Someone at work emailed me with a question: "we need to send an entire mailbox of emails to Dr So'n'so. He says Macs have the ability [to do this]".
In academia, where I work, the majority of Mac "wack jobs" are in the 50 year old plus crowd. They make comments like the above, bestowing God-like power to their overpriced machines.
I only use Mac because of work (as an OS X Server sysadmin).
Here's the point - it's really easy to rant about Apple. It's just unfortunate that all the Apple Fan-Boys on/. continue to buy the hype. You'd think they were a little better versed in computing than the crowd I work with.
c
Don't you think it was just a case of "the production team of startrek.com costs us $$$$ and we don't have a concurrent product to charge it against"? Typically movie/music sites that are owned by Major Corporations are created/paid for once and never updated nor maintained.
c
Actually, that's one of the major difficulties. With an election, an audit trail must have an important property that isn't required by a financial system's audit trail: The audit trail must not expose a voter's actual votes. Why - once the vote is cast - does it need to remain secret?
Yes, the secpol change to "LM and NTLM - use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated" should be better documented, but once you knew about, how long did it take to change?
I also hate to say it, but my home cheapo Samsung shared printer - which shares to my wife's Mac and my Fedora Core 6 server - took about another fifteen seconds to hook; I went via cups and changed the printer name on their computer.
Here's one consistent crash for Vista - Real Players plugin to download flash video.
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I run Vista on two machines and have - no problems! IIS worked out of the box, I can connect to our Mac OS X Servers (which are PDCs), all the applications run, in short, everything works. So what if it uses more disk space or RAM. WTF do people want with production machines that have 250GB HD's anyway?
It should be said too: Vista's UI is extremely user-friendly. The Start menu is a definite improvement over XP's and although it's eye candy, the GUI looks better than any on the market, including Leopard. BTW The ultimate oxymoron: Apple's Finder.
SO has anyone actually USED Vista? What am I doing right/wrong that I have NOTHING to complain about it?
The fact that the US cannot come up with a definitive "voting tabulation method" tells you that the whole thing is crooked from the git-go. And even if we did, we'd still have (at least) fifty different electoral commissions for national elections. Why is it so difficult to comprehend a system that tabulates votes and leaves an audit trail? But what's even more reprehensible is that the majority of Americans don't even consider the integrity of our elections when voting - or do they? The US has one of the lowest turnouts in the Western world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout). Democracy at its best.
Wikipedia is conventional wisdom. Up until this last century, the majority of wisdom was passed orally and is an interpretation of events - even photographs, film can be edited etc - and none of that means the author necessarily got everything correct, unbiased, etc.; only that they took the time to record it for posterity. Who wrote books? Monks? Those employed by the king? church? government?
We have no way of verifying history until the way back machine is invented. Oh Mr. Peabody...
And the fact that Intel is selling the Classmate at a loss - which really is chicken shit when you think about it. During the recent 60 Minutes profile on OLPC, Negroponte went on a quite a rant about Intel and his complaint(s) with them (it's towards the end). The big ugly link:
Of course the RIAA want's vinyl to come back. Compared to CDs, 1) can't burn a copy for a friend, 2) pain in the butt to rip into mp3s 3) harder to steal and 4) costs more to ship!
But some (much?) of that old vinyl had shitty pressings. There was absolutely no standard as to how well the the vinyl was pressed back then. Those that play records don't forget this...
"Adobe said it expects to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007 and for Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 in January 2008."
pay up
c
I'm surprised no one has this angle. Why Upgrade? Will your posts to slashdot get modded higher? Will your browser experience improve? Will you write better emails? Will you really be that more secure?
You have to hand it to Windows users - they saw Vista and they said "No". One of the biggest complaints of casual Linux users is that most popular distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) get upgraded every six months or so. Mac fanboys of course devour everything from Cupertino. And is it just me or do Mac users take the cake with buying the most worthless "enhancement" software.
Why bother? Got new hardware? Sure, go ahead, do a clean install. But don't bother worrying about that six year old scanner or your Acrobat Read v5.0 to work. Just get a new ones.
So what does that have to do with this article? And WTF? Patents are what's wrong with America? You have to be kidding...
