I have it on my Windows desktop and laptop and use it all the time. I have no problems with performance or the way it works. I've even used it on the rare occasion I've needed to pull my old PA system out of storage and be a DJ for a friend's party or whatever.
I just don't see the big deal. I'm certainly not a fanboi and I recognize iTunes could be better but couldn't everything?
It seems to be the software that everyone loves to hate but I just don't have any complaints about it and I constantly wonder what all the fuss is about...
Sadly, not any more. Besides, they're are a greedy bunch of TROLLOCS that see a possible jackpot just barely out of reach and are doing everything they can to get their grubby claws on it.
I read The Hot Zone many years ago and I keep thinking that I remember reading that the Ebola Reston strain was considered to have been spread by airborne means. I thought maybe I was wrong but then I found this on Internet Scientific Publications (http://ispub.com/IJPRM/2/1/12768)
"And, indeed researchers discovered that this was a new species of Ebola virus, which they named Ebola-Reston15, 28, 29. The new virus was highly pathogenic in monkeys but apparently not in humans. The researchers also dispelled the idea that filoviruses were found only in Africa, because the monkeys had been imported from the Philippines. The investigators documented a high likelihood of aerosol transmission outside a controlled laboratory setting, because the virus appeared to pass between rooms to infect susceptible monkeys. Specimens from animals that died or were killed to eradicate the outbreak yielded fertile ground for research in new Ebola virus detection and identification techniques and the virological and pathological events associated with infection. "
If they have since determined it was not aerosol transmission, that's interesting. I shudder to imagine an Ebola strain that spreads via aerosol and affects humans (Ebola Reston does not affect humans). As you pointed out, it would be a much worse situation.
The book, The Hotzone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone), tells a story about a strain of Ebola that became known as Ebola Reston that was discovered in a research facility in Reston, VA in 1989.
It was an airborne strain that spread from monkey to monkey much like the Flu and was extremely fatal to the monkeys. But while it could (and DID) infect a human, it had no ill effects. The scary thing is that there are other strains of Ebola that are fatal to humans (Ebola Zaire).
Anyway, it's a little bit frightening how close we came here to an easily transmitted airborne virus that is fatal to 50 to 90% of the people who get it within 3 weeks of contraction. Yes, I know it would not wipe out the bulk of the human race...probably. But there are reasons we have pandemic plans in place and while things like the Bird and Swine flu have been blown out of proportion in recent years, the truth is that nature could throw us a curve ball at any moment and everyone who dismissed the bird and swine flu (including me) would be in for a surprise.
I agree and while I know it doesn't really do anything to fix it, every time I have to upgrade iTunes or anything that requires the Apple installer, I take a screenshot of the installer with Safari checked and send an email to support@apple.com with a bug report.
I would invite everyone who deals with the apple installer to do this. Maybe one person can't change their mind but if they had to deal with a few thousand emails a week pointing out this problem, maybe someone might listen.
Exactly! And on the flip side, if the 3D effects are badly done, it can destroy the experience entirely.
Clash of the Titans, for example, wasn't the greatest movie or anything but I absolutely hated it and mostly because of the badly executed 3D. I felt like my eyes were fighting for focus through the whole movie.
I think I am now just as tired of hearing about the iPhone 4 antenna issues as I am hearing about SCO.
Let me summarize so we can PLEASE move on:
iPhone has an antenna problem.
Get a bumper case or a friggin piece of scotch tape or take it back if you're not happy with it. If you don't own one and are just bitching because the rest of the world is, please get a life or at least find something else to gripe about.
It's kind of cool that all this still works in current-day Linux. There's not many dumb terminals around any more for sure unless you're using an IBM Mainframe I guess. I suspect they still use 3270's.
I use my iPhone for much the same thing and I'd like to suggest a couple of ways I was able to accomplish this.
I have my own domain and email server and I set up a documents folder on my IMAP machine at home which I store attachments in PDF format. Even though it's not actually stored on the phone, it's still a pretty convenient way of making something available in a pinch.
