I see, thanks. Still true. I can acknowledge that OSX updates (from one cat to another) are more than point releases, put IIRC I paid MacOS 7.2 -> 7.3 and that was surely not more than a service pack You remember incorrectly. There was no 7.2 or 7.3. Apple Went from System 7.1 to System 7.5, which was a paid upgrade. Back then their half versions were paid, and their point upgrades were free. 7.6 was a free upgrade. 8.0 was paid, 8.5 was paid, and 9 was paid. Everything in between was free (there never was a 9.5).
It does depend. Something like "The size of a football pitch" is fine for indicating area. We all know roughly what that looks like. Actually I have no idea how big that is. I had to Google "football pitch" to even find out that it is a soccer field. This is another annoyance. When they do this, they assume that everyone in the world knows how big something is. Sports balls are some of the most common things they compare to - the size of a baseball, the size of a softball, the size of a football. Is that an American football, or what the rest of the world calls a football? I'm sure there are people in other countries who don't know how big a softball is. It's the size of a grapefruit. Well how big is that? I know what a grapefruit is, but again, I'm sure there are people who don't. 10cm or 4in is a size just about everyone will know.
Sounds like "It can transmit the entire library of congress in less than a minute." If the author of TFA needs to dumb it down for him/herself, fine. But I wish they wouldn't assume that we all have a G.W.Bush I.Q. I hate it when they say something like "as long as 4200 garbage trucks lined up end to end." Am I supposed to visualize that? How long is a garbage truck exactly? It would be much easier for me to understand the scale of something if they actually gave the size instead of trying to relate it in terms of something else.
The parents don't have to watch their children 100% of the time to prevent something like this. They don't even have to know that their child is using MySpace. What the parent does have to do is teach their kids. If the parents had taught their kids not to give their address to anyone, then this wouldn't have happened. It's no different than teaching them not to get in a car with a stranger.
And I don't ever remember a time that I had to "turn on AppleTalk every five minutes." I've been networking Macs for almost 15 years now, and never had a problem with AppleTalk. Not to mention that OS X doesn't even use AppleTalk unless you need to share files with OS 9 or older!
Then there was the guy who claims he used to be a "MAC bigot" (yes, MAC as in the cosmetics company, not Mac as in the Apple product. No real Mac bigot would ever make that mistake). He loves Windows now because it has support for a 2 button mouse! OS X has had support for 2 button mice since the first developer preview.
I stopped reading the flames after the first page. Nothing will ever change. Windows users think Macs are toys that were manufactured in the mid 90s, and Mac users think Windows has viruses installed right out of the box. I think both operating systems are just fine. Neither my Macs nor my PC ever crash. None of my computers have contracted a virus or spyware, and the only time I had to reinstall Windows on my PC was when I formatted the drive because I wanted to completely get rid of WoW. lol
I'm not saying that there aren't any genuine jerks out there in the IT industry, but sometimes I think clients are imagining a bad or condescending attitude. There have been many times where all I'm trying to do is explain to the user what went wrong, and what I was going to do to try to fix it, and they thought I was talking down to them just because I was using words like "motherboard."
Of course I would do plenty of customer trash talking in the repair room, but never in front of them.
How was it determined that there was no way the pages would have loaded without actually clicking on something or typing it in? When I did computer repair, I wrote a script for testing web browsing (lots of customers would say "my browser crashes randomly) that would open a new web page every second until 10 windows were open, wait for all of them to finish loading, then close them and open 10 more. All of these web pages showed up in the history, as if someone had navigated to them, but all it was was a separate program telling the browser what to do.
If I could do that with the limited programming experience I had at the time, I'm sure an experienced spyware programmer could easily write a program that could load web pages without a user typing them in or clicking on a link. It's also very easy to make a popup refresh to the actual porn site after x seconds, or load it when the window is closed. Again, without actually having to click on anything.
Both of the emails I used for purchasing iTunes music are no longer in existence (one of them has been gone for over two years), and I've never had a problem playing my songs on any of my computers or my iPod.
He isn't un-blurring anything. He is blurring numbers until he gets the same blurred image as the original. I personally don't think it's very likely anyone will do this successfully, as the account number on a check is rarely black. You'd have to know the original color. OK, so it's possible that the same color might be used elsewhere on the check, but I've also never seen anyone use a mosaic blur, which seems to be required for this method (since he said you have to measure the mosaic size). You would also need to use the same font as the check, or you will get different results.
