Damn it man! Just pay for zMUD, it's a great client. In fact, zMUD's built in scripting language is how I learned to script and got me interested in CS (waaaaay back when). Plus, Zugg, the developer is a great and deserves the money.
Microsoft is bad enough, but I don't recall a lot of their updates causing people to need to reformat and reinstall from scratch once a month.
Right, because with Microsoft a complete reinstall is required when the wind changes direction.
I do agree with many of your points...Apple does seem to be reckless in letting its users beta test, but this sort of thing happens all over the place, not just with Apple and OS X. Personally, I'm writing this on a copy of Jaguar I purposefully tried to break when I first installed, thinking I was going to reinstall anyway because I partitioned my drive the wrong way. That was over a year ago, no problems. That said, I didn't get around to updating to 10.2.8... Not trying to be an apologist for Apple...put their feet to the fire when they deserve it...
A lot of times I think people are making shit up when they say they have to do a complete reinstall. They may have actually done it, but that doesn't mean they needed it. I've never had to reinstall any of my machines and that was going from Windows 3.1 thru 2000 before I switched. I have done reinstalls but not because my system was so hosed I couldn't work on it.
You think the eMac is pretty? No wonder it broke...
Besides, you're a lying troll, unless you hit it with a sledge hammer, that $500 worth of work would be covered under warranty for 52 weeks, let alone 3.
That guy is a known troll, he posts that same speech about his broken Mac all over the place, recently modified to include the G5. Don't believe a word of it.
For instance, they have made great strides in improving Calculator and Notepad in recent versions of Windows.
Yeah, they grudgingly added the "Ctrl-S" shortcut to save, as well as Copy, Cut, Paste, and Quit. Because those are, you know, "Pro" features that should be paid for.
This shouldn't surprise many Slashdotters... I think a lot of us have suspected that any life forms we might find in the universe won't look like Klingons.
I've heard the opposite. Not saying I know which is correct. I've heard that people who eat a good breakfast are less likely to eat more throughout the day, and thus gain less weight. I've heard that if you starve yourself then your body thinks you're starving and kicks into "energy-save" mode, thus you have much less energy and your body actually stores more fat because it's trying to build up a storehouse in case you really are starving. Of course, after a certain period of starvation, you'll start to lose weight. I've also heard that starvation messes up your leptin levels and is the cause of the yo-yo phenomenon. I read that in some "natural" dieting book, but I forget the name.
I don't claim that any of these things are true, I just thought I should put it out there in case a bunch of Slashdotters were about to go the way of Gandhi.
Check out this documentary on the Funk Brothers... they wrote more #1 hits than the Beatles, the Stones, Elvis, and the Beach Boys combined. Don't give the white boys all the credit just cause they claim it.
All this kind have stuff has been going on throughout history and has been censored. The United States has played a large role in state terror, obviously starting with the Native Americans. Britain, Russia, China, everyone has done it and is doing it in the interest of maintaining power. Read Understanding Power by Noam Chomksy if you want a really in-depth look at the history and the reasons. This isn't whiney liberalism, this is a straight analysis of fact with a reasonable adherence to well-accepted moral codes, a lot of it quotes from declassified U.S. Government documents. All heavily footnoted. I highly recommend it.
If you really want to understand this stuff, you should read Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. Granted, only a small part of the book talks about scientists' relationship with the military, but you need to undstand the underlying power structures first, which he lays out in great detail.
It depends on your perspective. Something obvious like the Wheel of Time could easily take place in the future, it just sorta looks like the past because there's farmers and kings and stuff. That's what the story is all about, cycles of time...the rise and fall of civilizations.
In fact, with our current political and economic structures designed to maximize profit for large corporations, I doubt there's going to be a future like the one the Sci-Fi books describe. It will be post-apocalyptic type stuff where everyone lives as farmers and they're weirdly mutated into different species. Kinda like "Fantasy" books, but without the magic.
No matter where you live now, pr0n searches for you. Don't you have an email address? Maybe you've always had an intelligent server-side spam blocker so you don't understand...
Here's some articles from around the web about the power outage (all collected by one site, CommonDreams.org). Personally, I would rather live off the grid totally. It's inevitably going to be so much cheaper, which is the main incentive for me.
I was selling a video card for a friend on eBay, and someone writes me from Spain, saying she's starting a computer shop in Amsterdam or something and needs parts. She was completely insane, but I just chalked it up to the language barrier. I cancelled the auction so I could send her the card immediately and waited for her to transfer money to my PayPal account. I wasn't really concerned because I figured since I got the money first, what did I have to lose?
A lot, it turns out. So she finally transfers me the money, I transfer the money to my bank account, and I go right down to FedEx and send the card 2-day. When I get back home, I have an email from PayPal telling me that the person who sent me the money had their account hijacked and PayPal had taken the money back. This, I suppose, was fine. I couldn't argue because I had agreed to their terms. I was a little pissed because I wasn't the idiot who had their account hijacked, but such is life.
