Apple & morals? That's a joke. They have no problem employing sweatshop labor overseas and closing US manufacturing plants to save money. Steve's a dick. If he's so concerned about porn, why doesn't Mac OS X have a porn-blocker built in? Corporate censorship is still censorship.
I've been seeing some weird things going on with gmail lately.
One big one: I started receiving Google Alerts exactly like those I've set up previously, but marked by gmail as spam and not formatted exactly like real Google Alerts. They also have the warning that the email may not be from the source that it seems to be, though they 'seem' to come from google.
Another strange thing: while checking gmail a few days ago, all of the inline ad text turned to chinese for about five minutes - I have a screen shot.
I think the intrusion goes deeper than we've been led to believe...
In 1886, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific RR granted human rights to corporations under the Constitution. This made corporations more than human: They don't eat, breathe or die (unless they go bankrupt - Hmmmm).
There are companies that are hundreds of years old - how's a human supposed to compete with that? After all, you might be able to punch your next door neighbor in the face, but you'll never punch Coca-Cola in the face...
Remember time sharing? We were running BASIC on a Hewlett-Packard Series 2000 Access minicomputer using a Teletype dialup terminal session at 10 characters per second, while the same time 31 other people were doing the same thing. It had a rudimentary operating system and was fairly bulletproof. The hard drive (about 100MB) was the size of a small washing machine.
Of course, it was the secret objective of my classmates to create programs that would bring the entire system to a crawl.
The HP2000 did not directly support any kind of instant messaging (other than master console warnings).
We did some pretty cool stuff in BASIC. My classmates and I created a real-time chat program in BASIC in 1975 that let us talk to students at different schools. Another guy had written a series of FOR / NEXT loops that would play "Blue Danube" through an AM radio plugged into the HP2000's backplane power supply...
In 1979 I was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, using their Hewlett-Packard 3000 Series III minicomputer system. I discovered that:
-if you wrote a program called "A" which used the BASIC CHAIN statement to invoke a program called "B",
-and if you wrote a program called "B" which used the BASIC CHAIN statement to invoke program "A",
-and if you ran program "A" and waited about 30 seconds for the two programs to start ping-ponging back and forth between each other,
-and if you then used the "KILL" command to erase either "A" or "B" . . .
. . . the entire system would crash with a "hardware failure" message on the system console. Needless to say, this was great fun at exam time. BUT - upon the fourth consecutive failure, the fourth time the entire minicomputer had been disassembled and reassembled, the HP customer engineer decided to read the memory dump instead of running hardware diagnostics, and I was severely warned by the system administrator about doing this again...
the IBM 360 had an internal processor speed switch. if you were on a lease and wanted a faster machine, IBM would raise your monthly bill and have the technician flip the switch to increase the speed.
That is a good deal! Leopard was $99 and Snow Leopard is $29.
However, burning Leopard takes a DL DVD, and when you burn this yourself, you probably won't have the Boot Camp tools for Windows...
I cant make the association between free thinking and Apple.
Yes, because Windows is such an open, user accessible, DRM-free OS from an open, user accessible, DRM-free software company.
Everyone I know who bought Apple did so because of the marketing, the artist "says" it is better but is completely unable to quantify it beyond "but everyone says Mac is better".
Everyone I know who bought Toyota, BMW, or Mercedes did so because of the marketing, not because those products are of dramatically better quality than GM or Chrysler.
Most Mac do not understand computers particularly well, thus they turn to an OS that limits what they can do. We call Apple a cult for a reason. I really cant see Mac users being "free thinking" about tech, especially as one of Mac's biggest selling points is that it Just Works(TM) meaning that you arent meant to think about using your computer...
And I know that in order to drive my car, I need to be constantly thinking about internal combustion mechanics or I will run off of the road.
I know a few designers having done tech support for a Marketing company before (so glad I'm out of that gig now) and the most talented designers can do everything they can do on a Mac in Windows, unfortunately the reverse isn't true due to the limitations of the Mac OS, it's not hacker friendly and was never meant to be.
For the sake of your former Mac-using designer clients, I'm also glad you're out of that gig now. And, yeah, it's a shame that the UNIX based OS X operating system is so much less versatile and secure than Windows 7. I mean, all it's really good for is developing iPhone apps, and everyone knows what a dead end that path is. Better to stick with Windows and Windows Mobile.
As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it.
