Actually, I did a modified version of this a few months back before I picked up a Macbook. The real reason I was interested was because of the functionality the dock offered--I was able to put all my ex-"quick launch" icons into a separate area, thereby freeing up a huge amount of space on my taskbar. This allowed many more windows to be open before the horrible autostacking feature came into play.
I agree with what you're saying about it not really being anything like OS X. However, there are still some (relatively minor) usability enhancements you can gain from this type of modification, which in some cases make it well worth the few megs of ram required to run the fake dock program.
So, according to TFA, this card is supposed to reduce lag/latency. The big question for me is this: will it make any difference if the server you're trying to play on is having trouble? I know that 90% of the lag I get is caused by low bandwidth on the server side, not the NIC on my end. I know that, in theory, this reduces the time it takes to send/receive the packets on your end, but in cases where you have (noticeable) lag in the first place, it shouldn't make much difference unless it can somehow reduce the size of the packets or somehow bump your packets up on the server list. I guess that you'll be slightly ahead of the competition even in cases of bad lag, but when you have very bad lag to the point where the other players are jumping around the screen, I see no reason why this would help you.
Maybe as a card to help you out on already very expensive/fast servers, but for most servers you play on every day this won't help you.
Of course, the people who play on "normal" servers aren't the target market anyway; this card is for the elites who have private servers set up for them and their elite buddies.
I've found it quite effective to simply put up an email address you make especially for you website, then just tell your customers to put a certain phrase or one of several phrases in the subject line, and set up your email account to automatically delete any emails with other subject lines.
So, according to this, electric cars can go a lot further than they could before. But the big problem is still there: the electricity doesn't just come out of nowhere. It has to be generated, and at the moment ~70% of elecricity generation comes from fossile fueles. If there where refueling stations that where entirely solar powered, then this would make some sense. But if the electricity was just coming from the local energy company, it makes no more sense than just using good old gasoline.
Here they are, talking about using things from the latest version of X server, various APIs, etc. to achieve the visual effects they want. But there is no mention of XGL! XGL has so much to offer in the realm of visual effects, I think it would just be stupid if they don't even have an option in the installer to install an XGL version.
So they're planning to use relatively untested supposedly "non-lethal" weapons for crowd control? Well, while they're at it, why don't they set off some mini nukes nearby to test the effects of radiation on large numbers of people?
I know I'm repeating what many others have said here, but for one thing there is no such thing as a "non-lethal" weapon. It may not be lethal the first time, but who knows what will happen if someone is repeatedly shot with it?
How do they know that all people will react to these the same way? They say that some of these weapons will also be used to disable electronics. Won't that also disable a pacemaker? Or an inculin pump?
I would think this was totally immoral and illegal even if they where using it in Iraq. Using it here makes even less sense to me than that. I guess to them, the war on terror really does start at home.
I can already do all this using Opera. Just set it to store 0 pages in the history, a 0 mb cache, etc. and you don't even NEED this thing. Also, I know this has already been said, but Browzar seems to be based on IE, so it can't be anywhere near as secure as Opera. Browzer seems to have trouble with maximizing on my computer, and the close, minimize, and maximize buttons end up hidden under my start menu (my start menu is on the top.) Opera also has a hide to taskbar shortcut (ctrl-h). The only real use I can see for this is if you're at someone else's computer, and need a quick and easy way to browse the 'net without them knowing about it. Needless to say, Opera also has all these other nice features (such as tabbed browsing, integrated bittorent client, etc.) which are sadly lacking in Browzar.
I had this happen to me too. The adapter just suddenly started shooting sparks, and nearly set my bed on fire. I had to buy a new adapter from a different company, and so far I havn't had any trouble with it.
I think the adapter I had was even a different one, since he was using a snow iBook, and mine is one of the original 300mhz iBooks. The original adapter was the "hockey puck" style white thing. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one having trouble with this though.
How do we know some corporation won't find some reason to go to the Moon, such as a rare mineral or something, and using the techniques discussed in the article set up a private planet? Unless some guidelines are set up about how the colonization of space will work, we could end up with entire planets owned by a single entity.
Of course, this could be a good thing, if it goes the way the colonization of America did, with planets instead of large chunks of land. But if I remember correctly, that was more religious groups than corporations, which wouldn't happen now due to the huge expense of space travel, and the obstacles they will find in space.
Even if there are no bluetooth keyboards, you should be able to use a USB keyboard with the built in USB ports. Considering there are two USB ports, I'm guessing one for a wifi attachment, and one for a keyboard.
Has anyone else noticed that the Powerbooks/iBooks have gone the way of the dodo? Also, at the beginning of the Core Duo age they were still selling the iMac G5's along with the iMac Core Duo's, but now it's just the Core Duo. Same with the Mac Mini. As for all the Apple notebooks now being widescreen, I don't know about everyone else, but I'm going to miss the good old days of non-widescreen notebooks. I don't know why, but a good old non-widescreen still has much more appeal to me than a widescreen of the same size.
