When she logs into gmail, there's a little box named "Remember me on this computer". If she leaves that unchecked, she'll get a much lower time-out value, and be automatically logged out when she stops using gmail. (With that box checked, the timeout is 2 weeks)
As far as "I can't believe I can simply browse to gmail.com and find myself in someone else's account", that's the way it is for hotmail and Yahoo mail as well. If you think about how mail works over HTTP, you'll realize it has to use cookies in order to work acceptibly, which is why every one of these systems is vulnerable to cookie theft to gain access to someone else's account.
Google just posted some new guidelines internally. I've received permission to post them:
OK: My team played volleyball at lunch today, we beat some people from another group. BAD: My team is way ahead of the weather-machine and germ-warfare divisions.
OK: Pets are welcome on the Google Campus. BAD: People at Google like to sit in their chairs and pet their cats while plotting.
OK: Google has several offices in Europe. BAD: We look forward to renaming Europe 'Euro-Google-Land'
OK: We are constantly looking for the best engineers to work on exciting projects. BAD: We're building a robot army at our secret desert office and need more engineers.
OK: There are some great recreation facilities on campus. BAD: Employees who underperform are sent to the dungeon. WORSE: Underperforming employees are sometimes sent back to Microsoft.
OK: Google is always looking to make its services available outside of North America. BAD: Within 4 turns, we will control all of Asia.
OK: Over 3,000 highly qualified employees work at Google. BAD: Google hires only the best evil geniuses.
OK: The company motto is 'Don't be Evil' BAD: The secret company motto is 'One Webservice to Rule Them All'
OK: Googlers are exercising their mechanical-engineering skills. BAD: Googlers are creating an evil robot. WORSE: An evil robot is creating Googlers.
OK: We don't comment on how many computers Google operates. BAD: Google only has a single super-computer, we call it SkyNet; it calls the shots here.
I worked for Microsoft 3 months ago. I work for Google now. The policies about blogging aren't that different, and if you don't believe me, remember that Microsoft also fired a blogger, for taking pictures of an incoming shipment of computers and noting their location.
Remember, it's the confidential information that gets you into trouble. There's nothing Microsoft-confidential about Firefox.
Thanks Barkmullz, for posting that. (I work for Google so I won't touch it.) It's one thing to say something bad about the company you're working for. It's quite another to blog about an insiders-only financials presentation one week prior to an earnings announcement - on a blog site that your company runs! I'm just glad this didn't get Google into yet another SEC tussle!
> Is it just me or do you find it strange that in the list of known Gmail bugs [google.com], there is no catagory for Security?
If gmail knew about a security bug, they would drop everything and fix it. They wouldn't take time to update [the list of known Gmail bugs] before they fixed it, and they wouldn't need to update the list after they fixed it, because the bug wouldn't exist anymore.
To put it more simply: there is no list of known Gmail security bugs because there aren't any known Gmail security bugs.
What happens to the U.S. when we are dependent on other countries, many not friendly, for basic things like IT, steel, textiles, electronics, etc.? What if they decide okay, you won't sign the Kyoto Accord then we'll institute sanctions?
Oh gosh, no, that'd be terrible. If they did that, we'd actually have to do something about global warming, or lessen our dependence on foreign oil!
> I wonder if they will be able to use VirtualPC to emulate XBox v1 on XBox v2.
There are two problems, actually:
1) emulation of x86 on a PowerPC 2) emulation of nVidia in a non-nVidia
In both cases, the real-world show-stopper is timing. To clarify: the timing of the emulation doesn't match the timing of the real thing. As a result, a game that used to feel good now runs in fits and starts - because some things emulate well and fast, while other things emulate slowly.
Now if you're talking about switching from Word to Excel, you don't notice if the timing is different. That's why VPC works and sells well. But if you're timing a missile or a sword-strike, it's critical that the timing is exactly the same as it used to be.
The final factor is simply that people don't need compatibility. Generally speaking, if you have a large library of X-Box games, you have an X-Box. And you're not about to throw it away when your X-Box 2 arrives. Likewise, most people don't play their old games for very long. Even though I own a PlayStation 2 and many PS 1 games, I don't play the PS 1 games.
Or at least, that's what the Microsoft game marketing folk say.
Yes, CountBrass, it does seem unlikely. But think about it more: if you're developing a box based on a PowerPC, what better than a G5 to develop on - at least until Microsoft's actual PowerPC X-Box becomes available?
