Again, if you R the FA, one person could not wreak havoc on the system. If they decided to report someone just for shits and giggles, the picture would be resent to 20 more people for confirmation. You'd have to have pre-knowledge of who those 20 were and get them in on your scam to wrongly accuse somebody of something.
Can you imagine the uproar if this were true? Many people are paranoid enough that Software Update might send back a list of files on your computer and report the warez to TPTB. They'd be afraid that their P2P downloads would be reportd as well!
As it says though, don't blame Cisco. If they didn't do it, sure as shootin' someone else would. Blame Ashcroft. Hopefully Cisco will find a way to build auditing tools into this to help promote responsible use.
Lately, how is making any profit at all bad? For a "dying company", they seem to be one of the few that aren't posting losses. As long as they're at least breaking even, I'd be happy to (and have) buy a piece of Apple.
I don't know that the exhaust pipe is all CGI. I think they filmed this in two parts where one ended with the flipping pipe and one started with the flipping pipe. CGI was just used to link the two together.
I'm sure it's not a typo here. My point is, it might be a typo on Apple's site. Here's what they have as the note on the Apple Store site:
The 10.2.5 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AirPort, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous, and Sherlock.
The update includes improvements to AFP, Web services, dial up connections over PPP, and Windows file services, as well as audio, disc recording, graphics, and printing improvements and USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements.
The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
Compare this to what I wrote above; almost word-for-word the same.
The 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AppleScript, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous, and Sherlock. It provides audio, disc recording, graphics, printing improvements, AFP and WebDAV networking and Windows file service improvements, as well as USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements. The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
I'll vouch for this. We have an instrument in our lab for autosampling which has (had) a peltier cooling system. The samples were required to be cooled between 2-8C. No matter how much fiddling we did with it, we couldn't get it cold enough. We managed to get it down to 6, but that wasn't cold enough to keep the samples below 8.
We returned it and went with a unit that had an actual refrigeration unit built in and have been happy.
Yes I do, and by having it as a GIF, it makes people have to do actual work to send an email which has the added benefit of cutting out email from lazy people who just want to click to auto-open and address a new email and send out some off-the-cuff rant.
Have you ever published your email address online? Many people have to in order to run a website, you know.
Umm... I run a website. My contact info is a GIF with a picture of my email address. I have never, ever gotten spam at that address.
If I have to flaunt an address around the internet, that's what Yahoo and Hotmail are for, or the spam dumping ground address I created, just in case something comes to that address that I might not want to ignore.
The problem with many of these books, though, is that they aren't where the masses will find them. I go into my local B&N and there may be a dozen or two titles tops that relate to the Mac, compared with the hundreds for Windows and other stuff.
And probably, the only people going to O'Reillys are people that probably don't need the book.
I think the Apple Store needs to go into the book-selling business as well and promote books like this on their site, or on the Switch site to that the masses who could use this type of information will know that it is out there.
Icons are nice to learn where things are. Eventually the muscle memory takes over and they become unnecessary. You could change my trashcan icon to a picture of anything and I would still drag files to it because I know that that's where the trash is.
I modified the icon bar in Mail.app the way I liked it and have been using it that way for about a year now. I recently mucked it up and had to reinstall it. I modifed the icon bar again, but didn't put the "delete" button back in the same spot. Good thing the icon is there, because my mouse still automagically moves to where it is 'supposed' to be, but isn't anymore.
The labels will only be as accurate is the data coming from the PC. I doubt were going to see GPS receivers being standard equipment in PCs anytime soon, so the only way your location is going to make its way into a document is if you had entered it as a preference somewhere.
I guess technically, a lot of people may already have this information entered in if they have set a default return address for envelope-printing software, but that is easily disabled.
As an option, I can see the usefulness, especially for photography in that it would be nice to be able to take a picture and have the coordinates included with the EXIF in the jpeg in case I wanted to return to that spot later. I don't think that many pr0n photographers would have to worry as it's pretty difficult to get a GPS signal indoors.
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Funny, I don't recall a whole lot of love/sex/romance unless you count the Potatoheads getting it on in the Lincoln Log cabin early in the movie...
Again, if you R the FA, one person could not wreak havoc on the system. If they decided to report someone just for shits and giggles, the picture would be resent to 20 more people for confirmation. You'd have to have pre-knowledge of who those 20 were and get them in on your scam to wrongly accuse somebody of something.
Can you imagine the uproar if this were true? Many people are paranoid enough that Software Update might send back a list of files on your computer and report the warez to TPTB. They'd be afraid that their P2P downloads would be reportd as well!
