Do you want to explain (with some cites) your "non-violent direct violence" quote, and why you think they are attempting to go about "dismantling capitalism", rather than just opposing free market capitalism (the only mention of the word capitalism on their site).
I'm not saying your necessarily wrong, but it would be useful for you to give some more background about what you are talking about here.
Ummm, this is the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ... are you confused with some US organisation called the greens?
The Greens are a political party with policies on all areas of governance in NZ. They were in the last New Zealand government coalition (although they missed out this time, they still have members in parliment).
They are a left wing, environmentally focused (but not single issue) party.
The thing holding up iTunes rolling out in each country is not Apple's presence in that country, but the existence of independent music publishing groups in each country.
This means that Apple has to reach agreements with the groups in each and every country before they can roll out the iTunes store in each of those country.
While NZ and Australia share the same song rights group (APRA - The Australasian Performing Right Association), this is different to publishing rights which is governed by other groups.
I carry mine in a sleeve in bags (satchel, backpack, or just holding on to it) every day. It bounces around on my back as I walk, for at least 60 minutes a day.
No damage, no signs of problems - and I don't even bother to turn it off - just shut the screen and let it hibernate.
But if you don't like the white, that's your call.
I think the grandparent post was overly harsh to you personally - but anyway...
Part of the issue is that America is ahead of other nations in terms of development.
America has historically been a huge polluter, and reaped the benefits of the complete lack of anything like a Kyoto treaty in the past.
Now the world is trying to introduce a co-operative response to the serious world pollution issue which takes into account the historical and future position of various counties.
Oh you mean how it works in many other countries in the world?
This is why Rumsfeld standing up pontificating about how America is a symbol of democracy to the rest of the world is such a joke.... except we don't know whether to laugh or cry.
You are right in that 11 users is not going to give you statistically sound results about how usable a system is, or how it compares to other systems.
However, research in the discount usability / guerrilla HCI area has shown that you do not need many user observations to find the majority of serious usability issues - which is the name of the game here.
After five or so users you tend to see the same usability issues cropping up again and again. From a pragmatic point of view, usability professionals are trying to find the most usability problems at a cost effective price.
Claiming that the results are not meaningful and "mostly useless" really is missing the point.
For more info check out this link or Nielsen's analysis (1 and 2) for more info.
Who would define user friendly as "works and keeps away trojans"?
Apart from you that is?:-D
How about you define "user friendly" as anything you want just to show that Linux is it?
The MS windows problem is that users often do not know about trojans and how to spot them. Linux just makes it harder to run things accidentally. That doesn't help if a user WANTS to open a trojan. The user friendly part would be helping users understand about trojans and the associated risks in a seamless manner.
By the way, I think you could define Linux as "user friendly" in many more reasonable ways - such as showing how it enables powerful actions to powerful users - things that might be very hard to do in MS Windows systems.
The whole frame of the mouse moves as you click, just like the old Apple mouse, giving you a very clear idea of when you have clicked.
The touch pads on top are just to determine what kind of click it was - probably only performing a "right-click" if you had only the right part touched, and a normal/main click otherwise.
The parent post is a great illustration of how this sort of feature can complement Expose.
The advantage of a "folding" metaphor is that it allows the user to take advantage of their spacial memory to help them find windows. Expose breaks this and is only useful if the windows are very visually distinct.
Alternatively, window cycling (Windows: Alt-tab Mac: Apple-~) retains window x,y positions but rearranges the stacking order of windows as they cycle through making it hard for users to remember the stacking order of their windows.
WIth a folding (or other similar) system the user can dig down straight to the location (x,y and window stack depth) where they left a window.
Of course expose and keyboard shortcuts are excellent complementary features to this.
I'm not sure where you got that idea from - have you used bluetooth on OS X? it doesn't use an account model for authentication, but instead uses an acceptance model - but that was broken pre-patch.
"I don't care how many remote root vulnerabilities there are if the services that have said vulnerabilities are never even enabled. "
Did you read the vulnerabilities fixed in this patch? There is a (potential) bluetooth vulnerability (on by default!) that allows remote users to view the contents of your hard drive, and maybe even upload files to anywhere on your hard drive.
Read below:
Bluetooth
Impact: Bluetooth-enabled systems may allow file exchange without prompting users
Description: The Bluetooth file exchange service is enabled by default on systems with Bluetooth capability.
Bluetooth
Impact: Directory traversal via Bluetooth file and object exchange
Description: Due to insufficient input checking, the Bluetooth file and object exchange services could be used to access files outside of the default file exchange directory.
The cleanest way to do it would probably to change X.org to support loadable driver modules.
That way you could switch the video driver in and out without shutting down X. The X server could hold drawing until the driver had been reloaded.
