Why can't Apple just build in a DVI-in on the back that can bypass the internal video connection?
This way, you could hook up an auxiliary Mac Mini, gaming console, or anything else and switch between that and internal video -- and then, in a few years when you decide to upgrade, you've got yourself a perfectly capable monitor that happens to have a slower Mac inside in case you should need it.
Maybe Apple could even build it so the screen can be powered independently from the internals. Why not?
Same here, Win2K on my PC, the XP era having led to my switch to MacOS.
There was just something that rubbed me wrong back then and still does today about having to marry the OS to the box, then having to verbally justify over the phone any hardware migration. While it was far from the only reason for migrating my non-gaming activities to Macs, it was the primary motivation for freezing my Windows upgrade path.
On a related note...
The fact that Adobe has now begun this practice is disturbing, though I suppose I can take consolation in the fact that Adobe allows you to "deactivate" an installation to move it rather than having to call them up and tell them your story. That said...
My real disappointment with SoaP was that it wasn't hokey enough. Which is to say, just like the huge variety of snakes onboard the fateful South Pacific Air flight, the movie is quite a jarring variety of different textures.
At times, it's over-the-top enough to be funny, and at times, it's not actually a bad B-grade disaster flick, with actors far in advance of the caliber usually comprising the cast of Sci-Fi channel originals (not to mention, er, Samuel L. Jackson). It never really settles on one category. I decided to simply enjoy it for what it was -- part of it you could make fun of, part of it would be a stretch.
I suppose I simply prefer films to fall squarely into either the serious or the silly box.
The photo reminds me of the best PDA I ever owned.
It's been about four years since my Psion Revo (badged as a Diamond Mako) died. I bought a Windows-based PDA following the sad event, but less than two years after that, I stopped using it. I don't use a PDA today.
Why doesn't anyone make a good clamshell anymore? Why doesn't anyone make a good mobile OS anymore? The Revo's UI was a study in pure usability, not trying too vainly to be simple (PalmOS) or trying too hard to mimic inappropriate desktop conventions (Windows Mobile).
The 'HandyPC' looks promising--but design-wise, it still looks to me like a predecessor to the Revo.
I just hope that their parents reinforce this in the right way.
"Yes, dear, the police shouldn't have done that. Sometimes the people in charge do bad things."
and not
"Well, sorry, dear, I guess you need to be more careful out there. These are uncertain times, and it's best just to go with the flow."
My guess?
If piracy were to "disappear," the music industry would conclude that pirates had simply become too stealthy in their activities and demand legislation for mandatory antipiracy spyware on users' computers.
I thought I'd go to my bank to see if I could order a copy of my credit report through them. They told me that, even though they can look up a host of things before extending credit to me, by law, they can't show me my own report.
Censoring search terms seems like a very simplistic, even naive method of intellectual subjugation. I don't doubt that far more efficient engineering is just around the corner:
I see artificial semantic analysis as a holy grail to censors, and as available computing power increases, I don't doubt that more resources will be devoted to utilizing it for a more "aware" parsing of monitored traffic.
Perhaps the weirdest societal change has to do with digital cameras...
So we've had a smorgasbord of social moviements ranging from racial equality to mainstream postmodernism, built a comprehensive and ubiquitous freakin' global telecommunications network and the "weirdest societal change" Dvorak can come up with is HOW WE HOLD OUR CAMERAS?
HOW WE HOLD OUR CAMERAS?
One more time, with the understanding that he's talking about a society that's been through the hardscrabble years of WWII, the booming years of the 1950s, the anguish of Vietnam, the excess of the 80s, the boom and bust of the late 90s, 9/11, the war in Iraq and the weirdest societal change of all these is HOW WE HOLD OUR CAMERAS?
The mismatch of scale here is so staggering I still fail to comprehend it myself.
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Why can't Apple just build in a DVI-in on the back that can bypass the internal video connection?
This way, you could hook up an auxiliary Mac Mini, gaming console, or anything else and switch between that and internal video -- and then, in a few years when you decide to upgrade, you've got yourself a perfectly capable monitor that happens to have a slower Mac inside in case you should need it.
Maybe Apple could even build it so the screen can be powered independently from the internals. Why not?
Same here, Win2K on my PC, the XP era having led to my switch to MacOS.
There was just something that rubbed me wrong back then and still does today about having to marry the OS to the box, then having to verbally justify over the phone any hardware migration. While it was far from the only reason for migrating my non-gaming activities to Macs, it was the primary motivation for freezing my Windows upgrade path.
On a related note...
The fact that Adobe has now begun this practice is disturbing, though I suppose I can take consolation in the fact that Adobe allows you to "deactivate" an installation to move it rather than having to call them up and tell them your story. That said...
Why can't we all just get a dongle?
So Vista won't play HD on my 32-bit CPU due to DRM concerns, eh?
Next thing you'll be telling me my current monitor won't be good enough!
Oh, wait...
My real disappointment with SoaP was that it wasn't hokey enough. Which is to say, just like the huge variety of snakes onboard the fateful South Pacific Air flight, the movie is quite a jarring variety of different textures.
At times, it's over-the-top enough to be funny, and at times, it's not actually a bad B-grade disaster flick, with actors far in advance of the caliber usually comprising the cast of Sci-Fi channel originals (not to mention, er, Samuel L. Jackson). It never really settles on one category. I decided to simply enjoy it for what it was -- part of it you could make fun of, part of it would be a stretch.
I suppose I simply prefer films to fall squarely into either the serious or the silly box.
The server's running IIS ( http://www.steorn.net/en/something-random-to-get-a -404 )... And I think we all know only MS would do something like that!
The photo reminds me of the best PDA I ever owned. It's been about four years since my Psion Revo (badged as a Diamond Mako) died. I bought a Windows-based PDA following the sad event, but less than two years after that, I stopped using it. I don't use a PDA today. Why doesn't anyone make a good clamshell anymore? Why doesn't anyone make a good mobile OS anymore? The Revo's UI was a study in pure usability, not trying too vainly to be simple (PalmOS) or trying too hard to mimic inappropriate desktop conventions (Windows Mobile). The 'HandyPC' looks promising--but design-wise, it still looks to me like a predecessor to the Revo.
I dIDN'T pRESS cAPSLOCK oNE lAST tIME. (+anti-lameness mixed-case insertion)
And I just LEFT a nature-vs-nurture debate!
I just hope that their parents reinforce this in the right way. "Yes, dear, the police shouldn't have done that. Sometimes the people in charge do bad things." and not "Well, sorry, dear, I guess you need to be more careful out there. These are uncertain times, and it's best just to go with the flow."
My guess? If piracy were to "disappear," the music industry would conclude that pirates had simply become too stealthy in their activities and demand legislation for mandatory antipiracy spyware on users' computers.
That law just helped me how?
Minimized though it is, it's still a reference the rule of law. Here's hoping that last sentence doesn't get any shorter.
Why can't one dislike regulation of individual freedoms while supporting regulation of corporate freedoms?
I see artificial semantic analysis as a holy grail to censors, and as available computing power increases, I don't doubt that more resources will be devoted to utilizing it for a more "aware" parsing of monitored traffic.
Exactly. Leave the last Win98 version in an easily-accessible place on the site, just like Apple does with old versions of Quicktime.
A Win98 PC will be useful a lot longer with a 2006 copy of Firefox than a 1999 copy of IE5, that's for sure.
It's insight like this that makes the comments section of /.'ed Dvorak stories much, much more interesting to read than TFA.