although i agree that the original post should have been aimed at the Firefox/Mozilla forums... what's going on with all these whiners here, man? Bunch of perfect huys, huh? never make mistakes? jesus christ, the editors let one lousy story out of hundreds get past em? let's lynch 'em, oh yeah. Fuck that, ya bunch of fucking babies, go get a movable type page and do better, if you think you can. Slashdot's full of great stuff. insightful [not always], funny as fucking hell sometimes, always worth a shot. Good thing i'm not in charge here, you whiners would be out bahhing at each other on some weakass IRC channel.
I read the Russian guy's version of 'what's wrong here', and i gotta say, after having lived outside the US for a lot of years, and returning... America seems a lot more complicated when viewed from within. From abroad we look like a dangerous (as in murderous, shallow, greedy) nation, led by simpletons and corporate toadies, and supported [voted-in] by self-centered morons.
But after seeing the pathetic excuse for 'news' reporting and lack of anything like self-awareness, history, etc, the American people are too ignorant to 'decide' anything, based on anything besides their own short-sighted, fear-inspired 'reactions' to being manipulated.
To change, or 'improve' the voting mechanism, or 'transparency', would be 'putting lipstick on a pig'. Too little, too late, and totally irrelevant to the larger, global reality, and history. [which will, one day, lump our post-WWII period in with Hitler's Germany, and other notables of that ilk]. The only notable difference being that we, and our corporations, will kill far more people than Hitler ever would have imagined getting away with.
I'll second that. I moved to Syracuse 18 months ago, while still desktop publishing for a co. in Florida. The co. went belly-up a week after my arrival here. Now? Working full-time [good news in this town], but being paid way under [get this] even the the lower-than-national-average 'local' mean for my work. I do SGML markup after some serious-ass proofreading [repurposing of hard text, etc].
The people up here are great though. In between jobs [a long 'in between'] I frequented the Dept of Labor. The people working there were as helpful as could be, for months and months. And the whole town has that working-class camaraderie 'thing', with a lot of regular folks, good-natured, no question....
But, in the Dep't of Labor...There they were, up on the walls, founders of Unions, labor activists, etc... and it just struck me that here in New York, where a lot of the laws got made that ended child labor and the myriad forms of abuse that workers suffered at the hands of greedy companies, it's all seemed to come back full circle to a 'sad' version of America. When I see the occasional Bush/Carey signs on lawns, even in Tipperary Hill, it makes me want to puke.
CSI is boring; heavy on the drama,
light on the science.
Exactly goddammed right, and the tip-off is simple: Not once have they peeled some guy's jeans and stuff off, and had a character exclaim, "Jeeze, didn't your mom ever tell ya to wear clean undies everyday, just in case?"
For an even worse example of something similar, look at the show "Crossing Jordan"...snipped... Maybe if the show had a detective, an ADA...snip... it would work better... think "Law & Order" with just a focus on CSI...
Whoa there pardner...'Claire' got run over on Law & Order by a drunk, so she can't go back there again, and if it hadn't been for 'Quincy' (or maybe it was Sam), stitchin' her back together...she'd never have made it to where she's at...as 'Jordan'
Since when has TV had any resemblance to reality? If you want that all you gotta do is hunker down and go outside, you know, where the people and animals and brick-and-mortar stores are at.
It's a crazy idea, I know, and not for the timid, but...
Re:Did Copland failing actually help Apple succeed
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No flames from me. I love the Mac, run OSX here at home, but I use NT 4.0 at work on an old Deskpro, with 300 MBs of memory [Vs. a Gig of RAM at home], and my job requires maybe 8 big apps all working together and it goes off without a hitch. Since April I haven't seen even a hint of our office Network getting shaky, never mind crashing. Nobody can tell me that multitasking is Apple's 'turf'. Watch what happens when you click yer Safari Bookmarks menu the first time after launch,(i use firefox) or ask the Finder to do 2 things at once... heheh, yeah, I can run Final Cut loaded with plugs, but it's the 'little things' that drive a person half bananas....
Probably bought with seriously inflated AOL stock. The timing was about right
I'm surprised nobody's commented on the link in the story that connects to the Slashdot posts when the iPod (5GB, my iPod) was launched.... heheh, the number of 'geeks' who figured it would never 'make it' or compete with the Rio [et al] is hilarious. Look for the "internet crowd didn't get it' type link
What ough to be our friend today can be our worst nightmare tomorrow.
