If you're just buying a box to "play with OS X" on, then pick up a B&W 350 on e-bay for $300. Then you can upgrade your processor/Monitor to your heart's content.
Works for me. I think the Iraqi people would probably like that arrangement, too. More money in their pockets for them to spend, now that they don't have to worry about Ba'ath rape squads trolling their cities.
Yeah, enjoy it, because environmentalists will kill EVERY attempt from now on out to build the dams you need to harness hydro.
Everyone worships at the altar of solar. Until, of course, the environmentalists shut it down because you have to pave over a bunch of wilderness containing an endangered cricket to make it work.
Then everyone will worship at the altar of wind power until the environmentalists shut it down to protect the birds from getting chewed up flying into miles and miles of towering windmills.
Then everyone will worship at the altar of wave power until the environmentalists shut it down...
Are you getting it yet? The agenda isn't about finding clean energy that is safe for the environment, the agenda is about running your life.
Don't hold your breath. There's evidence that oil is made a lot faster than people used to think. This may turn out to be a practical renewable resource. The capped oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico are already starting to fill back up.
Language is defined by its usage in a population. Hackers are people who break into computer systems illegally. Society has defined the term through their usage of it. Get over it and make up some other name for yourself
This is yet another example of our society moving from a common law system to a civil law system. Good for the lawyers (who make a lot of money) and the government (who can club you with it), bad for your average Joe (robbed by the lawyers, threatened and intimidated by the government).
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All this program does is take an existing gene pool, introduce random mutation, and stress it.
This has only been going on for, let me see, since mankind first bred cows to increase their milk production?
Here's what this and all genetic algrorithms do NOT address:
Getting the genetic code initially from a bunch of extremely unstable chemicals that do NOT want to combine naturally.
Louis Pasteur demonstrated a couple of centuries ago that spontaneous generation was junk science. Maybe someday evolutionists will finally take a look at his work.
That's OK. Some day you'll realize you aren't half as smart as you think you are, and don't have a tenth of the world figured out the way you think you do.
Well, that of course assumes your ego gets out of the way, so maybe I'm exercising a little too much blind faith here as well.
Yes. Ergonomic studies show that a one-button mouse is easier to use than a two-button mouse.
It takes a small, but significant amount of time for the brain to process which finger to move to press a corresponding button.
Two+ button wielding mice jockeys, will, of course, spout on eternal about the increased efficiency of two+ button mice, and they will be correct for a limited set of scenarios (just like the CLI guys are right for specific cases). However, for general use, one-button mice are faster (do some stopwatch tests) and less error-prone than their two+ button counterparts.
Apple is all about ease of use, and that's why they continue to stick with one-button mice with their stock systems and will likely do so for the forseeable future.
PACs are a legitimate means of putting pressure on politicians on behalf of the people the PAC represents. Instead of whining and being a bunch of anarchists, form a PAC and get your own views represented by lobbyists as well. Well, at least until Campaign Finance shuts down this form of political expression too.
That is one of the most asinine comments I have ever heard. Only a total fool would compare a militant, brutal dictatorial tyranny like communism with a free, representative government.
It's a PITA because you've been conditioned by MS to think and act on the machine's terms instead of thinking naturally.
The natural thing, of course, to open a program is to go get it on the hard drive.
Double-click My computer, double click Applications, double-click Text Edit.
However, because of MS's asinine implementation of programs in their OS, they have to throw shortcuts into a nightmare menu system called the Start Menu and send users there.
I am still absolutely amazed at how PC users will blithely list all the self-castration they have to do to their system's functionality to protect themselves from virii as they proclaim how usable their system is.
And they say Mac users live in a reality distortion field.
GIMP breaks a bunch of interface rules. Here are some of them:
Primary functionality ONLY accessible through right-click pop-up menus instead of a program menu bar. This means users must right-click on an image, bringing up a menu which hides portions of the image from view to select commands that will affect the, now unviewable, image.
There is no global program menu, but rather a menu bar, which, while positioned as a global menu bar, is treated as simply another tool by the program. It can be closed, in which case, there is no intuitive way for the user to access menu commands, or even see that there is a menu of potential commands.
These are just the most glaring examples of absolutely crappy interface design pulled from the top of my head. If I were to sit down in front of GIMP again, I'd come up with a dozen more in about fifteen minutes.
What cheap components would that be that Apple doesn't use right now? The only proprietary thing in an Apple computer is the motherboard. Interestingly, the only proprietary thing in a Dell computer is the motherboard.
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If you're just buying a box to "play with OS X" on, then pick up a B&W 350 on e-bay for $300. Then you can upgrade your processor/Monitor to your heart's content.
Works for me. I think the Iraqi people would probably like that arrangement, too. More money in their pockets for them to spend, now that they don't have to worry about Ba'ath rape squads trolling their cities.
It's a matter of scale. Power needs back then were trivial. You want to power London off the Thames today, and you'd have to dam the river.
Yeah, enjoy it, because environmentalists will kill EVERY attempt from now on out to build the dams you need to harness hydro.
Everyone worships at the altar of solar. Until, of course, the environmentalists shut it down because you have to pave over a bunch of wilderness containing an endangered cricket to make it work.
