Don't forget, student pricing is available via the online Apple Store for education. The $1100 base iBook is $1000, for example, and there's also an edu-only $950 model.
No way for anonymous users to check on the status of their ticket- you've got to grant them rights, or give guest rights to -everyone- to see -everyone's- tickets(and that leads to why-is-my-request/why-is-their-request crap)
There's a SelfService interface that users without privs get. It's in version 2. You do need to get a password to the user, but there are solutions for that. I suspect this is better in rt3...we haven't needed to upgrade yet.
I have yet to see any web browser with a usable TEXTAREA text editor for non-trivial messages (limited viewing area, no spell checking, no word wrapping, cumbersome copying/pasting).
Try OmniWeb. Spell checking, a "zoom" box to blow the TEXTAREA up into its own window, and it accepts Emacs control keys.
I had another backwards markup deal at Circuit City a while back. Bought a new DirecTiVo to replace an older Sony receiver...it was $399.99, or $400 with a $50 gift card if you bought a "system" which included the $0.01 single LNB dish.
So I hauled home a dish I didn't need, and spent the $50 on DVDs later that week.:-)
I kind of like the Verisign redirect. I sometimes mistype URLs and the Verisign page usually has a link to the page I was looking for.
So let them ship a browser plug-in that does the same job for you (and anyone else who actually wants it), but doesn't screw up everyone else in the world.
(Opt-in vs. opt-out... hmm... what other scourges of the Internet prefer the latter?)
Who finds it a little strange that a science and history museum is having an exhibition dedicated to a work of fiction ?
It's not the first time they've done something like this...they did a James Bond exhibition earlier.
Y'see, many of the museums in the UK no longer charge admission for regular exhibits (though many have donation boxes at the entrances)...special exhibits like this are a way to both get more people to visit and to make some extra money.
Can I post one of the FUD emails? No. (Besides, it was full of HTML.) But I can point you at this Computerworld story on Sun's attempt to "drop the FUD bomb" as George Clinton might put it.
A quote from the Wall Street Journal ad, as noted in a Linuxworld story: "Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX."
Anti-AIX propaganda? They were sending out FUD emails to (among other people) a friend of mine saying "hey, we'll help you switch from AIX to Solaris, since we don't have any licensing problems"....
There had been a number of previous foam strikes, many of them involving this same piece of foam (the left bipod ramp), and all of those shuttles had landed okay, so management believed that this foam strike was similarly okay just because they had gotten away with it so far.
Yeah, sounds familiar. "We've had O-ring erosion due to low temperatures before, but it's never caused a real problem, so we can launch." IOW, they learned nothing from Challenger.
To my surprise, I just discovered that your company filed legal action
against The SCO Group earlier today. You, of course, mentioned nothing
of this during our telephone conversation. I am disappointed that you
were not more forthcoming about your intentions. I am also disappointed
that you have chosen litigation rather than good faith discussions with
SCO about the problems inherent in Linux.
So, they're disappointed that other people are choosing litigation, which is exactly what they did. No surprise to me, though; I'm surprised that SCO is surprised.
They're stating that not only has the FTC been distributing their intellectual property over P2P networks, but that it was also illegally incorporated into Linux.
(What? This is a different lawsuit? I thought Slashdot only covered the RIAA and SCO!)
If you ever fly into or out of Oklahoma City, try not to dwell on the fact that the Will Rogers World Airport (an ironic name in and of itself - how many international flights go through there?) is named for a man that died in a plane crash.
There are many airports named after dead politicians, but only Manila's Aquino International is named after one who was assassinated on the premises.
I was more intrigued by the "1.8 GHZ per second" claim.
Kind of like the radio ad I heard a few weeks ago talking about a "3.2 million megapixel" digital camera. I'm like "wow, what kind of CCD did they put in that?"
From what I've seen on PBS, and other magazine shows, the Human Genome Project people are misrepresenting what they've accomplished (I'm not taking anything away from them, it's truly amainzing). They keep talking about the medical marvels that are now possible and how we understand everything about humans without mentioning the titan effort it will take to understand the translation and interaction.
Or, perhaps, it makes really bad TV to have people saying "yeah, we just spent all that money to sequence it, but we still have no freaking idea what most of it does."
(That is, incidentally, why sequencing centers have been doing other organisms, like the mouse genome, and even, ta da, the chimp...comparative genomics makes it much easier to figure these things out.)
One of the mid-90s Macs (for some reason I think Classic or Classic II) had a copy of System 5 in ROM for last-resort troubleshooting.
Classic. System 6.0.8 IIRC (6.something in any case). Hold Cmd-Opt-X-O to boot from it. It even had the Chooser and an AppleShare file, so you could boot from it and run software off a server--totally diskless....
does this mean Adobe are going to start favouring Windows in terms of releases and support?
What do you mean "start", kemo sabe? Look at the Acrobat 5 release and the way that certain features weren't available on the Mac version. Look at Acrobat Reader for Palm OS--the conduit launches Classic under Mac OS X, and wasn't available for Mac at all until v2.0.
