Let's see here.... a few Apple resellers accidentally ship copies early. Apple complains. Apple remains firm that nobody should have their copies before 4/29. Apple has been hyping for two weeks that anybody who orders by 4/25 will receive theirs on 4/29.
I ordered my copy from the Apple store way back on 4/13. So today, I get this email:
Dear Valued Apple Customer,
We appreciate your recent Apple Store Order WXXXXXXXX
Due to an unexpected delay, we are unable to ship the following
item(s) by the date that you were originally quoted:
M9639Z/A, OS X V10.4 "TIGER" RETAIL-INT
will now ship on or before 04/29/2005
Nice job, Apple. My order status is still "preparing shipment" at the moment. At first I thought it had to do with the tigerdirect thing, but as of now there's no court order.
Of course this delay will be forgotten in a couple weeks' time, a few extra days' delay for a new OS isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. I just think it's a bit funny given how Apple reacted to other companies who actually managed to ship it to their customers on or before the release date.
So has the quality, the security... Somethings are worth paying good money for, somethings are cheap in more ways than one.
It's also worth looking at the resale values of Macs vs. windows PC's on eBay. Macs do hold their value much better. That's useful information for somebody who replaces their computers every 3 years or so-- you can recover a lot of the initial cost when you resell it.
Also, posting an opinion with no supporting evidence that is nothing other than "you are wrong because I think so" is flaimbait. A valid discussion requires examples - I presented of a policy disagreement that was tolerated, where was the troll's example?
At the risk of further Karma loss...
The original poster made the original 4 claims, while providing no supporting evidence, and no examples, and was modded to +5. I think that is very telling.
Perhaps it's just assumed that the claims are so obviously true for the case of Bush, that they don't need examples or evidence (but then one has to wonder why it's considered "insightful" if it's so obvious?)
(any administration) values loyalty over all else. (any administration) brooks no dissent. (any administration) carefully scripts, stages and choreographs virtually every major public event. (any administration) is unwavering in their conviction and utterly unapologetic for their actions.
Unfortunately, all of these apply to any of the previous administrations that I can think of. Insert "The Clinton Administration" in there if you want. It all remains valid. Or Reagan.
I wish to God I could get that far; my problem with weightlifting was that I could either push a weight or not; eventually I'd run out of strength, but I never got the feeling that my muscles were being pushed.
I've run into that before... it means you're doing something wrong, regarding form or technique, or you need to switch up your routine, or you're overtraining. I've done a fair amount of research over the past year, though I'm not an expert. I learned enough to know that you can't just go blindly in and start pumping away, there are right and wrong ways to doing things-- otherwise you'll just be wasting time and getting frustrated.
For the longest time I couldn't increase my weights with the bench press, then I discovered I was using a hand position that didn't give me the best leverage so I was running out of steam early.
Anyway, you won't get that "burn" feeling unless you're doing a high amount of reps, which is good for toning and endurance, but not building strength and size. If you increase the weight, and take each set to failure (use a weight where you can go 6-8 reps before failing) you won't feel that hot burn during the exercise but you will notice improvements. The main thing is you have to eat a TON of protein in order for it to do any good, generally at least 1g per pound of lean body weight per day.
I can hardly believe how good this exercise makes me feel too. It is so much better than alcohol (which really doesn't do much to me), food, or wasting time playing computer games to releave stress. It is great!
What he said. I never really started getting in shape until a couple years ago (age 29). I was out of shape in a scrawny way rather than a fat way though.
The reason people give up on exercise and hate doing it is that for the first week or two, it SUCKS-- if you haven't been in the habit of exercising. The first time I went running I got half a mile before I nearly collapsed, and then I could barely walk 2 days later. So I can see why so many people avoid it. Same thing with weightlifting-- delayed onset muscle soreness is a bitch and you literally won't be able to move a couple days after you first start with weights.
Once you push yourself through the initial struggle, that's when you start feeling the benefits of the endorphine release, and you learn to feel the "good" kind of muscle soreness. You start to crave exercise. (This is why some people actually get addicted to exercise, which can also be unhealthy)
It's probably harder to get through the dietary changes. You pretty much NEED to give up soft drinks. Soft drinks are 100% pure crap for your system. Even beer is better for you (and I still have beer on the weekends). Just eliminating soft drinks, drinking lots of water instead, and avoiding the deep fried stuff makes a huge difference, you don't even necessarily have to count calories.
