'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider.
Yeah, right. When was the last time they upgraded Yahoo Instant Messenger? Look at the difference between the mac and windows clients. They obviously have a Mac team of about zero people.
A lot of disabilities in the elderly are due to limitations in flexibilty due to pain or such, not really due to muscle weakness, right? So these things will not help every toddling old geezer, just a subset.
True, but the distinction your parent post was making was between OS X and Linux, not Linux and Windows.
Still, Windows is easier to use than Linux as well, but for different reasons. The main reason is that everybody runs Windows, so you can just ask a friend when you are confused, and that's what everybody does. I think that Linux advocates just cannot see that their OS is hard to use, it's their blind spot. And that blind spot keeps them from making Linux truly easy to use. Maybe it's just impossible within the bazaar that is Linux to really do so. I don't know.
But I do know that It's not just corporate propaganda and groupthink that linux is up agains, although that does exist. Companies are apparently trying linux, but it's not spreading so strongly. It will be interesting to see if OS X does. If this article is correct, and it is, then it will be because of the usability difference between the two.
He is not "completely innocent." If the evidence about his friend is incriminating and the police have a warrant to obtain it, I don't see where this infringes on his rights or where he is even morally correct in withholding the keys. Note that I am a strongly libertarian mindset, but your example is not very good.
Of course, his friend is an idiot. He should have just given the dude his file and not his key.
I worry about this movie. With luck, it will be good just as the TV series was, but I keep on coming back to Joss Whedon.
I see a lot of what I liked about the series in the trailer. In particular, the acting was pretty damned solid in the series. A major criteria for me in film is that you have to care about the characters. Good actors help that immensely, even with a fragile script or poor production. Poor acting sinks even the best of scripts.
Oh, man, the flameboys are out. Settle down! I forgot to say that I am a longtime mac user, not a Windows guy. Sheesh. You'd think I'd called Steve Jobs a twit. Sacrilege! All I'm saying is the Apple needs to do better with their contextual menus.
A mac was a mac because the architecture was superior.
I don't remember Apple or anyone else ever saying a mac was a mac because the architecture was superior. Where did you come up with that?
Apple sure did trash x86, though. As a longtime Macophile, I never understood why people bought into the hype of the PPC vs. x86 debate. It seemed competitive with x86, but never way better or way worse. Åt times it seemed to lag, and sometimes it seemed a bit better, but this was my perception as a user, which is deceptive because there's lots of software in there.
The actual truth is that contextual menus in OS X are so rarely well implemented that they are a disaster. On Windows, you can almost always find what you want in a handy popup-menu. It's a great UI tool, because the #1 rule with GUI design is to minimize mouse travel, and the easiest spot to click is the point right under the mouse. Apple really needs to get this right. Windows is definitely superior here.
Does "accurate" mean that the system will correctly identify people with low false positives AND low false negatives commensurate to its expected use? I highly doubt it. Also, how does it deal with the simple problem of people aging, with associated facial changes? No way this is going anywhere.
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Of course the police should be able to keep records. But anyone in the database should be able to access their information for free and easily so that they can correct any errors or abuses.
The analogy is an open wallet on a restaurant table. I'd say that's pretty open. It does broadcast that it's open, using visible light. The "fucking thing is offering free money!!!!!" The point is that the user did not intend it to be open, but it is.
I thought the post about asking the owner was a good idea. If you can't ask the owner, how about assuming that since it is not yours, you can't mess with it? How is that unreasonable?
I suggest we let them know that if you broadcast an SSID into the public airwaves and then grant DHCP leases across it you are authorizing access to your network.
And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!
Come one folks, just because you easily CAN do something doesn't mean it's ethical or right. I think that if you use somebody's network, it limits their own bandwidth, doesn't it? If not, then I'd agree it should not be illegal. But if so, then you are stealing from them.
I wonder if any of the people who don't have any qualms about using up their neighbor's bandwidth to play Halo turn around and complain about spammers using some of their bandwidth and resources to transmit spam.
I know I'm going to get flamed/modded down, but somebody has to say this.
recompiling Mac OS X apps to include native Intel code is something that every developer can do
And of course, the programs that are not still in active development? Hmm. Kiss those goodbye. Not a huge loss, but for some people it will suck a little. Of course, they can continue to use PPC for a long time.
It is, indeed, somewhat spooky that quantum bits can influence each other instantaneously over arbitrarily long distances (in case of entaglement), but for this "influence" to be used for any kind of useful infrormation transfer, transmission of classical information is required, thus limiting the effective transfer speed at light
As a layman, I don't understand this. If I fly to another star system with a code book and a quantum radio set, can't you send me information over it instantaneously?