But like everyone here is saying it isn't really that important in the scheme of things, how often do you update your video driver? Better to work on a more useable config system, drivers, eyecandy and performance etc.
CVS and Subversion are centralised in that there is a central repository.
Systems such as ARCH allow a virtual repository that is fragmented across multiple servers - some of which might be official, and some might not.
This lets you branch from a project, but still remain in sync with it, and more importantly do so without permission or help from the official repository.
I myself have found that by really learning how to manage windows the "apple way" I don't really feel the need to use virtual desktops much (I used to use DesktopManager).
For me, this means using Hide (Command-H), Swich app (Alt-Tab), Focus on window (active) or next window (a custom key binding like Alt-Tab), and Expose.
But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for virtual desktops.
One thing that expose relies on is that the conceptual groupings of "All app windows" and "All of this apps windows" are all you need. The problem is if you have a large number of similar looking windows from different applications it can be difficult to manage even with Expose.
Virtual desktops can give you custom Expose groups - which can narrow the search for a particular window. This can be useful if you are working on several complex tasks that use multiple windows from multiple apps (each task can get its own desktop), and also have a bunch of side apps - like your calendar, email, instant messenger etc.
So Expose solves the window management problem to an extent, but it can be combined with virtual desktops when things become even more complex.
Firstly, all of the content from all of the files have been pre-indexed which should make this FAST.
Don't under value this. The "search results come up as you type" does not happen in Panther as you claim. It is actually "search results come up as you type and the brute force searching actually runs in to the file."
So the reality is that traditional OS search tools aren't really useful except for finding files that you have lost. In general it is quicker to look for files manually as you are smarter about where a particular file might be saved.
However, if the search tool (spotlight or whatever) has indexed all of your files then it can give you results "as you type" quicker than you could navigate your directory structure.
So yeah, this isn't going to change the world, but it is new (new as in built into a mainstream popular OS) and will be much more useful than the traditional find systems.
(Note also in answer to your question, Spotlight does provide a plugin architecture to add your own search modules - see the spotlight developer resources).
3. I would never touch the command line and pppd on OSX for a feature that it should have been there in the first place in the pref panels.
That seems pretty weird to me. Isn't that half the beauty of OS X? You can use the standard UNIX command-line tools to customise the system in ways the apple designers didn't envision? Otherwise you may as well run XP.
The best way to bypass the "recording industry" in your business model is to focus on profits from live gigs, and use recording and distribution (via internet etc.) for promotion.
I don't think this is the answer you're looking for, but unless you REALLY make the big time there isn't much profit in selling recordings (internet, CD or otherwise) - even most famous bands make most of their personal profits though touring.
The other thing about live gigs is you can quickly find out if your music is actually any good by your ability to draw and grow an audience. If you don't have people asking to get on your mailing list, or don't start to get people you have no connection with bringing their friends along then you probably need to work on your material / performance.
If anyone has different experiences I'd like to hear them.
This is far more scary then ActiveX as Safari will not prompt you to run an applet, it will just run it and then your os x account is compromised. ActiveX on the other hand prompts you before it is run.
This means that someone who knows what they are doing is at more risk on OS X then on Windows.
I'm not claiming that OS X is less secure (I'm running it right now), but this is scary (relatively).
Sure the Theremin from the early 1920's (1919 on) was influential, but it was not the birth of electronic music. Electronic music was around long before the vacuum tube and radio electronics (which were the technologies of the Theremin era).
In some senses, the real birth of electronic music could be seen as Thomas Edison's invention of the "talking tinfoil device" in 1877 which he called the phonograph.
If you are talking synthesis for music instruments you could cite Elisha Grey's "musical telegraph" created in 1887. It had a one octave keyboard and was designed to play music directly to peoples homes over the telegraph lines. That is over 30 years before the Theremin, and 60 years before "the Barrons" (RTFA) recieved their first tape recorder!
I'm sure the Barrons were influential, especially if they were working with Cage, but this wasn't the birth of electronic music. Maybe "the birth of sampling" would have been more appropriate.
Read "Electronic and Experimental Music" (Thomas B. Holmes) if you want more information.
DO have a section of the curriculum on the philosophy of science and Epistemology.
DON'T have a sticker on the front of the text book singling out evolution.
The "Evolution Theory" is as good as the theory of electricity.
There are two main "theories" bundled together here. Firstly, the theory which explains how orchardists have cultivated redder or tastier apples, and breeders have created dogs with crazy amounts of skin. We can also observe this process happening every day around us with the "evolution" of new strains of viruses and bacteria.
The second part bundled in to what we call evolution is the theory that: we all got here today through the process of the first theory (evolution). This is the part that is hard to prove since none off us were around to observe it. However, the first theory (evolution) explains virtually every aspect of the origin of what we find in the biological world, while the bible is in direct contradiction with most of it. This should be enough for anyone who isn't a nut-bar to decide which theory to teach in schools.
