He makes the claim that 'security guys break Windows every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on a Mac. Fixed!
There is no one higher than me that you will speak with. No one higher, eh? I guess he must be referring to drug usage because I'm sure he reports to someone.
I'm not aware of any company where the Manager of Customer Support is equivalent to CEO/Chairman...
OS X is not a flawless system. Such a beast doesn't exist. Windows certainly isn't flawless either.
Windows is known and used by millions of people because it runs on PCs and because of the MS monopoly. This prevalence has nothing to do with its superiority or lack thereof. It runs on an 'open' platform. Macs are closed. There are benefits to both. People prefer to buy open systems because of the illusion that they have more freedom, but they all run Windows anyway (very few run Linux), so does it really matter that it's 'open?'
The 'reset' of permissions referred to is, I believe a reference to repairing permissions, which can be done through Disk Tools. Some installers mess with file permissions that they shouldn't. It's much less of a problem than it was in the early days of OS X.
AppleTalk? Does anything support that anymore other than the OS?
Window's pitfalls are its instability, registry issues, driver problems and lack of consistent UI. Let's not forget that deal breaking DRM in Vista where you have to have a DRM monitor to play DRM media!!!! You will have to buy a new monitor! And of course, the call home BS.
OS X's pitfalls are poor speed, lack of market monopoly to provide esoteric applications, poor technology for games
Window's strengths are: everything runs on it, it's where the games are, there's stacks of them at every business, you can get a crappy one cheap
OS X's strengths are: unix, some great apps, consistent UI, superior video and audio, easy and flexible networking.
There is certainly more that can be added to both systems in both categories.
Apple's letter to podcastready.com does not contain the words cease or desist. They opened a dialog regarding the user of that site's term mypodder and related domains. Basically, they're phonetically stealing the trademark and not paying the licensing fee.
Exactly, you need to be able to get to any cable. Zip ties are single use. Velcro rip ties, while more expensive, are reusuable.
And talk about overkill on that one 24 port switch or whatever it was. They used at least 24 zip ties, one for each cable and some doubles. Don't you think one every 2-4 would have done just as good a job? Instead, they completely locked down the cable making any troubleshooting a nightmare. Three well placed ripties would do a fine job, keep it orderly AND maintainable. Especially if the ties were long enough to have additional room for growth.
Well, everyone I know paid for the box. No, I don't know 5 million WoW players.
I consider the Asian market an aberration, although it's a huge market for MMOs.
In either case, AFAIK, the only fee Blizzard charges is monthly, not hourly. And even if everyone got the game for free, the monthly charge of $15 * 5 million surely more than pays for the servers, bandwidth and development costs. Clearly WoW is a huge cash cow for them. They've done a fantastic job of leveraging their success with prior Warcraft titles and Diablo.
Firstly, this statement is incorrect:
"The majority of WoW players pay an hourly fee, and didn't have to buy the box."
The majority of WoW players pay a MONTHLY fee and HAD to buy the box for $40-$60 retail.
About the what's the point when you hit (insert maximum level here):
This view always comes up in any online game. Ding 60, now what? Uh, WoW, like any other online game has plenty of content designed just for level 60 players. There is better gear to get, raids with big bosses to kill and there's always the Hoarde (or Alliance) to kill. There's plenty to do! It's not just about grinding your way to the top level. If that's all you view the game as, you're missing the whole point of a persistent character style game.
In WoW, it's very common for a 60 to help out lowbies. Either run them through a dungeon they can't get a group for or help guide them through dangerous PvP territory, help them wrap up a few quests real quick or get a little better equip. It takes little time, the 60 is usually capable of doing all the work themselves and it gives a nice leg up for the struggling lowbie. It's a gesture of good will and I find it encouraging that, despite having a reputation for potty mouthed kids, there are many who won't go out of their way to gank you or who will spend 40 minutes or so helping out a stranger just for the heck of it.
You get out of a game what you put in. I've always been able to find things of interest to do when others burned out long ago. Sure there are days where I feel like there's nothing I feel like doing so I don't log in, but then that allows me to do other things outside the game (novel concept).
One problem with RPGs is they're designed to keep you playing forever. This protects the revenue stream of the publisher. To do this, they make things take a long time to do so that you're always working on something. I'd be perfectly happy playing the game, slaying the dragon and saving the princess and then taking a short break of a month or two before some new content came out. Only the cheapest of people will cancel their $15/mo for that period and it's not like I wouldn't log in and do some smaller things or help friends during that interim period. But instead, these games are designed so that even the most hardcore gamer will have to put in months to slay that dragon and save that princess. Someone working full time would spend years trying to get to the same point.
