nope i don't see that option...
System Preferences->Energy Saver (there is no Power
There is a hack for the ibook i heard about, but i wouldn't do it with a powerbook, from what i've heard the powerbook disapates heat through the keyboard.. heat+LCD = bad news i think over time... i think i'll pass on that option.
Not sure if you guys are feeling like me but i am sick of hearing about star wars, the originals were great movies. but good grief... i don't know, too much star wars crap and i just want it to all end. the newest 1 and 2 were dreadful... i won't even go see episode 3, i'll wait till it's on tv, and even then i probably won't pay much attention to it.
I didn't say C# as someone stated. I simply wondered why they would choose to write mono if their own applications won't even take advantage of their own framework. Did they write it just to write it and waste their time or what? I would hope that Novell/Ximian would support their own framework and use it, and as stated sure would make things more platform independent.
Ultimately I just wondered why they didn't use it, that's all, no hidden meaning, no jokes, no nothing, just wondered why.
Why didn't they write this in mono? I know they were in development probably in parallel but still it would be a great way to showcase that mono can do all that good stuff..
keyword there is SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.. not security updates. They patch all known browser holes regardless but the updates such as the firewall, popup blocking, certificate crap, etc are only available in XP. Sure it's a big deal but they aren't going to let a big hole go unpatched regardless of your OS version.
Reread it and see where it states security patches will not be supplied. It's CNet telling you false information. Provide a quote from Microsoft stating they won't provide updates for security holes. They state "the most secure version of windows/IE is the newest version and that's SP 2." Doesn't mean they won't provide patches, they simply won't backport the IE improvements (popup blocker, activex updates, etc)
I can however see where you could get that security patches won't be supplied. CNet did state that, but there were zero quotes from microsoft that stated anything like it. The quote I provided in my first post IS what they said, not CNet playing games.
By refusing to offer IE's security upgrades to users of older operating systems except through paid upgrades to XP, Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.
So unless you catch that one quote there from microsoft (unless i totally missed it), then I think my original statement is right, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will chime in considering how much people dislike Microsoft around here (not that I don't but I play fair too).
They aren't saying they won't provide security patches for holes, they're stating they won't provide the features that are in SP2 in anything other than XP. That's what I got out of it. Which isn't such a big deal, did you expect anything less really?
"We do not have plans to deliver Windows XP SP2 enhancements for Windows 2000 or other older versions of Windows," the company said in a statement.
Sorry web based training is no match for a classroom environment. The technology exists to have a "virtual" classroom where everyone can view the lectures online live but not everyone has these tools at home. But at that rate you still need a teacher.
Web based training sucks, sorry I won't ever do it. Maybe for a "certification" course like MCSE or CCNA or A+ etc but not for a formal education like high school and college.
You realize that what you learn in high school and college is not just the material but social skills, how to make friends, how to do basic things needed for social interaction.
Look at it this way, you learned how to communicate and meet new people online for your entire education. Now you need to get a job but you're so unable to communicate with people in person that you say out loud "L O L" or "B T W" etc... that will get you a job for sure (yes i know that's far fetched but i think you get the idea that there's more to an education that what's in the books).
I don't see your traditional schooling going anywhere anytime soon.
I already changed my major from CS to secondary education. I don't have to fear my job being sent off to another country in education. Granted I don't make as much money but my little experience with CS related jobs was well, not exactly rewarding. I decided I'd rather just code for fun and not have to worry about my job if I can even find one that will stay around for 30 years so I can retire this lifetime.
Exactly what I was saying in another thread, they have nothing to gain but more market share.. anything they do is to build market share and over take another market..
Ok Ok so there's a few they follow:-P but maybe instead of making this whole standard within MS, why didn't they attempt to get the input of the open source community DURING conception? I guess maybe that's a better way to state it.
Heh, that's kinda funny in that you think they're really trying to solve the spam problem and will compromise for the good of the end user.
They COULD be but it's doubtful, they are such a large corporation you just KNOW that they're sticking their head into yet another thing to gain marketshare. They might start out by saying we'll negociate but once the next version or update rolls around they won't be so forgiving.
This is simply my take on it, I'm not sure if any of it really will happen or if I'm just spreading FUD but I honestly can't see them doing it just for the good of man kind, there's gotta be some benefit to MS here that we just aren't seeing yet.
They use an open standard for their iCal calendar files.
They will use Jabber as a backend on the server version of Tiger for iChat within the local network.