That's very true, but strategic thinking sometimes allows one to utilize 'opportunities' to achieve a longterm goal, even if the 'opportunity' itself is transient in character
The Arabic proverb that covers this is: "My enemy's enemy is my friend"
I agree with all these points, but... the Firefox browser is not ready for prime time on a Mac, yet, so adding more 'features' sounds beside-the-point. I use it for the Extensions and the searhsite additions. Very very cool those things...
I use OmniWeb, Firefox and Opera (paid), so I see the variety. But firefox, as cool as it is, has these annoying situations:
1-The Downloads Window. No matter what the Prefs are set at, it asks every time "Do you want to do this?" I have it set to download to a folder in my home directory. If i click OK it drops another part of the Window that says [basically] you can set these prefs in the Preferences. Duh!!! and then what? More of the same, anyway.
2-Upgrading/updates. Why are the user-selected "Search site" additions loaded into the the.pkg [.app/Contents...]? They get over-written in an update to the browser version. Very stupid.
3-Bookmarks menu. If a window isn't open, the links in Bookmarks menu are 'dead'. Brilliant.
There's more, plenty, and it's frustrating, because it's a really great browser. Speed [ok,one more bitch]... maybe it's faster than Explorer in XP [wouldn't know], but it is slower than Omni or Safari on a Mac. If they're gonna bog it down with 'features', then the features should work.
Omni is a paid app, yeah, but it's worth it. It's the only true 'alternative' browser for the Mac. A few more tweaks to the ad-blocking, and incorporation of the search-site additions utility, and it'll rule the roost here, it'll be bye-bye Firefox.
Mod me down, I don't care. It ain't sour grapes here. It is easy to accept that windows/linux issues are more important than worrying about 25mil Mac users. I'm fine with that. But they should pop a disclaimer to the effect that it is semi-crippled in the Macintosh world.
I'm looking at 50k of miltary stuff to convert to SGML, as my work, and don't have time to navigate the maze of bugzilla reports. I doubt that Mac-related issues are even on the 'radar' at mozilla. And, yeah, I donated and fully support moz.dev and the whole bunch, regardless. A couple/gals could tweak the osx pkg very easily, no doubt...until then, well, we'll see [sent thru Firefox, heheh]
Funny you should ask... That's what my work involves, turning all the tech/troubleshooting manuals into XML. (it's a tough job at the start, you should see the womnky, typo-ridden souce)
The guys in the closest support areas have access to state-of-the-art test gear. Ground-based, air-based 'quick-look' radar, ECCM stuff (electronic counter-counter measures), anti-sniper radar, you name it.The kids can do a lot of work, before getting close to 'shipping it back'.
I'm not a 'war-guy', and have negative feelings about where they're at, but the kids didn't choose their battles, neither did the military, itself. But aside from the fact that a 'basic' military education may not be harvard-enough for some folks, there are some bright folks in the military, don't kid yourself.
If I was in a life-and-D jam, I'd take a military kid with a basic education, with his own integrity, next to me, rather than a low-C slacker like the Commander-in-Chief...any day of the week.
The 'geeky' guys and ladies I work with all feel pretty much the same. We put aside our feelings about the politicians, and think of the kids out there... and try to get it right.
Since before the AOL/TW merger, AOL has had large monthly cancellations,hence the need to keep 'adding' 'new' clients, in order to keep top-line revenue streams, satisfy stockholders (prop up value of stock 'paper' currency) etc.
The Internet, and its user base.. are expanding.. at the margins. NOT in the center where all the 'smart' people are.Okay? Look down on newbies? Wow, that's bold... So, those 'coasters' are bringing in newbies at the margin... new folks, meaning.. the 20 million people there, haven't been there all along.
The ones who stay have their own reasons (documented in the articles here)...but the majority are strictly the result of simple 'turnover'
Ha ha,yeah, I nit-picked/fished the red herring out of the comment. Cheap, I know.
Really, I got a kick and a half watching my old roomie, Troy, as he stayed 'on the tip' with the online PC gamer thing. He'd come out of his room, once in days, bug-eyed, bleary, mumbling BIOS this...new character-creationutility that... it was great fun actually. And his PC running Win98 was amazing for games (surround sound, of course, all the doodads).
