Milk has an expiry date. If you use old milk, that's your business. The milk company don't prevent you from using milk that's a couple of days past expiry (though maybe if they could figure out technology to do this they would).
And the customers would rejoice, have you ever accidently poured a glass of expired milk? Jesus, if for some reason the carton wouldn't open past the expiration date I would be extremely thankful.;P
If that's the case, I wonder if the packaging for your cartridges indicate an expiration date? It's been a while since I've had to purchase any so I can't recall.
Same here, and I wanted to bring this up and give a few well deserved referrals since finding this out, and/. is a helluva place for it. I was recently working on some printing and since my printers haven't been used in a couple of years (just moved and didn't have them unpacked yet, either) I went to Kinkos to print some stuff out. I was amazed to see them selling ink for both of my printers for about $6-$8 each. Sure beats the $30 the local compushops are asking.
I am in no way affiliated, btw, just appreciate the fact that SOMEONE isn't asking for our first born children when it comes to ink anymore.
but what I found most aggravating is that the suit says the game "trained" him to shoot those 3 men. How much training is required to pull a little trigger with the open end pointing at someone?
Not only that, but seriously, I've played GTA a lot and it hasn't taught me how to shoot, or steal a car or ride a bike and do wheelies down an entire street or anything like that. (however, I do feel the need to play it some more now:P) but wouldn't you think that FPS games would better 'train people' to shoot? How well could you be trained by a 3rd person game to do things like shoot?
Actually, they do care about their customers because if the customers are ignored or feel like they won't win...ever...then they won't come back. It's basic business, keep the customers happy.
It's like they said in a special I saw... "If someone loses big, they'll tell a couple of their friends when they ask what happened, if somoene wins big, they'll tell everyone they see"
Yeah, I often thought "Gosh, I coulda spent another $500 and gotten a bigger screen and the backlit keyboard..." but I absolutely love the portability. This thing is TINY.
I really would like that backlit kb, though...
Man, I knew there was a reason you were on my friends list. I like the large screen and resolution of the 17", but I plug my system into another monitor and go dual screen with killer resolution on the other monitor anyway, I don't need a gigantic screen when I'm not at my desk. But what i'm jealous about, is that damned backlit kb and the fact that from what my buddy said, the backlit kb and screen brightness can automatically adjust to the light in the room. Now that's hot, dammit, heh.
They felt that having 2 buttons would confuse the user since she would need to remember the specific functions associated with each button. [...] Although you and I actually would prefer 3 buttons on the contraption, we are not the typical tech-ignorant consumer.
They were right. You know, I can't believe with this site being so heavy on the tech worker side that people even bring up this argument. I think they bring it up just to be pricks because they like seeing their own type and like starting arguments.
I know I'm not the only one who's had the extremely frustrating conversations over "no, you press the RIGHT mouse button!" hell, I've taught people how to drag icons to another point on the screen and even that took a few minutes "No, you click and hold down the mouse button, then move the mouse!!" "I clicked on it but when I moved the mouse it didn't move" "CLICK AND HOLD!!!!" or am I the only person who's ever received an entire email contained in the Subject line? I've actually had a completely computer illiterate friend take a basic computing class because he just wanted to learn how to use his system, they took a day to teach them how to use the right mouse button, and he was shocked over how much you could do with the right mouse button. A lot of people are confused as hell over the second mouse button and never know 'when' to use it.
So anyhow, I think bitching over not having a second mouse button is stupid. If you want a mouse with a second button, go buy one for $10, but a lot of the 'clueless lusers' that you always rant about, don't know what the second button is for anyway, so let Apple cater to the lowest common user, and if you're so tech savvy, fix it yourself. I mean hell, the only thing you're limited to is not adding a second mouse button to a laptop, but you're not limited the funcionality due to the ctrl key. Seriously, why is this an issue? Oh yeah, because people like to troll and argue.
You go ahead and buy what makes you happy, but this 12" Powerbook is the best computer I've ever seen for my purposes. YMMV.