On the subject of ical it allows syncing through webdav, which is open.
Darwin - the OS X kernel is open source
And I'm sure others can chime in on more as i'm not totally familiar with all the stuff they use. but they seem to have embraced open source fairly heavily.
I hope they still reject it. There's bound to be a better solution that won't give Microsoft yet another stranglehold on this as well. For once I'd like to see a standard (free and open) that MS has to follow instead of the other way around.
Ok so you've given one GOOD example of why there might be a need for them. In which case i'd almost say buy a much cheaper external drive? or offer students such as yourself some kind of ipod type of promo or something. but making all students pay for it is ridulous and a waste of time, not only that but there's no reason to have them for any average student. your example being the only exception to this i have heard so far.
correct i knew that, but tivo seems to be the higher market share device. so i used that as an example. like the other post, they were developed pretty much together, yet seperate from each other and released to the world about the same time.. no argument there;)
i agree, while i own an ipod i don't see why giving me one for school would benefit me at all in anyway. Sure you can take notes in class and such with a belkin mic addon, but seriously, how many students do you think will do that? They might do it for the first week or two and realize it's just too much work to go back and listen to a 90 minute lecture again and not have the video to go with it (say per math class or what have you).. it would be useful for my english classes and those discussions but i'm almost doubting i'd listen to them again regardless, taking quality notes is more time efficient for me.
So in reality they paid for these ipods in their tuition and didn't have much of a choice on whether they'd use it or not. and if they do use it it'll be for your basic music listening pleasure as intended by apple.
One of the biggest perks to my new college is that they have 802.11b in every building. I didn't really know this going in but was very happy to see it when i was looking around on their website after i had transfered and was checking out the IT website.
In fact from what I heard they were the first fully wireless campus in michigan. quite the feat.
I've found it very very useful. I can check out electronic resources for a book we're reading in class or in some of my classes we have electronic reserves, which are basically scanned documents a teacher makes available only online so they don't have to run off copies for everyone. Very useful having net access anywhere and everywhere, also means i don't have to sit around waiting for a seat to be free in a lab, unless i want to print a paper.
I almost have a feeling this will be in a new tivo box and not available for older boxes. just a hunch but maybe i'm wrong.
Afterall they do have to give people a reason to buy new units once in awhile and this might be that killer feature that will make a lot of people upgrade their age old systems.
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*looks at his powerbook system preferences*
nope i don't see that option...
System Preferences->Energy Saver (there is no Power
There is a hack for the ibook i heard about, but i wouldn't do it with a powerbook, from what i've heard the powerbook disapates heat through the keyboard.. heat+LCD = bad news i think over time... i think i'll pass on that option.
Not sure if you guys are feeling like me but i am sick of hearing about star wars, the originals were great movies. but good grief... i don't know, too much star wars crap and i just want it to all end. the newest 1 and 2 were dreadful... i won't even go see episode 3, i'll wait till it's on tv, and even then i probably won't pay much attention to it.
I didn't say C# as someone stated. I simply wondered why they would choose to write mono if their own applications won't even take advantage of their own framework. Did they write it just to write it and waste their time or what? I would hope that Novell/Ximian would support their own framework and use it, and as stated sure would make things more platform independent.
Ultimately I just wondered why they didn't use it, that's all, no hidden meaning, no jokes, no nothing, just wondered why.
Why didn't they write this in mono? I know they were in development probably in parallel but still it would be a great way to showcase that mono can do all that good stuff..
You'd get my mod point if it was for the limit being reached already.
IMPROVEMENTS are not UPDATES to security holes. they're features like popup blocking and activex verifying and such...
keyword there is SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.. not security updates. They patch all known browser holes regardless but the updates such as the firewall, popup blocking, certificate crap, etc are only available in XP. Sure it's a big deal but they aren't going to let a big hole go unpatched regardless of your OS version.
Reread it and see where it states security patches will not be supplied. It's CNet telling you false information. Provide a quote from Microsoft stating they won't provide updates for security holes. They state "the most secure version of windows/IE is the newest version and that's SP 2." Doesn't mean they won't provide patches, they simply won't backport the IE improvements (popup blocker, activex updates, etc)
So unless you catch that one quote there from microsoft (unless i totally missed it), then I think my original statement is right, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will chime in considering how much people dislike Microsoft around here (not that I don't but I play fair too).
