Apple gets a lot of flak about the one-button mouse, but I can't see any justification for it. The whole interface was designed from the start not to need a second button on the mouse It's paramount to the simplicity of the Mac interface, but even the person responsible for it admits to the usefulness of having a second mouse button (from the Wikipedia article):
He is credited with the decision to use a one-button mouse as part of the Apple interface, a departure from the Xerox PARC standard of a three-button mouse. He has since stated that were he to redesign the interface today, he would have used a two button mouse.
I don't think it was a mistake for them to go with a single button, but it's more of a fundamental difference in the design. I couldn't imagine using a Windows computer without the right button, as much as I can't see a need for one on a Mac.
just two colors ("on" and "off", as it would happen)
The mono iPod has four shades at least. The borders between the days in the calendar are a light gray; and the back of the cards in solitaire are a darker gray. Add "on" (black) and "off" and you have four colors. (Incidentally, the Gameboy uses a four-color grayscale display as well.)
EveryMac has some very detailed tech specs about the iPod; the fourth generation model has dual 80MHz ARM processors and 32 megabytes of RAM, which I would imagine is more than enough to emulate the Gameboy's 8MHz with 64k RAM. The button limitation would require some creativity, but it wouldn't be impossible.
No need to set up any fake-pirated-movie honeypots; the MPAA is already sending out enough frivolous legal threats to random websites for no apparent reason as it is.
For example: Scene.org got a copyright infringement notice a while ago claiming that a 62kb file supposedly contained an entire season of a television series. (What's funniest about this is when they sent the notice, the file wasn't even downloadable because it was still in/incoming!) Linux Australia was the recipient of a similar notice about a couple of movies that they never had, Grind and Twisted. The files in question were Valgrind and Twisted Matrix.
All right, whoever modded this flamebait obviously doesn't know where it's from, which is excusable, but what's worse, they didn't even bother clicking the link.
This is funny, and perhaps underrated, but flamebait it is not. Pure genius.
Who cares if he got money out of it? People win stuff in gambling bets and in casinos all the time. Now, someone who actually took the time to read an EULA -- that is newsworthy!
Demo coders were using video ram for non-video back in 1992.
IIRC, they used video memory for the audio because regular memory wasn't fast enough, and then they used soundcard RAM for the video... or something like that; it's been a while.
Anything I can do with the dock I can do with a cable that plugs directly into the iPod instead of the dock.
Not quite anything. You can't connect it to your stereo without the dock's line-out. The iPod proper only has a headphone jack, and to hook that up to a stereo you'd need to turn the volume up all the way.
Online advertisers are focusing too much on the short-term: get people to see the ad. Banners worked for a while, then everyone started ignoring them, so they went for more annoyingly sized and placed ads, popups, popunders, etc., which caught people's attention for a while. Then ad blockers came along, and suddenly online advertising came to a screeching halt as they tried to figure out how to get around them. Now they have, and look how quickly people are asking how to block the new popups.
Most banner ads are completely useless, and I'm not missing anything by blocking. I don't need faster downloads and more local access numbers, and I don't care that I could win a free iPod by guessing which disembodied head is Britney Spears. Maybe if I had been looking at the homepage of some well-known overpriced dialup ISP, I would have greater than zero chance of caring that some other ISP is cheaper and faster; if I were reading a website about Britney Spears, I might want to get that iPod. Okay, the last one still wouldn't apply, since I already have an iPod, and don't like Britney Spears anyway, but that's beside the point.
Other online advertisers should take a nice long look at AdSense, marvel in its simplicity and usefulness. I've seen online advertising grow up from the moderately tasteful small static banner image to the obnoxious beast that it's become and have never yet had any reason to click on a single one of them until AdSense came along and started providing relevant and interesting ads. In fact, oh-so-long ago, I didn't even know ad banners were clickable. I presume a lot of non-net-savvy people still don't realize it. This is another advantage of using text ads: people look at colored underlined text and equate it with "click this", whereas they see some out-of-place picture and mentally filter it out as irrelevant.
I would still rather see people encrypt all their data than to send (even potentially) sensitive data in plain text. Sure, the best option would be educating people on what is really important, and thus worth encrypting, but a lot of people can't seem to grasp the concept of privacy/security. I know people who would submit a credit card number to some shady website over plain HTTP, without even looking on the page for a privacy policy.
Granted, it is borderline ridiculous to encrypt anything and everything, but it's better than not encrypting anything at all and hoping nobody's looking.
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Apple gets a lot of flak about the one-button mouse, but I can't see any justification for it. The whole interface was designed from the start not to need a second button on the mouse It's paramount to the simplicity of the Mac interface, but even the person responsible for it admits to the usefulness of having a second mouse button (from the Wikipedia article):
He is credited with the decision to use a one-button mouse as part of the Apple interface, a departure from the Xerox PARC standard of a three-button mouse. He has since stated that were he to redesign the interface today, he would have used a two button mouse.
I don't think it was a mistake for them to go with a single button, but it's more of a fundamental difference in the design. I couldn't imagine using a Windows computer without the right button, as much as I can't see a need for one on a Mac.
just two colors ("on" and "off", as it would happen)
The mono iPod has four shades at least. The borders between the days in the calendar are a light gray; and the back of the cards in solitaire are a darker gray. Add "on" (black) and "off" and you have four colors. (Incidentally, the Gameboy uses a four-color grayscale display as well.)