You know, when I got my 12" I was, well, content. Trying to talk myself into "well, it was 3 grand less than the 17", so I saved money! Right!?" trying to talk myself into being happy with the decision. I needed a new powerbook, but really didn't want anything less than the best, that 17 is a hot system. I was jealous of my buddy's 17", but I've grown so happy with this 12" that I wouldn't trade it for a 17" if even given the chance. It's so light and small and easy to tote around. This is by far, IMO, the best system i've ever owned.
Yeah, and none of them does me a lick of good on my powerbook laptop.
They've worked with my powerbook laptop since '99.. If your system can't use one of these mice, then it may be time to actually upgrade. Does OS X even RUN on anything older than a lombard?
Actually, that works fine with a CTRL-click. Mac apps are designed to benefit from 2+buttons, but only require 1. It's a set-up I like because I find a 1-button trackpad more pleasant to use than a 2+ button one, but a 2+ button mouse even more.
Couldn't have said it better. I can function great with my 12" Powerbook using the trackpad/button and ctrl. However with my 3 button+scroll Logitech mouse, that's when things really shine. Left click, right click for context menus, center click opens pages in new tabs, and the thumb button acts as f9 for expose' which REALLY helps give window navigation a whole new definition of easy. However, without the mouse, all of this stuff is just as easy to do without even moving my hand from the k/b.
Doesn't take two hands on my iBook either. Little finger on CTRL and thumb on track-pad button is pretty fast and simple. Even two-handed, the other hand is on the keyboard anyway and I don't type while I'm right-clicking, so it's not exactly an issue.
We could also mention that in most cases, like for programs which are running, you can just hold down the mouse button on the dock icon and get a context menu.. I never really use the right button anyway, now that I think about it. These things have a hotkey for pretty much everything.
The Omni Group also gets this same design principle - do something well, and keep it simple. There's a huge reason why OmniOutliner is an app that I (and thousands of other folks) use on a regular basis, and it's not because it has all kinds of complicated, contrived "features" that some marketing group in Redmond came up with under corporate sales pressure.
Curiosity... I got a copy of OmniOutliner bundled in my powerbook, as well as iCal. What makes Omni so much better than iCal? It looks nice, but I just can't see a reason to use it.
It's not a function of the display being too small, it's a function of "there's not transistors where I need to put dots that make up text".
LCDs can run at lower-than-maximum resolution by running an anti-aliasing hack that's really ugly. LCDs running at higher-than-maximum resolution would be totally unreadable, regardless of the size of the display.
CRTs can change resolution gracefully, but LCDs simply cannot. Different technologies.
What do you think you are? A Rocket Scientist?
(ok, you've probably heard that one enough.)
But yeah, I figured that would be the case with the LCDs, I guess it was just my love for large resolutions combined with my love for my little tiny AlBook! This isn't generally a problem when I'm @home since I can just plug it into a nice big display and get the resolution and screen real estate there. Honestly, I do just fine with my 1024/12" screen, I'm happy with it, just got excited at the prospect;)
Unless I'm having my crazy-time, your parent poster was talking about increasing the resolution on EXTERNAL displays.
Exactly what I thought, I know that the iBooks and such only support mirroring (not spanning) which was a major hang-up I had on those things and a good excuse (among others) to get the powerbook instead;) So yeah, I figured it just fixed that issue.
Running a flat panel at higher than its native resolution would render (huh huh) the display completely illegible.
Figured as much, but hey, if someone found a magical pill that changed this, (and can tell me that It WILL NOT harm my display) I'd consider trying it out. As I said, 1024x768 on a 12" LCD, I can't imagine any higher resolutions being useful on it, be way too small for most people. But hey, if you don't ask you don't learn right?
But here are the bonuses: 1) You do not annoy customers by making them wish that they had waited. 2) You get constant sales. When a product gets long-in-the-tooth now, people hold off. If the price were to drop, customers might choose to just go ahead and buy, figureing that they are getting a little bit of a bargain. 3) You generate marketing hype because people see "Uh-oh, price is dropping, that means they're going to announce something new!
