Am echoing another poster here a bit but it does sound a lot like you basically want it to be windows XP because that's what you're used to, I just turned on classic theme and apart from one or two settings (like type-in-windows-explorer-selects-file instead of initiating search) am really enjoying the experience after about 3 months of getting used to it. Don't go removing the search box from win explorer it's really handy and much less fiddly than going through the bloodhound.
I respectfully disagree with the above poster, have personally used tiger on 400,450 and two 600MHz G3s in the past year no problems. The trick (as other posters have suggested) is to have at least 512MB of RAM and also upgrade the hard drive to something faster. That'll solve your performance bottlenecks but at the end of the day you are not going to be able to use flash (it is available but slow as a dog) on it and some script heavy web sites. You'll be able to watch DVDs fine but not anything in DivX.
Summary: G3 Macs are fine for everyting except facebook and youtube.
Indeed but surely I'm not the only slashdotter who has the firewall turned off and no av/scanning software installed at all?
The trick is to not use any MS software except for windows (XP) itself (currently on Chrome, Thunderbird, OpenOffice) but keep Automatic Updates turned on (though that requires a Legit copy of XP...) and not to have friends who are likely to email you screensavers. Not had any problems in years (last incident was an unpatched 2000 box that was pwned within minutes of going online). Cue "That's what they want you to think" replies in 5...4..
If you make the initial request via POTS ("Send me a copy of Movie.avi please") and they then release one of your pigeons (you'd need a broadband dealer that you dropped a supply of pigeons off to once a week or so) then the latency problem goes away.
actually orbit is a kind of freefall, just one where you never hit the ground, so having an initial trajectory pointing diagonally upwards is all you need, you just need to get the angle and velocity right. There is no "orbit" that you park in or land on, it's freefall all the way down.
I doubt it'll be cameras, Surface currently works by recognising silhouettes and shape recognition, a sensor-per-pixel could still perform this function in a crude, but elegant manner without having to actually be a camera.
Arcade games do this, though not all of them obviously, one of my favourite cabs that somehow I suddenly can't remember the name of was a two/4 player sit down racing game set in monaco and you could pay £1 to play, selecting your cars, or pay £2 and get to choose the super duper car.
Pinball works much the same way, might as well just tape two or three extra zeros to the right of the scoreboard for all the good it does. So does software version numbering: it's meaningless, there's no international standard for "martial arts beltification" and you shouldn't worry about it.
I agree with parent, get the cheapo calculators upfront and have the students practise with them, tell them it's what they'll be using in the exam, easy.
Absoluetly right, if their legal dept. / lawyer knows nothing about domain registration and sees this guy's name on it then they can be forgiven for thinking that it of itself is proof it was their guy.
For example in the UK there are legal documents required to own a car, and if your car is spotted speeding and your name is in the "owner" box in the car database you get the speeding ticket. It's up to you to prove if you weren't the one driving, or even if the car belongs to you at all, or someone copied your plates and put them on a car the same make and model as yours. This is a government controlled database and due to the bureaucracy involved nobody would expect the information to be fake.
So his company/lawyers can almost be forgiven for seeing his name in black and white on the "database" of owners. This guy has to prove that this database is a joke and not a bureaucracy.
Which is what the big media companies hate. The idea that you wont just sit there ingesting whatever brand sponsored crap that they decide to feed you hour after hour.
Except nobody but geeks and professional techies *wants* a general purpose computer, in fact people generally are terrified of them, think them over complicated (let's face it, using a microwave is complicated, and why do they need a clock exactly!?) and they look ugly. To use a television a person merely has to turn it on and press button number 2 to watch channel number 2, but they're still likely to get someone else to install it.
So basically, saying "yeah but it's not a general purpose computer" is meaningless and makes you appear aloof because nobody gives a crap so long as they can read web pages and watch videos on it.
Unless firefox has magically cleaned up its entire tree in the past 4 years I can tell you it's absolutely evil, entirely hard-coded around hacks and assumptions about how a page is laid out, at least that was the way it was when I was building it. I was trying to make a start on a basic HTML5 feature: The ability for form inputs to be able to exist separately from the form in the control tree (by specifying [input form=bar] to link it). Was there a nice neat "Form Business Logic" object somewhere that was triggered with a list of all the stuff in the form that simply iterated over a standard get-me-your-submit-value interface for each? no, it was some freaky "munge everything under the form in the DOM tree into a bath, stir and hope that the [input] controls float to the top so we can forcibly scrape the crap out of their innards into something resembling a POST".
Even trying to get a button to submit a form that it wasn't physically inside was subjected to this, the click event kinda walked up the tree to see if there was a form to submit somewhere up there, it worked in a similar way to the Kicks did in Inception and once you were in this kind of "Submit Form" mode there was no way of getting back at the button that initiated it so that you could just check for the existence of a "form" attribute (or a "formaction" one, which allows you to set the destination on the fly from the button) to do essentially a getElementById() on it.
That and the fact that you needed an assembler, python, gawk AND perl alongside your C++ compiler meant that (again, in 2006 at least) it wasn't a horrible mess at all, it was a total mindfuck, like coding inside a Cronenberg movie.
