> Imagine if DES had a backdoor (or Seagate's equivalent), and my organization uses Seagate's > out of box encryption (not likely;) -- now a foreign government controls this. Legitimately scary.
So you are saying that currently every state besides the U.S. should be scared?
> I think Pages has been and is misrepresented as a word processor. It's really a page-design and layout tool. > Rather than "Apple's word processor" I think of it as "Indesign lite".
I certainly agree for the previous version of Pages and it made it too complicated for the big "I just want to write a letter" crowd. But this has changed with the latest version. The new Pages' word processing mode is just this. Best word processor for the average joe, IMHO. Not so suitable for extensive scientific papers due to missing features.
The funny thing is, Windows XP does not come with a font that has a decent Unicode glyph range. You need Office for that.
I noticed that when I used some filled/empty diamond shapes and checks in a web application. Now I wonder if I have to replace them with images. But then, they will not scale well with the user's choosen fontsize... Bah.
If you continue the "reasonable expectation because of past experiance" thought, you kill innovation.
Years ago, you could repair your car engine yourself with some basic tools and a repair manual. Nowadays, the ball stops just after popping the hood as you do not have the diagnostic computers needed. And every step inbetween certainly was a new surprise to home mechanics.
Everything that you consider very common now has been new and surprising to people some time ago.
Four years ago, spiggl.de, a now defunct satire magazin visually resembling a top german news magazine, published a fake interview with the then chancellor Gerhard Schröder, in which he pronounce Germany's interest in establishing a nuclear strike capacity.
Two years ago, a iranian news agency found this fake interview and thought it was a reliable news source. They broke the story and there was a big bruha in Iran. The german consulate in Tehran even had to issue an official denial:-)
So *you* have to proof you did nothing wrong? What will they considered sufficient "documentation supporting your appeal"? What *can* you write? "During that time, I was surfing the web, reading news sites, I have no idea why they would accuse me of downloading X"? What use does it have anyway?
If you say you did the claimed things, you will get your access suspended and later sued by the copyright holder. If you say you did not do the claimed things (if true or not), you will get your access back and later sued by the copyright holder nonetheless.
This provision is still open for a DOS on all the students. File reports on all of them, and the whole student body has their boxes disconnected for five days. Or stack it over a period of time to create "disconnection waves" for parts of the student. Keeps them frightend about who will not be able to work from their computer this week.
Crossfading works for some kinds of music, but it kills others.
Obvious example: classical music. Crossfading two symphonies...
I listen to Salsa music on live365. While there are DJs in Clubs that crossfade, I don't like it. Good salsa songs have a well composed beginnings and ends and the artists take great effort to make them stand out to make the whole song a piece of art. Cutting/dilluting the front and end is a sin to the music and disrespects the artists. This might be particular to that kind of music, because it is dance music in the strict sense (couple dance). You especially do some spiffy moves at the end of the song. If the music cross-fades, you prepare for the end and then, instead of the accentuated end, the next song starts which is simply annoying.
That said: If the station is forced to do crossfading, I will cancel my subscription. And don't get my started on the playing jingles over the music and that other crap.
I fully agree. For me, it is Salsa music. And I found a station there that plays mostly new, unknown stuff and only a few classics. FM latin stations play too much Raeggeton and current Latin Top-10s for my taste.
Most likely Apple has made the battery non-replacable because they have better uses for the space required for a replacable battery I would rather say iPod and iPhone batteries are non-replacable because they could not do it in a way that still satisfied Steve Jobs' esthetic demands. The Palm V is another device where looks were more important.
Why should I have to reveal my real number when placing a call?
Yes I know this is a forum and calls are more "personal". But sometimes I call companies. Or heck maybe city hall. I don't know about the US, but in Europe, I can suppress caller ID on an individual call.
A people-driven business leverages collective synergy with a quality-driven approach that focuses on delivering key objectives. It is quite obvious, actually.
You can argue that a person in his position does not have to deal with email. Communicating face to face or by phone is better suited to the job, allows for better relationship building. Any email (requests, reports, document distribution et al.) will be handled, filtered (and dealt with where possible), and presented to him by his admin anyway. He probably gets the remainder printed out, so be it.
Maybe you shouldn't have worded it as an absolute. I found many quality freeware apps to help me get my work done.
Out of curiosity: What are the quality freeware apps for graphics editing and word processing you recommend for Windows? You do not mention them in your article about Vista.
For Linux, you mention Gimp, Abiword and OpenOffice. I use Gimp and NeoOffice myself, no problems at all. My only beef is that the keyboard shortcuts in Gimp use the Control key not Command.
'I think those of us that make non-MMO RPGs need to look at what a single-player/small multiplayer RPG can do that MMOs can't and spend our time and effort on those things'
So they should concentrate on what differentiate them from other game types. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
"Infrared has done to the grill business what the microwave did to the indoor kitchen," he said. "It's presenting consumers with a whole new way of cooking."
Microwave is not used for cooking. It is used to heat things up. Way different.
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> Imagine if DES had a backdoor (or Seagate's equivalent), and my organization uses Seagate's ;) -- now a foreign government controls this. Legitimately scary.
> out of box encryption (not likely
So you are saying that currently every state besides the U.S. should be scared?
> I think Pages has been and is misrepresented as a word processor. It's really a page-design and layout tool.
> Rather than "Apple's word processor" I think of it as "Indesign lite".
