First, I use Comcast cable service with 2 macs and several PCs. The installer doesn't usually care. They'll just hand you the modem, you plug it in, and its up. They may not want to support you if you have a problem, but that's another story.
As for AT&T and DSL, I had SBC Yahoo DSL for two years. It was great. Fast service, good tech support. Then I made the fatal mistake of moving. Their rep told me it would be no problem to move my service. I was moving in town and kept my same phone number. They refused to disconnect DSL at my old address and move it because I HAD THE SAME PHONE NUMBER. They kept lying to me about completion dates. Two months went by and I was on dial-up. They were charging me DSL package prices for their sub standard dial-up service. I gave up after they yelled at me for calling too much! (yeah once a week is too much) I went to charter and they had me going in 3 days! I fought with SBC for 3 months to get a refund. I never did get all of it. I agreed to pay for the substandard dial-up at the price of the dial-up. After that experience, I moved all my phone services away from them. I couldn't be happier using Sprint for cell phone access and now comcast workplace internet. Don't bother with AT&T.
Does it? We see it on slashdot and in blogs. I don't remember seeing it on CNN. The media could change the RIAA by airing stories about what they do and how they accomplish it. If my grandmother saw something on the evening news about the RIAA falsly accusing little girls and grandmothers for CI, I bet she'd start bitching. My grandmother refuses to own technology for fear of identity theft. I blame the media for that. If she knew the RIAA goes after people WITHOUT Internet access, I bet she'd want them stopped. At 78 years old, she still occasionally buys a CD.
Read the damn reprints. Venom didn't exist that early in Peter's life. The movies are already skipping a lot of good character development as it is. Venom is one of my favorite characters, but there was so many interesting things in the early Spider-man comics. Sadly, it should have been the sandman and the vulture.
Yes, but they might also get added sales once its public they finally fixed the damn things. I've been waiting for an "all clear" in regard to hardware problems. I don't want to buy an xbox 360 until I know its not going to break in 3 months. I had to wait to get on the original xbox bandwagon too.
I'm actually confused about the problems with the xbox 360 now. Some people early on reported it was the power supply that was overheating. Now they put an extra heatsink in?
As an Apple Share Holder, I'd hope they'd keep improving their product so that they don't need to use another operating system. They do expect everyone else to buy their stuff; I expect them to use their own stuff. They have done this with apple.com. Netcraft isn't showing the old logs now, but apple.com was run on Solaris for a very long time. Apple slowly started adding some OS X machines into their server farm since 2000 or so. When I checked today, everything was showing up OS X for this year.
Different systems are better suited for certain tasks. I just hope that Apple can appeal to the business market someday. However, their new product moves show a focus on home users while ignoring education and general business use. Lets face it, "PC" tells businesses that Windows is better for those "numbers."
I say this while running Vista, OS X and MidnightBSD in the same room.
Remember, Microsoft buying Macs has made slashdot when it was obvious they were for the Mac division or later the xbox division. People do react when a company doesn't use their own product. Hell, I know it bothered me when I saw the CEO of Redhat using Windows because Linux wasn't ready for the desktop. That interview has stayed with me. I think that CEO is flat wrong. Even then, Redhat was usable as a desktop. You can see that I'm not a big Linux fan, and I think so.
1. Do not pay by snail mail. They will hold onto the check without cashing it to give you fees as you start to pay down the balance. 2. Whatever they tell you the interest rate will be, its going to be higher. Wait before buying the PC to see what your rate is. Its a hassle to send the computer back. 3. When you finally pay it off, a rep (indian) will beg you to stay. You have to convince him you want it canceled and expect to wait on the phone 20 minutes. They try to keep your account open for 2 years after its paid off. If you select that, read the fine print online. You will find out they can charge you inactivity fees. 4. They find ways to fee you when you get below $1000. They lose payments. They process them incredibly slow. 5. If you use the check free payment method, be sure to pay very early. The speedy processing option costs $10 extra and they still wait to process it to auto fee you. 6. Your interest rate will keep going up. In general interest rates have been rising, but Dell likes to stay ahead of the curve.
I strongly recommend that everyone stay away from DFS. My experience was very poor. I financed a Dell Precision 650 refurb a few years ago. The computer is great, but the DFS account was terrible. If you don't beleive me, google it.
