Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm). Is this a bad thing?
Well, back in the early days there was no Word or Excel for people to take classes on...
Back then, there weren't the number of applications we have in everyday use today, so there wasn't a need for classes and books on how to use them. Instead, due to the lack of applications, we needed to learn to program so we'd have something to run.
Plus computers were such a new thing, and it was something not a lot of others were doing at the time.
I imagine all the folks who take part in robot battles and other robotics hobby stuff will have a similar lament 20 years from now when robotics becomes so mainstream that there's more courses and books on using your RoboButler 3000 than how to build a robot.
This isn't exactly a new idea... Anyone who's watched old TV shows like Jack Benny have seen 'live commercials'. Like when the star of the show comes out and talks for a minute about their sponsor's product, then they return to the next act of the show.
That's the problem with Bush... It's so hard to tell whether he's making a legitimate joke, or yet another one of his trademark comments that make him look like an idiot.
I had an older 30 GB iPod, that was almost full - 99.5% of which was from CDs I own. I few months back I bought a 60GB 5G iPod so I'd have room to grow.
If I were to load all my parents' CDs onto an iPod, I'd fill up 30 GB no problem. And if I were to load all their old records and cassette tapes as well, I'd probably fill up a 100 GB iPod easily, if one existed.
Unless you're wanting to speedily send a file to someone, I can't see that having a much lower upload speed would be that big a deal.
If I want to open a video clip stored on one of these remote drives, it's definitely annoying if I have to wait a minute for enough of the file to be downloaded to start playing the video. But if I have the same video that I want to upload to a remote drive, it's no big deal if I start the transfer, then go and do something else while it's quietly uploading in the background.
Now if someone was foolish enough to use it as a working drive (i.e. the video you're currently editing, or the source code for your project) then it would be very slow going. But you'd just have to do the editing on a local copy, then save it to the remote drive and you'd be fine.
Good theory, but one problem. Apple has released a beta version of Boot Camp, and it sounds like the "official non-beta" version won't be available until Leopard is released, either late this year or early next year - I can't remember which. By which point Adobe's Universal Binaries may be ready.
Plus, how many offices would want to purchase both Windows XP and the Windows version of photoshop just to get a speed increase, if they know they'll have to buy the UB Photoshop just a little ways down the road?
Well I guess that Apple tries to fix their karma with this release... When someone hacked their system they now need to do full 180 degree turn and say: "we where all the time going to support this but dammn those guys hit the goal first..."
More likely, Apple had already been working on this for a while and in typical Apple fashion kept very quiet about it. And when the contest appeared, they probably held back a bit to let a true hacker win and have his 15 minutes of fame. It probably would have looked worse for Apple if they released Boot Camp first, like they only did it to keep someone else from getting the prize or figuring out how to do it themselves.
Also, they didn't exactly do a 180 here - Apple had publicly stated that they weren't going to do anything to prevent people from installing Windows on an Intel Mac.
...MacOS X iTunes has support for VFAT. Windows iTunes has no support for HFS+
More specifically, MacOS supports VFAT, and Windows doesn't support HFS. The iTunes software only reads whatever the operating system is able to.
I always think it's stupid of Microsoft... Of the Big 3 (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Windows is the only one that doesn't know how to read non-Microsoft-created filesystems (aside from universal standards like that of CD-ROMs).
But if I can comment on your anecdote, I should say that I haven't had that same problem personally. I bought my 3G iPod back before I got my Mac, so it was formatted on Windows. After I bought my Mac, it still worked fine leaving it at VFAT. However... If I wanted to install a firmware upgrade, then I needed to either reformat it as HFS, or use my PC to install the updates.
My brother has a VFAT-formatted 5G iPod, and we plug it into my Mac on occasion to transfer files over to it. I've never once been prompted to reformat it, but then again, I always tell it not to link to my library. Perhaps that's what does it, and it's something that's changed for the newer iPods.
If you're tired of all the traditional North American board games, I've recently discovered that there's plenty of great European games, such as Puerto Rico, Settlers of Catan, Carcasonne, and many others. Just check out your local game shop.
They're more expensive than the standard fare from Parker Brothers but they're a lot more fun and re-playable.
DVD players that are capable of upconversion to HD resolutions still refuse to do
I don't really understand much about HDTVs and how they handle all the various type of video, so I'm wondering why this is a big deal, whether or not DVD video gets upscaled? Do you have to go through menus to change resolution or something whenever you want to play a lower resolution signal?
I've gotten tired of hearing the constant stream of "So-and-so is now selling something-or-other on iTunes" announcements lately, when absolutely zero TV shows are on the Canadian store.
I don't get why Apple only has permission to sell stuff only in certain regions - like lots of albums in the US store that aren't in the Canadian store. With physical media, it's not like if I zip across the border into Washington, the people at the store can't sell me a particular CD because they don't have permission to sell it to Canadians, so why is it the case with iTunes?
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Anyone else read the title as meaning McNealy had made Steve Jobs clones?
Now, evidently, most high school computer classes are about Word (tm) and Excel (tm). Is this a bad thing?
Well, back in the early days there was no Word or Excel for people to take classes on...
Back then, there weren't the number of applications we have in everyday use today, so there wasn't a need for classes and books on how to use them. Instead, due to the lack of applications, we needed to learn to program so we'd have something to run.
Plus computers were such a new thing, and it was something not a lot of others were doing at the time.
I imagine all the folks who take part in robot battles and other robotics hobby stuff will have a similar lament 20 years from now when robotics becomes so mainstream that there's more courses and books on using your RoboButler 3000 than how to build a robot.