WoW is better at this than others but it still takes too long to get stuff done, IMO. A 12hr/week player should be able to do all the raids, dragon slaying and princess boinking. The first company to get this and deliver in a game that can deliver content at an adequate rate to keep the game moving forward is going to make WoW look like a minor player, at least if they do a good job with the background and mechanics/etc.
The next 5-10 years will be interesting to see how the genre develops...
Blockbuster used to have specially edited versions of movies made (and probably still does) when new VHS movies came out. Cuss words edited out, etc. They were deciding what your morality should be.
I doubt they can have that flexibility with DVDs (but maybe they can), but I will never give a dime to a company that tries to decide what MY morals SHOULD be.
NetFlix is easy and convient. Working the queue is similar to using TiVo. I just keep adding stuff that looks interesting and I bump stuff to the top if I feel like watching it soon.
The only major difference between NetFlix and going INTO Blockbuster is the spontaneous rental - where you didn't think you'd want to watch that until you saw it. Kinda like spontaneous shopping at the grocery store, but most women don't shop for food that way, why shop for movies that way? The queue isn't set in stone.
The best part is, I don't HAVE to go to the video store... it comes to ME.
There are still a lot of companies, in their misguided foolishness, developing on Java technology. It was the buzzword so they jumped on the bandwagon. Nevermind a little common sense mixed with practical experience.
Nothing will make me happier than to see the piles of junk referred to as various types of Java technology fade from existence. The bloated, memory pigs that will happily do your garbage collection for you (sometime, maybe, perhaps, if it feels like it) sucked when they were first released and the suck fest just kept going. I will admit that java servlets did reasonably well, but there are other technologies that work just as well for that.
But it's going to be a long time before people learn to adapt and drop the dying technology. Those that do, will move on, those that don't wil move on to the unemployment line.
I'm looking forward to the Java is dead party myself!
Gmail made a splash not because of the feature set but because they offered 1gb of free space. Their mail interface is very unorthodox and while some people like it, I think it sucks personally. In either case, Google mail hasn't really changed at all since it debuted. It's stagnant. I guess they think 1.0 is the be all and end all of email? Survey says...? Bzzzzzt!
Yahoo's mail interface is... ok. They certainly haven't "caught up with Google." It's just pretty much the same old thing with more space. Yahoo is doing some work on an improved interface, but it's not a leaps and bounds thing. But at least there's some decent work going on.
And Microsoft? Well, hotmail is the same as ever, the worst in the business. Now that spammers can pay to not get filtered out, you get more spam than ever in your inbox. There is NO innovation at all happening there.
65k british pounds is about $110k US. The system has saved one life already. I'm sure that girl thinks it was worth the money as well as her parents. I do too.
If it worked once, it'll probably work again. It'll never replace lifeguards, but it certainly has shown it can be a valuable assistant.
Don't you have a monitor? If not, you can get a 15" CRT for like $50. They sell it w/o one because pretty much everyone has a monitor by now and are likely retiring some old PC to check out the new cheap mac.
And you don't have to buy their one button mouse. I use a Microsoft Optical USB mouse I bought for $19 to use with my laptop when at a desk. Plugged it in, all the buttons worked without any config. Even the right click was pre-mapped to control click.
You can buy and use any USB keyboard, but I would recommend using the Apple one so you don't have to remap a few keys (Alt and Windows keys to Option and Command for example). Apple finally got a clue on pricing it's keyboards, they're under $30 now.
cracker (kråk-er) n. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
One that cracks, especially: A firecracker.
A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.
The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.
One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.
Offensive. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.
Not a single cafe in the Bay Area or even Northern California if I read the list correctly.
Why is it that Silicon Valley, the center of High Tech always gets shafted on bandwidth? It seems users in Podunk, Georgia get better DSL speeds for less money than we can get here.
It's time for a bandwidth revolt, my friend.
We're not gonna take it No, we're not gonna take it We don't want slow uploads anymore....
Yes, we'll run servers So, what's wrong with that? The internet goes both ways, when it works....
I didn't notice that in the Software Update. I had my External 250gb FireWire drive connected, which my iPod is daisy chained through. Both were mounted during the download, install and remained plugged in for the reboot.
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So, since, they've been overcharging us massively for CDs for 24 years, every album I buy for the next 24 years will be free, right?
Yeah, didn't think so....
I'm not aware of any company where the Manager of Customer Support is equivalent to CEO/Chairman...
OS X is not a flawless system. Such a beast doesn't exist. Windows certainly isn't flawless either.
Windows is known and used by millions of people because it runs on PCs and because of the MS monopoly. This prevalence has nothing to do with its superiority or lack thereof. It runs on an 'open' platform. Macs are closed. There are benefits to both. People prefer to buy open systems because of the illusion that they have more freedom, but they all run Windows anyway (very few run Linux), so does it really matter that it's 'open?'