Very big bonus IMO. Especially if you drop the price 2% per month and release on the third. If people can set their watches to it the Mac Rumor sites will be packed the day a product announces a price drop with anticipation of what's coming. And if you drop the price BEFORE anouncing what's coming, that'll generate a serious buzz and pique people's curiosity, they'll be ready to buy before they even know what you're selling.
Also, you can use Screen Spanning Doctor to run displays at higher than built-in display resolution from iBooks and eMacs. Now that you can get SuperDrives in iBooks, they look pretty nice.
This is pretty interesting... It says that it allows you to bump up your screen resolutions for i/eMacs and such, nothing about powerbooks, however I wouldn't mind taking my 12" AlBook up just a little bit. Anybody have any experience with this? I know 12" at anything above 1024x768 would be pretty damned small, but I wouldn't mind looking into it so long as it wouldn't damage my LCD (which I can see happening.) So can anybody else chime in on this?
No matter what brand you buy or what arch, there will always be another new model around the corner.
100% Agreed, I got my G3 Lombard in Nov '99 and they released the Pismo (which has been said to be one of the biggest tech leaps in powerbooks ever) just a couple months later. That aside, I was using that system without 1 problem until about 6 months ago when I got my 12" AlBook. The only gripe I ever had was lack of AGP since X relies heavily on it for some things.
Was I bummed about the advancements I was missing out on with the Pismo? A little bit, I had just spent a few grand on a killer system when a 'more killer' system came out and bitchslapped it. But it was a good computer and it did its job VERY well for several years, and I couldn't have been happier with it.
All this is just so that I can say, buy it when you're ready, but don't hold out just because "the next big thing" is right around the corner, because once you buy "the next big thing" the "next next big thing" is going to be right around the corner, and you're never going to switch. No matter when you buy, there will be something better, stronger, faster, within a year when it comes to Apple, but what you buy should last you for several years with no problem whatsoever.
All that aside.......i'd go for the switch, i've tried alot of OS'es and arch's but it's no contest...my beloved 12" PowerBook is the best yet.
Hear Hear!!
I will say though, I did LOVE how the old G3 powerbooks felt, the keys, the palmrest and the trackpad were so f'ing comfortable, far more comfortable than the AlBooks (IMO) and at times I really do miss them. But I'm getting used to my 12"er.
PS: If they release the backlit keyboards and self-adjusting brightness on the screens of the new 12" Powerbooks, THEN I'll be mad:P
Damn right. I never played VC or SA but in GTA 3 I eventually got bored of all the stupid missions and would see how long I could stay alive with the army hunting me down.
You know it's funny, when I BOUGHT VC I played it for about 25 minutes, other than that, my old roomie and I were just plugging in cheat codes and seeing who could last longest. The funny part is, I eventually got sucked into the plot (I -love- Scarface). Went and started playing the game, realized once I took over half the game, that I had so much damned money that the cheat codes couldn't compete with my arsenal:) But yeah, playing for survival is fun.
You know what I miss though? Is that in GTA1 it gave you a REPORT once you finally got hospitalized or arrested. How many misdemeanors, felonies, cops you killed, civilians you killed, etc... Made it a hell of a lot more fun for going on rampages;)
Perhaps we could stop them if every/. user bought one share of EA and then we all decide together to shut them down.
Hahaha, if we can't slashdot them with bandwidth, let's slashdot them with a hostile takeover! You evil bastard, I need to add you to my friends list.:P
Why rely on a hardware interlock to protect your kids? So they find your pistol and have a grand time pointing it at each other, they're "safe" because of the interlock, right? What happens at a friends house, someone who has firearms without the interlock
Oh absolutely not, by no means was I implying that we need to rely on mechanical locks to protect the kids, as I said kids find their way into that stuff, the electronic lock is just an added safety feature. I still think that education should be mandatory for a household with kids and a gun, but smart-gun type safety locks are a nice added piece-of-mind to prevent any accidents. Afterall, in a perfect world we wouldn't even need the primary safety.