"Before something has actually been observed, there are a number of possibilities regarding its state. But once its state has been measured those possibilities shrink to one - uncertainty is eliminated."
There must be more here than it sounds, as this sounds like "once something has occurred, it has occurred, not something else." Well, duh. I didn't know that.
But it really proves nothing. I mean, if you go back in time and kill your grandparents, then you would never have observed their existence, so the basis of the paradox is removed, no? It's all just a rehash of whether time travel suspends logic.
After all, I am sitting on a computer, typing this note. How much of a luddite can that make me? I am just being a bit paranoid.
That's the irony of it. You are sitting at a computer, yet your paranoia is at heart based on nothing more than (forgive me) ignorant distrust of technology. You don't understand it, so you have a vague feeling of unease. It's understandable, even evolutionarily advantageous to fear the unknown. But please don't act or vote on it, ok? As a rational man, let's accept that technology is usually beneficial.
But perhaps you have an actual dangerous scenario in mind that this specific nanotechnology could initiate? If so, please let us hear it. Until then, I have to believe that your fear is purely irrational. I will continue to believe that we are closer to curing cancer than we are to the brink of causing a terrible nanotechnology threat as in some Hollywood B movie.:-)
Gee, I guess that money spent on studio microphones is all wasted, eh?:-)
Seriously, why would I want to do this again? I can already play Pong on the train. I can maybe see as a musician wanting to record sound on the go occasionally, but given the user interface, how would you type into it for any general Linux-y kinds of stuff? I already hate using cell phones to type text... imagine on an iPod! Bleh.
Sigh. This "man-made is evil" crap is just honest-to-God ludditism. First, let me point out that your tin-foil hat is man-made. So is your house, unless you live in a cave. Aspirin is man-made. Penicillin is man made. Bread is man-made. (Nature doesn't cook). Clothes are man-made. Oxygen can be created by man; is that oxygen then bad oxygen? Really, I don't understand what being "natural" has to do with anything.
Finally, nanotechnology exists in nature. Arsenic is natural, many natural plants are poisonous, along with various animals, fish, insects, etc. The natural surface of Venus is lethal, you can't live underwater, falling off a cliff is natural.
That's a good point. Isn't that where Microsoft gets it wrong? They add features but never pay any attention to how the user's experience is while using those features. They keep taking good ideas and making them ugly, hard to use, and just awkward and wrong. I don't think Apple will let it get that bad, because they can't afford to, I hope. But really, they are going somewhat in that direction.
I just can't argue confidently that Apple cares much more about the user experience than other companies, based on the lack of care in crafting that experience. I heard that once upon a time, every Apple program had to be checked by a special UI team. I have to guess that if that's true, then that team has diminished clout at Apple now, if it even still exists.
Probably one reason has gone to hell is that it's really hard to do good UI design. It takes a commitment and it takes work and money to make a UI that is noticeably good.
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Yeah, right. When was the last time they upgraded Yahoo Instant Messenger? Look at the difference between the mac and windows clients. They obviously have a Mac team of about zero people.
A lot of disabilities in the elderly are due to limitations in flexibilty due to pain or such, not really due to muscle weakness, right? So these things will not help every toddling old geezer, just a subset.
True, but the distinction your parent post was making was between OS X and Linux, not Linux and Windows.
Still, Windows is easier to use than Linux as well, but for different reasons. The main reason is that everybody runs Windows, so you can just ask a friend when you are confused, and that's what everybody does. I think that Linux advocates just cannot see that their OS is hard to use, it's their blind spot. And that blind spot keeps them from making Linux truly easy to use. Maybe it's just impossible within the bazaar that is Linux to really do so. I don't know.
But I do know that It's not just corporate propaganda and groupthink that linux is up agains, although that does exist. Companies are apparently trying linux, but it's not spreading so strongly. It will be interesting to see if OS X does. If this article is correct, and it is, then it will be because of the usability difference between the two.
He is not "completely innocent." If the evidence about his friend is incriminating and the police have a warrant to obtain it, I don't see where this infringes on his rights or where he is even morally correct in withholding the keys. Note that I am a strongly libertarian mindset, but your example is not very good. Of course, his friend is an idiot. He should have just given the dude his file and not his key.
I see a lot of what I liked about the series in the trailer. In particular, the acting was pretty damned solid in the series. A major criteria for me in film is that you have to care about the characters. Good actors help that immensely, even with a fragile script or poor production. Poor acting sinks even the best of scripts.