Air Sharing Pro allows you to transfer documents to your iPhone/iPod Touch via a web interface or access them using Bonjour. You run the application when you're on your home network and then point a web browser to the IP of the iPhone and it gives you a web interface to uploading files to the phone's local storage. I keep a repository of PDF files (like my digital camera manual) sitting here in case I need them.
One thing you might try is use a software product to find the license numbers.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/ has a utility that will print out all the Microsoft license number for all the MS programs installed on the computer.
Now I am not suggesting you do that for all the computers but certainly taking a sample of machines and seeing if they're using the same license on them could help determine the true nature of the situation.
No, what he's saying is that it's not about learning to use a computer, it's about using a computer to facilitate learning.
Computer skills are fairly transferable. If you can learn the basics, learning to use another computer is fairly easy.
One thing to bear in mind is that it's not always about learning computers but learning ON computers.
What made the Apple II such a great machine back in the day wasn't its standard interface that a student could learn and use in the workplace but the wealth of educational software used to teach them something using the computer interactively.
Math, spelling, and reading comprehension don't care what OS you run.
I may be dense but I really don't see the difference between a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone and the same driver having a conversation with a passenger.
You can have just as involved of a conversation and you even have someone you are going to feel compelled to glance at every so often since it's human nature to want to make eye contact for at least parts of a conversation.
Are they going to make it illegal to have conversations in a car altogether?
This sounds a lot like the old ELSA 3D Revelator glasses you could use with your games.
An external driver would use the Z-buffer information in the Direct X code as its "3D extrapolation"
You did, in fact, see 3D effect in Direct X games. It was a bit like looking at a stereo photograph. The driver / glasses combo added definite 3D depth to the view but it was like looking at cardboard cutouts in 3D space.
The problem with the glasses was that the effective refresh rate was 1/2 your actual refresh rate since the LCD shutter glasses and had to give each eye its own image.
Isn't there a clause that says you can't donate code that's under IP restrictions to the GPL?
Therefore Novell, even with this agreement, can't take MS code and stuff it into a GPL project. And MS can't "seed" code into a GPL project through Novell without themselves breaking the GPL.
And furthermore, doesn't this go both ways? There were folks who stated that this agreement is an admission by Novell that there might be MS IP in Linux. Doesn't that also say that MS has also admitted that there might be GPL code in Windows?
We're afraid that MS will use this as a way to sue other OSS vendors and while this is a bit scary, I don't know if it's any scarier than an organized OSS movement filing hundreds of small suits against MS from dozens of countries.
Novell owned UNIX. They purchased it from Bell labs. They never owned SCO. They sold parts of UNIX and UnixWare to SCO. Caldera bought SCO and then renamed themselves SCO to capitalize on the name. SCO's other product, Tarentella, was spun off (split off whatever) into its own company which was eventually aquired by Sun.
Yes. Ray Noorda established Canopy and Caldera after he was ousted from Novell. This was around the time he had Novell purchased UNIXWare, DR DOS and Wordperfect to leverage them in a failed attempt to compete with Microsoft.
His ties to current Novell are nonexistant and while he did a good job in his earlier years at Novell, I wouldn't have considered him an asset towards the end.
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Hey! I resemble that remark!
I have it on my Windows desktop and laptop and use it all the time. I have no problems with performance or the way it works. I've even used it on the rare occasion I've needed to pull my old PA system out of storage and be a DJ for a friend's party or whatever.
I just don't see the big deal. I'm certainly not a fanboi and I recognize iTunes could be better but couldn't everything?
It seems to be the software that everyone loves to hate but I just don't have any complaints about it and I constantly wonder what all the fuss is about...
It was a bit of an exaggeration.
Wow. I was just getting over loosing Douglas Adams and now we've lost Pratchett as well?
This really does suck (urinating dog...urinating dog).
I'm going to have to reread my library of his books now.