Keep the "just like MS Office" points at a high level and keep pushing how much money it will save.
If this pitch works, and more educational facilities move toward Open Office, you can bet that MS will introduce a "Start Edition" of MS Office with the following limitations:
1) 3 pages maximum document size 2) Spell check only checks every other word 3) Page Up / Page Down keys are disabled 4) You can't turn off Clippy
And don't lecture me on how software should be judged by quality instead of prettiness, I know that.
"Prettiness" is one of many crucial aspects of software quality. I'm not talking about prettiness only for the sake of being pretty, don't get me wrong. But a well thought-out, consistent, logical user interface indicates that the whole package was designed well.
NASA is just waiting for their paycheck to clear so they can afford to fill up that gas hog. That Shuttle makes a Hummer look like a Prius when it comes to MPG!
Well the best way to increase the shuttle's average MPG for the entire trip is to just leave it in orbit longer...
There apparently are several image databases. (Does anybody actually think that google has been launching their own satellites and aerial photography aircraft? Well maybe not yet)
Terraserver tells you when multiple databases are available (for example, I had two to choose from: 1993, and 2002). Since my house was built in 2001, naturally it only shows up in the 2002 picture.
The 2002 picture on Terraserver is actually identical to the googlemaps image-- they both appear to come from the same photo database originally. However, the terraserver version allows zooming down to 4X higher resolution.
What's cool about terraserver, if you have multiple years to choose from in your area, you can compare what it looked over time. Comparing satellite photos of my town from between 1993 and 2002 was eye-opening.
Google provides a better interface for the purposes of mapping, but terraserver supplies you with more information overall. I'm sure google will be adding a few things in the future though.:-)
What about using it for slashdot? Train it on slashdot stories and replace the editors. Done right, this should not only reduce spelling errors, but also misleading front page content.
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't OS X log you in as a non-root user?
This is true... and in fact, the root user is disabled by default. First you have to go out of your way to enable root, and then maybe run as root all the time, and then maybe start executing email attachments as you get them...
I got a mini to start using OSX and to have a portable media server. I was originally going to buy a windows notebook for that purpose, but I decided on the mini because it just looked too intriguing.
However, I also upgraded my desktop system the same week, it's now an overclocked Athlon64 system with an SLI motherboard and a GF6800 (only one for now). It runs windows XP. So I certainly didn't "switch" to the mac.
I use the Athlon box for games, and as a digital audio workstation. But now with the mini I only turn on that box when I'm doing games or DAW work... everything else, the day to day stuff, I use the mac for because it's just a refreshing change and OSX is a lot more pleasant to use.
Could I have a mac as my only system? Sure, if somebody GAVE me a dual G5 perhaps. I'm not sure which one is my "main" computer now, because I use the mac most of the time, but I use the Athlon rig for the really heavy duty stuff.
After using OSX for a while, I'm starting to think that my 3rd computer would be a mac too. Funny how that works. I've read that the mac mini is the gateway drug...
Dude, I'm not retarded. I wasn't tricked into believing creationism by some fundie. I merely said that I do not think that evolutionary theory, as explained by science, tells the whole story. I believe that the truth lies somewhere between engineered and evolved.
So in other words, you think that evolutionary theory is incomplete, rather than incorrect. It's fine to think that. Now maybe you can go into research (biology, genetics, paleontology, etc) and help other researchers fill in the gaps. Hopefully you're not just basing this on a "hunch" of some sort, without having considered the evidence.
On the first day, fine them 1 cent. On the second day, fine them 2 cents. 3rd day, 4 cents. 4th day, 8 cents. And keep going, doubling the fine each day.
Microsoft will certainly agree to these easy terms!
Exactly. Not to mention the other uses. Have you ever used a laptop to line a bird cage? The keys get sticky. Or house train a dog? You can really injure a puppy if you discipline it using the online version of NYT on your full-tower box. Although some laptops seem to run hot enough to start fires, using a "paper" newspaper is a much better idea for a fireplace.
Paper gives you much better blanket coverage when sleeping on the subway. Chances are that if a bum has a laptop, he won't be needing to sleep on the subway anyway. It's also much harder to discreetly spy/follow somebody on the street if you're trying to walk around holding a laptop in front of your face.
There are many types of calculations out there (think The Game of Life or other CAs) that by their nature cannot be reversed, so all of those states would have to be stored or it would be mathematically impossible to calculate the reverse steps.