There's little doubt that patent trolling is a load of bullshit, but don't blame inventors for it. The business is driven by money-grubbers and lawyers with nothing better to do. The shame is that the government - which is supposed to act for the greater good - has been bought out by the money-grubbers and lawyers and allows it to happen.
But stand down, there's nothing illegitimate about an inventor wanting to collect royalties on something they invented. c
I bought a Vista box (since the license it probably cheaper and the warranty better server) from Dell: Was this easy or what? I just did a "shrink" to the massive C: in Vista, then booted off of Ubuntu CD and started the install, selecting "guided using freespace" when partitioning. After a reboot, grub had automatically configured Vista into the bootloader. I then edited/boot/grub/menu.lst to set it as the default.
The other way around (adding Vista to a Linux Box) is slightly more complicated:
A friend of mine's parents run a school in east Africa, and last year we had the chance to visit the children and spend the day. Certainly the kids would enjoy/be inspired/learn from having a computer, but there's so much more to make their lives better - running water? 24 hour electricity? a Library? Practically speaking, the XOs won't charge overnight if there's no electricity during that time, and a Library can run on daylight.
But yes on the glasses. Perhaps they should be included in the cost of the XO?
So the biggest problem with it is this: kids in the third world don't have a lot and the concept of sharing is widely-practiced - ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS is plenty! Why OLPC is intent on giving EVERY child a laptop is indeed, very misguided and just reflects US consumerist values.
Do you really think Amazon is making $4 on an $8 digital download sale? I don't think so...
I agree with you otherwise. Paying $8 for an album is too much, especially considering that I don't even get all the music for that price! Even $8 for a CD is too much. But at some point, I'll pay to download an album without blinking an eye. It certainly is not at the $8 price point, but for $2-3 maybe $4, it's almost easier than getting off of P2P, and I support (well, in theory anyway) the artist.
The thing about Amazon that I find enticing is the convenience factor, and I don't support the nasty Apple culture. Has there been any mp3 stores that have sold music inexpensively? I wonder what would happen if Amazon had a "sale" 50% off or similar?
Okay, but do children in the Third World need computers? I've spent time there (East Africa), and I have to tell you, books, running water, reliable electricity, not to mention security... these issues are real.
It seems to me (devil's advocate), that the XO is a solution in search of a problem. What wasn't this offered to "first" world countries first? Doesn't America need home-grown programmers? Or are we so rich that we can just afford nominally priced laptops to begin with?
c
Okay, I'm playing devil's advocate here. If in fact what you say is true - that programming can't be taught in high school, then how do we have programmers over the age of forty? I graduated from high school in 1981; there were _zero_ pc computers in most high schools back then.
Why do children need to code anyway? And why do they need to use a computer? Isn't it better to teach them to think, and other basics such as reading, writing, and maths?
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Someone at work emailed me with a question: "we need to send an entire mailbox of emails to Dr So'n'so. He says Macs have the ability [to do this]". In academia, where I work, the majority of Mac "wack jobs" are in the 50 year old plus crowd. They make comments like the above, bestowing God-like power to their overpriced machines. I only use Mac because of work (as an OS X Server sysadmin). Here's the point - it's really easy to rant about Apple. It's just unfortunate that all the Apple Fan-Boys on /. continue to buy the hype. You'd think they were a little better versed in computing than the crowd I work with.
c
Don't you think it was just a case of "the production team of startrek.com costs us $$$$ and we don't have a concurrent product to charge it against"? Typically movie/music sites that are owned by Major Corporations are created/paid for once and never updated nor maintained. c
But those are reasons for it to remain private, but not necessarily secret. . .
I also hate to say it, but my home cheapo Samsung shared printer - which shares to my wife's Mac and my Fedora Core 6 server - took about another fifteen seconds to hook; I went via cups and changed the printer name on their computer.
Here's one consistent crash for Vista - Real Players plugin to download flash video. c -
I run Vista on two machines and have - no problems! IIS worked out of the box, I can connect to our Mac OS X Servers (which are PDCs), all the applications run, in short, everything works. So what if it uses more disk space or RAM. WTF do people want with production machines that have 250GB HD's anyway?