But while all that was going on I was running an investment analysis biz, and publishing weekly and a monthly tabloid on a Powerbook (ext. monitor)... And it used to kill me, the old 'myth' regarding PCs being the 'business' machine. Most PCs are cash registers or glorified typewriters...and when you really nail somebody down about biz apps, speed, security, cross-platform integration, ease of networking, etc... the PC guy will throw up his hands and say, "What about Games?"
And they have a point there, no question about it. So, yeah, the old toy vs. Biz vs what(?) thing is silly, sure, and Apple got suckered into the 'art' thing 'for the rest of us' [by their own in--house guys]. I use PCs at work, no probs, but my Powerbok is an insanely great biz box, no question.
... so, let me get this straight, you don't mind spending a fortune swapping hardware bits, and pulling your hair out chasing the 'right' BIOS, but you're too cheap to buy a third-party multi-button mouse???
Apple will be right with ya, start holdin' yer breath......now.
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I wish more people, Christians, folks of other faith, and the huge numbers of non-aligned ordinary folk, who really are just trying to live their lives, work, feed and raise their families.. could see this post. I can't call myself a Christian, but I recall Christ saying something along the lines of, "by their actions, so shall ye know them." I think that's how it went.
And in that respect, America's actions belie all this born-again nonsense, and the posturing and arrogance that certain administrations practice in 'our' (US citizens) name. It's not right.
An honest look at Judaism and Islam (amongst others) will show remarkable 'overlap' regarding 'the way'. All three religions are really more 'verbal', in that they are about how to live, not just what to 'believe', and even less about 'what to say' about one's beliefs. All three of those faiths are descendents of Abraham, although you'd never know it from the looks of things, today.
I am under no illusion that Sen. Kerry is 'the Answer', nor that he will make everything better. But, for any person, group, race, or nation, sometimes the best way to 'make things better', is simply to stop making them worse. America doesn't have to roll over because of whatever 'opinion' others may have of it, but it can stop creating its own victims and enemies and hatred. Will we still have enemies? Of course. But they will, like America itself, have to face a day of reckoning, at some point.
For us, doing the 'wrong' thing for the 'right' reason, is, always has been, and always will be, the wrong thing; Rationale is not a determinant of morality, it's an excuse for an action. I just hope that a lot of folks look into their hearts and consult whatever Higher Power they turn to in times of trouble, before voting.
Heheh. Whoa, pardner. I have been on Apple gear since before the Mac, and I despise the 'snob' thing too. But,really, there's the same cross-section of types-of-user in the mac zone as in the PC zone. My roomie in Boca had a tricked-out, built from scratch gamer juggernaut (runnin Win98). It was way cool for games, but he didn't use it for anything else. But so what, it was fucking perfect for the big games. I prefer macs, but am under no illusions about any user-superiority thing. People buy Macs for a lot of different reasons. But those that buy em because they're more expensive=better are just like all lamers everywhere who prove money doesn't guarantee having brains, taste, etc.
I'm not sure that's the case. I work on a small XML coding (private contractor) project for the DoD. Manuals and systems stuff. Can't really talk about it, but I know that a lot of radar and older systems are actually running a somewhat hardened version of NT.
But for more than a few years now, US Mil has been a big buyer of Apple gear. iMacs (they made the first real big-numbers purchase, which actually lifted Apple stock), to the more popular G5s and Xserves. I know they run some open source, but really, a lot more OSX (Panther/Jag/+ the servers) than people are generally aware of.
We also do some work for the aircraft cos., and they are also using some Apple stuff, mostly for research into aerodynamics, and trajectories, stuff like that. Not on the same scale as the Military, though.
As a longtime Mac user who actually started out in Fortran and stuff like that (think Silicon valley, mid-70s), I am happy to see such broad, and rather 'deep' acceptance of this 'new', old platform. I'm happy we use the Unix-like hybrid, Apple is commendable that way, but the Linux/OpenSouce/Unix user/developer people are the other half of the equation that makes the Mac OS exciting for me these days. I don't know enough about the GPL and issues that might keep DoD, NSA, and those guys 'mum' regarding their on-going work on their own variation of Linux. Maybe that's why this one site didn't have a link. I don't know.
