Is it just me, or is browsing Apple's store really slow and painful in Safari, yet zippy with Firefox?
It's the same reasoning that goes behind groceries...the longer it takes you to find what you want, the more likely you'll buy something else on a whim.
The original BSG took the budget of a major network to put out. Now, a smaller cable channel can do a better job cheaper.
In this case, SciFi channel is owned by NBC/Universal. That's why NBC aired the BSG miniseries the same week as the series premiere and why NBC kept plugging the series that week as well. I have no idea what sort of budget SciFi channel has though.
A product like this seems ideal to me for making an inventory of stuff for insurance purposes.
I do wonder just how comprehensive the data lookup is. If you have a lot of stuff from other countries or that's out-of-print, I wonder if it would still show up with this software.
A bit more on the part about territorial claims to the Antarctic. According to the CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ay.html, parts of Antarctica have been claimed by Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK, and some of those parts overlap. There's no mention on the website of any open conflict to uphold those claims.
Seriously, isn't the Arctic mostly ice on top of a minimal amount of land? I thought that Antarctica was the polar ice cap which had a large land mass underneath it.
I suppose that countries might try to put offshore oil rigs or something, but an actual land grab? Melt the Arctic ice cap and don't you just get open water?
Instructions, as in a manual of some kind? I would gladly read them if I could, but the manual always seems to be missing. I think David Pogue might have something to do with that.
I switched to OS X from Windows ME this year, and I have to say that OS X has proved to be very stable for me. So far I haven't experience a single kernel panic--the equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death. While applications do crash at times, I haven't had them drag down the whole system with them.
Applications and devices install painlessly and seamlessly, for the most part. The biggest problem I've had is with a few older applications which had both Win 95/Mac OS versions on the same CD-ROM. These applications aren't OS X native, so they have to be run in the Classic Mac OS emulator. After so many months of not thinking about memory management on this computer, it's a pain to have deal with it in the Classic environment.
In terms of the interface, there's a certain amount of unlearning to do when you switch from a Windows environment. You have to get used to having a single menu bar at the top of the screen. At first it strikes you as being slightly inconvenient, having to push the mouse pointer that much farther. Later you learn to appreciate the screen space that is recovered by not having multiple menu bars.
Deleting files also involves getting used to. I was accustomed to using the "Add/Remove Programs" app inside Windows Control Panel. With the Mac OS, you just drag the application to the Trash to delete it. It makes sense, and I guess it's intuitive, if you haven't already learned the Windows way.
Concerning moving files--OS X keeps track of where you move them, so you don't get the problem of a shortcut or alias pointing to an old, invalid file location.
For these and other reasons, Windows ends up feeling rather kludgey by comparison, at least to me. However it should be said that the OS X interface isn't as easily customizable as Windows right out of the box, from the graphical interface. There are ways to play around with the interface through the Terminal app and with shareware.
Just to compare, I used to use Windows ME. It would crash quite often, and sometimes it would crash during the reboot process. I think uptime was a foreign concept to Win ME. I should have just used the BSOD as my wallpaper.
The way I see it, politicians in the US would be more willing to try to force an.xxx or.porn suffix than politicians in many other countries. This begs the question of how do you enforce national laws or policies on the international Internet. I know that other countries have tried, for different reasons.
I've wondered about this for quite a while. If there were a.porn domain, and if it were possible to force (and it isn't) adult websites to use that.porn domain, it would greatly simplify things for parents who rely on filtering software to block adult-oriented content. It would also simplify finding porn.
What I don't know is if filtering software would catch attempts to redirect to another site. For example if you went to www.whatever.com and it redirected you to www.whatever.porn.
When I first saw B5, I came up with the line "Nice concept, but it doesn't go anywhere." It's a space station, ha ha. I suppose the same could be said of DS9.
Now that I think about it, there were a few episodes of DS9 where the station does go places, generally putting it at risk in the process.
I meant to say that at first, B5 felt like DS9 done badly on a really cheap budget. Not that DS9 has bad lighting or cheesy makeup. Which could have been inferred from what I wrote. Sorry. I'll go now.
In the beginning, I had my first taste of Babylon 5 while I was traveling. My own cable service wasn't showing B5 at the time, so I figured I'd check it out. It seemed bad to the extreme--a bunch of humans and aliens on a space station, with bad lighting and cheesy makeup. It felt like DS9 done on a really cheap budget. If you know the series, it was the last half of the Soul Hunter episode--definitely not the best intro for a newbie.
My second encounter with B5 was...let's say it was less negative. It was an episode with a character who wore a very 2001-ish astronaut's uniform, and unfortunately for me, it was an episode full of flashbacks and hints of things to come. The episode didn't totally grab me, but it intrigued me enough to seek out the show if the chance came.
It was the dawn of a new age. The TNT cable network picked up B5 and made it one of their flagship programs. Now I could watch the whole series from the beginning, and I could watch each episode 2 or 3 times a day. And that is exactly what I did. The first time I watched the whole series, I was blown away by the interweaving of plots, the complexity and ambiguity of the characters and the richness of the cultural allusions. The second time through, I could better appreciate all the clues and hints which I had missed. The third time through, and B5 lost a bit of its magic for me. I'd notice flaws in the writing or other faults.
