So let me get this straight...not only have they capped my modem at a 128kbit upstream without announcing a change in my service agreement from a previous company, but now I have a $7/month rate hike coming, followed by any additional bandwidth metering fee they choose to charge me?
No, I'm not feeling raped by my ISP right now:P
DSL here I come...
"That's it, it's time to sell the car, Mona, we have to fund that OC3. Oh, and get me the folder for Little Timmy's college fund...it's got to go!"
"derived from a series of unique technologies that include the latest generation of psychoacoustic modeling, based on a deeper understanding of hearing physiology."
Jaguar -- 10.2 Developer Preview 1 -- was released at the World Wide Developer's Conference to registered attendees. Since then, it has filtered down to the Carracho and Hotline worlds.
"and i'm sure demand has nothing to do with AOTC opening in 1000 fewer theatres than Spider-Man..."
Actually, I think this had more to do with Lucas' personal qualms of letting his baby show in second-class theatres. It's a view that is somewhat justified, in the sense that he was merely protecting the final projection and experiential quality of his handiwork.
How many of us would spend years working on a cinematic creation, including millions extra for the ultimate in digital quality, and then allow the viewing experience to shoot it in the foot?
Frankly, I think this is exactly the kind of bloated feedback email that Apple will skip over quickly. Realize that the Apple employees assigned to this gig will have to go through hundreds, if not thousands of these emails because of this feedback page being Slashdotted.
If you want your opinion to be heard, I suggest the following:
Get to the point quickly: Bulleted lists of your points might be appropriate. Keep things as short as you can.
Talk about current problems and experiences, not old ones: They don't care about the Quadra you looked at 10 years ago, unless it relates to todays offerings.
Don't whine about things that won't change: The mouse is an example. Apple has had single button mice since the Apple IIe of 1983, and perhaps before. They're not going to change it, so quit your whining and buck up the $20 for a USB multibutton mouse.
Give suggestions: This hardly needs to be said to a good Slashdotter, I'm sure. Criticism means little if you don't have a better idea.
To clarify a few things, OS X is built upon, and supports the following architectures:
- Cocoa (Objective C)
- Carbon
- Java
- Classic (Mac OS 9 compatible apps)
- Support for all POSIX APIs
Microsoft Office v.X is built using Carbon. The Carbon API is essentially classic Mac OS C++ code updated to take advantage of the new OS X GUI toolbox, and to interact with the Mach microkernel. This allows Classic Mac OS applications to take advantage of SMP, etc, as well as other UNIX-esk benefits such as dynamic memory allocation, protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and other buzzword power.
Essentially Carbon is an API in and of itself, but still uses up to 95% of the Classic Mac OS code.
The Carbon API has been specifically designed for OS X and is not portable to other Unices, according to Apple, neither do they have any intention to attempt to do so.
Why not have password authentication based on a picture drawn by the user?
For example, the user draws the same simple picture several times, abstract or otherwise, and the computer images and stores the picture.
Next time the user wants to login, they are presented with a simple blank square in which to input their password.
This would be an interesting step up for non-typed password authentication. Apple has done some interesting things with voice password recognition in OS 9.x, but it wasn't 100% accurate.
And of course if you slap Type R or Powered By Mugen stickers on all your hamsters you'll get double the horsepower. And give em clear turn signals for at least another 10%.
That's just what we need! An API that hasn't been updated since 1985!
Oh! Lovely idea! Let's keep alive ANOTHER defunct, archaic standard in an operating system that's even sacrificing performance in backwards compatibility to get RID of the ridiculously outdated infrustructure of the classic Mac OS in favor of modernizing and UNIX-izing! Apparently some people aren't too clear on the concept of OS X.
Frankly, HyperCard stacks are not the prettiest thing to behold. Let's just let it die and be done with it. It will always run in Classic under OS X, to boot.
Since when is 32 megabytes on a card impressive? Maybe last year or the year before, but 64 is sort of standard now for any sort of high-end pro-line gaming or rendering card.
Why would they sight the memory in megaBITS? Sure it sounds more impressive to people that don't know the different between a megabyte and a megabit, but it's still ONLY 32 MEGABYTES!
I can't believe that none of my fellow geeks noticed the fact that every photo in the story was heinously doctored in Photoshop -- a 10 year old child could tell you that they don't look right! The masking is substandard, among other things.
CmdrTaco needs a swift boot to the head. He also needs to READ THE ARTICLES BEFORE HE BLOODY POSTS THEM! If the Slashdot staff, including CmdrTaco, don't have the time or energy to read the stories they're posting, they have no right to post opinionated commentary with the stories on the front page...they can save it for the comments subpages like all of the rest of the ignorant pigs that post prematurely on Slashdot.
See this URL to see the unofficial Darwin mascot, Hexley. Pretty cool if you ask me. Competes with Tux in cuteness and public likability but still has that Daemon underneath the soft lovable exterior. Worth checkin' out.