We don't teach the theory that electricity is created by invisible fairies.
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I'm not saying your necessarily wrong, but it would be useful for you to give some more background about what you are talking about here.
The Greens are a political party with policies on all areas of governance in NZ. They were in the last New Zealand government coalition (although they missed out this time, they still have members in parliment).
They are a left wing, environmentally focused (but not single issue) party.
This means that Apple has to reach agreements with the groups in each and every country before they can roll out the iTunes store in each of those country.
While NZ and Australia share the same song rights group (APRA - The Australasian Performing Right Association), this is different to publishing rights which is governed by other groups.
I think you're trolling, but what they hey...
What do you mean road test?
I carry mine in a sleeve in bags (satchel, backpack, or just holding on to it) every day. It bounces around on my back as I walk, for at least 60 minutes a day.
No damage, no signs of problems - and I don't even bother to turn it off - just shut the screen and let it hibernate.
But if you don't like the white, that's your call.
Part of the issue is that America is ahead of other nations in terms of development.
America has historically been a huge polluter, and reaped the benefits of the complete lack of anything like a Kyoto treaty in the past.
Now the world is trying to introduce a co-operative response to the serious world pollution issue which takes into account the historical and future position of various counties.
This is why Rumsfeld standing up pontificating about how America is a symbol of democracy to the rest of the world is such a joke.... except we don't know whether to laugh or cry.
You are right in that 11 users is not going to give you statistically sound results about how usable a system is, or how it compares to other systems.
However, research in the discount usability / guerrilla HCI area has shown that you do not need many user observations to find the majority of serious usability issues - which is the name of the game here.
After five or so users you tend to see the same usability issues cropping up again and again. From a pragmatic point of view, usability professionals are trying to find the most usability problems at a cost effective price.
Claiming that the results are not meaningful and "mostly useless" really is missing the point.
For more info check out this link or Nielsen's analysis (1 and 2) for more info.
Apart from you that is? :-D
How about you define "user friendly" as anything you want just to show that Linux is it?
The MS windows problem is that users often do not know about trojans and how to spot them. Linux just makes it harder to run things accidentally. That doesn't help if a user WANTS to open a trojan. The user friendly part would be helping users understand about trojans and the associated risks in a seamless manner.
By the way, I think you could define Linux as "user friendly" in many more reasonable ways - such as showing how it enables powerful actions to powerful users - things that might be very hard to do in MS Windows systems.
The whole frame of the mouse moves as you click, just like the old Apple mouse, giving you a very clear idea of when you have clicked.
The touch pads on top are just to determine what kind of click it was - probably only performing a "right-click" if you had only the right part touched, and a normal/main click otherwise.
The parent post is a great illustration of how this sort of feature can complement Expose. The advantage of a "folding" metaphor is that it allows the user to take advantage of their spacial memory to help them find windows. Expose breaks this and is only useful if the windows are very visually distinct. Alternatively, window cycling (Windows: Alt-tab Mac: Apple-~) retains window x,y positions but rearranges the stacking order of windows as they cycle through making it hard for users to remember the stacking order of their windows. WIth a folding (or other similar) system the user can dig down straight to the location (x,y and window stack depth) where they left a window. Of course expose and keyboard shortcuts are excellent complementary features to this.
The smaller figures were the differences, not the original speeds!
PPC: 2000MHz -> 2700MHz = 35% increase
x86: 3000HHz -> 3800MHz = 26.67% increase
Sure, there's no problem with the kit that Apple ships, but what about all the 3rd party peripherals?
Things like external audio interfaces wont "just work"
I'm not sure where you got that idea from - have you used bluetooth on OS X? it doesn't use an account model for authentication, but instead uses an acceptance model - but that was broken pre-patch.
Did you read the vulnerabilities fixed in this patch? There is a (potential) bluetooth vulnerability (on by default!) that allows remote users to view the contents of your hard drive, and maybe even upload files to anywhere on your hard drive.
Read below:
Bluetooth
Impact: Bluetooth-enabled systems may allow file exchange without prompting users Description: The Bluetooth file exchange service is enabled by default on systems with Bluetooth capability.
Bluetooth
Impact: Directory traversal via Bluetooth file and object exchange Description: Due to insufficient input checking, the Bluetooth file and object exchange services could be used to access files outside of the default file exchange directory.
from here
The cleanest way to do it would probably to change X.org to support loadable driver modules.
That way you could switch the video driver in and out without shutting down X. The X server could hold drawing until the driver had been reloaded.
But like everyone here is saying it isn't really that important in the scheme of things, how often do you update your video driver? Better to work on a more useable config system, drivers, eyecandy and performance etc.
CVS and Subversion are centralised in that there is a central repository.
