I remember being very confused the first time I used the Recycle Bin. On my Mac, if I wanted to throw something out, I put it in the trash because that's where things I didn't want anymore should go. But the recycle bin? I don't want three old images to be mixed together and then one find a not-quite-as-good image waiting on my computer the next day.
Seriously, there's nothing I want to extract and reuse from my unwanted data. Don't confuse me with different names just because you're trying to be "different". What if GM called the steering wheel the directional input? Crimeny.
Don't forget Mario Tennis. That game is great on any platform, but the VB had it better than the rest simply because there was absolutely nothing going on but gameplay. There weren't flashing colors in every corner of the court distracting you from the ball back and forth, you had good control of your koopa, and it got to be habit to select Yes when it asked if I wanted to continue destroying my retinas.
The more I think about it, that's one of my favorite games of all time.
I can see it now. A CD gets stuck in the drive, you grab a paperclip, straighten it, and manually open the tray. Then you try to listen to your music.
D'oh!
And I'm guessing that if it's sensitive enough to read fingerprints, it'll be sensitive enough to tell apart the manufacturing defects from one paper clip to the next.
no offense was taken, don't worry about it:). My political beliefs are pretty middle of the road actually (registered independent), it's just that most of this administration goes so strongly against most of the things I believe in that it's hard not to get worked up. Of course then I get clumped with fanatic left, which isn't a whole lot better than the fanatic right.
Anyway, my point is that you seem like a reasonable guy in my book and not that different from myself. But who really cares, we're just a couple of random people on slashdot after all.
Would you mind posting some links that reference these preexisting courts? I have to admit that I know pretty much nothing about it, and I wouldn't want to make an ass of myself by taking a position on something I'm not familiar with.
Well, as long as you want to explore the Nazi side of it...
"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Reminds me of Vietnam and the war in Iraq. Unfortunately it was Hermann Goering who said it. reference
I'm not a big fan of the PA and Ashcroft, but if I have pipe, black powder, and manifestos about how certain places should be blown up....I should at *least* expect to be investigated of conspiracy/intent to commit such a crime if someone finds the stuff.
I said:
People who pose a real and direct threat should be investigated
You're writing as if you're debating my point, but I'm not sure on what we disagree.
And you're right too that the Sedition Act of 1918 was nasty. But they didn't have much in the way of logs, surveilance cameras, or hell, even tape recorders back then, and what little technology that was at their disposal could never have been turned into a way of keeping tabs on the entire population.
The thing is, the Sedition Act was just a law, but that's doesn't mean it was possible to enforce. Prohibition? Last I checked I have a beer in the fridge. Laws, no matter how good or bad, have to be enforcable for them to do any good.
What's scary about the Patriot Act is that not only is it possible to enforce, but there is ample room for the government to overstep the already extensive bounds its given itself. A government by the people for the people should not depend on secret courts granting waivers from warrants to invade privacy, without any knowledge or opportunity for defense by the citizens accused. The problem with the Patriot Act is as much its tolerance for abuse as what it actually allows.
And one final point... if the time has come that even Bush's defenders are comparing his work to some of the worst bits of American history, isn't that kind of making an argument against him in itself?
The relative term "last week" used by parent is misleading. The speech was actually delivered November 9, 2003, and the full version (longer than the excerpt posted by parent) can be read here.
Hey, Kerry sucks too, I admit it. But I hate Bush for more than just the US's recent transformation into the Fourth Reich, so I'll be voting Kerry come november.
Reminds me of a good quote... "There is plenty of evidence to suggest that politicions in both parties are lying scum."
Until you actually commit the crime, you can't be guilty of it. Not much for the jury to decide on.
People who pose a real and direct threat should be investigated, otherwise national intelligence doesn't have anything to go on. I would say that it should stop at simply gathering intelligence because preemptive actions by law enforcement (PD, FBI, whatever) are unconstitutional, but then I remembered our foreign policy.
Christ I can't even get through a simple slashdot post without confusing myself anymore. I'm moving to Canada.
Apple removed striping from everywhere in Panther. Quite a bit of it was replaced by brushed-metal. Even so, all it is doing is replacing one bitmap with another.
Not true. The stripes are one graphic, yes. But metal windows are made up 9 graphics for the bevels, 1 more for the gradient, and another for the texture overlay. So a brushed metal window is actually rendering 10 more images than an Aqua window.
There is a non-redundant part of this post, though. For those who don't want WMP anywhere near their mac, MPlayer is an excellent open source alternative that handles all kinds of video formats, and is overall a great player. Its WMV support is kind of shaky, but most files still play.
And because I'm on the subject, I might as well point out VLC, which in my opinion is the best all-around player for the Mac. It doesn't handle WMV files, though =-\.
although it's nice to see that they don't have seatbelt or helmet laws
No one has ever told me what the deal is with people not wanting to wear seatbelts. So now I'm asking you... what's the deal with not wanting to wear seatbelts?