So I immediately called FedEx and had them stop the shipment, but it was already over the Atlantic, so they couldn't stop it until it got to Spain. This caused me to have to pay for it to be shipped back, effectively doubling my shipping costs. Not cheap...this was 2-day to Spain.
I was further irked by PayPal's bad programming. Instead of intercepting and canceling my bank transfer, they just deducted the money from my PayPal account, so now I was in the negative, and had to wait for the transfer to go through, and then transfer the money back. Annoying, but at least it was free.
So what about PayPal's protection policy? Doesn't apply to international orders. Also, you have to ship to the person's registered address. Not sure I know how to even look that up.
Oh, also, I checked the eBay ID of the person, and that was a hijacked account, too. The person sold a lot of "exotic" drinking glasses and had a high feedback rating. Obviously, not someone in the computer fraud business.
Anyway, the point of my story was that you have to be careful even if you're the seller. Only ship to registered PayPal addresses and check what sort of stuff a person is selling on eBay. I recently saw someone selling a really cheap Powerbook, but all their previous items were dolls, or something. Definitely something fishy there.
Well, actually lag time to the moon wouldn't be all that bad (1.5 seconds one-way), but imagine networking Mars and Earth? If we remain Earth-centric, MarsNet would always be behind the times by between 4-20 minutes, depending on, you know, how far away the planets are. So Martians would never be able to get FP on Slashdot. How sad. Not to mention, Martians would cry over their ping times to routers on Earth.
Scientists will be the first to implement it on a desktop machine...probably some flavo(u)r of *nix.
Then Apple will be the first to bring it to consumers, and using their Reality Distortion Field, will claim they invented it.
Then Microsoft will poorly copy Apple's implementation and using their You Must Obey gun, will claim they invented it and that you should pay them big bucks to upgrade to WindowsDave
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Damn it man! Just pay for zMUD, it's a great client. In fact, zMUD's built in scripting language is how I learned to script and got me interested in CS (waaaaay back when). Plus, Zugg, the developer is a great and deserves the money.
Understood. I didn't mean to imply this was an acceptable solution. Apple definitely needs to release a non-update patch.
Microsoft is bad enough, but I don't recall a lot of their updates causing people to need to reformat and reinstall from scratch once a month.
... Not trying to be an apologist for Apple...put their feet to the fire when they deserve it...
Right, because with Microsoft a complete reinstall is required when the wind changes direction.
I do agree with many of your points...Apple does seem to be reckless in letting its users beta test, but this sort of thing happens all over the place, not just with Apple and OS X. Personally, I'm writing this on a copy of Jaguar I purposefully tried to break when I first installed, thinking I was going to reinstall anyway because I partitioned my drive the wrong way. That was over a year ago, no problems. That said, I didn't get around to updating to 10.2.8
A lot of times I think people are making shit up when they say they have to do a complete reinstall. They may have actually done it, but that doesn't mean they needed it. I've never had to reinstall any of my machines and that was going from Windows 3.1 thru 2000 before I switched. I have done reinstalls but not because my system was so hosed I couldn't work on it.
but it's pretty! ... I bought a g4 eMac
You think the eMac is pretty? No wonder it broke...
Besides, you're a lying troll, unless you hit it with a sledge hammer, that $500 worth of work would be covered under warranty for 52 weeks, let alone 3.
Head over to MacSlash for an article on how to patch OpenSSH without updating to 10.2.8 ...
That guy is a known troll, he posts that same speech about his broken Mac all over the place, recently modified to include the G5. Don't believe a word of it.
For instance, they have made great strides in improving Calculator and Notepad in recent versions of Windows. Yeah, they grudgingly added the "Ctrl-S" shortcut to save, as well as Copy, Cut, Paste, and Quit. Because those are, you know, "Pro" features that should be paid for.
This shouldn't surprise many Slashdotters... I think a lot of us have suspected that any life forms we might find in the universe won't look like Klingons.
Also, probably reinforces our existential terror.
I've heard the opposite. Not saying I know which is correct. I've heard that people who eat a good breakfast are less likely to eat more throughout the day, and thus gain less weight. I've heard that if you starve yourself then your body thinks you're starving and kicks into "energy-save" mode, thus you have much less energy and your body actually stores more fat because it's trying to build up a storehouse in case you really are starving. Of course, after a certain period of starvation, you'll start to lose weight. I've also heard that starvation messes up your leptin levels and is the cause of the yo-yo phenomenon. I read that in some "natural" dieting book, but I forget the name.
I don't claim that any of these things are true, I just thought I should put it out there in case a bunch of Slashdotters were about to go the way of Gandhi.
ATA is "Advanced Technology Attachment"
IDE is "Integrated Drive Electronics"
PCI is "Peripheral Component Interconnect"
Those are all pretty bad...
Yeah I painted my Nokia with red nail polish.
A desperate move to alienate fans?
So that's how money is made in the music business.