Ashe does have fighting experience. When you first run into her, she's soloing the same dungeon you took 3 people to. She's part of the "resistance," so she's probably the most experienced fighter after the three you mentioned. I'm glad that this FF doesn't force you to use the "main" character. I can't stand Vaan, so I've let him sit at level 9, while Ashe, Basch, and Penelo are at level 36. lol. I'm going to be hating it when I'm forced to split my group in 2. It's happened in just about every FF game if I recal.
I was able to create a "rule" for these emails that works well for me. If the sender is not in my address book, and is not one of my previous recipients, and contains a single attachment of type.gif, it moves it to my junk folder. So far it's gotten every one of these stock spams, and has only moved one valid email to junk (and even that was just "spam" forwarded from my mother. lol)
I don't know the total female percentage in World of Warcraft, but in my last guild, over 30% of the guild was female (really female, not playing female). We only ever had one person who was really male pretending to be female. Not surprisingly, he quit the guild when we started requiring TeamSpeak for raids. lol.
I'm surprised at the number of people that are slamming the author here. I don't see what the problem would be with a video game awards show. I probably wouldn't watch it, just as I don't watch any movie awards show, but I think it would be a good thing. Typically the only name that most people know behind a game, is the company that sells it - EA, Square, Blizzard, etc. That's like only knowing Miramax, Paramount, or Universal. Everyone's heard of John Williams, but how many people know that Matt Uelmen did the music for Diablo and Diablo II, or that Hironobu Sakaguchi wrote and produced all of the Final Fantasy series? I think some kind of awards ceremony would give recognition to the individuals working on a game, instead of the company that sells it getting all of the credit.
I have an old Power Mac G4 as a media server, that is connected to my TV through DVI. For audio, I have an M-Audio Transit USB, that gives 5.1 channel optical audio output, which is connected to my receiver. For storage I have a firewire enclosure with 1TB of space.
Silent treatment? They posted a kbase article on this, including the serial number ranges, on 12/05/03, about two months after the aluminum PowerBooks came out. As someone else mentioned, the only reason they are making any announcement now, is because just now are people who own these coming up to the end of their 1 year warranty. There was no reason to have a repair extension program, when all of the computers were covered under warranty (and would be fixed, since it was a known issue).
Those aren't very portable. They're large, and you have to carry around a power supply as well (and most of those enclosures have a power brick, which takes even more space). An 80GB bus-powered 2.5" drive from someone like LaCie will probably run about $350, and will be about 360g. They also make their F. A. Porsche Data Bank, which is $330 for 40GB, and actually weighs less than the 40GB iPod (137g vs 176g). One thing the iPod has that other non-mp3 player drives don't have, is a battery. If you are using it on a non-powered bus, such as 4-pin FW, or connected through a USB hub, it can still work without a power cable. The iPod might not have the best $:GB:g ratio, but I think some of the other features are good for a lot of people (calendar, notes, address book, etc.).
Just because HDCP is available over DVI, it doesn't mean it's standard. No video cards I know of use it. It's meant for high definition digital television and DVD players, not for computer use. In fact, most of the TVs out there that have DVI don't even require an HDCP connection. HDCP is meant to prevent people from being able to easily circumvent DVD copy protection. Also, there are HDCP compliant repeaters and splitters available, so you can output to multiple displays.
Apple hasn't yet announced a dual 2.5 XServe. Since the tower requires liquid cooling to prevent it from overheating, and the XServe is normally several months behind the towers, they are probably using the dual 2.0 G5s.
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I use caps lock all the time in Photoshop and Illustrator. It toggles between brush size or standard, and precise for the cursor. Precise cursors are more usable than standard (cross hair, vs. bucket or eyedropper for example), and also for the path tool in Illustrator (instead of a pen). Yes, you can set the preference, but there are times when you want to show the tool, or brush size, and caps lock is an easy way to toggle between them.
A friend of mine made an emulator in Java several years ago, that emulates OS 9, Windows 95/98, OpenStep 4, and NextStep 5. It doesn't have working applications within it, but the menus and everything work very well.
http://www.naness.com/
Even back before OS X, I think Macs had a big presence in the scientific community. I went to college before there was Mac OS X, and even though 90% of the school's computers were Unix based, the science and physics labs were all Macs.
