I think it can be best summarized by saying that Mac OS X has a less total cost of i0wnership than Wind0ws. The facts are a little fuzzy, though, as the number of iMacs iHacked as compared to the number of iMacs that are 0nline is not discussed in the iArticle.
As an appreciator (not enough money to be an investor quite yet) in toy trains, I'm not sure if I should be happy or disturbed that I get lumped in with jocks, Trekkies, and Mac fanatics
So far I've used it to update a webpage when I only had browser access. I kind of like that.;-)
Theoretically, wikis are best used when everyone has a different piece of the pie and you're trying to put it all together. I know something about implementing module X; maybe another department knows something about implementing module Y; now we have to get X to talk to Y, here's what we know about both. It's meant to be a common repository, best used for things that change in a hurry. ("hurry" is entirely subjective -- three times a week might be fast)
A message board works for this purpose, except it's chronological, which has its advantages and disadvantages. A regular website is too static and would be messier than a wiki.
Of course, you can get creative with wikis... so far I'm trying to introduce it as an open-ended creative game, and a community journal that's admin-monitored.
The wikipedia doesn't necessarily change all that much, but it benefits from all internet users being theoretically able to add their knowledge into the repository.
I've finally decided that Wikis, Message Boards, and static webpages all have a place, and have implemented it as such on my youth group's site.
Wiki -- Anyone can edit it, the momentum of a site is increased because people come back and stuff to it. Not good for important, unchangeable stuff. MediaWiki allows protection on pages, but that's a lengthy process by design. Wiki syntax is confusing to newbies / people with "internet and e-mail" experience.
Message Board -- The person posting is responsible for their own words. Admins can still delete content. People come back and participate in flamewars.:-) Not good for important, continuous topics (something that needs prescience over everything else) or if I want to refer someone to a certain topic -- you'll always have to hunt for it, instead of it being upfront like on a wiki or webpage.
Webpage -- Static, I'm responsible for content (muhahaha). Simple. Wikis get confusing QUICKLY. Reliable, good for reference information that never changes. Boring unless you start using dynamic content, which is what wikis and forums are for.
...Microsoft stood by Japan as the "must break into" market in order for the product launch to have really been a success... with Europe being a more secondary market.
Does anyone who's kept up with gaming news know if they've retreated from this statement? (Conceding that the Box is a decent threat to Sony stateside).
One of the most insightful posts I've ever read on/. -- a corollary of the above is that in addition to Americans needing to get out of their own countries and explore the world, so do people in other countries. At some point, the Internet was supposed to be an avenue towards that goal, but like most communication mediums, it's had its ups and downs.
On a side note, it seems to me that religious missions would be the only way to do so, because few people from other groups would be willing to put themselves in serious danger for no earthly rewards.
Extremely disappointed? Absurdly short, but that's about it. It was an original concept, I fell in love with the game, and it was fun to kill hundreds of Pikmin at a time... like old-school Lemmings days...
Few games have made me feel that way since SNES Lemmings.:-)
10.1 was when MI3 was released. By the time I bought it (two months ago) I had owned the non-Classic bootable PowerBook. Maybe that wasn't very clear...
It said it was compatible with 10.1 on the box... and actually, it mostly ran on Classic. Just no video due to out-of-date drivers that weren't available anywhere on the web.
...the only reason my MP3s were deleted was because of the biyearly Windows Crash of Death*. I'll leave it to some other conspiracy theory expert to connect the dots.
*Rob's Theorem on the Biyearly Crash of Death:
for (int L = 0; L < D; L++) { N = 730 / (L*2); }
where L = number of times Windows machine has crashed requiring a reformat, D = number of times until the machine has required enough reformats to merit purchasing another computer, N = days until next iteration of L.
...as long as Aspyr provides a better experience with it than Curse of Monkey Island 3. I bought the game, took it home... and it turns out I needed to boot into classic to play it successfully. Unfortunately, my PB is one of the latest versions, and is physically (logically?) incapable of booting into classic.
That was back in the days of 10.1, though, so I'm hoping their games are OS X compatible by now.
So, where can I pick up one of these African-American IPods anyway?