Like you said, 3 of you in a house with an accessible loaded gun made it without incident due solely to education. As not all parents will be as smart as yours were about the situation (which is scary, and sucks.), I think this is a good thing. Although parents who have loaded guns in plain sight of their kids who don't educate their kids should be beaten.;)
Again, I don't think they should be made pushed onto us by law, but I don't mind them being an option. As I said, personally I don't think I'd buy one because then you can't go out shooting with friends, but I can see its uses.
It said in the writeup that 'only smart guns would be available 3 years after' the guns became available. Does that mean you won't be ABLE to buy an older gun? Well I think that sucks. Personally I don't go shooting much, but a few times a year I'll grab a few buddies and we'll head down to the shooting range with my.45 just to fire off a few rounds and relax. With only smartguns being available that'd be the end of that. Of course it won't be the end of that for a few generations since there's -a lot- of guns out there already.
This is a great option I think, especially for a person in a household with kids. Locking your gun and storing it in a locked safe is good, but having your gun which will not fire if one of your kids gets ahold of it is even better, not to say that that gun should not STILL be stored in that locked safe, but I'm sure accidents still happen even with the proper care taken when there's a kid who wants it bad enough.
In any case, I don't think they should make it mandatory, but maybe making it a low-cost OPTION would be a good idea. If there's a way to do that.
Anyhow, I'm rambling, so I think those are my thoughts.:P
I liked the idea in an earlier post saying that "if a company makes 3b on an invention, why not kick down a couple million to the person who created it" which I'm sure this would apply to a team who invented something as well.
Afterall, in the corporate vs. individual greed I figured, why shouldn't individual greed win out. Corporate greed means people make less, are less appreciated, and therefore less happy, thus they don't come up with the things they may have come up with and this affects the company negatively. If an employee is WELL rewarded for an ingenious invention, then they will be far more likely to work harder and make the company far more money. Thus, the company benefits from individual's greed, however the reverse is not true.
HOWEVER: this post brought up a problem with that theory, a big problem. The company is going to put a LOT of money into backing the 'idea' even if it is come up with by an employee. The company takes all of the risk, why should they not get all of the reward? Sure, a small fraction of the reward could go back to the inventor, but what if that product is a failure, can we honestly expect the company to ask the inventor for a fraction of the total cost of backing the idea? Say the company LOSES 3b on the idea, should they ask the employee for a couple million (or the equivelent of the reward the employee would have received for MAKING the company 3b instead of losing the company 3b?)
It's like the inventor wants a reward for doing well, but accepts none of the burdon of failure. I for one think it's great if a company rewards you for something that makes them a ton of money, in fact, I think all companies should do that. If you make them that much, it's the least they can do. Plus there's the benefit of a happy workplace that wants nothing more than to impress the company and bring them more kickass products. But from the company's perspective, I can see why they would see that as kind of one sided.
Y'know, that brings up an interesting point that I'm wondering now... Think they'd incorporate any easter eggs into this thing? You'd think that someone involved with the project would have thought that something like that could be funny.;)
Buffer overruns are everywhere. Although the classic buffer overrun involves getting the app to write beyond the buffer's bounds and into the stack, this one is getting it to read beyond the point that it should.
Ok, Not to sound naive or anything, I've been working in IT for several years, but never as a programmer. That being said, I don't understand how there's so many buffer overrun errors everywhere. Damned near every security bulletin I read is something about a buffer overrun error. How is this so common? How is it that this isn't protected against by programming due to its overwhealming popularity as a security exploit?
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Milk has an expiry date. If you use old milk, that's your business. The milk company don't prevent you from using milk that's a couple of days past expiry (though maybe if they could figure out technology to do this they would).
