I switched from Windows on PC to Linux on PC and then to a Mac. I do think that Panther is the best Desktop OS now and it will only be surpassed by Tiger.
Having said that, Macs are still computers and are vulnerable to the same faults as PCs. My Mac has hard crashed 3 times since I got it (about a year and 3 months ago) and Safari probably crashes about 5 times a month, maybe less. My point is, is that while I do think that Macs are much better than all of the competition out there, Macs are still computers and they're not perfect. It's embarrassing to hear Mac heads go on as if Macs are .
Dude, if you work in a helpdesk for ANY product, you're only going to hear from people dissatisfied with the product. People only ring up helpdesk when there's a problem.
I'm sure people working on helpdesk for Solaris, Mac OS X etc. only get calls from people who are having problems too.
It's retardedly easy to create standards compliant HTML. Why is it that hard for MSN to create a page with a pretty simple layout that renders well in all browsers and is standards compliant? It seems that web design is full of charlatans...
AFAIK, the G5 generates less heat than the P4 so Apple could put out a G5 laptop tomorrow if they wanted but would mean a hotter, louder and bigger laptop which is not Apple's game.
The dual G4 processors would be really nice in the Mac mini, eMac and PB lines.
My iBook's running with a 933MHz G4 and it's hunky dory except for video encoding (which it really isn't made for).
Isn't the BBC great??! This show explains complex new technology in simple, easy to grasp language without dumbing it down. It's refreshing to witness good computer journalism since there's such a lack of it. I'll definitely put this in my bookmarks.
The Bill Gates interview wasn't great. Gates just ducked and dived out of every question and promoted his company all the while. I suppose, what would you expect him to say, "Yeah, you're right. MS does have a really bad history with security and Longhorn is constantly being delayed. We're a crap company, sorry!"?
The Blue Ray vs. HD-DVD section was much more interesting. It seems like Blue Ray is the better technology but with HD-DVD having a years head start and being much cheaper to produce, it looks like HD-DVD has the upper hand. Only time'll tell I suppose...
I think you and most of the people in these comments are missing the whole point of what Linguists do. They study language. Language is what people speak/write, not what they should speak/write.
I'm studying Computational Linguistics and when I'm doing a project that needs some kind of corpus, I usually scan a few thousands words of English from Google searches and put them into a corpus.
Computational Linguists want to write/use programs that can somehow interact with natural human language. What's the point in training said program on "unnatural" language (language that is ought to be spoken but only makes up a fraction of actual written/spoken language)? It probably won't be able to interact as efficiently with natural language as a program that's trained on raw language sources.
Does Finder in Tiger still have column view? When I was watching Jobs show off Spotlight in the Expo video, there seemed to be only 3 view options: Icon View, List View and Spotlight View.
Please say it ain't so. I LOVE column view and it'd really suck for it to go away.
I would have thought that it'd be the in the best interests of the porno industry to invest in digital video technology.
Think about it, if these sites could offer movie downloads of the same quality but at a tenth of the size, think of the money they'd save in saved bandwidth!
Maybe I think too highly of porn mongers but have they not heard of the saying: "You have to spend money to make money"?
Not because I think that MS must die or anything. I just think that it's better to have different computers with different OSes floating about. It'd mean that companies would have to make their products more standards compliant and open so that they can inter-operate with different systems which is always a good thing IMO.
Plus, the cheap, headless Mac would be unbelievably popular. Slashdot geeks have been screaming out for this for years. Also, all those "I'd switch but Macs are too expensive" people won't have anymore excuses:) Apple could only win with this.
Dude, come on, don't be naive. Lawyers know lots about the legal system and lay people don't. You might think you're doing something perfectly legal when you're not, likewise, you might think that these lawyers are doing something really shoddy when they're actually perfectly in their rights. You're better off staying on the safe side with shit like this.
My advice would be to never talk to the Apple lawyers. Get yourself a lawyer and get them to contact Apple's lawyers and never and any circumstances, talk about the case to anybody but close family members and your own lawyers.
This is a pretty useless technology. Google would be much better off if they focused on a better way of searching.
