Raging search vs Google. Common, which gives more relevent hits? Screw AltaVista and their "clean" interface with a new name pretending to be a new engine. (-;<
Why would it require software drivers? I would think that the mouse would look like a generic multi-button (3 axis? Depends on how scrolling's done...) mouse to anything else. Remember, this'll be USB.
The Mac needs software configuration for multi-button mice because there is no OS-level handling for more then one button. The built in USB drivers know that the buttons are there, any game using Game Sprockets can use them, but the OS itself doesn't do anything with them. You need something on the Mac to make the extra buttons do something.
I don't know how Apple managed to screw up something as simple as an auto software update, but they managed. VersionTracker has a link to a SMI of the update. So it is out. I notice no change, but it is out.
Anonymous Cowards get a score of zero by default. People who log in get scores of 1 by default. Moderation goes from there... So if an anonymous coward has a score of zero, it just means it has not been moderated. Either nobody thought it was worthy of moderation, no moderators have seen it, or it was moderated up and someone else moderated it down.
I have seen anonymous posts with scores of 2 or 3, and logged in posts with scores of zero, so the moderation does work...
...Mac community though that's had to suffer with less then ok software to connect their Macs to their Palms
Less then OK?!? I just got a Palm V for Christmas. Got the USB kit. Hooked it up to my PB G3. Shoved in the CD and installed the software. No problems. None!
Yes, the adapter kit thing is just a USB/serial adapter, but I have no complaints. It works.
Perhaps the older version of the Palm Desktop software was crap. From what I heard, it was. Get the current version, it works great with USB.
Many newspapers have braille editions, and I can think of a few phone-services that read the day's headlines. Many books have audio editions. Radio broadcasts usually have scripts that can be purchased.
I hope the suit is won.
(and I hope/. is next - right now at the top of my screen is iCab's "Filtered Image" icon, and the alt text "Please click here". HELLO? If I couldn't see the size of it, I wouldn't know if it were an ad banner or a "This page has moved, please click here" link.)
Use alt tags. It is not that dificult.
And the excuse that the web can't be navigated by the blind is pure BS. It would take me 5 minutes, maybe 10, to write a bunch of AppleScripts that work with iCab and Apple's speech recognition and text-to-speech to make the web useable without looking at the screen. (of course, I'd have to be able to see to write the scripts, but...)
Nah, you couldn't speed in the first place - the car would communicate with the PD to get the speed limit in the area, and if you are over it for x minutes, it slows down on its own. (Thus, you can still speed up to get around that moron who goes 20 mph, but speeds up to keep you from passing)
Stoplight sensors -- the only automatic vehicle detection system which has been widely deployed -- have always had trouble seeing bikes. That's actually getting better because the electronics are getting more sensitive.
Stoplight sensors use magnets, I believe (at least the ones around here). Bikes tend not to have enough metal to trigger them. I always end up getting off and hitting the "Push button for green light" button, and walking my bike across.
In the long run, IVHS won't reduce accident rates or congestion anywhere near as effectively as a $10/gallon hike to the gas tax.
Or just making the driver's test actually difficult, and revoking licenses for running a red light or driving drunk. Once. You know the rules, there is no need for a second chance!
I have volunteered for Habitat near where I live, and they tend to build housing for those who cannot afford it, I'm not sure if they do repair work (although they do buy abandoned buildings from the gov't and fix them). I believe there is some income restriction to be elegible to buy it, but if you can it is a good deal. (If you call a required 400 hours of working on Habitat jobs good... I do.) Low cost housing, with no interest.
I would encurage everybody to volunteer to help out. Quit banging on a keyboard for a few hours, bang on nails instead.
In my post above I said that "the press release was bad."
The truth is, it wasn't a press release, just an article on MacWEEK. Not quite the same thing.
Now I'm off to find a chalkboard on which to write "I will get my facts straight before insulting someone for not having his straight" a few hundred times...
I'm really sick of Anonymous Coward flamebait. I mean, there is nothing remotly intelligent in your post. Kindly grab your ears and pull your head out of a dark place! (I'll leave the rest of that image up to the reader, and there is more then one way to interpret that. <g>)
This is not better than Intel... first of all, the processor is soldered down to a processor card, so the whole card would need to be replaced if the processor were to be replaced... which I'm sure Apple/Motorola won't do (I feel sorry for the G4 400/450 users).
Bzzzt! And our runner's up will recieve... a whack in the head! You would of been right a few years ago, but Apple has been using ZIF sockets for awhile now.
A hokey press release claiming that this might not affect MacOS users is just plain stupid, as I'm sure there'll be at least one intelligent user who'll install either OS X Server or the latest developer release of OS X (client).
True, the press release was bad. However, it was correct. Too much old code and bit rot in the Mac OS.
