John XIII was apparently not very transcendent. Pope John XXIII was very important, among other things because he started the Second Vatican Council, which modernized the Catholic church (well, at least compared to what it was before, with masses in Latin, etc). The antipope John XXIII, who lived over half a millenium before, was the guy allegedly accused of the charges you mention.
The school in question is named after the Pope John XXIII. The stories published all around the Internet are, of course, wrong, but I guess the school officials are delighted with the mistake.
The video shows that, as you suggest, there is a thorough cleaning step before milking, and a different one (more like a spray) after. And between cows the machine cleans itself to prevent contamination passing from cow to cow. A very well though system, indeed.
It is impossible to underestimate its importance as it is completely irrelevant since there is no such thing as a male cow, just as there is no such thing as a male woman. There are cows and bulls.
Oh, but you are underestimating the advances in modern surgery. I'm not sure how advanced veterinary plastic surgery is nowadays, though.;-)
I want to just unplug it when I'm done. That works on other platforms, why not on Macintosh? It's the obvious and simple thing to do. And don't tell me that it might "interrupt a write"; other platforms deal with that without problems.
In addition to the four methods mentioned by the parent, in the left side of all Finder windows there are two panes. The upper one contains all the directories/devices mounted on the system, including removable media. For removable media, there is a very convenient eject button beside each icon. You click it and the device is unmounted, no questions are asked (unlike on Windows). Don't get offended, but the fact that you didn't know about any of these five methods suggests that you haven't really used a Mac in the last four years (other than sitting on it for five minutes, claiming "this sucks", and leaving).
On the other hand, where did you get the idea that other systems allow you to unplug removable media without unmounting? Or let me rephrase that: just as on Windows or on Linux, on MacOS X you can unplug the device and in more than 99% of the times absolutely nothing bad is going to happen. But some systems (including MacOS X, and properly configured Windows 2000/XP or Linux) have the courtesy to remind you that it is not worth the risk, even though admittedly it is very, very low.
People interested in seeing how this resolution independent UI business works in Tiger, may want to take a look at John Siracusa's Tiger review.
The scalable user interface still has some rough edges in Tiger, and that's why Apple still doesn't talk about it openly. Nevertheless, it shows that it is plainly reasonable to expect a very usable version for Leopard.
And the Macintosh II was released on March 2, 1987.
From that point of view it makes more sense to compare the CPU of the first 386 Deskpro with the 68020 of the Mac II as opposed to the 68000 of the original Mac, as they are closer in time.
An interesting coincidence happened in the corresponding Mac versions:
Office 9 = Microsoft Office 2000 = Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac Office 10 = Microsoft Office XP = Microsoft Office X Office 11 = Microsoft Office 2003 = Microsoft Office 2004
The one-year offset is due to the fact that Microsoft tends to release the mayor versions in the second semester of the year, and it takes the Mac Business Unit a little over 6 months to produce the corresponding Mac version.
The interesting fact is that Office X was the first version for MacOS X, and as such the X is the roman numeral 10. So it's pronounced "Microsoft Office Ten".
Thank you for your thoughtful and interesting, yet anonymous reply. I agree with quite a bit of what you said.
Nevertheless, let me make something clear: I don't consider traveling a lot to be a good indicator of anything, as it depends on many factors, some of which you mentioned. Not the least is the monetary: I, for example, have been in only two countries, but only because I'm po'.
Knowledge about other countries does say something about you education. But this, again, is not what I'm talking about. As a side note, let me tell you that I have found the average person from many other countries, regardless of his or her previous travels, will have a much better knowledge about other countries and cultures than the average person from the US of the same education level (say, bachelor's degree). As such, the average German with a bachelor's degree will have quite a bit of knowledge about the US, or, say, South America or Africa. The average American (err... USian, whatever) with a bachelor's degree is astonishingly ignorant by comparison. Actually, the average South American or African who holds a bachelor's degree has been, in my experience, as knowledgeable about the world as the European. Of course, in third world countries a smaller percentage of the population has access to higher education, that's why I'm making clear that I'm equating the education level.
But, again, knowledge about other regions and cultures is not what I was talking about in my previous post.
What I'm talking about is the typical "I don't give shit about my ignorance because I don't need to care" attitude. This I have found to be more common in Americans (again, USians, if that suits you best) than in other nationals.
Another example: More than half of the Indians I know are quite knowledgeable. On the other hand, many of the remaining ones are amazingly ignorant about other cultures (and I'm talking about grad students here). But the attitude of these Indians is: "Really? That's interesting, tell me more please," instead of the typical blank stare and "yeah, whatever" attitude of the average American grad student.
Of course there are really notable exceptions, and this attitude tends to be diminished with the level of education. E.g., the typical redneck really, really doesn't give shit. The average American grad student is a little more selective on what he doesn't give shit about.
