You might think twice if you can't instantaneously pull a knife on someone. Just like you watch what you say when you know you're not anonymous, you behave differently when something takes a few seconds longer.
But you can pull a new knife instantly... My neighbor has something simmiler to this and I can whip that thing open as fast as you could push a button on a switchblade... So I'm not sure why they're illegal either.
What I always found to be funny was butterfly knives being illegal as well... Those things take longer to open than a normal knife..
Gee I'm glad I use FireFox and Safari on Linux, OS X, and windows.
Reading this prompted me to push harder on my moving all of my friends and family over to FireFox. I've already converted my parents and neighbors.
This story though, got me thinking.. the other day my neighbor complained about his new system being slow after his g/f came to visit for a couple weeks and used kazaa to download some stuff... I knew immediately to install and run ad-aware, found over 800 issues and deleted them all. What's this have to do with anything? Well what's to say that this won't become the next wide spread kazaa malware?
Everyone I know has had SOME malware installed on their system without their knowledge, usually it's the same few programs, too. If this becomes one of those programs, then there's a lot of people at serious risk.
I'm pretty sure my parents aren't using IE anymore, but they do bank online, and I'm going to make sure to delete every shortcut to IE they have easy access to on their system to ensure that they are not at risk for this.
Also I know a few people who really honestly like IE and dislike FireFox... I don't see why, I'd think that from the lamans view they'd be identical.. Either way, I'll be pushing them to migrate as well.
If you don't believe me take a record into a elementary school classroom and I guarantee someone will ask you what the "big cd" is for.
I'm not sure if I'm on-topic right now, I've had very little sleep, and a whole lotta' 'dew. So please forgive me if I stray.
But this does ring true with me. I remember thinking how weird my grandma's rotary phone was. And the fact that she actually had a 'dialing stick' thing to dial with. Teenagers today probably think it's crazy that phones used to have cords. Teenagers in 10 years will probably wonder what the phone jacks on the walls of their homes are for as cellphones grow in popularity.
Adaptation is slow, but it seems to be pretty much guaranteed to happen. I had to ask one of my neighbors for my g/f of 1 year's phone number recently as I broke my phone and I used to just hold down the 1 button to dial her. (I still hold down 1, but I remember the # now, hehe.)
I can see a future where nobody remembers phone numbers but just uses phone books built into their phones. (well, a vast minority) however I don't think we'll be abolishing #s entirely. After all, you have to put the # in your address book to begin with in order to dial by name in the phone book... Plus it's a good idea to remember the #, in case you break your phone.
I totally agree with you.. I loved my ps2 and said F the Xbox for a long time. Then I started playing Halo on my neighbors networked XBoxes with 2 on 2 and 3 on 3 games from time to time (yeah, our apartment complex is full of geeks;) ) In any case, as an avid snowboarder, Amped had me hooked instantly, I only had to play it once..
Then I got an XBox for xmas with Voodoo Vince and Amped 2, VV was awesome, couldn't put it down, and people were demanding I played so they could watch, Amped 2, needless to say had me obsessing over it. Next I was suggested Fuzion Frenzy, good fun, got that and Halo and started neglecting my PS2.
Another thing I dig about the XBox, which I never thought i'd say, is the 4 controller ports... And the HiDef pack, I'm not sure if PS2 has one, I use the fiberoptic sound and Svideo, but the component video for XBox is -very- nice. Now if a title is available for XBox and PS2, I grab the XBox version just for the better graphics, and I'm starting to dig their S controllers over the PS2 controllers. For my money, I say XBox, as much as I am a sony whore, gets my vote over the PS2, then again, it's a lot newer, also. I think MS hit a home run with this system. From the speculation of the specs of the new X2, I'm kinda sceptical and think they should ride this out for a couple more years, the XBox does have a lot of life left in it...
They're saying that it will give them a major foothold by releasing the X2 a couple years BEFORE sony's PS3, I think that would hurt them, bad. Hell, the reason the XBox is superior to the PS2 is because it's a couple years newer, if sony and MS delivered their systems at the same date, I think sony could beat MS in quality. I will admit though, that MS's hardware is of pretty good quality.
Because both result in it being impossible to compete with them, and as a result prevent competition. It is called anti-competitive behavior, and it is illegal if you have a monopoly already. Not having that illegal would mean allowing mega-corporations that determien every aspect of life and that are unchallangable.
