrorists, something's probably wrong. Is Osama in that list? Did it pick up anyone we already knew was a terrorist? Just hearing a number as high as 120,000 isn't surprising without more information about the number. Yes, I could RTFA, but with a summary that long, I would have expected at least the number polled to be in there.
The article uses 2 n's, but slashdot uses only 1. Is this nanNobacteria? That would make more sense, since bacteria are already super small, it's hard to imagine some form of life being one billionth the size of a bacteria cell.
Instead of 13.5 billion years back, why not make the mirror/etc a little bigger and see to the "beginning"? Or better yet, have the resolution to see farther than that, and see what happens? I'd be way more interested in that than a lame 500 million light-years farther than the hubble. Furthermore, is Arecibo unable to reach that far because of the atmosphere?
Whatever the test application is doing to run those tests, why not just convert its output to an EXE/binary and use THAT as the program? Then you only have to write the tests to get both the test and the code that passes the test! That's copyright me, today, by the way.
Is there any reason at all to use this? The reason Google searches on the web are so cool is that they relate documents that are around a ton of text. If I have a ton of images like DSCFxxxx.jpg, it's not exactly going to present that information in a new way... if it could tell me what the pictures were of automatically, that would be freaking awesome and I would get the tool. Otherwise, I'll just use find.
I wanted to see an international space race again... just because I might get the chance to work on the software systems. That's some really cool stuff. Perhaps China's space station and our space station can have drag races. That would be sweet! I can see it now, as the US station pulls ahead, race fans everywhere shout: WOO! "That's a big ten-four, you some b*tch monkey n*ts!" (Dr. Evil)
Can't the military just tell everyone to leave for a minute, then drop a hailstorm of rocks over the minefield and set them all off? Sure, they might not *all* go off, but if a rock from 20,000 feet doesn't set it off, how could a person be expected to?
I always thought the big company that would have this happen is Microsoft, but I guess people got ahold of win2k's source a while back... it's still really surprising to see this happen to Cisco. Does it impress anyone else that they have an 800 MB source on the O/S? That's a lot of code!!
I'd much rather see how he and those other smart folks designed & "thought of" all those cool services in the first place. I could care less what kind of breakfast he eats, unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
What I care about is how fast will this run? Obviously it doesn't have to be lightspeed, but if dialup users can get it, then Microsoft is in real trouble! Of course, it would totally suck if this required IE, and I couldn't be happier that it wasn't built that way.
It is actually pretty ridiculous of SCO to even have this court case. As an example, I cite my dad's run-in with the US-PTO upon trying to patent a piece of software many years ago: they rejected his claim, stating that "there will NEVER be patents on computer software." Maybe they meant there SHOULD never be patents on computer software... who knows. Once again, it would be nice to see what SCO actually claims they "own", and how they can prove that "fact".
It always seemed odd to me that Ebay wanted nothing to do with the insurance/escrow and buyer/seller protection processes, and allowed third parties to fill in that gap, while Ebay relies on the auction fees and listing fees, and on their massive volume to make a profit. They definitely should have provided a way from the start for a guarantee, but what are they gonna do for those jets and houses that come up for sale? That's probably what they were thinking -- since they can't really refund the money from super-large purchases, it's not really fair for everyone else. However, they could charge some percentage of the final auction price to provide a "guarantee" of sorts, which would be great.
How about some interval math implementations to alert people that hey, those numbers seem a bit out of range... they're probably not in the right units! There's nothing more embarassing than crashing a probe into Mars, except for crashing a probe into Mars because the units were wrong on the input data.
I am glad to see that Sun is stepping up the features long touted as superior on Windows machines, that is the ease of modifying user parameters based on some policy or other national/language based settings -- it sounds like this setup is geared towards that rising Asian marketshare, as well as towards those Wal-Mart customers. Lest anyone think selling PC's at Wal-Mart is dumb, just count the zero's on Wal-Mart's revenue stream... they aren't #1 on Fortune 500 for NOT selling things!
With UNIX having been around so long, I wonder how close we are to having a book of just varieties of implementations of "ls", since there are so many hundreds of UNIX scripts, scripters, etc.
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Since I have years behind me in both the mac and PC world, I can honestly say that while Mac's have fewer problems, their problems are more serious, cryptic, and otherwise annoying. I am glad to see a book that compiles the often hard-to-find information... the big question: does it come with a paper clip for that disk drive button? :)
UPC labels and those little "plus cards",plus credit card numbers equals it's very, very easy to track people's purchasing. If you think they'll come to your house and use an antenna to see what you have inside, forget it. It's way easier to just watch people walking out of the store, and see what they buy, and what car they drive, for example.
I have tried the noise reduction headphones, and I can hear the cancellation noise just as loud as the other noise. I am guessing this affects other people too. If noise cancellation is an issue, why not run another fan exactly out of phase, rather than try to generate a noise that is the "opposite"? I think you'd have better results if it was a real fan (despite that the power drain would be 2x).
Let's see... product has leftover nanotube dust on it, and said dust can permeate essentially anything, including skin cells... hmmm. That doesn't sound promising!
So within minutes, my stuff can be available over wireless... or, within minutes, my cable modem can be saturated with pringles cans from miles(?) away! Wheee! That sounds like a plan. Hey, all I need is that 92 TB router, and then I just uncap my cable modem and watch as time warner's bw usage goes to the moon.
