As for the round mouse - it takes a while to get used to (and the way of holding it is different), but I prefer it.
That difference is in holding the mouse is probably the biggest problem people have with it. We've all become used to resting the heel of our hand and the back end of the mouse.
As for the Keyboard - It's shit. It doesn't have all the keys on it and should never ship on high end models.
I agree with that. I think they screwed up there.
Alternative viewpoint: Apple has done quite a bit to support the mouse/trackball/keyboard aftermarket here. Hundreds of thousands of people replacing input devices means millions of dollars to companies like Kensington and MacAlly. R&D money for new and better products flows from there.
I have a Kensington Orbit trackball (2 buttons.) I love it.
A little off topic, but how the heck are you supposed to use a computer with only one mouse button? I tried using a mac a couple fo times, and the thing that really pissed me off was that I couldn't figure out how to go to the properties of a file. Then again, I couldn't figure out how anyone could use a round mouse either.
My suggestion would be for you to go back to that Playstation. I hear they have plenty of buttons and switches to play with.
How to get file properties:
Hold down the control key. Click on the file in question. Follow the contextual menu (the one that suddenly pops up under the cursor) down to 'Get Info...' or
Highlight the file in question. Select 'Get Info...' from the 'File' menu. Or
Learn how to use items in the help menu, or even rtfm, just for a change of pace.
I'm not gonna hold your hand for the round mouse training, though.
Now, try to zap yourself with this electrical source. It isn't going to happen. Why? Because the frequency rate is so high that the current passes directly through your body before the neurons in your system can even react.
RF (aka: high-frequency "electricity") can shock you. RF can burn you. Ask any broadcast engineer.
RF burns are real nasty, too. It doesn't just burn the skin. It travels right down to the marrow in your bones, dissapating large amounts of heat. You feel it for the rest of your life.
The only positive point to higher frequency AC is the ability to use smaller transformers at a similar current capability. Like the Navy does. (They run at 400Hz)
Check out Project Appleseed for an example of a MacOS cluster supercomputer.
Yes, it's getting a bit old now (G3/266 beige towers.) Imagine what they could do now.
There are also no vectorizing compilers for the PPC 7400; the Metrowerks compiler will do inline AltaVec assembler, but it doesn't recognize vectoizable loops autmoatically and it doesn't support the linga franca of scientific computing (i.e. Fortran).
Some of what you are saying is greek to me, but here's a link from the Project Appleseed site seems to answer the need for a Mac OS Fortran compiler: Absoft Fortran 77 compiler.
Rather just read the text-intensive abstract on the system? Appleseed Report
Would IBM still be around if there where no IBM compadables?
Yes, and they would probably still have a powerful consumer personal computer division. OS/2 (/3/4/5) might be well known. Bill Gates might have to work for a living.
Apple couldnt make it work.
Oops, hold on a second..........yup, my Apple stock is still worth something. Hmm, quite a bit more than I paid for it. Well.
I think Apple would be alot bigger if they opened the hardware
I think they'd be quite a bit bigger if they hadn't let some Pepsi salesman run the company into the ground.
they would still have to sell a copy of macos to everyone.
Just like M$ does. Well, there's something to aspire to.
MS HAD JACK SHIT for a GUI os in the 1980's.
From what I've seen, it hasn't gotten much better.
IBM makes quite a bit of money selling software and services to the huge PC market...
Damn, I forgot about the Crayola 3D Castle Creator software. IBM must be making billions of $. ^_^
...that wouldn't exist if there were only one source for PC hardware.
There never was only one source of PC (personal computer) hardware. IBM just happened to make the version that was most generic and easiest to reverse-engineer. It didn't hurt that for managerial-types the phrase "you'll never be fired for buying IBM equipment" was so true at the time.
IBM makes quite a bit of money in the levels above the personal computer market.
They have already greatly scaled back their consumer PC business. I believe 'lack of sales' was mentioned as a factor.
It could start out like Ultimate Fighting, morph to (original) WWF type action, then become like the soap-type plot driven 'proffessional' wrestling...
what if these things develop true AI?
Well, based on your example, I don't think we have much to worry about.
You'd want to keep them away from folding metal chairs, though.
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Think about it. Photography has only been around since 1840 (or so.) Before then, you had to trust the artists, story tellers, and historians to tell you the truth. Their biases are apparent (and sometimes blatently obvious) in the history we are all taught.