I agree with you, but where do we draw the line? I think this would be a GOOD thing to integrate into the OS at the system level. Sure there's a problem with it due to the fact that Symantec and McAfee and all of these companies sell AV software already. What if they didn't sell it yet? and MS beat them to the punch. Would it be anti-competitive for MS to embed AV software into their OS if no AV software existed yet? In this case it may be a case of taking a good, much needed idea, and putting it where it belongs, in the OS. True, in any fairness they'd probably have to buy out every AV company in existance and hire them on, which would never happen... But this is a real problem. AV works great as is, but I think it could work greater, and eliminate a major percentage of virus threats on the internet if it were built into Windows, and used to eliminate any virus threat on the system. Maybe get ad-aware in there too, heh;)
Now I'm pretty much against embedding things into the OS ala explorer -- however, one thing that would be nice to have built into the system itself, is anti-virus. If it's built in the way Apple's spellcheck is built in, it would allow every ap in the system to hook into it. Hook Outlook and OE into this system and we may see a lot less viruses (virii, whatever) spread across the internet.
Actually the breathing hole in the hard drive is critical to maintaining the cushion of air that the drive heads use to float the couple of microns over the platter surface that they need.
Yeah that's the one hang-up I was running into was the drives... But I think the best solution for that is one of those externeal SCSI drive racks or something... should be an acceptable solution.
well it's also the chip's design. the Apple (and IBM/Moto) designs (and AMD to some extent) "do more work" per clock cycle. that's part of the reason some are better for some processes (though software is key too). think of it like a racecar vs a truck. a racecar revs really fast and flies, but carries one passenger. a truck revs lower but can tow a house. if you had a relay race of the two that had to transport 300 people across a distance the truck could win since it could haul everyone in one or two trips. it's the same way the G5 (or G4) tries to "do more" with every clock cycle compared to Intel just trying to go really really fast.
I don't believe my eyes. That may be the first time I've seen a worthwhile auto:computer analogy. Bravo! Very good explanation.
I'm not usually one to re-reply, but after looking over these chip cards, it looks like it just accepts your PIN and then spits out a secondary password. I'm thinking, that sounds ok. You get to choose your username, and your primary passwd and then you have to punch your pin into the calc device to get your new randomly generated password. Not bad. What i'd like, though, would be a USB keychain device, or PC card, smartcard, whatever, that you activate it and stick in your computer when you need to logon to the website (maybe it could auto-shut off after 5 min or so?). Then while you're typing in your chosen login, and your chosen passwd, the website is requesting a response from your security device, once it gets that response and your login information, it logs you in. All of the security device activity would be in the background while you're plugging in your information. Wouldn't slow you down much, and wouldn't require any extra activity by the user aside from activating the card and sliding it into your computer.
One thing I was thinking would be cool, since this thing is also a calculator, is to allow it to sync with your account when you plug it in and allow you to view your balance for chosen accounts on it (with the necessary PIN, 3 bad guesses kills it permanantly of course) Of course this would be a major security issue, if the card eats itself after 3 guesses, that's helpful so long as someone doesn't know your exact PIN, which, as I stated, is still probably an unacceptable security risk to most people. (i'm on the fence about it myself.)
I'd prefer option 2. What is this chip-card/calculator/whatever thing like? Is it a USB type thing? I would love to have one of those for my bank. That way you need to actually have physical access to the device PLUS your login and pass to get in, kind of like having to put your ATM card into the ATM Machine (heh heh, yeah I know;) ) I'd feel a lot safer if I had to put a card into my computer, after unlocking the card and then having to put in my login/pass. A hell of a lot safer, in fact, I'm going to write my bank about that now. I'd hate to have a list of 25 TANs. I login to my bank account a lot. It sounds like I could just leave this access card in my wallet or money clip and not have to worry about it. I'd hate to have to carry a folded up piece of paper with access numbers on it everywhere I go in case I needed to log on.
So anyhow, anyone who's used them, tell me more about these cards!
Or someone commits a crime and you're there to witness it. A picture sure does help.
It's funny that you should mention this. My boss was telling me about a month ago when his friend had his camera phone for a while, he saw some guy commiting something, I forget the details, anyhow, he whipped out his camera phone and snapped a couple shots good enough to make out his face, he showed the police when they arrived and it helped to catch the guy. Very useful (as I mentioned before) but hardly necessary or anything like that. It's just handy to have around for those times when you could use your camera but didn't bring it. Hardly a substitution for a real camera in any circumstance, though.
Why fly when you can drive and sail? Because it's faster and more efficient. Why carry around a cameraphone when you can easily carry a brick phone and your Nikon 35mm? Because it's smaller and more efficient.