When I was still working at Microsoft, it was indeed a strange sight to see G5s turning up in the offices of people who didn't know anything about programming for Macs, but there they were!
>> Sorry. I gave my Mom a gmail account. This >> pretty much ruined the chance of anybody >> getting 'geek street cred' from having one. >> >> My apologies to all concerned. > > Is she hot?
Of course she's hot! Dude, she's hot, she's even got her own gmail account!
It's weird to see this article appear only days after I got a job offer from Google. Especially since I was at one point on the MacIE team. And since a friend of mine who was on the MacIE team for years also works at Google...
But it's time for a bit of a reality check. Google would be stupid to hire old IE people to work on a new browser. If indeed Google is working on a new browser, hiring people who used to work on IE to work on that browser is just inviting legal challenges.
Besides, who says that's what the Microsofties want to do? Speaking only for myself, I'm going to Google to do new, innovative things, not to write a slightly better version of what I did at Microsoft.
Regarding gbrowser.com, remember that you can register gsatanworship.com and give it Google's mailing address if you want; this kind of thing was done multiple times to Microsoft to support various jokes and conspiracy theories.
(Disclaimer: I haven't started at Google yet, so I have no actual information about gbrowser.com...)
I'm just glad I responded when I got this e-mail. At first I thought it was a scam, but when I read it all the way to the end, it seemed legit after all! Believe it or not, it really worked!
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ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR LIQUIDATION OF ESTATE
I write to inform you of our desire to Liquidate estates or funder internet ventures in your country on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Internet Searching in Nigeria.
Considering his very strategic and influential position, he would want the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible. Currently he is in a "quiet period", so he is not speaking very much, in fact avoiding public speaking engagements and press despite his position, and he wants his identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of the transaction. IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT NOT TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION, as they have been a great hinderance of late in our efforts to achieve a desirable outcome.
Hence our desire to have an agent; in fact, many. I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as one of our agents in order to actualize this transaction.
The deal, in brief, is that the director has executed a large investment overseas which, though successful, has been problematic to liquidate due to its size and currency, and problematic overseas regulations. The director wishes to liquidate this investment in order to pursue other investments in estates, properties, and securities. The funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed investment in your country is presently in coded accounts at Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley. The primary hindrance is that these funds are in the Nigerian currency, the "Goog". We need your assistance in order to change this currency for dollars. Once you have acquired these "Goog"s, you must wait one day before exchanging them for dollars yourself.
For this, you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Internet Search in Nigeria for which payment should be effected to you by the Ministry, but indirectly. The contract sum shall run into US$1.8 Billion, of which your share should be 10-15% if you agree to be our agent. (Our original contract sum was $2.7 Billion, however due to problems with other agents we have been forced to reduce the contract sum at this time, in order to acquire the cooperation of new agents, possibly including yourself.) As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred, we intend to use our own share in acquiring some estates. In the light of this, I would like you to forward to me the following information:
1. Your full name 2. Your address 3. Your personal fax number, if any 4. Your personal telephone number for easy communication. 5. Your Social Security Number
Once you have furnished this information to us, we will a lot you a special "bidder ID" with which you can place a "bid" on the contract sum of "Goog"s. DO NOT E-MAIL THIS INFORMATION. Instead, proceed to https://www.ipo.google.com/ and furnish it there. Once you have this "bidder ID", you will need to go to one of our specially selected brokers who will take your "bidder ID" and some bank account information and set up the appropriate paperwork.
EVEN IF YOU CANNOT BID ALL OF $1.8 Billion, ANY AMOUNT WILL HELP. We are seeking many agents so it is OK if you do not have this full amount. Your money will first be transferred into our special Credit Suisse / First Boston / Morgan Stanley accounts, in exchange for the Nigerian currency "Goog", and one day later you will be able to exchange this Nigerian "Goog" currency back again for 10-15% more than your bid.
Again, it is most important NOT TO DISCUSS THIS WITH THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION, as they have not looked kindly upon our 10-15% guaran
1) The Bible doesn't say that, since the Bible wasn't written in English. The phrase "I am become a stranger" is from the King James translation, which was written in several-hundred-year-old English. The most commonly used current translation, NIV, translates it as "I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons."
2) "My time is not yet come", also a King James phrasing, is not from Psalms. It's from John 7:6: "Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready. "
Sorry to be so pedantic, but since it is the word of GOD...