We don't care about you, so do us a favor, and try not to care about us.
Jokes aside, the saddest thing is that for a disproportionate percentage of US citizens this is actually true. That's one of the things that depresses me most of living in this country: most of the people are not only blatantly ignorant about the rest of the world, but also don't really care about their ignorance.
- Doesn't search for things under two letters unless you explicitly press return - Pauses for a split second as to not interfere with typing
Spotlight does the second. It certainly doesn't interfere with typing and it doesn't start to search until I get around four characters typed. If only one or two letters are typed, I notice a delay of under a second before the search starts, but I can continue typing to refine the search without any problems.
I'm using a lowly 1 GHz PB G4. Maybe you are using even slower hardware that gets overwhelmed by the searching process?
Windows 98 did not contain some magic software to allow you to call your friends for free.
Explain what C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\2600HZ.WAV was for, then.
As other posters noted, Windows had (an in fact still has) the ability of making regular (voice) phone calls through your modem, provided that you had adequate hardware.
But they are still regular phone calls. If you dial a long distance number, you will get billed for it.
The Venezuela crash was today around 3 am (local time?). You are thinking of a different crash. This tends to prove that we are not really aware of the news in other parts of the world...
You might want to read letter of Bush to Congress that was linked by a grandson of your post. I'm just repeating it because it may escape your attention, as the poster didn't reply to you directly.
Although GWB doesn't directly say that the links exist, it is absolutely evident that he wanted to imply it (see point 2). Please note also that the document linked comes from the White House site, not an external "source".
In OS X to you have to unmount by dragging to trash,
Not necessarily. The sidebar of all Finder windows contains icons for all the mounted devices. For removable media and network shares, there is a grey "eject" button to the right of each icon, which unmounts the device and (if applicable) ejects the CD / DVD / etc.
You have to be kidding. Whereas the image of Central Park that you linked above is certainly off by several meters, the image linked by the GP is beautifully integrated. Could it be better? Probably (specially if they had images of the same resolution and acquired in the same season). But for the intended uses that image is pretty, pretty good.
Every Mac review I've ever read starts out with this magic guy in front of the reviewer at the Apple store. The magic guy buys 12 iMacs, 16 Mac mini or 27 iPods.
Really? I haven't seen these reviews. Can you point them out to me, please?
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No, no, you got mixed up.
Pope John XIII (d. 972) , Pope John XXIII (d. 1963), and the antipope John XXIII (d. 1419), are three different people.
John XIII was apparently not very transcendent. Pope John XXIII was very important, among other things because he started the Second Vatican Council, which modernized the Catholic church (well, at least compared to what it was before, with masses in Latin, etc). The antipope John XXIII, who lived over half a millenium before, was the guy allegedly accused of the charges you mention.
The school in question is named after the Pope John XXIII. The stories published all around the Internet are, of course, wrong, but I guess the school officials are delighted with the mistake.
The video shows that, as you suggest, there is a thorough cleaning step before milking, and a different one (more like a spray) after. And between cows the machine cleans itself to prevent contamination passing from cow to cow. A very well though system, indeed.
Oh, but you are underestimating the advances in modern surgery. I'm not sure how advanced veterinary plastic surgery is nowadays, though.
In addition to the four methods mentioned by the parent, in the left side of all Finder windows there are two panes. The upper one contains all the directories/devices mounted on the system, including removable media. For removable media, there is a very convenient eject button beside each icon. You click it and the device is unmounted, no questions are asked (unlike on Windows). Don't get offended, but the fact that you didn't know about any of these five methods suggests that you haven't really used a Mac in the last four years (other than sitting on it for five minutes, claiming "this sucks", and leaving).
On the other hand, where did you get the idea that other systems allow you to unplug removable media without unmounting? Or let me rephrase that: just as on Windows or on Linux, on MacOS X you can unplug the device and in more than 99% of the times absolutely nothing bad is going to happen. But some systems (including MacOS X, and properly configured Windows 2000/XP or Linux) have the courtesy to remind you that it is not worth the risk, even though admittedly it is very, very low.
People interested in seeing how this resolution independent UI business works in Tiger, may want to take a look at John Siracusa's Tiger review.
The scalable user interface still has some rough edges in Tiger, and that's why Apple still doesn't talk about it openly. Nevertheless, it shows that it is plainly reasonable to expect a very usable version for Leopard.
And the Macintosh II was released on March 2, 1987.
From that point of view it makes more sense to compare the CPU of the first 386 Deskpro with the 68020 of the Mac II as opposed to the 68000 of the original Mac, as they are closer in time.
So you're what... twelve? Kind of young to be nostalgic!
An interesting coincidence happened in the corresponding Mac versions:
Office 9 = Microsoft Office 2000 = Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac
Office 10 = Microsoft Office XP = Microsoft Office X
Office 11 = Microsoft Office 2003 = Microsoft Office 2004
The one-year offset is due to the fact that Microsoft tends to release the mayor versions in the second semester of the year, and it takes the Mac Business Unit a little over 6 months to produce the corresponding Mac version.
