My UBS account has a challenge/response system (needs a special calculator and account-specific chipcard).
Which makes the system pretty useless in real life.
My bank has a simple userid/passwd that allows me to use it from almost any computer anywhere - but - it has a monitoring system that checks for anomalies, much like American Express.
My bank will allow me to pay my rent from a Thai Internet café, because it knows I usually pays the rent to the same person every month.
But it will not allow an Ukranian withdrawal of $2 M USD.
This is way better than "in Switzerland the bank forces you to be safe with tons of rules and regulations".
Twenty years into the future, Volvo will still be a company that makes cars as well as a well-recognized and honored trade mark.
Just a few years into the future, SAAB has stopped making cars and the trade mark will be pimped trying to create an image of security, design and creativity around the plastic and ill-built crappy GM cars.
It's a pity that SAAB wasn't bought by Chrysler. At least Chrysler has balls.
I think Thinkpad and other IBM gadgets will decrease as much in quality under Lenovo as Volvo has decreased in quality under Ford's oppressive measures (or Saab has under GM's).
Actually, there is a huge difference between how Ford is treating the Volvo brand (a jewel) and how GM is mis-treating Saab (let's make lots of crappy asian cars and slap the SAAB name on them).
What's so incredible cool is that Apple will take the GUI to another level. Or should I say AUI.
Audio User Interface.
You already listening to your earplugs. It is quite convenient to be able to navigate the new iPod just by using the buttons with hands in pocket with clear markings so you can navigate.
Playlist "U2 favourites" selected. Press OK to play.
Press OK to move up to Selections.
Thank you. Enjoy your music!
This is going to be soo cool. So incredible cool.
Tons of users will love to be able to handle their high power iPod without having to look at a stupid screen to switch playlists.
In the Tiger 10.4 version of MacOS X, disabled menus in Apple QuickTime Player has been marked with "PRO", letting the user know what will be un-dimmed, should the licence for the PRO version be bought.
Am I the only one old enough to remember the history behind dragging Mac disks to the trash?
If you were using an original Mac with only one disk drive and you'd like to copy a diskette to another diskette, you had to do some serious juggling.
Insert diskette one, eject it, and it left a "ghost" diskette image on the desktop. Insert diskette two, drag "ghost" diskette one onto "real" diskette two to show how you wanted your copying to be done.
The Finder then asked you to insert diskette one, read some blocks into the RAM, spat out diskette one, asked for diskette two, wrote some blocks from the RAM, spat our diskette two, asked for diskette one...
When the copying was finished, you had diskette two in your computer but the "ghost" diskette one was still on your desktop.
So, to get rid of the "ghost" diskette image, you simply and correctly threw it in the trash.
"AppleScript may look like a dumb language, but I've never seen VB do what it can do to a desktop, and there's certainly no comparison on linux. Need to add a feature to your favorite app? You can normally do it with little pain and the Script Editor. If there's not API support for it, you can always just write a script that controls the GUI directly."
And you can control your shell from AppleScript, or control your AppleScript from shell. And control PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Webservices and everything else included in MacOS X, using extremely powerful solutions like Folder Actions where you connect a script to run when the content of a folder changes.
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My UBS account has a challenge/response system (needs a special calculator and account-specific chipcard).
Which makes the system pretty useless in real life.
My bank has a simple userid/passwd that allows me to use it from almost any computer anywhere - but - it has a monitoring system that checks for anomalies, much like American Express.
My bank will allow me to pay my rent from a Thai Internet café, because it knows I usually pays the rent to the same person every month.
But it will not allow an Ukranian withdrawal of $2 M USD.
This is way better than "in Switzerland the bank forces you to be safe with tons of rules and regulations".
And, by the way, I'm using a Mac.
That's it. No more Windows. No more virus. No more worms. 100 per cent MacOS X from now on.
Jeez.
This is a nobrainer.
Buy a Mac.