I know someone who works at apple. They do use Windows server with.NET apps for portions of their intranet. I've also heard they use it for some applications used by Apple Store operations. (physical stores) Besides, if nothing else, I'm sure apple has a few PCs around for development and testing of iTunes, Safari, and Quicktime.
Yes, its very common both in k-12 and higher education. Even in college, at least half of the questions asked on exams are multiple choice. I've seen them in History classes, English classes, Computer Science, Religion courses, Math and Economics. Traditional sciences as well.
English courses are the strangest. I took a literature course and our final was a multiple choice test on several books we had to read. I felt like I was in 4th grade all over again. However, my personal experience has been that English and Computer Science classes are the most likely to use short essay questions. It's not uncommon to write code or define terms on a CS test.
That's a good point. They had to put out a security patch 24 hours into it. Did that count twice? I installed the original and the security patch'd version using software update.
Also, I'm a multi-platform kind of guy. I have a Mac and PC on my desk. I use Safari as my primary on my Mac, but I can't imagine using it in Windows. It sucks. I had it crash a few times, and I get a lot of disconnects when trying to download sites. Its slower than Firefox and IE (unlike their cute graphs) on my Vista box. Its also slower than safari 2 on my Mac. The Mac is a much slower machine so it shouldn't be quicker.
I would rather use Firefox, but I don't like a crashing browser. Its great in every other OS. Safari is like Firefox is on Windows. Its substandard and was not tested well enough. It also doesn't have native look and feel.
You're not kidding. I saw a cop waiting on the expressway (I-94) near the US 23 merge on the side of the road. He got hit which slowed down traffic for several hours. His SUV was hit by another SUV. The roads were bad as it was winter. I've also observed quite a few police cars causing accidents since I moved to the Ann Arbor area. Apparently, they get distracted by all their radios and other stuff in their cars.
If they ban this, they need to ban children in the car too. I was rear ended by some asshole who decided to TURN HIS HEAD around while coming to a stop light to yell at his little brats. My car was totaled and I have life long back problems because he couldn't wait for two seconds to stop. Instead of banning doing things while driving, punish people who do it and can't handle it. It should probably be extended to PDAs, MP3 players and other things. I see people looking at their PDAs all the time. I saw one guy playing a DS at a stop light! Oh and those children had to go to the hospital in that mini van that hit my little saturn and knocked me into 5 other cars.
I've had mixed results with the shower approach. It worked perfectly on an Apple Pro keyboard from 2002 that had coffee and juice dumped on it. It would not work before it was washed and worked perfectly afterward. It took about a week to dry. However, I had a 3 week old Apple keyboard (new style with white keys and smaller than the older apple pros) have coffee dumped on it and it "died" after the wash treatment. Not a single key would work. Its possible the coffee got to something interesting before the wash job.
I only do this as a last resort now. With PC keyboards, I just buy a new one. Mac keyboards used to be expensive. My wife learned to watch out for coffee near keyboards after she couldn't use her Mac for a week. She had to use my lowly PC to play WoW.
Could it be that web developers have to create Web 2.0 applications that take all sorts of evil input? How do you make blogs, tags, message boards, and things 100% safe? I wish security researchers would create a proof of concept site that was a REAL web application to show best practices. Sure there are projects like http://www.owasp.org/, but their example code is near useless for most languages they have up.
Think about the input needed for a comment box. You have to deal with i18n issues. UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a very big character set. You can't explicitly block everything and then white list selectively very easily with such a big character set.
Some people think bbcode is the solution for some types of sites. I haven't seen too many implementations of bbcode for languages other than PHP that are open source and reusable.
Can someone point me at resources for Java and.NET development? I don't use PHP very often. Are there any resources for other languages like perl, python and ruby?
I'd personally love to get a library to do safe HTML input while stripping any dangerous tags in Java that is reasonably reusable.
schwab.com's investor interface sucks in safari. Half of the features give you session errors. I have a multi os environment, and I have to switch browsers to view it on my Mac. They had a beta version that fixed it but reverted after IE users complained about the new version. The interface does work in IE and Firefox.
