I have to agree with the AC. A-10's have their place. An Apache can't lose 10% of it's skin and still fly. During the orginial Gulf war A-10's were coming home with holes in their wings 4-5 feet across for Surface to Air misssles. Google for images some of them make you question how the plane was staying up in the air.
Attack choppers have their place, but A-10's are faster and carry far more weapons than a helicopter can. Both have their place in closer air support and i wouldn't want to be a ground troop without either backing me up.
You don't need a complicated permission system most of the time, you need a simple system that automatically works and is easy to setup and change on the fly. Windows can't do that.
More fine grained systems are useful for large numbers of users not a home user, defeating it's purpose in windows.
That being said the author of the article doesn't understand the fact that if he doesn't want access to his personal files he shouldn't save any to begin with. He wants the OS to know the difference between him running a program to modify his files and someone impersonating him running a program to modify his files.
Um under that idea the Internet already has tiered rates, with people paying for more bandwidth(dial-up, DSL, Cable, T1, T3, etc)
What they are talking about is artifically limiting the speed of some websites so the telco's can charge you more for browsing slashdot, and causing a/.'ing to one of their servers.
Would you pay to browse slashdot, and then again for google, and then again for newegg? The Telco's want you too. Unless of course they sponsered one of those sites because it was "approved".
Not that I completely disagree but Apple is the first company to drop old kludges and replace it with more modern components. The first to add cd-roms, drop floppy drives, the first to drop old style connectors(ADB, VGA, etc. The first to move to exclusive USB , DVI ports. During th switch to Intel Apple made sure that the old bios was gone replaced with EFI.
Apple has managed two(1.5) major platform changes.
No other company has come close to that kind of ability to drop, the old and change to the new. MSFT is still basically stuck on x86, PS/2 ports are sold on every new PC, Hell serial and Parallel ports are still found on every desktop. just try buying a computer without them. Try finding a desktop from dell without them. USB is a much better standard and is hot swappable. Don't give me that way you can use your old stuff, when every new desktop is sold with a keyboard and mouse.
let's take a look at this. Every PDA phone on the market is several hundred dollars at best. You can get a full sized Dell for the same price.
Plugging a cell phone into a dock for a full keyboard, mouse and monitor while a cool idea means that you have to drag those things around with you as you go. or rely on some one else to decide that there is enough market penetration to provide it for you.
This will end up like the thousands of handheld displays MSFt is selling. It will end up like the tablet PC. A decent enough idea, but done poorly with bad software choices, and never achieve enough market to be effective.
Tablet PC's are niche items because of price/ performance/ battery life. They are trying to be notebooks when they aren't. Isn't odd the best selling ones are convertibles? Why do people want that keyboard so badly when it isn't meant to be used like that?
That's not the point. Toy Story 1 was a done with Pixar and Diseny. Toy Story 2 was all Disney trying to make money off the brand. Pixar didn't want a part of it.
What's funny is that days after the buyout of pixar is announced major shake ups are going through Disney. It lends one to wonder who is really buying who out? Is Disney buying Pixar or is Pixar buying out Disney with Disney's own money?
My bet the problem is in BIOS, and not EFI. Since this affects only XP computers and those require bios to function. BIOS with ACPI has always been a poor hack. Windows Computers have always had a hard time returning from sleep with 100% accuracy. Maybe it wasn't windows fault but the bios underneath.
Wait did I just say it wasn't windows fault? damn I have got to get some sleep.
So get one without cables. My card reader is slightly larger than a usb thumb drive. I can slide a card in plug it use show stuff around and eject easily. Plus I get the added bonus that I can travel with my camera and reader.
I used the above when i went on a two week vacation. my sister and I each took hundreds of photos. When it was over but before we went our seperate ways I took all the memory cards and went to an internet cafe. I copied all the files to the computer and burned a couple of CD's of all theimages. It was expensive(a couple of US dollars a pop) but we had three back up copies of our trip that went three different directions.
