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Google did this out of ignorance about a language that doesn't look like it's been updated in over 2 years. From the looks of it, the guy hasn't publicly updated his code for Go! in over two years. Do a google search for "Go! programming language" and the only result for his work in the first two pages (where most people look) is a single ACM citation.

You know what Google should do? Offer him an interview with the presumption of being hired to work on their version unless he proves unqualified (unlikely, given the cover similar spaces) and maybe a cool wad of cash to smooth out any IP issues. For a language that has apparently never risen above a research project, even $25k would be sufficiently just compensation for him to renounce any IP claims against Google and go about his merry way.

From the Wikipedia page about Go!, you can download its source code here. Is this language really serious? No docs, just one book with a typo on its front?

Like the iPhoto galleries on a real mac, looks nice but you can't export them to anything except MobileMe. Want remote desktop? Get MobileMe. Don't really fancy iTunes with no plugins? Well you're kinda screwed (Songbird isn't a viable alternative imho.) Want to play DivX on your phone? .. Got friends using MSN? Suck to be you!

And that's why I dislike Apple so much.

It's curious that you dislike Apple so much when almost every single one of your examples is made-up:

1. I seemed to remember exporting to places other than MobileMe before, so I opened up iPhoto upon reading your post. Sure enough, there is also built-in support for exporting your albums to Facebook, Flickr, and iWeb (and before you get started on iWeb, you most certainly can publish iWeb sites to servers other than MobileMe).
2. Your tirade against Remote Desktop makes no sense whatsoever. Apple's own page on Remote Desktop specifically notes that anyone with a VNC client can access a Mac remotely. All you have to do is enable Remote Management in Sharing preferences—MobileMe has nothing to do with it.
3. iTunes most certainly has plugin support. A Google search for "iTunes plugins" yielded an entire directly of them as the first result.
4. You may think you've finally cornered me with your DivX complaint, and indeed that's not one of the media formats iPhone supports natively, but surely you've heard of converting video formats with tools like ffmpegX. Maybe you've made half a point with this one.
5. Sadly for you, there's no other half point here. There are plenty of apps you can use for MSN chat, both on Macs and iPhones. BeejiveIM is one for iPhone, and Adium works great on Macs.

But I'm sure this was all a simple misunderstanding. Surely someone with such a low UID would never resort to misinformation or trolling.

Any engineer worth his (or her) salt knows that RPN is the way to numerically solve an equation. The algebraic entry using parentheses is for suckers. So that got me thinking... why not use RPN for equation entry? As usual, I'm late to the game. There is a Mac app here. Sorry, the site is Japanese...

There is a web app here. Seems to work well. You can make pretty big equations quickly, and the result is in tex.

Don't even think of this. In the first half of 1950s, East Europe took for granted that the invasion of Leptinotarsa decemlineata that took place at that time was the evil work of American imperialists and their agents, even though there certainly was no positive proof of that. On the Internet, there is a scan of a cute public notice from that time signed by a "Regional Commisioner for Erradicating the American Beetle". There were even educational books for the kids, which were a little less cute.

So if you say things like this, when the crops fail in North Korea due to some strange weed next time, for all you know, the next day a North Korean nuke might land on the top of your head. ;-)

I run LEDs, permanently attached to my bicycle, which sits outdoors year-round, and is wired to be on whenever the bicycle is moving. Heat/cold/rain/snow/vibration have not killed them yet. I have them on my kid's bikes too, including some that I recycled from earlier versions of my bike lights. I have nine in my kitchen under cabinets, running near continuously (at 11watts, they are the first lights on, and the last lights off). How do you think your bathroom compares? The tenth one (cheaper in bulk) sits on my night-time bike helmet

The electronics are efficient switching power supplies, and are potted in epoxy.

"It had NO SECURITY AT ALL!"

MacOS was based on BSD, right? By extension, does BSD have no security at all? Or, are we to assume that Mac stripped out BSD's inherent security? Remember, Unix like operating systems are inherently modeled on security.

This site, among others, suggests that Mac OS users might have been security conscious: http://homepage.mac.com/macbuddy/SecurityGuide.html

You should see the real original picture before MS photoshopped in those two non-Busey guys.

(Yes, stolen from reddit.)

After rebooting the router, I can give you W.T. Bridgman's review of "The Electric Sky" and Tim Thompson's review of the electric sun idea, and a follow-up.