The 'reset' of permissions referred to is, I believe a reference to repairing permissions, which can be done through Disk Tools. Some installers mess with file permissions that they shouldn't. It's much less of a problem than it was in the early days of OS X.
AppleTalk? Does anything support that anymore other than the OS?
Window's pitfalls are its instability, registry issues, driver problems and lack of consistent UI. Let's not forget that deal breaking DRM in Vista where you have to have a DRM monitor to play DRM media!!!! You will have to buy a new monitor! And of course, the call home BS.
OS X's pitfalls are poor speed, lack of market monopoly to provide esoteric applications, poor technology for games
Window's strengths are: everything runs on it, it's where the games are, there's stacks of them at every business, you can get a crappy one cheap
OS X's strengths are: unix, some great apps, consistent UI, superior video and audio, easy and flexible networking.
There is certainly more that can be added to both systems in both categories.
Apple's letter to podcastready.com does not contain the words cease or desist. They opened a dialog regarding the user of that site's term mypodder and related domains. Basically, they're phonetically stealing the trademark and not paying the licensing fee.
The OP is patently false and spreading FUD.
Exactly, you need to be able to get to any cable. Zip ties are single use. Velcro rip ties, while more expensive, are reusuable.
And talk about overkill on that one 24 port switch or whatever it was. They used at least 24 zip ties, one for each cable and some doubles. Don't you think one every 2-4 would have done just as good a job? Instead, they completely locked down the cable making any troubleshooting a nightmare. Three well placed ripties would do a fine job, keep it orderly AND maintainable. Especially if the ties were long enough to have additional room for growth.
Hasn't Linux been touted as desktop ready annually since about 1999?
Each year, I will admit, it gets closer and closer due to the hard work and efforts of the Gnome and KDE teams, but it still has a way to go.
Well, everyone I know paid for the box. No, I don't know 5 million WoW players.
I consider the Asian market an aberration, although it's a huge market for MMOs.
In either case, AFAIK, the only fee Blizzard charges is monthly, not hourly. And even if everyone got the game for free, the monthly charge of $15 * 5 million surely more than pays for the servers, bandwidth and development costs. Clearly WoW is a huge cash cow for them. They've done a fantastic job of leveraging their success with prior Warcraft titles and Diablo.
Firstly, this statement is incorrect:
"The majority of WoW players pay an hourly fee, and didn't have to buy the box."
The majority of WoW players pay a MONTHLY fee and HAD to buy the box for $40-$60 retail.
About the what's the point when you hit (insert maximum level here):
This view always comes up in any online game. Ding 60, now what? Uh, WoW, like any other online game has plenty of content designed just for level 60 players. There is better gear to get, raids with big bosses to kill and there's always the Hoarde (or Alliance) to kill. There's plenty to do! It's not just about grinding your way to the top level. If that's all you view the game as, you're missing the whole point of a persistent character style game.
In WoW, it's very common for a 60 to help out lowbies. Either run them through a dungeon they can't get a group for or help guide them through dangerous PvP territory, help them wrap up a few quests real quick or get a little better equip. It takes little time, the 60 is usually capable of doing all the work themselves and it gives a nice leg up for the struggling lowbie. It's a gesture of good will and I find it encouraging that, despite having a reputation for potty mouthed kids, there are many who won't go out of their way to gank you or who will spend 40 minutes or so helping out a stranger just for the heck of it.
You get out of a game what you put in. I've always been able to find things of interest to do when others burned out long ago. Sure there are days where I feel like there's nothing I feel like doing so I don't log in, but then that allows me to do other things outside the game (novel concept).
One problem with RPGs is they're designed to keep you playing forever. This protects the revenue stream of the publisher. To do this, they make things take a long time to do so that you're always working on something. I'd be perfectly happy playing the game, slaying the dragon and saving the princess and then taking a short break of a month or two before some new content came out. Only the cheapest of people will cancel their $15/mo for that period and it's not like I wouldn't log in and do some smaller things or help friends during that interim period. But instead, these games are designed so that even the most hardcore gamer will have to put in months to slay that dragon and save that princess. Someone working full time would spend years trying to get to the same point.
WoW is better at this than others but it still takes too long to get stuff done, IMO. A 12hr/week player should be able to do all the raids, dragon slaying and princess boinking. The first company to get this and deliver in a game that can deliver content at an adequate rate to keep the game moving forward is going to make WoW look like a minor player, at least if they do a good job with the background and mechanics/etc.
The next 5-10 years will be interesting to see how the genre develops...
I just put Ubuntu on my desktop.
:-/
Now I'm gonna have to go and put something else on it because obviously I made a bad choice....
Ah, yes, good ol' Duke Nukem Forever, aka DNF, which is a common acronymn for:
Did Not Finish
Coincidence or planned? You decide!
