Most importantly, Mac OS X is the only UNIX family that runs Microsoft Office, but without the virus compromising technologies like ActiveX and VBScript.
I could be wrong, but when I installed Office X, I could have sworn I saw it install "Visual Basic for Applications"--VBScript.
Uhh, hardly. If MS were required to do what the states want and release a version of Windows such that any of the components could be replaced, then that in itself would require the release of APIs and such. How is a third party component supposed to plug in to the OS and work as it should without full API disclosure? I can certainly see MS just releasing all that is absolutely necessary to replace components and simply saying that is "everything", but nothing short of an army of independent programmers taking over MS for months to scour the source will ever be able to prove otherwise.
Personally, I think its more important to go the way the states are--after the modularity argument. I couldn't give a crap less if there are "secret" APIs in Windows, as long as the ones necessary for plugging in third party components as replacements for IE and Media Player and such are fully documented and available for use.
I don't think there will ever be a truly viable technical solution to spam. Spam is not so much a technical problem as it is a social problem. And we all know about trying to cure social problems with technical solutions. It's the same as with digital piracy--implement some new system or some new restriction and those that it was intended to take care of will be the ones that find a way to get around it.
So how does it know whether the mail was relayed through a server first? By checking headers? Or does it have to do with the IP of the machine sending the mail? Headers seem like a ludicrous way to do it (too easy to fake), so I would hope thats not it, but this is the first I've ever heard of DUL so I'm not sure.
Yup. I own 2 of Apocalyptica's CDs (Plays Metallica by Four Cellos and Inquisition Symphony), and I bought both of them at a mainstream store. I got Plays Metallica by Four Cellos at Best Buy and I got Inquisition Symphony at Circuit City. I'm sure neither store carries huge inventories of these CDs because I did have to check once or twice before actually finding the CD at each place, but nonetheless, they still carry them. And if Best Buy and Circuit City carry them, I'm sure any mainstream place to buy music carries them, even if only on a limited basis.
Windows 95C was the Win95 that included built-in USB support. Other than that, you're counting on the hardware manufacturer, and in this case, it doesn't sound like thats a very good prospect.
... That's not pocket change, even for Microsoft...
When its something they want bad enough, that is pocket change. Case in point, Xbox. They're supposed to eat over $1 billion (closer to $2 billion, I think) before they break even. Basically, if the brains at Microsoft have some great way to take ITV Digital and make a great profit from it, then eating $250 million and operating losses for a little while doesn't sound all that outlandish to me.
Sure, layoffs usually happen after a buyout and not before, but perhaps the folks that got laid off are just positions that will be duplicates when MS does buy ITV?
In Windows 2000 (and XP), in a command prompt, do:
+ right-click anywhere in the window, and select "Mark" + use the mouse to select whatever text you want to copy + right-click again to copy the selected text to the clipboard
If you're using command.com and not cmd.exe, you'll need to click the control menu in the very top left corner of the window, select Edit and select Mark from that menu--from there, its the same. Not the most intuitive of processes, but it works, and works well in my experience.
At least on machines that I've encountered where XP was pre-installed, there was no phone home process at all. The only time I did encounter that was when I was installing a retail copy of XP home.
In the article, they specifically mention that even this time around, there were roadblocks to them adopting Linux as a desktop OS for their artists. Although they don't mention specifics, they said they worked with HP and Red Hat and got the problems resolved.
The monorail is mainly meant for the downtown/Strip area of the city. That is where 95% of the touristy shit is, so it is always congested in that area of town, no matter what time of day or night it is. They say something about expanding to suburbs down the road, but I truly wonder if that will happen.
They said the blank discs are going to retail at $10-12. I bet this has more to do with it being a new technology than the cost of actually producing the discs. I wouldn't be the least surprised to find out that these discs already cost less than $1 to produce.
And as long as CDs still cost $15-18, I highly doubt this format would allowed to be substantially cheaper. Although, that might not be a bad idea, because they could take the stance of "well the players might cost $300 but the discs are a lot cheaper!"...