After rebooting the router, I can give you W.T. Bridgman's review of "The Electric Sky" and Tim Thompson's review of the electric sun idea, and a follow-up.

Unless they used a process like Randall Hyde teaches, High Level Assembler (HLA). Art of Assembly Language Home Page

Instead of focusing on games, you could expand the card decks available for free/OSS non-linear learning tools and help promote those tools.

http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/

and

http://web.mac.com/jrc/Genius/

are ones I have used.

Anyone have ideas on how to pitch "Flexible Path" as an exciting option to the public? I mean, I personally think asteroid mining, learning to detect potential planet killers, visiting comet cores, and viewing Mars from Phobos would be pretty inspiring, but I'm not sure how to sell it to the public.

Given that Honda seems convinced that their tech doesn't conflict with any Toyota patents I'm curious as to how specific these patents are. If they're general enough for any automaker to run afoul of them just by making any sort of hybrid system then I'd imagine they could be invalidated through prior art. If they're much more specific to the Prius drivetrain then there are other questions, like how many patents deal directly with the drivetrain, vs control software, or other elements like battery tech? If it does get to that point then it can be debated if the public good of having more hybrids from different automakers outweighs the legitimate issue of rewarding Toyota for spending years and what was probably a fair sum of money in the development of their hybrid tech. I imagine that these patents cover a combination of the 2, and ford (and others) have decided that paying Toyota is cheaper than bringing a legitimate challange.
I'd guess that at least a few of these patents deal with the weird new "cvt" that only uses planetary gears instead of belts or chains, which is a pretty significant and original idea for a car. A simulation of the gear system can be found here: http://homepage.mac.com/inachan/prius/planet_e.html

On OSX you should take a moment to check out Camino. It's normally a couple of steps behind the latest Firefox release, but it's far more Mac-like with full support for the 'Services' menu, Keychain, speelchequer, etc. To automatically get the latest Camino nightlies that are somewhat closer to the Firefox releases, you may be interested in CaminoKnight.

You may miss a few common Firefox plugins, but at least Adblock is there...

I agree, either it's carefully crafted FUD or a Windows weeny that just loves every proprietary UI he's accustomed to like TOAD and some others.

On the other hand I've known quite a few persons that went for the "OMG Ponies" kind of "usability": Look my iPhone's screen tilts when I turn it! and Wohow, MS Surface rocks...

here you go:

http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/big_die/diebold_1.jpg

Strangely examples are absent from your post. You sound eerily like me before I went to actually see the movie.

Mods on crack, saying why he doesn't like something is not flamebait.

And I do agree - in my humble opinion, Quicktime has a poor interface, doesn't even support basic functionality such as full screen mode (unless you pay, IIRC), and it is more annoying than most other players in terms of having stuff run at startup. I prefer players that Just Work, and have a good UI.

(I remember some time ago on Slashdot someone was claiming that Apple "Just Works" and Windows is always "distracting" him by getting in the way somehow. I said I didn't know what he was on about. Funningly enough, I concede that later that very day I did get distracted by something getting in the way of what I was doing on Windows. What I was trying to do was watch a Quicktime movie in fullscreen...)

Seems like pro-Apple mods can't bear to hear that other products work too. Opera's a perfectly fine product, as is Firefox.

Perhaps the mod would like to share with us how to enable full screen mode in Quicktime for Windows, since I am obviously mistaken?

(And unfortunately my experience with Apple Quicktime on Windows is that they don't Just Work - even basic functionality such as full screen mode isn't available. Not to mention the hideous and non-standard UI - something they are supposedly praised for. Maybe you mean it Works Just on Macs, but I'm not enthusiastic about downloading anything else they release for Windows.)

Here's a ref, btw: http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/qtime.htm - not much has changed with the later versions.

Mac OS X used to be called NeXTstep, and NeXTstep had a dock which Windows 95 copied to create the task bar. The Windows 95 look which came to be called the Windows classic look which was in fact a shameless but inferior copy of the NeXTstep look from 1988.

Think Windows 95 copied from NextStep, starting with the "Recycle bin" and the recycle logo, the use of a square and a X in the title bar, bezeled window borders, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Dock
http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/OpenStep/screenShots/
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/applicationmanager

I'm trying to get old computers for kids in Namibia high schools and a friend and myself bought a kindergarden over there. I should be going back in 2 months to check on them. If you're interested in helping, send me a note.

Here are some photos of the preschool and the computers sent off to the high school.

