There's a reason "team KDE" is taking some lumps despite the fact that yes, the text says that he's angry about people who accuse his team of being lazy, etc because Safari code is not instantly merged into KDE.
Its because the tone of his comments make it clear that he's plenty pissed at Apple. The tone is one of "So there!" Which is why so many people have percieved this as a slap against Apple, and not ignorant end users.
Had he said something more neutral in tone like, "The roots of the problem lie in the fact Safari is now forked in a different direction than KHTML, Apple's inhouse code isn't the cleanest, their commenting isn't detailed, several features rely on things specific to OS X, and they drop us massive 'code bombs'. This means that it takes time to pick through the code and see what works with KHTML. They zigged, we zagged, and don't assume we're working closely because we're not in eachother's backpockets." we probably would not have this kerfluffle at all.
"Pobody's Nurfect" and all, but when you've got a spotlight on you as a project heavy, you've got to watch tone and content of posts.
From 12pm to 3pm Alternate Reality Comics (4800 S. Maryland Parkway) is not only giving out free (as in beer) comics, but creators Bill Willingham (Elementals, Fables, Robin) and Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) will be on hand to sign books and do sketches.
Disclosure: The owner of Alternate Reality is my husband
Hey, I've got an Eye TV too, and I may well buy another one.
Don't get me wrong, I fully intend to write my senator (Harry Reid) and tell him why I think Broadcast Flagging is wrong, and the impact it would have on me personally, not to mention the library I work in, but...... I know that congress is bought and paid for by the MPAA and the RIAA and eventually, Broadcast Flagging will begin.
I may buy yet another just to stock up for that rainy day. And if, by some miracle it doesn't happen, well, better to have a spare video capture widget than the alternative.
They started making costumes and wearing pointy ears. They wrote messages in Klingon, they wrote their own stories about the characters, filling in what was left out including, in one truly specialized subgenre, the "Kirk-Spock" stories in which their relationship was not as platonic and emotionless as the TV show depicted it.
Yo, any of you hypheners out there want to point this slasher to the goods?
IIRC you can buy a premiere type membership and get downloads of software before the average schmeddly.
But Terrasoft's huge business is in reselling Apple hardware. For example they've sold hardware and software to Lockeed-Martin and they also sold 260 XServes to the US Navy http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/08/07.8.sh tml
And nowhere in this indymedia article does it even imply that no warrant was shown. They specifically said that they have not been told anything by Rackspace, whom the subpoena was issued to.
Dood, what do you think a subpoena is?!!
A subpoena is a written court order requiring the attendance of the person named in the subpoena at a specified time and place for the purpose of being questioned under oath concerning a particular matter which is the subject of an investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. A subpoena is issued by someone authorized by law, usually by the attorney for a party to a lawsuit, but very often issued by someone authorized to conduct an investigation such as the State Attorney General or local District Attorney.
In addition to requiring the attendance of a person, a subpoena may also require the production of a paper, document, or other object relevant to the particular investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit.
That, or you don't have a CC, a Pay Pal account, a debit card, no direct deposit (or possibly even a bank account), and have never done an an online or electronic financial transaction of any kind.
I work in an academic library that's also a federal depository. I've had to deal first hand with the implications of this POS raping of our rights
I also live in a city where provisions of this act were (mis)used not to go after terrorists, but after "garden variety" criminals.
In making purchases off of the internet or at a store, I had to pick and choose what I wanted to buy with a CC. Afterall, in the hands of an overzealous prosecutor with an axe to grind, my purchase of the book/film for Lolita and The Tin Drum could be turned into "evidence" of my pedophilla or some other such rot. "Would it play well in Peoria" became my yardstick for all CC purchases. No really. I deal with a government that would inflict such craplaw as the Patriot Act on us with extreme paranoia.
(But, one part of me has a tiny twinge of sorrow at watching this act of justice delayed. It's mightily hard to be fiscally irresponsible when you've switched to a "cash diet" to make all your major purchases. It's going to be a little harder for me to be "good" now.)
