How many people do you know who won't ride the bus because of the "element" he or she will encounter?
Actually, every single person I can think of that won't ride the bus won't do so because it is an inconvenience. Riding the bus can easily add an additional hour to your daily travel time (to/from work), and with a wife and kids, I can think of many things I would rather be doing for that hour.
I'm sure there are people out there like you describe; I'm just glad that I don't know any of them.
You do know that the "patch" is a spyware style CGI script to log your browsing habits?
Wrong. Try actually reading the source, and you'll see that's not what it is at all. I don't even use IE, so my reading through the source was very quick, yet I was even able to pick up on how it actually works.
At least New York or San Francisco would have more to offer once you've been kicked out of the strip club.
If you really believe that, then you've either never been to Vegas, or you haven't spent enough time discovering the multitude of things Vegas has to offer besides gambling and strippers.
And beyond that, in Vegas I can stay in the same quality hotel room I'd get in either SF or NY, but with a price that lets me stay 2-3x longer.
3. Using WinXP (right click properties), apply batch Tags (artist, album title etc) to MP3s.
When you do this, is it just working with the filesystem metainfo that is available for all types of files, or is it actually working with the ID3 tags in the files? My initial thought was the former, but if it is the latter, then props to Winderz cuz thats pretty fsckin' cool.
1. AOL/TW will drop the AOL part and revert to Time-Warner.
Didn't they already do this? I could be mistaken, of course, but when you go to www.aoltimewarner.com, it redirects you to www.timewarner.com, where I can't find a single thing that has the AOL and Time-Warner names together.
What are you smoking? There were other music stores YEARS before Apple's that did roughly the same thing. A pretty interface does not an invention make, and that's really the only new thing Apple brought to the table. Ever hear of PressPlay, MusicMatch, or RealOne?
Roughly the same thing? A service that lets you listen to your music as long as you're a subscriber is equivalent to a service that sells you the music flat-out?
The interface is far from the only new thing Apple brought to the table. The you-own-it approach, also not the only new thing, is by far the most important thing Apple brought to the table. To me, a "music service" (PressPlay, MusicMatch) is a far cry from a "music store" (iTMS, BuyMusic.com, etc).
.... did you know any artist can submit stuff to the iTMS to be sold? Those that do aren't under the grip of big labels.. their deal is with Apple.
Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. Indie labels can strike deals with Apple, but not the artists themselves. The artists are still "under the grip" of a label, albeit one that probably cares a little more about them.
... Putting a game through that one extra QA run probably means delaying the shipping date. Unfortunately the trend seems to be just that.. moving away from quality, towards 'assembly line' products...
. And frankly, WinXP SUCKS WHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING GAMES!
Frankly, WinXP sucks when it comes to a lot more than just running games.
Seriously, though, what specifically is so bad about gaming under XP? Personally I prefer consoles, but I have a number of friends that play a fairly wide variety of games under XP with no problems.
2) Apples and Oranges, POPFile isn't a spam filter, it's an email classification system.
Isn't this a bit nitpicky? It seems to me that a spam filter would be a type or subset of an email classification system, but beyond that, it seems like POPFile does a pretty good job at spam filtering (according to the parent post). To me, this makes its comparison to Thunderbird's built-in spam filters not so apples-and-oranges.
I don't think it's unreasonable for Apple to take some time confirming the exploit, and planning an update. Remember when they released an update that broke things?
This exploit would take any qualified engineer at Apple less than a day to confirm, and it is serious enough that it shouldn't have to wait for a 10.x.z update to be fixed (and, in fact, 10.3 and 10.3.1, as well as in independent security update have all been released since Apple was notified of this issue). Any way that the entire system can be compromised remotely should be fixed immediately. Apple has released a few security updates that were completely independent of a whole system update, and they should have done exactly that in this case.
I love OS X, but this is completely unacceptable. I'm just glad my Macs don't use dhcp.
Why would anyone pay a fee to take a cab? Is it so hard to just walk?
Why would anyone pay a fee to watch cable TV? Is it so hard to just pull down the broadcasts with your own satellite dish?
While I could probably come up with a million more examples, the answer is always the same: because it is convenient. While I've never used this Netflix program, I imagine its appeal lies in its convenience.