Ninja!
This isn't exactly a new idea... Anyone who's watched old TV shows like Jack Benny have seen 'live commercials'. Like when the star of the show comes out and talks for a minute about their sponsor's product, then they return to the next act of the show.
Nope... I just subscribed, and am downloading all the songs lightning fast.
I suspect the MP3s are on a different server from the web site.
Here's the link to his "Thing a Week" podcast in iTMS, which includes the Code Monkey song.
That's the problem with Bush... It's so hard to tell whether he's making a legitimate joke, or yet another one of his trademark comments that make him look like an idiot.
I had an older 30 GB iPod, that was almost full - 99.5% of which was from CDs I own. I few months back I bought a 60GB 5G iPod so I'd have room to grow.
If I were to load all my parents' CDs onto an iPod, I'd fill up 30 GB no problem. And if I were to load all their old records and cassette tapes as well, I'd probably fill up a 100 GB iPod easily, if one existed.
Only because they mistakenly think it's the lineup for the washrooms.
Away with you and your foul mouth! We're better off without IE.
Unless you're wanting to speedily send a file to someone, I can't see that having a much lower upload speed would be that big a deal.
If I want to open a video clip stored on one of these remote drives, it's definitely annoying if I have to wait a minute for enough of the file to be downloaded to start playing the video. But if I have the same video that I want to upload to a remote drive, it's no big deal if I start the transfer, then go and do something else while it's quietly uploading in the background.
Now if someone was foolish enough to use it as a working drive (i.e. the video you're currently editing, or the source code for your project) then it would be very slow going. But you'd just have to do the editing on a local copy, then save it to the remote drive and you'd be fine.
Let me guess... a couple arms reach out of the TV to hold me in place, and hold my eyelids open?
No, they're not able to force people to watch ads - just make it impossible to skip playing them.
Good theory, but one problem. Apple has released a beta version of Boot Camp, and it sounds like the "official non-beta" version won't be available until Leopard is released, either late this year or early next year - I can't remember which. By which point Adobe's Universal Binaries may be ready.
Plus, how many offices would want to purchase both Windows XP and the Windows version of photoshop just to get a speed increase, if they know they'll have to buy the UB Photoshop just a little ways down the road?
Funny... following your link to "The Missing Link" says "The page cannot be found." So I guess that means it's still missing? :)
Well I guess that Apple tries to fix their karma with this release... When someone hacked their system they now need to do full 180 degree turn and say: "we where all the time going to support this but dammn those guys hit the goal first..."
More likely, Apple had already been working on this for a while and in typical Apple fashion kept very quiet about it. And when the contest appeared, they probably held back a bit to let a true hacker win and have his 15 minutes of fame. It probably would have looked worse for Apple if they released Boot Camp first, like they only did it to keep someone else from getting the prize or figuring out how to do it themselves.
Also, they didn't exactly do a 180 here - Apple had publicly stated that they weren't going to do anything to prevent people from installing Windows on an Intel Mac.
a slashdot editor knows that the ponies from My Little Pony are from Butterfly Island
Where did you get that idea? It clearly says "From the site:" before the Butterfly Island stuff. Doesn't mean any editors know what it is.
...MacOS X iTunes has support for VFAT. Windows iTunes has no support for HFS+
More specifically, MacOS supports VFAT, and Windows doesn't support HFS. The iTunes software only reads whatever the operating system is able to.
I always think it's stupid of Microsoft... Of the Big 3 (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Windows is the only one that doesn't know how to read non-Microsoft-created filesystems (aside from universal standards like that of CD-ROMs).
But if I can comment on your anecdote, I should say that I haven't had that same problem personally. I bought my 3G iPod back before I got my Mac, so it was formatted on Windows. After I bought my Mac, it still worked fine leaving it at VFAT. However... If I wanted to install a firmware upgrade, then I needed to either reformat it as HFS, or use my PC to install the updates.
My brother has a VFAT-formatted 5G iPod, and we plug it into my Mac on occasion to transfer files over to it. I've never once been prompted to reformat it, but then again, I always tell it not to link to my library. Perhaps that's what does it, and it's something that's changed for the newer iPods.
Whoa, that's interesting.
I wonder if any Australians slashdotters can fill us in on what's over there?
No colon? Man, that's got to mess up their bowel movements somehow!
Yeah, but 99% of those are "Why our computers are better than Dell's" pages, not quite what the writer was talking about.
If you're tired of all the traditional North American board games, I've recently discovered that there's plenty of great European games, such as Puerto Rico, Settlers of Catan, Carcasonne, and many others. Just check out your local game shop.
They're more expensive than the standard fare from Parker Brothers but they're a lot more fun and re-playable.
DVD players that are capable of upconversion to HD resolutions still refuse to do
I don't really understand much about HDTVs and how they handle all the various type of video, so I'm wondering why this is a big deal, whether or not DVD video gets upscaled? Do you have to go through menus to change resolution or something whenever you want to play a lower resolution signal?
At first glance, I thought the title was Gauging Google's Giraffes ...
Too bad the TV shows are US only.
I've gotten tired of hearing the constant stream of "So-and-so is now selling something-or-other on iTunes" announcements lately, when absolutely zero TV shows are on the Canadian store.
I don't get why Apple only has permission to sell stuff only in certain regions - like lots of albums in the US store that aren't in the Canadian store. With physical media, it's not like if I zip across the border into Washington, the people at the store can't sell me a particular CD because they don't have permission to sell it to Canadians, so why is it the case with iTunes?
Cool. Saves me the trouble of reaching for the power button myelf. Not that I ever turn it off, for that matter.