For those of us who need it, Apple update takes care of it.
If there was an exploit that meant we should click on "Software Update" instead of waiting for it to cycle round, great but this is just Apple-bashing. Is this a microsofty going "look! other OS's have security updates too" while there are many many exploits in the wild for them?
Save that corporate brand wars stuff for someone who cares.
This is about security. People need to be informed; it's how disasters are prevented.
And FYI: not everyone has Software Update turned on. Know why? Because even Apple has been known to issue patches that break things.
Quicktime gives me nag entries in the menus -- like, I pay a four-digit sum for a computer and they won't throw in the $40 fee for the full fuctionality? Really clever, Jobs
Agreed. Apple's cheapness on this issue is sad; nickle and diming your customers is especially silly when the system ships with extraneous iApps. Look, Apple, I'll trade you my useless iMovie just so Quicktime can do what *free* players everywhere do.
The new version will not be placed in the original setting, the north Wales village of Portmeirion, or have the arty, 'pop' feel of the original, according to the magazine Broadcast.
They can do without me watching, then.
Really without the subtle, brilliant McGoohan, it scarcely matters. His vision made The Prisoner a landmark of subversive entertainment.
And that is what we so desperately need in the age of the Bush-Blair Disaster. Our societies are riven by lies and led by fools, and it's high time to shake things up. Again.
Don't do it by cannabalizing and retrofitting The Prisoner, for god's sake. Once you strip away its late-period Cold War associations and its theatre of the absurd, you no longer have The Prisoner.
Instead, commission completely new works, unfetter the writers who want to challenge us through TV (as HBO so successfully has done), dare to present new voices, and look toward new greatness.
For god's sake, why do people think that shiny electric blue, or green or red, ( http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/_inventoryImages/imag es/color_choice_m2/piercing.jpg [hypersonic-pc.com] ) and a huge ugly logo is a good thing?
me too. For my kids. And I don't understand why we shouldn't have the right to have ones.
More sales -> price down -> better prices for poor countries.
You really haven't been paying attention to how capitalism works, have you? Your society buys endless amounts of technology, and it hardly results in lower prices for poor countries. It merely results in a Michael Dell or a Bill Gates becoming richer.
Hence this humanitarian effort to allow children in the rest of the world to catch up. Stop envying the poor their (as yet nonexistent) laptops, and do something for them: you'll be surprised how altruism drives away your Acquisition Blues.
It might make that difference, as I get the "beach ball" a lot. It's either Tiger straining the processor or huge memory leaks and other bugs in some of the programs I'm using (like Safari). I have to admit, I can't rule that out.
Ditch Safari. I saw plenty of beachballing on the inefficient Safari, but have yet to see any on Opera.
Generally you won't find such horrible snobbery among Mac users--not, at least, in my experience. Cultists, of course, have binary minds: us and them.
For a certain exclusivist personality, the prospect of Apples becoming widely enjoyed among ordinary Americans is like removing the "NO GURLS" sign on the clubhouse. These scowling chumps have had to suffer the hoi polloi getting grubby hands on their precious tech, and, heh, with the migration to x86, just wait. We're only getting started.:-)
I wouldn't take seriously any dis of New Egg from a poster who sneers at "Section 8 housing' and "coach class." It's just elitist garbage.
Few can afford top of the line equipment and for PC gaming hardware, it's unnecessary, anyway. Any savvy builder can assemble a box for much less than what Alienware asks. Throughput is throughput; leave the name-checking to the snobs.
You don't see V12 engines in Hyundais either. You don't see marble floors in Section 8 housing. You don't see big, soft seats in coach class.
FYI: Your repulsive sneering put me off reading the rest of your post. You can play the Ugly American elsewhere; why drag such crap into technology discussions?
Apple is more in the buisness of selling "little and cute."
It's only semantics, but I don't believe Apple sells a single major product that qualifies as cute.
"Little" is accurate, since Apple's form factor is modernist, and modernism prizes spare, unadorned, stripped-down essences: beauty in the way a thing actually looks before it is layered over with decoration.
To be sure, some of Apple's accessories as well as a lot of the iPod aftermarket are pretty crap to make your iPod look cute, to "dress it up." This fetishistic stuff caters to the desire to play dolly, something, amusingly, that can be observed in quite a lot of adults.
That's why there's a fortune to be made by the first person to market the Burp-Your-iPod accessory. Just squeeze, and....ah, music to your ears!
For example, if the majority of shareholders agreed that the companys number one priority was to provide humanitarian help to catastrophe zones, then that would be the companys number one priority.