Oh, man, the flameboys are out. Settle down! I forgot to say that I am a longtime mac user, not a Windows guy. Sheesh. You'd think I'd called Steve Jobs a twit. Sacrilege! All I'm saying is the Apple needs to do better with their contextual menus.
I don't remember Apple or anyone else ever saying a mac was a mac because the architecture was superior. Where did you come up with that?
Apple sure did trash x86, though. As a longtime Macophile, I never understood why people bought into the hype of the PPC vs. x86 debate. It seemed competitive with x86, but never way better or way worse. Åt times it seemed to lag, and sometimes it seemed a bit better, but this was my perception as a user, which is deceptive because there's lots of software in there.
The actual truth is that contextual menus in OS X are so rarely well implemented that they are a disaster. On Windows, you can almost always find what you want in a handy popup-menu. It's a great UI tool, because the #1 rule with GUI design is to minimize mouse travel, and the easiest spot to click is the point right under the mouse. Apple really needs to get this right. Windows is definitely superior here.
And yet here you are, reading it and even posting. Hmm. :-)
Wouldn't it be easier just to let somebody else manage it? Why piss off a bunch of customers with the goal of getting rid of part of your business?
Does "accurate" mean that the system will correctly identify people with low false positives AND low false negatives commensurate to its expected use? I highly doubt it. Also, how does it deal with the simple problem of people aging, with associated facial changes? No way this is going anywhere.
Of course the police should be able to keep records. But anyone in the database should be able to access their information for free and easily so that they can correct any errors or abuses.
I thought the post about asking the owner was a good idea. If you can't ask the owner, how about assuming that since it is not yours, you can't mess with it? How is that unreasonable?
And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!
Come one folks, just because you easily CAN do something doesn't mean it's ethical or right. I think that if you use somebody's network, it limits their own bandwidth, doesn't it? If not, then I'd agree it should not be illegal. But if so, then you are stealing from them.
I wonder if any of the people who don't have any qualms about using up their neighbor's bandwidth to play Halo turn around and complain about spammers using some of their bandwidth and resources to transmit spam.
I know I'm going to get flamed/modded down, but somebody has to say this.
Oops, somebody's an idiot! Rosetta, Rosetta, Rosetta. Sorry. Wasn't thinking when I hit "submit."
And of course, the programs that are not still in active development? Hmm. Kiss those goodbye. Not a huge loss, but for some people it will suck a little. Of course, they can continue to use PPC for a long time.
As a layman, I don't understand this. If I fly to another star system with a code book and a quantum radio set, can't you send me information over it instantaneously?
Is this the same EU that voters in Europe are busy rejecting? The one in total disarray?
There must be more here than it sounds, as this sounds like "once something has occurred, it has occurred, not something else." Well, duh. I didn't know that.
But it really proves nothing. I mean, if you go back in time and kill your grandparents, then you would never have observed their existence, so the basis of the paradox is removed, no? It's all just a rehash of whether time travel suspends logic.
That's the irony of it. You are sitting at a computer, yet your paranoia is at heart based on nothing more than (forgive me) ignorant distrust of technology. You don't understand it, so you have a vague feeling of unease. It's understandable, even evolutionarily advantageous to fear the unknown. But please don't act or vote on it, ok? As a rational man, let's accept that technology is usually beneficial.
But perhaps you have an actual dangerous scenario in mind that this specific nanotechnology could initiate? If so, please let us hear it. Until then, I have to believe that your fear is purely irrational. I will continue to believe that we are closer to curing cancer than we are to the brink of causing a terrible nanotechnology threat as in some Hollywood B movie. :-)
Seriously, why would I want to do this again? I can already play Pong on the train. I can maybe see as a musician wanting to record sound on the go occasionally, but given the user interface, how would you type into it for any general Linux-y kinds of stuff? I already hate using cell phones to type text... imagine on an iPod! Bleh.
OMG. Please mod parent up! Does anybody here have a brain?
Finally, nanotechnology exists in nature. Arsenic is natural, many natural plants are poisonous, along with various animals, fish, insects, etc. The natural surface of Venus is lethal, you can't live underwater, falling off a cliff is natural.
Crazy Luddites.
I just can't argue confidently that Apple cares much more about the user experience than other companies, based on the lack of care in crafting that experience. I heard that once upon a time, every Apple program had to be checked by a special UI team. I have to guess that if that's true, then that team has diminished clout at Apple now, if it even still exists.
Probably one reason has gone to hell is that it's really hard to do good UI design. It takes a commitment and it takes work and money to make a UI that is noticeably good.