I had the chance to play one of these with Metroid. I really liked it. There seems to be some discussion over the usefulness of the touch pad and I've found that the touch pad servers to mimic a mouse in fps's quite well. I felt at home pretty quickly. It was quite responsive too.
I'm still holding out for the PSP though. I think nintendo games are a little too cute for me.
I don't really understand what AOL is doing for a business anymore. Even my Mom understands the Internet enough to not need AOL to hold her hand the whole way through.
Can someone explain what they do that is unique?
I'd like to clarify a tad... GPS's aren't specific enough and can be inaccurate enough to make this not perfect security, like is always claimed with NEW AWESOME PRODUCTS!
Traingulation may not be perfect either, but it might be a better lead to "only the boss gets internet in the boss's office" type things.
He only has media attention because of his work back in the day with Apple. I don't think anything he's done since has been any good or has even gone anywhere.
Does anyone even remember that OpenBSD firewall he had?
GPS devices aren't even good locators. How about triangulation or something more along the lines of determining where someone is instead?
Slow as in the whole interface. If I wanted to move the window around or expand it's size it would slow down the machine. It was annoying. Using Firefox got rid of that.
Agreed. What I did for them was to replace IE and Outlook with Firefox and Thunderbird. Just as you suggested, only it happened about a month ago.
So far, things seem to be pretty smooth...
Right, obvee don't run random programs, etc...
My question was more about when people use the computer in some reasonable fashion. The physics professors at my school seem to get loaded with spyware and all they do is go to physics websites and a few news sites. Nothing out of the ordinary. I was curious if the same thing ever happens on Mac systems.
As for Java, I am mainly curious if people care enough about other platforms to write their spyware in a platform independent language. I haven't heard of it being done, but who says it isn't being done... you know?
As for sandboxing, I guess I made the mistake in thinking it applied for more than just applets...
I use a mac and firefox. As far as I know, I haven't had any problems. Does anyone bother to make spyware for mac's? Does Java's sandboxing make it hard to write platform-independent spyware?
I wasn't using the full mozilla suite for a long while. It was too slow for me. I went back and forth between Galeon and Konqueror because I didn't like either enough.
Since firefox has been out, I've been happy.
Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix. Whatev it was called along the way...
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I had the chance to play one of these with Metroid. I really liked it. There seems to be some discussion over the usefulness of the touch pad and I've found that the touch pad servers to mimic a mouse in fps's quite well. I felt at home pretty quickly. It was quite responsive too. I'm still holding out for the PSP though. I think nintendo games are a little too cute for me.
I don't really understand what AOL is doing for a business anymore. Even my Mom understands the Internet enough to not need AOL to hold her hand the whole way through. Can someone explain what they do that is unique?
I'd like to clarify a tad... GPS's aren't specific enough and can be inaccurate enough to make this not perfect security, like is always claimed with NEW AWESOME PRODUCTS! Traingulation may not be perfect either, but it might be a better lead to "only the boss gets internet in the boss's office" type things.
He only has media attention because of his work back in the day with Apple. I don't think anything he's done since has been any good or has even gone anywhere. Does anyone even remember that OpenBSD firewall he had? GPS devices aren't even good locators. How about triangulation or something more along the lines of determining where someone is instead?
Slow as in the whole interface. If I wanted to move the window around or expand it's size it would slow down the machine. It was annoying. Using Firefox got rid of that.
Agreed. What I did for them was to replace IE and Outlook with Firefox and Thunderbird. Just as you suggested, only it happened about a month ago. So far, things seem to be pretty smooth...
Right, obvee don't run random programs, etc... My question was more about when people use the computer in some reasonable fashion. The physics professors at my school seem to get loaded with spyware and all they do is go to physics websites and a few news sites. Nothing out of the ordinary. I was curious if the same thing ever happens on Mac systems. As for Java, I am mainly curious if people care enough about other platforms to write their spyware in a platform independent language. I haven't heard of it being done, but who says it isn't being done... you know? As for sandboxing, I guess I made the mistake in thinking it applied for more than just applets...
I wasn't referring to applets. I can't imagine anyone would write spyware as an applet...
What about Thunderbird and Mozilla's calendar extensions for either one? The calendar
I use a mac and firefox. As far as I know, I haven't had any problems. Does anyone bother to make spyware for mac's? Does Java's sandboxing make it hard to write platform-independent spyware?
I wasn't using the full mozilla suite for a long while. It was too slow for me. I went back and forth between Galeon and Konqueror because I didn't like either enough. Since firefox has been out, I've been happy. Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix. Whatev it was called along the way...