Alternately, one could say that a sign of a good healthy economic relationship between companies is a clear, well written contract that doesn't leave room for confusion. A good relationship is when everyone is clear on their duties and benefits. A contract is the written manifestation of this.
Personally, I prefer to deal on a handshake basis with people I know, respect, and trust. I like to have a personal relationship with clients. For the times this is not possible, I know I need a contract or a deal memo. (I've also taken the time to learn to read a contract, and I don't hesitate to strike out provisions or add provisions in "boiler plate" contracts before signing when I don't agree to them. Does this lose me any business? Not business I'd really want to take.)
It's for this reason that virtualization is mostly hype, and won't be accepted in the enterprise. IT departments have better things to do with their budgets than to buy fancy VR goggles and data gloves for their admins.
And I didn't think I needed to go into the whole "Apple supports multi-button mouse" thing. I thought that it was a given that I was thinking it, even if I didn't write it. It would have distracted from the purpose of the story, which was to annoy the one-button-mouse trolls. The story is true, by the way.
Check out this Windows Utility Shootout on Division Two. These are the "must have" apps for increasing productivity and extending the functionality of Windows.
In my case, it's simple. Games. I'm not enough into games to want to own a dedicated Windows box; there are enough Mac games to keep me reasonably happy.
I'm not rushing out to get my hands on Windows OS, either. It can wait until I'm ready. In fact, I probably won't be buying a Macintelosh until just before Vista comes out in 2009*. =)
(But seriously, I'm not planning on getting one until sometime in 2007, probably late 2007. I'm no longer interested in the bleeding edge, so I'll want to wait to get a 2nd or 3rd rev, and I like to buy factory refurbs.)
* I must admit that XP SP4, due out early next year, does sound intriguing.
Au contraire. No recent macs use BIOS. And when they did, the overwhelming majority of Mac users had little need to even be aware of it, since . . . (wait for it) . . . . Macs just work.
I switched from Windows 3.1 to Mac System 7 in the early 90s, and I've never looked back. I'm vaguegly aware of DLLs and the Registry, since I've heard so many complaints about them (at places like slashdot). The frustrating issues I had to contend with on Windows, such as IRQ conflicts, have been long since solved I assume, since I haven't heard any complaints about them in years.
I've been able to avoid Windows since making the switch to Mac, although last fall a boss asked me to burn a CD of photos as he headed out the door. After noodling around his computer for awhile, opening the photos in various programs, it occurred to me that, just like on a Mac, a right click would bring up a contextual menu. So I right clicked on the folder of photos and was able to burn a CD. (Of course, if this had been a Mac, I would have been able to burn the CD from within iPhoto. I'm sure that this is also possible in some Windows apps, but I really didn't want to spend the time learning a Windows program that I'd never use again. Even spending the 15 minutes to figure out how to burn a CD was annoying.
You know, you're right. Who among us can claim that they don't get sexually aroused by combat boots? =) Actually, to a certain type of reader (and most likely to Tom Clancy himself), that sort of stuff is pr0n.
Anyway, you reminded me of a fun game we used to play at the trashy novel section of the bookstore. Each participant would grab a trashy novel and then skim it for a sex scene. The first one to come across a sex scene won.
I wasn't dissing you in the least. What you wrote was basically the entire thrust of the article. Too bad its author needed multiple paragraphs and a troll headline to communicate what you did in one sentence. As I said, the article wasn't really worth reading.
Slapping a VTEC sticker on to my laptop has given me an additional 20 hp. I still haven't figured out how to put those spinning rims on this thing, or a spoiler, but when I do, my laptop will leave yours in the dust!
This was mentioned in TFA, not that you should bother to read it (nothing really insightful).
Parallels does look very promising, and at $50 ($40 pre-order), I'd say also reasonably priced.
It's still not the best solution, though. What I'd really like to see is the means to run whatever OS's application directly in OS X, without having to run the OS.
If you really want to modify your workspace in a meaningful way, you need to use the proper tools. If you do a good job, you might end up with something like this.
What's to stop the government from seizing both you and your computer, flying you out of the country, and then torturing you until you give up the password?
Besides which, I'm pretty sure the RIAA and the MPAA will get behind this, and they've got Congress in their pocket.
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I mean, the idiotors. The article linked is the wrong one. This is the correct article for the story.
More and more frequently, I'm thinking that slashdot is becoming a mad magazine parody of itself.
Alternately, one could say that a sign of a good healthy economic relationship between companies is a clear, well written contract that doesn't leave room for confusion. A good relationship is when everyone is clear on their duties and benefits. A contract is the written manifestation of this.
Personally, I prefer to deal on a handshake basis with people I know, respect, and trust. I like to have a personal relationship with clients. For the times this is not possible, I know I need a contract or a deal memo. (I've also taken the time to learn to read a contract, and I don't hesitate to strike out provisions or add provisions in "boiler plate" contracts before signing when I don't agree to them. Does this lose me any business? Not business I'd really want to take.)
