Fallout 2, for OSX, is still selling on the shelves of the local AppleStores ( at full price too, I might add ). I bought it ages ago, and it is quite an enjoyable romp. Sad to see Van Buren won't see the light of day - I played through Fallout 1 back on Windows, and was looking to see where the franchise would go in the future.
If Dell is not willing to fight a legal battle to strike down the presumed legality of EULAs, especially for spyware, then I say they deserve not getting buying support from customers.
Sure, because I'm certain one of Dells core business interests is in fighting other peoples legal battles for them.
I bet it's not as cool as the BMW Streetcarver. I want one, but no doubt I'd just write it off with my dismal 'skillz'.
Seriously, I would love some kind of powered skateboard, as they're very good for getting around tight parts of town ( and being able to pick them up is very convenient... ), but they're going to have to make them very easy riding ( perhaps with that suspension system from Snow Crash ) before it will ever take off with the masses.
Judging from the shape of the logo, I suspect this is a reference to Hallucigenia sparsa, a reasonably famous critter they dug out of the Burgess Shale, missassigned as part of genus Canadia and was later renamed and reassigned by Simon Conway Morris. More here. Article links to a possible reconstruction which seems to be down for me.
Paleobiology. This is a nerdy conveyance if I ever saw one.
Thanks for taking the time to reply ( same to everyone else too ) - I am just commenting on a general bias I have observed within my culture that works gain immediate artistic weight judged on their medium of expression, and that cinema less than thirty years or so old seems to be held in very low esteem. I think this bias is a disservice to both artist and critic - I don't feel either medium is intrinsicly 'better'.
I don't think it's important that the movies are any better or worse than the books: one does not necessarily detract from the enjoyment of the other, and in some ways they compliment. I think it is important that the child enjoyed the movie, and that this enjoyment may lead to a further development and interest in fantasy, which may express itself in an appreciation of movies, books, art and related poetry. Or if nothing else that they had an enjoyable evening at the cinema. Sometimes, just enjoying something should be reason enough!
I did take exception to the original posters preachy tone that he didn't know 'who to slap' - that's what moved me to post in the first place. I'm not sure I understood the end of your post, so I hope this answered your question.
I didn't know who to slap - the little girl or her mother.
When did this fixation that books were somehow 'superior' to visual media first come into vogue? I've seen some very moving movies in my time, and read some awful books.
So the kid doesn't want to read the LoTR. It's not a big deal, they'll probably read the next Harry Potter or something. The important thing is that they enjoyed it. Maybe they'll find time to read the books later.
Apparently iChatAV is some kind of SIP variant. Some people were trying to get it to talk to IP phones, but could never get it quite right due to some irregularity in the way it opened ports (???). I totally agree with grandparent, the first thing I thought on reading (Microsoft is pushing for SIP, everyone else seems to favor XMPP) was *who* is this everyone else?
As for the IM part of iChat, yeah, it's OSCAR, the AOL protocol, as far as I know. Nice product - the integration with the mailer is particularly useful for me.
Yeah, I read the advisory too. But most people reading Slashdot won't. Several people in this room with me won't read advisories for their platform because they're "too technical" for them to understand. But this is a nice soundbyte with just the good stuff ( and I do concede, this advisory was a bit of a shining star for putting the Workaround in plain language at the top ), and that's the type of post I'd like to encourage. Certainly a better use of space than a failed first post.
The problem is, it's a config problem, not an application problem. How do we patch it? Simply turn off this trust setting on any machine accepting the patch? That's going to be great when it thrashes your 30 Mac design lab that you specifically setup this way.
However, I guess they're just going to have to bite the bullet and do it, and set the default for 10.4 to not use any sort of directory services, let alone directory services received from DHCP.
I don't understand why these directory services are on by default ( I just checked, and they certainly are on this 2 day old panther install ) - I don't think the average home Mac user will ever be deploying Netinfo or LDAP login account servers...
you don't sell the product - you sell ideas. You sell images, lifestyles.
Mmm, this isn't a new development, really, people have been commenting on it at least as far back as the followers of Epicurius.
Sadly, I can't remember any of the details, but one of his followers at once point started something like a counter-advertising campaign, involving a giant run of stone inscribed with epicurean ideas deposited into the middle of the market place, writ large with slogans like 'Buying these things will not make you happy.', right behind the vendors stalls! Must have been a popular guy.