I'm not 100% sure, but at least with the Perl compiler I used (perl2exe), it seemed to me that the compiled executable was nothing more than a Perl interpreter bundled with the script code. This gives me the impression that the script is parsed and compiled on every run, so I would be skeptical about any performance gain claims (and I don't remember ever seeing any on perl2exe's website).
That being said, I don't quite understand why adding firewire support suddenly makes the new product newsworthy.
To quite a few people, myself included, the one drawback to the Nomad2 that killed its chances was that it could only interface over USB. Transferring even 5 or 10GB over USB is painfully slow compared to FireWire. However, with FireWire capability, the Nomad3 is a real option in my eyes now.
I don't have a Tivo (yet), but I'm just curious, why do DirecTV and Tivo need POTS? I know they need to phone home, but what makes it impossible to do over VoIP?
When I told a former employer that I was using my home phone line solely to dial in for work purposes, they agreed to foot the bill for it (granted, it was less than $25/mo, but still). If you haven't already, I'd try this tactic with your employer.
*cough* If you're not a business (most people I know aren't), TCO doesn't matter....
Riiiight, just like TCO doesn't matter on your new car. Or TCO doesn't matter on your new house. TCO matters to anyone that purchases something intending to get value from it. If you purchase something at a great "value", but end up forking out more and more in repairs or maintenance, is it really such a great value? It was a great value to start with, but its TCO is what made it a not-so-great value.
Except that just because you have your plans on a distributed system, does not mean that you have distributed your plans in such a way as to lose exclusive rights. They could be on any number of systems, but if they are secured in such a way so that they are not available to everyone, then you haven't lost any rights.
There's no reason a PS/2 wireless keyboard should work any better than a USB one.
In fact, there's plenty of reason that the USB one would work better than the PS/2 one. Case in point, my MS Natural Pro KB. It has both PS/2 and USB connectors. If you plug it into the PS/2 port, it comes up as a standard keyboard and you must install the IntelliPoint software in order for all the extras to work. However, plug it into the USB port and Windows autodetects the type of keyboard it is and installs support for the extra features automatically (at least under XP). For someone who uses the extra features a lot, not having to go through the hassle of installing software and rebooting and such is great--enough for me to choose the USB over PS/2, anyway.
Like I told someone else, ClearType has been available in Windows for a while, but how well does it really work? Not very well at all, which was my entire point. Never once have I heard someone say how beautiful and clear the text on my XP machine is, yet I hear that kind of comment every day about my OS X machine.
I won't deny that a lot of UI features in 95 came from NeXT, but some were more obviously ripped from Mac OS (Recycle Bin and My Computer come to mind immediately).
I don't know where you get "half the CPU time" either, but from someone who actually uses OS X day in and day out, I'd have to say you're a bit off. Perhaps in 10.0 that would have been accurate, but certainly not with 10.1.
The "feature" has been there for quite some time, but how well does it work? Not very well at all, if you ask me. When was the last time you heard someone talking about how beautiful and clear the on-screen text in Windows looked? Yet, I hear that kind of comment about OS X every day.
They couldn't exactly get rid of IDE just yet, especially considering that there aren't any comparable consumer-level technologies available yet. Firewire is the closest, but until drives are available with actual firewire interfaces, IDE won't stand a chance of going away.
As well, does the Thunder K7 have support for USB 2.0? Obviously, you can add a card, but having all the ports for the latest and greatest is what this MB is about. Also, for someone like me, having that many USB ports is great. It means that I don't have to buy a USB hub or any extra parts or cards or anything. Every USB device I own, 1.1 or 2.0, will have its own spot on the motherboard, instead of the nice mixture of cards and hubs I have now. More than likely, this is the board that I'll use in my next system.
MS has seen this for years. Every new release of Windows has some UI feature or trait that was copied blatantly from, or at the least, obviously inpsired by, Mac OS. With any luck, the next thing they'll copy will be anti-aliased text throughout the OS.
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Most importantly, Mac OS X is the only UNIX family that runs Microsoft Office, but without the virus compromising technologies like ActiveX and VBScript.