It should be said too: Vista's UI is extremely user-friendly. The Start menu is a definite improvement over XP's and although it's eye candy, the GUI looks better than any on the market, including Leopard. BTW The ultimate oxymoron: Apple's Finder.
SO has anyone actually USED Vista? What am I doing right/wrong that I have NOTHING to complain about it?
The fact that the US cannot come up with a definitive "voting tabulation method" tells you that the whole thing is crooked from the git-go. And even if we did, we'd still have (at least) fifty different electoral commissions for national elections. Why is it so difficult to comprehend a system that tabulates votes and leaves an audit trail? But what's even more reprehensible is that the majority of Americans don't even consider the integrity of our elections when voting - or do they? The US has one of the lowest turnouts in the Western world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout). Democracy at its best.
Wikipedia is conventional wisdom. Up until this last century, the majority of wisdom was passed orally and is an interpretation of events - even photographs, film can be edited etc - and none of that means the author necessarily got everything correct, unbiased, etc.; only that they took the time to record it for posterity. Who wrote books? Monks? Those employed by the king? church? government?
We have no way of verifying history until the way back machine is invented. Oh Mr. Peabody...
And the fact that Intel is selling the Classmate at a loss - which really is chicken shit when you think about it. During the recent 60 Minutes profile on OLPC, Negroponte went on a quite a rant about Intel and his complaint(s) with them (it's towards the end). The big ugly link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3564316n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml
c
you mean, like, not reading what the lawsuit says?
Apple is the next Microsoft?
Of course the RIAA want's vinyl to come back. Compared to CDs, 1) can't burn a copy for a friend, 2) pain in the butt to rip into mp3s 3) harder to steal and 4) costs more to ship!
But some (much?) of that old vinyl had shitty pressings. There was absolutely no standard as to how well the the vinyl was pressed back then. Those that play records don't forget this...
"Adobe said it expects to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007 and for Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 in January 2008." pay up c
You have to hand it to Windows users - they saw Vista and they said "No". One of the biggest complaints of casual Linux users is that most popular distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) get upgraded every six months or so. Mac fanboys of course devour everything from Cupertino. And is it just me or do Mac users take the cake with buying the most worthless "enhancement" software.
Why bother? Got new hardware? Sure, go ahead, do a clean install. But don't bother worrying about that six year old scanner or your Acrobat Read v5.0 to work. Just get a new ones.
There's little doubt that patent trolling is a load of bullshit, but don't blame inventors for it. The business is driven by money-grubbers and lawyers with nothing better to do. The shame is that the government - which is supposed to act for the greater good - has been bought out by the money-grubbers and lawyers and allows it to happen.
But stand down, there's nothing illegitimate about an inventor wanting to collect royalties on something they invented.
c
isnt' that the best part of imap? does anyone think Google will support that?
The other way around (adding Vista to a Linux Box) is slightly more complicated:
http://my.opera.com/djfake/blog/dell-preloaded-with-ubuntu
Or you could buy an Intel Mac and use boot camp, that's ea$y enough too! c
But yes on the glasses. Perhaps they should be included in the cost of the XO?
c
So the biggest problem with it is this: kids in the third world don't have a lot and the concept of sharing is widely-practiced - ONE LAPTOP PER CLASS is plenty! Why OLPC is intent on giving EVERY child a laptop is indeed, very misguided and just reflects US consumerist values.
I agree with you otherwise. Paying $8 for an album is too much, especially considering that I don't even get all the music for that price! Even $8 for a CD is too much. But at some point, I'll pay to download an album without blinking an eye. It certainly is not at the $8 price point, but for $2-3 maybe $4, it's almost easier than getting off of P2P, and I support (well, in theory anyway) the artist.
The thing about Amazon that I find enticing is the convenience factor, and I don't support the nasty Apple culture. Has there been any mp3 stores that have sold music inexpensively? I wonder what would happen if Amazon had a "sale" 50% off or similar?
It seems to me (devil's advocate), that the XO is a solution in search of a problem. What wasn't this offered to "first" world countries first? Doesn't America need home-grown programmers? Or are we so rich that we can just afford nominally priced laptops to begin with? c
Why do children need to code anyway? And why do they need to use a computer? Isn't it better to teach them to think, and other basics such as reading, writing, and maths?