*hint* I wasn't advocating Linux. I was advocating Mac OS X.
Another comment said it best. In some cases, making things easier on the user also makes it easier on Gator, Clarus, whoever else. In this case, the record company.
Auto-run is *not* something I want my computer to do, and Windows makes it too hard (that's hard, not easy) to disable it. If I want to run something on a CD, I'll open the CD and double click the "Run Me" program. (After the "read me" file, that is.)
It's not about "blaming" Microsoft - they didn't have the foresight to see autorun as a security risk, just as the creators of SMTP didn't see spoofing the From field (and spammers'/virus'ers other tricks) as a security risk. I don't know enough about e-mail protocols to recommend a better alternative, or if it's even possible to have a better one at this point. But I can recommend a better OS from experience - Mac OS X.
It should be the OS's responsibility to make sure that no program runs that the user does not intend to run. Furthermore, being 'root' all the time is a flat-out bad idea there are certain things that non-rooted programs absolutely don't need access to, ever. For example, installing programs.
Yeah, they actually are. Consider how long it takes to search through your hard drive in filenames. Consider this is what, a few thousand files, and you need only to look in the filename. Searches like that can still take anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes.
google is searching billions upon billions of webpages, and not just the filenames - the entire page. And it manages to get the most relevant results to you in well under a second. Do you think they would be able to acheive this if most (if not all) of the pages were stored on the hard drive? And remember that Google has approximately 100,000 servers, all likely loaded with 2 or 4 Gigs of RAM - which is more than enough to store anything they need to cache.
Don't forget the fact that GMail is *fast* - fast enough that I would almost consider ditching my normal mail program. almost. I do wish GMail offered IMAP.:D
How good the game is is, I apologize, *irrelevant*. I can't remember the last games story I saw on the main page, and they choose a MINOR PATCH THAT ONLY FIXES ONE ISSUE as one to go on the front page? WTF?
If it was 'Theif 3 breaks sales records', or 'Theif 3 introduces a revolutionary kind of AI', or anything to that effect, it'd be frontpage-worthy. but this is a fucking PATCH. The 2 recent Starcraft patches are more newsworthy than this ('Blizzard still cares about eight year old games' is news)
Close, but the quote I read wasn't quite the same.... I specifically remember the word "corpse" being used.... and I'm pretty sure is was a physical magazine.
I seriously doubt it. The wireless iPod (assuming it is going to exist soon) will control Airtunes via the AirPort Express, which is based on 802.11g and not Bluetooth of any sort.
What the industry needs is an independent board to regulate this stuff. Intel doesn't like Firewire so they codevelop USB.
First of all, we have such a body - it's called the IEEE. And I'm sure a number of other bodies I've never heard of as well.
As for Intel developing USB because it didn't like FW... I don't think that's accurate. Firewire and USB are good at different things (FW is better at sending video, for example, but would be less than ideal for a mouse or keyboard due to cost) and can+should happily coexist on your computer.
I'm all about having freedom but it would be nice if the industry said, "we like this standard - go ahead and develop that other crap but we will only endorse this".
I don't think you realize that's exactly what's happening. Bluetooth and Wifi have been accepted, and while the others may come, they'll likely be considered "extras". (Wifi and bluetooth, like USB and Firewire, are good at different things - power vs. range and bandwidth, in this case)
This story reminds me of an interview I read in, I think, Wired about the making of Shrek. They made the princess as realistic as possible, but it was looking like an animated corpse. They said something along the lines of "until we have the ability to cross the last 1% of realism, we need to step back a bit".
I'm on OS 10.3.4, and I downloaded and launched the Firefox dmg. It ran... and crashed instantly.... and restarted. Into a neverending cycle of crash, restart, crash, restart.
Just a heads-up to anyone trying this out. I couldn't kill it because I couldn't find the process. Ultimately, the solution was:
sudo umount -f Volumes/firefox/
in the Terminal. Type in your password, and the disk image will poof.
It won't be another year.... Moore's law won't allow it.:P IBM has fallen behind Moore this year with supply shortages and such, I expect them to hit 3GHz by Macworld in January
It's a common misconception that Apple *needed* the elaborate cooling mechanism they designed for the G5. They didn't design it to keep the chips cool, they designed it to keep the chips cool quietly. The G5, I'm told, actually runs cooler than the high-end P4 chips. It runs hotter than the G4 for sure, but it's not like there's a miniature fusion reactor in your tower or anything.
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*hint* I wasn't advocating Linux. I was advocating Mac OS X.
Another comment said it best. In some cases, making things easier on the user also makes it easier on Gator, Clarus, whoever else. In this case, the record company.
Auto-run is *not* something I want my computer to do, and Windows makes it too hard (that's hard, not easy) to disable it. If I want to run something on a CD, I'll open the CD and double click the "Run Me" program. (After the "read me" file, that is.)
