I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp.
If you ask me, the strategy with Boot Camp was an attempt by Apple to go back to the days where they could say, "Look! Our computer is so much more powerful and flexible than a PC, you can even read Windows-formatted floppies on our computer, but you can't read Mac formatted floppies on a Windows machine!"
Not that that was ever much of anything but a flawed argument, based around, I imagine Apple's licensing policy for HFS...but Apple has only a handful of things that they use to prove their superiority over Windows (Less Crashes, More Secure Against Viruses, more "artsy fartsy", etc.), each of which grows less truthful over time. When was the last time your XP box crashed? Mine hasn't in months. And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base. If OSX had 90% of the market, you can be sure there would be many more OSX-based attacks out there.
One of my friends dumped his girlfriend of over two years last week - by fax, no less.
This gets to the heart of the problem. There are certain things that our culture dictates are done in person, if at all possible. Firing and Breaking up with someone are two of them. For whatever reason, it's expected that this is done, so something like an email or fax is hurtful to those involved because it's akin to saying "you're not important enough to do this in person"...
Yeah, unfortunately they're still the only place to go to for certain specialized electronics bits and pieces that aren't quite so specialized that you have to order them over the internet.
can't say I've ever been happy with their prices or service, though.
At least they stopped forcing people to hand over their phone number just to purchase an RCA cable, though.
At a former job, we got a contract with the Navy to put our computer system on an aircraft carrier. One employee quit rather than work on a system that would be used to help kill people. Although I didn't have any qualms about that particular application, I understood her stand.
The Clerks argument! My favorite! Was it okay to blow up the Death Star the second time, while it was being repaired? Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main?;-)
At this point, why would you want to stay at your present job if you need a lawyer to keep it...
Wrongful termination is definitely worth going to court over. If he was working under the direct orders of top executives at AOL, he didn't do anything wrong. Had he refused to post the info, he probably would have been fired. I'm okay with the execs being fired, but he's just a guy that did what he was told.
Because they're so big and bloated that it would be almost weird for them not to have a number of moons?
That's a good question, though. You can already get satellite internet if you really want it, but it's expensive, relatively slow, and has high latency, given the distance of the satellite. Why would anybody who has other high-speed options actually want satellite internet?
Pure pacifism pisses me off...It's like Veganism...Sounds good on paper, but is unworkable in reality.
Conflict is a fact of existence. Not even human existence.
You're welcome to your opinion of course, but why shouldn't someone be able to license their product however they choose? It's not like they're trying to dictate how your stuff can be used, just their own. Sounds fine to me.
I must admit, I got excited when I first saw Flash Lite, the Flash 8 plugin that allows you to publish a Flash movie for a mobile device, but then I found out that it only publishes to the BREW framework, not J2ME, effectively ignoring the majority of phones out there (just about everything but Qualcomm), forcing developers to pay $400 for a developer license, and restricting distribution to the BREW network....yuck. Overall, given that I've just recently embarked on porting a game from Flash to mobile phone, it made so much more sense just to learn J2ME real quick (not really all that hard to do), rather than mess around with publishing a Flash game to BREW....
Somehow I can't help thinking that all these devices that supposedly "help prevent" "RSI" are the modern equivalent of snake oil
I agree...there's already a similar device on the market (a mouse with a vertical bit that you grip like a joystick) that I tried a little while back. It didn't help my RSI at all...in fact, it was a bit worse than a regular mouse. I find 2 things help me. One is frequent exercise, and the other is switching mouse hands/positions. I go back and forth between left and right mousing (cordless mice are great for this), and sometimes I use a trackpad, which seems to help. Vertical mice don't help me much at all.
I read once a while back that deja vu was caused by the brain processing visual data from one eye marginally faster than from the other. This seems like a logical theory to me, but I am not a neurologist. Has anyone else heard of this?
If that were true, wouldn't I be able to trigger deja vu by closing my eyes, and then opening one before the other one?