Hey, stop it! Halloween's over.
Thwarting such monstrous danger to our endless personal consumption is why we turn so avidly to religion ("There will be poor always"), politicians ("It's yer munny! It's yer munny!") and TV pundits ("Sorry, not my problem!").
If the names Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing and Morgan Stanley don't mean anything to you, get over to Wikipedia and learn about self-regulation in action.
Of course, if you live in California and have ever paid an energy bill, then you know a little something already about allowing capitalists to govern themselves.
As for the ESRB: who could possibly take it seriously? It's just a PR front to hold off those who get queasy over the idea of children playing mass murder simulators. Stuffy types, bug off--American kids love mass murder.
Leave it to Wired's slavishness to transform the prospect of charity for the rich into a contest to top the iPod. Admittedly it's a great Tom Sawyer ploy, though--"Here, kids, write your own interface and we'll sell it back to you!"--and there might just be saps who will fall for it.
Not only is capitalism very far from "natural." If left unregulated--as in America, where robber barons have often ruled--its destructive constant leads to monopoly.
This is not to excuse Apple, however. I agree its gouging behavior stinks.
So is Steve just smoking crack here? Of course not. Now consider the Apple 30" cinema display hooked up to that remote. Things become a bit more compelling, don't they? Am I saying that Apple is going to make a Tivo? They might, but I'm guessing they won't. Here's why.
Are you going to answer another rhetorical question? Yes, you are. Will it be as inane as the last? You bet. Do I hope you and your carload of TV-addicted children never run off the road? Just barely.
I spend more time on sites where ads are minimal or unobtrustive, so I'm not terribly bothered by them. A Google or Amazon ad on Counterpunch, for instance, is no sweat. Keep it low key, and I don't mind.
By contrast, on a site like Maxboxing, going ten rounds with its ridiculous Flash layout is out of the question. A few lines in a CSS style sheet in Opera takes care of that. I modified the very good adblocker.css found here: http://members.chello.nl/b.kroonspecker/opera/
When visiting corporate media sites, I block all the ads. Not merely to reduce annoyance; out of principle, in fact. While it's important to keep tabs on corporate news, reading one set of lies is quite enough, thank you.
As for TV ads...heh, come on. HBO only features house ads.
maybe if they were worth more, the Big Boxes would pay them more.
Heh. That outburst sounds like it's straight out of A Christmas Carol. Guess which character?
Depressing wages, destroying local business, weaseling tax incentives out of local government, and then funneling political contributions to the Bush GOP machine, boxes like Wal-Mart and Best Buy represent capitalism at its most deranged.
If Americans want to reverse the decline of their quality of life, they will wean themselves from these corporate pigsties. And they had best hurry. As our middle class jobs are exported, the boxes are already our largest employers. Not a very bright future for the nation in that.
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If there was an exploit that meant we should click on "Software Update" instead of waiting for it to cycle round, great but this is just Apple-bashing. Is this a microsofty going "look! other OS's have security updates too" while there are many many exploits in the wild for them?
Save that corporate brand wars stuff for someone who cares.
This is about security. People need to be informed; it's how disasters are prevented.
And FYI: not everyone has Software Update turned on. Know why? Because even Apple has been known to issue patches that break things.
2. Insert head.
3. ???
4. Cure!!!
(Note: IANAND--I am not a nose doctor.)
**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****
You blew the whole friggin' surplus on rich people?!
**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****
Heating oil is going to cost how much?!
**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****
Thousands dead and wounded, no oil coming out of Iraq, torture rooms on three continents, and the whole world hates us?
**** Bzzzzzzzt: this way to your prison cell. ****
Huh? Ya think I'm friggin' crazy?!
Quicktime gives me nag entries in the menus -- like, I pay a four-digit sum for a computer and they won't throw in the $40 fee for the full fuctionality? Really clever, Jobs Agreed. Apple's cheapness on this issue is sad; nickle and diming your customers is especially silly when the system ships with extraneous iApps. Look, Apple, I'll trade you my useless iMovie just so Quicktime can do what *free* players everywhere do.
As long as Apple won't combine elegance with usability, I'm grateful to those offering us usability without the elegance.
Oh, but you've never heard of Microsoft's history. That's understandable; it is a secret after all.
They can do without me watching, then.
Really without the subtle, brilliant McGoohan, it scarcely matters. His vision made The Prisoner a landmark of subversive entertainment.
And that is what we so desperately need in the age of the Bush-Blair Disaster. Our societies are riven by lies and led by fools, and it's high time to shake things up. Again.
