Xenon Images Emerge!

That would be a G5 - not a G4 enclosure.

I don't see anything bespoke about the enclosure, either, looks a lot like my G5 - unless you call that sticker 'bespoke' - in which case - I don't want to go to your tailor.

And how the hell are you presenting those image links - some evil JS rubbish, what's wrong with normal links...?

Not only that but I the last time I saw a G5 in an office it wasn't floating in space bathed in orange light...

Looks like a standard marketing brochure shot to me...

lol. maybe it's to piss off ludite c**ts like you. lol

Brochure shot? Are you serious? You see many brochures with out-off-focus, poorly lit subjects?

It's clearly a snapshot with a comped out background to eliminate any incriminating evidence.

You are correct. Stef is an idiot, unschooled in the ways of the Macintosh, or of using Google, or of writing things that are correct.

If you see him around, give him a chinese burn, and tell him it's from me.

Wha the f**k is evil about JavaScript? Vast expanses of the Internet rely in it.

Go read a book. Computers are clearly too advanced for you.

Thanks for calling me a c**t, I'm glad to see that the UK:R invasion had an effect on you spongers - but let me slightly correct your analogy:

Using f**king evilly custom-coded javascript hacks to open a link is not an improvement on the existing, and perfectly valid mechanism for loading new pages that _every_ other site on the web uses - in fact it's a retrograde step - because it causes bugs like:

1 - me having to refresh this page manually to get any new posts every time I visit it.

2 - not being able to open links and image links in new tabs.

I don't see these bugs in any other site on the web.

(please note - this is not a rant against JS - just against the context in which it is used on this site.)

vast exanses of the internet do not rely on JS - networks have seven layers - some applications that run on the web (which is at the application (top) layer of the net) use javascript.

Here's a book for you to read:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156205810X/002-0045772-3918419?v=glance

JavaScript is not liked by my PC. True story. No idea why either. Hates Java, though.

There are too many Xbox 360/Xenon shots on the net. A friend of mine proclaimed proudly yesterday he'd seen the real one, and it'll be transparent with chrome-effect plastic. Seeing as ourcolony is supposed to be the site to give away the secrets, and that shows it all as white, I think he's seen yet another of the protos.

That was bit rash for a regular, Geoff and Rodd.

I don't have Javascript installed either, as I use Firefox and Javascript didn't come with the package. I haven't got time to download the file over my dial-up line.

The JavaScript thing is a layover from the days of images being shown in a pop-up. Plus it foils out-of-the-box spider software from snaffling our images, which is nice.


Odd that, give that the forum explicitly sends "Expires", "Pragma" and "Cache-Control" headers (verified using Firefox's Live HTTP Header extension).

Assuming you haven't got some crazy browser config, I sincerely suggest you're viewing the world via a fscked up caching proxy.



When more pressing things are cleared, I'll get those links sorted. As for the images, that's likely to stay. Sorry.



Bugs. Features. Tom-ay-toes. Tom-ar-toes. Any other sites? I'll bet you do.

You've got Firefox? You've got JavaScript.

Please don't fall into the Netscape-inspired trap of confusing Java (a compiled language from Sun) and JavaScript (an intepreted language originally from Netscape, now an ECMA standard produced by many, many companies).

JavaScript was originally called LiveScript, which tied in with Netscape's Live Connect technology. Then Java hit and Netscape decided to rebrand to catch the hype wave! People have been getting them confused ever since.

If you can use the buttons to the left of the forum message edit box, you have JavaScript and it's turned on. If you can click on a large image in the forums and see the full size image, you have JavaScript and it's turned on.

Well, we could get down to semantics if you like. But the Web is a part of the Internet. This cow IS an animal.



Under the BRM for OSI model they do. But the model is outdated, it was created in the late seventies and deals specifically with WANs, not interconnected LANs using IP. It was flawed when it was invented. The session layer, for instance, exists primarily to give the Germans somewhere to stick their T.62 protocol.

The bottom three layers reflect X.25 specifically, and are not particularly relevant to IP networking. Alternative and more contemporary models exist which frame TCP/IP networks within four (sometimes five) layers.



Server-side JavaScript, while still in the application layer can be used for many non HTTP applications.



I am familiar with Nielsen's work. He is an over rated, overly conservative, and dismissive of valid innovation. There are many better books on the subject.

While SPOnG use of JavaScript adds nothing, nor does it take anything away.

My sugestion that you "go read a book" was not so you could learn about computers. Rather to give you something to do so that you could avoid using them, and their "evil JavaScript".

can anybody explain to me why a microsoft dev kit is house in a Mac computer??

Because XBox 360 and Macintosh G5 share the same/a similar CPU architecture. Therefore, by shoving the NextBox GPU and custom hardware on a card, you can very easily make a G5 into something approximating an XBox 360.

A PC could not easily do the same things (it would have to emulate the CPU, or require a CPU daughter board).

So while Apple may be Microsoft's "Enemy" in the desktop battle, they are a useful ally in the war for total computing domination. But the kind of ally that will be used, and thrown away once the war is won.