It's called Wine, or Darwine. Cross-over office. There is no reason why they can't be ported to OS X. the trick is staying up with MSFT's ever changing api's.
There are several Free shows available to test your idea's out with.
As the other poster said this works fine.
Normal TV's are like 720x520 or something like that. soa a 320x240 video looks no worse than regular TV if it is of high enough quailty. I sometimes use my powerbook as a dvd player too. It works fine as long as you watch the various resolutions.
I wanted to see how it was so I downloaded the free battlestar galatica season opener special. I played it on my TV just fine and it looked just like the regular shows. Other than the fact it was commercial free and I could pause it at will.
So i downloaded the season 2 and every night for 4 nights I watched 2-3 episodes to get the season i missed. Now I can watch the new episodes without having missed anything.
On my TV downstairs on the couch. I do wish HD was an option but that's okay for $2 I can watch it when i want to without interruption.
What I want to know though is is apple selling more quicktime pro licenses. It's the only way to get good fullscreen viewing of protected content. I wish mplayer would work but it doesn't.
Um That explains a lot. The Manual to your car doesn't tell you how to drive though. It doesn't say which side of the road to travel. It doesn't tell you about various traffic laws and what they mean.
You still need to know how to drive safely. It isn't simple for most people. So How about a license that people have to get before they are allowed to use a computer connected to the Internet? No Information needs to be free.
I run OS X just fine a G4 the trick is Ram. like XP you really need 512 to make it work well.
I have never been able to successfully install XP on any PC I own. P4 Dell's. I don't know why but it wouldn't load.(note that the computer itself recently died. )
I have trashed my roommates XP machines every time I used them with such activies as file searches, and web browsing. I am barred from touching his XP machines.
Um MSFT seperates it's server and desktop OS's( a wise move) therefore Win2k is more of a server than XP, win 2k3 came three years after Win2k. Hence why there is Vista and Vista Server editions. Different OS's for different needs. It's also one thing holding back desktop Linux. A server Optimised OS isn't good for desktops and a Desktop isn't good for hard core servers. OS X server should be dragged out to the street and shot. As it is a horrible server from a techincal and speed point of view. Buy and X serve and install Linux or one of the BSD's The performance is 50% greater. Of course OS X is a great desktop OS.
So it's been 6 years between desktop OS's for MSFT. it will be 3-4 years between server OS's though.
You can hack an OS X box just as easily as you can a linux box. Just find an open SSH port and brute force it. That's typically how a linux box get's rooted.
The point though is that it's a hell of a lot harder to get in the front door. With windows you can visit a web site and lose yor machine. With Linux, OS X the worst that could happen that way is a destroyed user account.
Even an adminstrator can't modify system settings without a password though. I run as adminstrator and I am asked all the time for a password for installions via the installer.
Regular apps they are drag and drop. but I can't type rm -rf /
and have it destroy my computer. it will ask for a password first. My user files might be gone, a few applications that have my username with them but that's it.
If the Guts of NT are stable then why the hell does it crash so much? I can kill XP in 5 minutes by using it the same as I use Linux or OS X.
Win2k3 is for servers not desktops. Win2k3 is the server version of XP(although more stable than XP) Vista Server is due out in 2007/8. Get yyour products correct.
I won't argue that KDE needs to make large gains but even KDE 3 has most of XP features.
Apple did require 2 1/2 major revisions to get it fine tuned. ( I go by 10.2.8 as being useful), but Windows isn't the leading standard of speed either.
What features Vista has OS X already has and it's doing it on less hardware than Vista.
Funny Apple and Linux have to make most of their own drivers and they don't have most of those problems. Maybe if the Wintel world didn't use cheap hardware and parts they wouldn't have such problems.
Also MSF has literally tens of thousands of more employees than apple, and Apple has to do hardware and software. They have come out with a broad range of applications many of which are considered at the top of their industries. yet MSFT can't make a single OS on time or on budget.
