OS X growth has been very strong recently -- I may be calling you soon.;-) That wasn't my point, though. My point was that you said there are no other OSes out there besides Windows, and that's not true at all.
I have a Macbook, and I don't remember having to go thru that when I replaced my hard drive. You remove the battery, undo three or four screws (IIRC), remove a metal cover, and pull the old hard drive out. Put the new hard drive in and reverse the procedure. Done. It took me less than ten minutes. I may be overlooking a few screws -- it's been a while -- but I definitely did not have to disassemble any portion of the case or deal with any ribbon cables.
You may be thinking of the older laptops. Hard drive replacement on those *was* a major league nightmare.
That's what I was thinking, especially since I did the same thing on my own MacBook a few months ago. That having been said, however, on Thinkpads, it's even easier -- the drive slides out of an externally-accessible bay, all you have to do is remove one screw and then you can replace it the same way you'd replace a PC card.
Actually, they already do have plans in place for that. If Alpha (for example) ever needs to be retired, they'll simply skip it the next time they get to the Greek letters, and the next storm after the W name will be Beta.
I don't think it's anything to be terribly concerned about in any event. Getting to the Greek letters at all is obviously quite rare, and that being the case, it's even less likely that a Greek letter will ever have to be retired.
That's not why there are only 21 named storms, though. They skip certain letters of the alphabet, such as Q, X, Y, and Z because there aren't really enough names beginning with those letters to be able to fill out the six lists that they use on a rotating basis.
Unfortunately, not all Macs today support USB booting. I have a 12" G4 1.0 GHz PowerBook running 10.3.9, and it doesn't boot from external USB devices. (It does boot from external FireWire devices.)
On Mac OS X you don't need to use an unmount procedure, you can just remove the USB drive like a floppy.
I'm using 10.3.9, and if I remove my USB drive without ejecting it in the Finder, OS X gives me a warning message that's very similar to the one you get from Windows when you do the same thing.
...how would it behave? Is liquid methane more viscous than water or less? What kind of splash/waves would you get compared to a regular water lake if, for example, you threw a rock into a liquid methane lake? Does Titan have tides, and if so, would they be strong enough to create the lake shore lapping effect we see with lakes here? Titan's gravity is a lot lower than Earth's, of course, so that would affect the methane's behavior, too... what would the differences be between the behavior of a methane lake on Titan and one here on Earth, assuming that, say, a lab were to create the proper conditions to allow a methane lake to exist stably on Earth?
Not to mention which, there are a lot of other factors that contribute far more to this type of thing than hypothetical lunar construction would, such as the fact that the Earth gains about fifty thousand tons of mass every day from asteroids and other junk hitting it. Presumably the Moon also gains mass regularly the same way.
This applies to the prequels as well, but much more so to the original trilogy. Often, in light of all the action and special effects and so on, people overlook some of the more subtle symbolism that's present in Star Wars. One of the big areas that does this for me is the way light and color are used. Some examples:
In ANH, Obi-Wan is telling Luke about "the old days". At one point, he says, "Oh, yes... I was once a Jedi, like your father." He then leans back, revealing a brightly lit window -- very symbolic.
Han Solo's garb. His shirt is white, the vest he wears over it is black, just like his personality: on the outside, he appears to be a real creep, but on the inside, he does have noble qualities.
Colors in general: Darth Vader and the Imperial officers all wear either black or muted shades of gray; Leia and the rebels wear white or lighter colors. (Although Lucas did mess this up by dressing the storm troopers in white.)
One of my favorites: throughout ROTJ, Luke, formerly dressed all in white, is now dressed entirely in black, symbolic of his upcoming temptation to turn to the dark side. He stays dressed entirely in black, until he fully and openly refuses to turn to the dark side. Shortly after he does this and the emperor starts frying him, a small light-gray panel opens on the front of his tunic, symbolizing his choice to stay with the good side. This panel stays open for the remainder of the film.
Good filmmaking elements that are very subtle and often overlooked, as I said, in all of the "sound and fury".
The movie is not rated "G", at least not in most jurisdictions. According to the IMDB, it's rated PG (or the equivalent of a PG) everywhere except certain parts of Canada.
Yes, it was original to the game. One of the Millers (I can't remember which one) composed all of it. There's a bit about it in the QuickTime movie that was included with the original "Myst" CD. Originally, they weren't going to include any music at all because they were afraid "it would make the game sound too much like Super Mario Brothers", but when they finally tried one or two tracks, they realized it worked really well.
I've been a huge pinball fan for many years but hardly play anymore because it's become so difficult to find machines. There are still places here in the DC area that have them, but you often have to go out of your way (then deal with the depression of seeing one forlorn pin off in the corner in the midst of swarms of video games). Also, you often find that the machines aren't being properly maintained (as others have commented). It's a real shame. Once, just a couple of weeks ago, I even had to walk away from a machine because all the balls were captured, then didn't release for the multiball, and I couldn't find anyone in the arcade to help.