Sorry web based training is no match for a classroom environment. The technology exists to have a "virtual" classroom where everyone can view the lectures online live but not everyone has these tools at home. But at that rate you still need a teacher.
Web based training sucks, sorry I won't ever do it. Maybe for a "certification" course like MCSE or CCNA or A+ etc but not for a formal education like high school and college.
You realize that what you learn in high school and college is not just the material but social skills, how to make friends, how to do basic things needed for social interaction.
Look at it this way, you learned how to communicate and meet new people online for your entire education. Now you need to get a job but you're so unable to communicate with people in person that you say out loud "L O L" or "B T W" etc... that will get you a job for sure (yes i know that's far fetched but i think you get the idea that there's more to an education that what's in the books).
I don't see your traditional schooling going anywhere anytime soon.
I already changed my major from CS to secondary education. I don't have to fear my job being sent off to another country in education. Granted I don't make as much money but my little experience with CS related jobs was well, not exactly rewarding. I decided I'd rather just code for fun and not have to worry about my job if I can even find one that will stay around for 30 years so I can retire this lifetime.
I heard that was fixed in 1.0PR... can anyone confirm?
I thought it added a bit of humor.. not that there wasn't a lot during those scenes ;)
Exactly what I was saying in another thread, they have nothing to gain but more market share.. anything they do is to build market share and over take another market..
Ok Ok so there's a few they follow :-P but maybe instead of making this whole standard within MS, why didn't they attempt to get the input of the open source community DURING conception? I guess maybe that's a better way to state it.
Heh, that's kinda funny in that you think they're really trying to solve the spam problem and will compromise for the good of the end user.
They COULD be but it's doubtful, they are such a large corporation you just KNOW that they're sticking their head into yet another thing to gain marketshare. They might start out by saying we'll negociate but once the next version or update rolls around they won't be so forgiving.
This is simply my take on it, I'm not sure if any of it really will happen or if I'm just spreading FUD but I honestly can't see them doing it just for the good of man kind, there's gotta be some benefit to MS here that we just aren't seeing yet.
And I'm sure others can chime in on more as i'm not totally familiar with all the stuff they use. but they seem to have embraced open source fairly heavily.
I hope they still reject it. There's bound to be a better solution that won't give Microsoft yet another stranglehold on this as well. For once I'd like to see a standard (free and open) that MS has to follow instead of the other way around.
Ok so you've given one GOOD example of why there might be a need for them. In which case i'd almost say buy a much cheaper external drive? or offer students such as yourself some kind of ipod type of promo or something. but making all students pay for it is ridulous and a waste of time, not only that but there's no reason to have them for any average student. your example being the only exception to this i have heard so far.
correct i knew that, but tivo seems to be the higher market share device. so i used that as an example. like the other post, they were developed pretty much together, yet seperate from each other and released to the world about the same time.. no argument there ;)
i agree, while i own an ipod i don't see why giving me one for school would benefit me at all in anyway. Sure you can take notes in class and such with a belkin mic addon, but seriously, how many students do you think will do that? They might do it for the first week or two and realize it's just too much work to go back and listen to a 90 minute lecture again and not have the video to go with it (say per math class or what have you).. it would be useful for my english classes and those discussions but i'm almost doubting i'd listen to them again regardless, taking quality notes is more time efficient for me.
So in reality they paid for these ipods in their tuition and didn't have much of a choice on whether they'd use it or not. and if they do use it it'll be for your basic music listening pleasure as intended by apple.
One of the biggest perks to my new college is that they have 802.11b in every building. I didn't really know this going in but was very happy to see it when i was looking around on their website after i had transfered and was checking out the IT website.
In fact from what I heard they were the first fully wireless campus in michigan. quite the feat.
I've found it very very useful. I can check out electronic resources for a book we're reading in class or in some of my classes we have electronic reserves, which are basically scanned documents a teacher makes available only online so they don't have to run off copies for everyone. Very useful having net access anywhere and everywhere, also means i don't have to sit around waiting for a seat to be free in a lab, unless i want to print a paper.
nice except sheap is really spelled sheep... so much for that office 97 spell checker huh? ;)
I almost have a feeling this will be in a new tivo box and not available for older boxes. just a hunch but maybe i'm wrong.
Afterall they do have to give people a reason to buy new units once in awhile and this might be that killer feature that will make a lot of people upgrade their age old systems.
Nice to know, so i guess once the big tree that's in direct line of the satellite is gone we might be able to get directv ;)