Crusade, the spinoff series which followed B5, never grabbed my attention the same way. Crusade felt like so many random elements mixed together without ever truly blending.
I think I would watch a B5 movie, but then again, I'm familiar with the characters and the premise of the show. A big hurdle for a B5 theatrical release is how they can balance satisfying longtime B5 fans against the need to be accessible to people who have never watched the TV series. One of the strengths, and perhaps the strength of the show was its complexity, and I don't think that a 2 or 3 hour movie can encapsulate that.
I think the music industry would eventually want a system where consumers don't even possess copies of the music, but rather that the music is streamed on demand, and only to those people who can verify that they have actually purchased the "privilege" of listening to that music. A database could keep track of people's purchase history.
On one hand, this would be very convenient in terms of saving space. I still have a lot of CDs which haven't been ripped, and other people must be in the same situation. It would be handy to be able to access all that content and more without having to decide beforehand what I want to listen to on the go.
On the other hand, not only would this music delivery model use up lots of bandwidth, but it would also limit consumers even more in terms of what they could listen to. There's lots of stuff online, but not everything that I might conceivably want to hear. Especially if you like musical niche genres or stuff from other countries, it's not as easy to find what you want through legal music providers like iTunes.
Above all, this music delivery model would require that people give up their control over the music they love. People want to listen to music when they want to, how they want to, without anybody else peering over their shoulder.
I think the real problem is that our society praises people if they're smart, but at the same time it scorns the work of becoming smart, i.e. studying.
There's a funny disconnect in this country regarding intellectual matters. With most things, working hard to attain a goal is seen as good. If that goal happens to involve lots of reading or math, then people who work at it are looked down upon.
But this is/. and I guess this really isn't news for many of us.
Do you plan on keeping this server in the garage year-round? I would also be concerned about the heat and humidity of a garage which (presumably) wouldn't have air-conditioning.
Chapter 1 of a hypothetical iPod audiobook: "Did you know that you can do more with your iPod than just listen to music? You can, for example, listen to audio versions of books. The next chapter will explain how to do just that."
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I see a lot of people pull out laptops in airports and on planes, and I rarely see a Mac portable.
Given the Mac Portable's 15.8 pound weight, I wouldn't expect to see many of those in airports and on planes.
Can you even think of a worse idea??
Yes. Let's try to make yogurt with them.
You can try the first batch.
little known, but the Secret Service have jurisdiction over counterfeiting crimes
Not that little known. The Secret Service is part of the Treasury Department, after all.
Is it just me, or is browsing Apple's store really slow and painful in Safari, yet zippy with Firefox?
It's the same reasoning that goes behind groceries...the longer it takes you to find what you want, the more likely you'll buy something else on a whim.
The original BSG took the budget of a major network to put out. Now, a smaller cable channel can do a better job cheaper.
In this case, SciFi channel is owned by NBC/Universal. That's why NBC aired the BSG miniseries the same week as the series premiere and why NBC kept plugging the series that week as well. I have no idea what sort of budget SciFi channel has though.
I can see it now...the next stage in the evolution of Bollywood movies!
A product like this seems ideal to me for making an inventory of stuff for insurance purposes.
I do wonder just how comprehensive the data lookup is. If you have a lot of stuff from other countries or that's out-of-print, I wonder if it would still show up with this software.
I knew I shouldn't have eaten that jumbo bean burrito!
A bit more on the part about territorial claims to the Antarctic. According to the CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /ay.html, parts of Antarctica have been claimed by Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK, and some of those parts overlap. There's no mention on the website of any open conflict to uphold those claims.
Seriously, isn't the Arctic mostly ice on top of a minimal amount of land? I thought that Antarctica was the polar ice cap which had a large land mass underneath it.
I suppose that countries might try to put offshore oil rigs or something, but an actual land grab? Melt the Arctic ice cap and don't you just get open water?
Instructions, as in a manual of some kind? I would gladly read them if I could, but the manual always seems to be missing. I think David Pogue might have something to do with that.
I switched to OS X from Windows ME this year, and I have to say that OS X has proved to be very stable for me. So far I haven't experience a single kernel panic--the equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death. While applications do crash at times, I haven't had them drag down the whole system with them.
Applications and devices install painlessly and seamlessly, for the most part. The biggest problem I've had is with a few older applications which had both Win 95/Mac OS versions on the same CD-ROM. These applications aren't OS X native, so they have to be run in the Classic Mac OS emulator. After so many months of not thinking about memory management on this computer, it's a pain to have deal with it in the Classic environment.
In terms of the interface, there's a certain amount of unlearning to do when you switch from a Windows environment. You have to get used to having a single menu bar at the top of the screen. At first it strikes you as being slightly inconvenient, having to push the mouse pointer that much farther. Later you learn to appreciate the screen space that is recovered by not having multiple menu bars.