I certainly agree for the previous version of Pages and it made it too complicated for the big "I just want to write a letter" crowd. But this has changed with the latest version. The new Pages' word processing mode is just this. Best word processor for the average joe, IMHO. Not so suitable for extensive scientific papers due to missing features.
Now if you guys want to see some serious space programm, watch Top Gear's take on building a space shuttle :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckyXtEd0PV0 (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk5M6J2zMWQ (Part 2)
No oops. Various security experts and groups have spoken against this law for this reason.
Apple does a clever thing with the "Downloads Stack" that is part of the Dock and signals new additions in the next version of OS X, I guess.
t op.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/desk
Most webpages are designed to be shown in 1280x1024? And these fit on a 15" monitor?
Yeah right. What wonderland is he living in?
The funny thing is, Windows XP does not come with a font that has a decent Unicode glyph range. You need Office for that.
I noticed that when I used some filled/empty diamond shapes and checks in a web application. Now I wonder if I have to replace them with images. But then, they will not scale well with the user's choosen fontsize... Bah.
If you continue the "reasonable expectation because of past experiance" thought, you kill innovation.
Years ago, you could repair your car engine yourself with some basic tools and a repair manual. Nowadays, the ball stops just after popping the hood as you do not have the diagnostic computers needed. And every step inbetween certainly was a new surprise to home mechanics.
Everything that you consider very common now has been new and surprising to people some time ago.
Four years ago, spiggl.de, a now defunct satire magazin visually resembling a top german news magazine, published a fake interview with the then chancellor Gerhard Schröder, in which he pronounce Germany's interest in establishing a nuclear strike capacity.
:-)
Two years ago, a iranian news agency found this fake interview and thought it was a reliable news source. They broke the story and there was a big bruha in Iran. The german consulate in Tehran even had to issue an official denial
So *you* have to proof you did nothing wrong? What will they considered sufficient "documentation supporting your appeal"? What *can* you write? "During that time, I was surfing the web, reading news sites, I have no idea why they would accuse me of downloading X"? What use does it have anyway?
If you say you did the claimed things, you will get your access suspended and later sued by the copyright holder.
If you say you did not do the claimed things (if true or not), you will get your access back and later sued by the copyright holder nonetheless.
This provision is still open for a DOS on all the students. File reports on all of them, and the whole student body has their boxes disconnected for five days. Or stack it over a period of time to create "disconnection waves" for parts of the student. Keeps them frightend about who will not be able to work from their computer this week.
This is just stupid.
Crossfading works for some kinds of music, but it kills others.
Obvious example: classical music. Crossfading two symphonies...
I listen to Salsa music on live365. While there are DJs in Clubs that crossfade, I don't like it. Good salsa songs have a well composed beginnings and ends and the artists take great effort to make them stand out to make the whole song a piece of art. Cutting/dilluting the front and end is a sin to the music and disrespects the artists. This might be particular to that kind of music, because it is dance music in the strict sense (couple dance). You especially do some spiffy moves at the end of the song. If the music cross-fades, you prepare for the end and then, instead of the accentuated end, the next song starts which is simply annoying.
That said: If the station is forced to do crossfading, I will cancel my subscription. And don't get my started on the playing jingles over the music and that other crap.
I fully agree. For me, it is Salsa music. And I found a station there that plays mostly new, unknown stuff and only a few classics. FM latin stations play too much Raeggeton and current Latin Top-10s for my taste.
Join us next week for the "Hey true Christians, buy adwords to counter the familiy-hating ungodly gay agenda!" Google sales pitch.
Yes I know this is a forum and calls are more "personal".
But sometimes I call companies. Or heck maybe city hall. I don't know about the US, but in Europe, I can suppress caller ID on an individual call.
A people-driven business leverages collective synergy with a quality-driven approach that focuses on delivering key objectives. It is quite obvious, actually.
(The BS bingo blurb is courtesy of the DailyWTF)
> his moderately disturbing technophobic response
You can argue that a person in his position does not have to deal with email. Communicating face to face or by phone is better suited to the job, allows for better relationship building. Any email (requests, reports, document distribution et al.) will be handled, filtered (and dealt with where possible), and presented to him by his admin anyway. He probably gets the remainder printed out, so be it.
"So this is news because .... they used computers .... and .....email."
Looks like it has all the components to be patentable.
You are reading way too much into that.
Its description has been moved to the "Finder" page at http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/finde r.html in the "Closer connections" paragraph.
"By clicking on a connected Mac, you can see and control that computer (if authorized, of course) as if you were sitting in front of it. "
Maybe you shouldn't have worded it as an absolute. I found many quality freeware apps to help me get my work done.
Out of curiosity: What are the quality freeware apps for graphics editing and word processing you recommend for Windows? You do not mention them in your article about Vista.
For Linux, you mention Gimp, Abiword and OpenOffice. I use Gimp and NeoOffice myself, no problems at all. My only beef is that the keyboard shortcuts in Gimp use the Control key not Command.
And Apollo already dropped support for my PowerPC box. Very reassuring. At least the Google stuff is open source.
'I think those of us that make non-MMO RPGs need to look at what a single-player/small multiplayer RPG can do that MMOs can't and spend our time and effort on those things'
So they should concentrate on what differentiate them from other game types. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
"Infrared has done to the grill business what the microwave did to the indoor kitchen," he said. "It's presenting consumers with a whole new way of cooking."
Microwave is not used for cooking. It is used to heat things up. Way different.
Skim PDF reader is a free reader that allows annotations, highlighting and other markings in a PDF. Works well. http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/02/skim-pdf-reader/