"Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems." Nope. Sun was selling optical mice with the SparcStations LONG ago.
I think the keyword here is that Apple is bundling the new mouse with all its desktop machines. On Sun workstations, it was an expensive option.
Yup! It's got a dial underneath where the ball latch usually goes. It can be adjusted from light to quite heavy pressure. BTW, the pressure needs to be applied to the front of the mouse in a downwards direction. Feels weird for the first 5 minutes (I'm using one right now!)
Most good compilers will pick up using a variable before it's assigned. Besides, it's seriously wasteful of CPU cycles to go around pre-initting variables where it's just not needed. That's why we've statements like short i=0 in C/C++
Florida judge approves class-action lawsuit against America Online [snip] It'll never win 'cuz you can turn them off of course, but it's pretty dang funny.
Ahh, but the attorney taking the case has also stated the following:
"That's a new thing," he said. "Our lawsuit period goes back to 1994. That wasn't the case for the five-year period we're covering."
The big thing is (has been?) that with NT/IIS, strong encryption and certificates for SSL are much easier to obtain. The only other common option is Solaris/Netscape, so where does Apache fit in?
"Recently, VeriSign, the Apache Server Project, and SSLeay have collaborated to allow anyone running an Apache server to secure their site with the strongest encryption available"
Pete C
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But make me use a monitor that size ? That's Cruel and Unusual Punishment in my book.
Well, it's not too bad considering they'll easily go to 32-bit 1024x768 @ 75Hz and still remain crisp and clear. I've one in front of me here.... Using one for development is a bit eye-boggling, tho'!
I can just see hundreds of people frying themselves on the monitor anode
Nope! The logic board slips our from under the CRT enclosure, both on the older C1-type iMacs and the later ones. No need to go near the anode cap or the PSU...
Duhh! They're not even MPEGs. Problem is, there are so many dumb people out there mindlessly clicking on any old.exe file that flies into their mailboxes. Pete C
"We're all hackers, in the traditional sense of the word," Waskelis said. "If we find something like this, we want to pick it apart and see what it's doing."
They're finally getting their terminology right...
.. really, considering that they appear to have no marketing presence outside the web. Anyways, it's all a bit silly - they use Java as their eCommerce front-end. They have bazillions of useless cookies & when you finally get to the retail page, it says "Your boobag is empty"....
... is Aqua something that actually runs on X11 Aqua runs on what Apple is calling Quartz. This is based on Adobe's PDF format. So, nope, not X11, and I'm guessing Apple won't be in a big hurry to open Quartz sources anytime soon...
errm.. Apple have had this for quite some time. The 'Software Updates' control panel is used to either manually or periodically connect to a remote server, verify all packages & automatically download the updates. The user can get the option to accept/refuse updates....
The G4/350 handled all the transformations effects (sheets, genie, etc.) noticeably better than the G3/400, even with only 64MB of RAM (which is the minimum RAM requirement for Mac OS X).
This is probably as a result of much of OS X being optimised for Velocity Engine (Altivec), especially the Quartz layer. Not to mention the fact that the 2xAGP graphics cards in the newer G4s will easily blow away a G3
Well, I just listened to the keynote live & noted that Steve Jobs pointed out that Darwin, the OS X *kernel* will be open-source. He did not mention that Quartz (and QT, etc) would be. So, nothing new there.... check out publicsource.apple.com
From what I can remember from Biology 101 (I just typed 'boilogy' - how apt!), smallpox vaccine was originally a derivative of denatured cowpox agents. Also, in the western world, most people have either had chickenpox or have recently been inoculated against it. Doesn't that give most people a certain resistance to smallpox? Just curious....
Ok, so it's Amazon.com - I know, I know! Still, check out this review of his book by Ulrich Gerlach. He meticulously dissects his main arguments and concludes;
[SNIPPED] "Let me summarize this review by putting it into a wider perspective. As one can see from the issues I have pointed out, the author's work is grossly deficient from (i) the philosophical, (ii) the theoretically physical, (iii) the experimentally physical and (iv) the mathematical point of view. The author is terribly confused about all these issues and my suspicion is that he does not even realize it. I could cite additional instances, but I merely would be beating a dead horse."
*sigh* my first posting with a nick & it's flamebait 8-/. Still... this has to be said: %s/QWERTY/Windows/g "People know Windows and are comfortable with it. It's not the best out there but it works for most people. The cost of retraining all those Windows users out there would be astronomical. If a switch were made what would happen in the transition period? Would each system have two OSes? Just because a "better" way is developed isn't allways enough if the "old" way works passibly well." Spot the problem?? Pete C
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"Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems."