*shakes head* Whoa, sorry, got carried away there a second.
No, that belongs under The Matrix category...
As it says though, don't blame Cisco. If they didn't do it, sure as shootin' someone else would. Blame Ashcroft. Hopefully Cisco will find a way to build auditing tools into this to help promote responsible use.
Looks almost as fun as bed racing...
Interesting. Their last 10-Q statement
shows $6.4B in assets with $3.4B in cash. Interest income was $23M, offsetting $4M in losses and $5M in taxes for a net income of $14M.True, I'd love to be seeing the $40M in net income that they has a year ago, but I suppose a profit is a profit no matter how they get it.
Lately, how is making any profit at all bad? For a "dying company", they seem to be one of the few that aren't posting losses. As long as they're at least breaking even, I'd be happy to (and have) buy a piece of Apple.
I don't know that the exhaust pipe is all CGI. I think they filmed this in two parts where one ended with the flipping pipe and one started with the flipping pipe. CGI was just used to link the two together.
Tiny Bubbles
Running WINE
Make me happy
Make my PC feel fine.
Tiny Bubbles
Make me warm no longer
With a feeling that I'm going to cool you
Till the end of time
So here's to the Boilermakers
And here's to Purdue
But mostly here's to a cooler CPU
Tiny Bubbles
Running WINE
Make me happy
Make my PC feel fine.
I'm sure it's not a typo here. My point is, it might be a typo on Apple's site. Here's what they have as the note on the Apple Store site:
Compare this to what I wrote above; almost word-for-word the same.
Here's the release notes from 10.2.4:
Looks pretty similar...
I'll vouch for this. We have an instrument in our lab for autosampling which has (had) a peltier cooling system. The samples were required to be cooled between 2-8C. No matter how much fiddling we did with it, we couldn't get it cold enough. We managed to get it down to 6, but that wasn't cold enough to keep the samples below 8.
We returned it and went with a unit that had an actual refrigeration unit built in and have been happy.
But it's OK, because the idea here is that nobody's home when the thing runs.
I guess you can also take advantage of the remote controlling to get a safe distance away before it starts cooking...
Yes I do, and by having it as a GIF, it makes people have to do actual work to send an email which has the added benefit of cutting out email from lazy people who just want to click to auto-open and address a new email and send out some off-the-cuff rant.
Have you ever published your email address online? Many people have to in order to run a website, you know.
Umm... I run a website. My contact info is a GIF with a picture of my email address. I have never, ever gotten spam at that address.
If I have to flaunt an address around the internet, that's what Yahoo and Hotmail are for, or the spam dumping ground address I created, just in case something comes to that address that I might not want to ignore.
I think it was Dave Barry as "Mr. Grammar Person" who said something like:
"Criteria is the basis on which you judge something. A Criterion is a type of car."
The problem with many of these books, though, is that they aren't where the masses will find them. I go into my local B&N and there may be a dozen or two titles tops that relate to the Mac, compared with the hundreds for Windows and other stuff.
And probably, the only people going to O'Reillys are people that probably don't need the book.
I think the Apple Store needs to go into the book-selling business as well and promote books like this on their site, or on the Switch site to that the masses who could use this type of information will know that it is out there.
Use http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030404S0 003/2 to get to the second page. Replace the "2" at the end with the page you want to see next.
Maybe ThinkGeek should get on this one. "My Server was Unexpectedly Slashdotted and all I got was this Crummy T-Shirt!"
Icons are nice to learn where things are. Eventually the muscle memory takes over and they become unnecessary. You could change my trashcan icon to a picture of anything and I would still drag files to it because I know that that's where the trash is.
I modified the icon bar in Mail.app the way I liked it and have been using it that way for about a year now. I recently mucked it up and had to reinstall it. I modifed the icon bar again, but didn't put the "delete" button back in the same spot. Good thing the icon is there, because my mouse still automagically moves to where it is 'supposed' to be, but isn't anymore.
The labels will only be as accurate is the data coming from the PC. I doubt were going to see GPS receivers being standard equipment in PCs anytime soon, so the only way your location is going to make its way into a document is if you had entered it as a preference somewhere.
I guess technically, a lot of people may already have this information entered in if they have set a default return address for envelope-printing software, but that is easily disabled.
As an option, I can see the usefulness, especially for photography in that it would be nice to be able to take a picture and have the coordinates included with the EXIF in the jpeg in case I wanted to return to that spot later. I don't think that many pr0n photographers would have to worry as it's pretty difficult to get a GPS signal indoors.
Or at least, "Where's your daddy?"