Well, at some point the internet changed from something that only universities and select institutions / companies could connect to, into something that anyone and anything could connect to. I remember back in the early 90s that several universities were very upset about this, because what had been a reasonably fast transfer mechanism started to become seriously bogged down by recreational data transfer (read: Usenet porn).
To me, this is really the birthpoint of the internet as we know it, because prior to "opening the internet", the internet was just one of many nationwide networks (Compu$erve, AOL, GEnie, etc) that were limited-access and/or proprietary. After this point, the internet quickly became the backbone that connected the e-mail of the proprietary networks together, and more and more became the backbone in every other way. People forget that it used to be impossible to send e-mail to an AOL user from a CompuServe account...
Was it (the 1991 NHPCTA) the bill that opened the internet up?
Actually, I *have* heard of GOUT, and I've got one or two questions.
First, background: I've lost 47 pounds on Atkins this year, but have gained 17 of it back (because I just couldn't resist all the candy around the office), and now I'm on it again...
I got all my background info from atkinscenter.com, because my initial reaction to Atkins was to keep my distance, and I didn't want to put any money in their pockets. On the site, in addition to the normal don't-eat-carbs mantra, there were two side recommendations that struck out at me:
1) Drink lots of water. 64 ounces per day, they said.
2) Take a vitamin supplement each day. Good advice regardless.
I did these two things, and Atkins so far has been the easiest weight loss ever for me, and the only loss I've ever had that didn't require daily exercise. (Side note: exercise is good regardless of diet... I ought to be getting more of it.)
My question to you is: did you drink extra water while on Atkins, and did you take vitamins?
"any functions you can find can still be documented somewhere. I'm not going to look it up."
If you're not going to look up, then don't waste slashdot bandwidth. I don't say things if I haven't researched them, and I've researched this one a lot. Safari does its text drawing using an API, CGContextShowGlyphsWithAdvances, that doesn't appear in the Apple headers. Perhaps it will by the time the next Apple OS, Panther, is released, but for now this is something that you can only use by reverse-engineering Safari, or by reverse-engineering ATSUI, Apple's recommended (but abysmally slow and buggy) text engine.
Apple wants everyone to think they're open source, but the reality is that the most interesting parts of the OS are very closed indeed.
jbx
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What is their problem with IMAP? If they have a clue at all about security, they've probably already got their external firewall configured to ignore IMAP connects, so what the heck is their problem with allowing IMAP inside the company? I bet I could get a signed letter from Microsoft saying it's OK to turn IMAP on, really it is... but would your IS people listen, even then?
GNU is open source. Darwin is open source. So... what exactly are we getting here? LinuxPPC is faster than Darwin, so if you wanted something closer to GNU than Darwin, wouldn't you use that?
What's the user benefit? This is for people who bought a Mac and don't want Apple's GUI work? Or is this all the stuff that Apple would like to put in Darwin, but can't, due to the GPL license?
Speaking of which, there's this: Please note: GNU Project considers Darwin non-free software and therefore does not recommend the use of this operating system. (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html)
I mean, let me get this straight: GNU Darwin is the version of Darwin that the GNU project doesn't recommend?
For a post marked as Insightful, you, uh, have just a few errors...
1. "fizzled out"? IE fizzled out on the Mac because there was no incentive anymore. IE's share on OS X was already dropping due to Safari, and would drop much more once Panther bundled Safari as default browser. If MacIE continued to have 10% market share on the Mac, which only has 3% market share among PCs, that means they're battling for 0.3% market share. Who cares about numbers that tiny?
2. "loathed IE"? Then why didn't they just use the other browser that came bundled with their OS, or download the other available free browsers?
3. "let IE rot?" Actually, MS continued development of the underlying Mac browser engine, Tasman, and released that as part of MSN for Mac.
4. "hundreds of tiny bugs?" MacIE was one of the most standards-complient browsers ever made, on any platform. Today, MSN for Mac is the most compliant. If you don't believe me, see http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/css3support _selectors.html or just generally browse the "CodeBitch" section of macedition.
5. A "cocoa browser"? Despite the Apple kool-aid, there's little or no reason to try and code against Apple's 1990-era application framework. All the cocoa APIs are available from Carbon and vice-versa.
6. "If they did that, there would be no Safari"? Yeah right. I suppose if Adobe had worked harder on Premiere, Apple wouldn't have bought Final Cut? Apple wants control of everything. The biggest obstacle to doing Safari was the 1997 agreement to make MacIE the default Mac browser for 5 years.