It also says in TFA that it doesn't actually calculate the reverse steps, so it doesn't matter if it's mathematically impossible.
What it does do is take complete snapshots every (for example) 100 steps. In order to move "backwards" a step, it returns to the previous breakpoint (a known state) and goes forward 99 steps. Then it returns to the same breakpoint and goes forward 98 steps. And so on. So from your perspective, you see the 99th step, 98th, 97th, and on down. It only LOOKS like it's running backwards.
This would even work for the game of life.
So the performance tradeoff would be this: More frequent breakpoints causes forward execution to be slower because it's spending more time saving data at regular intervals for breakpoints, but "reverse" execution would be faster because it has to iterate fewer steps from the previous breakpoint.
Sadly, we live in a world where the OPERATING SYSTEM will soon require a 3D card to even function. (Windows Longhorn)
And that's not even an original idea from Microsoft.
OSX 10.3 (Panther) already utilizes 3D acceleration on video cards and treats all windows as textures. That's how the nifty "expose" feature works. The first time I saw that feature it was one of those "why didn't anybody think of this before" moments. I don't even own a mac, yet... but my mini is on its way.:-)
10.4 (Tiger) will take it to the next level with Core Image, which requires a video card with programmable pixel shaders (DirectX 9 equivalent from the Windows world). This will allow, among other things, realtime filters applied to videos, images, and of course some new OS eye candy. But it's mainly there to speed up image and video processing, which is what macs are supposed to be good at.
However, a 3D card is still not "required" as the OS will automatically scale back the features that aren't supported (you will still be able to run Tiger on a 400MHz G3 iMac). I don't know whether Longhorn will actually require 3D cards, but saying "soon" in reference to Longhorn is a tad bit optimistic, don't you think?
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Apple has been hyping for two weeks that anybody who orders by 4/25 will receive theirs on 4/29.
I ordered my copy from the Apple store way back on 4/13. So today, I get this email:
Nice job, Apple. My order status is still "preparing shipment" at the moment. At first I thought it had to do with the tigerdirect thing, but as of now there's no court order.
Of course this delay will be forgotten in a couple weeks' time, a few extra days' delay for a new OS isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.
I just think it's a bit funny given how Apple reacted to other companies who actually managed to ship it to their customers on or before the release date.
So has the quality, the security...
Somethings are worth paying good money for, somethings are cheap in more ways than one.
It's also worth looking at the resale values of Macs vs. windows PC's on eBay. Macs do hold their value much better. That's useful information for somebody who replaces their computers every 3 years or so-- you can recover a lot of the initial cost when you resell it.
Also, posting an opinion with no supporting evidence that is nothing other than "you are wrong because I think so" is flaimbait. A valid discussion requires examples - I presented of a policy disagreement that was tolerated, where was the troll's example?
At the risk of further Karma loss...
The original poster made the original 4 claims, while providing no supporting evidence, and no examples, and was modded to +5. I think that is very telling.
Perhaps it's just assumed that the claims are so obviously true for the case of Bush, that they don't need examples or evidence (but then one has to wonder why it's considered "insightful" if it's so obvious?)
(any administration) values loyalty over all else.
(any administration) brooks no dissent.
(any administration) carefully scripts, stages and choreographs virtually every major public event.
(any administration) is unwavering in their conviction and utterly unapologetic for their actions.
Unfortunately, all of these apply to any of the previous administrations that I can think of.
Insert "The Clinton Administration" in there if you want. It all remains valid. Or Reagan.
I wish to God I could get that far; my problem with weightlifting was that I could either push a weight or not; eventually I'd run out of strength, but I never got the feeling that my muscles were being pushed.
I've run into that before... it means you're doing something wrong, regarding form or technique, or you need to switch up your routine, or you're overtraining. I've done a fair amount of research over the past year, though I'm not an expert. I learned enough to know that you can't just go blindly in and start pumping away, there are right and wrong ways to doing things-- otherwise you'll just be wasting time and getting frustrated.
For the longest time I couldn't increase my weights with the bench press, then I discovered I was using a hand position that didn't give me the best leverage so I was running out of steam early.
Anyway, you won't get that "burn" feeling unless you're doing a high amount of reps, which is good for toning and endurance, but not building strength and size. If you increase the weight, and take each set to failure (use a weight where you can go 6-8 reps before failing) you won't feel that hot burn during the exercise but you will notice improvements. The main thing is you have to eat a TON of protein in order for it to do any good, generally at least 1g per pound of lean body weight per day.