I'm a US citizen and am fairly well travelled. I've entered a lot of different countries under a lot of different circumstances. I've also had a lot of guns pointed at me. Nevermind that I have a spotless record (not even a traffic ticket, or even any misconducts while in college... and who doesn't have a few of those?), I tend to get singled out at border crossings, customs, whatever, and of course every time I get through without a problem. I can't really say I mind that much - a moderate amount of security is a very good thing, and it does make me feel safer to know that the people doing the job aren't doing it half assed.
All of that said, the place where I have guns pointed at me the most, and I mean by far the most, is in the US. I know what I'm doing in an airport, it's not like I'm doing anything special to get attention for myself like walking through Do Not Enter doors in search of the bathroom. I'm a voting citizen who's never been in trouble for anything, and the only place in the world that sees fit to put me at the end of a rifle muzzle over and over again is my own country.
I don't have any great revelations to add to this, other than somehow this seems very, very wrong.
Wow, Elwood was right. You are a dick. You're a mac zealot über nerd, and you aren't even right.
Spyware on the mac doesn't exist in the same way that it does on PCs (and really what's being described is more adware than spyware, but whatever). There are unscrupulous programs out there, and they do transmit information about you that you might not want sent. For the quick and dirty method, try running Little Snitch sometime and keep an eye on connections. Most of the time it's just the software developer trying to make sure your serial is valid, but I've run across a couple of programs that initiate direct connections to web advertising firms - and if that's not spyware I don't know what is.
There's enough difference between the initial MacOS X release and the current release that they should definitely have different version numbers.
Compared to OS 8.5 vs OS 9, I would definitely agree. But then again I always considered 9 to be what 8.6 should have been, and never actually bought it (until it came bundled wth 10.1 and my next mac).
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that while it's more worthy of a version number update than past releases, those past releases didn't deserve it either.
Slashdot Mirror
Enough is enough. How many dupes of "this story is a dupe" do we really need?
Oh, wait, then we wouldn't be hypocrites. Sorry.
I remember being very confused the first time I used the Recycle Bin. On my Mac, if I wanted to throw something out, I put it in the trash because that's where things I didn't want anymore should go. But the recycle bin? I don't want three old images to be mixed together and then one find a not-quite-as-good image waiting on my computer the next day.
Seriously, there's nothing I want to extract and reuse from my unwanted data. Don't confuse me with different names just because you're trying to be "different". What if GM called the steering wheel the directional input? Crimeny.
100% accurate voice control anynone?
Assuming, of course, that your midget isn't deaf.
"Turn left!"
"What?"
"TURN LEFT!"
"WHAT?!"
"Don't shout at me, you're the one who can't hear me!"
"WHAT!?!"
**crunch**
Although if I had to choose between a deaf midget or a blind one, I guess I'd have to choose the one that can see what's coming.
Don't forget Mario Tennis. That game is great on any platform, but the VB had it better than the rest simply because there was absolutely nothing going on but gameplay. There weren't flashing colors in every corner of the court distracting you from the ball back and forth, you had good control of your koopa, and it got to be habit to select Yes when it asked if I wanted to continue destroying my retinas.
The more I think about it, that's one of my favorite games of all time.
I can see it now. A CD gets stuck in the drive, you grab a paperclip, straighten it, and manually open the tray. Then you try to listen to your music.
D'oh!
And I'm guessing that if it's sensitive enough to read fingerprints, it'll be sensitive enough to tell apart the manufacturing defects from one paper clip to the next.
no offense was taken, don't worry about it :). My political beliefs are pretty middle of the road actually (registered independent), it's just that most of this administration goes so strongly against most of the things I believe in that it's hard not to get worked up. Of course then I get clumped with fanatic left, which isn't a whole lot better than the fanatic right.
Anyway, my point is that you seem like a reasonable guy in my book and not that different from myself. But who really cares, we're just a couple of random people on slashdot after all.
Would you mind posting some links that reference these preexisting courts? I have to admit that I know pretty much nothing about it, and I wouldn't want to make an ass of myself by taking a position on something I'm not familiar with.
Well, as long as you want to explore the Nazi side of it...
"It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Reminds me of Vietnam and the war in Iraq. Unfortunately it was Hermann Goering who said it. reference
You said:
I'm not a big fan of the PA and Ashcroft, but if I have pipe, black powder, and manifestos about how certain places should be blown up....I should at *least* expect to be investigated of conspiracy/intent to commit such a crime if someone finds the stuff.
I said:
People who pose a real and direct threat should be investigated
You're writing as if you're debating my point, but I'm not sure on what we disagree.
You're right, it was hyperbole.
And you're right too that the Sedition Act of 1918 was nasty. But they didn't have much in the way of logs, surveilance cameras, or hell, even tape recorders back then, and what little technology that was at their disposal could never have been turned into a way of keeping tabs on the entire population.
