If a "open" network that allows VOIP existed, would any cellular carrier still exist? OK, assuming Verizon still has out-of-major-city towers, would any carrier that is mostly big-cities-only (Tmobile) still exist?
Actually, I think thats what the iphone is all about.
Apple chose the worst possible cellular carrier for the iphone. They also gave it kick-ass wireless.
As soon as there is an open wireless network that the iphone can hook into, the AT&T EDGE network will become irrelevant.
I hear Google have such a plan. Maybe Google and Apple have some fiendish plan between them to kill the cellular networks?
It will be interesting if Apple will ever decide to make a real portal of its own, or be content to partner with google.
Hey, Apple chose to partner with AT&T, possibly the worst provider that they could possibly have chosen for the iphone. Could partnering with Google be worse?
Maybe one day Google will set up a nationwide open wireless network that the iphone can hook into at which point the AT&T partnership will be irrelevant. If Apple hadn't partnered with Google by then they'd look pretty foolish. Egg, meet face.
I get a decent framerate... Its just that what I see *at* that framerate is no different on any hardware I've installed SL on.
The one thing thats impressed me hugely about SL is the sheer *consistency* of the user experience regardless of what hardware its running on; its every bit as usable on an old Mac G3 as it is on decent modern hardware.
For limited values of 'usable'.
Yes, I did the 'log in and go wait for half an hour' routine so that it could download all the models and textures (over our 100M connection).
But still, looking at them side by side? Visually, I couldn't tell the difference between the PC gaming rig and the G3.
Even moving the avatars around, the only difference was framerate, not the quality of the rendering. Avatars still looked like fleshed-out stick figures walking like puppets (legs and arms flapping woodenly).
And yes, thats with the graphics options turned up as high as I could get them on the respective machines.
And this was primarily the starting area which, I reasoned, would be a decent showcase of what SL was capable of. First impressions count, everyone knows that.
When I experimented with BeOS I installed it on a computer with some fairly standard hardware including a nice standard NIC (a 3c509 IIRC).
When I had to download the NIC driver from the net and copy it onto a floppy disk in order to get the BeOS machine onto the network that made me wonder.
When I then had to download a third-party application in order to access samba fileshares I began to doubt.
When said 3rd-party application turned out to be beta and extremely flakey, I uninstalled BeOS and gave the box to a friend and said 'good luck'.
from what I understand, sound went BACKWARDS in vista compared to xp.
Oh thats just a recording of Steve Balmer saying "I am satan". He got the idea from all the cool rock bands who did that sort of shit on their albums (back in the days of vinyl).
We have a Vista machine. We get a message popping up saying that "the application comes from an untrusted software publisher." The application is ours. The computer is ours. We trust the application.
We want this message to go away permanently without having to buy a certificate.
This is a genuine question and not a troll or anything. So far I haven't found any resources online which have helped with this issue.
The reason it works on OS X (and NEXTSTEP) is because the program files and system configuration settings are contained entirely within the application bundle, as opposed to being scattered throughout the file system and registry.
Thats how it is supposed to be.
Thats not how it is, even for the Apple-produced iLife apps. Garageband is a great example. If you drop the application bundle in the trash you are still left with a few gigs of (now useless) files 'scattered' throughout the filesystem. Ok 'scattered' may be a bit extreme but the point stands that by dragging the garageband app bundle to the trash you have *not* removed all traces of the app.
Once you get past the sometimes ugly graphics of Second Life (not as ugly once your upgrade your graphics card)
How much of an upgrade are we talking?
I've run SL on: A mid-range PC with none too shabby CPU, RAM and an Nvidia 8600GT card which plays WoW just fine at highest settings I can give it. A Mac G3 A Mac G4 A Mac mini core2duo A Mac *PRO* (dual *woodcrest* CPUs (thats 4 cores) and blazing RAM and decent video) all on a 100M internet connection.
In every case I found that the game presented almost identical game experiences; the video and other hardware didn't seem to make any difference at all.
So please tell me, I really want to know, what do you have to throw at SL to get decent graphics?
I guess it should be possible; I see screen shots all the time that look really great but so far I havn't seen anything in-game that even comes close to the 'magazine' screen shots I've seen.
Also, may I remind everyone of DR. Joycelyn Elders who suggested teaching school children to masturbate. That went over real well in the Clinton administration. I remember her being pushed out for that.
Of course, let's not let facts get in the way of Bush Bashing.
Sorry I'm not sure if you are advocating bush bashing for girls but denying monkey spanking for boys?
Personally, I think that teaching both bush bashing *and* monkey spanking is just fine at school.
If the government is watching, they are obviously looking for anything they don't like. This could be generally illegal behavior, or behavior that is threatening to the continued operation of that institution.
In the UK they have the 'Antisocial behavior order' which is just begging to be used for political suppression. After all, to pseudo-quote Tony Blair:
"Of course criticising the government is Antisocial Behavior. I mean, you can't get more antisocial than attacking the government, now can you?"
