The reason it pisses me off personally is that my new iBook is less than 2 months old by the time 10.2 comes out.
Why does it piss you off that your new iBook is less than 2 months old by the time 10.2 comes out? You bought that iBook for the functionality it had, and not the functionality it might have in the future--and if you didn't, that's your fault and not Apple's. To me, it sounds like someone who just bought a 2002 model car bitching and moaning because they didn't get a free/discounted upgrade to the 2003 model.
Why do they put "software upgrade coupons" in with the computer if you don't get any benefit of it?
Just because those coupons don't equal a free or discounted upgrade this time, doesn't mean they won't ever mean anything. For example, when 10.1 was released, those coupons entitled people to go into their local Apple retailer and pick an upgrade CD for free. While 10.1 deserved to be free because it was largely bug fixes and refinements, 10.2 does not, IMHO, because it is largely new features and applications, with a few bug fixes and refinements thrown in. I imagine those coupons could be used to order CD's containing minor point releases (ie, 10.1.5->10.1.6) for those that downloading the updates poses a problem, althought I don't know for sure.
Heck, even M$ offers upgrade pricing.
Yah, and their upgrade price for their cheapest version of Windows, XP Home, is only $30 less than the full price of Jaguar. And if you want the "Professional" version of XP, which is definitely more on par with Jaguar, then that upgrade price is $70 more than Jaguar. Perhaps if Apple raised the full price of Jaguar by $100 or so, and said that $129 was the upgrade price, that would be OK?
I bought a Maxtor 160GB drive that came bundled with an ATA/133 card. I ended up putting the drive into an ADS Firewire enclosure, which seems to be just as capable as addressing the whole drive as the bundled ATA/133 card.
...exactly why those of us who are clinging to the AIM servers because "that's where all my friends are" aren't working a little harder to get them to a platform that allows (or at least isn't actively trying to break) other clients, for example Jabber, MSN (even if it is run by the evil empire), or even IRC.
Because it's much easier said than done, that's why. It would be one thing for me to get my mom to switch over to Jabber or MSN if she had never used IM before. But, now that she has a contact list of 25 people? I hardly stand a chance. It's pretty much the same for anyone I know. While I'm sure most people would agree that switching to a more open IM system would be a good idea, most people would also choose having more people available to them over a more "open" solution. Thus, the only hope is to get every single person using AIM to switch at once. Or, something even more radical and amazing, making AIM interoperable with other IM services.
They don't feel like paying the royalties? Good lord, what a crappy reason. I know I'd certainly be willing to absorb those royalties and pay $300 for my mp3 player instead of $299, if it meant I got firewire instead of usb2.
Replying to an earlier comment, standalone VCD players are much cheaper than VCRs (around US$60 now) and there is no need to get a DVD player to play VCDs.
On a recent (~2 wks ago) shopping trip to the local electronics store, I saw a VCR for $49 and a DVD player that played DVD/VCD/MP3 for $79. I've never seen a standalone VCD player in any of the major electronics stores here, so I can't exactly compare definitively, but I have to imagine that once you're spending the $60 for a VCD player, there is plenty of incentive for forking over the extra ~$20 for the extra features that come on the DVD player.
My only problem is all journalized FS (including JFS) are only available on Linux, no other free OS (like *BSD or Darwin)....
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't SoftUpdates FreeBSD's journaling mechanism? I understand that these major journaling filesystems arent available on FreeBSD, but that certainly doesn't mean that all journaled filesystems aren't.
While not the most comprehensive site I've ever seen, devx.com has great discussion groups on just about every language I've ever used, and then some. I've never failed to get an answer to a question or a suggestion on a new algorithm from any of the groups I've posted to there. I'm sure there are better language-specific sites out there, but I've never seen a better site that covers so many languages.
...it looks like Apple is trying to get more money here as well.
Or not. OS X Server 10.1 has always had a 10-client license available for $499. It just happens that Apple decided to include the unlimited client license with the Xserve's instead of the 10-client license.