7. "dirty old tactics.... they bought VPC" How is that a dirty tactic?
8. "Soon, they only way to check your JavaScript with MS JScript or HTML in Tasman will be to have access to an x86 box" For your information Tasman has never been a part of any released Microsoft Browser on x86. And in any case, MacIE still runs on OS X - even on Panther!
Really? I always thought BSD was the R&D Division that no one at Appl has to pay for. I mean, others may use ideas from Apple, but Apple uses the ideas AND SOURCE CODE from BSD...
You are completely correct. However, the version of source they bought from Macromedia was cross-platform, designed to build and run on both Windows and Mac. Of course, Apple was hugely interested in shipping it soon, and not at all interested in the Windows port, so the ability to run on Windows soon disintegrated.
Your messages often contain some very valid points, but what really does you in is that at the end of your message you call the posters a moron, or tell them they spend all their time surfing for Pr0n [sic].
If you have a valid point, just make it. There's been plenty of posts on this board modded up even though they're anti-Apple. But those posts invariably come across as intelligent.
I mean, geez, even in this post of yours, you use the words "pathetic" and "sad". Can't you make a point without cutting someone down?
Microsoft tried that strategy with Office v4.2 / Word 6 - it was the Windows code base on top of an emulation layer - and it totally destroyed their sales and much of their good rep in the Mac market. That's why they made such a big deal of "Mac first, Mac only" when they did Office 98 and Office 2001.
More to the point, you say "It's much cheaper for M$ to maintain just the Windoze code base plus VPC", but that's only the cost side of the equation. The reality is, if they really did that, they'd lose far more in sales than they would ever save in costs.
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When she logs into gmail, there's a little box named "Remember me on this computer". If she leaves that unchecked, she'll get a much lower time-out value, and be automatically logged out when she stops using gmail. (With that box checked, the timeout is 2 weeks)
As far as "I can't believe I can simply browse to gmail.com and find myself in someone else's account", that's the way it is for hotmail and Yahoo mail as well. If you think about how mail works over HTTP, you'll realize it has to use cookies in order to work acceptibly, which is why every one of these systems is vulnerable to cookie theft to gain access to someone else's account.
Google just posted some new guidelines internally. I've received permission to post them:
OK: My team played volleyball at lunch today, we beat some people from another group.
BAD: My team is way ahead of the weather-machine and germ-warfare divisions.
OK: Pets are welcome on the Google Campus.
BAD: People at Google like to sit in their chairs and pet their cats while plotting.
OK: Google has several offices in Europe.
BAD: We look forward to renaming Europe 'Euro-Google-Land'
OK: We are constantly looking for the best engineers to work on exciting projects.
BAD: We're building a robot army at our secret desert office and need more engineers.
OK: There are some great recreation facilities on campus.
BAD: Employees who underperform are sent to the dungeon.
WORSE: Underperforming employees are sometimes sent
back to Microsoft.
OK: Google is always looking to make its services available outside of North America.
BAD: Within 4 turns, we will control all of Asia.
OK: Over 3,000 highly qualified employees work at Google.
BAD: Google hires only the best evil geniuses.
OK: The company motto is 'Don't be Evil'
BAD: The secret company motto is 'One Webservice to Rule Them All'
OK: Googlers are exercising their mechanical-engineering skills.
BAD: Googlers are creating an evil robot.
WORSE: An evil robot is creating Googlers.
OK: We don't comment on how many computers Google operates.
BAD: Google only has a single super-computer, we call it SkyNet; it calls the shots here.
Baloney.
I worked for Microsoft 3 months ago. I work for Google now. The policies about blogging aren't that different, and if you don't believe me, remember that Microsoft also fired a blogger, for taking pictures of an incoming shipment of computers and noting their location.
Remember, it's the confidential information that gets you into trouble. There's nothing Microsoft-confidential about Firefox.
Thanks Barkmullz, for posting that. (I work for Google so I won't touch it.) It's one thing to say something bad about the company you're working for. It's quite another to blog about an insiders-only financials presentation one week prior to an earnings announcement - on a blog site that your company runs! I'm just glad this didn't get Google into yet another SEC tussle!
> Is it just me or do you find it strange that in the list of known Gmail bugs [google.com], there is no catagory for Security?