The thing is, the Sedition Act was just a law, but that's doesn't mean it was possible to enforce. Prohibition? Last I checked I have a beer in the fridge. Laws, no matter how good or bad, have to be enforcable for them to do any good.
What's scary about the Patriot Act is that not only is it possible to enforce, but there is ample room for the government to overstep the already extensive bounds its given itself. A government by the people for the people should not depend on secret courts granting waivers from warrants to invade privacy, without any knowledge or opportunity for defense by the citizens accused. The problem with the Patriot Act is as much its tolerance for abuse as what it actually allows.
And one final point... if the time has come that even Bush's defenders are comparing his work to some of the worst bits of American history, isn't that kind of making an argument against him in itself?
The relative term "last week" used by parent is misleading. The speech was actually delivered November 9, 2003, and the full version (longer than the excerpt posted by parent) can be read here.
Hey, Kerry sucks too, I admit it. But I hate Bush for more than just the US's recent transformation into the Fourth Reich, so I'll be voting Kerry come november.
Reminds me of a good quote... "There is plenty of evidence to suggest that politicions in both parties are lying scum."
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Wow, I hadn't even thought of that phrase for a while, it had completely left my memory. I wonder if that's irony or just a coincidence...
Until you actually commit the crime, you can't be guilty of it. Not much for the jury to decide on.
People who pose a real and direct threat should be investigated, otherwise national intelligence doesn't have anything to go on. I would say that it should stop at simply gathering intelligence because preemptive actions by law enforcement (PD, FBI, whatever) are unconstitutional, but then I remembered our foreign policy.
Christ I can't even get through a simple slashdot post without confusing myself anymore. I'm moving to Canada.
Apple removed striping from everywhere in Panther. Quite a bit of it was replaced by brushed-metal. Even so, all it is doing is replacing one bitmap with another.
Not true. The stripes are one graphic, yes. But metal windows are made up 9 graphics for the bevels, 1 more for the gradient, and another for the texture overlay. So a brushed metal window is actually rendering 10 more images than an Aqua window.
Well if it worked for you, I must be wrong, heh. All I can say for sure is that I've never successfully played a wmv file in vlc.
Yup, WMP9 has been out for Macs for ages.
There is a non-redundant part of this post, though. For those who don't want WMP anywhere near their mac, MPlayer is an excellent open source alternative that handles all kinds of video formats, and is overall a great player. Its WMV support is kind of shaky, but most files still play.
And because I'm on the subject, I might as well point out VLC, which in my opinion is the best all-around player for the Mac. It doesn't handle WMV files, though =-\.
Parent was the very first comment posted, and it's moderated redundant. Heh.
I wish I had mod points.
although it's nice to see that they don't have seatbelt or helmet laws
No one has ever told me what the deal is with people not wanting to wear seatbelts. So now I'm asking you... what's the deal with not wanting to wear seatbelts?
I'm a US citizen and am fairly well travelled. I've entered a lot of different countries under a lot of different circumstances. I've also had a lot of guns pointed at me. Nevermind that I have a spotless record (not even a traffic ticket, or even any misconducts while in college... and who doesn't have a few of those?), I tend to get singled out at border crossings, customs, whatever, and of course every time I get through without a problem. I can't really say I mind that much - a moderate amount of security is a very good thing, and it does make me feel safer to know that the people doing the job aren't doing it half assed.
All of that said, the place where I have guns pointed at me the most, and I mean by far the most, is in the US. I know what I'm doing in an airport, it's not like I'm doing anything special to get attention for myself like walking through Do Not Enter doors in search of the bathroom. I'm a voting citizen who's never been in trouble for anything, and the only place in the world that sees fit to put me at the end of a rifle muzzle over and over again is my own country.
I don't have any great revelations to add to this, other than somehow this seems very, very wrong.
Wow, Elwood was right. You are a dick. You're a mac zealot über nerd, and you aren't even right.
Spyware on the mac doesn't exist in the same way that it does on PCs (and really what's being described is more adware than spyware, but whatever). There are unscrupulous programs out there, and they do transmit information about you that you might not want sent. For the quick and dirty method, try running Little Snitch sometime and keep an eye on connections. Most of the time it's just the software developer trying to make sure your serial is valid, but I've run across a couple of programs that initiate direct connections to web advertising firms - and if that's not spyware I don't know what is.
There's enough difference between the initial MacOS X release and the current release that they should definitely have different version numbers.
Compared to OS 8.5 vs OS 9, I would definitely agree. But then again I always considered 9 to be what 8.6 should have been, and never actually bought it (until it came bundled wth 10.1 and my next mac).
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that while it's more worthy of a version number update than past releases, those past releases didn't deserve it either.
Oh, and OS 10 just sounds cool.
Almost every other video game ever made is targeted at men, why not make those gender neutral?
I'm male and no feminist, but if you're going to ask the question you have to ask it of both sides.
I forgot to mention, whenever searching for malacious files, always include invisible files in your search.