for the next 4 years, invest money in energy companies that will rape consumers. collect profits in 4 years and donate to democratic candidate.
also, plenty of the bush votes came from christians who vote for him because... he's a tool of god or something dumb. if these people are that dumb, why not sucker some money out of them. sell some "jesus is cool" buttons or something. use this to fund evangelical atheism tours across the country to talk sense into them.
inhaler works by making a sray out of liquid, and inhaling the small droplets. it sounds like this new item is a vaporizor. they already have these too (for smoking dope, mainly) but they're much larger than a cigarette.
i've heard a number of security breaches on OS X, but i've yet to see a remote root that doesn't require some sort of physical intervention. i don't follow this stuff as closely as i should, so maybe i've missed something.
once again, what i'm asking for is an exploit where i run a program on MY machine, and immediately get a root-shell on YOUR mac. i'm eager to hear replies.
With all due respect, sir, you seem to contradit yourself. If iPod cannot be killed because it's like Walkman - and iPod is also a Walkman killer... you can't kill iPod, because it is like something it has killed?
The iPod is also not just another radio/tape player. The idea is, someone's gonna have to do better than make a portable hard-drive-based digital walkman, if they want to call it an "iPod killer". Otherwise, they're not innovating, they're simply entering an already saturated market with yet another similar device. None of these devices seem to "kill" the iPod. It's still selling.
...wait a couple months until you can buy a chip that runs at those speeds without a radiator.
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I use a piece of software on my powerbook called SideTrack. I've got touchpad-tap as my left mouse button, and the physical button as the right mouse button. Takes an hour or two to get used to it, but makes the touchpad a lot more tollerable to us multi-mouse-button fans!
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Macs are a case of conspicuous consumption for fashion-minded assmasters who generally lack the skill to drop to the command line and get nasty when need be.
...this reminds of the "linux is only free if your time has no value" claim. I'm a mac user who has the skill to do command line, and I do it whenever it will benefit (long pipes, etc.) -- But in cases where it won't benefit me, I'd rather just click a pretty blue pulsing button.
I'm a mac user, turned pc user, turned mac again. I left mac because as I learned more about computers, i felt the mac restricted me by forcing me to do things the "easy" way, which isnt always best. I've since switched back, because I think OS X does a wonderful job at providing an easy, simple OS, without restricting access to the nitty gritty stuff.
Christ, at least when I tell a window under pretty much ANY other OS to maximize, it DOES. And let's not even get started on the stubborn, Bush-like insistence on staying with the failed policy of single-button mice.
Your criticism seems to be little more than ignornace. Macs do not have, nor have they ever had, a maximize button. They have a "zoom" button, that toggles between current size, and the size large enough to display all window contents (all text on a page, etc). I do agree that maximize is more useful, but I don't lose sleep over it. As far as the mouse goes, the support is 100% in the OS without the need for any third-party hardware. All you need, is a third-party mouse. Not everyone wants a second or third mouse button, so I think it's not such a bad idea to keep this as an opt-in feature. Perhaps it would be nice if there was a first party 3-button, just for the sake of matching...
I recently switched to Mac. Basically, I justify it for a couple reasons...
1. I hate windows. It really is just unacceptable and unintuitive (note: this does not mean I don't know how to use it, this simply means I don't enjoy using it). I ran linux for quite some time, and it's really more my style (I love the 'nix), but it involved a lot of tinkering with the system, and after doing that for a while, it lost its appeal. I also had to boot to windows every once in a while to run certain commercial software that has no OSS counterpart. OS X runs what I need, with the least amount of maintainence effort on my behalf. I'm a lazy geek, so this works out well for me.
2. Both of the macs I have, sport some degree of custom form factor (12" powerbook, original imac g4) -- there simply was nothing close on the PC end from a reputable vendor, particularly in the case of the 12" powerbook -- believe me, anything that light always had an external optical drive or battery or something dumb like that) I think I could have built something similar (footprint-wise) to the iMac but it wouldn't look as nice and it would have more cables. Criticize all you want, but it's very slick hardware, from an OEM -- no custom rice-rocket computer mods required. Plus, building your own laptop is a bit harder than building your own desktop.
3. Lastly, Apple offers meaningful student discounts: like, a couple hundred bucks. That means a lot to a poor college student, especially when the big PC OEM's offer such crappy discounts.
Safari may become more important once somebody manages to port Konqueror and KHTML to Win32.