(Disclaimer: I don't know whether or not 2-faced Tony ever actually did say that, but I'm fairly sure that he (or someone practically indistinguishable from him) will).
A few years back, we had another simpering wimp... He was so focused on being a "man of peace", that it became a weapon that was used against him and the entire US.
Actually, from the Nazis, they did have something to hide.
There can only be one master race and when the Nazis found out that the Jews thought that *theirs* was the one true master race, well we all know what happened next...
but why not use the internet capabilities of your phone?
I guess with the rise of the iphone its because it would take far too long to wait for the results of a wikipedia search slowly coming in over the EDGE network?
Hence the need for a hugely compressed edition of Wikipedia to be stored on the iphone itself. Faster to do the decompression than to wait for the data connection.
I' not sure as I havn't tested any Linu on a Mac so far. Amazingly enough (surprising myself) I've been more or less happy with OSX. I've been a Linux desktop user for years but have found OSX, in general, preferable on my desktop.
I don't much like the Apple keyboards or mice though.
Well, that's why I'm pointing my suggestions at Apple.
You know, for all the 'designed by Apple in California' and all the supposed UI expertise at Apple, since switching from a Linux desktop to OSX I have had to do a LOT more clicking with the mouse.
I think the main culprit is lack of sloppy focus in OSX. Eg if I go to check my mail I have to click twice in the Thunderbird window. Once to focus the window and again to open up the folder into which the mail has been filtered (if that folder was folded away).
Of course, sloppy focus would be very hard on OSX; you would have to somehow maintain a clear path between any open window and the top of the screen otherwise between leaving the app window and getting to the menu bar you might focus a whole 'nuther app.
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If a "open" network that allows VOIP existed, would any cellular carrier still exist? OK, assuming Verizon still has out-of-major-city towers, would any carrier that is mostly big-cities-only (Tmobile) still exist?
Actually, I think thats what the iphone is all about.
Apple chose the worst possible cellular carrier for the iphone. They also gave it kick-ass wireless.
As soon as there is an open wireless network that the iphone can hook into, the AT&T EDGE network will become irrelevant.
I hear Google have such a plan. Maybe Google and Apple have some fiendish plan between them to kill the cellular networks?
It will be interesting if Apple will ever decide to make a real portal of its own, or be content to partner with google.
Hey, Apple chose to partner with AT&T, possibly the worst provider that they could possibly have chosen for the iphone. Could partnering with Google be worse?
Maybe one day Google will set up a nationwide open wireless network that the iphone can hook into at which point the AT&T partnership will be irrelevant. If Apple hadn't partnered with Google by then they'd look pretty foolish. Egg, meet face.
I'm really not a Windows admin and we are not really a Windows house, so bear with me.
The message appears to me to come from UAC.
The software does not require admin priviledges.
I did find this:
http://www.tweak-uac.com/
which we will be testing to see if we can use our software on our computer without having to click through the nag screens...
I get a decent framerate... Its just that what I see *at* that framerate is no different on any hardware I've installed SL on.
The one thing thats impressed me hugely about SL is the sheer *consistency* of the user experience regardless of what hardware its running on; its every bit as usable on an old Mac G3 as it is on decent modern hardware.
For limited values of 'usable'.
Yes, I did the 'log in and go wait for half an hour' routine so that it could download all the models and textures (over our 100M connection).
But still, looking at them side by side? Visually, I couldn't tell the difference between the PC gaming rig and the G3.
Even moving the avatars around, the only difference was framerate, not the quality of the rendering. Avatars still looked like fleshed-out stick figures walking like puppets (legs and arms flapping woodenly).
And yes, thats with the graphics options turned up as high as I could get them on the respective machines.
And this was primarily the starting area which, I reasoned, would be a decent showcase of what SL was capable of. First impressions count, everyone knows that.
The hardware support was also amazing
This is something that I find amazing.
When I experimented with BeOS I installed it on a computer with some fairly standard hardware including a nice standard NIC (a 3c509 IIRC).
When I had to download the NIC driver from the net and copy it onto a floppy disk in order to get the BeOS machine onto the network that made me wonder.
When I then had to download a third-party application in order to access samba fileshares I began to doubt.
When said 3rd-party application turned out to be beta and extremely flakey, I uninstalled BeOS and gave the box to a friend and said 'good luck'.
from what I understand, sound went BACKWARDS in vista compared to xp.
Oh thats just a recording of Steve Balmer saying "I am satan". He got the idea from all the cool rock bands who did that sort of shit on their albums (back in the days of vinyl).
Here, you might know the answer to this one.
We have a Vista machine. We get a message popping up saying that "the application comes from an untrusted software publisher." The application is ours. The computer is ours. We trust the application.
We want this message to go away permanently without having to buy a certificate.
This is a genuine question and not a troll or anything. So far I haven't found any resources online which have helped with this issue.
Thanks!
Apparently, OS X has another feature that Windows users don't get. It's called "a joke". =)
Ahhhhh so *that* explains the keyboard shortcuts in OSX...