I mean, bittorent has illegal music downloads on it, right? So why on earth would apple want to promote that, considering the iTunes store?! Unless they took the bittorent protocol and modified it into something of their own, and then filtered any music sharing on it, they would be working against themselves. I think this "rumor" must have been started by the author of the article.
From what I've seen, kids are still doing programming. It's just that its mainly web programming, as in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. Also, even though many of them seem know these languages, some just use Dreamweaver or other WYSIWYG editors, with the excuse that they "don't have time" to hand code it all.
It's saying "Connection to database cannot be made." Does that mean that firefoxflicks.com got slashdotted?! And half of slashdot users use firefox too!
...would be Apple releasing an Cocoa implementation that could be installed on Windoze so universal binaries would run on a PeeCee.
Why would that be so great? So what, then we could run mac programs on our pee cee's. But almost every program available for mac is also available for windows, usually about 3 months earlier and 10 bucks cheaper.
Ok, maybe I'm just dumb, but isn't this just a glorified VNC client and maybe server? I mean, all this stuff about putting the remote computer to sleep, waking it up, remote spotlight search, etc. is stuff I do all the time using a free vnc server and client. The only real differences I see is that this has the ability to not just lock the remote user out, but to make your actions invisible. Also, the screenshot shows that you can manage multiple computers at once. So it seems to me that unless you really need to be looking at more than one computer at a time or really don't want to let your user know how to do whatever it is your doing, then your better off just saving 300 bucks and downloading a free vnc client/server.
With this law, any company that wants to could easily just delete their competitor's software on your computer!! That is unless you read the license agreement really carefully, and who does that?! As someone else mentioned, all Microsoft would have to do would be to classify linux/mac os x as spyware. Also, what if you install some piece of software, and part of the license agreement that you didn't read is that they can come into your computer and steal all your passwords, credit card numbers, etc? That could make what is currently spyware legal, as long as they say what their gonna do in the license agreement. The only solution I see is to read all those license agreements...
I looked around, and most of the popular linux server platforms are non-free. If the Xandros server platform is free, that would give it a definite edge against its competition. However, considering that the only free platform Xandros offers has limitations that try to force you to buy the non-free version, this seems unlikely.
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Actually, I did a modified version of this a few months back before I picked up a Macbook. The real reason I was interested was because of the functionality the dock offered--I was able to put all my ex-"quick launch" icons into a separate area, thereby freeing up a huge amount of space on my taskbar. This allowed many more windows to be open before the horrible autostacking feature came into play.
I agree with what you're saying about it not really being anything like OS X. However, there are still some (relatively minor) usability enhancements you can gain from this type of modification, which in some cases make it well worth the few megs of ram required to run the fake dock program.
Crias is correct. However, with the advent of TiSP and google's quest to take over the world, I am afraid we will now have to call the gCrias.
I only see it when I search Yahoo with the in browser search box. Is this possibly targeted at Firefox users for some reason?
So, according to TFA, this card is supposed to reduce lag/latency. The big question for me is this: will it make any difference if the server you're trying to play on is having trouble? I know that 90% of the lag I get is caused by low bandwidth on the server side, not the NIC on my end. I know that, in theory, this reduces the time it takes to send/receive the packets on your end, but in cases where you have (noticeable) lag in the first place, it shouldn't make much difference unless it can somehow reduce the size of the packets or somehow bump your packets up on the server list. I guess that you'll be slightly ahead of the competition even in cases of bad lag, but when you have very bad lag to the point where the other players are jumping around the screen, I see no reason why this would help you.
Maybe as a card to help you out on already very expensive/fast servers, but for most servers you play on every day this won't help you.
Of course, the people who play on "normal" servers aren't the target market anyway; this card is for the elites who have private servers set up for them and their elite buddies.
I've found it quite effective to simply put up an email address you make especially for you website, then just tell your customers to put a certain phrase or one of several phrases in the subject line, and set up your email account to automatically delete any emails with other subject lines.
So, according to this, electric cars can go a lot further than they could before. But the big problem is still there: the electricity doesn't just come out of nowhere. It has to be generated, and at the moment ~70% of elecricity generation comes from fossile fueles. If there where refueling stations that where entirely solar powered, then this would make some sense. But if the electricity was just coming from the local energy company, it makes no more sense than just using good old gasoline.
Here they are, talking about using things from the latest version of X server, various APIs, etc. to achieve the visual effects they want. But there is no mention of XGL! XGL has so much to offer in the realm of visual effects, I think it would just be stupid if they don't even have an option in the installer to install an XGL version.
So they're planning to use relatively untested supposedly "non-lethal" weapons for crowd control? Well, while they're at it, why don't they set off some mini nukes nearby to test the effects of radiation on large numbers of people? I know I'm repeating what many others have said here, but for one thing there is no such thing as a "non-lethal" weapon. It may not be lethal the first time, but who knows what will happen if someone is repeatedly shot with it? How do they know that all people will react to these the same way? They say that some of these weapons will also be used to disable electronics. Won't that also disable a pacemaker? Or an inculin pump? I would think this was totally immoral and illegal even if they where using it in Iraq. Using it here makes even less sense to me than that. I guess to them, the war on terror really does start at home.