Interesting point, but by the same token -- Why use your cellphone as a mouse? I can't think of any reason save powerpoint presentations or something, but for that you don't really need a mouse.. Flying is faster than cars and boats, the cameraphone.. well, I'd rather carry my little phone and my Nikon 35mm, because the results from a camera phone are ass at best. I have a camera phone, and I have a little pocket olympus digital camera. If I know I'm going to be taking pictures, I bring the digital, the resulotion and clarity blow my phone out of the water. For a quick "oh wow that's neat" picture, then yes, a camera phone is fine and sometimes very useful. However, usually if you're going to be taking pictures of stuff, you know it, so you bring your camera. Well, "I", not "You", but I can only speak for myself.
Images are off by default in Outloook 2003. You can turn them on for a particular sender or per email, easily, through a link at the top of the message. Piece of cake.
Really? Does it do this for Outlook Express too? If so then that's very cool. However, what piqued my interest in your post was that you mention you can turn them on for a particular SENDER. I've WANTED that in Mail.app for a while. I used to get my daily sinfest comics emailed to me, but I stopped just because I had to load the images every day. No i'm not THAT lazy, but on a g3/400 powerbook, even that takes longer than it should. I'd like a 'accept images in mail for sender' option, that'd be great.
Maybe it's because we've all got his sig blocked due to spam ?;)
I can't block sigs... otherwise I'll never know who wrote the comment! Seriously, other than my friends/fans icons I never remember names, I always remember sigs, am I the only one? hehe.
I run HDTV resolution out to my Sony TV and get a really stunning GUI.
Ok, I don't get this, and I think maybe a couple other people may benefit from hearing an answer on/., so I'm willing to risk the OT mods.
I just recently got a 30" philips widescreen. They had the HD version for a few hundred more than mine, but due to funds, I got the cheaper one. In any case, turns out my TV has component video inputs on the back just like the HD one did, now mine isn't HDTV obviously due to the price, but doesn't the component video jack allow the higher resolutions?
My theory so far is that the HD monitor is capable of a higher resolution than the non-HD, but if that's the case, what's the point of component video? does it just give you a little bit better picture without the clarity of HD resolution?
Nah. Think about it: pressing different spots of your screen is like pressing down a guitar string at different points. You will cause the screen to resonate with a multitude of frequencies with distinct audio "fingerprints" for different points on the screen, which can also be picked up by very sensitive equipment.
How about adding a mouse-type device to move a curser on the screen then? It's going to click the same no matter where the curser is on the screen.:)
People who go around saying words like unthaw and irregardless are sticking a thumb in the eye of those of us who like language to be clear and not annoying.
You obviously don't spend much time on IRC huh? You'd probably have killed yourself by now.:)
Well, thank God he clarified that for us. I thought the freight train would start prancing and singing show tunes.
Actually you know what I thought was funny was the "probably".. now if you're standing in front of a freight train, you're not probably going to get run over, you ARE going to get run over, it's not like the train's going to swerve right?
And boy will I attest to that. On a '99 lombard powerbook, that 20% speed boost is -very- much appreciated. It makes it so that my system has been extremely usable for the past several years, and funny enough, the more features they've added, the faster my system has gone! I was shocked. I was so afraid when the first upgrades started coming since 10.0 ran so slow, but once I saw the difference they made they became very welcome.
Well, looks as though Apple may need to start shipping 2 button mice! (Yeah, I hate that 2 button arguement too, so don't get on me about it) as OS X uses a held down mouse click to pop up a contextual menu on the dock, or open up a folder if you're trying to drag something into it as well as a few other uses OS X has for holding down a mouse button to change a behavior.
You know what, your mentioning of the -03 and -march flags n' stuff, this reminds me of something... Something that, IMO would make gentoo absolutely perfect (aside from an intuitive installer option, that'd be nice). This missing link for me, is the ability to merge $package --prefix=/usr/local/$package. I asked them about it and they said it's not possible at the moment..:( But dammit the day they get that working I will be absolutely stoked.
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You might think twice if you can't instantaneously pull a knife on someone. Just like you watch what you say when you know you're not anonymous, you behave differently when something takes a few seconds longer.
But you can pull a new knife instantly... My neighbor has something simmiler to this and I can whip that thing open as fast as you could push a button on a switchblade... So I'm not sure why they're illegal either.
What I always found to be funny was butterfly knives being illegal as well... Those things take longer to open than a normal knife..