;P
And the customers would rejoice, have you ever accidently poured a glass of expired milk? Jesus, if for some reason the carton wouldn't open past the expiration date I would be extremely thankful.
If that's the case, I wonder if the packaging for your cartridges indicate an expiration date? It's been a while since I've had to purchase any so I can't recall.
/. is a helluva place for it. I was recently working on some printing and since my printers haven't been used in a couple of years (just moved and didn't have them unpacked yet, either) I went to Kinkos to print some stuff out. I was amazed to see them selling ink for both of my printers for about $6-$8 each. Sure beats the $30 the local compushops are asking.
Same here, and I wanted to bring this up and give a few well deserved referrals since finding this out, and
I am in no way affiliated, btw, just appreciate the fact that SOMEONE isn't asking for our first born children when it comes to ink anymore.
but what I found most aggravating is that the suit says the game "trained" him to shoot those 3 men. How much training is required to pull a little trigger with the open end pointing at someone?
:P) but wouldn't you think that FPS games would better 'train people' to shoot? How well could you be trained by a 3rd person game to do things like shoot?
Not only that, but seriously, I've played GTA a lot and it hasn't taught me how to shoot, or steal a car or ride a bike and do wheelies down an entire street or anything like that. (however, I do feel the need to play it some more now
but isn't it "octopuses" or "octopi"? "Octopodes" is new to me, at any rate.
...sorry, couldn't resist.
It's Octopusen!!!
Actually, they do care about their customers because if the customers are ignored or feel like they won't win...ever...then they won't come back. It's basic business, keep the customers happy.
It's like they said in a special I saw... "If someone loses big, they'll tell a couple of their friends when they ask what happened, if somoene wins big, they'll tell everyone they see"
Free advertising on the happy customers.
Yeah, I often thought "Gosh, I coulda spent another $500 and gotten a bigger screen and the backlit keyboard..." but I absolutely love the portability. This thing is TINY.
I really would like that backlit kb, though...
Man, I knew there was a reason you were on my friends list. I like the large screen and resolution of the 17", but I plug my system into another monitor and go dual screen with killer resolution on the other monitor anyway, I don't need a gigantic screen when I'm not at my desk. But what i'm jealous about, is that damned backlit kb and the fact that from what my buddy said, the backlit kb and screen brightness can automatically adjust to the light in the room. Now that's hot, dammit, heh.
They felt that having 2 buttons would confuse the user since she would need to remember the specific functions associated with each button. [...] Although you and I actually would prefer 3 buttons on the contraption, we are not the typical tech-ignorant consumer.
They were right. You know, I can't believe with this site being so heavy on the tech worker side that people even bring up this argument. I think they bring it up just to be pricks because they like seeing their own type and like starting arguments.
I know I'm not the only one who's had the extremely frustrating conversations over "no, you press the RIGHT mouse button!" hell, I've taught people how to drag icons to another point on the screen and even that took a few minutes "No, you click and hold down the mouse button, then move the mouse!!" "I clicked on it but when I moved the mouse it didn't move" "CLICK AND HOLD!!!!" or am I the only person who's ever received an entire email contained in the Subject line? I've actually had a completely computer illiterate friend take a basic computing class because he just wanted to learn how to use his system, they took a day to teach them how to use the right mouse button, and he was shocked over how much you could do with the right mouse button. A lot of people are confused as hell over the second mouse button and never know 'when' to use it.
So anyhow, I think bitching over not having a second mouse button is stupid. If you want a mouse with a second button, go buy one for $10, but a lot of the 'clueless lusers' that you always rant about, don't know what the second button is for anyway, so let Apple cater to the lowest common user, and if you're so tech savvy, fix it yourself. I mean hell, the only thing you're limited to is not adding a second mouse button to a laptop, but you're not limited the funcionality due to the ctrl key. Seriously, why is this an issue? Oh yeah, because people like to troll and argue.
You go ahead and buy what makes you happy, but this 12" Powerbook is the best computer I've ever seen for my purposes. YMMV.