MSFT has shown nothing but incompetence for building software. They don't innovate in anything other than marketing and bully tactics.
Now don't get me Wrong Steve Jobs would be and is working on being just as bad as MSFT if they were that size. But with the coders MSFT has working for them one would think they could create better software than they do.
No MSTF ported flawed buggy code that was rewritten specifically for XP. With earlier 98/me/2k all immune MSFT rewrote buggy code just for XP and then carried that to Visyta.
Vista by the way should of been a complete ground up rewrite. i would expect no less for taking over 6 years to build. Just look at were KDE, Linux kernel, X where 6 years ago. Hell look at what Apple did with OS X in far less time than MSFT. Every other major OS has under gone massive revisions and upgrades. Hell Apple is working on it's second major change in 6 years. (Mac OS 9 to OS X , PPC to Intel)
Why can't MSFT with it's billions do that? Oh right because it's not about money spent but about productivity.
Yes but I can use my machine on my lap without burning my balls. You can't . My computer weighs half of yours or roughly the same weight as your battey and Hard drive.
It's also 18 months old at this point. Not brand new either.
Just get out of LA. Damn $1000 month can get you a nice 1500-1700 sq foot house in other parts of the USA, plus you get the advatage of fast cable or DSL services(check first).
Heck I am trying to determine if I should buy a small house for myself at $500 odd dollars a month(mortage plus electric) vs renting an apartment 1/2 the size for $600 a month.
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I have to agree with the AC. A-10's have their place. An Apache can't lose 10% of it's skin and still fly. During the orginial Gulf war A-10's were coming home with holes in their wings 4-5 feet across for Surface to Air misssles. Google for images some of them make you question how the plane was staying up in the air.
Attack choppers have their place, but A-10's are faster and carry far more weapons than a helicopter can. Both have their place in closer air support and i wouldn't want to be a ground troop without either backing me up.
You don't need a complicated permission system most of the time, you need a simple system that automatically works and is easy to setup and change on the fly. Windows can't do that.
More fine grained systems are useful for large numbers of users not a home user, defeating it's purpose in windows.
That being said the author of the article doesn't understand the fact that if he doesn't want access to his personal files he shouldn't save any to begin with. He wants the OS to know the difference between him running a program to modify his files and someone impersonating him running a program to modify his files.
Um under that idea the Internet already has tiered rates, with people paying for more bandwidth(dial-up, DSL, Cable, T1, T3, etc)
/.'ing to one of their servers.
What they are talking about is artifically limiting the speed of some websites so the telco's can charge you more for browsing slashdot, and causing a
Would you pay to browse slashdot, and then again for google, and then again for newegg? The Telco's want you too. Unless of course they sponsered one of those sites because it was "approved".
Not that I completely disagree but Apple is the first company to drop old kludges and replace it with more modern components. The first to add cd-roms, drop floppy drives, the first to drop old style connectors(ADB, VGA, etc. The first to move to exclusive USB , DVI ports. During th switch to Intel Apple made sure that the old bios was gone replaced with EFI.
Apple has managed two(1.5) major platform changes.
No other company has come close to that kind of ability to drop, the old and change to the new. MSFT is still basically stuck on x86, PS/2 ports are sold on every new PC, Hell serial and Parallel ports are still found on every desktop. just try buying a computer without them. Try finding a desktop from dell without them. USB is a much better standard and is hot swappable. Don't give me that way you can use your old stuff, when every new desktop is sold with a keyboard and mouse.
Sure some of that stuff is still needed.
let's take a look at this. Every PDA phone on the market is several hundred dollars at best. You can get a full sized Dell for the same price.
Plugging a cell phone into a dock for a full keyboard, mouse and monitor while a cool idea means that you have to drag those things around with you as you go. or rely on some one else to decide that there is enough market penetration to provide it for you.