I know Windows and Linux fans don't understand why Mac users like Safari. Firefox gets very little TLC for the Mac. They are working on it, but its not the same reliable browser found in Windows, Linux or even BSD. I have occasional crashes in Windows since 2.0.0.3, but nothing like the Mac build. I don't have any extensions on the Mac. At first I thought it was RAM, but I just switched over to a PowerMac G4 dual 867 with 1.75GB RAM and it still crashes. Before I had an iBook G4 with 640MB RAM. I've seen it work properly with 256MB RAM in MidnightBSD using the Linux version!
Safari has one big problem. It is too picky and standards compliant. I never thought I'd say that. I have problems with my site not rendering properly in Safari. HTTP headers are displayed. Its an apache 2.2.4 + Tomcat 5.1.15 setup. It does not happen with other browsers, just safari. I've been trying to track it down for months. The Windows beta version also does it, but instead of headers I see a blank page. I'm willing to bet its either a configuration issue, a bug in my app, in tomcat or in the mod_proxy_ajp handler.
The way this is written, it almost sounds like you think its impossible to release source code in the Java community. As others have pointed out, its possible to release object code in other languages. As for Java, consider viewing the Apache website and look at their open source Java tools and libraries. I've even got a project on SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/justjournal
Java can be open just as much as any other language. The difference is that the Java compiler and vm have been closed licensed for a long time. (not closed source since I could download the code years ago)
Yeah its not like the first web browser ran in a graphical user interface. Did you mean a browser that displays images such as JPEG, GIF and PNG? That's a totally different thing.
I won't argue benefits, but I'd like to point out the FreeBSD 7-current implementation uses a lot of RAM. Apple doesn't ship enough RAM in their products as it is. I don't see this working well out of the box on desktops. Now, we might see it in OS X server and it may be in the client, but not pushed. Regardless, a serious RAM upgrade is needed. I think Sun even recommends at least 1GB of RAM to use ZFS on Solaris.
The other issue people aren't thinking about is making older Mac apps work on the new file system. Not all Mac apps work on UFS which is an option in OS X. Apple might have to wait on this until more people run on intel Macs.
Apple implemented a wrapper around the original qt/kde code when they ported khtml to the Mac. Who's to say they didn't do the same with the Windows version? Besides, if you install WebObjects 5.2 on Windows, you'll see that there is a lot of supporting crap for that old stuff. I don't see that stuff in the Safari install.
If you are correct, then Apple is ready to give up on the computer business. Windows developers have.NET and Java already. They don't need anything else. Plus, if they really want to use cocoa like code, they can always run GNUstep.
I disagree. We need to hold all vendors to the same standards. What happens if Apple gets Microsoft's market share someday? Do we then tell them they have to disable half their OS? It's a little late then.
The Bush administration effectively dropped Microsoft's DoJ case. That told Apple, Google and Microsoft that they could do whatever they want and get away with it. Now some are bitching because their approach conflicts with another. Google is the search leader and they want help entering a new space which is a clear extension of their existing space. Evil. Microsoft used Windows as leverage to push IE and get control of the Internet. Same type of Evil. Now Apple ships their own "free" browser and desktop search benefiting from the rules set by MS. Just remember, Microsoft ships IE7 for XP but Apple never ships new Safari versions for old systems anymore. You have to buy 10.5 to get the secure browser in a little while.
How can you say sony has a better design than apple with all those defects? I've never had my iBook mysteriously power on, and I've accidentally dropped it before without issue. My iBook on a new battery gets 4-5 hours with wifi enabled. I have about a year old battery getting 3 hours with wifi. I would argue the appearance is better with most Apple products as well. Design is more than the outward appearance of a product. Its also the engineering behind it.
I would guess that both Sony and Microsoft are correct. Microsoft implemented a feature in vista and Sony tried to use it as it was described. We all know that Windows doesn't work as advertised. It never has regardless of service packs.
There are obvious things the media can't say or people can't say about the President for instance.
Sites like MySpace and LiveJournal have been pressured to take down various profiles and users because they have iffy content or they have a name SIMILAR to a person listed on the sex offender registry. The FCC regularly limits what can be said on television and radio.
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headless? WTF? All desktop and laptop macs have graphics cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless
Think of the children! They are being taught not to pay their bills.