Then everyone will worship at the altar of wind power until the environmentalists shut it down to protect the birds from getting chewed up flying into miles and miles of towering windmills.
Then everyone will worship at the altar of wave power until the environmentalists shut it down...
Are you getting it yet? The agenda isn't about finding clean energy that is safe for the environment, the agenda is about running your life.
Don't hold your breath. There's evidence that oil is made a lot faster than people used to think. This may turn out to be a practical renewable resource. The capped oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico are already starting to fill back up.
Come on, we all know the majority of slash-dotters are elitist snots, which is the prime requisite for being a good little socialist or fascist.
I always get a good laugh when someone in lockstep accuses someone else of not being a free thinker because they aren't marching to HIS drum.
Language is defined by its usage in a population. Hackers are people who break into computer systems illegally. Society has defined the term through their usage of it. Get over it and make up some other name for yourself
This is yet another example of our society moving from a common law system to a civil law system. Good for the lawyers (who make a lot of money) and the government (who can club you with it), bad for your average Joe (robbed by the lawyers, threatened and intimidated by the government).
All this program does is take an existing gene pool, introduce random mutation, and stress it.
This has only been going on for, let me see, since mankind first bred cows to increase their milk production?
Here's what this and all genetic algrorithms do NOT address:
Getting the genetic code initially from a bunch of extremely unstable chemicals that do NOT want to combine naturally.
Louis Pasteur demonstrated a couple of centuries ago that spontaneous generation was junk science. Maybe someday evolutionists will finally take a look at his work.
AAC is not a proprietary format. It's the audio component of the MPEG-4 standard.
This has been answered a thousand times before. Apple's software is bundled. Microsoft's is integrated.
That's OK. Some day you'll realize you aren't half as smart as you think you are, and don't have a tenth of the world figured out the way you think you do.
Well, that of course assumes your ego gets out of the way, so maybe I'm exercising a little too much blind faith here as well.
Yes. Ergonomic studies show that a one-button mouse is easier to use than a two-button mouse.
It takes a small, but significant amount of time for the brain to process which finger to move to press a corresponding button.
Two+ button wielding mice jockeys, will, of course, spout on eternal about the increased efficiency of two+ button mice, and they will be correct for a limited set of scenarios (just like the CLI guys are right for specific cases). However, for general use, one-button mice are faster (do some stopwatch tests) and less error-prone than their two+ button counterparts.
Apple is all about ease of use, and that's why they continue to stick with one-button mice with their stock systems and will likely do so for the forseeable future.
PACs are a legitimate means of putting pressure on politicians on behalf of the people the PAC represents. Instead of whining and being a bunch of anarchists, form a PAC and get your own views represented by lobbyists as well. Well, at least until Campaign Finance shuts down this form of political expression too.
And the iPod will still stay the top MP3 player until the competitors get it:
ONE-HANDED OPERATION!
the iPod is the only portable MP3 player, STILL, that allows for practical one-handed operation.
That is one of the most asinine comments I have ever heard. Only a total fool would compare a militant, brutal dictatorial tyranny like communism with a free, representative government.
But, then again, this is slashdot
You mean kinda like hiring former hackers and crackers to write software security code?
It's a PITA because you've been conditioned by MS to think and act on the machine's terms instead of thinking naturally.
The natural thing, of course, to open a program is to go get it on the hard drive.
Double-click My computer, double click Applications, double-click Text Edit.
However, because of MS's asinine implementation of programs in their OS, they have to throw shortcuts into a nightmare menu system called the Start Menu and send users there.
I am still absolutely amazed at how PC users will blithely list all the self-castration they have to do to their system's functionality to protect themselves from virii as they proclaim how usable their system is.
And they say Mac users live in a reality distortion field.
GIMP breaks a bunch of interface rules. Here are some of them:
Primary functionality ONLY accessible through right-click pop-up menus instead of a program menu bar. This means users must right-click on an image, bringing up a menu which hides portions of the image from view to select commands that will affect the, now unviewable, image.
There is no global program menu, but rather a menu bar, which, while positioned as a global menu bar, is treated as simply another tool by the program. It can be closed, in which case, there is no intuitive way for the user to access menu commands, or even see that there is a menu of potential commands.
These are just the most glaring examples of absolutely crappy interface design pulled from the top of my head. If I were to sit down in front of GIMP again, I'd come up with a dozen more in about fifteen minutes.
What cheap components would that be that Apple doesn't use right now? The only proprietary thing in an Apple computer is the motherboard. Interestingly, the only proprietary thing in a Dell computer is the motherboard.
You actually boot your OS X box? I haven't rebooted in weeks, so that's a complete non-issue. Wake from sleep takes about three seconds.
Minor number revision equals 10.2.x
Major product upgrade equal 10.x
It's not that hard to figure out.
Just like the X in OS X is a play on words. Roman numeral 10 for version 10, and X for uniX. Sheesh, my 10-year old boy got it.
Um, you've been Redmond-conditioned. Apple doesn't provide security fixes for 10.1, because there aren't any known security holes in 10.1
The latest security fix requires 10.2.4 because that's the version that has the security hole.