(For purposes of this discussion: "Photography" includes the eventual addition of film and videotape.)
Some of us have become complacent in a world where we believe the absolute truth conveyed by photographs. Yet for years photographs have been cropped and retouched. I work with a lady who has spent the last 30 years doing pen and airbrush retouching wedding photography. Her work has gone way beyond simple blemish removal, to the point of simple cousin removal. ^_^
What we are really doing in looking back on an era. For a short time human civilization could rely on photography as a permanent unbiased record of events. That era is over now.
Anyone who speaks kritikally of Apple is suddenly posting flamebait?
I'm sorry. I tend to view any sweeping erronious statement as flamebait, no matter what the target. My fault.
So, in order to take this further off topic:
FireWire is Apple's trade name for IEEE-1394. In spite of Apple's best efforts, they haven't been able to kill it. To quote from our friends at M$:
Microsoft believes that IEEE 1394 is essential for getting the most value from Consumer Windows digital media features. IEEE 1394 has become the PC and CE industries' convergence bus of choice. Compaq, Sony, NEC, Gateway, and others are now shipping Windows-based PCs with IEEE 1394.
Has the Apple licensing controversy been resolved? Yes. Microsoft supports the new IEEE 1394 patent pool, which provides coverage for all essential IEEE 1394 patents for 25 cents per system or device.
Looks like quite a few systems manufacturers have embraced the technology. From what I've seen being offered by other manufacturers IEEE-1394 is coming on strong as a superior replacement for SCSI for drives, scanners, CD burners, etc. Thank goodness.
The primary force behind the overstressing of the USB is Intel, and I have the feeling that the vast majority of manufacturers are laughing at Intel for that. USB and IEEE-1394 are co-existing systems, each with its own best range of applications.
Where's the guy that uses every chance he can get to mention his lawsuit against Mattel????
I miss him. ^_^
On another point: Didn't RSI injuries greatly increase at about the same time everyone started resting their wrists on wrist pads? Manual typewriters didn't have anywhere to rest. The only time I ever start to get wrist pain is when I get lazy and allow my wrists to touch the pad.
Just use proper technique and raise your wrists.
(Side note: This is the one good thing I've found about those crazy little 'hockey puck' mice that come with the new Macs. They work well to make you keep your wrist elevated.) --
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear about the relationship I was referring to. We've been living together for over 4 years now.
We 'interact' quite often. ^_^
If your ultimale goal is to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, what are you gonna do, only talk through chatrooms?
In the past, some romances existed and grew primarily through hand-written letters, with little face-to-face contact. Why should the method of communication change that?
You can find a life-partner through chat rooms, primarily because you will tend to focus more on the things that matter to a long-term relationship: Shared interests; Similar tastes; Compatible levels of intelligence. Pure physical lust doesn't have to enter into the equation. Not at the beginning, anyway.
If a long-distance relationship doesn't work, usually it's because it just wasn't meant to be. A true life-long relationship goes far beyond the needs of physical contact.
No, this is the internet and the rules of social interaction don't apply here,
Actually, the rules do apply, in a way.
In real life, if you treat others with respect in your conversations and actions, you are treated with respect. If you just talk shit, you (and your ideas) are eventually rejected and ignored by the community.
Same thing happens online.
Of course, anonymity enters into the equation online. However, in the long term, the anonymous may as well just be talking shit.
and i wouldn't even try to say anything to you in real life.
That's been the most positive aspect of online life for me: I didn't have to make first-impressions in person, thereby making anyone I met in a chat room approachable. Most of my personal relationships wouldn't exist if it weren't for my ability to hide certain aspects (and enhance other aspects) of my being. I'm small. I'm shy. I'm introverted. I have a minor speech impediment. I didn't need to hide my identity (and rarely did,) but I was given the chance to let the positive aspects of my personality shine online.
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That difference is in holding the mouse is probably the biggest problem people have with it. We've all become used to resting the heel of our hand and the back end of the mouse.
As for the Keyboard - It's shit. It doesn't have all the keys on it and should never ship on high end models.
I agree with that. I think they screwed up there.
Alternative viewpoint: Apple has done quite a bit to support the mouse/trackball/keyboard aftermarket here. Hundreds of thousands of people replacing input devices means millions of dollars to companies like Kensington and MacAlly. R&D money for new and better products flows from there.
I have a Kensington Orbit trackball (2 buttons.) I love it.