I'm really not sure, but I get the impression that U2 wouldn't be the artist of choice for most African American users anyway. Maybe a deal with Kanye West?
Or, alternatively, try to get Firefox banned for violating obscenity laws...
Something about an officially branded Firefox Stripper... Oooh! We could market it in Playboy! For porn! And we can show people's favorite porn pages! Without popups!
(That was meant to be funny, but now it's starting to look kinda legitimate...:-)
Are you referring to A.I. or Eyes Wide Shut? In either case, why? I've only seen the latter, and while it wasn't... umm... eye-opening, it wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen either. (Mediocre, yeah.)
It's almost as if the market has spoken for itself. It's not entirely true -- people who have loved the industry are leaving too, and there are still people in the industry just looking for a quick buck. But as the linked tidbit says, "Perhaps it is better to have less computer science engineers and more quality computer science engineers."
I'm trying to be a more quality computer science engineer.
I took a Segway for a quick five minute spin once, and I can definitely tell you -- I hope grandpa wears a helmet while he's trying this thing, or he may have an untimely meeting with the sidewalk.:-)
A lot of people seem to think that the Segway balances for you, and that's half-true. But it's honestly like riding a bike. It's easy enough to ride once you know how to ride it... until then, it's really quite frightening. My biggest problem was that my body would do what it naturally would do if it were off-kilter; it would compensate by leaning in the opposite direction I was falling. Of course, the Segway would do the exact same thing, and for a while I was holding on while the Segway and my body were fighting each other for balance. When you finally learn to trust the damn machine, it starts working for you.
The other thing is learning that the hand you used to use to flip the windshield wipers in a car... now is used to turn your vehicle. That's just kind of weird, and is part of the learning process.
Anyways, those were the experiences of a healthy, well-balanced 22 year old. If anyone in the retirement community can verify these experiences, please do so!
Our company tried similar (closed-source) software. It was called Cocobase, but I don't really remember the company's actual name, if that was it. Five releases, one year, and countless problems later, it's still being yanked from our code. There were a few too many whacked out exceptions, objects not being updated, and places where code and schemas trying to talk to each other didn't agree. We reverted to basic JDBC, and I'm not really sure we're going to go back anytime soon while object mapping and persistence is in its infancy.
It sounds like he needs a reference to the install log, or he's referring to iPhoto and iTunes, which do actually trigger copying whatever files you import to various places on your drive.
I was wary at first of deleting MP3 files on my Desktop because it seemed like iTunes was playing them from the Desktop. Only after I explored ~/Users/Music/iTunes Music Library did I figure out what was going on. It's not intuitive, to 90% of users it doesn't need to be (unless you want to know whether or not you can delete that MP3 file)... but clarification may be necessary for those particular applications.
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Out of curiosity, did you sleep at a Holiday Inn Express that night?
(disclaimer blah blah I own a mac blah blah)
Since I own a Mac, I choose happy. :-)
Theoretically, wikis are best used when everyone has a different piece of the pie and you're trying to put it all together. I know something about implementing module X; maybe another department knows something about implementing module Y; now we have to get X to talk to Y, here's what we know about both. It's meant to be a common repository, best used for things that change in a hurry. ("hurry" is entirely subjective -- three times a week might be fast)
A message board works for this purpose, except it's chronological, which has its advantages and disadvantages. A regular website is too static and would be messier than a wiki.
Of course, you can get creative with wikis... so far I'm trying to introduce it as an open-ended creative game, and a community journal that's admin-monitored.
The wikipedia doesn't necessarily change all that much, but it benefits from all internet users being theoretically able to add their knowledge into the repository.
Wiki -- Anyone can edit it, the momentum of a site is increased because people come back and stuff to it. Not good for important, unchangeable stuff. MediaWiki allows protection on pages, but that's a lengthy process by design. Wiki syntax is confusing to newbies / people with "internet and e-mail" experience.
Message Board -- The person posting is responsible for their own words. Admins can still delete content. People come back and participate in flamewars. :-) Not good for important, continuous topics (something that needs prescience over everything else) or if I want to refer someone to a certain topic -- you'll always have to hunt for it, instead of it being upfront like on a wiki or webpage.