Maybe Microsoft is just out to get you. I installed this new version on Saturday, and while its interface could use some work, I found the media support to be a million times better than the last version of WMP for OS X. It not only played the files that the last version wouldn't, but several files that had audio or video glitches when played with the last version now played flawlessly. Perhaps your installation got screwed up? Try reinstalling it, and more importantly, deleting its existing files from ~/Library/Preferences before you reinstall (this second part actually fixed an issue on my friend's machine).
And, while VLC is great, I have still come across a number of files (Windows Media in particular) that it won't play correctly or won't play at all. My best solution has come down to keeping updated versions of QuickTime, RealOne, Windows Media Player, VLC, and Mplayer around. In my experience, this has been the only way to make sure I can play every media file I come across.
.... . Don't recording engineers spend years of time in the studio to learn how to properly EQ whatever they're recording?
I don't give a rat's ass how many years some recording engineer spends learning how to properly EQ something. What I do care about is that the music sounding good to me. What is more reasonable--adjusting my EQ so that I like the sound or going out and spending money on "good,good speakers or headphones" in the hopes that I will like the result?
Maybe the average person doesnt understand an EQ, but that hardly makes "giving the general public an EQ" a "huge mistake".
A problem with Panther has been found with external FireWire drives, that causes FireWire disk partitions in Panther above 137GB to be shown as corrupt after a reboot, in most cases being entirely unaccessible and unusable.
I've been using a 160GB drive over Firewire since Jaguar. I did an "archive and install" of panther, and the same drive still works great.
I did, however, turn the drive off while I was installing the OS. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Or perhaps its a particular Firewire chip/controller causing the problem?
Apple copies a feature from a crippleware author....
Like?
The only thing I've heard is that guy that wrote LiteSwitch X. Personally, I think that guy's ego is pretty big to think that the new cmd-tab feature in Panther was taken directly from LiteSwitch X. As other have mentioned, not only does the WinXP app switcher look very close, but many people that have never even seen LiteSwitch X have commented that the new Panther app switcher is exactly how they would have implemented it from scratch. There are only so many ways you can do an app switcher and still make it look good and be useable, so I think this guy from LiteSwitch X is truly just whining.
Aside from that, I haven't heard any major gripes about Apple copying features from crippleware authors. Care to share?
... Computer companies sometimes die extremely fast. Novell,...
Novell is dead? Thats news to me! And I'm sure it comes as quite a shock to the millions of customers still using old proprietary Novell networks! Actually, come to think of it, I started hearing that Novell was dying about 7 or 8 years ago when I last worked in a Novell shop. And as much as I was overjoyed at this thought, it appears that not only are theynot dying, it also appears their stock has done pretty well over the last 6 months.
The upcoming version of Metallifizer is supposed to be able to remove the brushed metal frome the Finder without removing the toolbar. I tried it out, and while promising, its still a bit buggy for me to use.
A couple great places to check for refurbished Apple machines are Powermax.com and the Apple Store "Hot Deals" section. I've bought refurbished machines from both of these and had no problems. But these days, Apple is selling the G4 1.25GHz for $1299, so the savings you get from buying refurbished is negligible. I'm using one of these G4 systems as my main workstation now and I'd have no problem recommending it to anyone.
[1] And please don't give me the drive-to-work bullshit. The idea of living in a status symbol suburb, thus needing a long commute, is a recent aberation that has no sound logic. Hardly a "real need".
In a perfect world, we would all live a block or two from our job and be within walking distance from pretty much everything we could need (grocerys, etc).
Unfortunately, this world obviously isn't perfect. Reality dictates that you aren't going to always be able to find a job very close to your residence--and please don't give me the find-a-new-residence bullshit. In today's world, I would simply have to laugh at at anyone that insinuates that there is more logic to always making sure you live close enough to your job than there is to having a car to get you to work no matter where you live.
Pretty much everything else you said, I can agree with. But that last footnote of yours really hurt the credibility of your entire post.
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How many people do you know who won't ride the bus because of the "element" he or she will encounter?
Actually, every single person I can think of that won't ride the bus won't do so because it is an inconvenience. Riding the bus can easily add an additional hour to your daily travel time (to/from work), and with a wife and kids, I can think of many things I would rather be doing for that hour.
I'm sure there are people out there like you describe; I'm just glad that I don't know any of them.
