The IEEE made an agreement with Apple to license the Apple symbol and name for FireWire. According to the IEEE, IEEE 1394 is to be referred to as FireWire. Most everyone does this now, except Sony.
I'd go on O'Reilly but, like a coward, he walked out on a screening we invited him to (with Al Franken just a few rows away!). I personally caught him sneaking out. Embarrassed, he tried to change the subject. He said, "When are you coming on my show?" and I said, "Turn around and watch the rest of the movie and I will come on your show." He walked out. Fair and balanced.
iPods are about to surpass the Sony Discman in sales volume. If Slashdot were a BBS and this was 1989, would you yell at someone for making the title "Listen to the Universe on your Walkman" instead of just saying "stereo" or "record"?
Like Kleenex = Tissue and Xerox = Copies, iPod will soon = Portable Music Player, just like Walkman/Discman once did.
Several states have conducted studies and have proved that phones DO cause explosions at gas pumps, and have made using a cell phone while fueling illegal.
Big chains agree. BP Amoco is one example of a major chain that will SHUT OFF YOUR PUMP if they see you using your phone while fueling.
A guy in a township in my county blew up his car, you guessed it, answering a call on his cell phone while fueling. The fire chief, local newspaper, and even the guy who's car blew up all agree: it was the phone and nothing else. He didn't do anything that could have caused a spark, and the pattern of the explosion indicated it originated from the phone.
SNOPES.COM IS NOT GOD. It's made by people, and is occasionally wrong. This wouldn't be the first time.
"I love it when people claim to not watch TV save for some annoyingly elitist reason."
Where did I give a reason for not watching TV? All I said was that I didn't watch it at all for half a year, and started watching again for the news.
Since you seem so concerned, it wasn't for "elitist" reasons. I was working 70+ hour weeks in IT and was spending the rest of the time with my girlfriend or keeping my house clean and the lawn mowed, etc.
Perhaps I should of added, "Since I had time for news again, I decided I had time for watching TechTV again, too."
Don't you have anything better to do than critique what people you don't know are doing with their time?
I live in Metro Detroit, and we get the Canadian networks here in addition to the US networks. Since Slashdot is overwhelmingly "American-centric" as people from other nations so often remind us of, I figured saying, "and all I watched was CBC for the a different perspective of the news than I get from MSNBC.com" would be meaningless to most people from the USA.
I also have friends in Canada and enjoy being able to join in small talk about what is going on in their country.
Since when is learning about the world around you a bad idea?
As far as I'm concerned, the flagship show on TechTV was The Screen Savers. When the show had Leo, Martin, and Morgan still, it was the best show on television.
I understand the desire to move successful people to their own shows, but after Leo moved off of TSS and they were left with Patrick (who is so-so), and then Kevin Rose with his elitist attitude and his little girlfriend (can't even remember her name since she is so annoying) that knows jack nothing about computers, well, I can barely stand to watch the show.
Frankly, I don't really watch it more than once a week. I used to watch it daily. That is impressive simply because I don't watch TV. Last year I didn't watch television at all for six months, after that I only watched it to see international perspective of the War in Iraq.
As such, the only reason I have for cable is TechTV. If they kill it (which they already pretty much have) then I will get rid of my cable TV in a heartbeat. Comcast is insane.
Then again, I can hope that someone else will see the potential it had, and do a TSS style show the way it was meant to be done.
Leo, Martin, and Morgan all act like people I hang out with (I'm more in Morgan/Martin's age group, but I know people in Leo's age group that I talk with about technology all the time). Kevin Rose acts like someone I'd never speak with about anything in person. I don't know the guy personally or anything, but I really feel that TSS is ruined without Leo there, and that it was even better than that before they broke up the staff.
The question is: did Comcast kill TechTV, or with it's flagship show in tatters, was it already dead?
Is it compatible with Apple's iChat AV / AIM's video and audio chatting?
If so, that would most certainly rule. iChat AV is awesome, but chatting on the Windows AIM client restricts one to a tiny window, whereas with iChat you can take up the whole screen if you want.
Also, I have lots of x86 using friends that hate booting into Windows from Linux just to use advertising-ridden AIM.
I was scared about the lack of right-clicking on the touchpad when I switched from Windows. Then I figured out that all you have to do is hold down the control key while clicking. Try it on your PowerMac. Click the left mouse button while holding the control key on the keyboard. I actually prefer this method now to having two mouse buttons, but I would still like a scroll wheel on the Apple Pro Mouse.
