This should clear up some of the speculation surrounding the new iMacs, and leave less people ticked off and whining about them announcing the release of them and then pushing it back.
The funny thing about Mac OS X and Linux... a great deal of the people who write the viruses and hack into Windows machines are (shock) Mac OS X and Linux users. I'd not so much call it 'security through obscurity' as 'honor among crackers'.;)
I don't know where you live, but everywhere I've been, it's perfectly acceptable for adults to play Game Boy. I've sat down on buses next to men in their 60s plugging away on a GBA SP. Mostly children play GBs, true, but that's because adults typically have something more constructive to do with their free time.
As mention before, there are symlinks, and Mac OS X already sticks all plugins for browsers in the esoterically-named "Internet Plug-ins" folder. I know Safari and Camino check that folder for plugins, and I'm pretty sure Opera, Firefox, Omniweb, etc. also do. (And probably even Mac IE does as well.)
What's a browser? Is that like Internet Explorer? But why do I need another one when I already have Internet Explorer? Don't I have to use Internet Explorer to connect to the internet?
If you didn't notice,/. accepts articles from users to be submitted for review, and I know that, if the article is/. worthy, it will probably end up getting posted. If you see something important in regards to tech that you like, you might want to write up an article on it, and submit it. That's what the "contribute story" link at the bottom of the page is for.
I kid you not, I'm not sure when, but my iBook rolled back to 1970. I was copying a document from it, noticed, and wondered if it has been the battery dying or something. I'm glad this cleared up, but I'm not sure why my laptop jumped the gun.:)
Reading through "The Sandman" and "American Gods", I have been drawn to the underlying idea that the gods and myths of humanity are the children of our imagination. They can be loved, hated, comforted, or hurt, and they grow, change, and die off depending on how people believe in them. I know many others have actually adopted this perspective, and have gained a new love and respect for these "children" as a result of reading your works. Was the spread of this idea something you hoped/accounted for when writing them?
I'd have thought it was rather obvious that a great deal of gamers aren't geeks...
unlss 1 konsidrs typen liek dis geeky lol omg rofl u n00b!11!1!
Don't ditch Camino just yet...
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Safari 1.0 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I tried Safari 1.0 out. Though I admit it has come a long way, it still strikes me as more trouble than it's worth. I ran some tests of it vs. Camino, and Safari actually screwed-up and image render pretty bad. Also, I commonly frequent a couple of CGI chatrooms, and Safari seems to think hitting the enter key should log me out instead of posting a message. I won't be switching any time soon myself.
Also, I'm not too anxious to ditch the Mozilla project yet; I've enjoyed their work for years, and wish Apple had worked with them instead of the makers of Konqueror. Mozilla browsers are the best (or negilibly close) for any platform, from my experience.
I got a hold of the graphic novel Orbiter about a week ago, and I'd like to highly reccomend it to anyone who wants to experience the... magic of space exploration. It has that feeling of wonder and discovery that I felt when I first saw humans walking on the moon. (Though I wasn't around for the Apollo 11 landing; born about 13 years too late.) It is a beautiful "what if?" situation, and, as is common with the work of Ellis, pertinent to modern times. Even if you're not a big fan of space exploration, you should still give it a try.
True enough, but who actually uses WMP on a mac when there's VLC and Mplayer?
Come on, people, opensource, opensource!
Comedy, or realism?
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Ask Warren Ellis
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· Score: 3, Interesting
After reating through a great deal of Transmetropolitain, I cannot help but note that (And I've read many visions of the future) it is by far the most realistic portrayal of the future of our civilization I have yet to come across, and yet ot obviously has satirical and comedic undertones. My question is, when you originally envisioned this society of the future, were you thinking more along the lines of parodying our own society, or extrapolating on its development?
Ever since I made the, er mistake(?) of naming this computer, it exhibited signs of actually posessing a personality. I'm not kidding. It almost never has any problems, excepting in one condition: Insults to draconity/fantasy. I named my computer after a fictional AI thats graphical representation was a dragon.
Apparently, my computer thinks it's a dragon now.