-matt
...but I see too many instances of "wierd" for that to be true. Odd...
;)
How weird.
Gee I'm glad I use FireFox on Linux.
Gee I'm glad I use FireFox and Safari on Linux, OS X, and windows.
Reading this prompted me to push harder on my moving all of my friends and family over to FireFox. I've already converted my parents and neighbors.
This story though, got me thinking.. the other day my neighbor complained about his new system being slow after his g/f came to visit for a couple weeks and used kazaa to download some stuff... I knew immediately to install and run ad-aware, found over 800 issues and deleted them all. What's this have to do with anything? Well what's to say that this won't become the next wide spread kazaa malware?
Everyone I know has had SOME malware installed on their system without their knowledge, usually it's the same few programs, too. If this becomes one of those programs, then there's a lot of people at serious risk.
I'm pretty sure my parents aren't using IE anymore, but they do bank online, and I'm going to make sure to delete every shortcut to IE they have easy access to on their system to ensure that they are not at risk for this.
Also I know a few people who really honestly like IE and dislike FireFox... I don't see why, I'd think that from the lamans view they'd be identical.. Either way, I'll be pushing them to migrate as well.
Or do all browsers have this behavior?
If you don't believe me take a record into a elementary school classroom and I guarantee someone will ask you what the "big cd" is for.
I'm not sure if I'm on-topic right now, I've had very little sleep, and a whole lotta' 'dew. So please forgive me if I stray.
But this does ring true with me. I remember thinking how weird my grandma's rotary phone was. And the fact that she actually had a 'dialing stick' thing to dial with. Teenagers today probably think it's crazy that phones used to have cords. Teenagers in 10 years will probably wonder what the phone jacks on the walls of their homes are for as cellphones grow in popularity.
Adaptation is slow, but it seems to be pretty much guaranteed to happen. I had to ask one of my neighbors for my g/f of 1 year's phone number recently as I broke my phone and I used to just hold down the 1 button to dial her. (I still hold down 1, but I remember the # now, hehe.)
I can see a future where nobody remembers phone numbers but just uses phone books built into their phones. (well, a vast minority) however I don't think we'll be abolishing #s entirely. After all, you have to put the # in your address book to begin with in order to dial by name in the phone book... Plus it's a good idea to remember the #, in case you break your phone.
-matt
I totally agree with you.. I loved my ps2 and said F the Xbox for a long time. Then I started playing Halo on my neighbors networked XBoxes with 2 on 2 and 3 on 3 games from time to time (yeah, our apartment complex is full of geeks ;) ) In any case, as an avid snowboarder, Amped had me hooked instantly, I only had to play it once..
Then I got an XBox for xmas with Voodoo Vince and Amped 2, VV was awesome, couldn't put it down, and people were demanding I played so they could watch, Amped 2, needless to say had me obsessing over it. Next I was suggested Fuzion Frenzy, good fun, got that and Halo and started neglecting my PS2.
Another thing I dig about the XBox, which I never thought i'd say, is the 4 controller ports... And the HiDef pack, I'm not sure if PS2 has one, I use the fiberoptic sound and Svideo, but the component video for XBox is -very- nice. Now if a title is available for XBox and PS2, I grab the XBox version just for the better graphics, and I'm starting to dig their S controllers over the PS2 controllers. For my money, I say XBox, as much as I am a sony whore, gets my vote over the PS2, then again, it's a lot newer, also. I think MS hit a home run with this system. From the speculation of the specs of the new X2, I'm kinda sceptical and think they should ride this out for a couple more years, the XBox does have a lot of life left in it...
They're saying that it will give them a major foothold by releasing the X2 a couple years BEFORE sony's PS3, I think that would hurt them, bad. Hell, the reason the XBox is superior to the PS2 is because it's a couple years newer, if sony and MS delivered their systems at the same date, I think sony could beat MS in quality. I will admit though, that MS's hardware is of pretty good quality.
Long winded I know, sorry.
-matt
Because both result in it being impossible to compete with them, and as a result prevent competition. It is called anti-competitive behavior, and it is illegal if you have a monopoly already. Not having that illegal would mean allowing mega-corporations that determien every aspect of life and that are unchallangable.
