I hope you realize that if, heaven forbid, you are actually wrong, your going to jail will not be followed by your winning? (Nor will it be followed by your release from jail, at least not immediately, meanwhile the other large hairy prisoners will be violently applying their own personal values and morals to you...)
It is (more likely, was) official policy, possibly set out by the government, to give in to hijacker demands. This was based on the logic that allowing them to have their way was better than having them kill a few passengers. Of course, that was back when "their way" did not include the unthinkable.
So how do you plan to go about this? Pass a law mandating a maximum wage? Order people not to work as hard? Have some sort of "rich police" that goes around and confiscates the property of anyone deemed too far above-average?
If you're willing to work hard and you're good at what you do, no one else has any right to tell you your upper limit, so long as you stay within the rights of others as well.
Nobody cares whether YOU use Linux. What matters is whether the rest of the world does, or will ever want to, and the answer to that is no. Linux will not replace Windows until it does everything that Windows does, especially all the features geared towards novice users, and the elitist resistance to "dumbing down" open source software will never allow this to happen. Linux will remain designed by geeks for geeks and therefore incomprehensible to all normal people, and Windows will win by actually taking its target audience into consideration.
Curvy things in the OS are useful for 1 very good reason: They are available in the API. For a good use of real-time curve rendering that is actually useful as opposed to eye candy, check out the FileMerge tool in the developer package.
Double-click is just another degree of freedom for interface designers. Attach the second-most-commonly used function to it and it's just as fast as a single click, and faster than scrolling through a menu.
Double-clicking is only really used in the Mac OS for launching files, and that's because the 2 things you can do to files (open and select) are about equally common. Although lots of apps also use double clicks for common alternate tasks like bringing up options dialogs. There are a lot of places in a modern interface where there are two most-common-by-far (or sometimes even exactly 2) tasks that can be performed, and a double click works fine there.
[plus the usual argument about multiple mouse buttons]
...doesn't TCP/IP already have a system for prioritizing packets? Which no one (especially no router) uses for the obvious reason: It's too unregulated and too easy to exploit, especially if you let just anyone onto the net like today.
If this system goes through, all that will happen is that every single packet on the net is a priority-one red-alert packet and the routers will just start ignoring the priorities (again). There is no honor on a completely public medium, don't forget what happened to the idea of open relays.
You're still not safe from the raving maniacs: replace it with "open source" or "Open Source"? Because as we all know the fate of the planet hinges on that distinction.
You are completely missing the point. Sure, you can see your neighbors for free, but who is going to pay for that wireless LAN's connection to the internet?
It may solve this specific problem, but it doesn't change the fact that there is no easy way to recover from a compromised biometric. You can't exactly ask your admin to change your fingerprints:P
I am one of the people who wrote 3DOSX (UIUC MacWarriors). In response to everything posted so far:
Drag-and-drop support was the #1 feature that didn't make it in time for this release. We are currently deciding whether to continue to work on this (say, for an updated release at MacHack). We would add dragging, more file management functionality like renaming, and themes (support is ready, theme creation tools are not).
If you are having performance problems: Make sure that the window is small enough that the dock, and any other translucent windows you may have open, do not overlap the GL context. Also, if you have less than 16MB of VRAM, reduce the window size (preferences) and relaunch the app. OS X appears to fall back to software rendering if the hardware is inadequate.
Thank you for a) potentially increasing the cost to subscribers and b) hastening Slashdot's conversion to a subscription-only site and eventual demise. Have a nice day.
Someone who does not unilaterally praise Linux, demand that all information be free regardless of any associated costs, or fail to claim that any failure to reinforce the latter is an infringement on our personal God-given freedoms.
Correct, but the REAL reason is that Get Max OS X Software calls the system web browser listed in Internet preferences. When he deleted IE this setting was cleared, and he obviously never found and reset it, so nothing happens (he may notice this also breaks auto-detection of URLs in other apps).
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I hope you realize that if, heaven forbid, you are actually wrong, your going to jail will not be followed by your winning? (Nor will it be followed by your release from jail, at least not immediately, meanwhile the other large hairy prisoners will be violently applying their own personal values and morals to you...)
It is (more likely, was) official policy, possibly set out by the government, to give in to hijacker demands. This was based on the logic that allowing them to have their way was better than having them kill a few passengers. Of course, that was back when "their way" did not include the unthinkable.