You know, when I got my 12" I was, well, content. Trying to talk myself into "well, it was 3 grand less than the 17", so I saved money! Right!?" trying to talk myself into being happy with the decision. I needed a new powerbook, but really didn't want anything less than the best, that 17 is a hot system. I was jealous of my buddy's 17", but I've grown so happy with this 12" that I wouldn't trade it for a 17" if even given the chance. It's so light and small and easy to tote around. This is by far, IMO, the best system i've ever owned.
Yeah, and none of them does me a lick of good on my powerbook laptop.
They've worked with my powerbook laptop since '99.. If your system can't use one of these mice, then it may be time to actually upgrade. Does OS X even RUN on anything older than a lombard?
Actually, that works fine with a CTRL-click. Mac apps are designed to benefit from 2+buttons, but only require 1. It's a set-up I like because I find a 1-button trackpad more pleasant to use than a 2+ button one, but a 2+ button mouse even more.
Couldn't have said it better. I can function great with my 12" Powerbook using the trackpad/button and ctrl. However with my 3 button+scroll Logitech mouse, that's when things really shine. Left click, right click for context menus, center click opens pages in new tabs, and the thumb button acts as f9 for expose' which REALLY helps give window navigation a whole new definition of easy. However, without the mouse, all of this stuff is just as easy to do without even moving my hand from the k/b.
Doesn't take two hands on my iBook either. Little finger on CTRL and thumb on track-pad button is pretty fast and simple. Even two-handed, the other hand is on the keyboard anyway and I don't type while I'm right-clicking, so it's not exactly an issue.
We could also mention that in most cases, like for programs which are running, you can just hold down the mouse button on the dock icon and get a context menu.. I never really use the right button anyway, now that I think about it. These things have a hotkey for pretty much everything.
The Omni Group also gets this same design principle - do something well, and keep it simple. There's a huge reason why OmniOutliner is an app that I (and thousands of other folks) use on a regular basis, and it's not because it has all kinds of complicated, contrived "features" that some marketing group in Redmond came up with under corporate sales pressure.
Curiosity... I got a copy of OmniOutliner bundled in my powerbook, as well as iCal. What makes Omni so much better than iCal? It looks nice, but I just can't see a reason to use it.
It's not a function of the display being too small, it's a function of "there's not transistors where I need to put dots that make up text".
;)
LCDs can run at lower-than-maximum resolution by running an anti-aliasing hack that's really ugly. LCDs running at higher-than-maximum resolution would be totally unreadable, regardless of the size of the display.
CRTs can change resolution gracefully, but LCDs simply cannot. Different technologies.
What do you think you are? A Rocket Scientist?
(ok, you've probably heard that one enough.)
But yeah, I figured that would be the case with the LCDs, I guess it was just my love for large resolutions combined with my love for my little tiny AlBook! This isn't generally a problem when I'm @home since I can just plug it into a nice big display and get the resolution and screen real estate there. Honestly, I do just fine with my 1024/12" screen, I'm happy with it, just got excited at the prospect
Unless I'm having my crazy-time, your parent poster was talking about increasing the resolution on EXTERNAL displays.
;) So yeah, I figured it just fixed that issue.
Exactly what I thought, I know that the iBooks and such only support mirroring (not spanning) which was a major hang-up I had on those things and a good excuse (among others) to get the powerbook instead
Running a flat panel at higher than its native resolution would render (huh huh) the display completely illegible.
Figured as much, but hey, if someone found a magical pill that changed this, (and can tell me that It WILL NOT harm my display) I'd consider trying it out. As I said, 1024x768 on a 12" LCD, I can't imagine any higher resolutions being useful on it, be way too small for most people. But hey, if you don't ask you don't learn right?
But here are the bonuses:
1) You do not annoy customers by making them wish that they had waited.
2) You get constant sales. When a product gets long-in-the-tooth now, people hold off. If the price were to drop, customers might choose to just go ahead and buy, figureing that they are getting a little bit of a bargain.