A lifelong friend of mine's Dad was in charge of Computer Hybrid Systems at Lockheed Missiles & Air, for many years. In those days, incompatible meant exactly that, no 'unless', no ands,ifs, or buts... but they made stuff work together like Swiss watches (not swatches, either). The old man uses a nice fat Macintosh these days. He likes the cross-platform aspects, and loves the security. The military might share his opinion, from the looks of it.
It won't last. As someone else pointed out. Hollywood used Canada for a while until the locals wised up and prices went up.
Well, someone else was out of it on the factual side of things. Prices only went up in terms of the currency exchange rate, which made the Canadian prices (not bad for what is considered an extremely talented film crew bunch) seem higher in US dollars
Insurance rates are high in the US, due to 'frivolous lawsuits"? Sorry pal, frivolous lawsuits get thrown out of court with the plaintiff paying both sides of the legal fees...
Maybe you meant: "Skyrocketing settlements"? The right wing and anti-regulatory guys (Enron's pals), like that old chestnut, too. But check the facts, settlements on the whole, AND on the average have been dropping steadily since the mid-Eighties...Next
This post is full of similarly weird assumptions, and you get modded 'insightful'?
Interesting.
No, not the article, the logic of the whole 'mod' biz.
MacOSX could be with some cash (which they have lots of) but their target markets aren't hardcore techies, it's graphic designers and iPod buyers.
wow, that's good to know, I was confused about 'techies', especially the 'hardcore' ones.. i was thinking maybe the US military's new supercomputer cluster, or the software tester for it, at Univ of Maine, or the huge numbers of applied engineering guys at NASA, and places like that, or those 'softcore' guys at UCLA's Blood Plasma Research facility. All of them using G5 servers and OSX, they must be designing web sites, at all those joints,eh?
Silly me, huh?
"Hardcore techies".. uh, who dat? Ya mean Linux kids who are turning Firefox into a slug on the Mac? Or those guys with the IBM-style, ca. 1960s attitude, that figure the fewer white guys that can run it, the more obtuse the installation and config, the better? mister, your 'spew' Re: whom Apple might be 'aiming at' is soooo early 90s.
mod me down, ouch, so what? I remember guys building radios, and the first home-based computers out of Mechanix Illustrated, and huge Recorders that listened to Sputnik going beep-beep, beep-beep, and took up a whole den in a house in the process, so i love techies... but being a techie isn't a license to generalize in such an out-dated, poorly-informed fashion... matter of fact it's kinda contrary to the whole 'techie' thing, isn't it?... just wonderin'
I have to say, I don't remember much from when I was five years old. I remember where I lived and maybe can guesstimate where I spent a specific summer,...(snipped)...I can recall some images from the past, but I am not sure whether those are "true" memories or something synthesised by brain to "fill in the blank". This leads me to believe that human memory is rather lossy and...
If your memories of later in life are equally intermittent or lacking in detail, that might be a problem.
I, too have a bit of trouble with the age of five, but remember a near-death experience at 3 yrs old, vivdly. Seeing Elvis on TV at age 4 is clear, as is a cross-country trip at 7. The journey, at 7, is like a movie to me, whereas the trauma at 3, and all the excitement at the elvis thing, are more like 'snapshots'.
The human brain actually takes 6 or 7 years to actually develop to a mature (meaning: independent, not 'grown-up') cognitive ability. That's part of the reason why homo sapiens is a 'baby/toddler/child' needing 'protection' for so much longer than other sentient beings (aka 'animals'). Previous to that point, when our brains reach cognitive maturity, most memories are more sensory perception, than cognition-oriented.
They should do what I do: backup all their apps and tunes and serials to hotline servers and usenet news groups periodically. That's what they're there for, right?:=)
...with the test. The java dialog box opens right on top of the original page, no transfer at all to the 'new' tab. Only an idiot would type anything besides 'buggeroff' into a java window from 'nowhere'.
Meanwhile, still in OmniWeb, if the link is 'saved to clipboard' and opened as a tab, the test is totally bypassed. Omniweb will not let the test run in any manner that would show the setting or display of the 'new' tab BEFORE the phony dialog opens.