If gmail knew about a security bug, they would drop everything and fix it. They wouldn't take time to update [the list of known Gmail bugs] before they fixed it, and they wouldn't need to update the list after they fixed it, because the bug wouldn't exist anymore.
To put it more simply: there is no list of known Gmail security bugs because there aren't any known Gmail security bugs.
What happens to the U.S. when we are dependent on other countries, many not friendly, for basic things like IT, steel, textiles, electronics, etc.? What if they decide okay, you won't sign the Kyoto Accord then we'll institute sanctions?
Oh gosh, no, that'd be terrible. If they did that, we'd actually have to do something about global warming, or lessen our dependence on foreign oil!
We can't let that happen!
> I wonder if they will be able to use VirtualPC to emulate XBox v1 on XBox v2.
There are two problems, actually:
1) emulation of x86 on a PowerPC
2) emulation of nVidia in a non-nVidia
In both cases, the real-world show-stopper is timing. To clarify: the timing of the emulation doesn't match the timing of the real thing. As a result, a game that used to feel good now runs in fits and starts - because some things emulate well and fast, while other things emulate slowly.
Now if you're talking about switching from Word to Excel, you don't notice if the timing is different. That's why VPC works and sells well. But if you're timing a missile or a sword-strike, it's critical that the timing is exactly the same as it used to be.
The final factor is simply that people don't need compatibility. Generally speaking, if you have a large library of X-Box games, you have an X-Box. And you're not about to throw it away when your X-Box 2 arrives. Likewise, most people don't play their old games for very long. Even though I own a PlayStation 2 and many PS 1 games, I don't play the PS 1 games.
Or at least, that's what the Microsoft game marketing folk say.
Yes, CountBrass, it does seem unlikely. But think about it more: if you're developing a box based on a PowerPC, what better than a G5 to develop on - at least until Microsoft's actual PowerPC X-Box becomes available?
When I was still working at Microsoft, it was indeed a strange sight to see G5s turning up in the offices of people who didn't know anything about programming for Macs, but there they were!
>> Sorry. I gave my Mom a gmail account. This
>> pretty much ruined the chance of anybody
>> getting 'geek street cred' from having one.
>>
>> My apologies to all concerned.
>
> Is she hot?
Of course she's hot! Dude, she's hot, she's even got her own gmail account!
I wish *I* had a mom like that.
jbx
Up from 4 billion this morning!
www.google.com:
©2004 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
It's weird to see this article appear only days after I got a job offer from Google. Especially since I was at one point on the MacIE team. And since a friend of mine who was on the MacIE team for years also works at Google...
But it's time for a bit of a reality check. Google would be stupid to hire old IE people to work on a new browser. If indeed Google is working on a new browser, hiring people who used to work on IE to work on that browser is just inviting legal challenges.
Besides, who says that's what the Microsofties want to do? Speaking only for myself, I'm going to Google to do new, innovative things, not to write a slightly better version of what I did at Microsoft.
Regarding gbrowser.com, remember that you can register gsatanworship.com and give it Google's mailing address if you want; this kind of thing was done multiple times to Microsoft to support various jokes and conspiracy theories.
(Disclaimer: I haven't started at Google yet, so I have no actual information about gbrowser.com...)
I'm just glad I responded when I got this e-mail. At first I thought it was a scam, but when I read it all the way to the end, it seemed legit after all! Believe it or not, it really worked!
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ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR LIQUIDATION OF ESTATE
I write to inform you of our desire to Liquidate estates or funder internet ventures in your country on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Internet Searching in Nigeria.
Considering his very strategic and influential position, he would want the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible. Currently he is in a "quiet period", so he is not speaking very much, in fact avoiding public speaking engagements and press despite his position, and he wants his identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of the transaction. IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT NOT TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION, as they have been a great hinderance of late in our efforts to achieve a desirable outcome.
Hence our desire to have an agent; in fact, many. I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as one of our agents in order to actualize this transaction.
The deal, in brief, is that the director has executed a large investment overseas which, though successful, has been problematic to liquidate due to its size and currency, and problematic overseas regulations. The director wishes to liquidate this investment in order to pursue other investments in estates, properties, and securities. The funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed investment in your country is presently in coded accounts at Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley. The primary hindrance is that these funds are in the Nigerian currency, the "Goog". We need your assistance in order to change this currency for dollars. Once you have acquired these "Goog"s, you must wait one day before exchanging them for dollars yourself.
