True. But I think people are starting to get more awareness of the issues. Hopefully, if we create a culture where software never asks for more permissions than it bare minimum needs to get the job done people will start to ask themselves, why do these buddy icons need root? Or maybe I'm just an eternal optimist. One of the best things about OS X today is that most applications don't need an installer. The trouble is that people don't mind running an installer if they have to, so there's nothing to stop would be spyware makers from using one. And most users will probably even put in their admin password if asked. So, yes, the social hacking angle will always exist, but at least we can try to minimize the damage through sandboxing and computing education.
That's really insightful, because the Apollo program was completely funded as a means to plant flags in the dust, and totally not as way of showcasing our ability to deliver ICBM payloads precisely to insanely distant targets.
You know, I found the whole "wow, we're spending money on Iraq" argument insteresting the first time someone brought it up, but... Oh wait, no I didn't think it was interesting then either, because it's idiotic. America spends shitloads of cash on shitsloads of things. Hey, I bet if we didn't have interstate highways, we could spend it on space stations!! Or hey, let's get rid of firemen and just make moon buggies!! We don't need cops: more warp drive, plz!!! Or any other damn thing we spend money on. Except wait, no, we weren't willing to spend money on space in the 1990s when the budget was loose, and we aren't willing to now when the budget is tight. The only time we were interested in spending money on it, was when it looked like there might be some military benefits to doing it. Just shut the fuck up about this shit, and saving it for when it's even vaguely related to the topic at hand.
And I say this as someone oppossed to the fucking war!
People who think it's impossible to create spyware for Macs are fools. Now, due to architecture differences, it would be much harder, if not impossible to make the kinds of spyware that you get in Windows that burrow into the system.dlls and boot partitions in order to make themselves unremoveable. That level of spyware technology would be really hard to do on a Mac. But just listening in on Safari and reporting back to the mothership? That level of spyware would be trivial to create. Fortunately, it can also be detected through network activity monitors, but the threat remains. In my mind, the only way to stop spyware permanently is to sandbox every application, so that they can't view or modify any more of my home directory than I explicitly allow them to. Security minded users can jury rig such a system for themselves, but this needs to happen automatically and be easy for users to configure. Unfortunately, neither Windows nor Linux nor OS X implements such a sandbox at this time.
But still, we have to use our computers today as well as in the future, so my advice is to stick with OS X for today, since it's the best combination of user friendliness and security currently available. Just keep your eyes peeled in the future for better options, as ever.
I've heard it said before, and I believe it's true, that the culture of Mac shareware is such that you couldn't get away with it. As soon as someone got the slightest hint that you were up to something bad, they'd post it on VersionTracker, and your user rank would plummet down to half a star with all the comments being about how much you suck for including spyware. So, the key is that the community is pretty vigilant about not accept crap.
It's true that this could change someday, if the Mac marketshare were to grow to Microsoftian proportions. But that's not the case now, so why limit yourself to crap just because what's good now might not be quite as good later?
The key is for Mac users to remain vigilant and police the market.
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The advantage of YYYY-MM-DD is that you can sort your files alphabetically and they'll end up sorted by date too! Or you can just make years into folders and do it the US way, like wimps. The key thing though is never to write ambiguous crap like 03/08/09. Is that in the past or future? Summer or winter? Who knows! Use YYYY and disambiguate it, yo!
Oh OK. I thought I remembered it scrolling back when played it in the store, but when I looked it up on Wikipedia after posting, they didn't mention it, so I was wondering what my memory was of. Thanks for explaining it.
I believe that you could in the Game Boy Color rerelease. The GBA rerelease, which I have, stays true to the original, and does not allow scrolling backwards.
You are. I was surprised when I went back and played Mario 1 too, but it only scrolls horizontally. I think part of the genius is that you're so engrossed that you never notice. Before I went back and played it again, I could have swore it was different. Mario 2 had either horizontal or vertical scrolling depending on where you are, but never both at the same time. Mario 3 had both, which allowed for flying and whatnot.
Yes, but is there any sense in which being "twice as powerful" meaning "twice as power consuming" is a selling point? When consumers ask for "twice as powerful" then "twice the processing power" not "electrical consumption." Yet, the site purposefully glosses over the distinction. I understand that it's marketing gloss, but who the hell did they think they were fooling?
It looks like the slashdot audience is getting really hung up on the whole, "Is the Slate piece a satire or not?" thing. The thing is, as I commented before, "'satire' and 'non-satire' is a binary distinction that post-modernism transgresses proactively."