Omni's the real 'alternative Mac browser'. I love Firefox, but it's not ready for prime time, not on a Mac, anyway. Way too windows-like. And getting slower. By the time it reaches v.2 it ought to give Opera a run for the money in the 'slug' dep't, if the 'curve' it's on stays even. Omni costs a few bucks. It's in that [sad violin swell] "you get what you pay for" area of life...
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although i agree that the original post should have been aimed at the Firefox/Mozilla forums... what's going on with all these whiners here, man? Bunch of perfect huys, huh? never make mistakes? jesus christ, the editors let one lousy story out of hundreds get past em? let's lynch 'em, oh yeah. Fuck that, ya bunch of fucking babies, go get a movable type page and do better, if you think you can. Slashdot's full of great stuff. insightful [not always], funny as fucking hell sometimes, always worth a shot. Good thing i'm not in charge here, you whiners would be out bahhing at each other on some weakass IRC channel.
I read the Russian guy's version of 'what's wrong here', and i gotta say, after having lived outside the US for a lot of years, and returning... America seems a lot more complicated when viewed from within. From abroad we look like a dangerous (as in murderous, shallow, greedy) nation, led by simpletons and corporate toadies, and supported [voted-in] by self-centered morons.
But after seeing the pathetic excuse for 'news' reporting and lack of anything like self-awareness, history, etc, the American people are too ignorant to 'decide' anything, based on anything besides their own short-sighted, fear-inspired 'reactions' to being manipulated.
To change, or 'improve' the voting mechanism, or 'transparency', would be 'putting lipstick on a pig'. Too little, too late, and totally irrelevant to the larger, global reality, and history. [which will, one day, lump our post-WWII period in with Hitler's Germany, and other notables of that ilk]. The only notable difference being that we, and our corporations, will kill far more people than Hitler ever would have imagined getting away with.
I'll second that. I moved to Syracuse 18 months ago, while still desktop publishing for a co. in Florida. The co. went belly-up a week after my arrival here. Now? Working full-time [good news in this town], but being paid way under [get this] even the the lower-than-national-average 'local' mean for my work. I do SGML markup after some serious-ass proofreading [repurposing of hard text, etc].
The people up here are great though. In between jobs [a long 'in between'] I frequented the Dept of Labor. The people working there were as helpful as could be, for months and months. And the whole town has that working-class camaraderie 'thing', with a lot of regular folks, good-natured, no question....
But, in the Dep't of Labor...There they were, up on the walls, founders of Unions, labor activists, etc... and it just struck me that here in New York, where a lot of the laws got made that ended child labor and the myriad forms of abuse that workers suffered at the hands of greedy companies, it's all seemed to come back full circle to a 'sad' version of America. When I see the occasional Bush/Carey signs on lawns, even in Tipperary Hill, it makes me want to puke.
Exactly goddammed right, and the tip-off is simple: Not once have they peeled some guy's jeans and stuff off, and had a character exclaim, "Jeeze, didn't your mom ever tell ya to wear clean undies everyday, just in case?"
Whoa there pardner...'Claire' got run over on Law & Order by a drunk, so she can't go back there again, and if it hadn't been for 'Quincy' (or maybe it was Sam), stitchin' her back together...she'd never have made it to where she's at...as 'Jordan'
Since when has TV had any resemblance to reality? If you want that all you gotta do is hunker down and go outside, you know, where the people and animals and brick-and-mortar stores are at.
It's a crazy idea, I know, and not for the timid, butNo flames from me. I love the Mac, run OSX here at home, but I use NT 4.0 at work on an old Deskpro, with 300 MBs of memory [Vs. a Gig of RAM at home], and my job requires maybe 8 big apps all working together and it goes off without a hitch. Since April I haven't seen even a hint of our office Network getting shaky, never mind crashing. Nobody can tell me that multitasking is Apple's 'turf'. Watch what happens when you click yer Safari Bookmarks menu the first time after launch,(i use firefox) or ask the Finder to do 2 things at once... heheh, yeah, I can run Final Cut loaded with plugs, but it's the 'little things' that drive a person half bananas....
it's my default editor in the Terminal, friggin' great.