The interesting fact is that Office X was the first version for MacOS X, and as such the X is the roman numeral 10. So it's pronounced "Microsoft Office Ten".
Get your fact straight. Apes are not monkeys.
Jeeez! Do you really believe people would be so stupid as to elect a real monkey for president?
Thank you for your thoughtful and interesting, yet anonymous reply. I agree with quite a bit of what you said.
Nevertheless, let me make something clear: I don't consider traveling a lot to be a good indicator of anything, as it depends on many factors, some of which you mentioned. Not the least is the monetary: I, for example, have been in only two countries, but only because I'm po'.
Knowledge about other countries does say something about you education. But this, again, is not what I'm talking about. As a side note, let me tell you that I have found the average person from many other countries, regardless of his or her previous travels, will have a much better knowledge about other countries and cultures than the average person from the US of the same education level (say, bachelor's degree). As such, the average German with a bachelor's degree will have quite a bit of knowledge about the US, or, say, South America or Africa. The average American (err... USian, whatever) with a bachelor's degree is astonishingly ignorant by comparison. Actually, the average South American or African who holds a bachelor's degree has been, in my experience, as knowledgeable about the world as the European. Of course, in third world countries a smaller percentage of the population has access to higher education, that's why I'm making clear that I'm equating the education level.
But, again, knowledge about other regions and cultures is not what I was talking about in my previous post.
What I'm talking about is the typical "I don't give shit about my ignorance because I don't need to care" attitude. This I have found to be more common in Americans (again, USians, if that suits you best) than in other nationals.
Another example: More than half of the Indians I know are quite knowledgeable. On the other hand, many of the remaining ones are amazingly ignorant about other cultures (and I'm talking about grad students here). But the attitude of these Indians is: "Really? That's interesting, tell me more please," instead of the typical blank stare and "yeah, whatever" attitude of the average American grad student.
Of course there are really notable exceptions, and this attitude tends to be diminished with the level of education. E.g., the typical redneck really, really doesn't give shit. The average American grad student is a little more selective on what he doesn't give shit about.
GO USA!Yup, that's exactly the attitude I'm talking about.
Jokes aside, the saddest thing is that for a disproportionate percentage of US citizens this is actually true. That's one of the things that depresses me most of living in this country: most of the people are not only blatantly ignorant about the rest of the world, but also don't really care about their ignorance.
You may be recalling incorrectly...
/var/db/samba, only a file called secrets.tdb.
Otherwise, you may be happy to know that on Tiger there is no "hash" subdirectory in
Maybe it's stored somewhere else. Or maybe Apple fixed this vulnerability in Tiger (your experience is with Panther anyway).
Spotlight does the second. It certainly doesn't interfere with typing and it doesn't start to search until I get around four characters typed. If only one or two letters are typed, I notice a delay of under a second before the search starts, but I can continue typing to refine the search without any problems.
I'm using a lowly 1 GHz PB G4. Maybe you are using even slower hardware that gets overwhelmed by the searching process?
As other posters noted, Windows had (an in fact still has) the ability of making regular (voice) phone calls through your modem, provided that you had adequate hardware.
But they are still regular phone calls. If you dial a long distance number, you will get billed for it.
You're basically right. The iPod will turn 4 years old on October 23rd, that is, in two months.
The Venezuela crash was today around 3 am (local time?). You are thinking of a different crash. This tends to prove that we are not really aware of the news in other parts of the world...
You might want to read letter of Bush to Congress that was linked by a grandson of your post. I'm just repeating it because it may escape your attention, as the poster didn't reply to you directly.
Although GWB doesn't directly say that the links exist, it is absolutely evident that he wanted to imply it (see point 2). Please note also that the document linked comes from the White House site, not an external "source".
Not necessarily. The sidebar of all Finder windows contains icons for all the mounted devices. For removable media and network shares, there is a grey "eject" button to the right of each icon, which unmounts the device and (if applicable) ejects the CD / DVD / etc.
They switched to OS X for (most of?) their desktops. Their render farm is still running on Linux.
Hummm.... I didn't know that... (I mean, that the phrase in the Pink Floyd lyrics was based on a quote by Thoreau).
Thanks for the info!
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Hey, you can't be a Yank, you have to be British!
You have to be kidding. Whereas the image of Central Park that you linked above is certainly off by several meters, the image linked by the GP is beautifully integrated. Could it be better? Probably (specially if they had images of the same resolution and acquired in the same season). But for the intended uses that image is pretty, pretty good.
We didn't give up on winning their hearts and minds.
As a matter of fact, we never really tried.
Really? I haven't seen these reviews. Can you point them out to me, please?