It's not about "blaming" Microsoft - they didn't have the foresight to see autorun as a security risk, just as the creators of SMTP didn't see spoofing the From field (and spammers'/virus'ers other tricks) as a security risk. I don't know enough about e-mail protocols to recommend a better alternative, or if it's even possible to have a better one at this point. But I can recommend a better OS from experience - Mac OS X.
Word has it that some OS's provide this feature in the form of not having autorun.
Maybe that's jsut a rumor.
It should be the OS's responsibility to make sure that no program runs that the user does not intend to run. Furthermore, being 'root' all the time is a flat-out bad idea there are certain things that non-rooted programs absolutely don't need access to, ever. For example, installing programs.
Yeah, they actually are. Consider how long it takes to search through your hard drive in filenames. Consider this is what, a few thousand files, and you need only to look in the filename. Searches like that can still take anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes.
google is searching billions upon billions of webpages, and not just the filenames - the entire page. And it manages to get the most relevant results to you in well under a second. Do you think they would be able to acheive this if most (if not all) of the pages were stored on the hard drive? And remember that Google has approximately 100,000 servers, all likely loaded with 2 or 4 Gigs of RAM - which is more than enough to store anything they need to cache.
I'm a member of Spymac, but the mail server is down more than your mother! OHHH! :-p
:(
They don't have IMAP yet, either
Not on OS X.
A Perl script to do something like this would be ideal.
Don't forget the fact that GMail is *fast* - fast enough that I would almost consider ditching my normal mail program. almost. :D
I do wish GMail offered IMAP.
How good the game is is, I apologize, *irrelevant*. I can't remember the last games story I saw on the main page, and they choose a MINOR PATCH THAT ONLY FIXES ONE ISSUE as one to go on the front page? WTF?
If it was 'Theif 3 breaks sales records', or 'Theif 3 introduces a revolutionary kind of AI', or anything to that effect, it'd be frontpage-worthy. but this is a fucking PATCH. The 2 recent Starcraft patches are more newsworthy than this ('Blizzard still cares about eight year old games' is news)
Four minutes, twenty three seconds.
Now where's my screwdriver?
Because a fingerprint-reading touch screen is too expensive.
USB gives combination decent speed + backward compatibility. A lot of PC's still don't have Firewire ports, unfortunately.
Hey what happens if you attach a device compatible with both Firewire and USB2 to both ports on your PC?
Depends on the drive, it'll either (1) ignore the second plug, or (2), mount twice, I'm guessing.
Close, but the quote I read wasn't quite the same.... I specifically remember the word "corpse" being used.... and I'm pretty sure is was a physical magazine.
Meh.
Look for something called "Sailing Clicker", I'm pretty sure that's what you're thinking of.
Why not take this a step further? Get rid of the keys entirely, and just have a Bluetooth device open your car/house door directly.
That would be one hell of a killer app.
I seriously doubt it. The wireless iPod (assuming it is going to exist soon) will control Airtunes via the AirPort Express, which is based on 802.11g and not Bluetooth of any sort.
Maybe in a few years, but not this generation.
What the industry needs is an independent board to regulate this stuff. Intel doesn't like Firewire so they codevelop USB.
First of all, we have such a body - it's called the IEEE. And I'm sure a number of other bodies I've never heard of as well.
As for Intel developing USB because it didn't like FW... I don't think that's accurate. Firewire and USB are good at different things (FW is better at sending video, for example, but would be less than ideal for a mouse or keyboard due to cost) and can+should happily coexist on your computer.
I'm all about having freedom but it would be nice if the industry said, "we like this standard - go ahead and develop that other crap but we will only endorse this".
I don't think you realize that's exactly what's happening. Bluetooth and Wifi have been accepted, and while the others may come, they'll likely be considered "extras". (Wifi and bluetooth, like USB and Firewire, are good at different things - power vs. range and bandwidth, in this case)
Many third-party Apple vendors sell older models. I know of a few websites you can get them - ebay and smalldog come to mind.
This story reminds me of an interview I read in, I think, Wired about the making of Shrek. They made the princess as realistic as possible, but it was looking like an animated corpse. They said something along the lines of "until we have the ability to cross the last 1% of realism, we need to step back a bit".
Or something.
The only people who have Bluetooth headsets are too-rich uber geeks, so I'd say they *definitely* screwed up.
OK, so it has wireless, but it still has less space than a Nomad, so is this one lame too?
You could put Bubb Rubb over it.
Just a heads-up to anyone trying this out. I couldn't kill it because I couldn't find the process. Ultimately, the solution was:in the Terminal. Type in your password, and the disk image will poof.
It won't be another year.... Moore's law won't allow it. :P
IBM has fallen behind Moore this year with supply shortages and such, I expect them to hit 3GHz by Macworld in January
It's just to keep it quiet.
It's a common misconception that Apple *needed* the elaborate cooling mechanism they designed for the G5. They didn't design it to keep the chips cool, they designed it to keep the chips cool quietly. The G5, I'm told, actually runs cooler than the high-end P4 chips. It runs hotter than the G4 for sure, but it's not like there's a miniature fusion reactor in your tower or anything.
No, you're most likely to wind up with large porn collections.