This is just plain stupid and wrong. Person #2 is 2 light seconds away from person number #1. At 12:00 person #1 waves, at 12:02 person #2 sees the wave, at 12:03 person #2 reacts to the wave by waving, 12:05 person #3 sees person #2s wave... wash rinse repeat. Information (the 'wave') cannot travel faster than c
I think he meant that all the people in the line are acting entirely independently, using their (synchronized) wristwatches to determine when they should wave according to a schedule agreed upon in advance. They are specifically NOT waiting for any signal from the person up the line from their position. Thus, the wavefront can *appear* to propagate arbitrarily quickly (even instantaneously, if you tell them all to wave at 12:00.)
I thought that was a little unfair myself, as it was an honest question. I got much better responses to the maximize question in a different spot in this thread; see responses to my post at:
And I suspect I would get used to it eventually and not mind it any longer if I used Macs routinely. Heck, maybe there's a good reason to be unable to maximize a window as I'm used to doing. I grant that the user paradigm is different, and that I don't know it well at all.
But it sure did make me uncomfortable back when I did occasionally have to use a Mac at work. Especially as this was back in the "circular hockey puck mouse" days. Seriously, was that something I'd have gotten used to too? I can't imagine.
(I know, OS X is an entirely different beast, and hockey puck mice are long since gone.)
Me, I can't stand not having a Maximize button on Macs that behaves as it does under Windows (i.e., maximizing the current window to take up the entire screen, even if the info displayed doesn't require it.)
What category does that complaint fit into? Substantial criticism, or shades of gray?
(I'm sure there must be some add-on or work-around that would provide that functionality, but as I rarely ever use Macs I haven't bothered to find out.)
So true. I only use Windows, pretty much for historical reasons, but I've nothing against Macs per se, and might even buy one next time around (though I can't imagine I'll give up cobbling together my own boxes as a hobby.) But I hate, loathe and despise Mac advertising, and feel about the same toward the fanboys. Good thing I can (just barely) mentally separate the marketing from the equipment.
There's your problem. The person going to jail for 40 years should be the one who decided to let Windows into a classroom. Won't somebody think of the children!
Straying off-topic a bit I suppose, but with hard disks so cheap I decided to just put two 320 GB drives in a RAID-1 array (which my Asus A8V mobo happens to support). Now I don't bother routinely backing up the data (photos, MP3s, "My Documents" folder, etc.) that I store on these drives. (However, I do burn my most recent photos to DVD-ROM every six months or so; I make two sets of DVDs and store one off-site.)
What do you guys think of a RAID setup as an alternative to explicitly backing up files for a home user?
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This is just plain stupid and wrong. Person #2 is 2 light seconds away from person number #1. At 12:00 person #1 waves, at 12:02 person #2 sees the wave, at 12:03 person #2 reacts to the wave by waving, 12:05 person #3 sees person #2s wave ... wash rinse repeat. Information (the 'wave') cannot travel faster than c
I think he meant that all the people in the line are acting entirely independently, using their (synchronized) wristwatches to determine when they should wave according to a schedule agreed upon in advance. They are specifically NOT waiting for any signal from the person up the line from their position. Thus, the wavefront can *appear* to propagate arbitrarily quickly (even instantaneously, if you tell them all to wave at 12:00.)
But what the hell do I know; I'm not a physicist.
For playing Age of Empires during boring Pentagon meetings or something.
A boring Pentagon meeting is ALREADY a game of Age of Empires, but for real.
Somebody actually wasted a point to mod my stupid joke down?
I guess he must have been either a Soviet, a Kansan, or a monkey.
What's 'LH' refer to? thanks!
LH = Longhorn, the working name of Vista at the time of Allchin's email. Oh, and you're welcome.
I thought that was a little unfair myself, as it was an honest question. I got much better responses to the maximize question in a different spot in this thread; see responses to my post at:
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If you're finding it difficult to do something in MacOSX, it's quite likely that you are trying do do something in an un-needed complicated way.
OK, then how do I uncomplicatedly maximize an open window is OS X, the way I maximize them in Windows?
And I suspect I would get used to it eventually and not mind it any longer if I used Macs routinely. Heck, maybe there's a good reason to be unable to maximize a window as I'm used to doing. I grant that the user paradigm is different, and that I don't know it well at all.
But it sure did make me uncomfortable back when I did occasionally have to use a Mac at work. Especially as this was back in the "circular hockey puck mouse" days. Seriously, was that something I'd have gotten used to too? I can't imagine.
(I know, OS X is an entirely different beast, and hockey puck mice are long since gone.)
Me, I can't stand not having a Maximize button on Macs that behaves as it does under Windows (i.e., maximizing the current window to take up the entire screen, even if the info displayed doesn't require it.)
What category does that complaint fit into? Substantial criticism, or shades of gray?
(I'm sure there must be some add-on or work-around that would provide that functionality, but as I rarely ever use Macs I haven't bothered to find out.)
The problem is those infuriating mac commercials!
So true. I only use Windows, pretty much for historical reasons, but I've nothing against Macs per se, and might even buy one next time around (though I can't imagine I'll give up cobbling together my own boxes as a hobby.) But I hate, loathe and despise Mac advertising, and feel about the same toward the fanboys. Good thing I can (just barely) mentally separate the marketing from the equipment.
Unkess, of course, you grow up and not need games so much any more.
(snip)
On an asside note...
Your diatribe against gaming seemed pretty asside to me.
There's your problem. The person going to jail for 40 years should be the one who decided to let Windows into a classroom. Won't somebody think of the children!
Unfortunately, it's not an actual guy that's traveling from company to company; it's just the meme.
(c'mon, It can't *still* be 'too soon')
No, but it can still be not funny.
To say nothing all of the unexamined potential economic advantages to being in the dark.
If I had mod points you'd be at +5 Funny right now.
Why was I modded flamebait? I really wonder why someone with something to hide wouldn't avail themselves of freely available tools to do so.
Makes you wonder why she didn't just use TrueCrypt.
Not when one's post is coherent and makes a fair point. (That's bad form only because it's unusual enough to upset the regulars.)
so MS has the final say in what businesses can do with open source software? funny, i don't remember electing them.
Sure you do. I have a printout of your e-ballot for Microsoft right here, printed by my trusty little Diebold vote tallying machine...
Now all we need are little jet packs on the ankles.
Straying off-topic a bit I suppose, but with hard disks so cheap I decided to just put two 320 GB drives in a RAID-1 array (which my Asus A8V mobo happens to support). Now I don't bother routinely backing up the data (photos, MP3s, "My Documents" folder, etc.) that I store on these drives. (However, I do burn my most recent photos to DVD-ROM every six months or so; I make two sets of DVDs and store one off-site.)
What do you guys think of a RAID setup as an alternative to explicitly backing up files for a home user?
You're right; this has nothing to do with the Media Access Control address.
The problem we have, the deeply endemic pathology in society is not apathy, stupidity or greed, it is cowardice.
Said the Anonymous Coward.
...no one asked the kid if he wanted to born here.
How could someone ever ask a kid if he wants to be born?
So I'm not at all suppirsed to see Ubutnu (which is odd to Western ears at any rate...
Ubuntu sounds odd enough to Western ears. Ubutnu sound positively pornographic. (Where can I download it?)