I can already do all this using Opera. Just set it to store 0 pages in the history, a 0 mb cache, etc. and you don't even NEED this thing. Also, I know this has already been said, but Browzar seems to be based on IE, so it can't be anywhere near as secure as Opera. Browzer seems to have trouble with maximizing on my computer, and the close, minimize, and maximize buttons end up hidden under my start menu (my start menu is on the top.) Opera also has a hide to taskbar shortcut (ctrl-h).
The only real use I can see for this is if you're at someone else's computer, and need a quick and easy way to browse the 'net without them knowing about it.
Needless to say, Opera also has all these other nice features (such as tabbed browsing, integrated bittorent client, etc.) which are sadly lacking in Browzar.
Dude, you have to say something funny first.
I had this happen to me too. The adapter just suddenly started shooting sparks, and nearly set my bed on fire. I had to buy a new adapter from a different company, and so far I havn't had any trouble with it.
I think the adapter I had was even a different one, since he was using a snow iBook, and mine is one of the original 300mhz iBooks. The original adapter was the "hockey puck" style white thing. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one having trouble with this though.
In the last paragraph of the review it says the hacks are for Ubuntu 6.06, aka Dapper Drake.
How do we know some corporation won't find some reason to go to the Moon, such as a rare mineral or something, and using the techniques discussed in the article set up a private planet? Unless some guidelines are set up about how the colonization of space will work, we could end up with entire planets owned by a single entity.
Of course, this could be a good thing, if it goes the way the colonization of America did, with planets instead of large chunks of land. But if I remember correctly, that was more religious groups than corporations, which wouldn't happen now due to the huge expense of space travel, and the obstacles they will find in space.
Even if there are no bluetooth keyboards, you should be able to use a USB keyboard with the built in USB ports. Considering there are two USB ports, I'm guessing one for a wifi attachment, and one for a keyboard.
Has anyone else noticed that the Powerbooks/iBooks have gone the way of the dodo? Also, at the beginning of the Core Duo age they were still selling the iMac G5's along with the iMac Core Duo's, but now it's just the Core Duo. Same with the Mac Mini. As for all the Apple notebooks now being widescreen, I don't know about everyone else, but I'm going to miss the good old days of non-widescreen notebooks. I don't know why, but a good old non-widescreen still has much more appeal to me than a widescreen of the same size.
I mean, bittorent has illegal music downloads on it, right? So why on earth would apple want to promote that, considering the iTunes store?! Unless they took the bittorent protocol and modified it into something of their own, and then filtered any music sharing on it, they would be working against themselves. I think this "rumor" must have been started by the author of the article.
From what I've seen, kids are still doing programming. It's just that its mainly web programming, as in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. Also, even though many of them seem know these languages, some just use Dreamweaver or other WYSIWYG editors, with the excuse that they "don't have time" to hand code it all.
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It's saying "Connection to database cannot be made." Does that mean that firefoxflicks.com got slashdotted?! And half of slashdot users use firefox too!
That's wierd, I did the same thing and it classified it as authentic. Maybe its just random?
Umm... Wrong article dude. This one's about censorship in china. :)
Why would that be so great? So what, then we could run mac programs on our pee cee's. But almost every program available for mac is also available for windows, usually about 3 months earlier and 10 bucks cheaper.
Umm, I did. Except for the other things I mentioned, it seems to be a lot like vnc.
Ok, maybe I'm just dumb, but isn't this just a glorified VNC client and maybe server? I mean, all this stuff about putting the remote computer to sleep, waking it up, remote spotlight search, etc. is stuff I do all the time using a free vnc server and client. The only real differences I see is that this has the ability to not just lock the remote user out, but to make your actions invisible. Also, the screenshot shows that you can manage multiple computers at once. So it seems to me that unless you really need to be looking at more than one computer at a time or really don't want to let your user know how to do whatever it is your doing, then your better off just saving 300 bucks and downloading a free vnc client/server.
With this law, any company that wants to could easily just delete their competitor's software on your computer!! That is unless you read the license agreement really carefully, and who does that?! As someone else mentioned, all Microsoft would have to do would be to classify linux/mac os x as spyware. Also, what if you install some piece of software, and part of the license agreement that you didn't read is that they can come into your computer and steal all your passwords, credit card numbers, etc? That could make what is currently spyware legal, as long as they say what their gonna do in the license agreement. The only solution I see is to read all those license agreements...
I'm just happy I'm not in oklahoma...
I looked around, and most of the popular linux server platforms are non-free. If the Xandros server platform is free, that would give it a definite edge against its competition. However, considering that the only free platform Xandros offers has limitations that try to force you to buy the non-free version, this seems unlikely.