What I mean, is that the author both is and isn't kidding. Also, I'm both kidding and not kidding when I say "transgresses binary distinctions." Here's a helpful analogy: Let's imagine you're writing a horror story. You write, "Start breathing harder. OK. Let your pupils dilate. Shake a little. Cower. Think about other scary stuff. Be worried that something might kill you soon!" How effective would this be as a horror story? The answer is not at damn all. The best way to make someone frightened isn't to say, "be frightened," it's to say a bunch of other stuff that inspires fear in them.
Similarly, the content of the Slate piece isn't the point. The author almost certainly doesn't care whether Star War is "post-modern" or "avant garde." Instead, the author likes challenging his brain, and wants you to enjoy challenging your brain. So, he's given himself a task: come up with a post-modern meta-framing of Star Wars. Now, we the audience are supposed to allow our brains to quiver with joy as we connect the dots and think about whether and how the Force as a meta-explanation for plot coincidences in Star Wars can be called post-modern. The author is almost certainly serious in that this explanation is a valid one for Star Wars. The author is almost certainly joking in suggesting that Star Wars is High Art. The author is both serious and not, and that's the point.
If the author had written, "let your brain light up with activity. Think about connections. Enjoy the tingling of neurons firing," it wouldn't be effective. Instead, we're supposed to accept what the piece gives us without trying to shoe horn it into the category of "joke" or "not a joke." We're supposed to be enjoying how the piece is and isn't a joke, not trying to make it fit what we think about the quality of the Star Wars movies.
If you had kept reading, you would have read where the author explained why the droids stopping on Tatooine wasn't really a coincidence within the series because of the Force, aka the Thing That Drives Plot. Thus, all the weird coincidences in the movie are instantly papered over with an all purpose plot unifier. The author finds that interesting.
My volume and brightness keys on my 12" PowerBook don't seem to be working. Is anyone else having this problem? They used to work relatively well (if sometimes slower than I'd like).
Back in the days of CRTs, I was always waiting for someone to write a virus that sets your refresh rate so high that your monitor catches fire. That would have been a cool virus. It's probably too late for it now though.
Why? I can already fit every song I own in my pocket. In a couple years, I'll be able to fit all my videos on my iPod too. A few years after that, we'll have peta-byte iPods, and you'll have to work really, really hard to fill them. So, if this is the direction that storage technology is moving, what's the advantage of me using Google as my hard drive? Well, there's the fact that it's always on the internet, but there's no reason that my computer can't always be on the internet too. In fact, using my computer would be easier, since the bandwidth costs would be easier to deal with with a decentralized network than with everyone on earth connecting to California and slowing my ping times. Furthermore, can you really trust Google to never, ever get hacked, once it contains everyone's information? With a honey pot that large, some bear is bound to break into the cabin.
What makes sense for the future is for Google to release software that you install on your computer and allows you to connect to yourself at myname.supergoogle.com. If your computer is offline, then Google can route you to their backup copy of you, but on the whole, there's not much advantage to storing things on a mainframe. People like to own their own stuff. Wasn't that the whole lesson of the micro-computer revolution?
It's just like the old saying, "Once you outlaw forbidden space sex, then only criminals will have forbidden space sex." Or, "Forbidden space sex doesn't kill people; people so engrossed in forbidden space sex that they botch their mission kills people."
Yeah, I suppose in your case, you're better off with the 15". But probably most people who have good stereos also have component output DVD players. So, to those people, my advice stands.
Apple gets around the lag problem by having videos in iTunes play through speaker out not Airport Express. It's lame, but with the current generation of tech, there's no other way to get around the sync problem. Here's hoping that the "Airport Express 2.0 with Video Out" of rumors will solve the problem someday.
Even if you accept the premise that the Bible is fiction, it's not a novel. Novels are about following the inner life of protagonists. The Bible does a bunch of different things, mostly record-keeping, poetry, prophecy, and a little bit of philosophy, but it never does that.
In which case, you'll be using either headphones or the laptop's speakers. Not optical audio out.
I'm not saying that Airport Express is always the best option. I'm just saying, for a laptop user, if you just want optical out, then AE will probably cover 90% of what you want to do.
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True. But I think people are starting to get more awareness of the issues. Hopefully, if we create a culture where software never asks for more permissions than it bare minimum needs to get the job done people will start to ask themselves, why do these buddy icons need root? Or maybe I'm just an eternal optimist. One of the best things about OS X today is that most applications don't need an installer. The trouble is that people don't mind running an installer if they have to, so there's nothing to stop would be spyware makers from using one. And most users will probably even put in their admin password if asked. So, yes, the social hacking angle will always exist, but at least we can try to minimize the damage through sandboxing and computing education.