I could be wrong, but when I installed Office X, I could have sworn I saw it install "Visual Basic for Applications"--VBScript.
Uhh, hardly. If MS were required to do what the states want and release a version of Windows such that any of the components could be replaced, then that in itself would require the release of APIs and such. How is a third party component supposed to plug in to the OS and work as it should without full API disclosure? I can certainly see MS just releasing all that is absolutely necessary to replace components and simply saying that is "everything", but nothing short of an army of independent programmers taking over MS for months to scour the source will ever be able to prove otherwise.
Personally, I think its more important to go the way the states are--after the modularity argument. I couldn't give a crap less if there are "secret" APIs in Windows, as long as the ones necessary for plugging in third party components as replacements for IE and Media Player and such are fully documented and available for use.
I don't think there will ever be a truly viable technical solution to spam. Spam is not so much a technical problem as it is a social problem. And we all know about trying to cure social problems with technical solutions. It's the same as with digital piracy--implement some new system or some new restriction and those that it was intended to take care of will be the ones that find a way to get around it.
So how does it know whether the mail was relayed through a server first? By checking headers? Or does it have to do with the IP of the machine sending the mail? Headers seem like a ludicrous way to do it (too easy to fake), so I would hope thats not it, but this is the first I've ever heard of DUL so I'm not sure.
Anyone ever seen Apocalyptica in a record store?
Yup. I own 2 of Apocalyptica's CDs (Plays Metallica by Four Cellos and Inquisition Symphony), and I bought both of them at a mainstream store. I got Plays Metallica by Four Cellos at Best Buy and I got Inquisition Symphony at Circuit City. I'm sure neither store carries huge inventories of these CDs because I did have to check once or twice before actually finding the CD at each place, but nonetheless, they still carry them. And if Best Buy and Circuit City carry them, I'm sure any mainstream place to buy music carries them, even if only on a limited basis.
Windows 95C was the Win95 that included built-in USB support. Other than that, you're counting on the hardware manufacturer, and in this case, it doesn't sound like thats a very good prospect.
... That's not pocket change, even for Microsoft ...
When its something they want bad enough, that is pocket change. Case in point, Xbox. They're supposed to eat over $1 billion (closer to $2 billion, I think) before they break even. Basically, if the brains at Microsoft have some great way to take ITV Digital and make a great profit from it, then eating $250 million and operating losses for a little while doesn't sound all that outlandish to me.
Sure, layoffs usually happen after a buyout and not before, but perhaps the folks that got laid off are just positions that will be duplicates when MS does buy ITV?
In Windows 2000 (and XP), in a command prompt, do:
+ right-click anywhere in the window, and select "Mark"
+ use the mouse to select whatever text you want to copy
+ right-click again to copy the selected text to the clipboard
If you're using command.com and not cmd.exe, you'll need to click the control menu in the very top left corner of the window, select Edit and select Mark from that menu--from there, its the same. Not the most intuitive of processes, but it works, and works well in my experience.
At least on machines that I've encountered where XP was pre-installed, there was no phone home process at all. The only time I did encounter that was when I was installing a retail copy of XP home.
In the article, they specifically mention that even this time around, there were roadblocks to them adopting Linux as a desktop OS for their artists. Although they don't mention specifics, they said they worked with HP and Red Hat and got the problems resolved.
The monorail is mainly meant for the downtown/Strip area of the city. That is where 95% of the touristy shit is, so it is always congested in that area of town, no matter what time of day or night it is. They say something about expanding to suburbs down the road, but I truly wonder if that will happen.
They said the blank discs are going to retail at $10-12. I bet this has more to do with it being a new technology than the cost of actually producing the discs. I wouldn't be the least surprised to find out that these discs already cost less than $1 to produce.
And as long as CDs still cost $15-18, I highly doubt this format would allowed to be substantially cheaper. Although, that might not be a bad idea, because they could take the stance of "well the players might cost $300 but the discs are a lot cheaper!"...
