You would be a brave man to try pulling a stunt like that on Jobs in front of thousands of slavering Mac fanatics. If they caught you, they'd rip you limb from limb with their teeth!
Ken Perlin will probably be close to the mark. 100 years from now you'll be able to get regular injections that contain millions of nano tech devices. These devices will travel through the blood to parts of the body they need to work on (e.g. the brain) and then construct interfaces that link wireless information networks directly into your consciousness.
I don't think there will be implanted displays as such. Rather, you'll just received the information you request and the display will be superimposed on your eye sight via nano circuitry where the optic nerves connect to the brain. That way you can still 'see' the information you want without distractions by just closing your eyes. This scenario may sound far fetched, but it has a much greater chance of gaining traction in society if all it involves is a simple injection. No painful surgery, no mess, no fuss.
You completely missed the point of my post. Yvanhoe was dismissing Anonymous threats and accusations. I pointed out just how stupid that was and gave concrete examples of where threats and accusations must be taken seriously, regardless of their source.
I find your comments extremely half-baked
Try reading them properly and engaging your brain!
Anonymous accusations have no credibility, it would show some maturity in society to just ignore them instead of suing their anonymous authors.
So if I were to submit a post accusing you of being a pedophile, siting names, dates, times and places of various misdeeds and degenerate behavior; but did so anonymously, then my accusations would have no credibility? It wouldn't matter that I was making it all up. If I sounded convincing enough for people to believe it then I'd be willing to bet you'd soon change your mind when you started receiving your first lot of hate mail and death threats.
Anonymous deth threats have no more credibility.
Really? Following on from my previous point; imagine you're now receiving anonymous death threats because someone out there now believes you're a pedophile. Are you going to ignore this and not bother reporting them to the police because they have no credibility? You'd be a bloody fool if you did.
Racist rethoric is, as far as I know, free speech.
Not in the UK it's not. You can go to jail for using racist rhetoric to incite racial hatred, and rightly so!
Posting of financial and medical records are possible only if someone has made a criminal incompetence in a bank or at a medical database. You should sue them instead.
Really? And what if the person who posted all that information about you got it either by breaking into your house or car, or by sifting through your rubbish? Or perhaps your PC got 0wn3d and hacked because you visited a dodgy web site and you're generally clueless when it comes to system security?
Totally agree. The new style draw has given me more (easy) control over the layout of my documents than I've ever experienced in MS Word or OO (NeoOffice). It's so easy to change an existing style to something else (for the whole doc) or even create new versions for yourself. Hint: when the down triangle next to a style turns red, click on it. You can adopt the change you've just made as a global setting or just save it as a new one. It's also interesting to import MS Word docs and look at the styles draw to see how many styles the brain dead doc author has tried for the same thing.
iWork 08 is my first choice now too. But realistically there are some things its apps can't do or don't handle too well (yet). And if you want to share spreadsheets from Numbers you have to export to Excel and then edit again to get rid of the default Table of Contents sheet Apple add, and sort out the sheet renaming that Numbers gives you no control over. You need either MS Office or NeoOffice for that. NeoOffice can also handle much bigger spreadsheets than Numbers (today).
So as good as iWork 08 is, you still need a second set of tools for many situations. And NeoOffice is free, unless you want to donate (and they do deserve it). So it's worth while having on your system for those situations where you need to share with MS users.
Apple: If a sheet only contains one table, why rename it? And if all the sheets only have one table, then why add a Table of Contents? It makes no sense.
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You're welcome.
About the font. I have a dark background with a light coloured text normally, but have discovered that with normal black on white, that font looks very thin and weedy. So your student might want to choose another one.
As for the mouse again, to be honest there's no need for a middle mouse button on Mac OS X as there's nothing natively in OS X that would respond to it, unless you explicitly map it to an action. It's not the same as in X Windows where (if memory serves me) it's a convenient paste action.
To help your student get the most out of her trackpad ask her to open up the the same Keyboard & Mouse screen I spoke of earlier, but this time pick the "Trackpad" tab. Make sure she's got the following buttons selected:
"Use two fingers to scroll" "Allow horizontal scrolling" "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click"
If she's the kind of user who like to 'click' by tapping on the trackpad, then enable "clicking" too, which also enables a two finger tap for a secondary click. Personally that's not for my taste.