I believe there is actually a typo on the T-Shirt. I didn't scroll down to see that they had the binary in plain text for me to copy, so I read off the shirt, and converted that to ascii. The shirt actually says "I shopped at ThinkGek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!" I don't know if it was intentional, or if they just did that to make room on the shirt. At first I thought maybe I made a mistake while inputting the data, but I don't think I would have missed 8 consecutive digits. I read 616 characters from the shirt, but the correctly spelled version would be 624 (what they have on the page).
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If the author of TFA needs to dumb it down for him/herself, fine. But I wish they wouldn't assume that we all have a G.W.Bush I.Q. I hate it when they say something like "as long as 4200 garbage trucks lined up end to end." Am I supposed to visualize that? How long is a garbage truck exactly? It would be much easier for me to understand the scale of something if they actually gave the size instead of trying to relate it in terms of something else.
The parents don't have to watch their children 100% of the time to prevent something like this. They don't even have to know that their child is using MySpace. What the parent does have to do is teach their kids. If the parents had taught their kids not to give their address to anyone, then this wouldn't have happened. It's no different than teaching them not to get in a car with a stranger.
And I don't ever remember a time that I had to "turn on AppleTalk every five minutes." I've been networking Macs for almost 15 years now, and never had a problem with AppleTalk. Not to mention that OS X doesn't even use AppleTalk unless you need to share files with OS 9 or older!
Then there was the guy who claims he used to be a "MAC bigot" (yes, MAC as in the cosmetics company, not Mac as in the Apple product. No real Mac bigot would ever make that mistake). He loves Windows now because it has support for a 2 button mouse! OS X has had support for 2 button mice since the first developer preview.
I stopped reading the flames after the first page. Nothing will ever change. Windows users think Macs are toys that were manufactured in the mid 90s, and Mac users think Windows has viruses installed right out of the box. I think both operating systems are just fine. Neither my Macs nor my PC ever crash. None of my computers have contracted a virus or spyware, and the only time I had to reinstall Windows on my PC was when I formatted the drive because I wanted to completely get rid of WoW. lol
I'm not saying that there aren't any genuine jerks out there in the IT industry, but sometimes I think clients are imagining a bad or condescending attitude. There have been many times where all I'm trying to do is explain to the user what went wrong, and what I was going to do to try to fix it, and they thought I was talking down to them just because I was using words like "motherboard."
Of course I would do plenty of customer trash talking in the repair room, but never in front of them.
How was it determined that there was no way the pages would have loaded without actually clicking on something or typing it in? When I did computer repair, I wrote a script for testing web browsing (lots of customers would say "my browser crashes randomly) that would open a new web page every second until 10 windows were open, wait for all of them to finish loading, then close them and open 10 more. All of these web pages showed up in the history, as if someone had navigated to them, but all it was was a separate program telling the browser what to do. If I could do that with the limited programming experience I had at the time, I'm sure an experienced spyware programmer could easily write a program that could load web pages without a user typing them in or clicking on a link. It's also very easy to make a popup refresh to the actual porn site after x seconds, or load it when the window is closed. Again, without actually having to click on anything.
Both of the emails I used for purchasing iTunes music are no longer in existence (one of them has been gone for over two years), and I've never had a problem playing my songs on any of my computers or my iPod.
He isn't un-blurring anything. He is blurring numbers until he gets the same blurred image as the original. I personally don't think it's very likely anyone will do this successfully, as the account number on a check is rarely black. You'd have to know the original color. OK, so it's possible that the same color might be used elsewhere on the check, but I've also never seen anyone use a mosaic blur, which seems to be required for this method (since he said you have to measure the mosaic size). You would also need to use the same font as the check, or you will get different results.
But it says half way around the world, not all the way...unless you get a round trip ticket.
Ashe does have fighting experience. When you first run into her, she's soloing the same dungeon you took 3 people to. She's part of the "resistance," so she's probably the most experienced fighter after the three you mentioned. I'm glad that this FF doesn't force you to use the "main" character. I can't stand Vaan, so I've let him sit at level 9, while Ashe, Basch, and Penelo are at level 36. lol. I'm going to be hating it when I'm forced to split my group in 2. It's happened in just about every FF game if I recal.