On linux source is pretty well audited, but on Windows even if they provide the source how many users at home are going to read it - and understand it?
Just because most Windows users won't doesn't mean that all people that must use Windows won't. I guarantee there are plenty of people that would read and understand it that it would provide exactly the same auditing benefits as the Linux version.
Huh? That is, essentially, what is going on. Mine never went so far as to reject the message, it only removed the offending code. Removing the code was the easy part--it was writing the actual html parser that was the challenge. Like I said before, it isn't that it can't be done and done well. It is just not a simple task, so implementing a shitty solution (ala Yahoo's global replace) is much much easier and immediately effective, even if it does piss of your users. Not that I agree by any means (I was the reason my last employer chose to "do it right"), but I certainly can understand.
...wouldn't it be easy to replace the word only if it appeared in a script?
Having developed a filter for my last employer's web-based email system that does exactly that, the answer to that question is no. If every person and everything that produced HTML were to output strictly formatted HTML with little or no variation, then yes, it would be simple. The real problem lies in writing code that will catch every occurrence of your problem, whether its embedded in a URL, inside of a script block, or just referenced as a hyperlink. This obviously isn't to say it hasn't been done, and done successfully, its just to say that, in practice, its no simple task.
Yup. Right after they released the new iBooks a couple months ago, MacZone had tons of the discontinued iBook 500 models for sale. In fact, the most recent MacZone I got still had them. I would imagine that other resellers, like PowerMax, do the same thing.
Actually, no, a company needs a valid reason for firing an employee.
While companies need a 'valid' reason for 'firing' someone, they can almost always call it a 'layoff' instead and get away it that much easier.
Firing the employee who posted this internal memo is not a valid reason. This memo leaked no sensitive data, nor did it leak any trade secrets. Internal memo's are not necessarily trade secrets.
There is no valid reason for firing the person who sent this message; were (s)he fired, (s)he'd have grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit.
I dunno, I'd be more inclined to think this person deserves to be fired. Not that the memo spelled out any truly outrageous trade secrets of AT&T, but it did list an internal AT&T phone number, which I presume is not readily available to the public otherwise. And as someone who's actually worked on wrongful termination cases (though I was just an intern doing research), I would bet that even though this person may have just enough to get a lawyer to take the case to court, I highly doubt they would ever prevail. The bottom line is that the person leaked a memo which contained information would could very reasonably lead to the disruption of AT&T's business (can you imagine even a fraction of/.'s dialing that number at once?). If I was the boss man, I'd fire this person with little second thought.
Haha, welcome to real life. Sure it would be "better" if the evil boss was just fired, but that's just not how it is in the real life. What are people supposed to do about an evil boss, other than find some peaceful, legal way to vent their anger? You could say the same thing about someone who goes and downs a cup of black coffee after an altercation with the boss in order to calm down. Coffee makes you the perfect victim! Good thing I don't drink coffee...
Why would you want to phantasize about something you would not do in real life, again?
Isn't that the whole point of "phantasizing"? It's really hard to get away with murdering your boss because he went that extra mile in being a jerk, but there's no crime (yet) in sitting down in front of a game of GTA3 or whatever and pretending that you're ripping him limb-from-limb. And if killing a few virtual people is enough to make someone forget about their boss and feel better, isn't that better than them taking out their anger in real life?
As much as they try to make the G4 machines look modular, they are not. It is a totally different ballpark than what you get with a PC.
Really? A friend of mine bought a G4 (400 or 450, cant remember) a couple years ago. Since then, he's upgraded the CPU to a faster G4 (500?), upgraded the video card to a ATI Radeon, added a second NIC, added additional firewire ports, and replaced the CD-RW. Not to mention that he's used a 3rd-party mouse and keyboard since he bought it. Having owned a PC for several years, I can safely say I've done far less upgrades to my PC (only a faster CD-RW, more RAM, and firewire ports). Just based on my experiences, I'd have to say the G4 machines are just as modular and upgradeable as any PC you could build or buy.