No way. RE4 was the funnest to play, but RE3:Nemesis was the scariest.
That's pretty much what I said...RE3 is in the same mostly-fixed-camera same style as RE0. I just picked RE0 as an example because it was the one made directly before RE4. The changes made in RE4 made it quite a bit more fun (easily one of my favorite games), but not quite as scary (IMHO).
While RE4 was my favorite in the series, I think some of the other ones were actually quite a bit scarier. RE0, for instance. The old model of RE games was able to do more psychologically, especially with camera position, taking cues from Hitchcock and other Horror film directors, while RE4 ended up being more of a less-frightening FPS in a lot of instances. Either way, it's one of my favorite series of games.
They can cuff you any time they please, as far as I understand even for just looking at them.
That's not entirely true. By law, there has to be some reason, although for the majority of us, it will be easy enough for the police to make up a reason that the courts will believe, and hard for us to prove actual damages. However, if they randomly arrested, say, a prominent politician, doctor, or CEO of a company, and it was later shown that it was a wrongful arrest, they could be liable for damages to their reputation related to such an arrest.
The lowball number is interesting, especially given the fact that Symantec is the company charged with the task of keeping an outbreak like this from happening:
Slashdot Mirror
I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp.
If you ask me, the strategy with Boot Camp was an attempt by Apple to go back to the days where they could say, "Look! Our computer is so much more powerful and flexible than a PC, you can even read Windows-formatted floppies on our computer, but you can't read Mac formatted floppies on a Windows machine!"
Not that that was ever much of anything but a flawed argument, based around, I imagine Apple's licensing policy for HFS...but Apple has only a handful of things that they use to prove their superiority over Windows (Less Crashes, More Secure Against Viruses, more "artsy fartsy", etc.), each of which grows less truthful over time. When was the last time your XP box crashed? Mine hasn't in months. And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base. If OSX had 90% of the market, you can be sure there would be many more OSX-based attacks out there.
'course, I'm typing this right now on my iBook...
Yeah, Mouser.com is great, but sometimes I want, say, a 1/4" connector *now*, not in three days...but, such is the nature of online shopping
If you take away their electronic components aisle, what else do they sell that you can't get for better/cheaper/faster elsewhere?
absolutely nothing...I have to agree with you there.
One of my friends dumped his girlfriend of over two years last week - by fax, no less. This gets to the heart of the problem. There are certain things that our culture dictates are done in person, if at all possible. Firing and Breaking up with someone are two of them. For whatever reason, it's expected that this is done, so something like an email or fax is hurtful to those involved because it's akin to saying "you're not important enough to do this in person"...
Yeah, unfortunately they're still the only place to go to for certain specialized electronics bits and pieces that aren't quite so specialized that you have to order them over the internet.
can't say I've ever been happy with their prices or service, though.
At least they stopped forcing people to hand over their phone number just to purchase an RCA cable, though.
At a former job, we got a contract with the Navy to put our computer system on an aircraft carrier. One employee quit rather than work on a system that would be used to help kill people. Although I didn't have any qualms about that particular application, I understood her stand.
;-)
The Clerks argument! My favorite! Was it okay to blow up the Death Star the second time, while it was being repaired? Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main?
At this point, why would you want to stay at your present job if you need a lawyer to keep it...
Wrongful termination is definitely worth going to court over. If he was working under the direct orders of top executives at AOL, he didn't do anything wrong. Had he refused to post the info, he probably would have been fired. I'm okay with the execs being fired, but he's just a guy that did what he was told.
Why do they need satellites?
Because they're so big and bloated that it would be almost weird for them not to have a number of moons?
That's a good question, though. You can already get satellite internet if you really want it, but it's expensive, relatively slow, and has high latency, given the distance of the satellite. Why would anybody who has other high-speed options actually want satellite internet?
Pure pacifism pisses me off...It's like Veganism...Sounds good on paper, but is unworkable in reality.
Conflict is a fact of existence. Not even human existence.