You do know that the "patch" is a spyware style CGI script to log your browsing habits?
Wrong. Try actually reading the source, and you'll see that's not what it is at all. I don't even use IE, so my reading through the source was very quick, yet I was even able to pick up on how it actually works.
At least New York or San Francisco would have more to offer once you've been kicked out of the strip club.
If you really believe that, then you've either never been to Vegas, or you haven't spent enough time discovering the multitude of things Vegas has to offer besides gambling and strippers.
And beyond that, in Vegas I can stay in the same quality hotel room I'd get in either SF or NY, but with a price that lets me stay 2-3x longer.
3. Using WinXP (right click properties), apply batch Tags (artist, album title etc) to MP3s.
When you do this, is it just working with the filesystem metainfo that is available for all types of files, or is it actually working with the ID3 tags in the files? My initial thought was the former, but if it is the latter, then props to Winderz cuz thats pretty fsckin' cool.
1. AOL/TW will drop the AOL part and revert to Time-Warner.
Didn't they already do this? I could be mistaken, of course, but when you go to www.aoltimewarner.com, it redirects you to www.timewarner.com, where I can't find a single thing that has the AOL and Time-Warner names together.
What are you smoking? There were other music stores YEARS before Apple's that did roughly the same thing. A pretty interface does not an invention make, and that's really the only new thing Apple brought to the table. Ever hear of PressPlay, MusicMatch, or RealOne?
Roughly the same thing? A service that lets you listen to your music as long as you're a subscriber is equivalent to a service that sells you the music flat-out?
The interface is far from the only new thing Apple brought to the table. The you-own-it approach, also not the only new thing, is by far the most important thing Apple brought to the table. To me, a "music service" (PressPlay, MusicMatch) is a far cry from a "music store" (iTMS, BuyMusic.com, etc).
.... did you know any artist can submit stuff to the iTMS to be sold? Those that do aren't under the grip of big labels.. their deal is with Apple.
Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. Indie labels can strike deals with Apple, but not the artists themselves. The artists are still "under the grip" of a label, albeit one that probably cares a little more about them.
I used to have a USB hub that I eventually determined was the source of a long running string of kernel panics under 10.2.2-6.
Bad hardware can bring to a halt even the best operating systems.
... Putting a game through that one extra QA run probably means delaying the shipping date. Unfortunately the trend seems to be just that.. moving away from quality, towards 'assembly line' products ...
Three cheers for the developers of Duke Nukem Forever for choosing quality over 'assembly line' products!
. And frankly, WinXP SUCKS WHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING GAMES!
Frankly, WinXP sucks when it comes to a lot more than just running games.
Seriously, though, what specifically is so bad about gaming under XP? Personally I prefer consoles, but I have a number of friends that play a fairly wide variety of games under XP with no problems.
Isn't it Apple that forces the no-discount thing?
Obviously, I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn I've seen this a number of other places as well.
2) Apples and Oranges, POPFile isn't a spam filter, it's an email classification system.
Isn't this a bit nitpicky? It seems to me that a spam filter would be a type or subset of an email classification system, but beyond that, it seems like POPFile does a pretty good job at spam filtering (according to the parent post). To me, this makes its comparison to Thunderbird's built-in spam filters not so apples-and-oranges.
.... then it's not a bug, it's a poor design failure...
Which, to the end user, is the exact same thing.
I don't think it's unreasonable for Apple to take some time confirming the exploit, and planning an update. Remember when they released an update that broke things?
This exploit would take any qualified engineer at Apple less than a day to confirm, and it is serious enough that it shouldn't have to wait for a 10.x.z update to be fixed (and, in fact, 10.3 and 10.3.1, as well as in independent security update have all been released since Apple was notified of this issue). Any way that the entire system can be compromised remotely should be fixed immediately. Apple has released a few security updates that were completely independent of a whole system update, and they should have done exactly that in this case.
I love OS X, but this is completely unacceptable. I'm just glad my Macs don't use dhcp.
Why would anyone pay a fee to take a cab? Is it so hard to just walk?
Why would anyone pay a fee to watch cable TV? Is it so hard to just pull down the broadcasts with your own satellite dish?
While I could probably come up with a million more examples, the answer is always the same: because it is convenient. While I've never used this Netflix program, I imagine its appeal lies in its convenience.