;)
I agree with you, but where do we draw the line? I think this would be a GOOD thing to integrate into the OS at the system level. Sure there's a problem with it due to the fact that Symantec and McAfee and all of these companies sell AV software already. What if they didn't sell it yet? and MS beat them to the punch. Would it be anti-competitive for MS to embed AV software into their OS if no AV software existed yet? In this case it may be a case of taking a good, much needed idea, and putting it where it belongs, in the OS. True, in any fairness they'd probably have to buy out every AV company in existance and hire them on, which would never happen... But this is a real problem. AV works great as is, but I think it could work greater, and eliminate a major percentage of virus threats on the internet if it were built into Windows, and used to eliminate any virus threat on the system. Maybe get ad-aware in there too, heh
-matt
Now I'm pretty much against embedding things into the OS ala explorer -- however, one thing that would be nice to have built into the system itself, is anti-virus. If it's built in the way Apple's spellcheck is built in, it would allow every ap in the system to hook into it. Hook Outlook and OE into this system and we may see a lot less viruses (virii, whatever) spread across the internet.
-Matt
Actually the breathing hole in the hard drive is critical to maintaining the cushion of air that the drive heads use to float the couple of microns over the platter surface that they need.
Yeah that's the one hang-up I was running into was the drives... But I think the best solution for that is one of those externeal SCSI drive racks or something... should be an acceptable solution.
well it's also the chip's design. the Apple (and IBM/Moto) designs (and AMD to some extent) "do more work" per clock cycle. that's part of the reason some are better for some processes (though software is key too). think of it like a racecar vs a truck. a racecar revs really fast and flies, but carries one passenger. a truck revs lower but can tow a house. if you had a relay race of the two that had to transport 300 people across a distance the truck could win since it could haul everyone in one or two trips. it's the same way the G5 (or G4) tries to "do more" with every clock cycle compared to Intel just trying to go really really fast.
I don't believe my eyes. That may be the first time I've seen a worthwhile auto:computer analogy. Bravo! Very good explanation.
You might as well mod your dishwasher with a plexiglass window in front, and neon lights that catch the water sprays while it's running.
Hmmm! Now THAT sounds interesting! Thanks for the idea!
I'm not usually one to re-reply, but after looking over these chip cards, it looks like it just accepts your PIN and then spits out a secondary password. I'm thinking, that sounds ok. You get to choose your username, and your primary passwd and then you have to punch your pin into the calc device to get your new randomly generated password. Not bad. What i'd like, though, would be a USB keychain device, or PC card, smartcard, whatever, that you activate it and stick in your computer when you need to logon to the website (maybe it could auto-shut off after 5 min or so?). Then while you're typing in your chosen login, and your chosen passwd, the website is requesting a response from your security device, once it gets that response and your login information, it logs you in. All of the security device activity would be in the background while you're plugging in your information. Wouldn't slow you down much, and wouldn't require any extra activity by the user aside from activating the card and sliding it into your computer.
One thing I was thinking would be cool, since this thing is also a calculator, is to allow it to sync with your account when you plug it in and allow you to view your balance for chosen accounts on it (with the necessary PIN, 3 bad guesses kills it permanantly of course) Of course this would be a major security issue, if the card eats itself after 3 guesses, that's helpful so long as someone doesn't know your exact PIN, which, as I stated, is still probably an unacceptable security risk to most people. (i'm on the fence about it myself.)
-matt
I'd prefer option 2. What is this chip-card/calculator/whatever thing like? Is it a USB type thing? I would love to have one of those for my bank. That way you need to actually have physical access to the device PLUS your login and pass to get in, kind of like having to put your ATM card into the ATM Machine (heh heh, yeah I know ;) ) I'd feel a lot safer if I had to put a card into my computer, after unlocking the card and then having to put in my login/pass. A hell of a lot safer, in fact, I'm going to write my bank about that now. I'd hate to have a list of 25 TANs. I login to my bank account a lot. It sounds like I could just leave this access card in my wallet or money clip and not have to worry about it. I'd hate to have to carry a folded up piece of paper with access numbers on it everywhere I go in case I needed to log on.
So anyhow, anyone who's used them, tell me more about these cards!
Or someone commits a crime and you're there to witness it. A picture sure does help.
It's funny that you should mention this. My boss was telling me about a month ago when his friend had his camera phone for a while, he saw some guy commiting something, I forget the details, anyhow, he whipped out his camera phone and snapped a couple shots good enough to make out his face, he showed the police when they arrived and it helped to catch the guy. Very useful (as I mentioned before) but hardly necessary or anything like that. It's just handy to have around for those times when you could use your camera but didn't bring it. Hardly a substitution for a real camera in any circumstance, though.
-matt
Why fly when you can drive and sail? Because it's faster and more efficient. Why carry around a cameraphone when you can easily carry a brick phone and your Nikon 35mm? Because it's smaller and more efficient.