Sadly, not any more.
Besides, they're are a greedy bunch of TROLLOCS that see a possible jackpot just barely out of reach and are doing everything they can to get their grubby claws on it.
FTFY
I read The Hot Zone many years ago and I keep thinking that I remember reading that the Ebola Reston strain was considered to have been spread by airborne means.
I thought maybe I was wrong but then I found this on Internet Scientific Publications (http://ispub.com/IJPRM/2/1/12768)
"And, indeed researchers discovered that this was a new species of Ebola virus, which they named Ebola-Reston15, 28, 29. The new virus was highly pathogenic in monkeys but apparently not in humans. The researchers also dispelled the idea that filoviruses were found only in Africa, because the monkeys had been imported from the Philippines. The investigators documented a high likelihood of aerosol transmission outside a controlled laboratory setting, because the virus appeared to pass between rooms to infect susceptible monkeys. Specimens from animals that died or were killed to eradicate the outbreak yielded fertile ground for research in new Ebola virus detection and identification techniques and the virological and pathological events associated with infection. "
If they have since determined it was not aerosol transmission, that's interesting.
I shudder to imagine an Ebola strain that spreads via aerosol and affects humans (Ebola Reston does not affect humans).
As you pointed out, it would be a much worse situation.
The book, The Hotzone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone), tells a story about a strain of Ebola that became known as Ebola Reston that was discovered in a research facility in Reston, VA in 1989.
It was an airborne strain that spread from monkey to monkey much like the Flu and was extremely fatal to the monkeys. But while it could (and DID) infect a human, it had no ill effects. The scary thing is that there are other strains of Ebola that are fatal to humans (Ebola Zaire).
Anyway, it's a little bit frightening how close we came here to an easily transmitted airborne virus that is fatal to 50 to 90% of the people who get it within 3 weeks of contraction. Yes, I know it would not wipe out the bulk of the human race...probably. But there are reasons we have pandemic plans in place and while things like the Bird and Swine flu have been blown out of proportion in recent years, the truth is that nature could throw us a curve ball at any moment and everyone who dismissed the bird and swine flu (including me) would be in for a surprise.
Color me strange but I'm looking forward to seeing the tablet that everyone's forgotten about: HP's WebOS based TouchPad.
IMO of the iOS competitors, WebOS is arguably the most polished and I've been looking forward to seeing a tablet based on it for a while.
I agree and while I know it doesn't really do anything to fix it, every time I have to upgrade iTunes or anything that requires the Apple installer, I take a screenshot of the installer with Safari checked and send an email to support@apple.com with a bug report.
I would invite everyone who deals with the apple installer to do this. Maybe one person can't change their mind but if they had to deal with a few thousand emails a week pointing out this problem, maybe someone might listen.
+100 Insightful
+100 Interesting
+500 for being quite possibly the best post I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Bravo
Your post about gas made me think about exploding lakes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption)
Perhaps the fish were killed by some kind of exploding lake and the gas rose and was trapped by the weather and killed the birds.
Exactly! And on the flip side, if the 3D effects are badly done, it can destroy the experience entirely.
Clash of the Titans, for example, wasn't the greatest movie or anything but I absolutely hated it and mostly because of the badly executed 3D. I felt like my eyes were fighting for focus through the whole movie.
I think I am now just as tired of hearing about the iPhone 4 antenna issues as I am hearing about SCO.
Let me summarize so we can PLEASE move on:
iPhone has an antenna problem.
Get a bumper case or a friggin piece of scotch tape or take it back if you're not happy with it. If you don't own one and are just bitching because the rest of the world is, please get a life or at least find something else to gripe about.
Kk thx.
I remember borrowing an old Wyse terminal from work and hooking it up to my Apple IIGS running GNO/ME (GNO Multitasking Environment. Check here: http://www.hypermall.com/companies/procyon/gnome.html).
It's kind of cool that all this still works in current-day Linux. There's not many dumb terminals around any more for sure unless you're using an IBM Mainframe I guess. I suspect they still use 3270's.