So how do you plan to go about this? Pass a law mandating a maximum wage? Order people not to work as hard? Have some sort of "rich police" that goes around and confiscates the property of anyone deemed too far above-average?
If you're willing to work hard and you're good at what you do, no one else has any right to tell you your upper limit, so long as you stay within the rights of others as well.
Nobody cares whether YOU use Linux. What matters is whether the rest of the world does, or will ever want to, and the answer to that is no. Linux will not replace Windows until it does everything that Windows does, especially all the features geared towards novice users, and the elitist resistance to "dumbing down" open source software will never allow this to happen. Linux will remain designed by geeks for geeks and therefore incomprehensible to all normal people, and Windows will win by actually taking its target audience into consideration.
There is no rm -rf /* "bug". It was a typo in the install script that would have the same effect under any *nix and was removed in iTunes 2.02.
Curvy things in the OS are useful for 1 very good reason: They are available in the API. For a good use of real-time curve rendering that is actually useful as opposed to eye candy, check out the FileMerge tool in the developer package.
Double-click is just another degree of freedom for interface designers. Attach the second-most-commonly used function to it and it's just as fast as a single click, and faster than scrolling through a menu.
Double-clicking is only really used in the Mac OS for launching files, and that's because the 2 things you can do to files (open and select) are about equally common. Although lots of apps also use double clicks for common alternate tasks like bringing up options dialogs. There are a lot of places in a modern interface where there are two most-common-by-far (or sometimes even exactly 2) tasks that can be performed, and a double click works fine there.
[plus the usual argument about multiple mouse buttons]
C'mon, how many people, upon reading that headline, immediately thought of the "Killswitch" episode of X-files?
...doesn't TCP/IP already have a system for prioritizing packets? Which no one (especially no router) uses for the obvious reason: It's too unregulated and too easy to exploit, especially if you let just anyone onto the net like today.
If this system goes through, all that will happen is that every single packet on the net is a priority-one red-alert packet and the routers will just start ignoring the priorities (again). There is no honor on a completely public medium, don't forget what happened to the idea of open relays.
Did you miss the fact that "insignificant" costs are still not equal to zero? Or did you just never learn to count?
You're still not safe from the raving maniacs: replace it with "open source" or "Open Source"? Because as we all know the fate of the planet hinges on that distinction.
You are completely missing the point. Sure, you can see your neighbors for free, but who is going to pay for that wireless LAN's connection to the internet?
It may solve this specific problem, but it doesn't change the fact that there is no easy way to recover from a compromised biometric. You can't exactly ask your admin to change your fingerprints :P
You think Slashdotters actually READ these articles? You're new around here, aren't you?
Or your mother.
Wait, sorry, that's 15-year olds.
- Drag-and-drop support was the #1 feature that didn't make it in time for this release. We are currently deciding whether to continue to work on this (say, for an updated release at MacHack). We would add dragging, more file management functionality like renaming, and themes (support is ready, theme creation tools are not).
- If you are having performance problems: Make sure that the window is small enough that the dock, and any other translucent windows you may have open, do not overlap the GL context. Also, if you have less than 16MB of VRAM, reduce the window size (preferences) and relaunch the app. OS X appears to fall back to software rendering if the hardware is inadequate.
Thanks for the comments!Thank you for a) potentially increasing the cost to subscribers and b) hastening Slashdot's conversion to a subscription-only site and eventual demise. Have a nice day.
Someone who does not unilaterally praise Linux, demand that all information be free regardless of any associated costs, or fail to claim that any failure to reinforce the latter is an infringement on our personal God-given freedoms.
They already do. Most of Apple's RipMixBurn and iPod materials have "Don't steal music." at the bottom.
I anticipate a day, 2,000 years hence, when a copy of DeCSS becomes a new Rosetta stone for all those DVDs cluttering up archaeological institutes :P
Perhaps his anti-customization beliefs are the reason he has not yet changed him name to Jeff.
Correct, but the REAL reason is that Get Max OS X Software calls the system web browser listed in Internet preferences. When he deleted IE this setting was cleared, and he obviously never found and reset it, so nothing happens (he may notice this also breaks auto-detection of URLs in other apps).