NB: Older Mac's (PowerBooks) might not have all these options. The newer Intel based MacBooks all do.
I'm currently setting up 4 x HP-UX servers at the moment, and it's great to be able to browse their directory trees, edit files, and drag/drop thing in Finder; or even do stuff from Mac OS X's Terminal without logging in (HP-UX doesn't have Bash by default).
The only downside right now has that it's not immediately obvious which system I'm browsing from Finder without Command-Clicking the icon in the Finder title bar or using the "Path" button in the Toolbar. But this will be fixed in Leopard as the new Finder has an option to display a full path listing (I've seen it in a screenshot).
Quite probably the scroll bar's been accidentally disabled by previous users of that account. To fix this pull up the Terminal Inspector from the Terminal app menu (Terminal --> Window Settings). Then from the drop down menu select "Buffer". I'll bet a pound to a penny that the Buffer Size radio button is set to "disabled". You can enable it and choose your buffer history length (or set it to unlimited; I have mine set to 10000). Then click on "Use Settings as Defaults" so it applies to all future invocations of Terminal. Now go back to your Terminal window and generate some output (ls or whatever). As soon as you get to more than a page full, your scroll bar will magically appear.
Here's another tip. If you like colored text in your Terminal (the way Linux does it) then you can turn this on by selecting the "Color" menu option in the Terminal Inspector and deselecting the "Disable ANSI color" button. Next open up Terminal --> Preferences from the menu bar, and make sure $TERM is set to xterm-color. And finally, edit your ~/.profile and add:
Open up a new Terminal window and enjoy:) In fact, if you create ~/.vimrc and add a line that reads "syntax enable", you'll get colored syntax highlighting when you edit files in vi too.
Another hint: Monaco 13.0 pt is a lovely mono-spaced font in Terminal. It's very clear to read. Open Terminal Inspector, select "Display" and you can choose it using the "Set Font" button.
As for the mouse button. All new Macs come with a Mighty Mouse which has 4 buttons, including the middle (scroll ball) button. Just pull up the System Preferences app; select "Keyboard & Mouse" on the second row, and then select the "Mouse" tab. You can map all 4 buttons at that point to do a whole range of things.
but to prevent movie studios from shutting down the city every other day while they make a movie
This has got nothing to do with movie studios. Why don't you actually RTFA, which talks about people being affected who use a tri-pod for more than 10 minutes (including setup time) or using their vid cameras being stuck in a queue for the Empire State building. What if I wanted to go down to the local park and film ducks or the local wildlife? According to these measures I'd have to have a permit and $1M insurance. That's complete lunacy!
These kind of draconian measures have got nothing to do with commercial interests, and have everything to do with over reaction to the "threat" of terrorists filming their targets before they strike. If you think different, you need to take off those rose tinted glasses and/or remove your head from your ass!
Strikes me that your lives have been so transformed by all this that in many ways they can already claim victory. Your nation is now so frightened of its own shadow that one by one your personal freedoms are being stripped away in the name of "security". And the sad thing is, you're doing it to yourselves.
iPhone, previously thought to be completely closed, will have development possible via rich "Web 2.0" applications
What this needs is something akin to Google Gears, so that developers can write offline apps too. Can't say I'm particularly impressed with the way it sounds at the moment, though I'll reserve judgement until I can see it in action.
As for Safari 3.0 Beta, I'm using it on OS X right now and it's a big improvement over the previous version. Much faster on Javascript. Navigation in Google Reader is way faster than Firefox for me now. Oh and the Rich Text compose widget works in Google Mail too, which is a first for Safari. Haven't tried Google's word and spreadsheet apps yet, but I expect they'll work too.
Why does everyone get so hung up with transportation of matter, when data is so much more exciting and more relevant to the world we live in.
What I want to see is the first two-way transmitter/receiver that works via quantum entanglement. Instant communication over any distance!