It's for this reason that virtualization is mostly hype, and won't be accepted in the enterprise. IT departments have better things to do with their budgets than to buy fancy VR goggles and data gloves for their admins.
Uh, no. It's control-click for contextual menus.
And I didn't think I needed to go into the whole "Apple supports multi-button mouse" thing. I thought that it was a given that I was thinking it, even if I didn't write it. It would have distracted from the purpose of the story, which was to annoy the one-button-mouse trolls. The story is true, by the way.
Check out this Windows Utility Shootout on Division Two. These are the "must have" apps for increasing productivity and extending the functionality of Windows.
OmniGraffle came bundled with my last two Macs. It's really a terrific program.
Bah. He's looking for something unique. I'm sure that iTunes runs under wine.
I think Codeweavers is working on Crossover iTunes.
Some *nix applications may not have as much eye-candy as an equivalent Windows application but they are normally quite functonal.
Isn't it called "eye-candy" because it rots your eyes?
In my case, it's simple. Games. I'm not enough into games to want to own a dedicated Windows box; there are enough Mac games to keep me reasonably happy.
I'm not rushing out to get my hands on Windows OS, either. It can wait until I'm ready. In fact, I probably won't be buying a Macintelosh until just before Vista comes out in 2009*. =)
(But seriously, I'm not planning on getting one until sometime in 2007, probably late 2007. I'm no longer interested in the bleeding edge, so I'll want to wait to get a 2nd or 3rd rev, and I like to buy factory refurbs.)
* I must admit that XP SP4, due out early next year, does sound intriguing.
Besides, Macs have a BIOS, too.
Au contraire. No recent macs use BIOS. And when they did, the overwhelming majority of Mac users had little need to even be aware of it, since . . . (wait for it) . . . . Macs just work.
I switched from Windows 3.1 to Mac System 7 in the early 90s, and I've never looked back. I'm vaguegly aware of DLLs and the Registry, since I've heard so many complaints about them (at places like slashdot). The frustrating issues I had to contend with on Windows, such as IRQ conflicts, have been long since solved I assume, since I haven't heard any complaints about them in years.
I've been able to avoid Windows since making the switch to Mac, although last fall a boss asked me to burn a CD of photos as he headed out the door. After noodling around his computer for awhile, opening the photos in various programs, it occurred to me that, just like on a Mac, a right click would bring up a contextual menu. So I right clicked on the folder of photos and was able to burn a CD. (Of course, if this had been a Mac, I would have been able to burn the CD from within iPhoto. I'm sure that this is also possible in some Windows apps, but I really didn't want to spend the time learning a Windows program that I'd never use again. Even spending the 15 minutes to figure out how to burn a CD was annoying.
You know, you're right. Who among us can claim that they don't get sexually aroused by combat boots? =) Actually, to a certain type of reader (and most likely to Tom Clancy himself), that sort of stuff is pr0n.
Anyway, you reminded me of a fun game we used to play at the trashy novel section of the bookstore. Each participant would grab a trashy novel and then skim it for a sex scene. The first one to come across a sex scene won.
I don't think it's made me more violent, but Duke Nukem Forever has certainly made me procrastinate more.
I think maybe his point is that you're not any safer from the US government outside of the US.
If Cthulu will promise to eat me first, I'd be happy to vote for him.
I wasn't dissing you in the least. What you wrote was basically the entire thrust of the article. Too bad its author needed multiple paragraphs and a troll headline to communicate what you did in one sentence. As I said, the article wasn't really worth reading.
Slapping a VTEC sticker on to my laptop has given me an additional 20 hp. I still haven't figured out how to put those spinning rims on this thing, or a spoiler, but when I do, my laptop will leave yours in the dust!
This was mentioned in TFA, not that you should bother to read it (nothing really insightful).
Parallels does look very promising, and at $50 ($40 pre-order), I'd say also reasonably priced.
It's still not the best solution, though. What I'd really like to see is the means to run whatever OS's application directly in OS X, without having to run the OS.
When you take humans out of the equation, you minimize the chance for failures.
That's why, in 2008, I'm voting for Skynet.
If you really want to modify your workspace in a meaningful way, you need to use the proper tools. If you do a good job, you might end up with something like this.
I wonder if that is the reason grampa always told me, "Don't take any wooden nipples, kid."
Man did not evolve wearing pants. The foreskin ceased to offer protection and became a liability after humankind decided to clothe itself
I think it was the invention of the zipper that made the foreskin a real liability.
Meat = murder,
Therefore laptops = meat.
I was going to get a laptop to decrease my chances of being murdered, but on the way to buy it I was hit by a bus.
In Soviet Russia theft equals YOU!!
In Soviet Russia property equals YOU!!
Therefore, property is theft.
What's to stop the government from seizing both you and your computer, flying you out of the country, and then torturing you until you give up the password?
Besides which, I'm pretty sure the RIAA and the MPAA will get behind this, and they've got Congress in their pocket.