3) You generate marketing hype because people see "Uh-oh, price is dropping, that means they're going to announce something new!
Very big bonus IMO. Especially if you drop the price 2% per month and release on the third. If people can set their watches to it the Mac Rumor sites will be packed the day a product announces a price drop with anticipation of what's coming. And if you drop the price BEFORE anouncing what's coming, that'll generate a serious buzz and pique people's curiosity, they'll be ready to buy before they even know what you're selling.
Also, you can use Screen Spanning Doctor to run displays at higher than built-in display resolution from iBooks and eMacs. Now that you can get SuperDrives in iBooks, they look pretty nice.
This is pretty interesting... It says that it allows you to bump up your screen resolutions for i/eMacs and such, nothing about powerbooks, however I wouldn't mind taking my 12" AlBook up just a little bit. Anybody have any experience with this? I know 12" at anything above 1024x768 would be pretty damned small, but I wouldn't mind looking into it so long as it wouldn't damage my LCD (which I can see happening.) So can anybody else chime in on this?
No matter what brand you buy or what arch, there will always be another new model around the corner.
:P
100% Agreed, I got my G3 Lombard in Nov '99 and they released the Pismo (which has been said to be one of the biggest tech leaps in powerbooks ever) just a couple months later. That aside, I was using that system without 1 problem until about 6 months ago when I got my 12" AlBook. The only gripe I ever had was lack of AGP since X relies heavily on it for some things.
Was I bummed about the advancements I was missing out on with the Pismo? A little bit, I had just spent a few grand on a killer system when a 'more killer' system came out and bitchslapped it. But it was a good computer and it did its job VERY well for several years, and I couldn't have been happier with it.
All this is just so that I can say, buy it when you're ready, but don't hold out just because "the next big thing" is right around the corner, because once you buy "the next big thing" the "next next big thing" is going to be right around the corner, and you're never going to switch. No matter when you buy, there will be something better, stronger, faster, within a year when it comes to Apple, but what you buy should last you for several years with no problem whatsoever.
All that aside.......i'd go for the switch, i've tried alot of OS'es and arch's but it's no contest...my beloved 12" PowerBook is the best yet.
Hear Hear!!
I will say though, I did LOVE how the old G3 powerbooks felt, the keys, the palmrest and the trackpad were so f'ing comfortable, far more comfortable than the AlBooks (IMO) and at times I really do miss them. But I'm getting used to my 12"er.
PS: If they release the backlit keyboards and self-adjusting brightness on the screens of the new 12" Powerbooks, THEN I'll be mad
So you use firefox and mispelled pain free the first time? Muhahahha... erm.. *ahem*
Hahah, I spotted the spell=1 too and thought "pain free? spell=1? whaaaaat?" hehe.
Damn right. I never played VC or SA but in GTA 3 I eventually got bored of all the stupid missions and would see how long I could stay alive with the army hunting me down.
:) But yeah, playing for survival is fun.
;)
You know it's funny, when I BOUGHT VC I played it for about 25 minutes, other than that, my old roomie and I were just plugging in cheat codes and seeing who could last longest. The funny part is, I eventually got sucked into the plot (I -love- Scarface). Went and started playing the game, realized once I took over half the game, that I had so much damned money that the cheat codes couldn't compete with my arsenal
You know what I miss though? Is that in GTA1 it gave you a REPORT once you finally got hospitalized or arrested. How many misdemeanors, felonies, cops you killed, civilians you killed, etc... Made it a hell of a lot more fun for going on rampages
Perhaps we could stop them if every /. user bought one share of EA and then we all decide together to shut them down.
:P
Hahaha, if we can't slashdot them with bandwidth, let's slashdot them with a hostile takeover! You evil bastard, I need to add you to my friends list.