Nope. Sun was selling optical mice with the SparcStations LONG ago.
I think the keyword here is that Apple is bundling the new mouse with all its desktop machines. On Sun workstations, it was an expensive option.
Is the sensivity adjustable.
Yup! It's got a dial underneath where the ball latch usually goes. It can be adjusted from light to quite heavy pressure. BTW, the pressure needs to be applied to the front of the mouse in a downwards direction. Feels weird for the first 5 minutes (I'm using one right now!)
Most good compilers will pick up using a variable before it's assigned. Besides, it's seriously wasteful of CPU cycles to go around pre-initting variables where it's just not needed. That's why we've statements like short i=0 in C/C++
Pete C (M$ creats another bloatware tool)
Florida judge approves class-action lawsuit against America Online [snip] It'll never win 'cuz you can turn them off of course, but it's pretty dang funny.
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Ahh, but the attorney taking the case has also stated the following:
"That's a new thing," he said. "Our lawsuit period goes back to 1994. That wasn't the case for the five-year period we're covering."
So there's hope yet
Here's a link to a detailed Irish Times article
Pete C
How's about OpenSSL and modSSL? Verisign is now officially supporting SSL patches to Apache which are based on SSLeay.They say:Pete C
But make me use a monitor that size ? That's Cruel and Unusual Punishment in my book.
.... Using one for development is a bit eye-boggling, tho'!
Well, it's not too bad considering they'll easily go to 32-bit 1024x768 @ 75Hz and still remain crisp and clear. I've one in front of me here
Pete C
I can just see hundreds of people frying themselves on the monitor anode
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Nope! The logic board slips our from under the CRT enclosure, both on the older C1-type iMacs and the later ones. No need to go near the anode cap or the PSU
Pete C (wrote some of the iMac diagnostics
Duhh! They're not even MPEGs. Problem is, there are so many dumb people out there mindlessly clicking on any old .exe file that flies into their mailboxes.
Pete C
They're finally getting their terminology right
Pete C
.. really, considering that they appear to have no marketing presence outside the web. Anyways, it's all a bit silly - they use Java as their eCommerce front-end. They have bazillions of useless cookies & when you finally get to the retail page, it says "Your boobag is empty"....
boobag???
Pete C (in Europe!)
... is Aqua something that actually runs on X11 ...
Aqua runs on what Apple is calling Quartz. This is based on Adobe's PDF format. So, nope, not X11, and I'm guessing Apple won't be in a big hurry to open Quartz sources anytime soon
Pete C
errm .. Apple have had this for quite some time. The 'Software Updates' control panel is used to either manually or periodically connect to a remote server, verify all packages & automatically download the updates. The user can get the option to accept/refuse updates ....
Pete C
Replying to my own article! :)
Here's a page detailing some of the many sites closed down by the CoS:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ Secrets/Fishman/ClamBed.html
Pete C
Maybe next they'll go after anti-CoS websites?
:-b
Hey - whaddya mean next!!
Pete C
Isn't it cmd-bkspc to delete on macs?
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hmmmmm....
cmd-del is the NT login screen key sequence
Pete C
Pete C
The G4/350 handled all the transformations effects (sheets, genie, etc.) noticeably better than the G3/400, even with only 64MB of RAM (which is the minimum RAM requirement for Mac OS X).
This is probably as a result of much of OS X being optimised for Velocity Engine (Altivec), especially the Quartz layer. Not to mention the fact that the 2xAGP graphics cards in the newer G4s will easily blow away a G3
Pete C
FWIW, it just killed my G3 powerbook running NS4.0.6, so it's not just a Linux thing ...
Pete C
Well, I just listened to the keynote live & noted that Steve Jobs pointed out that Darwin, the OS X *kernel* will be open-source. He did not mention that Quartz (and QT, etc) would be. So, nothing new there .... check out publicsource.apple.com
Pete C
From what I can remember from Biology 101 (I just typed 'boilogy' - how apt!), smallpox vaccine was originally a derivative of denatured cowpox agents. Also, in the western world, most people have either had chickenpox or have recently been inoculated against it. Doesn't that give most people a certain resistance to smallpox? Just curious ....
Pete C
*sigh* my first posting with a nick & it's flamebait 8-/. Still ... this has to be said: %s/QWERTY/Windows/g "People know Windows and are comfortable with it. It's not the best out there but it works for most people. The cost of retraining all those Windows users out there would be astronomical. If a switch were made what would happen in the transition period? Would each system have two OSes? Just because a "better" way is developed isn't allways enough if the "old" way works passibly well." Spot the problem?? Pete C