That's really insightful, because the Apollo program was completely funded as a means to plant flags in the dust, and totally not as way of showcasing our ability to deliver ICBM payloads precisely to insanely distant targets.
You know, I found the whole "wow, we're spending money on Iraq" argument insteresting the first time someone brought it up, but... Oh wait, no I didn't think it was interesting then either, because it's idiotic. America spends shitloads of cash on shitsloads of things. Hey, I bet if we didn't have interstate highways, we could spend it on space stations!! Or hey, let's get rid of firemen and just make moon buggies!! We don't need cops: more warp drive, plz!!! Or any other damn thing we spend money on. Except wait, no, we weren't willing to spend money on space in the 1990s when the budget was loose, and we aren't willing to now when the budget is tight. The only time we were interested in spending money on it, was when it looked like there might be some military benefits to doing it. Just shut the fuck up about this shit, and saving it for when it's even vaguely related to the topic at hand.
And I say this as someone oppossed to the fucking war!
People who think it's impossible to create spyware for Macs are fools. Now, due to architecture differences, it would be much harder, if not impossible to make the kinds of spyware that you get in Windows that burrow into the system .dlls and boot partitions in order to make themselves unremoveable. That level of spyware technology would be really hard to do on a Mac. But just listening in on Safari and reporting back to the mothership? That level of spyware would be trivial to create. Fortunately, it can also be detected through network activity monitors, but the threat remains. In my mind, the only way to stop spyware permanently is to sandbox every application, so that they can't view or modify any more of my home directory than I explicitly allow them to. Security minded users can jury rig such a system for themselves, but this needs to happen automatically and be easy for users to configure. Unfortunately, neither Windows nor Linux nor OS X implements such a sandbox at this time.
But still, we have to use our computers today as well as in the future, so my advice is to stick with OS X for today, since it's the best combination of user friendliness and security currently available. Just keep your eyes peeled in the future for better options, as ever.
I've heard it said before, and I believe it's true, that the culture of Mac shareware is such that you couldn't get away with it. As soon as someone got the slightest hint that you were up to something bad, they'd post it on VersionTracker, and your user rank would plummet down to half a star with all the comments being about how much you suck for including spyware. So, the key is that the community is pretty vigilant about not accept crap.
It's true that this could change someday, if the Mac marketshare were to grow to Microsoftian proportions. But that's not the case now, so why limit yourself to crap just because what's good now might not be quite as good later?
The key is for Mac users to remain vigilant and police the market.
The advantage of YYYY-MM-DD is that you can sort your files alphabetically and they'll end up sorted by date too! Or you can just make years into folders and do it the US way, like wimps. The key thing though is never to write ambiguous crap like 03/08/09. Is that in the past or future? Summer or winter? Who knows! Use YYYY and disambiguate it, yo!
...if it looks too good to be true, it probably is ... going to be on Slashdot's frontpage sooner or later.
And duped.
Oh OK. I thought I remembered it scrolling back when played it in the store, but when I looked it up on Wikipedia after posting, they didn't mention it, so I was wondering what my memory was of. Thanks for explaining it.
I believe that you could in the Game Boy Color rerelease. The GBA rerelease, which I have, stays true to the original, and does not allow scrolling backwards.
You are. I was surprised when I went back and played Mario 1 too, but it only scrolls horizontally. I think part of the genius is that you're so engrossed that you never notice. Before I went back and played it again, I could have swore it was different. Mario 2 had either horizontal or vertical scrolling depending on where you are, but never both at the same time. Mario 3 had both, which allowed for flying and whatnot.
Yes, but is there any sense in which being "twice as powerful" meaning "twice as power consuming" is a selling point? When consumers ask for "twice as powerful" then "twice the processing power" not "electrical consumption." Yet, the site purposefully glosses over the distinction. I understand that it's marketing gloss, but who the hell did they think they were fooling?
The problem went away after I installed the Aiport update then reset. Mysterious.
It looks like the slashdot audience is getting really hung up on the whole, "Is the Slate piece a satire or not?" thing. The thing is, as I commented before, "'satire' and 'non-satire' is a binary distinction that post-modernism transgresses proactively."