Just imagine the possibilities -- real time communication with probes throughout the solar system, or even further. Eventually it might be possible to have a mobile phone that works anywhere in the world, without the need for a satellite network and with no signal blind spots. Countries could increase their backbone bandwidth without the need for more fibre cables. TV and Music could be broadcast from anywhere, to anywhere in real time. I'm sure you can think of hundreds of other applications for this.
Strip mining the moon surface to harvest the Helium-3 deposited there by solar winds will come first. Maybe an established mining operation would lower the cost of mining for other things and make them economically viable.
If that's the case then I'll likely consider an upgrade too. 3D and the other Windows fluff I don't need; I don't have to go into Windows that often; but decent Linux Guest Tools have been sadly lacking for some time. I'd pretty much decided to switch to VMWare when it came out of Beta because of that. Parallels 3.0 might just keep me instead, if they've done a half decent job of supporting the main Linux distros (including Ubuntu).
You missed the biggest point for a corporation; Support. No corporation looking at virtualization (and let's get real; almost all of them are) is going to use Xen OR OpenVZ at this point because there's no single point of contact for support, and no support contracts
Um, what about Redhat and Novel (SuSE)? Redhat have restructured how they sell RHEL 5 based exclusively on how many Xen VMs you're allowed run. Their standard RHEL 5 Server allows you to run up to 4 guest VMs, where as RHEL 5 Advanced Platform allows an unlimited number of guest VMs and also includes the RHEL Cluster suite. If the guest VMs are RHEL then it's all included in the one cost, and of cause it's fully supported. There's no excuse for turning your back on Xen based on support.
Last week we had a CPU die in one of our highly redundant, highly scalable boxes. Apart from the alert thrown up in MOM we practically didn't even notice the glitch. VI3 kept plugging along until we could roll the guests off to another host on the SAN and we took the box out after lunch, replaced the CPU and it was back in production within an hour. The business units who use the guests never even noticed the outage
And that is the beauty of Live Migration; IMHO the single most compelling reason for choosing Xen or VMware over OpenVZ. The cost of change control in time and resources, and the down time to a business for essential maintenance can be astronomical in a corporation. The ability to do what you just described is a killer feature and more businesses will wake up to this over time.
When Redhat crumbles (assuming they haven't already) we'll all be paying a Microsoft tax
If you had RTFA properly ( it may be long but it's worth it ) you'd know that the revised GPL provisions, expected to take effect in July, explicitly prevent any more distributers ( like Redhat ) from entering into Microsoft-Novell like licensing agreements. The conclusion of the whole article speculates on Microsoft's next move in light of that.
The more they make Solaris like Linux, the easier it will be for people to move off Solaris onto Linux as the environment fill be more familiar and the skills barrier lower. So Sun are taking a bit of a gamble.
And don't forget that by buying off iTunes you're also saving the planet. Just think of all those dirty emissions you avoided creating by staying at home instead of driving. Add to that the emissions saved by by using 1 less CDs worth of plastic, packaging and transport to the store of your choice.
I'm pretty sure that the iTunes store doesn't make a loss. It makes some money, just not that much, and certainly small potatoes in comparison to the profits from the iPod range.
What with all this "we" crap? No one has appointed you spokesman or leader. You talk for yourself pal, not for the rest of us, and certainly not for me.
We WANT the Chinese government to collapse. We WANT there to be a revolution in China. This crap about "transitioning" the nation by propping up the Communist government is insane. Was that our strategy with the Soviet Union?
Oh yeah, right, because the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 has been so good for its ex-member states (NOT). Do any of these former states have modern cosmopolitan cities like Shenzhen,Guangzhou, or Shanghai? Do any of them have redevelopment programs or economic growth that compare with China today? The breakup of the former Soviet Union was an unmitigated disaster. Their new found "freedom" did not result in prosperous growth and recovery, quite the opposite. I've been to the Ukraine. The people are lovely, but the lack of money invested in the general infrastructure is very plain to see. They deserve much better.
China are taking a different route, and so far it seems to be working. Eventually China will get the kind of political change YOU'RE gagging for. But not in YOUR impatient time scales. It will be generational, but it'll happen one day and China will be a very rich an prosperous country long before then, benefiting the population as a whole.