The problem is that there is a 200+ dollar price difference between an LCD computer monitor and an LCD TV at the same size. This is ridiculous since the only real difference may be the addition of cheap speakers and a TV tuner.
Bingo!
I have a lovely Formac 17" LCD for my PowerMac tower (bought back when it was in the $900 range.) I can get a 20" LCD from them for $1200, and a 17" is about $650.
I have a small TV in my office room and was thinking about replacing it with a 17 or 20 inch LCD TV. I strolled into the local Frys expecting to see the 20" LCDs costing within $50 of a LDC monitor of the same size. Well, imagine my state of flabbergasted shock when I saw that they were at least $800more than a monitor.
I said screw you Sony, Zenith, Panasonic, etc and shelled out another $300 to buy a tv tuner/video capture widget.
Actually, I ought to thank those greedy price gouging bastards. I had $1300 budgeted to buy a an LCD TV. I've thrown the remaining $1000 into savings, and buy the time that Tiger comes out I'll have the CASH to buy a top end dual G5. I couldn't have done it without them.
I don't want to go get an MLIS (Master of Library Information Science). (I work in an academic library.)
Moreover, while everybody keeps talking that I could make more in the public sector (and this will be especially true after I get an MS in MIS) I'm damn glad that I'm a state employee with an hourly wage job described by law, and which can only be reclassifed according to a procedure outlined by law.
And since our Dean just decided we'll be open on 3 state hollidays, I'm making time and a half on those days, while all of my tenure track professional salaried colleagues don't make a cent extra.
It's time for private sector IT people to union up. (I mean, I personally view one of the perks of my job as being the damn near iron-clad descriptions of what I can and cannot do and what I must be paid. Because of these rules, I [and thousands of others] am safe, not sorry.) a Union will do the same for IT staffers and pros.
Lemmie give you an idea of how much faster Panther is than Jaguar.
Before installing it on my main work machines (DP867/1.25gig ram & iBook 600/640mb ram) I threw Panther on my 1999 iMac 350/320mb to see what changes had been made, and to see how *slow* it would be.
Window resizes are *faster* than the iBook as is overall UI response.
That old iMac boots 10.3 in the same time that the DP867 boots 10.2.8! It takes the iBook 70 seconds to boot 10.2.8
You stupit frikkn chucklehead. (You've posted this trolling rant one too many damn times for me and what the hell, I'm whipping out the patented Wand Of Sarcasm, setting it on Deep Fry, and letting you have it.)
Show me one damn in production keyboard where the ctrl key is right next to the A key. And I'm not talking about something you can order from obscure keybordz.com, I'm talking about something that ships as a standard piece of equipment.
It isn't on this gateway I'm using. Nor, on my PC at home, nor on my G4 tower, and on my iBook it's actually to the right of the fn key, making it not as far left as on this standard desktop I'm using.
Every freaking keyboard manufacturer on the planet is ignoring UNIX heads like you.
If you don't like the fact that you cannot remap a laptop's keyboard to suit your needs, or the fact that apple has not chosen to make a laptop with a keyboard you can remap as you want, then DON'T BUY A FRIGGING APPLE! (Which was really easy for me to type since all I had to do was click on caps lock.)
Whew! I feel better now.
Disney bought the distro rights to Studio Ghibli's back catalog to bury it. Look at the advertising budgets for Spirited Away vs. the ohmy god bad Treasure Planet. Think of the marketing Mononoke got. And Disney hasn't done jack to promote the backcatalog they landed. Disney bought the stuff to "prove" that there isn't a market for Anime.
(I have friends who worked in the animation industry for Nickelodeon, Disney, and Fox. They've told me where the bodies are buried.)
As for Anime, I'm a staff writer at Sequential Tart,and we have a section devoted to Manga and Anime. I reccomend:
Grave of the the Fireflies
Record of Lodoss War
His and Her Circumstances
Helsing
I watched the first disk of Cowboy Bebop, and frankly, I couldn't stand it. Kitsch and deus ex machnia endings and "goofy" unfunny comic relief characters are EXACTLY what I f'n HATE. My husband says it gets better, so I may give it another try.