You're welcome to your opinion of course, but why shouldn't someone be able to license their product however they choose? It's not like they're trying to dictate how your stuff can be used, just their own. Sounds fine to me.
mobile device applications
I must admit, I got excited when I first saw Flash Lite, the Flash 8 plugin that allows you to publish a Flash movie for a mobile device, but then I found out that it only publishes to the BREW framework, not J2ME, effectively ignoring the majority of phones out there (just about everything but Qualcomm), forcing developers to pay $400 for a developer license, and restricting distribution to the BREW network....yuck. Overall, given that I've just recently embarked on porting a game from Flash to mobile phone, it made so much more sense just to learn J2ME real quick (not really all that hard to do), rather than mess around with publishing a Flash game to BREW....
Excuse me, but that's brandy.Unless it's Champaign; then it's Cognac.
Cognac has nothing to do with Champaign. Cognac is just brandy that comes from Cognac, France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognac_(drink)
Tried it, didn't help. Like the vertical mouse, it was actually a bit worse.
Somehow I can't help thinking that all these devices that supposedly "help prevent" "RSI" are the modern equivalent of snake oil
I agree...there's already a similar device on the market (a mouse with a vertical bit that you grip like a joystick) that I tried a little while back. It didn't help my RSI at all...in fact, it was a bit worse than a regular mouse. I find 2 things help me. One is frequent exercise, and the other is switching mouse hands/positions. I go back and forth between left and right mousing (cordless mice are great for this), and sometimes I use a trackpad, which seems to help. Vertical mice don't help me much at all.
I read once a while back that deja vu was caused by the brain processing visual data from one eye marginally faster than from the other. This seems like a logical theory to me, but I am not a neurologist. Has anyone else heard of this?
If that were true, wouldn't I be able to trigger deja vu by closing my eyes, and then opening one before the other one?
Who the hell...
How the hell did that question get modded insightful? Even if you don't know, it's easy enough to read the article.
If you can't afford it, then how are you able to afford a wireless network. Period.
Oddly enough, no, a question mark would fit much better there.
Wow, finally an electric car that isn't ridiculously ugly!
Nowadays I think that "Sticky Pad Extreme" would be more likely.
or the iSticky...or maybe iPad? iStickypad seems a bit long, but I guess that could happen too...
You no what? It aint never gonna happen.
I can't decide whether to think your misuse of the word "no" is meant to be ironic or not, given the context...
Nice! I bet it's going to ship with Duke Nukem Forever Part Deux
No way. RE4 was the funnest to play, but RE3:Nemesis was the scariest.
That's pretty much what I said...RE3 is in the same mostly-fixed-camera same style as RE0. I just picked RE0 as an example because it was the one made directly before RE4. The changes made in RE4 made it quite a bit more fun (easily one of my favorite games), but not quite as scary (IMHO).
While RE4 was my favorite in the series, I think some of the other ones were actually quite a bit scarier. RE0, for instance. The old model of RE games was able to do more psychologically, especially with camera position, taking cues from Hitchcock and other Horror film directors, while RE4 ended up being more of a less-frightening FPS in a lot of instances. Either way, it's one of my favorite series of games.
They can cuff you any time they please, as far as I understand even for just looking at them.
That's not entirely true. By law, there has to be some reason, although for the majority of us, it will be easy enough for the police to make up a reason that the courts will believe, and hard for us to prove actual damages. However, if they randomly arrested, say, a prominent politician, doctor, or CEO of a company, and it was later shown that it was a wrongful arrest, they could be liable for damages to their reputation related to such an arrest.
Hooray for releasing tons of mercury into the air each year! Yay Coal! /sarcasm
Oddly enough, the kids in the picture on the front page are clearly holding N64 controllers.
Symantec is rating the threat a '2.'
The lowball number is interesting, especially given the fact that Symantec is the company charged with the task of keeping an outbreak like this from happening:
Symantec to scan Yahoo Mail for viruses