There have been a lot of great games over the years... two of my favorites were Scared Stiff and Demolition Man. Terminator 2 was a real turkey, though.
I dream of the day when I can buy one or two machines for my own home and maintain them myself. No more hunting for machines, no more having to deal with lousy maintenance, and no more fretting about what I'll do if and when Stern closes up shop, since it's unlikely they'd ever be replaced. Pinball, I think, is going the way of the nickelodeon... it's been on its way out for many years, and I don't see the trend reversing. The best we can probably hope for is that the trend will bottom out and stop, but I don't see pinball ever becoming popular again.
Battlestar Galactica was a large carrier ship from the first war, as was in the process of a decommisioning celebration when the attack happend. It was the only one that survived as it had resisting having any new computer components especially any networks installed on it, as was the protocol in the first war.
This isn't entirely certain, btw. There were 120 battlestars, and only thirty of them were confirmed destroyed in the war. It's possible that some of the others may have escaped destruction somehow. For example, a few may have been in deep space when the attack happened, heard the reports that the Cylons were somehow "deactivating" all the craft that they encountered, and stayed away from the colonies to avoid destruction. Mostly speculation, of course, but it's not farfetched speculation.
Has anyone tried using a 1 button mouse in windows?
I have, and it's essentially identical to using a one button mouse in OS X; you just ctrl-click to do the same thing as the right button on a two button mouse. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's done this, either.
In fact, I found that the mouse I was using (an Apple USB mouse) actually felt more natural in Windows than it did in OS X, in spite of all the tweaking I've done in OS X to try to get it to feel normal to me.
I've worked as a tech for a number of different companies in quite a few different locations, and I don't remember ever seeing anyone get confused by having two buttons. I have seen a lot of people who can't learn how to use the second button, but those people just avoid the second button. They're not "confused" at all -- they're just sticking to what they know and understand.
Is my experience unusual? Have others actually known users who can't use a two-button mouse? And if so, how the hell do they use their computers? Or do they use computers?
I don't receive much spam since I've been pretty careful about keeping any of my addies from getting "out into the wild". I typically get about twenty or thirty per day total on all four accounts that I use. I filter it all to the junk mail folder, then I scan over everything in the folder to make sure it's all spam, then I run a script that reports it all thru SpamCop automatically. I'm glad to hear that it does make a difference -- I've occasionally considered stopping, but now that I know better, i won't. Thanks for your help.
I know this is only tangentially related, but as long as we're on the subject of spam, does reporting your spam thru SpamCop do any good? I've been doing that for a while (I have a script that handles it mostly automatically), and while I do get a sense of satisfaction from filing the complaints, I also wonder whether it actually helps.
It's not related to domains, but this is my favorite "Simpsons" Internet exchange, from when Homer is trying to do his own dot-com startup:
Homer: Welcome to the Internet, friend! How may I help you?
Comic Book Guy: I am interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobit dialup connection to a 1.4 megabit T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
Homer (pauses and blinks several times):...Can I have some money now?
Very few people, employers or otherwise, care about where you got your degree. All they care about is that you have it. There are times when an MIT or Harvard degree will carry more weight, but they're the exception, not the rule.
Doubt it? Try this little experiment. Your post implies that you're somewhere in your teens, which probably means that you've had at least a few different doctors (pediatrician, dentist, and GP, at the least). Do you know where any of them got their degrees? Do you care? Probably not... all you care about is that they did get an education. And these are the people whom you entrust with your health, your well-being, and potentially even your life. For most of the rest of society, it's the same way.
Then again - have you seen a spam recently that wasn't fraudulent in some way?
I do see non-fraudulent spam on very rare occasions. I doubt if it's even as much as one out of every thousand spams that I receive, but it does happen.
Spammers don't get a fixed prison sentence. Instead, you put them in a prison cell that has an electronic lock with a keypad inside the cell. The combination is, say, twelve digits long, so there's no way in hell the prisoner can ever guess it.
Now you give the spammer a dumb terminal with shell access and an email account (incoming only) and no spam filtering. You send him the same amount of spam each day that he was sending out, except that one of the incoming emails will have the combination to the door. He has to find it himself. Until he can, he's stuck in the cell.
Poetic justice. Just as we regular users have to go to all this trouble with spam filtering and everything else, he'll have to go crazy looking for the combination that will allow him to regain his freedom.
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OS X growth has been very strong recently -- I may be calling you soon. ;-) That wasn't my point, though. My point was that you said there are no other OSes out there besides Windows, and that's not true at all.