At least InDesign is ahead of QuarkXpress in terms of OS X support--not that that's a real difficult thing to manage....
[...] made a payment of somewhat more than you owed. The "banking" computer player would then become a debtor and would continue to make interest payments to you (officially, you were making negative payments to him). Since there was no logic for him to ever pay the loan off, it was a grand way of getting a healthy balance.
There was a similar bug in Taipan for the Apple ][ -- overpay Elder Brother Wu, the loanshark, and all of a sudden his horrible loan interest rate works in your favor. You could easily get a "debt" into exponential notation, especially if you continued to "repay" him (which it would let you, since the debt was not equal to 0)....
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Don't forget, student pricing is available via the online Apple Store for education. The $1100 base iBook is $1000, for example, and there's also an edu-only $950 model.
That's nothing. The original Green Card Lawyers spammers talked about suing people for "liable". No kidding.
There's a SelfService interface that users without privs get. It's in version 2. You do need to get a password to the user, but there are solutions for that. I suspect this is better in rt3...we haven't needed to upgrade yet.
Try OmniWeb. Spell checking, a "zoom" box to blow the TEXTAREA up into its own window, and it accepts Emacs control keys.
Of course, you'll have to run Mac OS X.
I had another backwards markup deal at Circuit City a while back. Bought a new DirecTiVo to replace an older Sony receiver...it was $399.99, or $400 with a $50 gift card if you bought a "system" which included the $0.01 single LNB dish.
:-)
So I hauled home a dish I didn't need, and spent the $50 on DVDs later that week.
Only if we also get -1, Ronzelle to go with it.
So let them ship a browser plug-in that does the same job for you (and anyone else who actually wants it), but doesn't screw up everyone else in the world.
(Opt-in vs. opt-out... hmm... what other scourges of the Internet prefer the latter?)
It's not the first time they've done something like this...they did a James Bond exhibition earlier.
Y'see, many of the museums in the UK no longer charge admission for regular exhibits (though many have donation boxes at the entrances)...special exhibits like this are a way to both get more people to visit and to make some extra money.
Can I post one of the FUD emails? No. (Besides, it was full of HTML.) But I can point you at this Computerworld story on Sun's attempt to "drop the FUD bomb" as George Clinton might put it.
A quote from the Wall Street Journal ad, as noted in a Linuxworld story: "Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX."
Ah! Found the original ad on Sun's own web site! (PDF format)
Anti-AIX propaganda? They were sending out FUD emails to (among other people) a friend of mine saying "hey, we'll help you switch from AIX to Solaris, since we don't have any licensing problems"....
Use the Slashdot moderation categories. Interesting or Funny bosses get kept; Overrated or Troll bosses get fired.
Yeah, sounds familiar. "We've had O-ring erosion due to low temperatures before, but it's never caused a real problem, so we can launch." IOW, they learned nothing from Challenger.
Not really, because I'm an XEmacs user and therefore feel marginalized.
So, they're disappointed that other people are choosing litigation, which is exactly what they did. No surprise to me, though; I'm surprised that SCO is surprised.
They're stating that not only has the FTC been distributing their intellectual property over P2P networks, but that it was also illegally incorporated into Linux.
(What? This is a different lawsuit? I thought Slashdot only covered the RIAA and SCO!)
There are many airports named after dead politicians, but only Manila's Aquino International is named after one who was assassinated on the premises.
Kind of like the radio ad I heard a few weeks ago talking about a "3.2 million megapixel" digital camera. I'm like "wow, what kind of CCD did they put in that?"
Or, perhaps, it makes really bad TV to have people saying "yeah, we just spent all that money to sequence it, but we still have no freaking idea what most of it does."
(That is, incidentally, why sequencing centers have been doing other organisms, like the mouse genome, and even, ta da, the chimp...comparative genomics makes it much easier to figure these things out.)
Yeah, since it's not blatantly freaking obvious by the 10th time you get pulled aside for an extra search.
Doesn't anyone remember this paper on how to defeat profile and name based screening?
That's funny, the BBC disagrees.
Classic. System 6.0.8 IIRC (6.something in any case). Hold Cmd-Opt-X-O to boot from it. It even had the Chooser and an AppleShare file, so you could boot from it and run software off a server--totally diskless....
Not available on Region 1 DVD, and to add insult to injury, being remade with Mark Wahlberg and set in LA....
What do you mean "start", kemo sabe? Look at the Acrobat 5 release and the way that certain features weren't available on the Mac version. Look at Acrobat Reader for Palm OS--the conduit launches Classic under Mac OS X, and wasn't available for Mac at all until v2.0.
At least InDesign is ahead of QuarkXpress in terms of OS X support--not that that's a real difficult thing to manage....
Launch Classic. Run the Classic QuickTime control panel. Uncheck the autoplay boxes.