I mean, instead of searching for the occurrence of certain words, they should work on some kind of semantic search by which the semantic content of something is searched instead of its syntactic content.
I'm not saying that the rather amateur torture exploits of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib compare to the professional job done by Hussein...
Actually, the torture at Abu Gharaib showed a tremendous amount of incite into the culture in that area. I'd be very surprised if the torturers weren't told/ordered to torture these people in the way that they did.
That's why I like it! You have this great OS and then this really fun interface! I mean, just 'cause something's good, it doesn't have to be serious. Mac OS X is perfect in that respect. It's cool from every perspective.
I'm just wondering, is there much of a point running Linux on your Mac? I mean, it'd be much better to run Opendarwin with either Darwinports or Fink on top of it. From there you can install KDE or GNOME plus lots of other stuff.
Opendarwin would have much better hardware support than Linux on Macs. Has anybody done this? What's the install like? Is there any way to upgrade to new Opendarwin releases?
this is why god invented partitioning schemes. i have a 3GB partition for / and the rest of my HD goes under/home so when i switch distros or do reinstalls i don't need to backup.
I've been using debian with KDE for nearly 2 years on my PC at home but GNOME seems to be getting really cool. I really like the automount thingy they have and the interface seems simpler which is great since that my main machine now is an iBook.
I think when I get home (in about a year), I'll give ubuntu a spin.
Why are people acting so surprised and saying "Oh wow! Bush lied to us!". It was so fucking obvious that they were lying through their teeth when they were saying that Sadam was a threat to the US.
Did any of the opposition actually believe Bush or Blair?
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I hate this talk.
I switched from Windows on PC to Linux on PC and then to a Mac. I do think that Panther is the best Desktop OS now and it will only be surpassed by Tiger.
Having said that, Macs are still computers and are vulnerable to the same faults as PCs. My Mac has hard crashed 3 times since I got it (about a year and 3 months ago) and Safari probably crashes about 5 times a month, maybe less. My point is, is that while I do think that Macs are much better than all of the competition out there, Macs are still computers and they're not perfect. It's embarrassing to hear Mac heads go on as if Macs are .
Dude, if you work in a helpdesk for ANY product, you're only going to hear from people dissatisfied with the product. People only ring up helpdesk when there's a problem.
I'm sure people working on helpdesk for Solaris, Mac OS X etc. only get calls from people who are having problems too.
It's retardedly easy to create standards compliant HTML. Why is it that hard for MSN to create a page with a pretty simple layout that renders well in all browsers and is standards compliant? It seems that web design is full of charlatans...
Yeah, what if the MS employees only use iTunes and their iPod to use and sort their MP3s? I don't have an iPod but I only have MP3s in iTunes.
How is that ironic?
Amen to that!
AFAIK, the G5 generates less heat than the P4 so Apple could put out a G5 laptop tomorrow if they wanted but would mean a hotter, louder and bigger laptop which is not Apple's game.
The dual G4 processors would be really nice in the Mac mini, eMac and PB lines.
My iBook's running with a 933MHz G4 and it's hunky dory except for video encoding (which it really isn't made for).
They release their documents in OpenOffice, PDF and .doc format.
Ugh, because some people want to use 2+ button mice with Macs?
Either you're a retard or you're one of those Mac bashers that give the lamest excuses for hating Macs. Either way, you're a retard.
Isn't the BBC great??! This show explains complex new technology in simple, easy to grasp language without dumbing it down. It's refreshing to witness good computer journalism since there's such a lack of it. I'll definitely put this in my bookmarks.
The Bill Gates interview wasn't great. Gates just ducked and dived out of every question and promoted his company all the while. I suppose, what would you expect him to say, "Yeah, you're right. MS does have a really bad history with security and Longhorn is constantly being delayed. We're a crap company, sorry!"?
The Blue Ray vs. HD-DVD section was much more interesting. It seems like Blue Ray is the better technology but with HD-DVD having a years head start and being much cheaper to produce, it looks like HD-DVD has the upper hand. Only time'll tell I suppose...