Some other good United States religious quotations:
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
-- Treaty of Tripoli (1797) signed by John Adams (the original language is by Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul.)
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Works, Vol. IV, p. 365, Randolph's ed.
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
-- Abraham Lincoln, to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death
"Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian."
-- Mary Todd Lincoln
"During the Tiananmen Square in 1990, if activists had e-mail, I'm sure they could have been much more organized, and the people of China could have heard about it and the truth of how the army fired on their own people."
They did. I saw video footage of them accessing political BBS services over 300 baud modem on an Apple II. No joke.
It's a good thing they didn't go against Ford Motor Co.
The people in charge of Ford's IT are former IBM execs, and they are in the process of switching from Sun servers to Linux.
If SCO would have picked Ford, IBM surely would have jumped directly into the fray.
In any case, going against Detroit is a horrid idea, especially a multinational as large as DCX. Let's hope DCX let's them have it.
Now I heard someone post about buying auto parts from AutoZone to support them against SCO. Are you going to go buy a brand new Chrysler Crossfire too?
The site only mentions Notes once, and doesn't explicitly say, "Check your iPod to see if you have this before forking over your money." That means many average users will miss that little detail. That is, until they've paid for the product they can't use.
Before you mod me down for whining about not having a new feature on my old device, let me tell you that is not the intent of this post.
The linked notes (which the game relies on), as far as I know, only work on 3G iPods and the miniPod. I couldn't find anything on the game's website that stated this.
I imagine a lot of not-ultra-techie Mac/Win users might get pissed off if they download the game for their 2G or 1G iPod and it doesn't work. Just a thought.
Great idea. Just don't get caught. Some of those machines are rumored to have silent alarms, and if you bring in an out of state container, they'll call the cops.
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BEVERAGE CONTAINERS (EXCERPT) Initiated Law of 1976 445.574a Prohibited return; violation; penalty.
Sec. 4a.
(1) A person shall not return or attempt to return to a dealer for a refund 1 or more of the following:
(a) A beverage container that the person knows or should know was not purchased in this state as a filled returnable container.
(b) A beverage container that the person knows or should know did not have a deposit paid for it at the time of purchase.
(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is subject to 1 of the following:
(a) If the person returns 25 or more but not more than 100 nonreturnable containers, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00.
(b) If the person returns more than 100 nonreturnable containers or violates subdivision (a) for a second or subsequent time, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.
(c) A person found guilty under this subsection shall be ordered by the court to pay restitution equal to the amount of loss caused by the violation.
Let's go with the old door analogy. Leaving your transmissions unencrypted or your computer with no passwords or firewalls is like leaving your door wide open, with a note on it saying, "Dear Everyone, Come On In!". you might not think so, but if you don't you obviously don't understand the way the law works. If we start making the use of unencrypted radio frequencies illegal because it is "spying", next thing you know we'll be making listening to people talking as they walk down the street illegal as well. Or, viewing a sign in someone's private yard. One thing leads to another. The people of this nation have determined that if you put in a tiny bit of effort, by encrypting, you are in effect saying, "No, you may not view my materials I am broadcasting.", at which point the full force of law comes into effect.
I went from a Linux user at home and VB Programmer/Windows/Linux network admin at work to a totally OS X oriented guy.
You won't regret the switch. I've had my 14" iBook laptop since late 2003, and people still think it's brand new. It still feels brand new. The OS is awesome, especially for anyone that's used *nix. I couldn't be happier.
I could see myself going back to Linux in five or ten years just so I can play with it, but right now I doubt I'll ever use anything for as my primary system other than OS X.
It took me a while to admit it is a Mac. People are dumbfounded when I go from talking about how much I love my Mac into a diatribe about how much I hate them. (When I say I hate them I'm referring to Mac OS systems, not OS X.)
The hardware: A+
The software: A+
The OS: A+
You can't beat this system. It's awesome. Just be sure you add RAM, they never come with enough...
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If I had mod points, I'd mad you informative. Okay, since I already commented in this discussion, I couldn't do that.
So, +1 Informative. There ya go. You deserve it, buddy. ^_~
Jumpman RULES! :-D
The IEEE made an agreement with Apple to license the Apple symbol and name for FireWire. According to the IEEE, IEEE 1394 is to be referred to as FireWire. Most everyone does this now, except Sony.
If you look at the calculator in the Dashboard demo, you'll notice it says 1.337!
I love a company with a sexy UNIX based OS and a sense of humor.