Webpage -- Static, I'm responsible for content (muhahaha). Simple. Wikis get confusing QUICKLY. Reliable, good for reference information that never changes. Boring unless you start using dynamic content, which is what wikis and forums are for.
In Indonesia, Mt. Doom finishes off YOU!
Does anyone who's kept up with gaming news know if they've retreated from this statement? (Conceding that the Box is a decent threat to Sony stateside).
On a side note, it seems to me that religious missions would be the only way to do so, because few people from other groups would be willing to put themselves in serious danger for no earthly rewards.
Few games have made me feel that way since SNES Lemmings. :-)
10.1 was when MI3 was released. By the time I bought it (two months ago) I had owned the non-Classic bootable PowerBook. Maybe that wasn't very clear... It said it was compatible with 10.1 on the box... and actually, it mostly ran on Classic. Just no video due to out-of-date drivers that weren't available anywhere on the web.
That was back in the days of 10.1, though, so I'm hoping their games are OS X compatible by now.
I'm really not sure, but I get the impression that U2 wouldn't be the artist of choice for most African American users anyway. Maybe a deal with Kanye West?
Simply locate the IR receiver, apply, and walk away.
homepage:
IE to Mozilla ratio 18 to 10
Windows to Macs 4 to 1
wedding website: .8
IE to Mozilla to Safari 38 to 10 to 1 (x1000)
Windows to Macs to Linux 9 to 1 to
youth group: .025 .005
IE to Mozilla to Safari 17 to 9.5 to
Windows to Macs to Linux 10 to 1 to
Conclusion? Mozilla has come a long way (even if the stats are skewed -- Mozilla was leading when I was the only one that knew about the sites :))
Something about an officially branded Firefox Stripper... Oooh! We could market it in Playboy! For porn! And we can show people's favorite porn pages! Without popups!
(That was meant to be funny, but now it's starting to look kinda legitimate... :-)
Are you referring to A.I. or Eyes Wide Shut? In either case, why? I've only seen the latter, and while it wasn't... umm... eye-opening, it wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen either. (Mediocre, yeah.)
Hmm... looks like some /. moderators go to Harvard. Ah well. :-)
It's almost as if the market has spoken for itself. It's not entirely true -- people who have loved the industry are leaving too, and there are still people in the industry just looking for a quick buck. But as the linked tidbit says, "Perhaps it is better to have less computer science engineers and more quality computer science engineers."
I'm trying to be a more quality computer science engineer.
The funny thing is, I thought the community college you were referring to was Harvard. :-)
I've always wanted to say Britney was a piece of sh... ack! attack of the teenage girls!
A lot of people seem to think that the Segway balances for you, and that's half-true. But it's honestly like riding a bike. It's easy enough to ride once you know how to ride it... until then, it's really quite frightening. My biggest problem was that my body would do what it naturally would do if it were off-kilter; it would compensate by leaning in the opposite direction I was falling. Of course, the Segway would do the exact same thing, and for a while I was holding on while the Segway and my body were fighting each other for balance. When you finally learn to trust the damn machine, it starts working for you.
The other thing is learning that the hand you used to use to flip the windshield wipers in a car... now is used to turn your vehicle. That's just kind of weird, and is part of the learning process.
Anyways, those were the experiences of a healthy, well-balanced 22 year old. If anyone in the retirement community can verify these experiences, please do so!
Tigger said to be hopping mad in protest; Piglet leading soft-spoken sit-in. Honey at 5:00.
Our company tried similar (closed-source) software. It was called Cocobase, but I don't really remember the company's actual name, if that was it. Five releases, one year, and countless problems later, it's still being yanked from our code. There were a few too many whacked out exceptions, objects not being updated, and places where code and schemas trying to talk to each other didn't agree. We reverted to basic JDBC, and I'm not really sure we're going to go back anytime soon while object mapping and persistence is in its infancy.
I was wary at first of deleting MP3 files on my Desktop because it seemed like iTunes was playing them from the Desktop. Only after I explored ~/Users/Music/iTunes Music Library did I figure out what was going on. It's not intuitive, to 90% of users it doesn't need to be (unless you want to know whether or not you can delete that MP3 file)... but clarification may be necessary for those particular applications.