"Its really sad to see such a sweet machine crippled by lack of proper mouse buttons. "
If Slashdot and Slashdotters don't quit whinin' about Apple and their one mouse button, there will be spankings all around. See, that's the reason there's USB PERIPHERALS, so you can ADD a mouse with 8 buttons, or however many will make you shutup and enjoy a kick ass machine. So deal with it and move on.
Am I the only one wondering WHY this is cool? First off, it's just plainly sick to build an OS to run inside of Internet Exploiter, and secondly, exactly what are the features of this plugin? In other words, besides it's capabilities process-wise, what is it good for, and why would the average user give a damn 6 months from now?
The simple fact is that the themes in question violate Apple trademarks and copyrights. If someone did the same with VA Linux logos and widgets, VA Linux would do the very same thing.
Also, note the wording on the Themes.org site: they say that they "decided to accommodate Apple's request," not that Apple had sent them a cease and decist and would have sued their asses off if they had left them up. There's a big difference, but even at that point, Apple would have every right and legal responsibility to order the removal of their logo and trademarked/copyrighted names such as "Aqua" and "Mac".
This is a very reasonable request. Note also that Apple did not order the complete removal of all Mac OS themes, just the ones that contain their copyrighted and trademark logos and names.
I think Apple is being very reasonable, and should be applauded for not taking the makers of the themes in question, to court. As much as that may piss of open source advocates, protecting and defending your copyrighted and trademarked materials is imperative in modern business.
If you notice the info graphic for the story, here, says that the aparatus has a maximum speed of 80 MPH and a range of 150 miles.
It could be extrapolated from this that the average duration of use is around 1.4 hours. Unless, that is, it really HAS been too long since I took my last math course or I'm just plain wiggin' out:-)
iPatent: A means and service by which an individual can instantaneously patent anything that has not already been patented, with four mouse clicks (Quad-Click Shopping, U.S. Patent Pending) in quick succession (spaced at 0.1 - 0.5 seconds apart), via the Internet (U.S. Patent #: 5,657,839 by Al Gore, inventor). Upon initiation of the Quad-Click process, a meta-keyword search of the U.S. Patent Library commenses; if the meta-keyword search finds no patent with greater than 98.5% relevancy to the iPatent-submitted patent application, the patent is immediately approved.
Upon approval of my Quad-Click Shopping patent, anyone that clicks four times in the process of buying anything, must pay me licensing fees or I'll take their asses to court. Booh yeah, grandma;-)
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Welcome to America, where even our best students are utterly incapable of conceptualizing an ellipse!
So let me get this straight...not only have they capped my modem at a 128kbit upstream without announcing a change in my service agreement from a previous company, but now I have a $7/month rate hike coming, followed by any additional bandwidth metering fee they choose to charge me?
No, I'm not feeling raped by my ISP right now :P
DSL here I come...
"That's it, it's time to sell the car, Mona, we have to fund that OC3. Oh, and get me the folder for Little Timmy's college fund...it's got to go!"
Hell, even a crushed and burning Lego car looks better than an Aztec...
Sometimes a song is just a song...
"I, myself, never read any manuals that accompany the products I buy (but when does cheese-whiz really need instructions anyways?)"
Never.
-Cheesewhiz
Jaguar -- 10.2 Developer Preview 1 -- was released at the World Wide Developer's Conference to registered attendees. Since then, it has filtered down to the Carracho and Hotline worlds.
"and i'm sure demand has nothing to do with AOTC opening in 1000 fewer theatres than Spider-Man..."
Actually, I think this had more to do with Lucas' personal qualms of letting his baby show in second-class theatres. It's a view that is somewhat justified, in the sense that he was merely protecting the final projection and experiential quality of his handiwork.
How many of us would spend years working on a cinematic creation, including millions extra for the ultimate in digital quality, and then allow the viewing experience to shoot it in the foot?
He has a valid point...
Damned Reds, at it again!
First they try to destroy the free world, and now SPAM! Hmmm...perhaps there's a causal link somewhere here...
I wouldn't touch it with an iMac on a 10 foot pole if I had a tanzanian devil monkey gnawing through my arm.
If you want your opinion to be heard, I suggest the following:
Get to the point quickly: Bulleted lists of your points might be appropriate. Keep things as short as you can.
Talk about current problems and experiences, not old ones: They don't care about the Quadra you looked at 10 years ago, unless it relates to todays offerings.
Don't whine about things that won't change: The mouse is an example. Apple has had single button mice since the Apple IIe of 1983, and perhaps before. They're not going to change it, so quit your whining and buck up the $20 for a USB multibutton mouse.
Give suggestions: This hardly needs to be said to a good Slashdotter, I'm sure. Criticism means little if you don't have a better idea.
Also, this might be helpful: Apple History
I wonder what kind of delirious-sounding reports of strange monsters in Scottish waters this will provoke when it goes online...