From Moore's website:
I'd go on O'Reilly but, like a coward, he walked out on a screening we invited him to (with Al Franken just a few rows away!). I personally caught him sneaking out. Embarrassed, he tried to change the subject. He said, "When are you coming on my show?" and I said, "Turn around and watch the rest of the movie and I will come on your show." He walked out. Fair and balanced.
Well, my friend, some people just have NO sense of humor these days. *sigh*
...since BSD is dying, this is one motorcycle I'd never want to ride!
Mods: Have a sense of humor here. Seriously. I run a server with BSD at my company.
iPods are about to surpass the Sony Discman in sales volume. If Slashdot were a BBS and this was 1989, would you yell at someone for making the title "Listen to the Universe on your Walkman" instead of just saying "stereo" or "record"? Like Kleenex = Tissue and Xerox = Copies, iPod will soon = Portable Music Player, just like Walkman/Discman once did.
The real-life shark that the movie Jaws was loosely based off of killed people in the North Atlantic.
My 2 cents:
Several states have conducted studies and have proved that phones DO cause explosions at gas pumps, and have made using a cell phone while fueling illegal.
Big chains agree. BP Amoco is one example of a major chain that will SHUT OFF YOUR PUMP if they see you using your phone while fueling.
A guy in a township in my county blew up his car, you guessed it, answering a call on his cell phone while fueling. The fire chief, local newspaper, and even the guy who's car blew up all agree: it was the phone and nothing else. He didn't do anything that could have caused a spark, and the pattern of the explosion indicated it originated from the phone.
SNOPES.COM IS NOT GOD. It's made by people, and is occasionally wrong. This wouldn't be the first time.
"I love it when people claim to not watch TV save for some annoyingly elitist reason."
Where did I give a reason for not watching TV? All I said was that I didn't watch it at all for half a year, and started watching again for the news.
Since you seem so concerned, it wasn't for "elitist" reasons. I was working 70+ hour weeks in IT and was spending the rest of the time with my girlfriend or keeping my house clean and the lawn mowed, etc.
Perhaps I should of added, "Since I had time for news again, I decided I had time for watching TechTV again, too."
Don't you have anything better to do than critique what people you don't know are doing with their time?
I live in Metro Detroit, and we get the Canadian networks here in addition to the US networks. Since Slashdot is overwhelmingly "American-centric" as people from other nations so often remind us of, I figured saying, "and all I watched was CBC for the a different perspective of the news than I get from MSNBC.com" would be meaningless to most people from the USA.
I also have friends in Canada and enjoy being able to join in small talk about what is going on in their country.
Since when is learning about the world around you a bad idea?
As far as I'm concerned, the flagship show on TechTV was The Screen Savers. When the show had Leo, Martin, and Morgan still, it was the best show on television.
I understand the desire to move successful people to their own shows, but after Leo moved off of TSS and they were left with Patrick (who is so-so), and then Kevin Rose with his elitist attitude and his little girlfriend (can't even remember her name since she is so annoying) that knows jack nothing about computers, well, I can barely stand to watch the show.
Frankly, I don't really watch it more than once a week. I used to watch it daily. That is impressive simply because I don't watch TV. Last year I didn't watch television at all for six months, after that I only watched it to see international perspective of the War in Iraq.
As such, the only reason I have for cable is TechTV. If they kill it (which they already pretty much have) then I will get rid of my cable TV in a heartbeat. Comcast is insane.
Then again, I can hope that someone else will see the potential it had, and do a TSS style show the way it was meant to be done.
Leo, Martin, and Morgan all act like people I hang out with (I'm more in Morgan/Martin's age group, but I know people in Leo's age group that I talk with about technology all the time). Kevin Rose acts like someone I'd never speak with about anything in person. I don't know the guy personally or anything, but I really feel that TSS is ruined without Leo there, and that it was even better than that before they broke up the staff.
The question is: did Comcast kill TechTV, or with it's flagship show in tatters, was it already dead?
Is it compatible with Apple's iChat AV / AIM's video and audio chatting?
If so, that would most certainly rule. iChat AV is awesome, but chatting on the Windows AIM client restricts one to a tiny window, whereas with iChat you can take up the whole screen if you want.
Also, I have lots of x86 using friends that hate booting into Windows from Linux just to use advertising-ridden AIM.
Spoken like a true Anonymous Coward!