Political in that there were other sites that were scientifically better suited for the project and they were not chosen, largely because of Nevada's lack of power in Congress at the time.
..athe Yucca Mountains are as desolate as you can get.
90 miles from a city of 1+ million is as desolate as you can get? Hardly.
If the decision on where to put waste was purely scientific, it would not be going to Yucca Mountain. This is decision was about as political as you can get. I didn't have much faith in Congress or the President doing The Right Thing(tm), but with any luck, the courts will see through the policitical BS and make a decision that is inline with most Nevadans and any objective scientist with knowledge on the matter: that nuclear waste needs to find a home other than Yucca Mountain.
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if Perl 6 is not backward compatible with perl 5
Uh, Perl 6 IS backwards-compatible with Perl 5--at least to the point that your Perl 5 scripts will compile under Perl 6.
I think its a ridiculous thing to say that Larry should have just contributed to Python or whatever instead of implementing the features in Perl itself. There are tons of things that can be done better, faster, or easier in Perl than in Python or Ruby, and ditching Perl just because someone else already came up with a particular feature is, IMHO, ludicrous.
..forcing every cellular company to make the first minute on incoming calls free. I used to have this on Sprint PCS and it was fantastic, particularly for those few occasions when I would have just enough time to tell a telemarketer where to stick it before I could hang up and still be under 1 minute. This would make the telemarketers happy because they could still call people, and most people would be happy because they could hang up before being charged anything. The only problem is figuring out how this is good for the cellular companies...
Yah, but plenty of those planes currently in the air are nearing their end-of-service, so I imagine that as airlines look to replace them, they will look closely at this design that Boeing claims will save them tons of money.
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There is a program where you can just pay something like $200 and get the next three years of software upgrades for free.
Apple does this, but they also require a minimum of 10 of these licenses be purchased--so you couldn't just buy a single one for yourself.
The reason it pisses me off personally is that my new iBook is less than 2 months old by the time 10.2 comes out.
Why does it piss you off that your new iBook is less than 2 months old by the time 10.2 comes out? You bought that iBook for the functionality it had, and not the functionality it might have in the future--and if you didn't, that's your fault and not Apple's. To me, it sounds like someone who just bought a 2002 model car bitching and moaning because they didn't get a free/discounted upgrade to the 2003 model.
Why do they put "software upgrade coupons" in with the computer if you don't get any benefit of it?
Just because those coupons don't equal a free or discounted upgrade this time, doesn't mean they won't ever mean anything. For example, when 10.1 was released, those coupons entitled people to go into their local Apple retailer and pick an upgrade CD for free. While 10.1 deserved to be free because it was largely bug fixes and refinements, 10.2 does not, IMHO, because it is largely new features and applications, with a few bug fixes and refinements thrown in. I imagine those coupons could be used to order CD's containing minor point releases (ie, 10.1.5->10.1.6) for those that downloading the updates poses a problem, althought I don't know for sure.
Heck, even M$ offers upgrade pricing.
Yah, and their upgrade price for their cheapest version of Windows, XP Home, is only $30 less than the full price of Jaguar. And if you want the "Professional" version of XP, which is definitely more on par with Jaguar, then that upgrade price is $70 more than Jaguar. Perhaps if Apple raised the full price of Jaguar by $100 or so, and said that $129 was the upgrade price, that would be OK?
I bought a Maxtor 160GB drive that came bundled with an ATA/133 card. I ended up putting the drive into an ADS Firewire enclosure, which seems to be just as capable as addressing the whole drive as the bundled ATA/133 card.
...exactly why those of us who are clinging to the AIM servers because "that's where all my friends are" aren't working a little harder to get them to a platform that allows (or at least isn't actively trying to break) other clients, for example Jabber, MSN (even if it is run by the evil empire), or even IRC.
