What kills me is printers. I mean, there are very few ways printers differ, really, until you get to high-end and professional printers. But every single home printer requires its own goddamn driver! In order to get them to "just work", Apple has to include 1.5GB of printer drivers. (Presumably, Windows still operates on the "install drivers as you need them" philosophy.) FIFTEEN HUNDRED FUCKING MEGABYTES. TO SQUIRT INK ONTO A PAGE.
In my (admittedly limited) sample set, the past has shown quite the opposite.
Dreamcast vs PS2: PS2, hands down. You say that's because the Dreamcast was less powerful... well why do you think it was less powerful? Because it was rushed out the door!
PS2 vs. XBox: It's taken its time, but in the long run (not having any sales figures to go by) people are talking a lot more about the XBox these days.
Genesis vs. SNES: Sure, Genesis had its share of classics - but most of them were Sonic games. The SNES library is overflowing with excellent games.
The lesson is simple: Releasing early may give you the advantage for 6 months, but the later console will have the advantage for the better part of five years. It pays to take extra time at system launch time to design the system more thoroughly.
Wrong. A cashier has to print a copy of the receipt (with your card # on it. YOUR copy may not have that number but the vender copy most certainly does.),
I have never seen the full card number printed on any receipt since I've been using my card (and I do work at a register, at least where I've worked, our copies don't either) - they always X out the first 12 digits, or 10 or so in the middle.
Let's also keep in mind how easy it is to steal your credit card information as it is. The number is written RIGHT ON your card. Every cashier you ever give your credit card to has access to that number.
Unless the cashier has a photographic memory, he/she would have to write the number down while the card is still in their possession - and if I ever see a cashier do that the cops shall be called.
If you're confident with encrytpion to someplace perhaps thousands of miles away, why are you not comfortable with encryption to something 10 inches away?
Because I'm confident that any company engaging in credit card theft will promptly get caught, prosecuted, and sued the pants off of. The same may not hold true for an individual, and the fact that there are two dozen people standing within RFID range when most transactions are done greatly disturbs me.
Either the encryption method used is good, or it ain't.
And it ain't good enough. I can promise you it will be cracked sooner rather than later.
Also, there are other savings here than just your time: Contactless transactions are chepaer to process than signed paper credit card transactions. Merchants can save a lot of money not having to pay cashiers to sit there and watch you sign the receipt, and credit card companies can save money not having to archive those pieces of paper.
You haven't gone to fast food places lately, have you? McDonald's, Wendy's, and Panera (the 3 joints i frequent most) do not require a signature on credit cards if the transaction is small (less than $25 or so). So, there is next to no money saved on that point.
Do you happen to work for Microsoft? You seem to agree with their security policy.
RFID is a very good idea for many things, such as grocery tagging. For credit cards it's awful. There are only two possible states of an RFID credit card: 1) Safely in a sleeve, where no one can read it 2) Out in the open, where everyone in a certain radius can read it
In other words, you can't spend it without exposing it. Joe Hacker can hang out next to the checkout line at your grocery store for 5 minutes and get a dozen credit card numbers.
I don't care how much you encrypt it: it'll be cracked, and sooner rather than later. The fact that they are compounding this with no regulation of requiring signitures is one of the worst security decisions I've ever heard of - far worse than anything Microsoft has ever put out, and that INCLUDES ActiveX. Because ActiveX breaches don't immediately and directly cause credit card numbers to get stolen en masse unless combined with social engineering.
Actually, with the amount of power these new consoles sport, they could easily have their predecessors, as well as their Competitor's predecessors games to back them up.
Actually, that's not usually true.
Despite whatever numbers are given for "it's x times more powerful than the last system", (remember, that's marketing-speak) the rule of thumb is that the emulated system must be at least 2 generations old: a PS1 couldn't emulate a SNES, a PS2 couldn't emulate an N64.
The exception to this is if parts of the old system are actually IN the new one: either hardware (for example, the PS2 contained the PS1 chipset as its I/O controller, and apparently the PS3 contains the PS2's chipset somewhere similarly) or software (in the case of the XBox, I assume they'll be porting DirectX to the new processor to eliminate a lot of the computing, at least in the grpahics; and using Virtual PC's x86 emulation for the rest.)
However, unless Sony, say, lent Microsoft its graphics API, the XBox 360 would NOT be able to emulate the PS2, and the PS3 would likewise not be able to emulate the XBox.