I beg to differ. Pizza, like software, should not come with bugs in it. I care how much it costs, and if it contains insect matter or rodent excrement...
Denon's 1.5 meter (59 in.) proprietary ultra premium Denon Link cable was designed for the audio enthusiast. Made from high purity copper wire and high performance connection parts, the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction from any of our Denon DVD players with the Denon Link feature connected to a Denon Link enabled Denon A/V receiver. The AK-DL1 employs high level tin-bearing alloy shielding not typically available in commercial cabling, to eliminate data loss caused by noise.
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
Attention to detail when building this cable was used by employing high quality insulation and woven jacketing to reduce vibration and to add durability. Rounded plug levers help prevent breakage.
...if you regularly rip different video formats to AVI. My Philips DVD player plays AVIs from data discs. I could network a video server, wire up a bunch of crap to my TV and stream video, Or I can just convert multiple FLVs to AVIs in Handbrake all at once, then burn the AVIs onto a DVD data disc, and watch that on my Philips DVD player and Sony TV with little loss of quality.
Apple Safari will let you see all of the files on a webpage (WINDOW -> ACTIVITY); you can click and COPY the name of the FLV you want, then PASTE into the DOWNLOADS window - free FLV downloads. This way, I can download FLV files from Flash "player only" websites and run them through Handbrake: presto, web video on your TV, without the web connection...
I'll sign up, and pay, if they provide paid subscribers with NO ADVERTISING. I use PRIVOXY to block 99.999% of web ads anyway, but it's the principle - if I'm picking up the tab, cut the ads. Otherwise, there's no incentive to pay.
Even if some rogue nation (or non-rogue nation) hit a city with a nuclear missile you're not talking about the end of civilization.
When a thermonuclear explosion occurs in a city anywhere in the world, the socioeconomic impact will be devastating. You will be talking about talking about the end of civilization as you know it today.
Stock markets will crash, commodity markets will soar, media will freak out, personal freedoms will disappear, internet will be tightly controlled, governments will crack down hard on all dissent, absolute fear will reign for at least a generation.
Even more so if a major world city like NY, DC, LA, London, Paris, etc is hit. Exponentially more so if more than one are hit in succession. Even a "dirty bomb" will have devastating consequences.
How would the unencumbered "free market" handle a problem like this? Especially since none of us who eat corn are actually direct customers of Monsanto's GM corn?
People would stop eating corn products, because they would be dead.
Those who were damaged by the defective product would seek damages in a civil court, except that they would be dead.
Then again, AT&T is not the same AT&T that was around before Judge Greene broke it up in 1984, so I hope it hasn't become some kind of "no Bell Labs left behind" that provides jobs for underachieving American Dilbertized engineers...
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Apple & morals? That's a joke. They have no problem employing sweatshop labor overseas and closing US manufacturing plants to save money. Steve's a dick. If he's so concerned about porn, why doesn't Mac OS X have a porn-blocker built in? Corporate censorship is still censorship.
I've been seeing some weird things going on with gmail lately.
One big one: I started receiving Google Alerts exactly like those I've set up previously, but marked by gmail as spam and not formatted exactly like real Google Alerts. They also have the warning that the email may not be from the source that it seems to be, though they 'seem' to come from google.
Another strange thing: while checking gmail a few days ago, all of the inline ad text turned to chinese for about five minutes - I have a screen shot.
I think the intrusion goes deeper than we've been led to believe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trg3GkHXsYY
Do it Apple's way. Phones aren't a gaming platform? Look again, junior...
In 1886, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific RR granted human rights to corporations under the Constitution. This made corporations more than human: They don't eat, breathe or die (unless they go bankrupt - Hmmmm).
There are companies that are hundreds of years old - how's a human supposed to compete with that? After all, you might be able to punch your next door neighbor in the face, but you'll never punch Coca-Cola in the face...
Unless, of course, they want a job...
. . . the "average" intelligence level of an American 8th grade student today...
Remember time sharing? We were running BASIC on a Hewlett-Packard Series 2000 Access minicomputer using a Teletype dialup terminal session at 10 characters per second, while the same time 31 other people were doing the same thing. It had a rudimentary operating system and was fairly bulletproof. The hard drive (about 100MB) was the size of a small washing machine.
Of course, it was the secret objective of my classmates to create programs that would bring the entire system to a crawl.
The HP2000 did not directly support any kind of instant messaging (other than master console warnings).