For this, you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Internet Search in Nigeria for which payment should be effected to you by the Ministry, but indirectly. The contract sum shall run into US$1.8 Billion, of which your share should be 10-15% if you agree to be our agent. (Our original contract sum was $2.7 Billion, however due to problems with other agents we have been forced to reduce the contract sum at this time, in order to acquire the cooperation of new agents, possibly including yourself.) As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred, we intend to use our own share in acquiring some estates. In the light of this, I would like you to forward to me the following information:
1. Your full name
2. Your address
3. Your personal fax number, if any
4. Your personal telephone number for easy communication.
5. Your Social Security Number
Once you have furnished this information to us, we will a lot you a special "bidder ID" with which you can place a "bid" on the contract sum of "Goog"s. DO NOT E-MAIL THIS INFORMATION. Instead, proceed to https://www.ipo.google.com/ and furnish it there. Once you have this "bidder ID", you will need to go to one of our specially selected brokers who will take your "bidder ID" and some bank account information and set up the appropriate paperwork.
EVEN IF YOU CANNOT BID ALL OF $1.8 Billion, ANY AMOUNT WILL HELP. We are seeking many agents so it is OK if you do not have this full amount. Your money will first be transferred into our special Credit Suisse / First Boston / Morgan Stanley accounts, in exchange for the Nigerian currency "Goog", and one day later you will be able to exchange this Nigerian "Goog" currency back again for 10-15% more than your bid.
Again, it is most important NOT TO DISCUSS THIS WITH THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION, as they have not looked kindly upon our 10-15% guaran
Just to clarify:
1) The Bible doesn't say that, since the Bible wasn't written in English. The phrase "I am become a stranger" is from the King James translation, which was written in several-hundred-year-old English. The most commonly used current translation, NIV, translates it as "I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons."
2) "My time is not yet come", also a King James phrasing, is not from Psalms. It's from John 7:6: "Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready. "
Sorry to be so pedantic, but since it is the word of GOD...
Well, at some point the internet changed from something that only universities and select institutions / companies could connect to, into something that anyone and anything could connect to. I remember back in the early 90s that several universities were very upset about this, because what had been a reasonably fast transfer mechanism started to become seriously bogged down by recreational data transfer (read: Usenet porn).
To me, this is really the birthpoint of the internet as we know it, because prior to "opening the internet", the internet was just one of many nationwide networks (Compu$erve, AOL, GEnie, etc) that were limited-access and/or proprietary. After this point, the internet quickly became the backbone that connected the e-mail of the proprietary networks together, and more and more became the backbone in every other way. People forget that it used to be impossible to send e-mail to an AOL user from a CompuServe account...
Was it (the 1991 NHPCTA) the bill that opened the internet up?
> Well, considering that they DO develop mac software (Office, IE), I don't think it's really a mystery why they wanted the boxes
Have you read http://tinyurl.com/th70 ? Apparently the next X-Box is going to use IBM chips, not Intel.
The mystery deepens....
Actually, I *have* heard of GOUT, and I've got one or two questions.
First, background: I've lost 47 pounds on Atkins this year, but have gained 17 of it back (because I just couldn't resist all the candy around the office), and now I'm on it again...
I got all my background info from atkinscenter.com, because my initial reaction to Atkins was to keep my distance, and I didn't want to put any money in their pockets. On the site, in addition to the normal don't-eat-carbs mantra, there were two side recommendations that struck out at me:
1) Drink lots of water. 64 ounces per day, they said.
2) Take a vitamin supplement each day. Good advice regardless.
I did these two things, and Atkins so far has been the easiest weight loss ever for me, and the only loss I've ever had that didn't require daily exercise. (Side note: exercise is good regardless of diet... I ought to be getting more of it.)
My question to you is: did you drink extra water while on Atkins, and did you take vitamins?
jorg
"any functions you can find can still be documented somewhere. I'm not going to look it up."
If you're not going to look up, then don't waste slashdot bandwidth. I don't say things if I haven't researched them, and I've researched this one a lot. Safari does its text drawing using an API, CGContextShowGlyphsWithAdvances, that doesn't appear in the Apple headers. Perhaps it will by the time the next Apple OS, Panther, is released, but for now this is something that you can only use by reverse-engineering Safari, or by reverse-engineering ATSUI, Apple's recommended (but abysmally slow and buggy) text engine.