Making it standards compliant wouldn't hurt either. I would have preferred Apple to just brand a gecko browser, or just stay out of the browser market altogether. It's a Microsoft-ish move. Heck, since 10.3 came out, you now have to set your default browser preference in Safari. That kinda pisses me off...
I mean, without even seeing the product first hand, people are putting down money on hardware that is unproven. I wish I were at Nintendo right now...
Well, the gameboy is the best selling video game console of all time. Nintendo does a pretty good job of delivering cool hardware with first-party titles that are fun for people of all ages. I don't really think pre-ordering one now would be much of a risk.
This wouldn't be the first times organisations have gone over board on something and ruined what they already had. Look at all the long term really successful products (WinAmp, Google.com, etc) they do so by keeping it simple. Not trying to re-write the wheel and do things like this.
You're missing the point. They're not saying new programs should be developed and integrated with Firefox, they're simply saying more programs should use the same platform as Firefox does. Since you're a windows luser, I'll put this in terms you can understand: if someone writes a program in.NET, it's not making your other.NET programs any more bloated.
FireFox is already extremely bloated (on Windows) compared to other Windows applications and the source code is hundreds of meg in size, the reason - it has an entire platform.
What do you expect, most windows programs rely on windows to do a lot of routine tasks: it's code thats not needed in the executable because the OS already provides it. The problem is, programs like this can't be ported easily to other OS's, let alone simultaniously released across several at a time. To do this, you must first abstract the various API's you'll be using into a common one, and then build your software on top of that.
thank you for clearing this up. i spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out what the author was trying to say. it all makes sense now, thanks to your grammar policing.
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for the next 4 years, invest money in energy companies that will rape consumers. collect profits in 4 years and donate to democratic candidate.
also, plenty of the bush votes came from christians who vote for him because... he's a tool of god or something dumb. if these people are that dumb, why not sucker some money out of them. sell some "jesus is cool" buttons or something. use this to fund evangelical atheism tours across the country to talk sense into them.
back-alley abortion clinics can be lucrative too.
No cities are on fire and there is no looting
Don't speek to soon, I just heard about the concession and I'm still in bed. I'm going to shower, put on some clothes, and then burn down my city.
We have to remember, the number of terrorists convicted as a direct result of these infractions on our Bill of Rights remains a big 0.
:-(
...but at least there's plenty of petty criminals! Hooray for the long arm of the law
--The Angry Conservative (economic and small-government, not bible-thumping-loony)
let's not forget, the patriot act was invoked to gag the ACLU in a case against the act itself on the grounds that it is blatantly unconstitutional.
I think mac users are a very bimodal group. There are lots of pros, comfortable with various OS's. However, there are tons of totally clueless folks.
Thanks for sharing your opinion, however the topic is the security of the OS, not the knowledge of the userbase.
inhaler works by making a sray out of liquid, and inhaling the small droplets. it sounds like this new item is a vaporizor. they already have these too (for smoking dope, mainly) but they're much larger than a cigarette.
spyware, worms, viruses. JOLLY GOOD SHOW!
i've heard a number of security breaches on OS X, but i've yet to see a remote root that doesn't require some sort of physical intervention. i don't follow this stuff as closely as i should, so maybe i've missed something.
once again, what i'm asking for is an exploit where i run a program on MY machine, and immediately get a root-shell on YOUR mac. i'm eager to hear replies.
nuff said.
With all due respect, sir, you seem to contradit yourself. If iPod cannot be killed because it's like Walkman - and iPod is also a Walkman killer... you can't kill iPod, because it is like something it has killed?
The iPod is also not just another radio/tape player. The idea is, someone's gonna have to do better than make a portable hard-drive-based digital walkman, if they want to call it an "iPod killer". Otherwise, they're not innovating, they're simply entering an already saturated market with yet another similar device. None of these devices seem to "kill" the iPod. It's still selling.
...wait a couple months until you can buy a chip that runs at those speeds without a radiator.
I use a piece of software on my powerbook called SideTrack. I've got touchpad-tap as my left mouse button, and the physical button as the right mouse button. Takes an hour or two to get used to it, but makes the touchpad a lot more tollerable to us multi-mouse-button fans!
Macs are a case of conspicuous consumption for fashion-minded assmasters who generally lack the skill to drop to the command line and get nasty when need be.
...this reminds of the "linux is only free if your time has no value" claim. I'm a mac user who has the skill to do command line, and I do it whenever it will benefit (long pipes, etc.) -- But in cases where it won't benefit me, I'd rather just click a pretty blue pulsing button.