How many other desktop OS' are in use besides Windows? Zero. Zilch.
Uhh... What? Haven't you ever heard of OS X? You know, the desktop OS that, according to Computerworld, just passed an eight percent market share?
I have a Macbook, and I don't remember having to go thru that when I replaced my hard drive. You remove the battery, undo three or four screws (IIRC), remove a metal cover, and pull the old hard drive out. Put the new hard drive in and reverse the procedure. Done. It took me less than ten minutes. I may be overlooking a few screws -- it's been a while -- but I definitely did not have to disassemble any portion of the case or deal with any ribbon cables. You may be thinking of the older laptops. Hard drive replacement on those *was* a major league nightmare.
That's what I was thinking, especially since I did the same thing on my own MacBook a few months ago. That having been said, however, on Thinkpads, it's even easier -- the drive slides out of an externally-accessible bay, all you have to do is remove one screw and then you can replace it the same way you'd replace a PC card.
Actually, they already do have plans in place for that. If Alpha (for example) ever needs to be retired, they'll simply skip it the next time they get to the Greek letters, and the next storm after the W name will be Beta. I don't think it's anything to be terribly concerned about in any event. Getting to the Greek letters at all is obviously quite rare, and that being the case, it's even less likely that a Greek letter will ever have to be retired.
That's not why there are only 21 named storms, though. They skip certain letters of the alphabet, such as Q, X, Y, and Z because there aren't really enough names beginning with those letters to be able to fill out the six lists that they use on a rotating basis.
Unfortunately, not all Macs today support USB booting. I have a 12" G4 1.0 GHz PowerBook running 10.3.9, and it doesn't boot from external USB devices. (It does boot from external FireWire devices.)
On Mac OS X you don't need to use an unmount procedure, you can just remove the USB drive like a floppy.
I'm using 10.3.9, and if I remove my USB drive without ejecting it in the Finder, OS X gives me a warning message that's very similar to the one you get from Windows when you do the same thing.
...how would it behave? Is liquid methane more viscous than water or less? What kind of splash/waves would you get compared to a regular water lake if, for example, you threw a rock into a liquid methane lake? Does Titan have tides, and if so, would they be strong enough to create the lake shore lapping effect we see with lakes here? Titan's gravity is a lot lower than Earth's, of course, so that would affect the methane's behavior, too... what would the differences be between the behavior of a methane lake on Titan and one here on Earth, assuming that, say, a lab were to create the proper conditions to allow a methane lake to exist stably on Earth?
Not to mention which, there are a lot of other factors that contribute far more to this type of thing than hypothetical lunar construction would, such as the fact that the Earth gains about fifty thousand tons of mass every day from asteroids and other junk hitting it. Presumably the Moon also gains mass regularly the same way.
This applies to the prequels as well, but much more so to the original trilogy. Often, in light of all the action and special effects and so on, people overlook some of the more subtle symbolism that's present in Star Wars. One of the big areas that does this for me is the way light and color are used. Some examples:
In ANH, Obi-Wan is telling Luke about "the old days". At one point, he says, "Oh, yes... I was once a Jedi, like your father." He then leans back, revealing a brightly lit window -- very symbolic.
Han Solo's garb. His shirt is white, the vest he wears over it is black, just like his personality: on the outside, he appears to be a real creep, but on the inside, he does have noble qualities.
Colors in general: Darth Vader and the Imperial officers all wear either black or muted shades of gray; Leia and the rebels wear white or lighter colors. (Although Lucas did mess this up by dressing the storm troopers in white.)
One of my favorites: throughout ROTJ, Luke, formerly dressed all in white, is now dressed entirely in black, symbolic of his upcoming temptation to turn to the dark side. He stays dressed entirely in black, until he fully and openly refuses to turn to the dark side. Shortly after he does this and the emperor starts frying him, a small light-gray panel opens on the front of his tunic, symbolizing his choice to stay with the good side. This panel stays open for the remainder of the film.
Good filmmaking elements that are very subtle and often overlooked, as I said, in all of the "sound and fury".
The movie is not rated "G", at least not in most jurisdictions. According to the IMDB, it's rated PG (or the equivalent of a PG) everywhere except certain parts of Canada.
Yes, it was original to the game. One of the Millers (I can't remember which one) composed all of it. There's a bit about it in the QuickTime movie that was included with the original "Myst" CD. Originally, they weren't going to include any music at all because they were afraid "it would make the game sound too much like Super Mario Brothers", but when they finally tried one or two tracks, they realized it worked really well.