No, it means that the next announced delay of Longhorn will be 8 days shorter than expected.
I can hardly believe how good this exercise makes me feel too. It is so much better than alcohol (which really doesn't do much to me), food, or wasting time playing computer games to releave stress. It is great!
What he said.
I never really started getting in shape until a couple years ago (age 29). I was out of shape in a scrawny way rather than a fat way though.
The reason people give up on exercise and hate doing it is that for the first week or two, it SUCKS-- if you haven't been in the habit of exercising. The first time I went running I got half a mile before I nearly collapsed, and then I could barely walk 2 days later. So I can see why so many people avoid it.
Same thing with weightlifting-- delayed onset muscle soreness is a bitch and you literally won't be able to move a couple days after you first start with weights.
Once you push yourself through the initial struggle, that's when you start feeling the benefits of the endorphine release, and you learn to feel the "good" kind of muscle soreness. You start to crave exercise. (This is why some people actually get addicted to exercise, which can also be unhealthy)
It's probably harder to get through the dietary changes. You pretty much NEED to give up soft drinks. Soft drinks are 100% pure crap for your system. Even beer is better for you (and I still have beer on the weekends). Just eliminating soft drinks, drinking lots of water instead, and avoiding the deep fried stuff makes a huge difference, you don't even necessarily have to count calories.
Keep the "just like MS Office" points at a high level and keep pushing how much money it will save.
If this pitch works, and more educational facilities move toward Open Office, you can bet that MS will introduce a "Start Edition" of MS Office with the following limitations:
1) 3 pages maximum document size
2) Spell check only checks every other word
3) Page Up / Page Down keys are disabled
4) You can't turn off Clippy
And don't lecture me on how software should be judged by quality instead of prettiness, I know that.
"Prettiness" is one of many crucial aspects of software quality. I'm not talking about prettiness only for the sake of being pretty, don't get me wrong. But a well thought-out, consistent, logical user interface indicates that the whole package was designed well.
NASA is just waiting for their paycheck to clear so they can afford to fill up that gas hog. That Shuttle makes a Hummer look like a Prius when it comes to MPG!
Well the best way to increase the shuttle's average MPG for the entire trip is to just leave it in orbit longer...
done by subcontractors
:-)
And not just any subcontractors, mind you... but the lowest bidders.
There apparently are several image databases.
:-)
(Does anybody actually think that google has been launching their own satellites and aerial photography aircraft? Well maybe not yet)
Terraserver tells you when multiple databases are available (for example, I had two to choose from: 1993, and 2002). Since my house was built in 2001, naturally it only shows up in the 2002 picture.
The 2002 picture on Terraserver is actually identical to the googlemaps image-- they both appear to come from the same photo database originally. However, the terraserver version allows zooming down to 4X higher resolution.
What's cool about terraserver, if you have multiple years to choose from in your area, you can compare what it looked over time. Comparing satellite photos of my town from between 1993 and 2002 was eye-opening.
Google provides a better interface for the purposes of mapping, but terraserver supplies you with more information overall. I'm sure google will be adding a few things in the future though.
What about using it for slashdot? Train it on slashdot stories and replace the editors. Done right, this should not only reduce spelling errors, but also misleading front page content.
Hasn't this already been done?
I wonder if breathing a vaccum without 'dust' in the air would cause a lung disease too?
1) Space suit covered with dust
2) Walk into airlock, pressurize
3) Dust now suspended in air
4) Remove helmet
5) ?????
6) Silicosis!
Yeah but April fool's jokes involving Google have a tendency to become reality.
I better make my big sign for gSat... just in case.
I had never heard the expression "run like a raped ape". I think I shall have to use it now :)
A raped ape is still approximately 33% slower than a bat out of hell.
That's nothing. I got a pretty nice mountain bike for only $39.99
You paid way too much. You could have gotten the same bike for just a few cents.
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't OS X log you in as a non-root user?
This is true... and in fact, the root user is disabled by default. First you have to go out of your way to enable root, and then maybe run as root all the time, and then maybe start executing email attachments as you get them...
I got a mini to start using OSX and to have a portable media server. I was originally going to buy a windows notebook for that purpose, but I decided on the mini because it just looked too intriguing.
However, I also upgraded my desktop system the same week, it's now an overclocked Athlon64 system with an SLI motherboard and a GF6800 (only one for now). It runs windows XP. So I certainly didn't "switch" to the mac.