Am I the only person who things most of those look god awful? I can understand someone wanting to composite a shot to look arty or oil-paintingy but surely there's not a law that says HDR photos all have to look that way? The motorbike shot in the top link is the one I find the most palatable.
Funny thing is that this already happens. We associate a Cinema Film with "High Quality" and a Camcorder Recording with "Low Quality" but the cinema film is usually 24FPS with a very low depth of field (lots of blurry things that you can't make out, apart from the bit the director wants you to look at) whilst a camcorder (or basic digital tv show, see most modern soap operas) shoot at 60FPS with a much deeper depth of field (most of everything in the frame is in focus). Arguably, mathematically, the latter is better quality.
Note that whether or not the director of a movie is any good at artfully compositing a shot so that it actually looks good is a separate issue to the simple perceived goodness in blurry, jittery video.
It's worse than that, it was in the desert of arizona or somesuch and they even scattered large bits of animal bone and fossils around, like massive deer skulls and the rover team still didn't find any. [citation needed] i know
Every time someone on slashdot posits a global wireless mesh they get beaten back because of how slow it'll be to transfer several gigs of porn over it. Last I checked the information that we need to know, to liberate from censorship, was basic text, heck a lot of it is currently representable in ASCII. So what if we step back a decade to the age of the text only bulletin board. At least these BBs will be automatically backed up, re-routed and physically located nowhere, so will be uncensorable.
From someone who works where the coding "standard" is indentation set to 2 and spaces it's a nightmare. If it were tabs then your indent size would be up to you, but nooooooooooo.
MS's visual studio's XML comments (may not be original and ripped of from somewhere I've not used) are absolutely brought along with the autocompletion/debugging. It even generates compiler warnings if you change the parameters to a function and dont update the xml to suit and shows the info in a tooltip whenever you hover over it in the editor, brilliant and very handy.
You should absolutely still give your objects meaningful names though, it's not an either/or thing
There is no universal ISO IEEE Regulatory standard for software version numbers, it's meaningless to compare them. Personally I mostly ignore them and look at the release or file date.
My always-on computer is an ex-laptop, running off a barely warm 14v wall-wart with battery, screen, optical drive and keyboard removed for optimal power consumption and cooling:-) (keyboard,mouse and video are hooked into a KVM next to my "proper" computer but i generally tend to just ssh into it)
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Am echoing another poster here a bit but it does sound a lot like you basically want it to be windows XP because that's what you're used to, I just turned on classic theme and apart from one or two settings (like type-in-windows-explorer-selects-file instead of initiating search) am really enjoying the experience after about 3 months of getting used to it. Don't go removing the search box from win explorer it's really handy and much less fiddly than going through the bloodhound.
I respectfully disagree with the above poster, have personally used tiger on 400,450 and two 600MHz G3s in the past year no problems. The trick (as other posters have suggested) is to have at least 512MB of RAM and also upgrade the hard drive to something faster. That'll solve your performance bottlenecks but at the end of the day you are not going to be able to use flash (it is available but slow as a dog) on it and some script heavy web sites. You'll be able to watch DVDs fine but not anything in DivX.
Summary: G3 Macs are fine for everyting except facebook and youtube.
Indeed but surely I'm not the only slashdotter who has the firewall turned off and no av/scanning software installed at all?
The trick is to not use any MS software except for windows (XP) itself (currently on Chrome, Thunderbird, OpenOffice) but keep Automatic Updates turned on (though that requires a Legit copy of XP...) and not to have friends who are likely to email you screensavers. Not had any problems in years (last incident was an unpatched 2000 box that was pwned within minutes of going online). Cue "That's what they want you to think" replies in 5...4..
If you make the initial request via POTS ("Send me a copy of Movie.avi please") and they then release one of your pigeons (you'd need a broadband dealer that you dropped a supply of pigeons off to once a week or so) then the latency problem goes away.
I am a parent: my 5 year old gets it, my 3 year old doesnt (yet).
On the other hand, if they kill off a copy of a disney film it's not that big a deal, they'll have outgrown/got bored of it soon enough anyway
actually orbit is a kind of freefall, just one where you never hit the ground, so having an initial trajectory pointing diagonally upwards is all you need, you just need to get the angle and velocity right. There is no "orbit" that you park in or land on, it's freefall all the way down.
I doubt it'll be cameras, Surface currently works by recognising silhouettes and shape recognition, a sensor-per-pixel could still perform this function in a crude, but elegant manner without having to actually be a camera.
Arcade games do this, though not all of them obviously, one of my favourite cabs that somehow I suddenly can't remember the name of was a two/4 player sit down racing game set in monaco and you could pay £1 to play, selecting your cars, or pay £2 and get to choose the super duper car.
Pinball works much the same way, might as well just tape two or three extra zeros to the right of the scoreboard for all the good it does. So does software version numbering: it's meaningless, there's no international standard for "martial arts beltification" and you shouldn't worry about it.
I agree with parent, get the cheapo calculators upfront and have the students practise with them, tell them it's what they'll be using in the exam, easy.