Why should Apple have to put in a warning for something that isn't even enabled? You used an unsupported method of obtaining other options that your system does not let you see by default. They shouldn't have to worry about that.
And I never said they're supposed to. But the people in this thread don't seem to think there's any chance of anything going wrong despite the fact that it's hidden, and I posted mainly to make sure people realized that there's a possibility that they usually don't have to plan for or think about.
guess it's time to change your/. name
I don't follow... what does that have to do with anything?
You're selling your mini because you don't know how to change a system preference? How about reinstalling from scratch?
To be honest, the mini was an impulse buy in the first place - I already have a Powerbook (albeit with a broken display) that outperforms the mini in most areas. I'd originally planned to use the mini as a server, but I never got around to moving it downstairs and whatnot. I've gone back to using the Powerbook and I'm now using the mini as a hard drive, biding my time until my friend ponies up the money:)
Never mind, scratch that. Can I buy your new iMac after you mess up some of the settings on that one too? It can fund your new G5;)
If and when a PMG5 becomes a possibility financially..... maybe;) But realistically.... not really.
You don't seem to understand. The display being rotated is not a problem: when the computer attempts to rotate the display, it corrupts the image.
In safe mode (shift at startup), the display is unrotated and super low res. But, no matter how many times I press option and click displays, that dropdown never comes up.
If you are using an old monitor, this could render your computer quite useless.
You know that 15 second confirm dialog, which appears anytime you change resolutions? In case the display gets corrupted, it automatically reverts and you've lost nothing but 15 secondss' time.
However (as of 10.4.0) THIS DIALOG IS NOT DISPLAYED WHEN YOU CHANGE THE ROTATION SETTING. I can't imagine why it doesn't - probably an oversight - but it is a major pain in the ass to get the display back to the way it was - particularly in my case, not having another monitor I can use. VNC doesn't seem to work when a monitor is not plugged in (or, it's giving an unrelated error which I can't see anyway), booting into safe mode won't display the pulldown menu, and there are no less than four places on the hard drive this setting is stored (I've deleted 3 and the setting is still remembered, so there's at least one I'm missing).
In fact, I've given up, and am selling the mini to a friend to fund a new iMac
Summary: If you don't think you'll actually USE this feature, don't risk making your monitor useless by testing it. At least until Apple adds that dialog.
That's the exact opposite of what the article was claiming. He says that Star Trek sucked from the beginning, but it was the only sci-fi most people knew for generations (because they didn't read). Now that decent sci-fi is starting to come into its own (ex: Firefly), Star Trek can actually die.
It's "unnatural!" Of course, so is fire and clothing and the internet. But for some reason those are okay and genetic engineering is not.
To be fair: 1) Fire is natural 2) According to my parents, the Internet, too, is evil. 3) clothes are only okay *some* of the time.... for *some* people.:)
Honestly, can you tell me what they'd need more for if all they're going to do is type documents, send pictures, and surf the web?
Honestly, can you tell me that that's all the computer users of 3 years from now will be doing? I can safely say: no, they'll be doing a hell of a lot more. What, exactly? I don't know. Perhaps merely running Longhorn. (Better make that 6 years?;-) ) But it will take more processing power than we've got now.
Put another way: several years ago, the average user couldn't get pictures ONto a computer, much less send them over the (barely existent) Web. The question would have been, "Who will ever need more than a 486 to run a word processor and spreadsheet?" because that's all the general population was doing.
The flaw in the car analogy is that you can only tell when it's hit the plateau well AFTER it hits; you can't tell when the flat part is coming up by looking at the slope.
That's why the US led the space race in the 1960s and 1970s. Space is fun.
Really.... I could have sworn it was because it was an excuse to develop a rocket capable of delivering a warhead to Russia. There was this little "cold war" thing going on back then.
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What kills me is printers. I mean, there are very few ways printers differ, really, until you get to high-end and professional printers. But every single home printer requires its own goddamn driver! In order to get them to "just work", Apple has to include 1.5GB of printer drivers. (Presumably, Windows still operates on the "install drivers as you need them" philosophy.)
FIFTEEN HUNDRED FUCKING MEGABYTES.
TO SQUIRT INK ONTO A PAGE.
Also, shall we have the mouse + keyboard vs. two sticks debate, anyone?
No need to debate. PS2 and PS3 work with your favorite USB mice and keyboards. I assume PS3 will work with Bluetooth input devices as well.