1) You know that 5 million dollar box in the corner? It's not working now. Press OK to format all your terabytes of meteorological data.
2) Why did the chicken cross the road? Because your supercomputer is hosed. Press OK.
3) D'OH! Press OK.
Is that owned by the same SCO that is going after Linux? If so, it would be great if Microsoft could just prove that SCO in fact had some of *their* code... cause it sure sounds like Microsoft's lawyers would whoop SCO to the ground. They probably wouldn't, though, because it's too much fun having someone else fight Linux for them.
We had a mac in 1984, and we definitely called the windows windows. Nothing about the Microsoft version is their property, except for the code they stole^H^H^H^H^Hbought from other people.
Isn't that sort of like trying to trace the sources of popular fables after years of circulation? I agree that for any new module, the author information should be included. For existing modules, however, trying to figure that out is gonna be really hard. Except for the guy that has the patent on the blinking cursor, and other places where a clear intent to earn $ was present from the get-go. Unlike SCO, which seems to only care since Linux became^H^H^H^H^H^H started looking like a threat to UNIX.
I'd be more interested to know how many people were entered into the system... isn't that pertinent here? I mean, if they only put in 120,000 and they all came back as terrorists, something's probably wrong. Is Osama in that list? Did it pick up anyone we already knew was a terrorist? Just hearing a number as high as 120,000 isn't surprising without more information about the number. Yes, I could RTFA, but with a summary that long, I would have expected at least the number polled to be in there.
That is way too much money. I would much rather pay a monthly fee for unlimited usage or just listen to live365 for free!
The article uses 2 n's, but slashdot uses only 1. Is this nanNobacteria? That would make more sense, since bacteria are already super small, it's hard to imagine some form of life being one billionth the size of a bacteria cell.
Instead of 13.5 billion years back, why not make the mirror/etc a little bigger and see to the "beginning"? Or better yet, have the resolution to see farther than that, and see what happens? I'd be way more interested in that than a lame 500 million light-years farther than the hubble. Furthermore, is Arecibo unable to reach that far because of the atmosphere?
Whatever the test application is doing to run those tests, why not just convert its output to an EXE/binary and use THAT as the program? Then you only have to write the tests to get both the test and the code that passes the test! That's copyright me, today, by the way.
Is there any reason at all to use this? The reason Google searches on the web are so cool is that they relate documents that are around a ton of text. If I have a ton of images like DSCFxxxx.jpg, it's not exactly going to present that information in a new way... if it could tell me what the pictures were of automatically, that would be freaking awesome and I would get the tool. Otherwise, I'll just use find.
I wanted to see an international space race again... just because I might get the chance to work on the software systems. That's some really cool stuff. Perhaps China's space station and our space station can have drag races. That would be sweet! I can see it now, as the US station pulls ahead, race fans everywhere shout: WOO! "That's a big ten-four, you some b*tch monkey n*ts!" (Dr. Evil)
Can't the military just tell everyone to leave for a minute, then drop a hailstorm of rocks over the minefield and set them all off? Sure, they might not *all* go off, but if a rock from 20,000 feet doesn't set it off, how could a person be expected to?
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I always thought the big company that would have this happen is Microsoft, but I guess people got ahold of win2k's source a while back... it's still really surprising to see this happen to Cisco. Does it impress anyone else that they have an 800 MB source on the O/S? That's a lot of code!!
I'd much rather see how he and those other smart folks designed & "thought of" all those cool services in the first place. I could care less what kind of breakfast he eats, unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
What I care about is how fast will this run? Obviously it doesn't have to be lightspeed, but if dialup users can get it, then Microsoft is in real trouble! Of course, it would totally suck if this required IE, and I couldn't be happier that it wasn't built that way.
It is actually pretty ridiculous of SCO to even have this court case. As an example, I cite my dad's run-in with the US-PTO upon trying to patent a piece of software many years ago: they rejected his claim, stating that "there will NEVER be patents on computer software." Maybe they meant there SHOULD never be patents on computer software... who knows. Once again, it would be nice to see what SCO actually claims they "own", and how they can prove that "fact".
It always seemed odd to me that Ebay wanted nothing to do with the insurance/escrow and buyer/seller protection processes, and allowed third parties to fill in that gap, while Ebay relies on the auction fees and listing fees, and on their massive volume to make a profit. They definitely should have provided a way from the start for a guarantee, but what are they gonna do for those jets and houses that come up for sale? That's probably what they were thinking -- since they can't really refund the money from super-large purchases, it's not really fair for everyone else. However, they could charge some percentage of the final auction price to provide a "guarantee" of sorts, which would be great.
How about some interval math implementations to alert people that hey, those numbers seem a bit out of range... they're probably not in the right units! There's nothing more embarassing than crashing a probe into Mars, except for crashing a probe into Mars because the units were wrong on the input data.
I am glad to see that Sun is stepping up the features long touted as superior on Windows machines, that is the ease of modifying user parameters based on some policy or other national/language based settings -- it sounds like this setup is geared towards that rising Asian marketshare, as well as towards those Wal-Mart customers. Lest anyone think selling PC's at Wal-Mart is dumb, just count the zero's on Wal-Mart's revenue stream... they aren't #1 on Fortune 500 for NOT selling things!
With UNIX having been around so long, I wonder how close we are to having a book of just varieties of implementations of "ls", since there are so many hundreds of UNIX scripts, scripters, etc.