The reason it works on OS X (and NEXTSTEP) is because the program files and system configuration settings are contained entirely within the application bundle, as opposed to being scattered throughout the file system and registry.
Thats how it is supposed to be.
Thats not how it is, even for the Apple-produced iLife apps. Garageband is a great example. If you drop the application bundle in the trash you are still left with a few gigs of (now useless) files 'scattered' throughout the filesystem. Ok 'scattered' may be a bit extreme but the point stands that by dragging the garageband app bundle to the trash you have *not* removed all traces of the app.
Once you get past the sometimes ugly graphics of Second Life (not as ugly once your upgrade your graphics card)
How much of an upgrade are we talking?
I've run SL on:
A mid-range PC with none too shabby CPU, RAM and an Nvidia 8600GT card which plays WoW just fine at highest settings I can give it.
A Mac G3
A Mac G4
A Mac mini core2duo
A Mac *PRO* (dual *woodcrest* CPUs (thats 4 cores) and blazing RAM and decent video)
all on a 100M internet connection.
In every case I found that the game presented almost identical game experiences; the video and other hardware didn't seem to make any difference at all.
So please tell me, I really want to know, what do you have to throw at SL to get decent graphics?
I guess it should be possible; I see screen shots all the time that look really great but so far I havn't seen anything in-game that even comes close to the 'magazine' screen shots I've seen.
Maybe...
as in "In the morning I will be sober but you will still be classified".
White Dwarf used to be a regular purchase for me; it had source material for all sorts of different games from Traveller to AD&D
I also remember when the Citadel minatures went from an average of 50 pence to 5 pounds in the space of about a month.
Also, may I remind everyone of DR. Joycelyn Elders who suggested teaching school children to masturbate. That went over real well in the Clinton administration. I remember her being pushed out for that.
Of course, let's not let facts get in the way of Bush Bashing.
Sorry I'm not sure if you are advocating bush bashing for girls but denying monkey spanking for boys?
Personally, I think that teaching both bush bashing *and* monkey spanking is just fine at school.
See, this is why we still need mainframes.
If the government is watching, they are obviously looking for anything they don't like. This could be generally illegal behavior, or behavior that is threatening to the continued operation of that institution.
In the UK they have the 'Antisocial behavior order' which is just begging to be used for political suppression. After all, to pseudo-quote Tony Blair:
"Of course criticising the government is Antisocial Behavior. I mean, you can't get more antisocial than attacking the government, now can you?"
(Disclaimer: I don't know whether or not 2-faced Tony ever actually did say that, but I'm fairly sure that he (or someone practically indistinguishable from him) will).
A few years back, we had another simpering wimp... He was so focused on being a "man of peace", that it became a weapon that was used against him and the entire US.
Jimmy Carter?
Actually, from the Nazis, they did have something to hide.
There can only be one master race and when the Nazis found out that the Jews thought that *theirs* was the one true master race, well we all know what happened next...
but why not use the internet capabilities of your phone?
I guess with the rise of the iphone its because it would take far too long to wait for the results of a wikipedia search slowly coming in over the EDGE network?
Hence the need for a hugely compressed edition of Wikipedia to be stored on the iphone itself. Faster to do the decompression than to wait for the data connection.
OTOH, can you imagine talking about computer programming without using "jargon"?
I always thought that was the whole point of COBOL....
I' not sure as I havn't tested any Linu on a Mac so far. Amazingly enough (surprising myself) I've been more or less happy with OSX. I've been a Linux desktop user for years but have found OSX, in general, preferable on my desktop.
I don't much like the Apple keyboards or mice though.
Don't those touchpad single-mouse-buttons have some left-right clickability?
The Apple 'mighty mouse' looks as if it only has one button but the areas to the left and right are sensitive and in effect it actually has 4 buttons.
Well, that's why I'm pointing my suggestions at Apple.
You know, for all the 'designed by Apple in California' and all the supposed UI expertise at Apple, since switching from a Linux desktop to OSX I have had to do a LOT more clicking with the mouse.
I think the main culprit is lack of sloppy focus in OSX. Eg if I go to check my mail I have to click twice in the Thunderbird window. Once to focus the window and again to open up the folder into which the mail has been filtered (if that folder was folded away).
Of course, sloppy focus would be very hard on OSX; you would have to somehow maintain a clear path between any open window and the top of the screen otherwise between leaving the app window and getting to the menu bar you might focus a whole 'nuther app.
I've seen Java on the server-side.
Yes, Java definitely needs mainframe-level memory for sure.
Creating a new currency and money moving where they cannot tax it is the sort of thing governments take seriously.
Great idea!
I could convert all of my real currency into Linden Dollars and that way the government can't tax it!
Now if only I could get a 'bank of Linden' credit card to buy things at real shops...
If you are a US citizen US laws apply regardless of where you are.
More like:
"If you are a US citizen US laws apply to you and to those around you regardless of where you (or they) are."
Well, thats what the US government and corporates would like anyway.