I think most people will pick the second option.
In my (admittedly limited) sample set, the past has shown quite the opposite.
Dreamcast vs PS2: PS2, hands down. You say that's because the Dreamcast was less powerful... well why do you think it was less powerful? Because it was rushed out the door!
PS2 vs. XBox: It's taken its time, but in the long run (not having any sales figures to go by) people are talking a lot more about the XBox these days.
Genesis vs. SNES: Sure, Genesis had its share of classics - but most of them were Sonic games. The SNES library is overflowing with excellent games.
The lesson is simple: Releasing early may give you the advantage for 6 months, but the later console will have the advantage for the better part of five years. It pays to take extra time at system launch time to design the system more thoroughly.
What a baby's mom does canNOT affect the gender of the baby, as it's determined COMPLETELY by the sperm.
Wrong. A cashier has to print a copy of the receipt (with your card # on it. YOUR copy may not have that number but the vender copy most certainly does.),
I have never seen the full card number printed on any receipt since I've been using my card (and I do work at a register, at least where I've worked, our copies don't either) - they always X out the first 12 digits, or 10 or so in the middle.
Let's also keep in mind how easy it is to steal your credit card information as it is. The number is written RIGHT ON your card. Every cashier you ever give your credit card to has access to that number.
Unless the cashier has a photographic memory, he/she would have to write the number down while the card is still in their possession - and if I ever see a cashier do that the cops shall be called.
If you're confident with encrytpion to someplace perhaps thousands of miles away, why are you not comfortable with encryption to something 10 inches away?
Because I'm confident that any company engaging in credit card theft will promptly get caught, prosecuted, and sued the pants off of. The same may not hold true for an individual, and the fact that there are two dozen people standing within RFID range when most transactions are done greatly disturbs me.
Either the encryption method used is good, or it ain't.
And it ain't good enough. I can promise you it will be cracked sooner rather than later.
Also, there are other savings here than just your time: Contactless transactions are chepaer to process than signed paper credit card transactions. Merchants can save a lot of money not having to pay cashiers to sit there and watch you sign the receipt, and credit card companies can save money not having to archive those pieces of paper.
You haven't gone to fast food places lately, have you? McDonald's, Wendy's, and Panera (the 3 joints i frequent most) do not require a signature on credit cards if the transaction is small (less than $25 or so). So, there is next to no money saved on that point.
Do you happen to work for Microsoft? You seem to agree with their security policy.
RFID is a very good idea for many things, such as grocery tagging. For credit cards it's awful. There are only two possible states of an RFID credit card:
1) Safely in a sleeve, where no one can read it
2) Out in the open, where everyone in a certain radius can read it
In other words, you can't spend it without exposing it. Joe Hacker can hang out next to the checkout line at your grocery store for 5 minutes and get a dozen credit card numbers.
I don't care how much you encrypt it: it'll be cracked, and sooner rather than later. The fact that they are compounding this with no regulation of requiring signitures is one of the worst security decisions I've ever heard of - far worse than anything Microsoft has ever put out, and that INCLUDES ActiveX. Because ActiveX breaches don't immediately and directly cause credit card numbers to get stolen en masse unless combined with social engineering.
Actually, with the amount of power these new consoles sport, they could easily have their predecessors, as well as their Competitor's predecessors games to back them up.
Actually, that's not usually true.
Despite whatever numbers are given for "it's x times more powerful than the last system", (remember, that's marketing-speak) the rule of thumb is that the emulated system must be at least 2 generations old: a PS1 couldn't emulate a SNES, a PS2 couldn't emulate an N64.
The exception to this is if parts of the old system are actually IN the new one: either hardware (for example, the PS2 contained the PS1 chipset as its I/O controller, and apparently the PS3 contains the PS2's chipset somewhere similarly) or software (in the case of the XBox, I assume they'll be porting DirectX to the new processor to eliminate a lot of the computing, at least in the grpahics; and using Virtual PC's x86 emulation for the rest.)
However, unless Sony, say, lent Microsoft its graphics API, the XBox 360 would NOT be able to emulate the PS2, and the PS3 would likewise not be able to emulate the XBox.
Why should Apple have to put in a warning for something that isn't even enabled? You used an unsupported method of obtaining other options that your system does not let you see by default. They shouldn't have to worry about that.
