My Windows computer has been infected! Go buy another 2TB hard drive, I'm running out of space at an exponential rate!
In Soviet Russia, bacteria infects your data!
The Bacteria Protection Agency is up in arms!
Hello nerds. Look at your keyboard, now back to me, now back at your keyboard, now back to me. Sadly, it's infected with bacteria, but if you stopped washing your hands, it could be a lot worst. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re still at your desk reading this shit. What’s on your hand, back at me. I have it, the solution to your storage problems. Look again, the bacteria are now data. Anything is possible when you stop bathing. I’m a trojan horse.
Microsoft's problem right now is exactly that: backward compatiblity. I remember when they said that Windows Vista was supposed to be a complete rewrite from the ground up, that there would be amazing XYZ features, etc. Then they slowly began to remove everything, including the rewrite, until it was basically back to what we could call Windows XP2 (whatever the name).
When Apple introduced Mac OS X, they had a "classic mode" to allow you to run older Mac OS 9 software on the new OS. Then they added Rosetta, which allowed Mac OS X software designed for PowerPC to run on Intel processors, all transparent to the user.
So yes, while Apple's attitude is "out with the old, in with the new", they still support the old but without trying to integrate it directly into the new. The best way to move forward is to look into the future, not the past. Watch how fast they'll drop FireWire once they introduce LightPeak.
You gain that new versions of programs and future ones will be written for the new OS, meaning that after a while you'll be able to ditch the old OS with much less trouble and complaints from your users.
And current copyrights are stealing us of your work. Your works are supposed to be protected for a limited amount of time and then go in the public domain.
For decades, the spirit of copyrights has been abused by corporations all over the world. So now people are abusing copyrights without any moral afterthought.
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I think the non-Firewire models support target disk mode via USB. What's strange is that Firewire got upgraded to FW800 on the new Mac mini models.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!
My Windows computer has been infected! Go buy another 2TB hard drive, I'm running out of space at an exponential rate!
In Soviet Russia, bacteria infects your data!
The Bacteria Protection Agency is up in arms!
Hello nerds. Look at your keyboard, now back to me, now back at your keyboard, now back to me. Sadly, it's infected with bacteria, but if you stopped washing your hands, it could be a lot worst. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re still at your desk reading this shit. What’s on your hand, back at me. I have it, the solution to your storage problems. Look again, the bacteria are now data. Anything is possible when you stop bathing. I’m a trojan horse.
etc.
You: <sneeze>
Nelson Muntz: Haw-Haw! All your data are belong to me!
It's what happens when you store your spell-checking software into 1 gram of bacteria.
Fortunately for us, it works in a different way in computer-land. They only seek out other Windows computers to turn them in zombies.
Microsoft's problem right now is exactly that: backward compatiblity. I remember when they said that Windows Vista was supposed to be a complete rewrite from the ground up, that there would be amazing XYZ features, etc. Then they slowly began to remove everything, including the rewrite, until it was basically back to what we could call Windows XP2 (whatever the name).
When Apple introduced Mac OS X, they had a "classic mode" to allow you to run older Mac OS 9 software on the new OS. Then they added Rosetta, which allowed Mac OS X software designed for PowerPC to run on Intel processors, all transparent to the user.
So yes, while Apple's attitude is "out with the old, in with the new", they still support the old but without trying to integrate it directly into the new. The best way to move forward is to look into the future, not the past. Watch how fast they'll drop FireWire once they introduce LightPeak.
You gain that new versions of programs and future ones will be written for the new OS, meaning that after a while you'll be able to ditch the old OS with much less trouble and complaints from your users.
As long as they don't infiltrate SGC, we're safe.
I always upgrade my Linux distro by sharpening the edge of the DVD-R it's burned on. That's how I stay on the cutting edge.
Yep. Their computers turn into zombies.
I'm Canadian. I thought USA homeland security only used yellow, orange and red.
Sunkist sales were down. Nobody was buying oranges anymore, and lemon sales were stagnating too.
Ok then, here's my public status indicator: #FFFFFF
That is all.
How about "Warning! Some bad shit may happen somewhere on planet Earth! Be careful!"
Moustaches are bad?
I messed up my reply, friend.
I'm not your buddy, guy.
And current copyrights are stealing us of your work. Your works are supposed to be protected for a limited amount of time and then go in the public domain.
For decades, the spirit of copyrights has been abused by corporations all over the world. So now people are abusing copyrights without any moral afterthought.
Wikipedia says iTunes has Apple Lossless since version 4.5, so I wouldn't call that "catching up" since that was six years ago.
Or are you saying that something in the iTunes Store is being sold in lossless?
The Movie Network and Netflix are USA-only?
The Universe is just breathing.
I wish they'd use bowling instead of baseball for the number of strikes.
"Hey dude! I scored 300 with my ISP! I'm going to the library!"
Flicking at 24 pages per second is not enough. Double that to 48 pages per second.
Damn Hollywood for holding on old standards.
I don't have any mod points right now, so I'm writing this to give you several million informative points.
In fact, your post should go in a "how to post on Slashdot" wiki page or something.
You're thinking about IDE drives, which could be set to either "master" or "slave".