Probably bought with seriously inflated AOL stock. The timing was about right
I'm surprised nobody's commented on the link in the story that connects to the Slashdot posts when the iPod (5GB, my iPod) was launched.... heheh, the number of 'geeks' who figured it would never 'make it' or compete with the Rio [et al] is hilarious. Look for the "internet crowd didn't get it' type link
What ough to be our friend today can be our worst nightmare tomorrow.
That's very true, but strategic thinking sometimes allows one to utilize 'opportunities' to achieve a longterm goal, even if the 'opportunity' itself is transient in character
The Arabic proverb that covers this is: "My enemy's enemy is my friend"
I agree with all these points, but... the Firefox browser is not ready for prime time on a Mac, yet, so adding more 'features' sounds beside-the-point. I use it for the Extensions and the searhsite additions. Very very cool those things...
I use OmniWeb, Firefox and Opera (paid), so I see the variety. But firefox, as cool as it is, has these annoying situations:
1-The Downloads Window. No matter what the Prefs are set at, it asks every time "Do you want to do this?" I have it set to download to a folder in my home directory. If i click OK it drops another part of the Window that says [basically] you can set these prefs in the Preferences. Duh!!! and then what? More of the same, anyway.
2-Upgrading/updates. Why are the user-selected "Search site" additions loaded into the the .pkg [.app/Contents...]? They get over-written in an update to the browser version. Very stupid.
3-Bookmarks menu. If a window isn't open, the links in Bookmarks menu are 'dead'. Brilliant.
There's more, plenty, and it's frustrating, because it's a really great browser. Speed [ok,one more bitch]... maybe it's faster than Explorer in XP [wouldn't know], but it is slower than Omni or Safari on a Mac. If they're gonna bog it down with 'features', then the features should work.
Omni is a paid app, yeah, but it's worth it. It's the only true 'alternative' browser for the Mac. A few more tweaks to the ad-blocking, and incorporation of the search-site additions utility, and it'll rule the roost here, it'll be bye-bye Firefox.
Mod me down, I don't care. It ain't sour grapes here. It is easy to accept that windows/linux issues are more important than worrying about 25mil Mac users. I'm fine with that. But they should pop a disclaimer to the effect that it is semi-crippled in the Macintosh world.
I'm looking at 50k of miltary stuff to convert to SGML, as my work, and don't have time to navigate the maze of bugzilla reports. I doubt that Mac-related issues are even on the 'radar' at mozilla. And, yeah, I donated and fully support moz.dev and the whole bunch, regardless. A couple/gals could tweak the osx pkg very easily, no doubt...until then, well, we'll see [sent thru Firefox, heheh]
Funny you should ask... That's what my work involves, turning all the tech/troubleshooting manuals into XML. (it's a tough job at the start, you should see the womnky, typo-ridden souce)
The guys in the closest support areas have access to state-of-the-art test gear. Ground-based, air-based 'quick-look' radar, ECCM stuff (electronic counter-counter measures), anti-sniper radar, you name it.The kids can do a lot of work, before getting close to 'shipping it back'.
I'm not a 'war-guy', and have negative feelings about where they're at, but the kids didn't choose their battles, neither did the military, itself. But aside from the fact that a 'basic' military education may not be harvard-enough for some folks, there are some bright folks in the military, don't kid yourself.
If I was in a life-and-D jam, I'd take a military kid with a basic education, with his own integrity, next to me, rather than a low-C slacker like the Commander-in-Chief...any day of the week.
The 'geeky' guys and ladies I work with all feel pretty much the same. We put aside our feelings about the politicians, and think of the kids out there... and try to get it right.
Short answer: They don't
Since before the AOL/TW merger, AOL has had large monthly cancellations,hence the need to keep 'adding' 'new' clients, in order to keep top-line revenue streams, satisfy stockholders (prop up value of stock 'paper' currency) etc.
The Internet, and its user base.. are expanding.. at the margins. NOT in the center where all the 'smart' people are.Okay? Look down on newbies? Wow, that's bold... So, those 'coasters' are bringing in newbies at the margin... new folks, meaning.. the 20 million people there, haven't been there all along.
The ones who stay have their own reasons (documented in the articles here)...but the majority are strictly the result of simple 'turnover'
Really, I got a kick and a half watching my old roomie, Troy, as he stayed 'on the tip' with the online PC gamer thing. He'd come out of his room, once in days, bug-eyed, bleary, mumbling BIOS this...new character-creationutility that... it was great fun actually. And his PC running Win98 was amazing for games (surround sound, of course, all the doodads).