First, I use Comcast cable service with 2 macs and several PCs. The installer doesn't usually care. They'll just hand you the modem, you plug it in, and its up. They may not want to support you if you have a problem, but that's another story.
As for AT&T and DSL, I had SBC Yahoo DSL for two years. It was great. Fast service, good tech support. Then I made the fatal mistake of moving. Their rep told me it would be no problem to move my service. I was moving in town and kept my same phone number. They refused to disconnect DSL at my old address and move it because I HAD THE SAME PHONE NUMBER. They kept lying to me about completion dates. Two months went by and I was on dial-up. They were charging me DSL package prices for their sub standard dial-up service. I gave up after they yelled at me for calling too much! (yeah once a week is too much) I went to charter and they had me going in 3 days! I fought with SBC for 3 months to get a refund. I never did get all of it. I agreed to pay for the substandard dial-up at the price of the dial-up. After that experience, I moved all my phone services away from them. I couldn't be happier using Sprint for cell phone access and now comcast workplace internet. Don't bother with AT&T.
Does it? We see it on slashdot and in blogs. I don't remember seeing it on CNN. The media could change the RIAA by airing stories about what they do and how they accomplish it. If my grandmother saw something on the evening news about the RIAA falsly accusing little girls and grandmothers for CI, I bet she'd start bitching. My grandmother refuses to own technology for fear of identity theft. I blame the media for that. If she knew the RIAA goes after people WITHOUT Internet access, I bet she'd want them stopped. At 78 years old, she still occasionally buys a CD.
Read the damn reprints. Venom didn't exist that early in Peter's life. The movies are already skipping a lot of good character development as it is. Venom is one of my favorite characters, but there was so many interesting things in the early Spider-man comics. Sadly, it should have been the sandman and the vulture.
Yes, but they might also get added sales once its public they finally fixed the damn things. I've been waiting for an "all clear" in regard to hardware problems. I don't want to buy an xbox 360 until I know its not going to break in 3 months. I had to wait to get on the original xbox bandwagon too.
I'm actually confused about the problems with the xbox 360 now. Some people early on reported it was the power supply that was overheating. Now they put an extra heatsink in?
As an Apple Share Holder, I'd hope they'd keep improving their product so that they don't need to use another operating system. They do expect everyone else to buy their stuff; I expect them to use their own stuff. They have done this with apple.com. Netcraft isn't showing the old logs now, but apple.com was run on Solaris for a very long time. Apple slowly started adding some OS X machines into their server farm since 2000 or so. When I checked today, everything was showing up OS X for this year.
Different systems are better suited for certain tasks. I just hope that Apple can appeal to the business market someday. However, their new product moves show a focus on home users while ignoring education and general business use. Lets face it, "PC" tells businesses that Windows is better for those "numbers."
I say this while running Vista, OS X and MidnightBSD in the same room.
Remember, Microsoft buying Macs has made slashdot when it was obvious they were for the Mac division or later the xbox division. People do react when a company doesn't use their own product. Hell, I know it bothered me when I saw the CEO of Redhat using Windows because Linux wasn't ready for the desktop. That interview has stayed with me. I think that CEO is flat wrong. Even then, Redhat was usable as a desktop. You can see that I'm not a big Linux fan, and I think so.
A little extra on Dell Preferred Accounts.
1. Do not pay by snail mail. They will hold onto the check without cashing it to give you fees as you start to pay down the balance.
2. Whatever they tell you the interest rate will be, its going to be higher. Wait before buying the PC to see what your rate is. Its a hassle to send the computer back.
3. When you finally pay it off, a rep (indian) will beg you to stay. You have to convince him you want it canceled and expect to wait on the phone 20 minutes. They try to keep your account open for 2 years after its paid off. If you select that, read the fine print online. You will find out they can charge you inactivity fees.
4. They find ways to fee you when you get below $1000. They lose payments. They process them incredibly slow.
5. If you use the check free payment method, be sure to pay very early. The speedy processing option costs $10 extra and they still wait to process it to auto fee you.
6. Your interest rate will keep going up. In general interest rates have been rising, but Dell likes to stay ahead of the curve.
I strongly recommend that everyone stay away from DFS. My experience was very poor. I financed a Dell Precision 650 refurb a few years ago. The computer is great, but the DFS account was terrible. If you don't beleive me, google it.