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And I never said they're supposed to. But the people in this thread don't seem to think there's any chance of anything going wrong despite the fact that it's hidden, and I posted mainly to make sure people realized that there's a possibility that they usually don't have to plan for or think about.
guess it's time to change your
I don't follow... what does that have to do with anything?
You're selling your mini because you don't know how to change a system preference? How about reinstalling from scratch?
:)
;)
;) But realistically.... not really.
To be honest, the mini was an impulse buy in the first place - I already have a Powerbook (albeit with a broken display) that outperforms the mini in most areas. I'd originally planned to use the mini as a server, but I never got around to moving it downstairs and whatnot. I've gone back to using the Powerbook and I'm now using the mini as a hard drive, biding my time until my friend ponies up the money
Never mind, scratch that. Can I buy your new iMac after you mess up some of the settings on that one too? It can fund your new G5
If and when a PMG5 becomes a possibility financially..... maybe
You don't seem to understand. The display being rotated is not a problem: when the computer attempts to rotate the display, it corrupts the image.
In safe mode (shift at startup), the display is unrotated and super low res. But, no matter how many times I press option and click displays, that dropdown never comes up.
Good try, but no. That didn't fix it.
There's something inherently amusing about seeing this:
Allow me to be the first to say... (Score:0, Redundant)
If you are using an old monitor, this could render your computer quite useless.
You know that 15 second confirm dialog, which appears anytime you change resolutions? In case the display gets corrupted, it automatically reverts and you've lost nothing but 15 secondss' time.
However (as of 10.4.0) THIS DIALOG IS NOT DISPLAYED WHEN YOU CHANGE THE ROTATION SETTING. I can't imagine why it doesn't - probably an oversight - but it is a major pain in the ass to get the display back to the way it was - particularly in my case, not having another monitor I can use. VNC doesn't seem to work when a monitor is not plugged in (or, it's giving an unrelated error which I can't see anyway), booting into safe mode won't display the pulldown menu, and there are no less than four places on the hard drive this setting is stored (I've deleted 3 and the setting is still remembered, so there's at least one I'm missing).
In fact, I've given up, and am selling the mini to a friend to fund a new iMac
Summary: If you don't think you'll actually USE this feature, don't risk making your monitor useless by testing it. At least until Apple adds that dialog.
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Have you ever watched one of those shows that made you want to throw up within the first 15 minutes?
Yeah, that was Babylon 5.
For me, Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica have completely supplanted "modern" Star Trek.
:-) I spent the better part of last month watching the entire SG-1 series... time well spent.
You just named my 3 favorite series as of right now
It's astonishing that anybody who's even heard of the Titanic can say something like that with a straight face.
or Windows.
That's the exact opposite of what the article was claiming. He says that Star Trek sucked from the beginning, but it was the only sci-fi most people knew for generations (because they didn't read). Now that decent sci-fi is starting to come into its own (ex: Firefly), Star Trek can actually die.
It's "unnatural!" Of course, so is fire and clothing and the internet. But for some reason those are okay and genetic engineering is not.
:)
To be fair:
1) Fire is natural
2) According to my parents, the Internet, too, is evil.
3) clothes are only okay *some* of the time.... for *some* people.
10. Journeyman Project is t3h roxors!!!!!
:-)
I thought I was the only one who ever played that
Buried in Time was even better, tho.
if the phone means i don't have to worry about keeping and charging an ipod mini then it's a winner for me and mine.
Even if that means you have to charge your camerphonepod 3 times a day?
No /. reader would turn their computer off longer than it takes to reboot.
Honestly, can you tell me what they'd need more for if all they're going to do is type documents, send pictures, and surf the web?
;-) ) But it will take more processing power than we've got now.
Honestly, can you tell me that that's all the computer users of 3 years from now will be doing? I can safely say: no, they'll be doing a hell of a lot more. What, exactly? I don't know. Perhaps merely running Longhorn. (Better make that 6 years?
Put another way: several years ago, the average user couldn't get pictures ONto a computer, much less send them over the (barely existent) Web. The question would have been, "Who will ever need more than a 486 to run a word processor and spreadsheet?" because that's all the general population was doing.
The flaw in the car analogy is that you can only tell when it's hit the plateau well AFTER it hits; you can't tell when the flat part is coming up by looking at the slope.
That's why the US led the space race in the 1960s and 1970s. Space is fun.
Really.... I could have sworn it was because it was an excuse to develop a rocket capable of delivering a warhead to Russia. There was this little "cold war" thing going on back then.