- Cocoa (Objective C)
- Carbon
- Java
- Classic (Mac OS 9 compatible apps)
- Support for all POSIX APIs
Microsoft Office v.X is built using Carbon. The Carbon API is essentially classic Mac OS C++ code updated to take advantage of the new OS X GUI toolbox, and to interact with the Mach microkernel. This allows Classic Mac OS applications to take advantage of SMP, etc, as well as other UNIX-esk benefits such as dynamic memory allocation, protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and other buzzword power.
Essentially Carbon is an API in and of itself, but still uses up to 95% of the Classic Mac OS code.
The Carbon API has been specifically designed for OS X and is not portable to other Unices, according to Apple, neither do they have any intention to attempt to do so.
For example, the user draws the same simple picture several times, abstract or otherwise, and the computer images and stores the picture.
Next time the user wants to login, they are presented with a simple blank square in which to input their password.
This would be an interesting step up for non-typed password authentication. Apple has done some interesting things with voice password recognition in OS 9.x, but it wasn't 100% accurate.
This bill is awesome! I love it! Here's what it means to me:
- 10 years in Federal "Pound-Me-In-The-Ass" Prison for running a tracert through a New Jersey school from California without authorization. Yay!
- 10 Years in Federal "Pound-Me-In-The-Ass" Prison for pinging a computer in a New Jersey school, because I'm a dangerous "L337 H/\x()R"
Someone PLEASE hit this Senator very firmly between the eyes and tell him to go back to his Jersey cow padduck, don'tchaknow?
Isn't this old news? I remember seeing this quite a while ago in some newspapers and tech journals. Or is this a different event?
And of course if you slap Type R or Powered By Mugen stickers on all your hamsters you'll get double the horsepower. And give em clear turn signals for at least another 10%.
Oh! Lovely idea! Let's keep alive ANOTHER defunct, archaic standard in an operating system that's even sacrificing performance in backwards compatibility to get RID of the ridiculously outdated infrustructure of the classic Mac OS in favor of modernizing and UNIX-izing! Apparently some people aren't too clear on the concept of OS X.
Frankly, HyperCard stacks are not the prettiest thing to behold. Let's just let it die and be done with it. It will always run in Classic under OS X, to boot.
Since when is 32 megabytes on a card impressive? Maybe last year or the year before, but 64 is sort of standard now for any sort of high-end pro-line gaming or rendering card.
Why would they sight the memory in megaBITS? Sure it sounds more impressive to people that don't know the different between a megabyte and a megabit, but it's still ONLY 32 MEGABYTES!
Girly.
CmdrTaco needs a swift boot to the head. He also needs to READ THE ARTICLES BEFORE HE BLOODY POSTS THEM! If the Slashdot staff, including CmdrTaco, don't have the time or energy to read the stories they're posting, they have no right to post opinionated commentary with the stories on the front page...they can save it for the comments subpages like all of the rest of the ignorant pigs that post prematurely on Slashdot.
See this URL to see the unofficial Darwin mascot, Hexley. Pretty cool if you ask me. Competes with Tux in cuteness and public likability but still has that Daemon underneath the soft lovable exterior. Worth checkin' out.
If Slashdot and Slashdotters don't quit whinin' about Apple and their one mouse button, there will be spankings all around. See, that's the reason there's USB PERIPHERALS, so you can ADD a mouse with 8 buttons, or however many will make you shutup and enjoy a kick ass machine. So deal with it and move on.
Am I the only one wondering WHY this is cool? First off, it's just plainly sick to build an OS to run inside of Internet Exploiter, and secondly, exactly what are the features of this plugin? In other words, besides it's capabilities process-wise, what is it good for, and why would the average user give a damn 6 months from now?
The simple fact is that the themes in question violate Apple trademarks and copyrights. If someone did the same with VA Linux logos and widgets, VA Linux would do the very same thing.
Also, note the wording on the Themes.org site: they say that they "decided to accommodate Apple's request," not that Apple had sent them a cease and decist and would have sued their asses off if they had left them up. There's a big difference, but even at that point, Apple would have every right and legal responsibility to order the removal of their logo and trademarked/copyrighted names such as "Aqua" and "Mac".
This is a very reasonable request. Note also that Apple did not order the complete removal of all Mac OS themes, just the ones that contain their copyrighted and trademark logos and names.
I think Apple is being very reasonable, and should be applauded for not taking the makers of the themes in question, to court. As much as that may piss of open source advocates, protecting and defending your copyrighted and trademarked materials is imperative in modern business.
It could be extrapolated from this that the average duration of use is around 1.4 hours. Unless, that is, it really HAS been too long since I took my last math course or I'm just plain wiggin' out :-)
Upon approval of my Quad-Click Shopping patent, anyone that clicks four times in the process of buying anything, must pay me licensing fees or I'll take their asses to court. Booh yeah, grandma ;-)