Well for Solaris, how about this year... http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /searchcgi.apple.com
.NET apps for portions of their intranet. I've also heard they use it for some applications used by Apple Store operations. (physical stores) Besides, if nothing else, I'm sure apple has a few PCs around for development and testing of iTunes, Safari, and Quicktime.
I know someone who works at apple. They do use Windows server with
Yes, its very common both in k-12 and higher education. Even in college, at least half of the questions asked on exams are multiple choice. I've seen them in History classes, English classes, Computer Science, Religion courses, Math and Economics. Traditional sciences as well.
English courses are the strangest. I took a literature course and our final was a multiple choice test on several books we had to read. I felt like I was in 4th grade all over again. However, my personal experience has been that English and Computer Science classes are the most likely to use short essay questions. It's not uncommon to write code or define terms on a CS test.
Who do you think buys the Viagra on the Internet?
That's a good point. They had to put out a security patch 24 hours into it. Did that count twice? I installed the original and the security patch'd version using software update.
Also, I'm a multi-platform kind of guy. I have a Mac and PC on my desk. I use Safari as my primary on my Mac, but I can't imagine using it in Windows. It sucks. I had it crash a few times, and I get a lot of disconnects when trying to download sites. Its slower than Firefox and IE (unlike their cute graphs) on my Vista box. Its also slower than safari 2 on my Mac. The Mac is a much slower machine so it shouldn't be quicker.
I would rather use Firefox, but I don't like a crashing browser. Its great in every other OS. Safari is like Firefox is on Windows. Its substandard and was not tested well enough. It also doesn't have native look and feel.
You're not kidding. I saw a cop waiting on the expressway (I-94) near the US 23 merge on the side of the road. He got hit which slowed down traffic for several hours. His SUV was hit by another SUV. The roads were bad as it was winter. I've also observed quite a few police cars causing accidents since I moved to the Ann Arbor area. Apparently, they get distracted by all their radios and other stuff in their cars.
If they ban this, they need to ban children in the car too. I was rear ended by some asshole who decided to TURN HIS HEAD around while coming to a stop light to yell at his little brats. My car was totaled and I have life long back problems because he couldn't wait for two seconds to stop. Instead of banning doing things while driving, punish people who do it and can't handle it. It should probably be extended to PDAs, MP3 players and other things. I see people looking at their PDAs all the time. I saw one guy playing a DS at a stop light! Oh and those children had to go to the hospital in that mini van that hit my little saturn and knocked me into 5 other cars.
I've had mixed results with the shower approach. It worked perfectly on an Apple Pro keyboard from 2002 that had coffee and juice dumped on it. It would not work before it was washed and worked perfectly afterward. It took about a week to dry. However, I had a 3 week old Apple keyboard (new style with white keys and smaller than the older apple pros) have coffee dumped on it and it "died" after the wash treatment. Not a single key would work. Its possible the coffee got to something interesting before the wash job.
I only do this as a last resort now. With PC keyboards, I just buy a new one. Mac keyboards used to be expensive. My wife learned to watch out for coffee near keyboards after she couldn't use her Mac for a week. She had to use my lowly PC to play WoW.
Could it be that web developers have to create Web 2.0 applications that take all sorts of evil input? How do you make blogs, tags, message boards, and things 100% safe? I wish security researchers would create a proof of concept site that was a REAL web application to show best practices. Sure there are projects like http://www.owasp.org/, but their example code is near useless for most languages they have up.
.NET development? I don't use PHP very often. Are there any resources for other languages like perl, python and ruby?
Think about the input needed for a comment box. You have to deal with i18n issues. UTF-8 or UTF-16 is a very big character set. You can't explicitly block everything and then white list selectively very easily with such a big character set.
Some people think bbcode is the solution for some types of sites. I haven't seen too many implementations of bbcode for languages other than PHP that are open source and reusable.
Can someone point me at resources for Java and
I'd personally love to get a library to do safe HTML input while stripping any dangerous tags in Java that is reasonably reusable.
schwab.com's investor interface sucks in safari. Half of the features give you session errors. I have a multi os environment, and I have to switch browsers to view it on my Mac. They had a beta version that fixed it but reverted after IE users complained about the new version. The interface does work in IE and Firefox.