It's kind of sad though, the next time an ad is run featuring a 4WD churning up the tundra, or racing across the desert, its the freedom and adventure they bait people in with - but all they can really offer you is a car.
I've noticed this too. Nearly every car commercial I see has printed down the bottom in itty-bitty letters "overseas model shown". Uhhh... what's the point of showing it to me if it's not the model I can buy?
The United States is not a democracy, it's a Representative Republic. The distinction is important, because if electronic voting ever realised its full potential, the argument that 'the people can't elect their own president directly because it would be too difficult to coordinate, too hard to count' would be difficult to defend.
Boil Water and pour through ground up coffee beans...
What is wrong with you barbarians? 100'C, i.e. 212'F is far too hot! At that point, the bitter oils will start to extract out, and you end up drinking something like dog soup.
I will quote the 1945 Cookbook of the United States Navy ( who apparently know a thing or two about great coffee ) - "Maintain temperature of this water at 185'F to 190'F". This is about 87'C, well shy of boiling. A lot of other 'coffee authorities' agree on this temperature range. The highest I've seen quoted is 200'F ( 93'C ).
However, 190, the recommended temperature, is still very hot, and was where McDonalds were keeping their coffee at. So your point is holds, but I just can't stand to see all that poor coffee suffer!
Problem is, the attention paid by the decision maker is (generally) directly proportional to the product of the number of interested parties and the barrier of effort to them registering as an interested party. Online petitions have such a trivial barrier of effort and lack of actual strict controls on who gets involved ( i.e. customers? Random discontents? The same person 15,000 times? ) that I would be very unlikely to pay them any mind if a printout of one landed on my doorstop. Things like the Two Towers / Sep 11 petition did little to improve my view of the service.
I suspect I'm not alone in this view. I haven't looked at PO's page in a while - do they actually deliver the completed petition to the parties involved? The whole thing seems like a big scam to gather in paypal donations to me.
There are some markets ( internet technical / computer services / etc ) where these petitions might do better due to cultural bias and demographic within these industries. I don't think Big Film is one of these.
In a recent Slashdot article, it was reported that Howard Strauss, manager of technology and outreach at Princeton University, wrote a paper bashing the open source community.
Fink doesn't reply to his email either.;-)
I pity whoever was managing his mailspool after that got published...
company can fold at any time (e.g., meteor hitting their headquarters), for example.
The solution is clear - RAICHS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Corporate Headquarters. Which slashdotter will be first to market with this exciting technology?!
This is funny actually. Back, two or three years ago, I was working for a SCO house, and we switched our systems away from SCO/Terminals to some ancient version of Redhat to make our offering ( Point of sale software ) more price competitive.
At the time people were saying buying SCO was a writeoff - for most of the stuff people were doing with it, it was too expensive and offered too few advantages over the competition. Pretty much the best thing you got was a plaque saying you were a SCO Preferred Supplier. Glad we got out [1] before someone put a pack of rabid hyenas on the SCO business strategy team.
YLFI
[1] Actually, I'd be quite happy to have seen that place be shot into the sun, so maybe I'm not so glad.
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...
eMusic had this. For about the price of two cd's a month, it was all you could eat. One of my friends was a subscriber, and with his downstream 'all you could eat' was quite a lot.
Now, there wasn't a lot of great stuff... but if you're not getting charged by the disc, there's no harm in experimenting ( and show me another online music service that features Arab on Radar and is associated with Matador Records, the New Pornographers label ).
Sadly, last month they changed the terms of service - at least for some users ( including my Friend ). Unlimited downloads are a thing of the past, and you get about two albums a month for the same price as before. At that rate, you might as well buy A list stuff from the record store.
Perhaps they were only targeting high usage users - there's nothing about the change on the frontpage ( no surprises there... ), but the free lunch appears to be over.
YLFI
P.S. Oh yeah, their download manager for OSX sucks hard.
This has long been argued about amongst p2p freaks - why doesn't "the herd" follow quality and get behind good p2p software? The answer is: people will go where the content is: more users means more sources means more diversity means less time twiddling your thumbs and waiting for a download.
Once a given application obtains sufficient market inertia, it's almost impossible to wrench control away without shutting down the network entirely ( c.f. musiccity, napster ). And KaZaa has signifigant market inertia - its practically become synonymous in most peoples minds with peer to peer trading.
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Mein gott is it nice to see you posting around here again. Would you autograph this post for me?