Any time an image of H.R. Pufnstuf (please don't crash!... *whew*) comes up, it takes about the normal reflexive reactionary time before my computer will either kill whatever application it appeared in, or just lock up. (Though the latter hasn't happened since I upgraded to Mac OS 10.2) The same thing happens when by off chance I come upon evidence of the Neverending Story 2's existence. Just recently, I was flipping channels on my USB TV tuner, and I got up to do something, leaving it where it lay. When I came back, I swear the screen had gotten darker, and I saw a few seconds of tNES2 before the TV application died.
And Dragonheart 2... *shudder* Let's just say it's a good thing my other computer plays DVDs too...
And my apologies to Kroft fans out there. I personally don't mind *cough-hrpufnstuf-cough*, but my computer does.
Miramax hired one of the best writers alive today, Neil Gaiman, to do the American version of Mononoke Hime. He went to Japan, studied the language and culture, met prominent artists there, and did his damn best (and also teamed up with Yoshitaka Amano to make a wonderful companion book to The Sandman) to not only translate it, but make it sound just as good as the original version, and yet still seem as if his script were the original.
Unfortunately(?), Disney used some of its own writers to dub Spirited Away, so it's most likely not up to the caliber of Princess Mononoke, but (knock on wood) they couldn't have screwed it up too bad, right?
I speak with some of the higher-end devs from time to time, and they seem to believe that the next line of macs, or if not, the line after them, will be using the PPC 970. I see no real reason to doubt this, and I find it to be a wonderful thing as well, seeing as how IBM has been developing some nice chips lately, and they supposedly have the patent on a new chip technology which will do the same work as current chips but use less electricty. (Ergo, less heat)
This will greatly increase browsing speed, though it supposedly reduces stability, I've been using it for a long time, and haven't noticed a reduction in stability.
First, make sure Camino is not running. Then open the prefs.js file, located in Library(the one in your user directory)/Application Support/Chimera/profiles/default/.slt
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This should clear up some of the speculation surrounding the new iMacs, and leave less people ticked off and whining about them announcing the release of them and then pushing it back.
The funny thing about Mac OS X and Linux... a great deal of the people who write the viruses and hack into Windows machines are (shock) Mac OS X and Linux users. I'd not so much call it 'security through obscurity' as 'honor among crackers'. ;)
I don't know where you live, but everywhere I've been, it's perfectly acceptable for adults to play Game Boy. I've sat down on buses next to men in their 60s plugging away on a GBA SP. Mostly children play GBs, true, but that's because adults typically have something more constructive to do with their free time.
As mention before, there are symlinks, and Mac OS X already sticks all plugins for browsers in the esoterically-named "Internet Plug-ins" folder. I know Safari and Camino check that folder for plugins, and I'm pretty sure Opera, Firefox, Omniweb, etc. also do. (And probably even Mac IE does as well.)
...they just happen to be working towards a future in which their products are the standards.
What's a browser? Is that like Internet Explorer? But why do I need another one when I already have Internet Explorer? Don't I have to use Internet Explorer to connect to the internet?
If you didn't notice, /. accepts articles from users to be submitted for review, and I know that, if the article is /. worthy, it will probably end up getting posted. If you see something important in regards to tech that you like, you might want to write up an article on it, and submit it. That's what the "contribute story" link at the bottom of the page is for.
12345 Though now we know the President's suitcase combination. :)
I installed the update, and my desktop directory decided to digest its contents. It's now completely empty.
I kid you not, I'm not sure when, but my iBook rolled back to 1970. I was copying a document from it, noticed, and wondered if it has been the battery dying or something. I'm glad this cleared up, but I'm not sure why my laptop jumped the gun. :)
Reading through "The Sandman" and "American Gods", I have been drawn to the underlying idea that the gods and myths of humanity are the children of our imagination. They can be loved, hated, comforted, or hurt, and they grow, change, and die off depending on how people believe in them. I know many others have actually adopted this perspective, and have gained a new love and respect for these "children" as a result of reading your works. Was the spread of this idea something you hoped/accounted for when writing them?
I'd have thought it was rather obvious that a great deal of gamers aren't geeks...
unlss 1 konsidrs typen liek dis geeky lol omg rofl u n00b!11!1!