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Opera 6 is my browser of choice for OS X. Don't bother with 5. SLOW.
I refuse to use IE on ANY platform.
The last time I downloaded Netscape (6 months ago) freaking CLASSIC ENVIRONMENT launched, so I hozed it off my drive. If they can't bother to carbonize it, I can't bother to use it.
iCab doesn't do CSS. (The site I write for uses CSS. I code a lot of CSS tags, so it's useless to me.)
Omniweb doesn't like CSS , and wonks things up when I post in various forums (like buttons dissapear.)
Despite a few bugs here and there (the world was never conquered in beta) Opera 6b3 is what I have on the G4 at home. It's fast, stable, and very customizable.
http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum119/HTML/000640.html
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And regarding any SW-ST... The Empire and the Federation wipe each other out, and John Sheridan sits back and smiles about how well his plan worked. Chalk up another victory for the Army of Light.
My guru and I were having a chat about the RIAA and new technology about 3 months ago. What it boils down to is that the RIAA is going to have to master the art of cat herding if it wants to survive.
Quoth my guru: "And anybody knows you don't herd cats by cracking your whips and releasing the hounds. Any body with a brain knows if you want to herd cats, you fire up the can opener and they come running."
Ladies and Germs, the RIAA -- too stupid to fire up the can opener and now they're mewling and puking about the fact that the cats have run off in all directions and climbed a 1000 different trees.
EEEDIOTS! They're such incredible EEEDIOTS!
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Why would a library want to spend $100k on tech and not books?
Because with a modern information backbone, library staff and patrons can be connected to more information (books, sound, video, government websites) than that $100k will buy.
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There's a reason "team KDE" is taking some lumps despite the fact that yes, the text says that he's angry about people who accuse his team of being lazy, etc because Safari code is not instantly merged into KDE.
Its because the tone of his comments make it clear that he's plenty pissed at Apple. The tone is one of "So there!" Which is why so many people have percieved this as a slap against Apple, and not ignorant end users.
Had he said something more neutral in tone like, "The roots of the problem lie in the fact Safari is now forked in a different direction than KHTML, Apple's inhouse code isn't the cleanest, their commenting isn't detailed, several features rely on things specific to OS X, and they drop us massive 'code bombs'. This means that it takes time to pick through the code and see what works with KHTML. They zigged, we zagged, and don't assume we're working closely because we're not in eachother's backpockets." we probably would not have this kerfluffle at all.
"Pobody's Nurfect" and all, but when you've got a spotlight on you as a project heavy, you've got to watch tone and content of posts.
Word!
Great, so on top of what episodes 1&2 gave us ...
Alas, Love and Rockets is not one of the freebees, but we have the trades (if you can't find your originals).
No purchase necessary to have items signed.
From 12pm to 3pm Alternate Reality Comics (4800 S. Maryland Parkway) is not only giving out free (as in beer) comics, but creators Bill Willingham (Elementals, Fables, Robin) and Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) will be on hand to sign books and do sketches.
Disclosure: The owner of Alternate Reality is my husband
Hey, I've got an Eye TV too, and I may well buy another one. Don't get me wrong, I fully intend to write my senator (Harry Reid) and tell him why I think Broadcast Flagging is wrong, and the impact it would have on me personally, not to mention the library I work in, but ... ... I know that congress is bought and paid for by the MPAA and the RIAA and eventually, Broadcast Flagging will begin.
I may buy yet another just to stock up for that rainy day. And if, by some miracle it doesn't happen, well, better to have a spare video capture widget than the alternative.
Femslash normally doesn't do it for me, but for Faith/Buffy, I make the exeception.
They started making costumes and wearing pointy ears. They wrote messages in Klingon, they wrote their own stories about the characters, filling in what was left out including, in one truly specialized subgenre, the "Kirk-Spock" stories in which their relationship was not as platonic and emotionless as the TV show depicted it.
Yo, any of you hypheners out there want to point this slasher to the goods?
IIRC you can buy a premiere type membership and get downloads of software before the average schmeddly.