Fallout 2, for OSX, is still selling on the shelves of the local AppleStores ( at full price too, I might add ). I bought it ages ago, and it is quite an enjoyable romp. Sad to see Van Buren won't see the light of day - I played through Fallout 1 back on Windows, and was looking to see where the franchise would go in the future.
YLFIAgreed. Am I the only person who finds these cutesy acronyms unprofessional and beneath the dignity of the office? U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act indeed.
YLFISure, because I'm certain one of Dells core business interests is in fighting other peoples legal battles for them.
*rolls eyes*YLFI
I bet it's not as cool as the BMW Streetcarver. I want one, but no doubt I'd just write it off with my dismal 'skillz'.
Seriously, I would love some kind of powered skateboard, as they're very good for getting around tight parts of town ( and being able to pick them up is very convenient... ), but they're going to have to make them very easy riding ( perhaps with that suspension system from Snow Crash ) before it will ever take off with the masses.
YLFIJudging from the shape of the logo, I suspect this is a reference to Hallucigenia sparsa, a reasonably famous critter they dug out of the Burgess Shale, missassigned as part of genus Canadia and was later renamed and reassigned by Simon Conway Morris. More here. Article links to a possible reconstruction which seems to be down for me.
Paleobiology. This is a nerdy conveyance if I ever saw one.
YLFIThanks for taking the time to reply ( same to everyone else too ) - I am just commenting on a general bias I have observed within my culture that works gain immediate artistic weight judged on their medium of expression, and that cinema less than thirty years or so old seems to be held in very low esteem. I think this bias is a disservice to both artist and critic - I don't feel either medium is intrinsicly 'better' .
I don't think it's important that the movies are any better or worse than the books: one does not necessarily detract from the enjoyment of the other, and in some ways they compliment. I think it is important that the child enjoyed the movie, and that this enjoyment may lead to a further development and interest in fantasy, which may express itself in an appreciation of movies, books, art and related poetry. Or if nothing else that they had an enjoyable evening at the cinema. Sometimes, just enjoying something should be reason enough!
I did take exception to the original posters preachy tone that he didn't know 'who to slap' - that's what moved me to post in the first place. I'm not sure I understood the end of your post, so I hope this answered your question.
YLFIWhen did this fixation that books were somehow 'superior' to visual media first come into vogue? I've seen some very moving movies in my time, and read some awful books.
So the kid doesn't want to read the LoTR. It's not a big deal, they'll probably read the next Harry Potter or something. The important thing is that they enjoyed it. Maybe they'll find time to read the books later.
YLFIiChatAV. It is an audio and video streaming application. See also here. I made the distinction in my post.
YLFIApparently iChatAV is some kind of SIP variant. Some people were trying to get it to talk to IP phones, but could never get it quite right due to some irregularity in the way it opened ports (???). I totally agree with grandparent, the first thing I thought on reading (Microsoft is pushing for SIP, everyone else seems to favor XMPP) was *who* is this everyone else?
As for the IM part of iChat, yeah, it's OSCAR, the AOL protocol, as far as I know. Nice product - the integration with the mailer is particularly useful for me.
YLFIYeah, I read the advisory too. But most people reading Slashdot won't. Several people in this room with me won't read advisories for their platform because they're "too technical" for them to understand. But this is a nice soundbyte with just the good stuff ( and I do concede, this advisory was a bit of a shining star for putting the Workaround in plain language at the top ), and that's the type of post I'd like to encourage. Certainly a better use of space than a failed first post.
YLFIThe problem is, it's a config problem, not an application problem. How do we patch it? Simply turn off this trust setting on any machine accepting the patch? That's going to be great when it thrashes your 30 Mac design lab that you specifically setup this way.
However, I guess they're just going to have to bite the bullet and do it, and set the default for 10.4 to not use any sort of directory services, let alone directory services received from DHCP.
YLFIThis is an excellent post. Thank you.
I don't understand why these directory services are on by default ( I just checked, and they certainly are on this 2 day old panther install ) - I don't think the average home Mac user will ever be deploying Netinfo or LDAP login account servers...
YLFII believe parent was making a comment with reference to the California Recall.
YLFIMmm, this isn't a new development, really, people have been commenting on it at least as far back as the followers of Epicurius.