This will end up like the thousands of handheld displays MSFt is selling. It will end up like the tablet PC. A decent enough idea, but done poorly with bad software choices, and never achieve enough market to be effective.
Tablet PC's are niche items because of price/ performance/ battery life. They are trying to be notebooks when they aren't. Isn't odd the best selling ones are convertibles? Why do people want that keyboard so badly when it isn't meant to be used like that?
That's not the point. Toy Story 1 was a done with Pixar and Diseny. Toy Story 2 was all Disney trying to make money off the brand. Pixar didn't want a part of it.
What's funny is that days after the buyout of pixar is announced major shake ups are going through Disney. It lends one to wonder who is really buying who out? Is Disney buying Pixar or is Pixar buying out Disney with Disney's own money?
The problem is where does the failure lie?
My bet the problem is in BIOS, and not EFI. Since this affects only XP computers and those require bios to function. BIOS with ACPI has always been a poor hack. Windows Computers have always had a hard time returning from sleep with 100% accuracy. Maybe it wasn't windows fault but the bios underneath.
Wait did I just say it wasn't windows fault? damn I have got to get some sleep.
Until of course you want to copy the files to a computer without a PCMCIA sot. Then your screwed.
So get one without cables. My card reader is slightly larger than a usb thumb drive. I can slide a card in plug it use show stuff around and eject easily. Plus I get the added bonus that I can travel with my camera and reader.
I used the above when i went on a two week vacation. my sister and I each took hundreds of photos. When it was over but before we went our seperate ways I took all the memory cards and went to an internet cafe. I copied all the files to the computer and burned a couple of CD's of all theimages. It was expensive(a couple of US dollars a pop) but we had three back up copies of our trip that went three different directions.
I didn't have to carry my laptop with me.
It's called Wine, or Darwine. Cross-over office. There is no reason why they can't be ported to OS X. the trick is staying up with MSFT's ever changing api's.
no it's not. I forget the exact number but at any given moment in time some 100,000 people are in the air above the USA.
There are several Free shows available to test your idea's out with.
As the other poster said this works fine.
Normal TV's are like 720x520 or something like that. soa a 320x240 video looks no worse than regular TV if it is of high enough quailty. I sometimes use my powerbook as a dvd player too. It works fine as long as you watch the various resolutions.
Or you can get a clue and join the real world.
I wanted to see how it was so I downloaded the free battlestar galatica season opener special. I played it on my TV just fine and it looked just like the regular shows. Other than the fact it was commercial free and I could pause it at will.
So i downloaded the season 2 and every night for 4 nights I watched 2-3 episodes to get the season i missed. Now I can watch the new episodes without having missed anything.
On my TV downstairs on the couch. I do wish HD was an option but that's okay for $2 I can watch it when i want to without interruption.
What I want to know though is is apple selling more quicktime pro licenses. It's the only way to get good fullscreen viewing of protected content. I wish mplayer would work but it doesn't.
Actually I kind of like it. With this tool Slashdot could finally Slashdot all the advertisers in one shot. Talk about a major DDOS.
Create a link with an image to a story site. Embed that link with this. You could slashdot The big sites with this. Go Open Source innovation.
Um That explains a lot. The Manual to your car doesn't tell you how to drive though. It doesn't say which side of the road to travel. It doesn't tell you about various traffic laws and what they mean.
You still need to know how to drive safely. It isn't simple for most people. So How about a license that people have to get before they are allowed to use a computer connected to the Internet? No Information needs to be free.
I run OS X just fine a G4 the trick is Ram. like XP you really need 512 to make it work well.
I have never been able to successfully install XP on any PC I own. P4 Dell's. I don't know why but it wouldn't load.(note that the computer itself recently died. )
I have trashed my roommates XP machines every time I used them with such activies as file searches, and web browsing. I am barred from touching his XP machines.