Systems such as ARCH allow a virtual repository that is fragmented across multiple servers - some of which might be official, and some might not.
This lets you branch from a project, but still remain in sync with it, and more importantly do so without permission or help from the official repository.
There is a lot more to it too.
It replaces cron too
The article summary wasn't incorrect, it was just incomplete
I myself have found that by really learning how to manage windows the "apple way" I don't really feel the need to use virtual desktops much (I used to use DesktopManager).
For me, this means using Hide (Command-H), Swich app (Alt-Tab), Focus on window (active) or next window (a custom key binding like Alt-Tab), and Expose.
But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for virtual desktops.
One thing that expose relies on is that the conceptual groupings of "All app windows" and "All of this apps windows" are all you need. The problem is if you have a large number of similar looking windows from different applications it can be difficult to manage even with Expose.
Virtual desktops can give you custom Expose groups - which can narrow the search for a particular window. This can be useful if you are working on several complex tasks that use multiple windows from multiple apps (each task can get its own desktop), and also have a bunch of side apps - like your calendar, email, instant messenger etc.
So Expose solves the window management problem to an extent, but it can be combined with virtual desktops when things become even more complex.
Firstly, all of the content from all of the files have been pre-indexed which should make this FAST.
Don't under value this. The "search results come up as you type" does not happen in Panther as you claim. It is actually "search results come up as you type and the brute force searching actually runs in to the file."
So the reality is that traditional OS search tools aren't really useful except for finding files that you have lost. In general it is quicker to look for files manually as you are smarter about where a particular file might be saved.
However, if the search tool (spotlight or whatever) has indexed all of your files then it can give you results "as you type" quicker than you could navigate your directory structure.
So yeah, this isn't going to change the world, but it is new (new as in built into a mainstream popular OS) and will be much more useful than the traditional find systems.
(Note also in answer to your question, Spotlight does provide a plugin architecture to add your own search modules - see the spotlight developer resources).
That seems pretty weird to me. Isn't that half the beauty of OS X? You can use the standard UNIX command-line tools to customise the system in ways the apple designers didn't envision? Otherwise you may as well run XP.
The best way to bypass the "recording industry" in your business model is to focus on profits from live gigs, and use recording and distribution (via internet etc.) for promotion.
I don't think this is the answer you're looking for, but unless you REALLY make the big time there isn't much profit in selling recordings (internet, CD or otherwise) - even most famous bands make most of their personal profits though touring.
The other thing about live gigs is you can quickly find out if your music is actually any good by your ability to draw and grow an audience. If you don't have people asking to get on your mailing list, or don't start to get people you have no connection with bringing their friends along then you probably need to work on your material / performance.
If anyone has different experiences I'd like to hear them.
This is far more scary then ActiveX as Safari will not prompt you to run an applet, it will just run it and then your os x account is compromised. ActiveX on the other hand prompts you before it is run.
This means that someone who knows what they are doing is at more risk on OS X then on Windows.
I'm not claiming that OS X is less secure (I'm running it right now), but this is scary (relatively).
Just miss-type a URL and your compromised.
The sibling posts are a bit confused.
Sure the Theremin from the early 1920's (1919 on) was influential, but it was not the birth of electronic music. Electronic music was around long before the vacuum tube and radio electronics (which were the technologies of the Theremin era).
In some senses, the real birth of electronic music could be seen as Thomas Edison's invention of the "talking tinfoil device" in 1877 which he called the phonograph.
If you are talking synthesis for music instruments you could cite Elisha Grey's "musical telegraph" created in 1887. It had a one octave keyboard and was designed to play music directly to peoples homes over the telegraph lines. That is over 30 years before the Theremin, and 60 years before "the Barrons" (RTFA) recieved their first tape recorder!
I'm sure the Barrons were influential, especially if they were working with Cage, but this wasn't the birth of electronic music. Maybe "the birth of sampling" would have been more appropriate.
Read "Electronic and Experimental Music" (Thomas B. Holmes) if you want more information.
From the author
DON'T have a sticker on the front of the text book singling out evolution.
The "Evolution Theory" is as good as the theory of electricity.
There are two main "theories" bundled together here. Firstly, the theory which explains how orchardists have cultivated redder or tastier apples, and breeders have created dogs with crazy amounts of skin. We can also observe this process happening every day around us with the "evolution" of new strains of viruses and bacteria.
The second part bundled in to what we call evolution is the theory that: we all got here today through the process of the first theory (evolution). This is the part that is hard to prove since none off us were around to observe it. However, the first theory (evolution) explains virtually every aspect of the origin of what we find in the biological world, while the bible is in direct contradiction with most of it. This should be enough for anyone who isn't a nut-bar to decide which theory to teach in schools.
We don't teach the theory that electricity is created by invisible fairies.