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My suggestion would be for you to go back to that Playstation. I hear they have plenty of buttons and switches to play with.
How to get file properties:
I'm not gonna hold your hand for the round mouse training, though.
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RF (aka: high-frequency "electricity") can shock you. RF can burn you. Ask any broadcast engineer.
RF burns are real nasty, too. It doesn't just burn the skin. It travels right down to the marrow in your bones, dissapating large amounts of heat. You feel it for the rest of your life.
The only positive point to higher frequency AC is the ability to use smaller transformers at a similar current capability. Like the Navy does. (They run at 400Hz)
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Check out Project Appleseed for an example of a MacOS cluster supercomputer.
Yes, it's getting a bit old now (G3/266 beige towers.) Imagine what they could do now.
There are also no vectorizing compilers for the PPC 7400; the Metrowerks compiler will do inline AltaVec assembler, but it doesn't recognize vectoizable loops autmoatically and it doesn't support the linga franca of scientific computing (i.e. Fortran).
Some of what you are saying is greek to me, but here's a link from the Project Appleseed site seems to answer the need for a Mac OS Fortran compiler: Absoft Fortran 77 compiler.
Rather just read the text-intensive abstract on the system? Appleseed Report
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Yes, and they would probably still have a powerful consumer personal computer division. OS/2 (/3 /4 /5) might be well known. Bill Gates might have to work for a living.
Apple couldnt make it work.
Oops, hold on a second..........yup, my Apple stock is still worth something. Hmm, quite a bit more than I paid for it. Well.
I think Apple would be alot bigger if they opened the hardware
I think they'd be quite a bit bigger if they hadn't let some Pepsi salesman run the company into the ground.
they would still have to sell a copy of macos to everyone.
Just like M$ does. Well, there's something to aspire to.
MS HAD JACK SHIT for a GUI os in the 1980's.
From what I've seen, it hasn't gotten much better.
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Damn, I forgot about the Crayola 3D Castle Creator software. IBM must be making billions of $. ^_^
There never was only one source of PC (personal computer) hardware. IBM just happened to make the version that was most generic and easiest to reverse-engineer. It didn't hurt that for managerial-types the phrase "you'll never be fired for buying IBM equipment" was so true at the time.
IBM makes quite a bit of money in the levels above the personal computer market.
They have already greatly scaled back their consumer PC business. I believe 'lack of sales' was mentioned as a factor.
Idiot.
Well, ya got me there, Einstein.
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Hey, I remember the clones! IBM is making buttloads of money off of all those clones made by the likes of Gateway, Dell, Compaq, and others.
What? IBM doesn't make money off the PC clones? Clones were actually bad for IBM?
Wow.
Or, to quote Emily Littella: "Nevermind"
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what if these things develop true AI?
Well, based on your example, I don't think we have much to worry about.
You'd want to keep them away from folding metal chairs, though.
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(For purposes of this discussion: "Photography" includes the eventual addition of film and videotape.)
Some of us have become complacent in a world where we believe the absolute truth conveyed by photographs. Yet for years photographs have been cropped and retouched. I work with a lady who has spent the last 30 years doing pen and airbrush retouching wedding photography. Her work has gone way beyond simple blemish removal, to the point of simple cousin removal. ^_^
What we are really doing in looking back on an era. For a short time human civilization could rely on photography as a permanent unbiased record of events. That era is over now.
It was nice while it lasted.
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By the way, a millenium == 1000 years. Doesn't matter what your starting point is.
Oh wait! Maybe you were talking about codecs. Fitting a whole millenium into one year would be a hell of a compression algorithm.
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I'm sorry. I tend to view any sweeping erronious statement as flamebait, no matter what the target. My fault.
So, in order to take this further off topic:
FireWire is Apple's trade name for IEEE-1394. In spite of Apple's best efforts, they haven't been able to kill it. To quote from our friends at M$:
Looks like quite a few systems manufacturers have embraced the technology. From what I've seen being offered by other manufacturers IEEE-1394 is coming on strong as a superior replacement for SCSI for drives, scanners, CD burners, etc. Thank goodness.
Here' s a list of computer products according to the 1394 Trade Association
On the video side, Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Phase One, Kodak, and Canon are already shipping IEEE-1394 equipped cameras and tape decks.
