And the fact that you can do that 99% of the time with zero hassle from drivers
Funny you should mention that. I've shifted Macs lately, and the d@mn new one doesn't handle it correctly. I plug in the 3-button scroll-wheel mouse, the latest MouseWare driver loads (I know it's the latest, I've checked their update site - v5.2.1) and it refuses to let me set the middle button as Middle Button. The option doesn't allow itself to be changed in Preferences. And this is a major navigation tool in Maya. Some identical (as identical as our Sys Admin can make them) Macs next to mine work fine, but some others don't in this regard. SA still doesn't know what the problem is.
So don't tell me how hassle free this is compared to a PC. Chances are good if I was running Windows Maya with a stardard scroll-wheel mouse permanently installed and used for all Windows work including Maya, I wouldn't be having this problem.
The real truth in Windows vs Mac is: Once you're inside the application, be it Maya, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, or anything else that runs similar versions on both platforms, it's all the same because the application's interface is the one you're using.
they have been wrong at times too...the one button mouse
Two big problems with the One Button Mouse:
1: They continue to refuse to admit that it is a mistake, instead touting it as the supposed superiority of Mac over PC. (Note: Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel -- and so does everybody else.)
2: It is all a Big Lie to start with! Mouse click, mouse double-click, mouse click and drag, mouse+alt, mouse+option, mouse+shift, mouse+Apple, mouse+control, mouse+every combination of the above!
It has never been a single button mouse. It's just that the rest of the buttons are exceptionally inconveniently located on the keyboard, most of them in the lower left quadrant!
It's all style over substance crap that doesn't endear me to Apple!!
And in other news, the four most successful Cackers today announced an alliance to work together and crack this system in record time. In a joint statement released they commented, "It's all so much easier now that there's only one system to worry about."
a PS3 sits in the background churning through a SETI@home [SETI] unit every 5 minutes.
Imagine that. A network of PS3s processing SETI data in real-time. Wouldn't be surprised if that application isn't already under development.
And so what if the author is off be even an order of magnitude in his estimate of processing time as another poster suggests due to the lack of actual hardware to test this on yet. Within a couple years of launch there are going to be tens of millions of PS3s out there, all with network connectivity.
When you're willing to work all night through because of your love for hacking, you'll likely beat those who treat this as a daytime job -- and have a life otherwise.
I'll accept perfect digital copies of a rip one generation removed from the original. I suspect most others will as well. For the guy with the penis-extending $10K audio system, he was probably planning to spend his next 10 KiloBucks on original sources anway.
For the rest of is, it will still sound better than AM.
Drip, drip, drip. Comcast bumps speeds a bit. It's kind of like Intel coming out with the next speed grade of their processor , except that Comcast could really open the tap if they wanted to.
Remember: In Japan, consumers pay about $15 a month for speeds of 30 megabits or better -- USA Today
I have enough hard time setting up my website with decent security...allowing only Googlebot...shouldn't my ISP do that...Comcast does a mediocre job.
A couple points:
1: Pretty much any regular Comcast account shouldn't be running a web-server to start with.
2: You bring up a fascinating point of favoring one search engine over others. What would happen if people en masse started only allowing their sites to be indexed by search engine companies they favor? Could, for example, MSN Search be hobbled by people just deciding not to play along with them?
The model license is meant to provide Project Honeypot's participants with effective legal remedies against harvesters.
And herein is the weak point. A stupid harvester grabs the e-mail addresses and runs. A smarter harvester sees the exact verbage of the Model Agreement (which is likly copied verbatim) and says, "Hey, not this one." This article even has a helpful link to see just what a fake page looks like.
So much as even getting rid of the dumb harvesters is can only be a Good Thing, this is not the magic bullet by itself.
And even smarter harvester revisits the page later and realizes that the e-mail address has changed on every visit. Red Flag here!
Of course, a smarter honeypot sees the same harvester make a return visit and gives it the same data each time.
And all this took me, oh, about 3 minutes to figure out. And this isn't even my field.
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What I object to is this pretense that it actually is a one-button mouse, and that somehow makes the Macintosh system superior to other systems.
It is most definitely not a one-button mouse, and I feel this is one area the PC design trumps Mac.
And you don't think that I haven't considered that as an option, or would already be using it that way if it was available to me?
I have to work within the envorinment and system I have.