I know Windows and Linux fans don't understand why Mac users like Safari. Firefox gets very little TLC for the Mac. They are working on it, but its not the same reliable browser found in Windows, Linux or even BSD. I have occasional crashes in Windows since 2.0.0.3, but nothing like the Mac build. I don't have any extensions on the Mac. At first I thought it was RAM, but I just switched over to a PowerMac G4 dual 867 with 1.75GB RAM and it still crashes. Before I had an iBook G4 with 640MB RAM. I've seen it work properly with 256MB RAM in MidnightBSD using the Linux version!
Safari has one big problem. It is too picky and standards compliant. I never thought I'd say that. I have problems with my site not rendering properly in Safari. HTTP headers are displayed. Its an apache 2.2.4 + Tomcat 5.1.15 setup. It does not happen with other browsers, just safari. I've been trying to track it down for months. The Windows beta version also does it, but instead of headers I see a blank page. I'm willing to bet its either a configuration issue, a bug in my app, in tomcat or in the mod_proxy_ajp handler.
The way this is written, it almost sounds like you think its impossible to release source code in the Java community. As others have pointed out, its possible to release object code in other languages. As for Java, consider viewing the Apache website and look at their open source Java tools and libraries. I've even got a project on SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/justjournal
Java can be open just as much as any other language. The difference is that the Java compiler and vm have been closed licensed for a long time. (not closed source since I could download the code years ago)
That's bad.
Yeah its not like the first web browser ran in a graphical user interface. Did you mean a browser that displays images such as JPEG, GIF and PNG? That's a totally different thing.
I won't argue benefits, but I'd like to point out the FreeBSD 7-current implementation uses a lot of RAM. Apple doesn't ship enough RAM in their products as it is. I don't see this working well out of the box on desktops. Now, we might see it in OS X server and it may be in the client, but not pushed. Regardless, a serious RAM upgrade is needed. I think Sun even recommends at least 1GB of RAM to use ZFS on Solaris.
The other issue people aren't thinking about is making older Mac apps work on the new file system. Not all Mac apps work on UFS which is an option in OS X. Apple might have to wait on this until more people run on intel Macs.
Apple implemented a wrapper around the original qt/kde code when they ported khtml to the Mac. Who's to say they didn't do the same with the Windows version? Besides, if you install WebObjects 5.2 on Windows, you'll see that there is a lot of supporting crap for that old stuff. I don't see that stuff in the Safari install.
.NET and Java already. They don't need anything else. Plus, if they really want to use cocoa like code, they can always run GNUstep.
If you are correct, then Apple is ready to give up on the computer business. Windows developers have
I disagree. We need to hold all vendors to the same standards. What happens if Apple gets Microsoft's market share someday? Do we then tell them they have to disable half their OS? It's a little late then.
The Bush administration effectively dropped Microsoft's DoJ case. That told Apple, Google and Microsoft that they could do whatever they want and get away with it. Now some are bitching because their approach conflicts with another. Google is the search leader and they want help entering a new space which is a clear extension of their existing space. Evil. Microsoft used Windows as leverage to push IE and get control of the Internet. Same type of Evil. Now Apple ships their own "free" browser and desktop search benefiting from the rules set by MS. Just remember, Microsoft ships IE7 for XP but Apple never ships new Safari versions for old systems anymore. You have to buy 10.5 to get the secure browser in a little while.
How can you say sony has a better design than apple with all those defects? I've never had my iBook mysteriously power on, and I've accidentally dropped it before without issue. My iBook on a new battery gets 4-5 hours with wifi enabled. I have about a year old battery getting 3 hours with wifi. I would argue the appearance is better with most Apple products as well. Design is more than the outward appearance of a product. Its also the engineering behind it.
I would guess that both Sony and Microsoft are correct. Microsoft implemented a feature in vista and Sony tried to use it as it was described. We all know that Windows doesn't work as advertised. It never has regardless of service packs.
Well if i say them i get the secret service at my door... why don't you try some things and see what happens.
There are obvious things the media can't say or people can't say about the President for instance.
Sites like MySpace and LiveJournal have been pressured to take down various profiles and users because they have iffy content or they have a name SIMILAR to a person listed on the sex offender registry. The FCC regularly limits what can be said on television and radio.