-matt
Why rely on a hardware interlock to protect your kids? So they find your pistol and have a grand time pointing it at each other, they're "safe" because of the interlock, right? What happens at a friends house, someone who has firearms without the interlock
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Oh absolutely not, by no means was I implying that we need to rely on mechanical locks to protect the kids, as I said kids find their way into that stuff, the electronic lock is just an added safety feature. I still think that education should be mandatory for a household with kids and a gun, but smart-gun type safety locks are a nice added piece-of-mind to prevent any accidents. Afterall, in a perfect world we wouldn't even need the primary safety.
Like you said, 3 of you in a house with an accessible loaded gun made it without incident due solely to education. As not all parents will be as smart as yours were about the situation (which is scary, and sucks.), I think this is a good thing. Although parents who have loaded guns in plain sight of their kids who don't educate their kids should be beaten.
Again, I don't think they should be made pushed onto us by law, but I don't mind them being an option. As I said, personally I don't think I'd buy one because then you can't go out shooting with friends, but I can see its uses.
It said in the writeup that 'only smart guns would be available 3 years after' the guns became available. Does that mean you won't be ABLE to buy an older gun? Well I think that sucks. Personally I don't go shooting much, but a few times a year I'll grab a few buddies and we'll head down to the shooting range with my .45 just to fire off a few rounds and relax. With only smartguns being available that'd be the end of that. Of course it won't be the end of that for a few generations since there's -a lot- of guns out there already.
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This is a great option I think, especially for a person in a household with kids. Locking your gun and storing it in a locked safe is good, but having your gun which will not fire if one of your kids gets ahold of it is even better, not to say that that gun should not STILL be stored in that locked safe, but I'm sure accidents still happen even with the proper care taken when there's a kid who wants it bad enough.
In any case, I don't think they should make it mandatory, but maybe making it a low-cost OPTION would be a good idea. If there's a way to do that.
Anyhow, I'm rambling, so I think those are my thoughts.
I liked the idea in an earlier post saying that "if a company makes 3b on an invention, why not kick down a couple million to the person who created it" which I'm sure this would apply to a team who invented something as well.
Afterall, in the corporate vs. individual greed I figured, why shouldn't individual greed win out. Corporate greed means people make less, are less appreciated, and therefore less happy, thus they don't come up with the things they may have come up with and this affects the company negatively. If an employee is WELL rewarded for an ingenious invention, then they will be far more likely to work harder and make the company far more money. Thus, the company benefits from individual's greed, however the reverse is not true.
HOWEVER: this post brought up a problem with that theory, a big problem. The company is going to put a LOT of money into backing the 'idea' even if it is come up with by an employee. The company takes all of the risk, why should they not get all of the reward? Sure, a small fraction of the reward could go back to the inventor, but what if that product is a failure, can we honestly expect the company to ask the inventor for a fraction of the total cost of backing the idea? Say the company LOSES 3b on the idea, should they ask the employee for a couple million (or the equivelent of the reward the employee would have received for MAKING the company 3b instead of losing the company 3b?)
It's like the inventor wants a reward for doing well, but accepts none of the burdon of failure. I for one think it's great if a company rewards you for something that makes them a ton of money, in fact, I think all companies should do that. If you make them that much, it's the least they can do. Plus there's the benefit of a happy workplace that wants nothing more than to impress the company and bring them more kickass products. But from the company's perspective, I can see why they would see that as kind of one sided.
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Y'know, that brings up an interesting point that I'm wondering now... Think they'd incorporate any easter eggs into this thing? You'd think that someone involved with the project would have thought that something like that could be funny.
Buffer overruns are everywhere. Although the classic buffer overrun involves getting the app to write beyond the buffer's bounds and into the stack, this one is getting it to read beyond the point that it should.
Ok, Not to sound naive or anything, I've been working in IT for several years, but never as a programmer. That being said, I don't understand how there's so many buffer overrun errors everywhere. Damned near every security bulletin I read is something about a buffer overrun error. How is this so common? How is it that this isn't protected against by programming due to its overwhealming popularity as a security exploit?