Oh, so those of us who don't shell out the cash for OS X Server that don't actually need a server arn't intelligent? So those of us who arn't registered Apple developers and can't get at the OS X client dev. releases (legally) arn't intelligent?
SETI@home is about donating your (spare) processor time to a (in my opinion) good cause.
If a big company with lots of processor power wants to donate some processor time, so be it. The point is to find ET! It is not to get to the top of the rankings.
If SETI@home runs out of data, well, they can either start recycling through the blocks that they havn't heard from (You know, the people who run it thinking it may be nice, and then give up seeing how long it takes), or just stop for a few weeks until they get the data to send out.
Good point, but you forgot one thing - the mother was planning to let the kids go see it without her anyway. Unless she was panning to buy every single ticket for that theater, there were going to be other people in there. So what if one was willing to get around the theater's stupidity? The theater wasn't going to be less dark without Mr. Katz. (well, I've never seen him, I suppose he could block a light or something )
The problem wasn't that "Little Billy has to go with [h]is PARENTS to southpark", the problem was that Little Billy couldn't see South Park after his parents said (to the idiot behind the ticket counter) that it was OK.
If a child's parents want to allow their kid to watch a movie without them sitting in next to him, that's their choice.
If a child's parents want to allow their kid to watch a movie with them sitting next to him, that's their choice.
If a child's parents don't want to allow their kid to watch a movie, that's their choice.
Why does the movie theatre have to require a parent to watch the stupid movie with their kid?
The skinny white on black letters and the skinny white on translucent brown lettere of the new keyboards SUCK!
They are hard to make out and thus typing becomes a _chore_
So? When's the last time you looked at the keyboard while typing? Or are you not a touchtypist?
If you want to complain about powerbook keyboards, complain about the light on the caps lock key being impossible to see without hovering over it. (tis better then the PB 100 series, which had no caps lock light at all, instead it put an up arrow in the menubar)
Or complain about the power button being above delete. (backspace, to those PC users)
Or enter (numpad-enter to PCers, normal enter on a pc is return on the mac) being next to the space bar.
And don't get me started on half-height arrow keys...
If you thought the vegetarians were fun, just wait until you meet the TV-phobes.
I know quite a few vegetarians. They arn't weirdos or anything, at least not the ones I know. Personally, however, I would never be able to be one.
Anyway, I don't watch much TV. I'd rather be...
sleeping
eating
skiing
on the net
I used to watch Trek, until DS9 ended, now the only TV I watch is when I catch Seaquest or B5, or the weather channel to see if that snowstorm is going to hit so I can go skiing.
And doesn't "TV-phobe" imply a fear of TV? I don't fear TV, I just find little reason to watch it.
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In a world where someone can successfully sue for coffee being hot, what do you expect? Some lawyer just smells money, I bet.
Raging search vs Google. Common, which gives more relevent hits? Screw AltaVista and their "clean" interface with a new name pretending to be a new engine. (-;<
Why would it require software drivers? I would think that the mouse would look like a generic multi-button (3 axis? Depends on how scrolling's done...) mouse to anything else. Remember, this'll be USB.
The Mac needs software configuration for multi-button mice because there is no OS-level handling for more then one button. The built in USB drivers know that the buttons are there, any game using Game Sprockets can use them, but the OS itself doesn't do anything with them. You need something on the Mac to make the extra buttons do something.
Do any Windows or Linux browsers? (Honest question)
Listing MP3s and what machines have them is a service, right?
Napster lists MP3s and where to find them, right?
Thus, isn't Napster providing a service?
Thus, what means that Napster is not a service provider?
I don't know how Apple managed to screw up something as simple as an auto software update, but they managed. VersionTracker has a link to a SMI of the update. So it is out. I notice no change, but it is out.
I have seen anonymous posts with scores of 2 or 3, and logged in posts with scores of zero, so the moderation does work...
Less then OK?!? I just got a Palm V for Christmas. Got the USB kit. Hooked it up to my PB G3. Shoved in the CD and installed the software. No problems. None!
Yes, the adapter kit thing is just a USB/serial adapter, but I have no complaints. It works.
Perhaps the older version of the Palm Desktop software was crap. From what I heard, it was. Get the current version, it works great with USB.
Think. I know it is hard, but...
Many newspapers have braille editions, and I can think of a few phone-services that read the day's headlines. Many books have audio editions. Radio broadcasts usually have scripts that can be purchased.
I hope the suit is won.
(and I hope /. is next - right now at the top of my screen is iCab's "Filtered Image" icon, and the alt text "Please click here". HELLO? If I couldn't see the size of it, I wouldn't know if it were an ad banner or a "This page has moved, please click here" link.)
Use alt tags. It is not that dificult.
And the excuse that the web can't be navigated by the blind is pure BS. It would take me 5 minutes, maybe 10, to write a bunch of AppleScripts that work with iCab and Apple's speech recognition and text-to-speech to make the web useable without looking at the screen. (of course, I'd have to be able to see to write the scripts, but...)
