I have had numerous cats, like dogs their level of intelligence varies greatly.
My first when I was a small child was extremely clever, at the time we also had an Afghan Hound which despite being 10 times the size was terrified of the cat due to always losing in fights and getting shredded regularly. On one occasion the dogs nose was cut so badly we had to take her to the vets.
In my teens we had two tom brothers, both were very large short hairded moggies. The alpha was was thick as s**t, had no concept of inanimate objects and was constantly breaking things but was the toughest cat in the neighborhood. The other one taught itself to open some of our windows (never did learn to close them afterwards), regularly raided cupboards, was strong enough to get into the fridge and used our toilet. His best trick was to pierce the top of a milk bottle, knock it over, lap it up as it came out at a reasonable pace, then leave the rest to flood the kitchen.
My current feline is most definitely at the lower end of the scale but an awesome hunter despite a predominantly white coat.
In my experience cats do not display what we would describe as intelligence, they are comfort seeking, driven by instinct, and think with their stomachs. There are individual exceptions but the same can be said for any species.
I agree, I didn't notice some of the other glitches mentioned (had a couple of glasses of wine) but the eyes definitely weren't right on a few occasions.
ffs is this really a big deal, I use and like both, FF for my work stuff that doesnt have java issues and Safari for everything else (/. for example).
I think whatever platform you run it is a good idea to have a couple of browsers installed just in case you hit a site where the dev is a complete arsehole and it only works in one.
You wanna try one of the Sony USB Walkman things, my daughter got a NW-300EF as a gift, can only load music on it using a complete pile of crap Windows only app called SonicStage, I only have OS X and Ubuntu, luckily I found this:
No mention of UK, my wife and myself will probably have to wait a lot longer, I am due an upgrade but will stick with what i've got and start saving (If i can't save enough then my wife can have my old phone anyway).
RFTA and the 550+ comments, here's my 2 pennies worth (I'm from the UK).
As many other posters have said with MS's monopoly Vista will end up the #1 OS whether the alternatives are better or not. A large proportion of people are blissfully unaware that alternatives exist and many others would not use another OS regardless. However from my experience of the average Windows/OS X user they do not particularly like change whether it is for the better or not and will bitch about it when stuff that used to work now doesn't, I suspect this will be the case with Vista and to a lesser degree Leopard as well (Linux users generally know their systems better and even if they have problems eg, Dapper to Edgy Ubuntu, they just get on with it).
I am a sys admin and primarily use OS X (I have been using Macs since System 6) but have also used Irix, Red Hat/Fedora and Windows boxes, I am currently playing with Ubuntu at home just to see what it's like. I find there are annoyances with all platforms but find it more difficult to get stuff done in Windows whatever version it is due to the fact it is the OS I am least familar with. People like what they feel comfortable with.
I am not familiar with the TFA's author but he obviously predominantly uses OS X and as such his opinions will not be particularly objective but enjoyed reading the comments (except the coding bits which gave me a headache).
All people lie, it is a natural human trait learnt by most children at around 3-4 years of age, those who are better at it (in particular concealing it) will often be more successful than those who aren't IMO.
Irix development has slowed to a crawl anyway, 6.5.30 was supposed to be released end of July and as far as I am aware still hasn't, so I wouldn't count on too many maintenance releases. My companies main server suite's support for Irix apparently ends in 2008, luckily about the time the lease expires on our Origin 350's, my guess is it will save us a fortune moving to whatever box and linux.
However will miss Irix as it was my introduction to *nix.
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The stolen machines were all on display and used for demos, they have probably been written off as far as Apple is concerned anyway.
I have had numerous cats, like dogs their level of intelligence varies greatly.
My first when I was a small child was extremely clever, at the time we also had an Afghan Hound which despite being 10 times the size was terrified of the cat due to always losing in fights and getting shredded regularly. On one occasion the dogs nose was cut so badly we had to take her to the vets.
In my teens we had two tom brothers, both were very large short hairded moggies. The alpha was was thick as s**t, had no concept of inanimate objects and was constantly breaking things but was the toughest cat in the neighborhood. The other one taught itself to open some of our windows (never did learn to close them afterwards), regularly raided cupboards, was strong enough to get into the fridge and used our toilet. His best trick was to pierce the top of a milk bottle, knock it over, lap it up as it came out at a reasonable pace, then leave the rest to flood the kitchen.
My current feline is most definitely at the lower end of the scale but an awesome hunter despite a predominantly white coat.
In my experience cats do not display what we would describe as intelligence, they are comfort seeking, driven by instinct, and think with their stomachs. There are individual exceptions but the same can be said for any species.
Cool we can look forward to a dupe post next week then...
I am not a programmer but debugging by piping all keyboard input to a root shell, wtf?!
I agree, I didn't notice some of the other glitches mentioned (had a couple of glasses of wine) but the eyes definitely weren't right on a few occasions.
I seriously doubt that support for this will be growing here!
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/021 9212
Don't bother upgrading!
Assume as Bootcamp is beta you logged these issues with Apple so they could fix them ;)
I think whatever platform you run it is a good idea to have a couple of browsers installed just in case you hit a site where the dev is a complete arsehole and it only works in one.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwe00xmp3man/
I agree, those who use several OS's are usually more objective in their critism and much more platform agnostic.
Apple are not the only company with QC issues with rev A's, Zune anybody!
Judging by the quality of MOAB's i'm surprised this isn't in there as well
No mention of UK, my wife and myself will probably have to wait a lot longer, I am due an upgrade but will stick with what i've got and start saving (If i can't save enough then my wife can have my old phone anyway).
ahh but can it run linux...
As many other posters have said with MS's monopoly Vista will end up the #1 OS whether the alternatives are better or not. A large proportion of people are blissfully unaware that alternatives exist and many others would not use another OS regardless. However from my experience of the average Windows/OS X user they do not particularly like change whether it is for the better or not and will bitch about it when stuff that used to work now doesn't, I suspect this will be the case with Vista and to a lesser degree Leopard as well (Linux users generally know their systems better and even if they have problems eg, Dapper to Edgy Ubuntu, they just get on with it).
I am a sys admin and primarily use OS X (I have been using Macs since System 6) but have also used Irix, Red Hat/Fedora and Windows boxes, I am currently playing with Ubuntu at home just to see what it's like. I find there are annoyances with all platforms but find it more difficult to get stuff done in Windows whatever version it is due to the fact it is the OS I am least familar with. People like what they feel comfortable with.
I am not familiar with the TFA's author but he obviously predominantly uses OS X and as such his opinions will not be particularly objective but enjoyed reading the comments (except the coding bits which gave me a headache).
if you're not using them then they shouldn't be open anyway. ;-)
All people lie, it is a natural human trait learnt by most children at around 3-4 years of age, those who are better at it (in particular concealing it) will often be more successful than those who aren't IMO.
http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest/
Hopefully a cure for those annoying "Finder turds"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
There are are as many sects of "Atheism" as there are for every other belief system.
Free p0rn!
However will miss Irix as it was my introduction to *nix.
leesh up to 8 years old?! both my kids (now 3 & 6) would not put up with that after 18-24 months let alone 8 years!
I thought most people skipped all of the EULA regardless of case. Agree, yea whatever!