I use the Athlon box for games, and as a digital audio workstation. But now with the mini I only turn on that box when I'm doing games or DAW work... everything else, the day to day stuff, I use the mac for because it's just a refreshing change and OSX is a lot more pleasant to use.
Could I have a mac as my only system? Sure, if somebody GAVE me a dual G5 perhaps. I'm not sure which one is my "main" computer now, because I use the mac most of the time, but I use the Athlon rig for the really heavy duty stuff.
After using OSX for a while, I'm starting to think that my 3rd computer would be a mac too. Funny how that works. I've read that the mac mini is the gateway drug...
Dude, I'm not retarded. I wasn't tricked into believing creationism by some fundie. I merely said that I do not think that evolutionary theory, as explained by science, tells the whole story. I believe that the truth lies somewhere between engineered and evolved.
So in other words, you think that evolutionary theory is incomplete, rather than incorrect. It's fine to think that. Now maybe you can go into research (biology, genetics, paleontology, etc) and help other researchers fill in the gaps.
Hopefully you're not just basing this on a "hunch" of some sort, without having considered the evidence.
Be careful not to fall into the God of the Gaps trap.
No scientific theory is ever fully complete... otherwise, there would be no job opportunities for researchers.
Screw the $5 million per day idea.
Give them 45 days to comply.
On the first day, fine them 1 cent.
On the second day, fine them 2 cents.
3rd day, 4 cents.
4th day, 8 cents. And keep going, doubling the fine each day.
Microsoft will certainly agree to these easy terms!
he weight. The portability. The convenience.
Exactly. Not to mention the other uses.
Have you ever used a laptop to line a bird cage? The keys get sticky.
Or house train a dog? You can really injure a puppy if you discipline it using the online version of NYT on your full-tower box.
Although some laptops seem to run hot enough to start fires, using a "paper" newspaper is a much better idea for a fireplace.
Paper gives you much better blanket coverage when sleeping on the subway. Chances are that if a bum has a laptop, he won't be needing to sleep on the subway anyway. It's also much harder to discreetly spy/follow somebody on the street if you're trying to walk around holding a laptop in front of your face.
Paper newspapers will never go away.
There are many types of calculations out there (think The Game of Life or other CAs) that by their nature cannot be reversed, so all of those states would have to be stored or it would be mathematically impossible to calculate the reverse steps.
It also says in TFA that it doesn't actually calculate the reverse steps, so it doesn't matter if it's mathematically impossible.
What it does do is take complete snapshots every (for example) 100 steps. In order to move "backwards" a step, it returns to the previous breakpoint (a known state) and goes forward 99 steps.
Then it returns to the same breakpoint and goes forward 98 steps. And so on. So from your perspective, you see the 99th step, 98th, 97th, and on down. It only LOOKS like it's running backwards.
This would even work for the game of life.
So the performance tradeoff would be this:
More frequent breakpoints causes forward execution to be slower because it's spending more time saving data at regular intervals for breakpoints, but "reverse" execution would be faster because it has to iterate fewer steps from the previous breakpoint.
This evidence should suffice...
3 /mozillaadwarefake.jpg
:-p
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/CypherXero
(credit to CypherXero on that forum)
Oh yeah, and the guy that posted the image said it was a fake too, in his second posting on the first page of that thread.
Sadly, we live in a world where the OPERATING SYSTEM will soon require a 3D card to even function. (Windows Longhorn)
:-)
And that's not even an original idea from Microsoft.
OSX 10.3 (Panther) already utilizes 3D acceleration on video cards and treats all windows as textures. That's how the nifty "expose" feature works. The first time I saw that feature it was one of those "why didn't anybody think of this before" moments. I don't even own a mac, yet... but my mini is on its way.
10.4 (Tiger) will take it to the next level with Core Image, which requires a video card with programmable pixel shaders (DirectX 9 equivalent from the Windows world). This will allow, among other things, realtime filters applied to videos, images, and of course some new OS eye candy. But it's mainly there to speed up image and video processing, which is what macs are supposed to be good at.
However, a 3D card is still not "required" as the OS will automatically scale back the features that aren't supported (you will still be able to run Tiger on a 400MHz G3 iMac).
I don't know whether Longhorn will actually require 3D cards, but saying "soon" in reference to Longhorn is a tad bit optimistic, don't you think?