Duke Nukem Forever is often abbreviated as DNF.
This is commonly used in races and competitions for: Did Not Finish
Blockbuster used to have specially edited versions of movies made (and probably still does) when new VHS movies came out. Cuss words edited out, etc. They were deciding what your morality should be.
I doubt they can have that flexibility with DVDs (but maybe they can), but I will never give a dime to a company that tries to decide what MY morals SHOULD be.
NetFlix is easy and convient. Working the queue is similar to using TiVo. I just keep adding stuff that looks interesting and I bump stuff to the top if I feel like watching it soon.
The only major difference between NetFlix and going INTO Blockbuster is the spontaneous rental - where you didn't think you'd want to watch that until you saw it. Kinda like spontaneous shopping at the grocery store, but most women don't shop for food that way, why shop for movies that way? The queue isn't set in stone.
The best part is, I don't HAVE to go to the video store... it comes to ME.
Netflix won, Blockbuster got their butts whooped. If you haven't tried Netflix, you should. It rocks.
No, I don't work there, own stock in them or have any vested interested. I'm just a happy customer that loves a good service.
There are still a lot of companies, in their misguided foolishness, developing on Java technology. It was the buzzword so they jumped on the bandwagon. Nevermind a little common sense mixed with practical experience.
Nothing will make me happier than to see the piles of junk referred to as various types of Java technology fade from existence. The bloated, memory pigs that will happily do your garbage collection for you (sometime, maybe, perhaps, if it feels like it) sucked when they were first released and the suck fest just kept going. I will admit that java servlets did reasonably well, but there are other technologies that work just as well for that.
But it's going to be a long time before people learn to adapt and drop the dying technology. Those that do, will move on, those that don't wil move on to the unemployment line.
I'm looking forward to the Java is dead party myself!
Gmail made a splash not because of the feature set but because they offered 1gb of free space.
Their mail interface is very unorthodox and while some people like it, I think it sucks personally. In either case, Google mail hasn't really changed at all since it debuted. It's stagnant. I guess they think 1.0 is the be all and end all of email? Survey says...? Bzzzzzt!
Yahoo's mail interface is... ok. They certainly haven't "caught up with Google." It's just pretty much the same old thing with more space. Yahoo is doing some work on an improved interface, but it's not a leaps and bounds thing. But at least there's some decent work going on.
And Microsoft? Well, hotmail is the same as ever, the worst in the business. Now that spammers can pay to not get filtered out, you get more spam than ever in your inbox. There is NO innovation at all happening there.
65k british pounds is about $110k US. The system has saved one life already. I'm sure that girl thinks it was worth the money as well as her parents. I do too.
If it worked once, it'll probably work again. It'll never replace lifeguards, but it certainly has shown it can be a valuable assistant.
Look out, NYC...
Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed!
Don't you have a monitor? If not, you can get a 15" CRT for like $50. They sell it w/o one because pretty much everyone has a monitor by now and are likely retiring some old PC to check out the new cheap mac.
And you don't have to buy their one button mouse. I use a Microsoft Optical USB mouse I bought for $19 to use with my laptop when at a desk. Plugged it in, all the buttons worked without any config. Even the right click was pre-mapped to control click.
You can buy and use any USB keyboard, but I would recommend using the Apple one so you don't have to remap a few keys (Alt and Windows keys to Option and Command for example). Apple finally got a clue on pricing it's keyboards, they're under $30 now.
The path popup is a one click, one drag op.
Control uparrow is a no click op.
So I guess you are correct in that there is no one click op to accomplish this, but both sides of that are covered.
cracker (kråk-er) n.
A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
One that cracks, especially:
A firecracker.
A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.
The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.
One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.
Offensive.
Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.
Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
Not a single cafe in the Bay Area or even Northern California if I read the list correctly.
Why is it that Silicon Valley, the center of High Tech always gets shafted on bandwidth? It seems users in Podunk, Georgia get better DSL speeds for less money than we can get here.
It's time for a bandwidth revolt, my friend.
We're not gonna take it
No, we're not gonna take it
We don't want slow uploads anymore....
Yes, we'll run servers
So, what's wrong with that?
The internet goes both ways, when it works....
What's wrong with Unix?
It's name is a sound alike for someone who's been 'snipped.'
How would you fix it?
Well, I don't know about humans, but when you snip a cat, they say it HAS been fixed, but I don't think that works here.
Nix the snippage and give your OS some balls!
None of Browder's jokes will be funny. Those Earth reference jokes he uses on Aliens just won't cut it in the Stargate universe...
"Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows. What makes you think you can guarantee my safety?"
I didn't notice that in the Software Update. I had my External 250gb FireWire drive connected, which my iPod is daisy chained through. Both were mounted during the download, install and remained plugged in for the reboot.
Nary a problem.