But Terrasoft's huge business is in reselling Apple hardware. For example they've sold hardware and software to Lockeed-Martin and they also sold 260 XServes to the US Navy http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/08/07.8.sh tml
branched it off the wrong comment
And nowhere in this indymedia article does it even imply that no warrant was shown. They specifically said that they have not been told anything by Rackspace, whom the subpoena was issued to.
Dood, what do you think a subpoena is?!!
A subpoena is a written court order requiring the attendance of the person named in the subpoena at a specified time and place for the purpose of being questioned under oath concerning a particular matter which is the subject of an investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. A subpoena is issued by someone authorized by law, usually by the attorney for a party to a lawsuit, but very often issued by someone authorized to conduct an investigation such as the State Attorney General or local District Attorney.
In addition to requiring the attendance of a person, a subpoena may also require the production of a paper, document, or other object relevant to the particular investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit.
http://www.tba.org/LawBytes/T9_1807.htmldood, you're joking right?
That, or you don't have a CC, a Pay Pal account, a debit card, no direct deposit (or possibly even a bank account), and have never done an an online or electronic financial transaction of any kind.
Yes, but at least a court order meant there was a 3rd party providing oversight to the actions of law enforcement.
Now, I'm sure there are judges out there who hand out court orders like cracker jack prizes, but, that's not the vast majority of them.
I work in an academic library that's also a federal depository. I've had to deal first hand with the implications of this POS raping of our rights
I also live in a city where provisions of this act were (mis)used not to go after terrorists, but after "garden variety" criminals.
In making purchases off of the internet or at a store, I had to pick and choose what I wanted to buy with a CC. Afterall, in the hands of an overzealous prosecutor with an axe to grind, my purchase of the book/film for Lolita and The Tin Drum could be turned into "evidence" of my pedophilla or some other such rot. "Would it play well in Peoria" became my yardstick for all CC purchases. No really. I deal with a government that would inflict such craplaw as the Patriot Act on us with extreme paranoia.
(But, one part of me has a tiny twinge of sorrow at watching this act of justice delayed. It's mightily hard to be fiscally irresponsible when you've switched to a "cash diet" to make all your major purchases. It's going to be a little harder for me to be "good" now.)
The problem is that there is a 200+ dollar price difference between an LCD computer monitor and an LCD TV at the same size. This is ridiculous since the only real difference may be the addition of cheap speakers and a TV tuner.
Bingo!
I have a lovely Formac 17" LCD for my PowerMac tower (bought back when it was in the $900 range.) I can get a 20" LCD from them for $1200, and a 17" is about $650.
I have a small TV in my office room and was thinking about replacing it with a 17 or 20 inch LCD TV. I strolled into the local Frys expecting to see the 20" LCDs costing within $50 of a LDC monitor of the same size. Well, imagine my state of flabbergasted shock when I saw that they were at least $800more than a monitor.
I said screw you Sony, Zenith, Panasonic, etc and shelled out another $300 to buy a tv tuner/video capture widget.
Actually, I ought to thank those greedy price gouging bastards. I had $1300 budgeted to buy a an LCD TV. I've thrown the remaining $1000 into savings, and buy the time that Tiger comes out I'll have the CASH to buy a top end dual G5. I couldn't have done it without them.
No. Some powerbooks *do* have a PC card slot.
I don't want to go get an MLIS (Master of Library Information Science). (I work in an academic library.)
Moreover, while everybody keeps talking that I could make more in the public sector (and this will be especially true after I get an MS in MIS) I'm damn glad that I'm a state employee with an hourly wage job described by law, and which can only be reclassifed according to a procedure outlined by law.
And since our Dean just decided we'll be open on 3 state hollidays, I'm making time and a half on those days, while all of my tenure track professional salaried colleagues don't make a cent extra.
It's time for private sector IT people to union up. (I mean, I personally view one of the perks of my job as being the damn near iron-clad descriptions of what I can and cannot do and what I must be paid. Because of these rules, I [and thousands of others] am safe, not sorry.) a Union will do the same for IT staffers and pros.
Um... I assume that you are referring to the myth that Macs are more expensive.
