Music service subscription per-month unlimited download GOOD
If you mean that, for as long as I pay a monthly fee, I can download music, and that I continue to have the music after I stop paying this fee, then that's cool for the customer, but seems horribly impractical as a way of making much money - I can download an awful lot of music in a one month period...
If you mean a service where you only have access to the music for as long as you pay for it, just no. I don't like the idea of my music disappearing as soon as I decide I no longer want to or are able to pay a monthly fee.
I've had this same problem, and it really pissed me off for a while.
Fortunately, Panther seems to have fixed this - in account prefs, the SMTP server dropdown has added a "Edit Servers" Option. If you're still in Jaguar, however, I believe you can kill servers by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. I managed this once in Jaguar, but I'm too lazy to try to figure out which entries to trash now. I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere, though.
You people just don't get it, do you?? You could have a massive button on IE's toolbar labelled "DISABLE POPUPS," and I would bet half of IE's users would never think to click it. Unless a feature is turned on, by default, and works without thinking about it, most users won't use it.
That website smells an awful lot like, "Let's see how many buzzwords we can fit into as small a space as possible!"
Of course, I didn't actually read any of it, so it could actually be damn cool. I'm personally of the opinion that we've yet to see a language that doesn't suck in one way or another...
Maybe this is The One (tm)... or have I been watching the Matrix a few too many times?
Writing and releasing destructive viruses is at least pretty nearly unquestionably immoral, but that's not the same as illegal. While in the US it may be (I'm not familiar with the applicable laws), I do recall reading an article somewhere stating that one of the problems tracking down virus writers is that in many countries there simply are no real laws concerning computer crimes like hacking or virus writing.
Does it use native Aqua controls yet? Until it does, I'm sticking with Camino and/or Safari. There's little enough difference (especially compared to Camino) to me, that how the controls look is a big deal to me. Aqua = pretty and blends in, other = UGLY.
"...when the pay-for-music service is easier, more reliable, higher quality, faster, has a more consistent selection, no chance of being sued... did I miss anything?"
In Jobs' words:
"We're going to fight illegal downloading by competing with it. We're not going to sue it. We're not going to ignore it. We're going to compete with it."
... to pronounce it dead when I think just about everyone here would agree it was never even close to alive? Does anyone use bluetooth?? Did anyone ever use it?
...nethack is the way to go! Sure it's only single player, but it's such a great game! I only discovered it recently, but it's already taking its toll on my schoolwork...
I don't actually know anything about the "toss-a-mac" you refer to, but it strikes me that the case handles on the new towers (G4 and G5) would be very toss-friendly...
Grab the two handles on top, spin around a coupla times, and HURL!
Well, I'm sorry if this is too much for you, but I *do* use a Mac as my primary computer, and as far as I'm concerned, if I can't rip the tracks to my iTunes library and transfer them to my iPod, the CD's broken. I. Sure, I could crack it, but that's a waste of time, and like as not it'll end up reducing the quality somewhat due to reencoding somewhere in the process.
Because if the virus uses their computer to propagete, its their fault.
That's the point. Such a scheme is based on the principle that if you patch and firewall your machine, and don't open random E-mails and so on, you can't get any viruses. In othr words, such a scheme is basically saying that if you get a virus, it's your owne damn fault. I agree with that principle in general (although if I run a ftpd, and someone discovers an exploit before it's publicly available, that's not my fault), but I still think that this is probably too extreme.
Does anyone know if robocode works right with this new version? It's the one program I've found that seems to run *much* better on windows Java distros than on OS X (it's basically unusable). I'd really like to see that working, because it's a great game, and a fun way to learn Java.
It's like the Germans with the Engima machine in WWII. They would never repeat a letter from the previous day's code in the next day's. As a result, if the Allies could crack one day's code, the number of possibilites for the next day's was significantly reduced. This ended up actually really helping the Allies' password-cracking efforts.
I once did a little palm programming, and I remember the emulator had a mode where it would randomly click on various controls and enter text really quickly, as a way of stress-testing your app, testing it's ability to handle any combination of input and options without blowing up. I wonder if something like that would be useful if the world of typically much-more complex PC programs...
Not really. Quantum computers can be (very loosely) described as similar number crunching to digital computers with massive parallelization capabilities - they can basically run a given problem with every possible input at once, and figure out which is the correct. Quantum computers running with traditional algorithms will be just as slow as normal computers, probably even slower, because by the time we have decent quantum computers, conventional computers will have advanced way beyond quantum in terms of conventional measurements like clock speed or bits processed.
Because as nice as Jabber may or may not be theoretically for whatever reasons (I don't know anything about it), AIM has one BIG advantage: EVERYONE USES IT. And if you try to get people to switch to a Jabber network from AIM, explaining that it's "open," you'll just get blank stares, and comments that "but all my friends use AIM!"
Technical superiority does not ensure success, unfortunately.
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Music service subscription per-month unlimited download GOOD
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If you mean that, for as long as I pay a monthly fee, I can download music, and that I continue to have the music after I stop paying this fee, then that's cool for the customer, but seems horribly impractical as a way of making much money - I can download an awful lot of music in a one month period
If you mean a service where you only have access to the music for as long as you pay for it, just no. I don't like the idea of my music disappearing as soon as I decide I no longer want to or are able to pay a monthly fee.