We did some pretty cool stuff in BASIC. My classmates and I created a real-time chat program in BASIC in 1975 that let us talk to students at different schools. Another guy had written a series of FOR / NEXT loops that would play "Blue Danube" through an AM radio plugged into the HP2000's backplane power supply...
all they can do is moan and stumble (and bite).
they are available on ebay, craigslist, etc. I have bought several and they work fine!
In 1979 I was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University, using their Hewlett-Packard 3000 Series III minicomputer system. I discovered that:
-if you wrote a program called "A" which used the BASIC CHAIN statement to invoke a program called "B",
-and if you wrote a program called "B" which used the BASIC CHAIN statement to invoke program "A",
-and if you ran program "A" and waited about 30 seconds for the two programs to start ping-ponging back and forth between each other,
-and if you then used the "KILL" command to erase either "A" or "B" . . .
. . . the entire system would crash with a "hardware failure" message on the system console. Needless to say, this was great fun at exam time. BUT - upon the fourth consecutive failure, the fourth time the entire minicomputer had been disassembled and reassembled, the HP customer engineer decided to read the memory dump instead of running hardware diagnostics, and I was severely warned by the system administrator about doing this again...
the IBM 360 had an internal processor speed switch. if you were on a lease and wanted a faster machine, IBM would raise your monthly bill and have the technician flip the switch to increase the speed.
he said "crackin"
That is a good deal! Leopard was $99 and Snow Leopard is $29. However, burning Leopard takes a DL DVD, and when you burn this yourself, you probably won't have the Boot Camp tools for Windows ...
Yes, because Windows is such an open, user accessible, DRM-free OS from an open, user accessible, DRM-free software company.
Everyone I know who bought Toyota, BMW, or Mercedes did so because of the marketing, not because those products are of dramatically better quality than GM or Chrysler.
And I know that in order to drive my car, I need to be constantly thinking about internal combustion mechanics or I will run off of the road.
For the sake of your former Mac-using designer clients, I'm also glad you're out of that gig now. And, yeah, it's a shame that the UNIX based OS X operating system is so much less versatile and secure than Windows 7. I mean, all it's really good for is developing iPhone apps, and everyone knows what a dead end that path is. Better to stick with Windows and Windows Mobile.
then that song started playing, and the caveman threw the bone up into the air, next thing, we're in space.
I beg to differ. Pizza, like software, should not come with bugs in it. I care how much it costs, and if it contains insect matter or rodent excrement...
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
from the link:
...if you regularly rip different video formats to AVI. My Philips DVD player plays AVIs from data discs. I could network a video server, wire up a bunch of crap to my TV and stream video, Or I can just convert multiple FLVs to AVIs in Handbrake all at once, then burn the AVIs onto a DVD data disc, and watch that on my Philips DVD player and Sony TV with little loss of quality.
Apple Safari will let you see all of the files on a webpage (WINDOW -> ACTIVITY); you can click and COPY the name of the FLV you want, then PASTE into the DOWNLOADS window - free FLV downloads. This way, I can download FLV files from Flash "player only" websites and run them through Handbrake: presto, web video on your TV, without the web connection...
I'll sign up, and pay, if they provide paid subscribers with NO ADVERTISING. I use PRIVOXY to block 99.999% of web ads anyway, but it's the principle - if I'm picking up the tab, cut the ads. Otherwise, there's no incentive to pay.
than join the Navy?
When a thermonuclear explosion occurs in a city anywhere in the world, the socioeconomic impact will be devastating. You will be talking about talking about the end of civilization as you know it today.
Stock markets will crash, commodity markets will soar, media will freak out, personal freedoms will disappear, internet will be tightly controlled, governments will crack down hard on all dissent, absolute fear will reign for at least a generation.
Even more so if a major world city like NY, DC, LA, London, Paris, etc is hit. Exponentially more so if more than one are hit in succession. Even a "dirty bomb" will have devastating consequences.
There, fixed that for you...
I need glasses?
There's no more Western Electric or Bell System, so it surprises me to hear that Bell Labs is still around. That's good if it is the Bell Labs, the one that invented the transistor, laser, microwave communications, the UNIX operating system, satellites, etc.
Then again, AT&T is not the same AT&T that was around before Judge Greene broke it up in 1984, so I hope it hasn't become some kind of "no Bell Labs left behind" that provides jobs for underachieving American Dilbertized engineers...