Anybody who wants to quote the "Macs are more expensive" line of FUD has never taken a look at the price of Sun or especially SGI hardware.
Hell, SGI doesn't list the prices of things on their page, they tell you to call and ask. That's the computer equvalent of "market price."
Lemmie give you an idea of how much faster Panther is than Jaguar. Before installing it on my main work machines (DP867/1.25gig ram & iBook 600/640mb ram) I threw Panther on my 1999 iMac 350/320mb to see what changes had been made, and to see how *slow* it would be. Window resizes are *faster* than the iBook as is overall UI response. That old iMac boots 10.3 in the same time that the DP867 boots 10.2.8! It takes the iBook 70 seconds to boot 10.2.8
You stupit frikkn chucklehead. (You've posted this trolling rant one too many damn times for me and what the hell, I'm whipping out the patented Wand Of Sarcasm, setting it on Deep Fry, and letting you have it.) Show me one damn in production keyboard where the ctrl key is right next to the A key. And I'm not talking about something you can order from obscure keybordz.com, I'm talking about something that ships as a standard piece of equipment. It isn't on this gateway I'm using. Nor, on my PC at home, nor on my G4 tower, and on my iBook it's actually to the right of the fn key, making it not as far left as on this standard desktop I'm using. Every freaking keyboard manufacturer on the planet is ignoring UNIX heads like you. If you don't like the fact that you cannot remap a laptop's keyboard to suit your needs, or the fact that apple has not chosen to make a laptop with a keyboard you can remap as you want, then DON'T BUY A FRIGGING APPLE! (Which was really easy for me to type since all I had to do was click on caps lock.) Whew! I feel better now.
Disney bought the distro rights to Studio Ghibli's back catalog to bury it. Look at the advertising budgets for Spirited Away vs. the ohmy god bad Treasure Planet. Think of the marketing Mononoke got. And Disney hasn't done jack to promote the backcatalog they landed. Disney bought the stuff to "prove" that there isn't a market for Anime. (I have friends who worked in the animation industry for Nickelodeon, Disney, and Fox. They've told me where the bodies are buried.) As for Anime, I'm a staff writer at Sequential Tart,and we have a section devoted to Manga and Anime. I reccomend: Grave of the the Fireflies Record of Lodoss War His and Her Circumstances Helsing I watched the first disk of Cowboy Bebop, and frankly, I couldn't stand it. Kitsch and deus ex machnia endings and "goofy" unfunny comic relief characters are EXACTLY what I f'n HATE. My husband says it gets better, so I may give it another try. ---
I refuse to use IE on ANY platform.
The last time I downloaded Netscape (6 months ago) freaking CLASSIC ENVIRONMENT launched, so I hozed it off my drive. If they can't bother to carbonize it, I can't bother to use it.
iCab doesn't do CSS. (The site I write for uses CSS. I code a lot of CSS tags, so it's useless to me.)
Omniweb doesn't like CSS , and wonks things up when I post in various forums (like buttons dissapear.)
Despite a few bugs here and there (the world was never conquered in beta) Opera 6b3 is what I have on the G4 at home. It's fast, stable, and very customizable.
http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum119/HTML /000640.html
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And regarding any SW-ST ... The Empire and the Federation wipe each other out, and John Sheridan sits back and smiles about how well his plan worked. Chalk up another victory for the Army of Light.
My guru and I were having a chat about the RIAA and new technology about 3 months ago. What it boils down to is that the RIAA is going to have to master the art of cat herding if it wants to survive. Quoth my guru: "And anybody knows you don't herd cats by cracking your whips and releasing the hounds. Any body with a brain knows if you want to herd cats, you fire up the can opener and they come running." Ladies and Germs, the RIAA -- too stupid to fire up the can opener and now they're mewling and puking about the fact that the cats have run off in all directions and climbed a 1000 different trees. EEEDIOTS! They're such incredible EEEDIOTS! ---
Why would a library want to spend $100k on tech and not books?
Because with a modern information backbone, library staff and patrons can be connected to more information (books, sound, video, government websites) than that $100k will buy.