I think you and most of the people in these comments are missing the whole point of what Linguists do. They study language. Language is what people speak/write, not what they should speak/write.
I'm studying Computational Linguistics and when I'm doing a project that needs some kind of corpus, I usually scan a few thousands words of English from Google searches and put them into a corpus.
Computational Linguists want to write/use programs that can somehow interact with natural human language. What's the point in training said program on "unnatural" language (language that is ought to be spoken but only makes up a fraction of actual written/spoken language)? It probably won't be able to interact as efficiently with natural language as a program that's trained on raw language sources.
Does Finder in Tiger still have column view? When I was watching Jobs show off Spotlight in the Expo video, there seemed to be only 3 view options: Icon View, List View and Spotlight View.
Please say it ain't so. I LOVE column view and it'd really suck for it to go away.
When I got my laptop, I installed 10.3.0 on it. Now I've got 10.3.7 on it. So much for not being able to upgrade...
I would have thought that it'd be the in the best interests of the porno industry to invest in digital video technology.
Think about it, if these sites could offer movie downloads of the same quality but at a tenth of the size, think of the money they'd save in saved bandwidth!
Maybe I think too highly of porn mongers but have they not heard of the saying: "You have to spend money to make money"?
Not because I think that MS must die or anything. I just think that it's better to have different computers with different OSes floating about. It'd mean that companies would have to make their products more standards compliant and open so that they can inter-operate with different systems which is always a good thing IMO.
:) Apple could only win with this.
Plus, the cheap, headless Mac would be unbelievably popular. Slashdot geeks have been screaming out for this for years. Also, all those "I'd switch but Macs are too expensive" people won't have anymore excuses
Dude, come on, don't be naive. Lawyers know lots about the legal system and lay people don't. You might think you're doing something perfectly legal when you're not, likewise, you might think that these lawyers are doing something really shoddy when they're actually perfectly in their rights. You're better off staying on the safe side with shit like this.
My advice would be to never talk to the Apple lawyers. Get yourself a lawyer and get them to contact Apple's lawyers and never and any circumstances, talk about the case to anybody but close family members and your own lawyers.
This is a pretty useless technology. Google would be much better off if they focused on a better way of searching.
I mean, instead of searching for the occurrence of certain words, they should work on some kind of semantic search by which the semantic content of something is searched instead of its syntactic content.
I'm not saying that the rather amateur torture exploits of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib compare to the professional job done by Hussein...
Actually, the torture at Abu Gharaib showed a tremendous amount of incite into the culture in that area. I'd be very surprised if the torturers weren't told/ordered to torture these people in the way that they did.
That's why I like it! You have this great OS and then this really fun interface! I mean, just 'cause something's good, it doesn't have to be serious. Mac OS X is perfect in that respect. It's cool from every perspective.
Why? It seems to me that Mac OS X is really really similar in looks to Rhapsody except for some improvements and Aqua looks way nicer.
I'm just wondering, is there much of a point running Linux on your Mac? I mean, it'd be much better to run Opendarwin with either Darwinports or Fink on top of it. From there you can install KDE or GNOME plus lots of other stuff.
Opendarwin would have much better hardware support than Linux on Macs. Has anybody done this? What's the install like? Is there any way to upgrade to new Opendarwin releases?
Well, I presume that you can only search files that you've got read access to.
this is why god invented partitioning schemes. i have a 3GB partition for / and the rest of my HD goes under /home so when i switch distros or do reinstalls i don't need to backup.
Sure even Slashdot and OSNews blindly posted this on their sites without a "we think this might be bullshit" sticker on it.
I've been using debian with KDE for nearly 2 years on my PC at home but GNOME seems to be getting really cool. I really like the automount thingy they have and the interface seems simpler which is great since that my main machine now is an iBook.
I think when I get home (in about a year), I'll give ubuntu a spin.
Why are people acting so surprised and saying "Oh wow! Bush lied to us!". It was so fucking obvious that they were lying through their teeth when they were saying that Sadam was a threat to the US.
Did any of the opposition actually believe Bush or Blair?