You can uninstal Safari on OS X - but would you really want to uninstall WebKit? the HTML rendering framework? That would be bad news for iTunes, quite a few third party IM clients, Dashboard Widgets etc.
When I got my first job as a journalist in the mid 80's the publishing house had a little takeaway coffee hatch/snack place.
While the sales guys used to get in from about 8:30, the notoriously slack hacks used to get in closer to 10. Now the odd thing is that the snack bar used to stop selling toast at 9:30 - just toast, nothing else.
The reason? Maintenance were sick of clearing crumbs out of the typewriters.
I'm sorry, but this story and your comment annoy me greatly.
Here's the situation. The company had an old green screen application that was working just fine. It was old, but it did what the company needed. There was no hint that there was any fault.
Now, one day the company had to cancel 90% of its flights - and whammo some double byte counter overflowed.
What's all this crap in the article about old software "getting brittle"? This wasn't brittle aging software, this was software that was hit by an event that took it outside of its design parameters.
How would *you* have judged the risk of this software failing? How would that risk compare with the risk of installing a new untested package?
But you're looking in the wrong place for the value - the value of Slashdot isn't as a news aggregation service, the value is a place to see the opinion of other Nerds and to get your own opinions sanity-checked.
It doesn't actually matter whether you disagree with the other opinions you find. Personally, I find it useful just as a way of seeing other angles that I mighht have missed.
No they (a set of senior journalists, who have been reporting on the IT business for 20-ish years in some cases) disagree on a point of IT-business history.
If I've paid for $258 worth of music....
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Presumably the Dutch music industry has just given me approval to reclaim this payment via free P2P downloads? No?
Well the Dutch live in a democracy, it's up to them to lobby their members of parliament, or alternatively, boycott CD sales in some imaginative way.
The thing about PDF is the sheer number of platforms that there is a reader for.
A quick look at the Acrobat download page:
OS/2 Palm OS (Windows or Mac installer) PocketPC SymbianOS WinXP WinME Win 98NT Win98 Win95 Win_3.1 Mac OS X 10.2.8 Mac OS X 10.2.2 Mac OS 9.1 Mac OS 8.6 Mac OS pre_8.6 Mac OS 68K Linux Solaris AIX
Now, is Microsoft aiming to produce readers or authoring for more than a fraction of those systems? I doubt it.
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Truism alert. Of course Apple could be doing a lot more and still be within the bounds of the license.
The more interesting question is; could Apple be doing less and still be within the bounds of the license.
Could always be a particularly cunning sting by Mr Jobs to make people think twice about running Apple-sourced rumors.
I can just imagine it:
"Now I'm sure you all read in the papers yesterday, how we are about to switch processor architectures. Well we are."
>fx: stage fades to black, fades up with Steve holding a small die
"I'd like to introduce the 3MHz PowerPC G6 processor.
Well, it's a thought
Who in their right mind would call their member a meatglider? ...actually, that's kind of catchy.
If only I had a 'Funny' mod point to hand.
My thoughts exactly.
This is interesting, thanks to Google, I found the trial sign-up and download page here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/imp/client/eula.html
It says it doesn't currently support the Mac, but having poked around the Kontiki site, it seems they take Mac support quite seriously.
I'm on a Mac, so I haven't tried downloading from the link above.
You can uninstal Safari on OS X - but would you really want to uninstall WebKit? the HTML rendering framework? That would be bad news for iTunes, quite a few third party IM clients, Dashboard Widgets etc.
Wouldn't zero rather imply that that the sun had just gone out, in that case?
When I got my first job as a journalist in the mid 80's the publishing house had a little takeaway coffee hatch/snack place.
While the sales guys used to get in from about 8:30, the notoriously slack hacks used to get in closer to 10. Now the odd thing is that the snack bar used to stop selling toast at 9:30 - just toast, nothing else.
The reason? Maintenance were sick of clearing crumbs out of the typewriters.
Toast crumbs are still the bane of my keyboard.
If you open preferences and type 'Rotate' into the search field you should get a clue as to what is going on.
Mine says:
"The Geometry tab of Displays preferences is hidden because this display does not have geometry controls."
Make of that what you will.
(Using an anglepoise G4 iMac)
" It seems that schools that teach journalism skip teaching about integrity, ethics, and the responsibility for reporters to be objective"
Do they? Can you stand that up? Has the curriculum changed Or are you representing an opinion as fact?
Seriously,
What does
3D0G mean to you, eh?
It's the new name for Rendevouz
I seem to recall it was a running gag with Nimoy continuously getting the lines wrong in Shakespeare set-ups:
... is illogical captain... D'oh".
"To be, or not to be, that
Yes, that's what everyone says around here. Personally, I don't believe it.
I'm sorry, but this story and your comment annoy me greatly.
Here's the situation. The company had an old green screen application that was working just fine. It was old, but it did what the company needed. There was no hint that there was any fault.
Now, one day the company had to cancel 90% of its flights - and whammo some double byte counter overflowed.
What's all this crap in the article about old software "getting brittle"? This wasn't brittle aging software, this was software that was hit by an event that took it outside of its design parameters.
How would *you* have judged the risk of this software failing? How would that risk compare with the risk of installing a new untested package?
Here you go
... Sound doesn't seem to work in classic on my set-up, but other than that....
http://home.planet.nl/~pulle071/firemac/games.htm
But you're looking in the wrong place for the value - the value of Slashdot isn't as a news aggregation service, the value is a place to see the opinion of other Nerds and to get your own opinions sanity-checked.
It doesn't actually matter whether you disagree with the other opinions you find. Personally, I find it useful just as a way of seeing other angles that I mighht have missed.
And if someone is a Mac user?
No they (a set of senior journalists, who have been reporting on the IT business for 20-ish years in some cases) disagree on a point of IT-business history.
Presumably the Dutch music industry has just given me approval to reclaim this payment via free P2P downloads? No?
Well the Dutch live in a democracy, it's up to them to lobby their members of parliament, or alternatively, boycott CD sales in some imaginative way.
So locate understands application-specific metadata, does it?
Nifty. If the model works so well for device drivers, let's extend it to apps and desktop managers.
Afterall, who wants 100s of potentially dodgy and unstable apps, when we can have a few robust Linus-certified apps.
No. By that reasoning .doc should be a PDF killer: "Look at the stronghold they have with Office".
.doc didn;t kill PDF, metro won't.
It doesn't work like that. People who use PDFs generally do so because they know it is:
1. Essentially WYSIWYG - they create a PDF it will look just like the original document
2. It is viewable by everyone.
If
The thing about PDF is the sheer number of platforms that there is a reader for.
n 98NT
A quick look at the Acrobat download page:
OS/2
Palm OS (Windows or Mac installer)
PocketPC
SymbianOS
WinXP
WinME
Wi
Win98
Win95
Win_3.1
Mac OS X 10.2.8
Mac OS X 10.2.2
Mac OS 9.1
Mac OS 8.6
Mac OS pre_8.6
Mac OS 68K
Linux
Solaris
AIX
Now, is Microsoft aiming to produce readers or authoring for more than a fraction of those systems? I doubt it.
So this isn't a PDF killer.