Don't do it by cannabalizing and retrofitting The Prisoner, for god's sake. Once you strip away its late-period Cold War associations and its theatre of the absurd, you no longer have The Prisoner.
Instead, commission completely new works, unfetter the writers who want to challenge us through TV (as HBO so successfully has done), dare to present new voices, and look toward new greatness.
Totally. In fact, since this inconceivable flaw was reported, everything seems to be running snappier!
Must be the same gene that makes people go for black light posters.
You really haven't been paying attention to how capitalism works, have you? Your society buys endless amounts of technology, and it hardly results in lower prices for poor countries. It merely results in a Michael Dell or a Bill Gates becoming richer.
Hence this humanitarian effort to allow children in the rest of the world to catch up. Stop envying the poor their (as yet nonexistent) laptops, and do something for them: you'll be surprised how altruism drives away your Acquisition Blues.
Ditch Safari. I saw plenty of beachballing on the inefficient Safari, but have yet to see any on Opera.
For a certain exclusivist personality, the prospect of Apples becoming widely enjoyed among ordinary Americans is like removing the "NO GURLS" sign on the clubhouse. These scowling chumps have had to suffer the hoi polloi getting grubby hands on their precious tech, and, heh, with the migration to x86, just wait. We're only getting started. :-)
Few can afford top of the line equipment and for PC gaming hardware, it's unnecessary, anyway. Any savvy builder can assemble a box for much less than what Alienware asks. Throughput is throughput; leave the name-checking to the snobs.
FYI: Your repulsive sneering put me off reading the rest of your post. You can play the Ugly American elsewhere; why drag such crap into technology discussions?
A: Yes. Especially if you shape them like a dunce's cap.
It's only semantics, but I don't believe Apple sells a single major product that qualifies as cute.
"Little" is accurate, since Apple's form factor is modernist, and modernism prizes spare, unadorned, stripped-down essences: beauty in the way a thing actually looks before it is layered over with decoration.
To be sure, some of Apple's accessories as well as a lot of the iPod aftermarket are pretty crap to make your iPod look cute, to "dress it up." This fetishistic stuff caters to the desire to play dolly, something, amusingly, that can be observed in quite a lot of adults.
That's why there's a fortune to be made by the first person to market the Burp-Your-iPod accessory. Just squeeze, and....ah, music to your ears!
Hey, stop it! Halloween's over.
Thwarting such monstrous danger to our endless personal consumption is why we turn so avidly to religion ("There will be poor always"), politicians ("It's yer munny! It's yer munny!") and TV pundits ("Sorry, not my problem!").
If the names Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing and Morgan Stanley don't mean anything to you, get over to Wikipedia and learn about self-regulation in action.
Of course, if you live in California and have ever paid an energy bill, then you know a little something already about allowing capitalists to govern themselves.
As for the ESRB: who could possibly take it seriously? It's just a PR front to hold off those who get queasy over the idea of children playing mass murder simulators. Stuffy types, bug off--American kids love mass murder.
Izzat a double entendre in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Leave it to Wired's slavishness to transform the prospect of charity for the rich into a contest to top the iPod. Admittedly it's a great Tom Sawyer ploy, though--"Here, kids, write your own interface and we'll sell it back to you!"--and there might just be saps who will fall for it.
This is not to excuse Apple, however. I agree its gouging behavior stinks.
Are you going to answer another rhetorical question? Yes, you are. Will it be as inane as the last? You bet. Do I hope you and your carload of TV-addicted children never run off the road? Just barely.
By contrast, on a site like Maxboxing, going ten rounds with its ridiculous Flash layout is out of the question. A few lines in a CSS style sheet in Opera takes care of that. I modified the very good adblocker.css found here: http://members.chello.nl/b.kroonspecker/opera/
When visiting corporate media sites, I block all the ads. Not merely to reduce annoyance; out of principle, in fact. While it's important to keep tabs on corporate news, reading one set of lies is quite enough, thank you.
As for TV ads...heh, come on. HBO only features house ads.
Heh. That outburst sounds like it's straight out of A Christmas Carol. Guess which character?
Depressing wages, destroying local business, weaseling tax incentives out of local government, and then funneling political contributions to the Bush GOP machine, boxes like Wal-Mart and Best Buy represent capitalism at its most deranged.
If Americans want to reverse the decline of their quality of life, they will wean themselves from these corporate pigsties.
And they had best hurry. As our middle class jobs are exported, the boxes are already our largest employers. Not a very bright future for the nation in that.