Deleting files also involves getting used to. I was accustomed to using the "Add/Remove Programs" app inside Windows Control Panel. With the Mac OS, you just drag the application to the Trash to delete it. It makes sense, and I guess it's intuitive, if you haven't already learned the Windows way.
Concerning moving files--OS X keeps track of where you move them, so you don't get the problem of a shortcut or alias pointing to an old, invalid file location.
For these and other reasons, Windows ends up feeling rather kludgey by comparison, at least to me. However it should be said that the OS X interface isn't as easily customizable as Windows right out of the box, from the graphical interface. There are ways to play around with the interface through the Terminal app and with shareware.
...the missile successfully hit the ocean.
Just to compare, I used to use Windows ME. It would crash quite often, and sometimes it would crash during the reboot process. I think uptime was a foreign concept to Win ME. I should have just used the BSOD as my wallpaper.
The way I see it, politicians in the US would be more willing to try to force an .xxx or .porn suffix than politicians in many other countries. This begs the question of how do you enforce national laws or policies on the international Internet. I know that other countries have tried, for different reasons.
I've wondered about this for quite a while. If there were a .porn domain, and if it were possible to force (and it isn't) adult websites to use that .porn domain, it would greatly simplify things for parents who rely on filtering software to block adult-oriented content. It would also simplify finding porn.
What I don't know is if filtering software would catch attempts to redirect to another site. For example if you went to www.whatever.com and it redirected you to www.whatever.porn.
When I first saw B5, I came up with the line "Nice concept, but it doesn't go anywhere." It's a space station, ha ha. I suppose the same could be said of DS9.
Now that I think about it, there were a few episodes of DS9 where the station does go places, generally putting it at risk in the process.
I meant to say that at first, B5 felt like DS9 done badly on a really cheap budget. Not that DS9 has bad lighting or cheesy makeup. Which could have been inferred from what I wrote. Sorry. I'll go now.
In the beginning, I had my first taste of Babylon 5 while I was traveling. My own cable service wasn't showing B5 at the time, so I figured I'd check it out. It seemed bad to the extreme--a bunch of humans and aliens on a space station, with bad lighting and cheesy makeup. It felt like DS9 done on a really cheap budget. If you know the series, it was the last half of the Soul Hunter episode--definitely not the best intro for a newbie.
My second encounter with B5 was...let's say it was less negative. It was an episode with a character who wore a very 2001-ish astronaut's uniform, and unfortunately for me, it was an episode full of flashbacks and hints of things to come. The episode didn't totally grab me, but it intrigued me enough to seek out the show if the chance came.
It was the dawn of a new age. The TNT cable network picked up B5 and made it one of their flagship programs. Now I could watch the whole series from the beginning, and I could watch each episode 2 or 3 times a day. And that is exactly what I did. The first time I watched the whole series, I was blown away by the interweaving of plots, the complexity and ambiguity of the characters and the richness of the cultural allusions. The second time through, I could better appreciate all the clues and hints which I had missed. The third time through, and B5 lost a bit of its magic for me. I'd notice flaws in the writing or other faults.
Crusade, the spinoff series which followed B5, never grabbed my attention the same way. Crusade felt like so many random elements mixed together without ever truly blending.
I think I would watch a B5 movie, but then again, I'm familiar with the characters and the premise of the show. A big hurdle for a B5 theatrical release is how they can balance satisfying longtime B5 fans against the need to be accessible to people who have never watched the TV series. One of the strengths, and perhaps the strength of the show was its complexity, and I don't think that a 2 or 3 hour movie can encapsulate that.
I think the music industry would eventually want a system where consumers don't even possess copies of the music, but rather that the music is streamed on demand, and only to those people who can verify that they have actually purchased the "privilege" of listening to that music. A database could keep track of people's purchase history.
On one hand, this would be very convenient in terms of saving space. I still have a lot of CDs which haven't been ripped, and other people must be in the same situation. It would be handy to be able to access all that content and more without having to decide beforehand what I want to listen to on the go.
On the other hand, not only would this music delivery model use up lots of bandwidth, but it would also limit consumers even more in terms of what they could listen to. There's lots of stuff online, but not everything that I might conceivably want to hear. Especially if you like musical niche genres or stuff from other countries, it's not as easy to find what you want through legal music providers like iTunes.
Above all, this music delivery model would require that people give up their control over the music they love. People want to listen to music when they want to, how they want to, without anybody else peering over their shoulder.
I think the real problem is that our society praises people if they're smart, but at the same time it scorns the work of becoming smart, i.e. studying.
/. and I guess this really isn't news for many of us.
There's a funny disconnect in this country regarding intellectual matters. With most things, working hard to attain a goal is seen as good. If that goal happens to involve lots of reading or math, then people who work at it are looked down upon.
But this is
Do you plan on keeping this server in the garage year-round? I would also be concerned about the heat and humidity of a garage which (presumably) wouldn't have air-conditioning.
Chapter 1 of a hypothetical iPod audiobook: "Did you know that you can do more with your iPod than just listen to music? You can, for example, listen to audio versions of books. The next chapter will explain how to do just that."
The srm command, without any flags, is supposed to overwrite a file 35 times.