What I mean, is that the author both is and isn't kidding. Also, I'm both kidding and not kidding when I say "transgresses binary distinctions." Here's a helpful analogy: Let's imagine you're writing a horror story. You write, "Start breathing harder. OK. Let your pupils dilate. Shake a little. Cower. Think about other scary stuff. Be worried that something might kill you soon!" How effective would this be as a horror story? The answer is not at damn all. The best way to make someone frightened isn't to say, "be frightened," it's to say a bunch of other stuff that inspires fear in them.
Similarly, the content of the Slate piece isn't the point. The author almost certainly doesn't care whether Star War is "post-modern" or "avant garde." Instead, the author likes challenging his brain, and wants you to enjoy challenging your brain. So, he's given himself a task: come up with a post-modern meta-framing of Star Wars. Now, we the audience are supposed to allow our brains to quiver with joy as we connect the dots and think about whether and how the Force as a meta-explanation for plot coincidences in Star Wars can be called post-modern. The author is almost certainly serious in that this explanation is a valid one for Star Wars. The author is almost certainly joking in suggesting that Star Wars is High Art. The author is both serious and not, and that's the point.
If the author had written, "let your brain light up with activity. Think about connections. Enjoy the tingling of neurons firing," it wouldn't be effective. Instead, we're supposed to accept what the piece gives us without trying to shoe horn it into the category of "joke" or "not a joke." We're supposed to be enjoying how the piece is and isn't a joke, not trying to make it fit what we think about the quality of the Star Wars movies.
"Satire" and "non-satire" is a binary distinction that post-modernism transgresses proactively.
If you had kept reading, you would have read where the author explained why the droids stopping on Tatooine wasn't really a coincidence within the series because of the Force, aka the Thing That Drives Plot. Thus, all the weird coincidences in the movie are instantly papered over with an all purpose plot unifier. The author finds that interesting.
My volume and brightness keys on my 12" PowerBook don't seem to be working. Is anyone else having this problem? They used to work relatively well (if sometimes slower than I'd like).
It would be interesting if someone made a Liza virus-bot.
Liza: How do you feel about opening [link]?
Buddy: Uh, ok, whatever.
Buddy: Dammit.
Liza: Are you angry at me because I pwnzed j00?
Back in the days of CRTs, I was always waiting for someone to write a virus that sets your refresh rate so high that your monitor catches fire. That would have been a cool virus. It's probably too late for it now though.
The Revolution will not be televised.
But it will feature "the teeth brushing game!!"
A Canon Word Tank costs as much as or more than a DS plus cartridge, and it can't play Mario Kart.
;p
Besides, I'm a Sharp-man, anyhow.
Why? I can already fit every song I own in my pocket. In a couple years, I'll be able to fit all my videos on my iPod too. A few years after that, we'll have peta-byte iPods, and you'll have to work really, really hard to fill them. So, if this is the direction that storage technology is moving, what's the advantage of me using Google as my hard drive? Well, there's the fact that it's always on the internet, but there's no reason that my computer can't always be on the internet too. In fact, using my computer would be easier, since the bandwidth costs would be easier to deal with with a decentralized network than with everyone on earth connecting to California and slowing my ping times. Furthermore, can you really trust Google to never, ever get hacked, once it contains everyone's information? With a honey pot that large, some bear is bound to break into the cabin.
What makes sense for the future is for Google to release software that you install on your computer and allows you to connect to yourself at myname.supergoogle.com. If your computer is offline, then Google can route you to their backup copy of you, but on the whole, there's not much advantage to storing things on a mainframe. People like to own their own stuff. Wasn't that the whole lesson of the micro-computer revolution?
It's just like the old saying, "Once you outlaw forbidden space sex, then only criminals will have forbidden space sex." Or, "Forbidden space sex doesn't kill people; people so engrossed in forbidden space sex that they botch their mission kills people."
The lesser of two, duh.
Yeah, I suppose in your case, you're better off with the 15". But probably most people who have good stereos also have component output DVD players. So, to those people, my advice stands.
Apple gets around the lag problem by having videos in iTunes play through speaker out not Airport Express. It's lame, but with the current generation of tech, there's no other way to get around the sync problem. Here's hoping that the "Airport Express 2.0 with Video Out" of rumors will solve the problem someday.
Even if you accept the premise that the Bible is fiction, it's not a novel. Novels are about following the inner life of protagonists. The Bible does a bunch of different things, mostly record-keeping, poetry, prophecy, and a little bit of philosophy, but it never does that.
In which case, you'll be using either headphones or the laptop's speakers. Not optical audio out.
I'm not saying that Airport Express is always the best option. I'm just saying, for a laptop user, if you just want optical out, then AE will probably cover 90% of what you want to do.