Nah, you couldn't speed in the first place - the car would communicate with the PD to get the speed limit in the area, and if you are over it for x minutes, it slows down on its own. (Thus, you can still speed up to get around that moron who goes 20 mph, but speeds up to keep you from passing)
Stoplight sensors use magnets, I believe (at least the ones around here). Bikes tend not to have enough metal to trigger them. I always end up getting off and hitting the "Push button for green light" button, and walking my bike across.
Or just making the driver's test actually difficult, and revoking licenses for running a red light or driving drunk. Once. You know the rules, there is no need for a second chance!
Oh, great. Now we'll get people getting in accidents with the excuse "I just looked at Slashdot for a second, honest!"
Drive Now, Talk Later
Anal Correction Mode on.
Habitat for Humanity is not plural.
Anal Correction Mode off.
I have volunteered for Habitat near where I live, and they tend to build housing for those who cannot afford it, I'm not sure if they do repair work (although they do buy abandoned buildings from the gov't and fix them). I believe there is some income restriction to be elegible to buy it, but if you can it is a good deal. (If you call a required 400 hours of working on Habitat jobs good... I do.) Low cost housing, with no interest.
I would encurage everybody to volunteer to help out. Quit banging on a keyboard for a few hours, bang on nails instead.
Oops!
In my post above I said that "the press release was bad."
The truth is, it wasn't a press release, just an article on MacWEEK. Not quite the same thing.
Now I'm off to find a chalkboard on which to write "I will get my facts straight before insulting someone for not having his straight" a few hundred times...
I'm really sick of Anonymous Coward flamebait. I mean, there is nothing remotly intelligent in your post. Kindly grab your ears and pull your head out of a dark place! (I'll leave the rest of that image up to the reader, and there is more then one way to interpret that. <g>)
Bzzzt! And our runner's up will recieve... a whack in the head! You would of been right a few years ago, but Apple has been using ZIF sockets for awhile now.
Kindly take your BS elsewhere. Thank ye.
SETI@home is about donating your (spare) processor time to a (in my opinion) good cause.
If a big company with lots of processor power wants to donate some processor time, so be it. The point is to find ET! It is not to get to the top of the rankings.
If SETI@home runs out of data, well, they can either start recycling through the blocks that they havn't heard from (You know, the people who run it thinking it may be nice, and then give up seeing how long it takes), or just stop for a few weeks until they get the data to send out.
Good point, but you forgot one thing - the mother was planning to let the kids go see it without her anyway. Unless she was panning to buy every single ticket for that theater, there were going to be other people in there. So what if one was willing to get around the theater's stupidity? The theater wasn't going to be less dark without Mr. Katz. (well, I've never seen him, I suppose he could block a light or something )
Uh, yeah.
The problem wasn't that "Little Billy has to go with [h]is PARENTS to southpark", the problem was that Little Billy couldn't see South Park after his parents said (to the idiot behind the ticket counter) that it was OK.
If a child's parents want to allow their kid to watch a movie without them sitting in next to him, that's their choice.
If a child's parents want to allow their kid to watch a movie with them sitting next to him, that's their choice.
If a child's parents don't want to allow their kid to watch a movie, that's their choice.
Why does the movie theatre have to require a parent to watch the stupid movie with their kid?
You havn't tried using Outlook Express on a Mac, have you?
The iBook has one mono speaker. (Of course, you can't get the speakers far enough apart on a PowerBook to get reasonable stereo sound)
It also has a minijack sound-out port. (Good for external speakers, or (if you put it through an external volume control) headphones.)
Actually, the color part is rubberized (at least, that's what I thought I heard in Jobs's keynote). The entire bottom, however, is colored, so...
I want a grape one, but guess not.
So? When's the last time you looked at the keyboard while typing? Or are you not a touchtypist?
If you want to complain about powerbook keyboards, complain about the light on the caps lock key being impossible to see without hovering over it. (tis better then the PB 100 series, which had no caps lock light at all, instead it put an up arrow in the menubar)
Or complain about the power button being above delete. (backspace, to those PC users)
Or enter (numpad-enter to PCers, normal enter on a pc is return on the mac) being next to the space bar.
And don't get me started on half-height arrow keys...
I know quite a few vegetarians. They arn't weirdos or anything, at least not the ones I know. Personally, however, I would never be able to be one.
Anyway, I don't watch much TV. I'd rather be...
- sleeping
- eating
- skiing
- on the net
I used to watch Trek, until DS9 ended, now the only TV I watch is when I catch Seaquest or B5, or the weather channel to see if that snowstorm is going to hit so I can go skiing.And doesn't "TV-phobe" imply a fear of TV? I don't fear TV, I just find little reason to watch it.