Here is a list of consumer products
The primary force behind the overstressing of the USB is Intel, and I have the feeling that the vast majority of manufacturers are laughing at Intel for that. USB and IEEE-1394 are co-existing systems, each with its own best range of applications.
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When did they kill Firewire.
Oh wait, I remember. They wanted to be compensated for the R&D investment. Silly Apple.
Yes, I know. They tried to charge too much at first. They backed off, and now it's a big 25 cents!
Wow.
I can almost see how that might force a system manufacturer to use the $200 processor instead of the $400 one. Or maybe I can't.
Oh wait. Why am I responding to flamebait?
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Quicktime streaming source
Can't help ya with on the client side. Maybe Apple doesn't know you want it.
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I think you mean "...when Compaq took a pry-bar to the lock on Big Blue's closed system."
Look how beneficial that was for Big Blue.
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NORAD's Santa-tracking site
Warning: Flash 4 required.
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Now, get that image out of your head.
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I miss him. ^_^
On another point: Didn't RSI injuries greatly increase at about the same time everyone started resting their wrists on wrist pads? Manual typewriters didn't have anywhere to rest. The only time I ever start to get wrist pain is when I get lazy and allow my wrists to touch the pad.
Just use proper technique and raise your wrists.
(Side note: This is the one good thing I've found about those crazy little 'hockey puck' mice that come with the new Macs. They work well to make you keep your wrist elevated.)
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Click here to go directly to the project abstract (more details, less graphics.)
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Heaven forbid that we Christians should ever be as intolerant and callous of others as they are of us
And then, from the message this reply attaches to (by the same author):
If she was a Christian, then she was either a very lax one or had some serious issues. "By your works you shall be known".
To this I say "Good Show!" Thank you for illustrating the very reasons many people distrust and are "intolerant and callous" of Christians.
Damn, how'd I get sucked into a usenet religious flamewar?
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Yes. Two screws (coin-operable) on the bottom of the iBook open the battery door.
Problem is, there is no interim power source. You have to shut the iBook down before any battery change.
Cool OS trick: It can write an image of RAM to the hard drive. Then you can restart the iBook and be right where you left off.
Now I'm WAY off-topic. I'm sure gonna miss that Karma.
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Just because Your Favorite Artist sucks, doesn't mean it's RIAA's fault.
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We 'interact' quite often. ^_^
If your ultimale goal is to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, what are you gonna do, only talk through chatrooms?
In the past, some romances existed and grew primarily through hand-written letters, with little face-to-face contact. Why should the method of communication change that?
You can find a life-partner through chat rooms, primarily because you will tend to focus more on the things that matter to a long-term relationship: Shared interests; Similar tastes; Compatible levels of intelligence. Pure physical lust doesn't have to enter into the equation. Not at the beginning, anyway.
If a long-distance relationship doesn't work, usually it's because it just wasn't meant to be. A true life-long relationship goes far beyond the needs of physical contact.
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Want evidence?
- VHS beat Beta. Why? Because you could record six hours on a VHS tape. Quality be damned.
- Prerecorded audio cassettes are still selling.
- George W. Bush (ok, maybe that's the lesser of many evils)
- Disney
- E-Machines
- Micro$oft
The FCC is forcing broadcasters to convert to digital, and along with it they'll be forcing us to spend money.Or maybe they are just getting us to throw away our TVs and get lives.
Could be a positive thing after all. (For purposes of this discussion: "People" == The government and/or the manufacturers.)
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Actually, the rules do apply, in a way.
In real life, if you treat others with respect in your conversations and actions, you are treated with respect. If you just talk shit, you (and your ideas) are eventually rejected and ignored by the community.
Same thing happens online.
Of course, anonymity enters into the equation online. However, in the long term, the anonymous may as well just be talking shit.
and i wouldn't even try to say anything to you in real life.
That's been the most positive aspect of online life for me: I didn't have to make first-impressions in person, thereby making anyone I met in a chat room approachable. Most of my personal relationships wouldn't exist if it weren't for my ability to hide certain aspects (and enhance other aspects) of my being. I'm small. I'm shy. I'm introverted. I have a minor speech impediment. I didn't need to hide my identity (and rarely did,) but I was given the chance to let the positive aspects of my personality shine online.
My life is much much richer today because of it.
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That is the real world on the other end of that wire.
Who do you think you're interacting with now, an AI?
FWIW, I met my partner online on a local BBS chat room. So far, the relationship's lasted 50 times longer than any previous relationship of mine.
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