I was able to create a "rule" for these emails that works well for me. If the sender is not in my address book, and is not one of my previous recipients, and contains a single attachment of type .gif, it moves it to my junk folder. So far it's gotten every one of these stock spams, and has only moved one valid email to junk (and even that was just "spam" forwarded from my mother. lol)
There are a lot more women on Slashdot, and in those games you mentioned, than you are aware.
I don't know the total female percentage in World of Warcraft, but in my last guild, over 30% of the guild was female (really female, not playing female). We only ever had one person who was really male pretending to be female. Not surprisingly, he quit the guild when we started requiring TeamSpeak for raids. lol.
I'm surprised at the number of people that are slamming the author here. I don't see what the problem would be with a video game awards show. I probably wouldn't watch it, just as I don't watch any movie awards show, but I think it would be a good thing. Typically the only name that most people know behind a game, is the company that sells it - EA, Square, Blizzard, etc. That's like only knowing Miramax, Paramount, or Universal. Everyone's heard of John Williams, but how many people know that Matt Uelmen did the music for Diablo and Diablo II, or that Hironobu Sakaguchi wrote and produced all of the Final Fantasy series? I think some kind of awards ceremony would give recognition to the individuals working on a game, instead of the company that sells it getting all of the credit.
I have an old Power Mac G4 as a media server, that is connected to my TV through DVI. For audio, I have an M-Audio Transit USB, that gives 5.1 channel optical audio output, which is connected to my receiver. For storage I have a firewire enclosure with 1TB of space.
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Silent treatment? They posted a kbase article on this, including the serial number ranges, on 12/05/03, about two months after the aluminum PowerBooks came out. As someone else mentioned, the only reason they are making any announcement now, is because just now are people who own these coming up to the end of their 1 year warranty. There was no reason to have a repair extension program, when all of the computers were covered under warranty (and would be fixed, since it was a known issue).
Those aren't very portable. They're large, and you have to carry around a power supply as well (and most of those enclosures have a power brick, which takes even more space). An 80GB bus-powered 2.5" drive from someone like LaCie will probably run about $350, and will be about 360g. They also make their F. A. Porsche Data Bank, which is $330 for 40GB, and actually weighs less than the 40GB iPod (137g vs 176g). One thing the iPod has that other non-mp3 player drives don't have, is a battery. If you are using it on a non-powered bus, such as 4-pin FW, or connected through a USB hub, it can still work without a power cable. The iPod might not have the best $:GB:g ratio, but I think some of the other features are good for a lot of people (calendar, notes, address book, etc.).
Just because HDCP is available over DVI, it doesn't mean it's standard. No video cards I know of use it. It's meant for high definition digital television and DVD players, not for computer use. In fact, most of the TVs out there that have DVI don't even require an HDCP connection. HDCP is meant to prevent people from being able to easily circumvent DVD copy protection. Also, there are HDCP compliant repeaters and splitters available, so you can output to multiple displays.
Apple hasn't yet announced a dual 2.5 XServe. Since the tower requires liquid cooling to prevent it from overheating, and the XServe is normally several months behind the towers, they are probably using the dual 2.0 G5s.
I use caps lock all the time in Photoshop and Illustrator. It toggles between brush size or standard, and precise for the cursor. Precise cursors are more usable than standard (cross hair, vs. bucket or eyedropper for example), and also for the path tool in Illustrator (instead of a pen). Yes, you can set the preference, but there are times when you want to show the tool, or brush size, and caps lock is an easy way to toggle between them.
A friend of mine made an emulator in Java several years ago, that emulates OS 9, Windows 95/98, OpenStep 4, and NextStep 5. It doesn't have working applications within it, but the menus and everything work very well. http://www.naness.com/
Even back before OS X, I think Macs had a big presence in the scientific community. I went to college before there was Mac OS X, and even though 90% of the school's computers were Unix based, the science and physics labs were all Macs.
I believe there is actually a typo on the T-Shirt. I didn't scroll down to see that they had the binary in plain text for me to copy, so I read off the shirt, and converted that to ascii. The shirt actually says "I shopped at ThinkGek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!" I don't know if it was intentional, or if they just did that to make room on the shirt. At first I thought maybe I made a mistake while inputting the data, but I don't think I would have missed 8 consecutive digits. I read 616 characters from the shirt, but the correctly spelled version would be 624 (what they have on the page).