I tried Safari 1.0 out. Though I admit it has come a long way, it still strikes me as more trouble than it's worth. I ran some tests of it vs. Camino, and Safari actually screwed-up and image render pretty bad. Also, I commonly frequent a couple of CGI chatrooms, and Safari seems to think hitting the enter key should log me out instead of posting a message. I won't be switching any time soon myself.
Also, I'm not too anxious to ditch the Mozilla project yet; I've enjoyed their work for years, and wish Apple had worked with them instead of the makers of Konqueror. Mozilla browsers are the best (or negilibly close) for any platform, from my experience.
I got a hold of the graphic novel Orbiter about a week ago, and I'd like to highly reccomend it to anyone who wants to experience the... magic of space exploration. It has that feeling of wonder and discovery that I felt when I first saw humans walking on the moon. (Though I wasn't around for the Apollo 11 landing; born about 13 years too late.) It is a beautiful "what if?" situation, and, as is common with the work of Ellis, pertinent to modern times. Even if you're not a big fan of space exploration, you should still give it a try.
True enough, but who actually uses WMP on a mac when there's VLC and Mplayer? Come on, people, opensource, opensource!
After reating through a great deal of Transmetropolitain, I cannot help but note that (And I've read many visions of the future) it is by far the most realistic portrayal of the future of our civilization I have yet to come across, and yet ot obviously has satirical and comedic undertones. My question is, when you originally envisioned this society of the future, were you thinking more along the lines of parodying our own society, or extrapolating on its development?
Har dee har har. =P Well, I can't wait until it comes out. I mean... it's CB. It's a masterpiece of writing ans animation.
Ever since I made the, er mistake(?) of naming this computer, it exhibited signs of actually posessing a personality. I'm not kidding. It almost never has any problems, excepting in one condition: Insults to draconity/fantasy. I named my computer after a fictional AI thats graphical representation was a dragon.
... *whew*) comes up, it takes about the normal reflexive reactionary time before my computer will either kill whatever application it appeared in, or just lock up. (Though the latter hasn't happened since I upgraded to Mac OS 10.2) The same thing happens when by off chance I come upon evidence of the Neverending Story 2's existence. Just recently, I was flipping channels on my USB TV tuner, and I got up to do something, leaving it where it lay. When I came back, I swear the screen had gotten darker, and I saw a few seconds of tNES2 before the TV application died.
Apparently, my computer thinks it's a dragon now.
Any time an image of H.R. Pufnstuf (please don't crash!
And Dragonheart 2... *shudder* Let's just say it's a good thing my other computer plays DVDs too...
And my apologies to Kroft fans out there. I personally don't mind *cough-hrpufnstuf-cough*, but my computer does.
Miramax hired one of the best writers alive today, Neil Gaiman, to do the American version of Mononoke Hime. He went to Japan, studied the language and culture, met prominent artists there, and did his damn best (and also teamed up with Yoshitaka Amano to make a wonderful companion book to The Sandman) to not only translate it, but make it sound just as good as the original version, and yet still seem as if his script were the original. Unfortunately(?), Disney used some of its own writers to dub Spirited Away, so it's most likely not up to the caliber of Princess Mononoke, but (knock on wood) they couldn't have screwed it up too bad, right?
I speak with some of the higher-end devs from time to time, and they seem to believe that the next line of macs, or if not, the line after them, will be using the PPC 970. I see no real reason to doubt this, and I find it to be a wonderful thing as well, seeing as how IBM has been developing some nice chips lately, and they supposedly have the patent on a new chip technology which will do the same work as current chips but use less electricty. (Ergo, less heat)
That last directory that shows as .slt is a generated number followed by .slt, such as s345f3.slt
This will greatly increase browsing speed, though it supposedly reduces stability, I've been using it for a long time, and haven't noticed a reduction in stability.
First, make sure Camino is not running. Then open the prefs.js file, located in Library(the one in your user directory)/Application Support/Chimera/profiles/default/.slt
Paste these lines into it:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
Note: I got this information from Mac OS X Hints some time back. A handy thing to know.