This is your 3rd sarcasm-heavy post that starts off with "Yeah!".
Give it a rest.
Sarcasm is useful on slashdot; the moderators who regularly mod down tend to be stupid, so if you say something the agree with (literally), but write it facetiously, they'll mod you up instead.
He's probably the one who ordered them to do it. That filthy Green Atlantean terrorist sends sea life to their deaths with his telepathic compulsions all the time.
As a comic book fan, I can assure you that tons of first, second, and third tier heroes and villains still need recent movie treatment. When Forbush-Man is the star of a movie, you'll know it's time for them to move to greener pastures.
I lived without Internet and phone service (one in the same at the time) for two years once. It was actually kind of nice, people new I couldn't be reached except in person or by mail, and my downtime was actual downtime. I was working on a FOSS project at the time (still in college), and if I wanted to work on it from home, I'd sneakernet the source. Then I missed important news regarding the death of my oldest niece. I quickly bought my first cell phone, got Internet at home again, and decided that I'd try my darnedest to never be unreachable again (except by work when I'm on vacation).
There are some things today that I couldn't go back to like doing tax returns on paper, paying bills with checks, not having to wait 30 minutes for an accurate weather forecast, etc. Online gaming, slashdot, facebook, even wikipedia I could do without (really, what's the point of wikipedia without the rest of the internet?). Map sites like google maps or mapquest can be replaced with GPS software.
They can also stuff items into people's bags for smuggling. Call up so-and-so at the destination, have them tail and rob the unknowing mule. "Were your bags ever out of your presence?" "Yeah, that TSA agent over there just rifled through them while you were distracting me with a handjob."
10 to 1 the TSA agents don't have to submit to a grope or back scatter every morning when they start work. There should be three man teams, randomly assembled every day who have access to baggage. All other TSA agents should should not be able to see baggage let alone touch it. Otherwise, it is a security hole like GP mentioned.
that someday, we will have real news for nerds, things that matter, instead of every fart from Jobs and Apple.
To be fair, this article is more of an Apple shart. There's the relief of the order of 15B, but something got away at the same time, something that they would have rather kept in.
I hate wearing things on my wrist. I used to carry a pocketwatch before cell phones were common, then I started scratching my cellphone every time I pulled my pocket watch out by its chain. I eventually just started using my phone to tell time because it remained accurate to the minute whereas the watch sometimes was off (and the date was often off too).
The barest of UNIX underpinnings, and adoption of non-UNIXy elements.
It All Just Works
For special sets of "Just Works"
and the hardware is bulletproof.
Apple's hardware sucks terribly. They can't figure out cooling. Maybe you meant that literally. It would make for an interesting day at the firing range.
Yeah, I would have loved it if Apple had used some of their leftover Xserve stock and made the new iMac HDDs user serviceable (and cooler) by putting them in Xserve style drive trays (preferably "lockable" with a kensington lock; they still haven't figured out how to lock the RAM). Instead, they went the opposite route.
What difference does it make if they include physical media or not? Dell and other "PC" vendor's don't ship their systems w/ restore disk's anyways.
No, but HP at least plasters a huge dialog on first boot that asks you to insert a couple DVDs to create restore disks. Hopefully Apple does the same thing with these dmg files.
You've obviously never had to replace the hard drive on an iMac...
The white ones suck due to the heat shielding, but the silver ones are no worse than a laptop GFX card replacement. Still, worse than just popping open a hatch and replacing a drive.
I believe you misunderstood me. The new HDDs are _like_ the new screws. New Apple HDDs don't use the new screws (that I know of), but they do use proprietary firmware and hardware that makes thermal sensors on the Mobo go crazy if the new firmware isn't present. So you have to buy only Apple HDDs (which have in recent history been nothing more than SATA drives that cost twice to three times as much; now at least there's a reason for the increased cost, albeit a bad reason). They'll do it with RAM, keyboards, mice, graphics cards, etc. soon enough.
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I have never had to use that, and have never heard of it. Maybe you're not talking about X11 forwarding over SSH?
running [Firefox] over ssh needs an extra parameter.
Since when? I used it just fine over ssh just the other day. Is this a new problem with FF>=4?
God befuddled the languages of the world at the tower of babel because He was tired of His Firefox add-ons breaking.
This is your 3rd sarcasm-heavy post that starts off with "Yeah!". Give it a rest.
Sarcasm is useful on slashdot; the moderators who regularly mod down tend to be stupid, so if you say something the agree with (literally), but write it facetiously, they'll mod you up instead.
He's probably the one who ordered them to do it. That filthy Green Atlantean terrorist sends sea life to their deaths with his telepathic compulsions all the time.