"Until" has always had a sinister ring to it. Surely it should be "Unless"...
Absoluetly right, if their legal dept. / lawyer knows nothing about domain registration and sees this guy's name on it then they can be forgiven for thinking that it of itself is proof it was their guy.
For example in the UK there are legal documents required to own a car, and if your car is spotted speeding and your name is in the "owner" box in the car database you get the speeding ticket. It's up to you to prove if you weren't the one driving, or even if the car belongs to you at all, or someone copied your plates and put them on a car the same make and model as yours. This is a government controlled database and due to the bureaucracy involved nobody would expect the information to be fake.
So his company/lawyers can almost be forgiven for seeing his name in black and white on the "database" of owners. This guy has to prove that this database is a joke and not a bureaucracy.
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Which is what the big media companies hate. The idea that you wont just sit there ingesting whatever brand sponsored crap that they decide to feed you hour after hour.
Except nobody but geeks and professional techies *wants* a general purpose computer, in fact people generally are terrified of them, think them over complicated (let's face it, using a microwave is complicated, and why do they need a clock exactly!?) and they look ugly. To use a television a person merely has to turn it on and press button number 2 to watch channel number 2, but they're still likely to get someone else to install it.
So basically, saying "yeah but it's not a general purpose computer" is meaningless and makes you appear aloof because nobody gives a crap so long as they can read web pages and watch videos on it.
Unless firefox has magically cleaned up its entire tree in the past 4 years I can tell you it's absolutely evil, entirely hard-coded around hacks and assumptions about how a page is laid out, at least that was the way it was when I was building it. I was trying to make a start on a basic HTML5 feature: The ability for form inputs to be able to exist separately from the form in the control tree (by specifying [input form=bar] to link it). Was there a nice neat "Form Business Logic" object somewhere that was triggered with a list of all the stuff in the form that simply iterated over a standard get-me-your-submit-value interface for each? no, it was some freaky "munge everything under the form in the DOM tree into a bath, stir and hope that the [input] controls float to the top so we can forcibly scrape the crap out of their innards into something resembling a POST".
Even trying to get a button to submit a form that it wasn't physically inside was subjected to this, the click event kinda walked up the tree to see if there was a form to submit somewhere up there, it worked in a similar way to the Kicks did in Inception and once you were in this kind of "Submit Form" mode there was no way of getting back at the button that initiated it so that you could just check for the existence of a "form" attribute (or a "formaction" one, which allows you to set the destination on the fly from the button) to do essentially a getElementById() on it.
That and the fact that you needed an assembler, python, gawk AND perl alongside your C++ compiler meant that (again, in 2006 at least) it wasn't a horrible mess at all, it was a total mindfuck, like coding inside a Cronenberg movie.
again this assumes you planned the crime beforehand
Am I the only person who things most of those look god awful? I can understand someone wanting to composite a shot to look arty or oil-paintingy but surely there's not a law that says HDR photos all have to look that way? The motorbike shot in the top link is the one I find the most palatable.
Funny thing is that this already happens. We associate a Cinema Film with "High Quality" and a Camcorder Recording with "Low Quality" but the cinema film is usually 24FPS with a very low depth of field (lots of blurry things that you can't make out, apart from the bit the director wants you to look at) whilst a camcorder (or basic digital tv show, see most modern soap operas) shoot at 60FPS with a much deeper depth of field (most of everything in the frame is in focus). Arguably, mathematically, the latter is better quality.
Note that whether or not the director of a movie is any good at artfully compositing a shot so that it actually looks good is a separate issue to the simple perceived goodness in blurry, jittery video.
It's worse than that, it was in the desert of arizona or somesuch and they even scattered large bits of animal bone and fossils around, like massive deer skulls and the rover team still didn't find any. [citation needed] i know
Every time someone on slashdot posits a global wireless mesh they get beaten back because of how slow it'll be to transfer several gigs of porn over it. Last I checked the information that we need to know, to liberate from censorship, was basic text, heck a lot of it is currently representable in ASCII. So what if we step back a decade to the age of the text only bulletin board. At least these BBs will be automatically backed up, re-routed and physically located nowhere, so will be uncensorable.
From someone who works where the coding "standard" is indentation set to 2 and spaces it's a nightmare. If it were tabs then your indent size would be up to you, but nooooooooooo.
MS's visual studio's XML comments (may not be original and ripped of from somewhere I've not used) are absolutely brought along with the autocompletion/debugging. It even generates compiler warnings if you change the parameters to a function and dont update the xml to suit and shows the info in a tooltip whenever you hover over it in the editor, brilliant and very handy.
You should absolutely still give your objects meaningful names though, it's not an either/or thing
There is no universal ISO IEEE Regulatory standard for software version numbers, it's meaningless to compare them. Personally I mostly ignore them and look at the release or file date.
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My always-on computer is an ex-laptop, running off a barely warm 14v wall-wart with battery, screen, optical drive and keyboard removed for optimal power consumption and cooling :-) (keyboard,mouse and video are hooked into a KVM next to my "proper" computer but i generally tend to just ssh into it)