Maybe Microsoft is just out to get you. I installed this new version on Saturday, and while its interface could use some work, I found the media support to be a million times better than the last version of WMP for OS X. It not only played the files that the last version wouldn't, but several files that had audio or video glitches when played with the last version now played flawlessly. Perhaps your installation got screwed up? Try reinstalling it, and more importantly, deleting its existing files from ~/Library/Preferences before you reinstall (this second part actually fixed an issue on my friend's machine).
And, while VLC is great, I have still come across a number of files (Windows Media in particular) that it won't play correctly or won't play at all. My best solution has come down to keeping updated versions of QuickTime, RealOne, Windows Media Player, VLC, and Mplayer around. In my experience, this has been the only way to make sure I can play every media file I come across.
.... . Don't recording engineers spend years of time in the studio to learn how to properly EQ whatever they're recording?
I don't give a rat's ass how many years some recording engineer spends learning how to properly EQ something. What I do care about is that the music sounding good to me. What is more reasonable--adjusting my EQ so that I like the sound or going out and spending money on "good,good speakers or headphones" in the hopes that I will like the result?
Maybe the average person doesnt understand an EQ, but that hardly makes "giving the general public an EQ" a "huge mistake".
A problem with Panther has been found with external FireWire drives, that causes FireWire disk partitions in Panther above 137GB to be shown as corrupt after a reboot, in most cases being entirely unaccessible and unusable.
I've been using a 160GB drive over Firewire since Jaguar. I did an "archive and install" of panther, and the same drive still works great.
I did, however, turn the drive off while I was installing the OS. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Or perhaps its a particular Firewire chip/controller causing the problem?
First, there was DevStudio (95 or so?).
Then, there was Visual Studio 97.
Then, there was Visual Studio 6.
Gotta love it...only in Microsoftland do version numbers "increase" from 97 to 6!
Apple copies a feature from a crippleware author ....
Like?
The only thing I've heard is that guy that wrote LiteSwitch X. Personally, I think that guy's ego is pretty big to think that the new cmd-tab feature in Panther was taken directly from LiteSwitch X. As other have mentioned, not only does the WinXP app switcher look very close, but many people that have never even seen LiteSwitch X have commented that the new Panther app switcher is exactly how they would have implemented it from scratch. There are only so many ways you can do an app switcher and still make it look good and be useable, so I think this guy from LiteSwitch X is truly just whining.
Aside from that, I haven't heard any major gripes about Apple copying features from crippleware authors. Care to share?
... Computer companies sometimes die extremely fast. Novell, ...
Novell is dead? Thats news to me! And I'm sure it comes as quite a shock to the millions of customers still using old proprietary Novell networks! Actually, come to think of it, I started hearing that Novell was dying about 7 or 8 years ago when I last worked in a Novell shop. And as much as I was overjoyed at this thought, it appears that not only are they not dying, it also appears their stock has done pretty well over the last 6 months.
The upcoming version of Metallifizer is supposed to be able to remove the brushed metal frome the Finder without removing the toolbar. I tried it out, and while promising, its still a bit buggy for me to use.
Hit the button in the top right-hand corner of the window, in the titlebar.
A couple great places to check for refurbished Apple machines are Powermax.com and the Apple Store "Hot Deals" section. I've bought refurbished machines from both of these and had no problems. But these days, Apple is selling the G4 1.25GHz for $1299, so the savings you get from buying refurbished is negligible. I'm using one of these G4 systems as my main workstation now and I'd have no problem recommending it to anyone.
[1] And please don't give me the drive-to-work bullshit. The idea of living in a status symbol suburb, thus needing a long commute, is a recent aberation that has no sound logic. Hardly a "real need".
In a perfect world, we would all live a block or two from our job and be within walking distance from pretty much everything we could need (grocerys, etc).
Unfortunately, this world obviously isn't perfect. Reality dictates that you aren't going to always be able to find a job very close to your residence--and please don't give me the find-a-new-residence bullshit. In today's world, I would simply have to laugh at at anyone that insinuates that there is more logic to always making sure you live close enough to your job than there is to having a car to get you to work no matter where you live.
Pretty much everything else you said, I can agree with. But that last footnote of yours really hurt the credibility of your entire post.