Apparently you haven't been following the business-savvy of the RIAA lately...
Check out this documentary on the Funk Brothers... they wrote more #1 hits than the Beatles, the Stones, Elvis, and the Beach Boys combined. Don't give the white boys all the credit just cause they claim it.
All this kind have stuff has been going on throughout history and has been censored. The United States has played a large role in state terror, obviously starting with the Native Americans. Britain, Russia, China, everyone has done it and is doing it in the interest of maintaining power. Read Understanding Power by Noam Chomksy if you want a really in-depth look at the history and the reasons. This isn't whiney liberalism, this is a straight analysis of fact with a reasonable adherence to well-accepted moral codes, a lot of it quotes from declassified U.S. Government documents. All heavily footnoted. I highly recommend it.
If you really want to understand this stuff, you should read Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. Granted, only a small part of the book talks about scientists' relationship with the military, but you need to undstand the underlying power structures first, which he lays out in great detail.
It depends on your perspective. Something obvious like the Wheel of Time could easily take place in the future, it just sorta looks like the past because there's farmers and kings and stuff. That's what the story is all about, cycles of time...the rise and fall of civilizations.
In fact, with our current political and economic structures designed to maximize profit for large corporations, I doubt there's going to be a future like the one the Sci-Fi books describe. It will be post-apocalyptic type stuff where everyone lives as farmers and they're weirdly mutated into different species. Kinda like "Fantasy" books, but without the magic.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, pr0n searches for you!
No matter where you live now, pr0n searches for you. Don't you have an email address? Maybe you've always had an intelligent server-side spam blocker so you don't understand...
Here's some articles from around the web about the power outage (all collected by one site, CommonDreams.org). Personally, I would rather live off the grid totally. It's inevitably going to be so much cheaper, which is the main incentive for me.
An Industry Trapped by a Theory by Robert Kuttner
The Latest Bogus Fossil-Nuke Blackout: This Grid Should Not Exist by Harvey Wasserman
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House by Greg Palast
A Tale of Two Power Outages by John Turri
I was selling a video card for a friend on eBay, and someone writes me from Spain, saying she's starting a computer shop in Amsterdam or something and needs parts. She was completely insane, but I just chalked it up to the language barrier. I cancelled the auction so I could send her the card immediately and waited for her to transfer money to my PayPal account. I wasn't really concerned because I figured since I got the money first, what did I have to lose?
A lot, it turns out. So she finally transfers me the money, I transfer the money to my bank account, and I go right down to FedEx and send the card 2-day. When I get back home, I have an email from PayPal telling me that the person who sent me the money had their account hijacked and PayPal had taken the money back. This, I suppose, was fine. I couldn't argue because I had agreed to their terms. I was a little pissed because I wasn't the idiot who had their account hijacked, but such is life.
So I immediately called FedEx and had them stop the shipment, but it was already over the Atlantic, so they couldn't stop it until it got to Spain. This caused me to have to pay for it to be shipped back, effectively doubling my shipping costs. Not cheap...this was 2-day to Spain.
I was further irked by PayPal's bad programming. Instead of intercepting and canceling my bank transfer, they just deducted the money from my PayPal account, so now I was in the negative, and had to wait for the transfer to go through, and then transfer the money back. Annoying, but at least it was free.
So what about PayPal's protection policy? Doesn't apply to international orders. Also, you have to ship to the person's registered address. Not sure I know how to even look that up.
Oh, also, I checked the eBay ID of the person, and that was a hijacked account, too. The person sold a lot of "exotic" drinking glasses and had a high feedback rating. Obviously, not someone in the computer fraud business.
Anyway, the point of my story was that you have to be careful even if you're the seller. Only ship to registered PayPal addresses and check what sort of stuff a person is selling on eBay. I recently saw someone selling a really cheap Powerbook, but all their previous items were dolls, or something. Definitely something fishy there.
This should give you a different perspective on those images...
Well, actually lag time to the moon wouldn't be all that bad (1.5 seconds one-way), but imagine networking Mars and Earth? If we remain Earth-centric, MarsNet would always be behind the times by between 4-20 minutes, depending on, you know, how far away the planets are. So Martians would never be able to get FP on Slashdot. How sad. Not to mention, Martians would cry over their ping times to routers on Earth.
The Xserve RAIDs have redundant power supplies. May be a sign of things to w/ the G5 Xserve...
Greg Palast takes a look at why the lights went out.
Scientists will be the first to implement it on a desktop machine...probably some flavo(u)r of *nix.
Then Apple will be the first to bring it to consumers, and using their Reality Distortion Field, will claim they invented it.
Then Microsoft will poorly copy Apple's implementation and using their You Must Obey gun, will claim they invented it and that you should pay them big bucks to upgrade to WindowsDave
I hate when my little brother posts stuff from my account. How am I supposed to keep up my Karma Whoring ways when he posts dumb shit and I get slapped -1, Troll?
KWA=Karma Whores Anonymous