But while all that was going on I was running an investment analysis biz, and publishing weekly and a monthly tabloid on a Powerbook (ext. monitor)... And it used to kill me, the old 'myth' regarding PCs being the 'business' machine. Most PCs are cash registers or glorified typewriters...and when you really nail somebody down about biz apps, speed, security, cross-platform integration, ease of networking, etc... the PC guy will throw up his hands and say, "What about Games?"
And they have a point there, no question about it. So, yeah, the old toy vs. Biz vs what(?) thing is silly, sure, and Apple got suckered into the 'art' thing 'for the rest of us' [by their own in--house guys]. I use PCs at work, no probs, but my Powerbok is an insanely great biz box, no question.
... so, let me get this straight, you don't mind spending a fortune swapping hardware bits, and pulling your hair out chasing the 'right' BIOS, but you're too cheap to buy a third-party multi-button mouse???
Apple will be right with ya, start holdin' yer breath......now.
I wish more people, Christians, folks of other faith, and the huge numbers of non-aligned ordinary folk, who really are just trying to live their lives, work, feed and raise their families.. could see this post. I can't call myself a Christian, but I recall Christ saying something along the lines of, "by their actions, so shall ye know them." I think that's how it went.
And in that respect, America's actions belie all this born-again nonsense, and the posturing and arrogance that certain administrations practice in 'our' (US citizens) name. It's not right.
An honest look at Judaism and Islam (amongst others) will show remarkable 'overlap' regarding 'the way'. All three religions are really more 'verbal', in that they are about how to live, not just what to 'believe', and even less about 'what to say' about one's beliefs. All three of those faiths are descendents of Abraham, although you'd never know it from the looks of things, today.
I am under no illusion that Sen. Kerry is 'the Answer', nor that he will make everything better. But, for any person, group, race, or nation, sometimes the best way to 'make things better', is simply to stop making them worse. America doesn't have to roll over because of whatever 'opinion' others may have of it, but it can stop creating its own victims and enemies and hatred. Will we still have enemies? Of course. But they will, like America itself, have to face a day of reckoning, at some point.
For us, doing the 'wrong' thing for the 'right' reason, is, always has been, and always will be, the wrong thing; Rationale is not a determinant of morality, it's an excuse for an action. I just hope that a lot of folks look into their hearts and consult whatever Higher Power they turn to in times of trouble, before voting.
Heheh. Whoa, pardner. I have been on Apple gear since before the Mac, and I despise the 'snob' thing too. But,really, there's the same cross-section of types-of-user in the mac zone as in the PC zone. My roomie in Boca had a tricked-out, built from scratch gamer juggernaut (runnin Win98). It was way cool for games, but he didn't use it for anything else. But so what, it was fucking perfect for the big games. I prefer macs, but am under no illusions about any user-superiority thing. People buy Macs for a lot of different reasons. But those that buy em because they're more expensive=better are just like all lamers everywhere who prove money doesn't guarantee having brains, taste, etc.
I'm not sure that's the case. I work on a small XML coding (private contractor) project for the DoD. Manuals and systems stuff. Can't really talk about it, but I know that a lot of radar and older systems are actually running a somewhat hardened version of NT.
But for more than a few years now, US Mil has been a big buyer of Apple gear. iMacs (they made the first real big-numbers purchase, which actually lifted Apple stock), to the more popular G5s and Xserves. I know they run some open source, but really, a lot more OSX (Panther/Jag/+ the servers) than people are generally aware of.
We also do some work for the aircraft cos., and they are also using some Apple stuff, mostly for research into aerodynamics, and trajectories, stuff like that. Not on the same scale as the Military, though.
As a longtime Mac user who actually started out in Fortran and stuff like that (think Silicon valley, mid-70s), I am happy to see such broad, and rather 'deep' acceptance of this 'new', old platform. I'm happy we use the Unix-like hybrid, Apple is commendable that way, but the Linux/OpenSouce/Unix user/developer people are the other half of the equation that makes the Mac OS exciting for me these days. I don't know enough about the GPL and issues that might keep DoD, NSA, and those guys 'mum' regarding their on-going work on their own variation of Linux. Maybe that's why this one site didn't have a link. I don't know.