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You would be a brave man to try pulling a stunt like that on Jobs in front of thousands of slavering Mac fanatics. If they caught you, they'd rip you limb from limb with their teeth!
Ken Perlin will probably be close to the mark. 100 years from now you'll be able to get regular injections that contain millions of nano tech devices. These devices will travel through the blood to parts of the body they need to work on (e.g. the brain) and then construct interfaces that link wireless information networks directly into your consciousness.
I don't think there will be implanted displays as such. Rather, you'll just received the information you request and the display will be superimposed on your eye sight via nano circuitry where the optic nerves connect to the brain. That way you can still 'see' the information you want without distractions by just closing your eyes. This scenario may sound far fetched, but it has a much greater chance of gaining traction in society if all it involves is a simple injection. No painful surgery, no mess, no fuss.
You completely missed the point of my post. Yvanhoe was dismissing Anonymous threats and accusations. I pointed out just how stupid that was and gave concrete examples of where threats and accusations must be taken seriously, regardless of their source.Try reading them properly and engaging your brain!
I find your comments extremely naive.
Totally agree. The new style draw has given me more (easy) control over the layout of my documents than I've ever experienced in MS Word or OO (NeoOffice). It's so easy to change an existing style to something else (for the whole doc) or even create new versions for yourself. Hint: when the down triangle next to a style turns red, click on it. You can adopt the change you've just made as a global setting or just save it as a new one. It's also interesting to import MS Word docs and look at the styles draw to see how many styles the brain dead doc author has tried for the same thing.
iWork 08 is my first choice now too. But realistically there are some things its apps can't do or don't handle too well (yet). And if you want to share spreadsheets from Numbers you have to export to Excel and then edit again to get rid of the default Table of Contents sheet Apple add, and sort out the sheet renaming that Numbers gives you no control over. You need either MS Office or NeoOffice for that. NeoOffice can also handle much bigger spreadsheets than Numbers (today).
So as good as iWork 08 is, you still need a second set of tools for many situations. And NeoOffice is free, unless you want to donate (and they do deserve it). So it's worth while having on your system for those situations where you need to share with MS users.
Apple: If a sheet only contains one table, why rename it? And if all the sheets only have one table, then why add a Table of Contents? It makes no sense.
You're welcome.
About the font. I have a dark background with a light coloured text normally, but have discovered that with normal black on white, that font looks very thin and weedy. So your student might want to choose another one.
As for the mouse again, to be honest there's no need for a middle mouse button on Mac OS X as there's nothing natively in OS X that would respond to it, unless you explicitly map it to an action. It's not the same as in X Windows where (if memory serves me) it's a convenient paste action.
To help your student get the most out of her trackpad ask her to open up the the same Keyboard & Mouse screen I spoke of earlier, but this time pick the "Trackpad" tab. Make sure she's got the following buttons selected:
"Use two fingers to scroll"
"Allow horizontal scrolling"
"Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click"
If she's the kind of user who like to 'click' by tapping on the trackpad, then enable "clicking" too, which also enables a two finger tap for a secondary click. Personally that's not for my taste.
NB: Older Mac's (PowerBooks) might not have all these options. The newer Intel based MacBooks all do.
You don't need MacFUSE, all you need is this: http://mac.pqrs.org/sshfs
Note, it requires a reboot after you've installed it. Then to mount files from any Unix server you have an account on that's running SSH, just do:
% mkdir -p ~/sshfs/server1
%
I'm currently setting up 4 x HP-UX servers at the moment, and it's great to be able to browse their directory trees, edit files, and drag/drop thing in Finder; or even do stuff from Mac OS X's Terminal without logging in (HP-UX doesn't have Bash by default).
The only downside right now has that it's not immediately obvious which system I'm browsing from Finder without Command-Clicking the icon in the Finder title bar or using the "Path" button in the Toolbar. But this will be fixed in Leopard as the new Finder has an option to display a full path listing (I've seen it in a screenshot).