I'm a mac user, turned pc user, turned mac again. I left mac because as I learned more about computers, i felt the mac restricted me by forcing me to do things the "easy" way, which isnt always best. I've since switched back, because I think OS X does a wonderful job at providing an easy, simple OS, without restricting access to the nitty gritty stuff.
Christ, at least when I tell a window under pretty much ANY other OS to maximize, it DOES. And let's not even get started on the stubborn, Bush-like insistence on staying with the failed policy of single-button mice.
Your criticism seems to be little more than ignornace. Macs do not have, nor have they ever had, a maximize button. They have a "zoom" button, that toggles between current size, and the size large enough to display all window contents (all text on a page, etc). I do agree that maximize is more useful, but I don't lose sleep over it. As far as the mouse goes, the support is 100% in the OS without the need for any third-party hardware. All you need, is a third-party mouse. Not everyone wants a second or third mouse button, so I think it's not such a bad idea to keep this as an opt-in feature. Perhaps it would be nice if there was a first party 3-button, just for the sake of matching...
I recently switched to Mac. Basically, I justify it for a couple reasons...
1. I hate windows. It really is just unacceptable and unintuitive (note: this does not mean I don't know how to use it, this simply means I don't enjoy using it). I ran linux for quite some time, and it's really more my style (I love the 'nix), but it involved a lot of tinkering with the system, and after doing that for a while, it lost its appeal. I also had to boot to windows every once in a while to run certain commercial software that has no OSS counterpart. OS X runs what I need, with the least amount of maintainence effort on my behalf. I'm a lazy geek, so this works out well for me.
2. Both of the macs I have, sport some degree of custom form factor (12" powerbook, original imac g4) -- there simply was nothing close on the PC end from a reputable vendor, particularly in the case of the 12" powerbook -- believe me, anything that light always had an external optical drive or battery or something dumb like that) I think I could have built something similar (footprint-wise) to the iMac but it wouldn't look as nice and it would have more cables. Criticize all you want, but it's very slick hardware, from an OEM -- no custom rice-rocket computer mods required. Plus, building your own laptop is a bit harder than building your own desktop.
3. Lastly, Apple offers meaningful student discounts: like, a couple hundred bucks. That means a lot to a poor college student, especially when the big PC OEM's offer such crappy discounts.
Safari may become more important once somebody manages to port Konqueror and KHTML to Win32.
Making it standards compliant wouldn't hurt either. I would have preferred Apple to just brand a gecko browser, or just stay out of the browser market altogether. It's a Microsoft-ish move. Heck, since 10.3 came out, you now have to set your default browser preference in Safari. That kinda pisses me off...
I mean, without even seeing the product first hand, people are putting down money on hardware that is unproven. I wish I were at Nintendo right now...
Well, the gameboy is the best selling video game console of all time. Nintendo does a pretty good job of delivering cool hardware with first-party titles that are fun for people of all ages. I don't really think pre-ordering one now would be much of a risk.
That phone number by area code and exchange is for Milton, CA, so chances are the entire WHOIS record is false.
Actually, it's a typo. I've been meaning to fix it...
I believe I fall under the "these voting machines were $3,000 each!?" label.
This wouldn't be the first times organisations have gone over board on something and ruined what they already had. Look at all the long term really successful products (WinAmp, Google.com, etc) they do so by keeping it simple. Not trying to re-write the wheel and do things like this.
.NET, it's not making your other .NET programs any more bloated.
You're missing the point. They're not saying new programs should be developed and integrated with Firefox, they're simply saying more programs should use the same platform as Firefox does. Since you're a windows luser, I'll put this in terms you can understand: if someone writes a program in
FireFox is already extremely bloated (on Windows) compared to other Windows applications and the source code is hundreds of meg in size, the reason - it has an entire platform.
What do you expect, most windows programs rely on windows to do a lot of routine tasks: it's code thats not needed in the executable because the OS already provides it. The problem is, programs like this can't be ported easily to other OS's, let alone simultaniously released across several at a time. To do this, you must first abstract the various API's you'll be using into a common one, and then build your software on top of that.
thank you for clearing this up. i spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out what the author was trying to say. it all makes sense now, thanks to your grammar policing.
most of the taxpayers are not getting drunk in the park
speak for yourself.
the 1996 M5 didn't run windows, and that's my next car. easy enough....
wow, i was gonna post this verbatim but you beat me to it. kudos.