I'm not 100% sure, but at least with the Perl compiler I used (perl2exe), it seemed to me that the compiled executable was nothing more than a Perl interpreter bundled with the script code. This gives me the impression that the script is parsed and compiled on every run, so I would be skeptical about any performance gain claims (and I don't remember ever seeing any on perl2exe's website).
That being said, I don't quite understand why adding firewire support suddenly makes the new product newsworthy.
To quite a few people, myself included, the one drawback to the Nomad2 that killed its chances was that it could only interface over USB. Transferring even 5 or 10GB over USB is painfully slow compared to FireWire. However, with FireWire capability, the Nomad3 is a real option in my eyes now.
I don't have a Tivo (yet), but I'm just curious, why do DirecTV and Tivo need POTS? I know they need to phone home, but what makes it impossible to do over VoIP?
When I told a former employer that I was using my home phone line solely to dial in for work purposes, they agreed to foot the bill for it (granted, it was less than $25/mo, but still). If you haven't already, I'd try this tactic with your employer.
*cough* If you're not a business (most people I know aren't), TCO doesn't matter ....
Riiiight, just like TCO doesn't matter on your new car. Or TCO doesn't matter on your new house. TCO matters to anyone that purchases something intending to get value from it. If you purchase something at a great "value", but end up forking out more and more in repairs or maintenance, is it really such a great value? It was a great value to start with, but its TCO is what made it a not-so-great value.
No, incompetent developers that overuse Flash are what suck. Like a lot of things, Flash is an awesome tool, but only when used appropriately.
Except that just because you have your plans on a distributed system, does not mean that you have distributed your plans in such a way as to lose exclusive rights. They could be on any number of systems, but if they are secured in such a way so that they are not available to everyone, then you haven't lost any rights.
There's no reason a PS/2 wireless keyboard should work any better than a USB one.
In fact, there's plenty of reason that the USB one would work better than the PS/2 one. Case in point, my MS Natural Pro KB. It has both PS/2 and USB connectors. If you plug it into the PS/2 port, it comes up as a standard keyboard and you must install the IntelliPoint software in order for all the extras to work. However, plug it into the USB port and Windows autodetects the type of keyboard it is and installs support for the extra features automatically (at least under XP). For someone who uses the extra features a lot, not having to go through the hassle of installing software and rebooting and such is great--enough for me to choose the USB over PS/2, anyway.
Like I told someone else, ClearType has been available in Windows for a while, but how well does it really work? Not very well at all, which was my entire point. Never once have I heard someone say how beautiful and clear the text on my XP machine is, yet I hear that kind of comment every day about my OS X machine.
I won't deny that a lot of UI features in 95 came from NeXT, but some were more obviously ripped from Mac OS (Recycle Bin and My Computer come to mind immediately).
I don't know where you get "half the CPU time" either, but from someone who actually uses OS X day in and day out, I'd have to say you're a bit off. Perhaps in 10.0 that would have been accurate, but certainly not with 10.1.
The "feature" has been there for quite some time, but how well does it work? Not very well at all, if you ask me. When was the last time you heard someone talking about how beautiful and clear the on-screen text in Windows looked? Yet, I hear that kind of comment about OS X every day.
They couldn't exactly get rid of IDE just yet, especially considering that there aren't any comparable consumer-level technologies available yet. Firewire is the closest, but until drives are available with actual firewire interfaces, IDE won't stand a chance of going away.
As well, does the Thunder K7 have support for USB 2.0? Obviously, you can add a card, but having all the ports for the latest and greatest is what this MB is about. Also, for someone like me, having that many USB ports is great. It means that I don't have to buy a USB hub or any extra parts or cards or anything. Every USB device I own, 1.1 or 2.0, will have its own spot on the motherboard, instead of the nice mixture of cards and hubs I have now. More than likely, this is the board that I'll use in my next system.
MS has seen this for years. Every new release of Windows has some UI feature or trait that was copied blatantly from, or at the least, obviously inpsired by, Mac OS. With any luck, the next thing they'll copy will be anti-aliased text throughout the OS.