I was scared about the lack of right-clicking on the touchpad when I switched from Windows. Then I figured out that all you have to do is hold down the control key while clicking. Try it on your PowerMac. Click the left mouse button while holding the control key on the keyboard. I actually prefer this method now to having two mouse buttons, but I would still like a scroll wheel on the Apple Pro Mouse.
Some other good United States religious quotations:
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
-- Treaty of Tripoli (1797) signed by John Adams (the original language is by Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul.)
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Works, Vol. IV, p. 365, Randolph's ed.
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
-- Abraham Lincoln, to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death
"Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian."
-- Mary Todd Lincoln
"During the Tiananmen Square in 1990, if activists had e-mail, I'm sure they could have been much more organized, and the people of China could have heard about it and the truth of how the army fired on their own people."
They did. I saw video footage of them accessing political BBS services over 300 baud modem on an Apple II. No joke.
It's a good thing they didn't go against Ford Motor Co.
The people in charge of Ford's IT are former IBM execs, and they are in the process of switching from Sun servers to Linux.
If SCO would have picked Ford, IBM surely would have jumped directly into the fray.
In any case, going against Detroit is a horrid idea, especially a multinational as large as DCX. Let's hope DCX let's them have it.
Now I heard someone post about buying auto parts from AutoZone to support them against SCO. Are you going to go buy a brand new Chrysler Crossfire too?
Why wouldn't they spot this?
I said:not-ultra-techie
The site only mentions Notes once, and doesn't explicitly say, "Check your iPod to see if you have this before forking over your money." That means many average users will miss that little detail. That is, until they've paid for the product they can't use.
Before you mod me down for whining about not having a new feature on my old device, let me tell you that is not the intent of this post.
The linked notes (which the game relies on), as far as I know, only work on 3G iPods and the miniPod. I couldn't find anything on the game's website that stated this.
I imagine a lot of not-ultra-techie Mac/Win users might get pissed off if they download the game for their 2G or 1G iPod and it doesn't work. Just a thought.
Great idea. Just don't get caught. Some of those machines are rumored to have silent alarms, and if you bring in an out of state container, they'll call the cops.
.
______________
BEVERAGE CONTAINERS (EXCERPT)
Initiated Law of 1976
445.574a Prohibited return; violation; penalty.
Sec. 4a.
(1) A person shall not return or attempt to return to a dealer for a refund 1 or more of the following:
(a) A beverage container that the person knows or should know was not purchased in this state as a filled returnable container.
(b) A beverage container that the person knows or should know did not have a deposit paid for it at the time of purchase.
(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is subject to 1 of the following:
(a) If the person returns 25 or more but not more than 100 nonreturnable containers, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00.
(b) If the person returns more than 100 nonreturnable containers or violates subdivision (a) for a second or subsequent time, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.
(c) A person found guilty under this subsection shall be ordered by the court to pay restitution equal to the amount of loss caused by the violation.
History: Add. 1998, Act 473, Eff. Apr. 1, 1999
Popular Name: Bottle Bill
(C) 2004 Legislative Council, State of Michigan
Can't believe I'm bothering to post this:
IMNAL.
Let's go with the old door analogy. Leaving your transmissions unencrypted or your computer with no passwords or firewalls is like leaving your door wide open, with a note on it saying, "Dear Everyone, Come On In!". you might not think so, but if you don't you obviously don't understand the way the law works. If we start making the use of unencrypted radio frequencies illegal because it is "spying", next thing you know we'll be making listening to people talking as they walk down the street illegal as well. Or, viewing a sign in someone's private yard. One thing leads to another. The people of this nation have determined that if you put in a tiny bit of effort, by encrypting, you are in effect saying, "No, you may not view my materials I am broadcasting.", at which point the full force of law comes into effect.
Why?
I went from a Linux user at home and VB Programmer/Windows/Linux network admin at work to a totally OS X oriented guy. You won't regret the switch. I've had my 14" iBook laptop since late 2003, and people still think it's brand new. It still feels brand new. The OS is awesome, especially for anyone that's used *nix. I couldn't be happier. I could see myself going back to Linux in five or ten years just so I can play with it, but right now I doubt I'll ever use anything for as my primary system other than OS X. It took me a while to admit it is a Mac. People are dumbfounded when I go from talking about how much I love my Mac into a diatribe about how much I hate them. (When I say I hate them I'm referring to Mac OS systems, not OS X.) The hardware: A+ The software: A+ The OS: A+ You can't beat this system. It's awesome. Just be sure you add RAM, they never come with enough...