A lifelong friend of mine's Dad was in charge of Computer Hybrid Systems at Lockheed Missiles & Air, for many years. In those days, incompatible meant exactly that, no 'unless', no ands,ifs, or buts... but they made stuff work together like Swiss watches (not swatches, either). The old man uses a nice fat Macintosh these days. He likes the cross-platform aspects, and loves the security. The military might share his opinion, from the looks of it.
Well, someone else was out of it on the factual side of things. Prices only went up in terms of the currency exchange rate, which made the Canadian prices (not bad for what is considered an extremely talented film crew bunch) seem higher in US dollars
Insurance rates are high in the US, due to 'frivolous lawsuits"? Sorry pal, frivolous lawsuits get thrown out of court with the plaintiff paying both sides of the legal fees...
Maybe you meant: "Skyrocketing settlements"? The right wing and anti-regulatory guys (Enron's pals), like that old chestnut, too. But check the facts, settlements on the whole, AND on the average have been dropping steadily since the mid-Eighties...Next
This post is full of similarly weird assumptions, and you get modded 'insightful'?
Interesting.
No, not the article, the logic of the whole 'mod' biz.
...you think that's bad? i used to have to pay for the CDs, too!!!
Are you sure you weren't running VirtualPC on a G4 laptop, by mistake?
wow, that's good to know, I was confused about 'techies', especially the 'hardcore' ones.. i was thinking maybe the US military's new supercomputer cluster, or the software tester for it, at Univ of Maine, or the huge numbers of applied engineering guys at NASA, and places like that, or those 'softcore' guys at UCLA's Blood Plasma Research facility. All of them using G5 servers and OSX, they must be designing web sites, at all those joints,eh?
Silly me, huh?
"Hardcore techies".. uh, who dat? Ya mean Linux kids who are turning Firefox into a slug on the Mac? Or those guys with the IBM-style, ca. 1960s attitude, that figure the fewer white guys that can run it, the more obtuse the installation and config, the better? mister, your 'spew' Re: whom Apple might be 'aiming at' is soooo early 90s.
mod me down, ouch, so what? I remember guys building radios, and the first home-based computers out of Mechanix Illustrated, and huge Recorders that listened to Sputnik going beep-beep, beep-beep, and took up a whole den in a house in the process, so i love techies... but being a techie isn't a license to generalize in such an out-dated, poorly-informed fashion... matter of fact it's kinda contrary to the whole 'techie' thing, isn't it?... just wonderin'
If your memories of later in life are equally intermittent or lacking in detail, that might be a problem.
I, too have a bit of trouble with the age of five, but remember a near-death experience at 3 yrs old, vivdly. Seeing Elvis on TV at age 4 is clear, as is a cross-country trip at 7. The journey, at 7, is like a movie to me, whereas the trauma at 3, and all the excitement at the elvis thing, are more like 'snapshots'.
The human brain actually takes 6 or 7 years to actually develop to a mature (meaning: independent, not 'grown-up') cognitive ability. That's part of the reason why homo sapiens is a 'baby/toddler/child' needing 'protection' for so much longer than other sentient beings (aka 'animals'). Previous to that point, when our brains reach cognitive maturity, most memories are more sensory perception, than cognition-oriented.
They should do what I do: backup all their apps and tunes and serials to hotline servers and usenet news groups periodically. That's what they're there for, right? :=)
...with the test. The java dialog box opens right on top of the original page, no transfer at all to the 'new' tab. Only an idiot would type anything besides 'buggeroff' into a java window from 'nowhere'.
Meanwhile, still in OmniWeb, if the link is 'saved to clipboard' and opened as a tab, the test is totally bypassed. Omniweb will not let the test run in any manner that would show the setting or display of the 'new' tab BEFORE the phony dialog opens.
Omni's the real 'alternative Mac browser'. I love Firefox, but it's not ready for prime time, not on a Mac, anyway. Way too windows-like. And getting slower. By the time it reaches v.2 it ought to give Opera a run for the money in the 'slug' dep't, if the 'curve' it's on stays even. Omni costs a few bucks. It's in that [sad violin swell] "you get what you pay for" area of life...