Interesting point, but by the same token -- Why use your cellphone as a mouse? I can't think of any reason save powerpoint presentations or something, but for that you don't really need a mouse.. Flying is faster than cars and boats, the cameraphone.. well, I'd rather carry my little phone and my Nikon 35mm, because the results from a camera phone are ass at best. I have a camera phone, and I have a little pocket olympus digital camera. If I know I'm going to be taking pictures, I bring the digital, the resulotion and clarity blow my phone out of the water. For a quick "oh wow that's neat" picture, then yes, a camera phone is fine and sometimes very useful. However, usually if you're going to be taking pictures of stuff, you know it, so you bring your camera. Well, "I", not "You", but I can only speak for myself.
-matt
Images are off by default in Outloook 2003. You can turn them on for a particular sender or per email, easily, through a link at the top of the message. Piece of cake.
Really? Does it do this for Outlook Express too? If so then that's very cool. However, what piqued my interest in your post was that you mention you can turn them on for a particular SENDER. I've WANTED that in Mail.app for a while. I used to get my daily sinfest comics emailed to me, but I stopped just because I had to load the images every day. No i'm not THAT lazy, but on a g3/400 powerbook, even that takes longer than it should. I'd like a 'accept images in mail for sender' option, that'd be great.
-matt
Maybe it's because we've all got his sig blocked due to spam ? ;)
I can't block sigs... otherwise I'll never know who wrote the comment! Seriously, other than my friends/fans icons I never remember names, I always remember sigs, am I the only one? hehe.
-matt
I run HDTV resolution out to my Sony TV and get a really stunning GUI.
/., so I'm willing to risk the OT mods.
Ok, I don't get this, and I think maybe a couple other people may benefit from hearing an answer on
I just recently got a 30" philips widescreen. They had the HD version for a few hundred more than mine, but due to funds, I got the cheaper one. In any case, turns out my TV has component video inputs on the back just like the HD one did, now mine isn't HDTV obviously due to the price, but doesn't the component video jack allow the higher resolutions?
My theory so far is that the HD monitor is capable of a higher resolution than the non-HD, but if that's the case, what's the point of component video? does it just give you a little bit better picture without the clarity of HD resolution?
-matt
Nah. Think about it: pressing different spots of your screen is like pressing down a guitar string at different points. You will cause the screen to resonate with a multitude of frequencies with distinct audio "fingerprints" for different points on the screen, which can also be picked up by very sensitive equipment.
:)
How about adding a mouse-type device to move a curser on the screen then? It's going to click the same no matter where the curser is on the screen.
-matt
Is, or is not, WINE an emulator?
-matt
PS: It's a joke, dammit.
People who go around saying words like unthaw and irregardless are sticking a thumb in the eye of those of us who like language to be clear and not annoying.
:)
You obviously don't spend much time on IRC huh? You'd probably have killed yourself by now.
-matt
Genetic modifications can be patented, not genetics themselves, and certainly not something which existed in nature with no input from man.
that's what you think. I hold the patent on human life! pay up!
-matt
"Probably get run over."
.. now if you're standing in front of a freight train, you're not probably going to get run over, you ARE going to get run over, it's not like the train's going to swerve right?
Well, thank God he clarified that for us. I thought the freight train would start prancing and singing show tunes.
Actually you know what I thought was funny was the "probably"
-matt
And, of course, about a 20 percent bump in speed.
And boy will I attest to that. On a '99 lombard powerbook, that 20% speed boost is -very- much appreciated. It makes it so that my system has been extremely usable for the past several years, and funny enough, the more features they've added, the faster my system has gone! I was shocked. I was so afraid when the first upgrades started coming since 10.0 ran so slow, but once I saw the difference they made they became very welcome.
-matt
Well, looks as though Apple may need to start shipping 2 button mice! (Yeah, I hate that 2 button arguement too, so don't get on me about it) as OS X uses a held down mouse click to pop up a contextual menu on the dock, or open up a folder if you're trying to drag something into it as well as a few other uses OS X has for holding down a mouse button to change a behavior.
-matt
You know what, your mentioning of the -03 and -march flags n' stuff, this reminds me of something... Something that, IMO would make gentoo absolutely perfect (aside from an intuitive installer option, that'd be nice). This missing link for me, is the ability to merge $package --prefix=/usr/local/$package. I asked them about it and they said it's not possible at the moment.. :( But dammit the day they get that working I will be absolutely stoked.
-matt