I've had this same problem, and it really pissed me off for a while.
Fortunately, Panther seems to have fixed this - in account prefs, the SMTP server dropdown has added a "Edit Servers" Option. If you're still in Jaguar, however, I believe you can kill servers by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. I managed this once in Jaguar, but I'm too lazy to try to figure out which entries to trash now. I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere, though.
If I have *one* person tell me, upon downloading this, "Hey, did you know that they can block popups now??", I think I *WILL* kill them.
*sigh*
You people just don't get it, do you?? You could have a massive button on IE's toolbar labelled "DISABLE POPUPS," and I would bet half of IE's users would never think to click it. Unless a feature is turned on, by default, and works without thinking about it, most users won't use it.
Give credit where credit is due.
(I acknowledge that you probably came up with this independently, but BBspot is just a damn funny site.)
That website smells an awful lot like, "Let's see how many buzzwords we can fit into as small a space as possible!"
... or have I been watching the Matrix a few too many times?
Of course, I didn't actually read any of it, so it could actually be damn cool. I'm personally of the opinion that we've yet to see a language that doesn't suck in one way or another...
Maybe this is The One (tm)
Writing viruses OTOH is unquestinably illegal.
Writing and releasing destructive viruses is at least pretty nearly unquestionably immoral, but that's not the same as illegal. While in the US it may be (I'm not familiar with the applicable laws), I do recall reading an article somewhere stating that one of the problems tracking down virus writers is that in many countries there simply are no real laws concerning computer crimes like hacking or virus writing.
Most computer science students I know haven't been corrupted yet and still have a high work ethic
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I should introduce you to some of my friends
Does it use native Aqua controls yet?
Until it does, I'm sticking with Camino and/or Safari. There's little enough difference (especially compared to Camino) to me, that how the controls look is a big deal to me. Aqua = pretty and blends in, other = UGLY.
In Jobs' words:
... to pronounce it dead when I think just about everyone here would agree it was never even close to alive? Does anyone use bluetooth?? Did anyone ever use it?
...nethack is the way to go! Sure it's only single player, but it's such a great game! I only discovered it recently, but it's already taking its toll on my schoolwork...
I don't actually know anything about the "toss-a-mac" you refer to, but it strikes me that the case handles on the new towers (G4 and G5) would be very toss-friendly...
Grab the two handles on top, spin around a coupla times, and HURL!
Well, I'm sorry if this is too much for you, but I *do* use a Mac as my primary computer, and as far as I'm concerned, if I can't rip the tracks to my iTunes library and transfer them to my iPod, the CD's broken. I. Sure, I could crack it, but that's a waste of time, and like as not it'll end up reducing the quality somewhat due to reencoding somewhere in the process.
For now. How long until one or three of those changes?
How well does that work between applications?
Because if the virus uses their computer to propagete, its their fault.
That's the point. Such a scheme is based on the principle that if you patch and firewall your machine, and don't open random E-mails and so on, you can't get any viruses. In othr words, such a scheme is basically saying that if you get a virus, it's your owne damn fault. I agree with that principle in general (although if I run a ftpd, and someone discovers an exploit before it's publicly available, that's not my fault), but I still think that this is probably too extreme.
Does anyone know if robocode works right with this new version? It's the one program I've found that seems to run *much* better on windows Java distros than on OS X (it's basically unusable). I'd really like to see that working, because it's a great game, and a fun way to learn Java.
It's like the Germans with the Engima machine in WWII. They would never repeat a letter from the previous day's code in the next day's. As a result, if the Allies could crack one day's code, the number of possibilites for the next day's was significantly reduced. This ended up actually really helping the Allies' password-cracking efforts.
Well, I can't answer for the rest of them, but the dna game-playing computer one has already been posted to /.: World's First Game-Playing DNA Computer
I once did a little palm programming, and I remember the emulator had a mode where it would randomly click on various controls and enter text really quickly, as a way of stress-testing your app, testing it's ability to handle any combination of input and options without blowing up. I wonder if something like that would be useful if the world of typically much-more complex PC programs...
A software license that can fit in one screen in a readable font?!?!??!?
I *knew* I liked those open-source guys!
Not really. Quantum computers can be (very loosely) described as similar number crunching to digital computers with massive parallelization capabilities - they can basically run a given problem with every possible input at once, and figure out which is the correct. Quantum computers running with traditional algorithms will be just as slow as normal computers, probably even slower, because by the time we have decent quantum computers, conventional computers will have advanced way beyond quantum in terms of conventional measurements like clock speed or bits processed.
'Don't write the code. Connect two things with an object, and hit a button.'
... Is it just me, or does that sound an AWFUL lot like what Apple's had in Interface Builder for a while now?
hmm
Creating an OS X Web Browser without writing any code
That quite literally is connecting a few things and hitting a button to get a working web browser.
Because as nice as Jabber may or may not be theoretically for whatever reasons (I don't know anything about it), AIM has one BIG advantage: EVERYONE USES IT. And if you try to get people to switch to a Jabber network from AIM, explaining that it's "open," you'll just get blank stares, and comments that "but all my friends use AIM!"
Technical superiority does not ensure success, unfortunately.