Because it's much easier said than done, that's why. It would be one thing for me to get my mom to switch over to Jabber or MSN if she had never used IM before. But, now that she has a contact list of 25 people? I hardly stand a chance. It's pretty much the same for anyone I know. While I'm sure most people would agree that switching to a more open IM system would be a good idea, most people would also choose having more people available to them over a more "open" solution. Thus, the only hope is to get every single person using AIM to switch at once. Or, something even more radical and amazing, making AIM interoperable with other IM services.
They don't feel like paying the royalties? Good lord, what a crappy reason. I know I'd certainly be willing to absorb those royalties and pay $300 for my mp3 player instead of $299, if it meant I got firewire instead of usb2.
I don't think anyone's ever said that the Itanium won't run x86 code--just that it does so very, very poorly.
Replying to an earlier comment, standalone VCD players are much cheaper than VCRs (around US$60 now) and there is no need to get a DVD player to play VCDs.
On a recent (~2 wks ago) shopping trip to the local electronics store, I saw a VCR for $49 and a DVD player that played DVD/VCD/MP3 for $79. I've never seen a standalone VCD player in any of the major electronics stores here, so I can't exactly compare definitively, but I have to imagine that once you're spending the $60 for a VCD player, there is plenty of incentive for forking over the extra ~$20 for the extra features that come on the DVD player.
My only problem is all journalized FS (including JFS) are only available on Linux, no other free OS (like *BSD or Darwin)....
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't SoftUpdates FreeBSD's journaling mechanism? I understand that these major journaling filesystems arent available on FreeBSD, but that certainly doesn't mean that all journaled filesystems aren't.
While not the most comprehensive site I've ever seen, devx.com has great discussion groups on just about every language I've ever used, and then some. I've never failed to get an answer to a question or a suggestion on a new algorithm from any of the groups I've posted to there. I'm sure there are better language-specific sites out there, but I've never seen a better site that covers so many languages.
Doesn't Perl already *technically* compile?
...it looks like Apple is trying to get more money here as well.
Or not. OS X Server 10.1 has always had a 10-client license available for $499. It just happens that Apple decided to include the unlimited client license with the Xserve's instead of the 10-client license.
On linux source is pretty well audited, but on Windows even if they provide the source how many users at home are going to read it - and understand it?
Just because most Windows users won't doesn't mean that all people that must use Windows won't. I guarantee there are plenty of people that would read and understand it that it would provide exactly the same auditing benefits as the Linux version.
Huh? That is, essentially, what is going on. Mine never went so far as to reject the message, it only removed the offending code. Removing the code was the easy part--it was writing the actual html parser that was the challenge. Like I said before, it isn't that it can't be done and done well. It is just not a simple task, so implementing a shitty solution (ala Yahoo's global replace) is much much easier and immediately effective, even if it does piss of your users. Not that I agree by any means (I was the reason my last employer chose to "do it right"), but I certainly can understand.
...wouldn't it be easy to replace the word only if it appeared in a script?
Having developed a filter for my last employer's web-based email system that does exactly that, the answer to that question is no. If every person and everything that produced HTML were to output strictly formatted HTML with little or no variation, then yes, it would be simple. The real problem lies in writing code that will catch every occurrence of your problem, whether its embedded in a URL, inside of a script block, or just referenced as a hyperlink. This obviously isn't to say it hasn't been done, and done successfully, its just to say that, in practice, its no simple task.
Sell them to VAR's?
Yup. Right after they released the new iBooks a couple months ago, MacZone had tons of the discontinued iBook 500 models for sale. In fact, the most recent MacZone I got still had them. I would imagine that other resellers, like PowerMax, do the same thing.
Last time I remember a company trying that, they got in some rather deep shit for it, IIRC.
Wow, that sucks. But, I've personally seen it happen more than a couple times, so I know it can and does happen.
Actually, no, a company needs a valid reason for firing an employee.
/.'s dialing that number at once?). If I was the boss man, I'd fire this person with little second thought.
While companies need a 'valid' reason for 'firing' someone, they can almost always call it a 'layoff' instead and get away it that much easier.