A "stylish" PC is like lipstick on a pig.
Just a few years into the future, SAAB has stopped making cars and the trade mark will be pimped trying to create an image of security, design and creativity around the plastic and ill-built crappy GM cars.
It's a pity that SAAB wasn't bought by Chrysler. At least Chrysler has balls.
Microsoft wasn't involved in the discussion on how to protect DVDs.
Had they been, we would have two or three different standards for DVD.
Or CD. Or VHS. Or FM. Or EP/LP.
Like we will have with hidef DVDs.
In Microsofts eyes, everything not made by Microsoft should be challenged.
Fuck Microsoft.
I think Thinkpad and other IBM gadgets will decrease as much in quality under Lenovo as Volvo has decreased in quality under Ford's oppressive measures (or Saab has under GM's).
Actually, there is a huge difference between how Ford is treating the Volvo brand (a jewel) and how GM is mis-treating Saab (let's make lots of crappy asian cars and slap the SAAB name on them).
What's so incredible cool is that Apple will take the GUI to another level. Or should I say AUI.
Audio User Interface.
You already listening to your earplugs. It is quite convenient to be able to navigate the new iPod just by using the buttons with hands in pocket with clear markings so you can navigate.
Playlist "U2 favourites" selected. Press OK to play.
Press OK to move up to Selections.
Thank you. Enjoy your music!
This is going to be soo cool. So incredible cool.
Tons of users will love to be able to handle their high power iPod without having to look at a stupid screen to switch playlists.
Anyone remember Amiga where the diskettes became corrupt if you just looked at the f*cking diskette unit.
In the Tiger 10.4 version of MacOS X, disabled menus in Apple QuickTime Player has been marked with "PRO", letting the user know what will be un-dimmed, should the licence for the PRO version be bought.
Example
Nice.
Am I the only one old enough to remember the history behind dragging Mac disks to the trash?
If you were using an original Mac with only one disk drive and you'd like to copy a diskette to another diskette, you had to do some serious juggling.
Insert diskette one, eject it, and it left a "ghost" diskette image on the desktop. Insert diskette two, drag "ghost" diskette one onto "real" diskette two to show how you wanted your copying to be done.
The Finder then asked you to insert diskette one, read some blocks into the RAM, spat out diskette one, asked for diskette two, wrote some blocks from the RAM, spat our diskette two, asked for diskette one...
When the copying was finished, you had diskette two in your computer but the "ghost" diskette one was still on your desktop.
So, to get rid of the "ghost" diskette image, you simply and correctly threw it in the trash.
Sadly, I find Flash so irritating, both in for creating full websites and its use for advertisements, that I uninstalled the plug-in.
Jeez. But you forgot to tell us how good Ogg is.
I have never ever met someone having any problems at all moving music to their iPod.
Almost everyone I have met that use Microsoft technology have serious problem moving their music to their WMA players.
The Apple/iTunes/iPod works.
The Microsoft/WMA/whatever doesn't.
Chuckie.
"AppleScript may look like a dumb language, but I've never seen VB do what it can do to a desktop, and there's certainly no comparison on linux. Need to add a feature to your favorite app? You can normally do it with little pain and the Script Editor. If there's not API support for it, you can always just write a script that controls the GUI directly."
And you can control your shell from AppleScript, or control your AppleScript from shell. And control PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Webservices and everything else included in MacOS X, using extremely powerful solutions like Folder Actions where you connect a script to run when the content of a folder changes.
Whoa. This is pure gold.
1. Go to a "protected" page, like the sample page.
2. Select the Activity window from Safari.
3. Double click on the largest image, i.e. this page.
4. Do what ever you want with it.
5. Profit!!!
Has anyone tried to do this with QuickTime?
Including Edsac. IBM Series 1, PDP-8/E, VAX, CP/M, Sinclair QL, Windows PC, Oric and other obsolete stuff. Lots of fun!