Quite probably the scroll bar's been accidentally disabled by previous users of that account. To fix this pull up the Terminal Inspector from the Terminal app menu (Terminal --> Window Settings). Then from the drop down menu select "Buffer". I'll bet a pound to a penny that the Buffer Size radio button is set to "disabled". You can enable it and choose your buffer history length (or set it to unlimited; I have mine set to 10000). Then click on "Use Settings as Defaults" so it applies to all future invocations of Terminal. Now go back to your Terminal window and generate some output (ls or whatever). As soon as you get to more than a page full, your scroll bar will magically appear.
Here's another tip. If you like colored text in your Terminal (the way Linux does it) then you can turn this on by selecting the "Color" menu option in the Terminal Inspector and deselecting the "Disable ANSI color" button. Next open up Terminal --> Preferences from the menu bar, and make sure $TERM is set to xterm-color. And finally, edit your ~/.profile and add:
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
Open up a new Terminal window and enjoy
Another hint: Monaco 13.0 pt is a lovely mono-spaced font in Terminal. It's very clear to read. Open Terminal Inspector, select "Display" and you can choose it using the "Set Font" button.
As for the mouse button. All new Macs come with a Mighty Mouse which has 4 buttons, including the middle (scroll ball) button. Just pull up the System Preferences app; select "Keyboard & Mouse" on the second row, and then select the "Mouse" tab. You can map all 4 buttons at that point to do a whole range of things.
These kind of draconian measures have got nothing to do with commercial interests, and have everything to do with over reaction to the "threat" of terrorists filming their targets before they strike. If you think different, you need to take off those rose tinted glasses and/or remove your head from your ass!
Strikes me that your lives have been so transformed by all this that in many ways they can already claim victory. Your nation is now so frightened of its own shadow that one by one your personal freedoms are being stripped away in the name of "security". And the sad thing is, you're doing it to yourselves.
You should have googled "silverlight wikipedia" and picked the first link. Everything you need to know is there, including screenshots.
As for Safari 3.0 Beta, I'm using it on OS X right now and it's a big improvement over the previous version. Much faster on Javascript. Navigation in Google Reader is way faster than Firefox for me now. Oh and the Rich Text compose widget works in Google Mail too, which is a first for Safari. Haven't tried Google's word and spreadsheet apps yet, but I expect they'll work too.
Why does everyone get so hung up with transportation of matter, when data is so much more exciting and more relevant to the world we live in.
What I want to see is the first two-way transmitter/receiver that works via quantum entanglement. Instant communication over any distance!
Just imagine the possibilities -- real time communication with probes throughout the solar system, or even further. Eventually it might be possible to have a mobile phone that works anywhere in the world, without the need for a satellite network and with no signal blind spots. Countries could increase their backbone bandwidth without the need for more fibre cables. TV and Music could be broadcast from anywhere, to anywhere in real time. I'm sure you can think of hundreds of other applications for this.
Strip mining the moon surface to harvest the Helium-3 deposited there by solar winds will come first. Maybe an established mining operation would lower the cost of mining for other things and make them economically viable.
If that's the case then I'll likely consider an upgrade too. 3D and the other Windows fluff I don't need; I don't have to go into Windows that often; but decent Linux Guest Tools have been sadly lacking for some time. I'd pretty much decided to switch to VMWare when it came out of Beta because of that. Parallels 3.0 might just keep me instead, if they've done a half decent job of supporting the main Linux distros (including Ubuntu).
Unless I'm mistaken; Virtuozzo which is based on OpenVZ gives you the same functionality on Linux as Zones.
The more they make Solaris like Linux, the easier it will be for people to move off Solaris onto Linux as the environment fill be more familiar and the skills barrier lower. So Sun are taking a bit of a gamble.
And don't forget that by buying off iTunes you're also saving the planet. Just think of all those dirty emissions you avoided creating by staying at home instead of driving. Add to that the emissions saved by by using 1 less CDs worth of plastic, packaging and transport to the store of your choice.
You just got greener
I'm pretty sure that the iTunes store doesn't make a loss. It makes some money, just not that much, and certainly small potatoes in comparison to the profits from the iPod range.
China are taking a different route, and so far it seems to be working. Eventually China will get the kind of political change YOU'RE gagging for. But not in YOUR impatient time scales. It will be generational, but it'll happen one day and China will be a very rich an prosperous country long before then, benefiting the population as a whole.