I believe vibration is one of the things that Xiotech has tried address with their ISE bricks.
http://www.xiotech.com/ise-technology.php
I don't work for Xiotech. I just think it's a cool idea.
I can't decide whether to mod this insightful or funny.
Oh well. I guess I'll post instead.
I use my iPhone for much the same thing and I'd like to suggest a couple of ways I was able to accomplish this.
I have my own domain and email server and I set up a documents folder on my IMAP machine at home which I store attachments in PDF format. Even though it's not actually stored on the phone, it's still a pretty convenient way of making something available in a pinch.
Air Sharing Pro allows you to transfer documents to your iPhone/iPod Touch via a web interface or access them using Bonjour. You run the application when you're on your home network and then point a web browser to the IP of the iPhone and it gives you a web interface to uploading files to the phone's local storage. I keep a repository of PDF files (like my digital camera manual) sitting here in case I need them.
One thing you might try is use a software product to find the license numbers.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/ has a utility that will print out all the Microsoft license number for all the MS programs installed on the computer.
Now I am not suggesting you do that for all the computers but certainly taking a sample of machines and seeing if they're using the same license on them could help determine the true nature of the situation.
No, what he's saying is that it's not about learning to use a computer, it's about using a computer to facilitate learning. Computer skills are fairly transferable. If you can learn the basics, learning to use another computer is fairly easy.
There's a tape deck in my closet with three arrows sticking out of it
(in a 2 inch group I might add).
It does make a good place to hang my jacket.
One thing to bear in mind is that it's not always about learning computers but learning ON computers.
What made the Apple II such a great machine back in the day wasn't its standard interface that a student could learn and use in the workplace but the wealth of educational software used to teach them something using the computer interactively.
Math, spelling, and reading comprehension don't care what OS you run.
I may be dense but I really don't see the difference between a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone and the same driver having a conversation with a passenger.
You can have just as involved of a conversation and you even have someone you are going to feel compelled to glance at every so often since it's human nature to want to make eye contact for at least parts of a conversation.
Are they going to make it illegal to have conversations in a car altogether?
This sounds a lot like the old ELSA 3D Revelator glasses you could use with your games. An external driver would use the Z-buffer information in the Direct X code as its "3D extrapolation" You did, in fact, see 3D effect in Direct X games. It was a bit like looking at a stereo photograph. The driver / glasses combo added definite 3D depth to the view but it was like looking at cardboard cutouts in 3D space. The problem with the glasses was that the effective refresh rate was 1/2 your actual refresh rate since the LCD shutter glasses and had to give each eye its own image.
Isn't there a clause that says you can't donate code that's under IP restrictions to the GPL? Therefore Novell, even with this agreement, can't take MS code and stuff it into a GPL project. And MS can't "seed" code into a GPL project through Novell without themselves breaking the GPL. And furthermore, doesn't this go both ways? There were folks who stated that this agreement is an admission by Novell that there might be MS IP in Linux. Doesn't that also say that MS has also admitted that there might be GPL code in Windows? We're afraid that MS will use this as a way to sue other OSS vendors and while this is a bit scary, I don't know if it's any scarier than an organized OSS movement filing hundreds of small suits against MS from dozens of countries.
Novell owned UNIX. They purchased it from Bell labs. They never owned SCO. They sold parts of UNIX and UnixWare to SCO. Caldera bought SCO and then renamed themselves SCO to capitalize on the name. SCO's other product, Tarentella, was spun off (split off whatever) into its own company which was eventually aquired by Sun. Yes. Ray Noorda established Canopy and Caldera after he was ousted from Novell. This was around the time he had Novell purchased UNIXWare, DR DOS and Wordperfect to leverage them in a failed attempt to compete with Microsoft. His ties to current Novell are nonexistant and while he did a good job in his earlier years at Novell, I wouldn't have considered him an asset towards the end.