Apple wants everyone to think they're open source, but the reality is that the most interesting parts of the OS are very closed indeed.
jbx
What is their problem with IMAP? If they have a clue at all about security, they've probably already got their external firewall configured to ignore IMAP connects, so what the heck is their problem with allowing IMAP inside the company? I bet I could get a signed letter from Microsoft saying it's OK to turn IMAP on, really it is... but would your IS people listen, even then?
Sigh.
jbx
GNU is open source.
Darwin is open source.
So... what exactly are we getting here? LinuxPPC is faster than Darwin, so if you wanted something closer to GNU than Darwin, wouldn't you use that?
What's the user benefit? This is for people who bought a Mac and don't want Apple's GUI work? Or is this all the stuff that Apple would like to put in Darwin, but can't, due to the GPL license?
Speaking of which, there's this:
Please note: GNU Project considers Darwin non-free software and therefore does not recommend the use of this operating system. (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html)
I mean, let me get this straight: GNU Darwin is the version of Darwin that the GNU project doesn't recommend?
Can someone clear this up in plain English?
For a post marked as Insightful, you, uh, have just a few errors...
t _selectors.html or just generally browse the "CodeBitch" section of macedition.
1. "fizzled out"? IE fizzled out on the Mac because there was no incentive anymore. IE's share on OS X was already dropping due to Safari, and would drop much more once Panther bundled Safari as default browser. If MacIE continued to have 10% market share on the Mac, which only has 3% market share among PCs, that means they're battling for 0.3% market share. Who cares about numbers that tiny?
2. "loathed IE"? Then why didn't they just use the other browser that came bundled with their OS, or download the other available free browsers?
3. "let IE rot?" Actually, MS continued development of the underlying Mac browser engine, Tasman, and released that as part of MSN for Mac.
4. "hundreds of tiny bugs?" MacIE was one of the most standards-complient browsers ever made, on any platform. Today, MSN for Mac is the most compliant. If you don't believe me, see http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/css3suppor
5. A "cocoa browser"? Despite the Apple kool-aid, there's little or no reason to try and code against Apple's 1990-era application framework. All the cocoa APIs are available from Carbon and vice-versa.
6. "If they did that, there would be no Safari"? Yeah right. I suppose if Adobe had worked harder on Premiere, Apple wouldn't have bought Final Cut? Apple wants control of everything. The biggest obstacle to doing Safari was the 1997 agreement to make MacIE the default Mac browser for 5 years.
7. "dirty old tactics.... they bought VPC" How is that a dirty tactic?
8. "Soon, they only way to check your JavaScript with MS JScript or HTML in Tasman will be to have access to an x86 box" For your information Tasman has never been a part of any released Microsoft Browser on x86. And in any case, MacIE still runs on OS X - even on Panther!
jbx
Troll?!?
Let me get this straight. When someone says:
> Yeah, Apple is like an R&D division that no one has to pay for.
That's moderated "funny."
But if I say
> BSD was the R&D Division that no one at Apple has to pay for.
That's moderated "troll".
Doesn't seem like balanced moderation to me. Harumph.
Really? I always thought BSD was the R&D Division that no one at Appl has to pay for. I mean, others may use ideas from Apple, but Apple uses the ideas AND SOURCE CODE from BSD...
You are completely correct. However, the version of source they bought from Macromedia was cross-platform, designed to build and run on both Windows and Mac. Of course, Apple was hugely interested in shipping it soon, and not at all interested in the Windows port, so the ability to run on Windows soon disintegrated.
Brett -
Your messages often contain some very valid points, but what really does you in is that at the end of your message you call the posters a moron, or tell them they spend all their time surfing for Pr0n [sic].
If you have a valid point, just make it. There's been plenty of posts on this board modded up even though they're anti-Apple. But those posts invariably come across as intelligent.
I mean, geez, even in this post of yours, you use the words "pathetic" and "sad". Can't you make a point without cutting someone down?
jbx
Microsoft tried that strategy with Office v4.2 / Word 6 - it was the Windows code base on top of an emulation layer - and it totally destroyed their sales and much of their good rep in the Mac market. That's why they made such a big deal of "Mac first, Mac only" when they did Office 98 and Office 2001.
More to the point, you say "It's much cheaper for M$ to maintain just the Windoze code base plus VPC", but that's only the cost side of the equation. The reality is, if they really did that, they'd lose far more in sales than they would ever save in costs.
jbx