EveryMac has some very detailed tech specs about the iPod; the fourth generation model has dual 80MHz ARM processors and 32 megabytes of RAM, which I would imagine is more than enough to emulate the Gameboy's 8MHz with 64k RAM. The button limitation would require some creativity, but it wouldn't be impossible.
Keeped, huh?
Funny that the quote you copied has the word "irony" in it.
iPod shuffle isn't the first iPod to have a shuffle play function is it? That just seems bizarre to leave off.
Did you just hear a whooshing noise?
I have been hearing a lot of the same stuff... first it was a bunch of 3 Doors Down, and now it keeps picking Alice in Chains!
Oh wait, mine's not an iPod shuffle. Never mind.
Such as this?
No need to set up any fake-pirated-movie honeypots; the MPAA is already sending out enough frivolous legal threats to random websites for no apparent reason as it is.
/incoming!)
For example: Scene.org got a copyright infringement notice a while ago claiming that a 62kb file supposedly contained an entire season of a television series. (What's funniest about this is when they sent the notice, the file wasn't even downloadable because it was still in
Linux Australia was the recipient of a similar notice about a couple of movies that they never had, Grind and Twisted. The files in question were Valgrind and Twisted Matrix.
And of course nothing teaches wacky computer-land physics like a quality game of Scorched Earth.
Physics? You'd be better off with something like Half-Life 2. It runs with Cedega, so I've heard.
That might be a good thing. I'm certain we would see a lot fewer stupid patents approved if someone like him was in charge.
All right, whoever modded this flamebait obviously doesn't know where it's from, which is excusable, but what's worse, they didn't even bother clicking the link.
This is funny, and perhaps underrated, but flamebait it is not. Pure genius.
Who cares if he got money out of it? People win stuff in gambling bets and in casinos all the time. Now, someone who actually took the time to read an EULA -- that is newsworthy!
Demo coders were using video ram for non-video back in 1992.
IIRC, they used video memory for the audio because regular memory wasn't fast enough, and then they used soundcard RAM for the video... or something like that; it's been a while.
Anything I can do with the dock I can do with a cable that plugs directly into the iPod instead of the dock.
Not quite anything. You can't connect it to your stereo without the dock's line-out. The iPod proper only has a headphone jack, and to hook that up to a stereo you'd need to turn the volume up all the way.
... and I got everything else right, but misspelled "<" and ">".
5) PROFIT!... oh, wait.
Excellent point; you hit the nail on the head.
Online advertisers are focusing too much on the short-term: get people to see the ad. Banners worked for a while, then everyone started ignoring them, so they went for more annoyingly sized and placed ads, popups, popunders, etc., which caught people's attention for a while. Then ad blockers came along, and suddenly online advertising came to a screeching halt as they tried to figure out how to get around them. Now they have, and look how quickly people are asking how to block the new popups.
Most banner ads are completely useless, and I'm not missing anything by blocking. I don't need faster downloads and more local access numbers, and I don't care that I could win a free iPod by guessing which disembodied head is Britney Spears. Maybe if I had been looking at the homepage of some well-known overpriced dialup ISP, I would have greater than zero chance of caring that some other ISP is cheaper and faster; if I were reading a website about Britney Spears, I might want to get that iPod. Okay, the last one still wouldn't apply, since I already have an iPod, and don't like Britney Spears anyway, but that's beside the point.
Other online advertisers should take a nice long look at AdSense, marvel in its simplicity and usefulness. I've seen online advertising grow up from the moderately tasteful small static banner image to the obnoxious beast that it's become and have never yet had any reason to click on a single one of them until AdSense came along and started providing relevant and interesting ads. In fact, oh-so-long ago, I didn't even know ad banners were clickable. I presume a lot of non-net-savvy people still don't realize it. This is another advantage of using text ads: people look at colored underlined text and equate it with "click this", whereas they see some out-of-place picture and mentally filter it out as irrelevant.
The way I back up my /home is slightly insane, but it works: cat /dev/hda3 | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -
It does involve making the partition about the same size as a CD (or DVD) but it's fast, cheap, and bit-for-bit exact.
Google for whirlpool produces a bunch of pages about the washing machine company. This is probably what you're referring to.
(PHPBBQ? *mentally runs sed s/PHP/PGP/g on post*)
I would still rather see people encrypt all their data than to send (even potentially) sensitive data in plain text. Sure, the best option would be educating people on what is really important, and thus worth encrypting, but a lot of people can't seem to grasp the concept of privacy/security. I know people who would submit a credit card number to some shady website over plain HTTP, without even looking on the page for a privacy policy.
Granted, it is borderline ridiculous to encrypt anything and everything, but it's better than not encrypting anything at all and hoping nobody's looking.
What solution is there? Moving to a stronger hashing algorithm is surely better than doing nothing at all.
That design is nothing compared to this.
30E might be more accurate.
Clearly not a dupe: the first story was about the explosion, and this one's about the flash.
Beowulf clusters are old news. RAID is trendy now.