I've been a huge pinball fan for many years but hardly play anymore because it's become so difficult to find machines. There are still places here in the DC area that have them, but you often have to go out of your way (then deal with the depression of seeing one forlorn pin off in the corner in the midst of swarms of video games). Also, you often find that the machines aren't being properly maintained (as others have commented). It's a real shame. Once, just a couple of weeks ago, I even had to walk away from a machine because all the balls were captured, then didn't release for the multiball, and I couldn't find anyone in the arcade to help.
There have been a lot of great games over the years... two of my favorites were Scared Stiff and Demolition Man. Terminator 2 was a real turkey, though.
I dream of the day when I can buy one or two machines for my own home and maintain them myself. No more hunting for machines, no more having to deal with lousy maintenance, and no more fretting about what I'll do if and when Stern closes up shop, since it's unlikely they'd ever be replaced. Pinball, I think, is going the way of the nickelodeon... it's been on its way out for many years, and I don't see the trend reversing. The best we can probably hope for is that the trend will bottom out and stop, but I don't see pinball ever becoming popular again.
Battlestar Galactica was a large carrier ship from the first war, as was in the process of a decommisioning celebration when the attack happend. It was the only one that survived as it had resisting having any new computer components especially any networks installed on it, as was the protocol in the first war.
This isn't entirely certain, btw. There were 120 battlestars, and only thirty of them were confirmed destroyed in the war. It's possible that some of the others may have escaped destruction somehow. For example, a few may have been in deep space when the attack happened, heard the reports that the Cylons were somehow "deactivating" all the craft that they encountered, and stayed away from the colonies to avoid destruction. Mostly speculation, of course, but it's not farfetched speculation.
I loved that game. It used one of my favorite songs as its soundtrack.
Has anyone tried using a 1 button mouse in windows?
I have, and it's essentially identical to using a one button mouse in OS X; you just ctrl-click to do the same thing as the right button on a two button mouse. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's done this, either.
In fact, I found that the mouse I was using (an Apple USB mouse) actually felt more natural in Windows than it did in OS X, in spite of all the tweaking I've done in OS X to try to get it to feel normal to me.
I've worked as a tech for a number of different companies in quite a few different locations, and I don't remember ever seeing anyone get confused by having two buttons. I have seen a lot of people who can't learn how to use the second button, but those people just avoid the second button. They're not "confused" at all -- they're just sticking to what they know and understand. Is my experience unusual? Have others actually known users who can't use a two-button mouse? And if so, how the hell do they use their computers? Or do they use computers?
...the Machholz Comet is named after the guy who really discovered it. Bob Comet.
I don't receive much spam since I've been pretty careful about keeping any of my addies from getting "out into the wild". I typically get about twenty or thirty per day total on all four accounts that I use. I filter it all to the junk mail folder, then I scan over everything in the folder to make sure it's all spam, then I run a script that reports it all thru SpamCop automatically. I'm glad to hear that it does make a difference -- I've occasionally considered stopping, but now that I know better, i won't. Thanks for your help.
I know this is only tangentially related, but as long as we're on the subject of spam, does reporting your spam thru SpamCop do any good? I've been doing that for a while (I have a script that handles it mostly automatically), and while I do get a sense of satisfaction from filing the complaints, I also wonder whether it actually helps.
It's not related to domains, but this is my favorite "Simpsons" Internet exchange, from when Homer is trying to do his own dot-com startup:
Homer: Welcome to the Internet, friend! How may I help you?
Comic Book Guy: I am interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobit dialup connection to a 1.4 megabit T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
Homer (pauses and blinks several times): ...Can I have some money now?
Very few people, employers or otherwise, care about where you got your degree. All they care about is that you have it. There are times when an MIT or Harvard degree will carry more weight, but they're the exception, not the rule.
Doubt it? Try this little experiment. Your post implies that you're somewhere in your teens, which probably means that you've had at least a few different doctors (pediatrician, dentist, and GP, at the least). Do you know where any of them got their degrees? Do you care? Probably not... all you care about is that they did get an education. And these are the people whom you entrust with your health, your well-being, and potentially even your life. For most of the rest of society, it's the same way.
Then again - have you seen a spam recently that wasn't fraudulent in some way?
I do see non-fraudulent spam on very rare occasions. I doubt if it's even as much as one out of every thousand spams that I receive, but it does happen.
How does this sound?
Spammers don't get a fixed prison sentence. Instead, you put them in a prison cell that has an electronic lock with a keypad inside the cell. The combination is, say, twelve digits long, so there's no way in hell the prisoner can ever guess it.
Now you give the spammer a dumb terminal with shell access and an email account (incoming only) and no spam filtering. You send him the same amount of spam each day that he was sending out, except that one of the incoming emails will have the combination to the door. He has to find it himself. Until he can, he's stuck in the cell.
Poetic justice. Just as we regular users have to go to all this trouble with spam filtering and everything else, he'll have to go crazy looking for the combination that will allow him to regain his freedom.