As a comic book fan, I can assure you that tons of first, second, and third tier heroes and villains still need recent movie treatment. When Forbush-Man is the star of a movie, you'll know it's time for them to move to greener pastures.
"Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!"
I lived without Internet and phone service (one in the same at the time) for two years once. It was actually kind of nice, people new I couldn't be reached except in person or by mail, and my downtime was actual downtime. I was working on a FOSS project at the time (still in college), and if I wanted to work on it from home, I'd sneakernet the source. Then I missed important news regarding the death of my oldest niece. I quickly bought my first cell phone, got Internet at home again, and decided that I'd try my darnedest to never be unreachable again (except by work when I'm on vacation).
There are some things today that I couldn't go back to like doing tax returns on paper, paying bills with checks, not having to wait 30 minutes for an accurate weather forecast, etc. Online gaming, slashdot, facebook, even wikipedia I could do without (really, what's the point of wikipedia without the rest of the internet?). Map sites like google maps or mapquest can be replaced with GPS software.
They can also stuff items into people's bags for smuggling. Call up so-and-so at the destination, have them tail and rob the unknowing mule. "Were your bags ever out of your presence?" "Yeah, that TSA agent over there just rifled through them while you were distracting me with a handjob."
I'm surprised that you didn't mention subluxation once. Don't you need a Doctorate in Chiropracty to discuss cancer?
"Hold on, officer, I'm *UUNNNHH* trying to *MMMUNH!* get my papers out. I need to eat more fiber."
Exactly. Where am I supposed to keep the papers that the govt will supposedly make me produce on a whim?
10 to 1 the TSA agents don't have to submit to a grope or back scatter every morning when they start work. There should be three man teams, randomly assembled every day who have access to baggage. All other TSA agents should should not be able to see baggage let alone touch it. Otherwise, it is a security hole like GP mentioned.
that someday, we will have real news for nerds, things that matter, instead of every fart from Jobs and Apple.
To be fair, this article is more of an Apple shart. There's the relief of the order of 15B, but something got away at the same time, something that they would have rather kept in.
Glad I could put it into perspective for you. My work is done here.
Can I go back to playing Okami on my Wii connected to my Sony TV that I brought home in my Toyota minivan?
Pff! Who cares about detla updates?
I do. Why do I have to download 60MB at home every time for my iTunes updates? Or worse yet, 200+MB for iPhone updates?
Yeah, he could just reboot in target disk mode and transfer that puppy via thunderbolt!
I hate wearing things on my wrist. I used to carry a pocketwatch before cell phones were common, then I started scratching my cellphone every time I pulled my pocket watch out by its chain. I eventually just started using my phone to tell time because it remained accurate to the minute whereas the watch sometimes was off (and the date was often off too).
UNIX underpinnings
The barest of UNIX underpinnings, and adoption of non-UNIXy elements.
It All Just Works
For special sets of "Just Works"
and the hardware is bulletproof.
Apple's hardware sucks terribly. They can't figure out cooling. Maybe you meant that literally. It would make for an interesting day at the firing range.
Yeah, I would have loved it if Apple had used some of their leftover Xserve stock and made the new iMac HDDs user serviceable (and cooler) by putting them in Xserve style drive trays (preferably "lockable" with a kensington lock; they still haven't figured out how to lock the RAM). Instead, they went the opposite route.
What difference does it make if they include physical media or not? Dell and other "PC" vendor's don't ship their systems w/ restore disk's anyways.
No, but HP at least plasters a huge dialog on first boot that asks you to insert a couple DVDs to create restore disks. Hopefully Apple does the same thing with these dmg files.
So, no, you don't need to buy Apple HDDs or whatever nonsense you are spewing.
Please tell that to angry iMac Fans:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3053942?start=0&tstart=0
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/12/apple-restricts-hard-drive-replacements-on-new-imacs/
You've obviously never had to replace the hard drive on an iMac...
The white ones suck due to the heat shielding, but the silver ones are no worse than a laptop GFX card replacement. Still, worse than just popping open a hatch and replacing a drive.
I believe you misunderstood me. The new HDDs are _like_ the new screws. New Apple HDDs don't use the new screws (that I know of), but they do use proprietary firmware and hardware that makes thermal sensors on the Mobo go crazy if the new firmware isn't present. So you have to buy only Apple HDDs (which have in recent history been nothing more than SATA drives that cost twice to three times as much; now at least there's a reason for the increased cost, albeit a bad reason). They'll do it with RAM, keyboards, mice, graphics cards, etc. soon enough.
I also don't know of any webmail clients that discourage top posting