Firing the employee who posted this internal memo is not a valid reason. This memo leaked no sensitive data, nor did it leak any trade secrets. Internal memo's are not necessarily trade secrets.
There is no valid reason for firing the person who sent this message; were (s)he fired, (s)he'd have grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit.
I dunno, I'd be more inclined to think this person deserves to be fired. Not that the memo spelled out any truly outrageous trade secrets of AT&T, but it did list an internal AT&T phone number, which I presume is not readily available to the public otherwise. And as someone who's actually worked on wrongful termination cases (though I was just an intern doing research), I would bet that even though this person may have just enough to get a lawyer to take the case to court, I highly doubt they would ever prevail. The bottom line is that the person leaked a memo which contained information would could very reasonably lead to the disruption of AT&T's business (can you imagine even a fraction of
Haha, welcome to real life. Sure it would be "better" if the evil boss was just fired, but that's just not how it is in the real life. What are people supposed to do about an evil boss, other than find some peaceful, legal way to vent their anger? You could say the same thing about someone who goes and downs a cup of black coffee after an altercation with the boss in order to calm down. Coffee makes you the perfect victim! Good thing I don't drink coffee...
Why would you want to phantasize about something you would not do in real life, again?
Isn't that the whole point of "phantasizing"? It's really hard to get away with murdering your boss because he went that extra mile in being a jerk, but there's no crime (yet) in sitting down in front of a game of GTA3 or whatever and pretending that you're ripping him limb-from-limb. And if killing a few virtual people is enough to make someone forget about their boss and feel better, isn't that better than them taking out their anger in real life?
As much as they try to make the G4 machines look modular, they are not. It is a totally different ballpark than what you get with a PC.
Really? A friend of mine bought a G4 (400 or 450, cant remember) a couple years ago. Since then, he's upgraded the CPU to a faster G4 (500?), upgraded the video card to a ATI Radeon, added a second NIC, added additional firewire ports, and replaced the CD-RW. Not to mention that he's used a 3rd-party mouse and keyboard since he bought it. Having owned a PC for several years, I can safely say I've done far less upgrades to my PC (only a faster CD-RW, more RAM, and firewire ports). Just based on my experiences, I'd have to say the G4 machines are just as modular and upgradeable as any PC you could build or buy.
Political? I doubt it.
Political in that there were other sites that were scientifically better suited for the project and they were not chosen, largely because of Nevada's lack of power in Congress at the time.
..athe Yucca Mountains are as desolate as you can get.
90 miles from a city of 1+ million is as desolate as you can get? Hardly.
If the decision on where to put waste was purely scientific, it would not be going to Yucca Mountain. This is decision was about as political as you can get. I didn't have much faith in Congress or the President doing The Right Thing(tm), but with any luck, the courts will see through the policitical BS and make a decision that is inline with most Nevadans and any objective scientist with knowledge on the matter: that nuclear waste needs to find a home other than Yucca Mountain.
if Perl 6 is not backward compatible with perl 5
Uh, Perl 6 IS backwards-compatible with Perl 5--at least to the point that your Perl 5 scripts will compile under Perl 6.
I think its a ridiculous thing to say that Larry should have just contributed to Python or whatever instead of implementing the features in Perl itself. There are tons of things that can be done better, faster, or easier in Perl than in Python or Ruby, and ditching Perl just because someone else already came up with a particular feature is, IMHO, ludicrous.
..forcing every cellular company to make the first minute on incoming calls free. I used to have this on Sprint PCS and it was fantastic, particularly for those few occasions when I would have just enough time to tell a telemarketer where to stick it before I could hang up and still be under 1 minute. This would make the telemarketers happy because they could still call people, and most people would be happy because they could hang up before being charged anything. The only problem is figuring out how this is good for the cellular companies...
Yah, but plenty of those planes currently in the air are nearing their end-of-service, so I imagine that as airlines look to replace them, they will look closely at this design that Boeing claims will save them tons of money.