Funny you should mention that. I've shifted Macs lately, and the d@mn new one doesn't handle it correctly. I plug in the 3-button scroll-wheel mouse, the latest MouseWare driver loads (I know it's the latest, I've checked their update site - v5.2.1) and it refuses to let me set the middle button as Middle Button. The option doesn't allow itself to be changed in Preferences. And this is a major navigation tool in Maya. Some identical (as identical as our Sys Admin can make them) Macs next to mine work fine, but some others don't in this regard. SA still doesn't know what the problem is.
So don't tell me how hassle free this is compared to a PC. Chances are good if I was running Windows Maya with a stardard scroll-wheel mouse permanently installed and used for all Windows work including Maya, I wouldn't be having this problem.
The real truth in Windows vs Mac is: Once you're inside the application, be it Maya, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, or anything else that runs similar versions on both platforms, it's all the same because the application's interface is the one you're using.
You should have posted this separately. Then you could have easily had a +5 Funny to go with your (currently) +2 Insightful.
The operative words in your statement above are main part. This is very non-symetric, and different for a large minority out here.
Two big problems with the One Button Mouse:
1: They continue to refuse to admit that it is a mistake, instead touting it as the supposed superiority of Mac over PC. (Note: Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel -- and so does everybody else.)
2: It is all a Big Lie to start with! Mouse click, mouse double-click, mouse click and drag, mouse+alt, mouse+option, mouse+shift, mouse+Apple, mouse+control, mouse+every combination of the above!
It has never been a single button mouse. It's just that the rest of the buttons are exceptionally inconveniently located on the keyboard, most of them in the lower left quadrant! It's all style over substance crap that doesn't endear me to Apple!!
Does mean that paper money will soon contain the Blur-Me broadcaster, to further deter counterfeits?
2: How long before a jammer to the blur signal broadcaster is available on eBay?
3: Take off your aluminum foil hat and wrap it around your camera.
Even gamers sleep ... eventually.
Find SCO proprietary code in IBM Linux.
Now I can remember the day they left as well.
W00t!
W00t!
Imagine that. A network of PS3s processing SETI data in real-time. Wouldn't be surprised if that application isn't already under development.
And so what if the author is off be even an order of magnitude in his estimate of processing time as another poster suggests due to the lack of actual hardware to test this on yet. Within a couple years of launch there are going to be tens of millions of PS3s out there, all with network connectivity.
Try saying that fast three times.
I'd hardly call it obscene, though I could certainly apply that word to some of the PS2 games. <G>.
However in a world where Bad now means Good, and many other adjectives are inverted in common useage, who know wtf the author actually means anymore.
For that matter, who knows what wtf means anymore.
One Cell to find them.
One Cell to bring them all,
and in darkness bind them.
Yes, the Cell processor will rule the world. After all, hasn't IBM been the Dark Overlord for decades now?
Now prove that you're not, and give them your trade secrets in the process.
Is it a lie?
When you're willing to work all night through because of your love for hacking, you'll likely beat those who treat this as a daytime job -- and have a life otherwise.
That's like saying...
Wow! You mean Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?
I'll accept perfect digital copies of a rip one generation removed from the original. I suspect most others will as well. For the guy with the penis-extending $10K audio system, he was probably planning to spend his next 10 KiloBucks on original sources anway.
For the rest of is, it will still sound better than AM.
Remember: In Japan, consumers pay about $15 a month for speeds of 30 megabits or better -- USA Today
Words like: Frack ?
A couple points:
1: Pretty much any regular Comcast account shouldn't be running a web-server to start with.
2: You bring up a fascinating point of favoring one search engine over others. What would happen if people en masse started only allowing their sites to be indexed by search engine companies they favor? Could, for example, MSN Search be hobbled by people just deciding not to play along with them?
And herein is the weak point. A stupid harvester grabs the e-mail addresses and runs. A smarter harvester sees the exact verbage of the Model Agreement (which is likly copied verbatim) and says, "Hey, not this one." This article even has a helpful link to see just what a fake page looks like.
So much as even getting rid of the dumb harvesters is can only be a Good Thing, this is not the magic bullet by itself.
And even smarter harvester revisits the page later and realizes that the e-mail address has changed on every visit. Red Flag here!
Of course, a smarter honeypot sees the same harvester make a return visit and gives it the same data each time.
And all this took me, oh, about 3 minutes to figure out. And this isn't even my field.
The arms race continues.