Um MSFT seperates it's server and desktop OS's( a wise move) therefore Win2k is more of a server than XP, win 2k3 came three years after Win2k. Hence why there is Vista and Vista Server editions. Different OS's for different needs. It's also one thing holding back desktop Linux. A server Optimised OS isn't good for desktops and a Desktop isn't good for hard core servers. OS X server should be dragged out to the street and shot. As it is a horrible server from a techincal and speed point of view. Buy and X serve and install Linux or one of the BSD's The performance is 50% greater. Of course OS X is a great desktop OS.
So it's been 6 years between desktop OS's for MSFT. it will be 3-4 years between server OS's though.
You can hack an OS X box just as easily as you can a linux box. Just find an open SSH port and brute force it. That's typically how a linux box get's rooted.
The point though is that it's a hell of a lot harder to get in the front door. With windows you can visit a web site and lose yor machine. With Linux, OS X the worst that could happen that way is a destroyed user account.
Even an adminstrator can't modify system settings without a password though. I run as adminstrator and I am asked all the time for a password for installions via the installer.
Regular apps they are drag and drop. but I can't type
rm -rf /
and have it destroy my computer. it will ask for a password first. My user files might be gone, a few applications that have my username with them but that's it.
If the Guts of NT are stable then why the hell does it crash so much? I can kill XP in 5 minutes by using it the same as I use Linux or OS X.
Win2k3 is for servers not desktops. Win2k3 is the server version of XP(although more stable than XP) Vista Server is due out in 2007/8. Get yyour products correct.
I won't argue that KDE needs to make large gains but even KDE 3 has most of XP features.
Apple did require 2 1/2 major revisions to get it fine tuned. ( I go by 10.2.8 as being useful), but Windows isn't the leading standard of speed either.
What features Vista has OS X already has and it's doing it on less hardware than Vista.
Funny Apple and Linux have to make most of their own drivers and they don't have most of those problems. Maybe if the Wintel world didn't use cheap hardware and parts they wouldn't have such problems.
Also MSF has literally tens of thousands of more employees than apple, and Apple has to do hardware and software. They have come out with a broad range of applications many of which are considered at the top of their industries. yet MSFT can't make a single OS on time or on budget.
MSFT has shown nothing but incompetence for building software. They don't innovate in anything other than marketing and bully tactics.
Now don't get me Wrong Steve Jobs would be and is working on being just as bad as MSFT if they were that size. But with the coders MSFT has working for them one would think they could create better software than they do.
I run OS 9 apps every day. They work perfectly. well at least as well as any app on Win Me runs.
Backwards compatibility is just fine. all you need to due is install classic mode. it even plays games. What games there were for OS 9.
No MSTF ported flawed buggy code that was rewritten specifically for XP. With earlier 98/me/2k all immune MSFT rewrote buggy code just for XP and then carried that to Visyta.
Vista by the way should of been a complete ground up rewrite. i would expect no less for taking over 6 years to build. Just look at were KDE, Linux kernel, X where 6 years ago. Hell look at what Apple did with OS X in far less time than MSFT. Every other major OS has under gone massive revisions and upgrades. Hell Apple is working on it's second major change in 6 years. (Mac OS 9 to OS X , PPC to Intel)
Why can't MSFT with it's billions do that? Oh right because it's not about money spent but about productivity.
While i agree with your sentiments. accuracy to within a few yards is well with in a human's ability to adjust for.
Yes but I can use my machine on my lap without burning my balls. You can't . My computer weighs half of yours or roughly the same weight as your battey and Hard drive.
It's also 18 months old at this point. Not brand new either.
Just get out of LA. Damn $1000 month can get you a nice 1500-1700 sq foot house in other parts of the USA, plus you get the advatage of fast cable or DSL services(check first).
Heck I am trying to determine if I should buy a small house for myself at $500 odd dollars a month(mortage plus electric) vs renting an apartment 1/2 the size for $600 a month.