Sadly, I can't remember any of the details, but one of his followers at once point started something like a counter-advertising campaign, involving a giant run of stone inscribed with epicurean ideas deposited into the middle of the market place, writ large with slogans like 'Buying these things will not make you happy.', right behind the vendors stalls! Must have been a popular guy.
It's kind of sad though, the next time an ad is run featuring a 4WD churning up the tundra, or racing across the desert, its the freedom and adventure they bait people in with - but all they can really offer you is a car.
I've noticed this too. Nearly every car commercial I see has printed down the bottom in itty-bitty letters "overseas model shown". Uhhh... what's the point of showing it to me if it's not the model I can buy?
YLFIThe United States is not a democracy, it's a Representative Republic. The distinction is important, because if electronic voting ever realised its full potential, the argument that 'the people can't elect their own president directly because it would be too difficult to coordinate, too hard to count' would be difficult to defend.
YLFIAlas, no. This was in Sydney, Australia.
YLFIWhat is wrong with you barbarians? 100'C, i.e. 212'F is far too hot! At that point, the bitter oils will start to extract out, and you end up drinking something like dog soup.
I will quote the 1945 Cookbook of the United States Navy ( who apparently know a thing or two about great coffee ) - "Maintain temperature of this water at 185'F to 190'F". This is about 87'C, well shy of boiling. A lot of other 'coffee authorities' agree on this temperature range. The highest I've seen quoted is 200'F ( 93'C ).
However, 190, the recommended temperature, is still very hot, and was where McDonalds were keeping their coffee at. So your point is holds, but I just can't stand to see all that poor coffee suffer!
YLFI, not much of a coffee drinker.Problem is, the attention paid by the decision maker is (generally) directly proportional to the product of the number of interested parties and the barrier of effort to them registering as an interested party. Online petitions have such a trivial barrier of effort and lack of actual strict controls on who gets involved ( i.e. customers? Random discontents? The same person 15,000 times? ) that I would be very unlikely to pay them any mind if a printout of one landed on my doorstop. Things like the Two Towers / Sep 11 petition did little to improve my view of the service.
I suspect I'm not alone in this view. I haven't looked at PO's page in a while - do they actually deliver the completed petition to the parties involved? The whole thing seems like a big scam to gather in paypal donations to me.
There are some markets ( internet technical / computer services / etc ) where these petitions might do better due to cultural bias and demographic within these industries. I don't think Big Film is one of these.
YLFIFink doesn't reply to his email either. ;-)
I pity whoever was managing his mailspool after that got published...
YLFIThe solution is clear - RAICHS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Corporate Headquarters. Which slashdotter will be first to market with this exciting technology?!
YLFIThis is funny actually. Back, two or three years ago, I was working for a SCO house, and we switched our systems away from SCO/Terminals to some ancient version of Redhat to make our offering ( Point of sale software ) more price competitive.
At the time people were saying buying SCO was a writeoff - for most of the stuff people were doing with it, it was too expensive and offered too few advantages over the competition. Pretty much the best thing you got was a plaque saying you were a SCO Preferred Supplier. Glad we got out [1] before someone put a pack of rabid hyenas on the SCO business strategy team.
YLFI[1] Actually, I'd be quite happy to have seen that place be shot into the sun, so maybe I'm not so glad.
eMusic had this. For about the price of two cd's a month, it was all you could eat. One of my friends was a subscriber, and with his downstream 'all you could eat' was quite a lot.
Now, there wasn't a lot of great stuff... but if you're not getting charged by the disc, there's no harm in experimenting ( and show me another online music service that features Arab on Radar and is associated with Matador Records, the New Pornographers label ).
Sadly, last month they changed the terms of service - at least for some users ( including my Friend ). Unlimited downloads are a thing of the past, and you get about two albums a month for the same price as before. At that rate, you might as well buy A list stuff from the record store.
Perhaps they were only targeting high usage users - there's nothing about the change on the frontpage ( no surprises there... ), but the free lunch appears to be over.
YLFIP.S. Oh yeah, their download manager for OSX sucks hard.
This has long been argued about amongst p2p freaks - why doesn't "the herd" follow quality and get behind good p2p software? The answer is: people will go where the content is: more users means more sources means more diversity means less time twiddling your thumbs and waiting for a download.
Once a given application obtains sufficient market inertia, it's almost impossible to wrench control away without shutting down the network entirely ( c.f. musiccity, napster ). And KaZaa has signifigant market inertia - its practically become synonymous in most peoples minds with peer to peer trading.
YLFI