Kids in preschool:
http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Namibia%202008/D3A0AB87-8276-4741-8F1B-9225C7F23CF7.html

Computers:
http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Off%20to%20Africa.html

I'm trying to get old computers for kids in Namibia high schools and a friend and myself bought a kindergarden over there. I should be going back in 2 months to check on them. If you're interested in helping, send me a note.

Here are some photos of the preschool and the computers sent off to the high school.

Kids in preschool:
http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Namibia%202008/D3A0AB87-8276-4741-8F1B-9225C7F23CF7.html

Computers:
http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Off%20to%20Africa.html

Wow! Source? Haven't seen anything like that.

That's a bit like asking for a source that the sky is blue, because you've never noticed... Of course, you couldn't be bothered to do the simplest search for yourself.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/bush-blames/
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/200601012_bush_blames_clinton_again/
http://www.davidcogswell.com/Political/BushBlamesClinton.html
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/07/28/bush-administration-blames-bill-clinton-for-deficit/
http://www.truthout.org/article/keith-olbermann-a-textbook-definition-cowardice
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/23/se.02.html
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/impeach44.html#Bush_Blames_Clinton_For_N_Korea_Debacle
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-13-attacks-panel_x.htm

And, of course:
http://homepage.mac.com/garyligi/iblog/C1957607809/E20080429161904/index.html

Correct on the advances, but sandbagging on the state of LEDs right now. The "most efficient" LEDs are all blue-ish, but slightly less "efficient" ones (here, efficiency is measured in lumens, which is a biological unit, not a physical one) are not so blue. I use 9 CREE XRE neutral-whites in my kitchen, they look great (and number 10, for the discount, is in my bike helmet spot lamp).

The power LEDs, both CREE and Luxeon, are available in a Lambertian pattern, which is not tightly focused, but can be tightly focused. My helmet has a 6-degree spot on it, it looks great. My bike is set up with two CREEs forward (one spot, one dispersed) and one plain Lambertian Luxeon red-orange to the rear (lights up everything behind me). Imagine, if you will, the delightful treatment these lights get on my bike, riding outdoors, in rain, in snow, etc.

I get all my parts (lights, lenses, current regulators) from ledsupply.com. I bought enough stuff from them this year that they sent me a Christmas card :-).

Self-promotion (and information):
Undercabinet lights: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/more-undercabinet-lights/
Bike lights: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/converging-on-a-design-for-cheap-bright-bike-lights/
Helmet (showing focus and Lambertian): http://gallery.mac.com/dr2chase/100060/IMG_0679/web.jpg

You can literally drop a x264 encoded, dvd quality video onto the Pandora, take it to a friend's house, and play it on their television

As I understand it, PSP can play H.264, and the PSP-2000 can do so with SDTV/EDTV output. So can an Aiptek camcorder that takes SD cards. And they're a lot easier to come by than Pandora, for which you'd probably be waiting 6 months for a 4-day preorder window.

along with whatever games that you have on the system with a USB controller.

Who makes native games for Pandora? You can't run ordinary Windows or Linux games because there'd be too much overhead emulating x86 on the Pandora's ARM CPU. Or are you talking about somehow copying your 8- and 16-bit game cartridges, arcade PCBs, and old Lucasarts floppies onto an SD card to emulate them?

They submitted a 13 page 'proposal' at the last minute while (apparently) even the smallest of the bids were throughly detailed.

I bet when each bidder had to front the 'expert panel' on the weekend the panel decided not to waste their time entertaining a 'proposal'. Being a 13-page 'proposal' the lawyers would've had no trouble finding missing bits.

Besides, the process is pretty lame. The goal was to build the exact same proposal that Telstra came out with in 2005 - $4billion AUD for FTTN(which will be obsolete in 10 years anyway), and only do FTTH in brand new developments.

Its been pointed out by the head of another ISP (Internode, who I use) that Telstra could simply build a FiOS-style FTTH network and keep it to themselves, with no strings attached while the older PSTN remains. Keep in mind that Telstra's entire goal throughout this process has been to decimate the competitive environment that exists. There are ADSL2+ plans which offer 100x more value than the proposed wholesale FTTN port price!

http://homepage.mac.com/lyford/4umsf/asteroids.jpg

Looks like a Zerg Overlord from Starcraft http://homepage.mac.com/cheethorne/Starcraft/images/overlord.jpg

"Alexander the God", from Gold.

A high temperature incinerator was proposed for Victoria, Australia. The "who will think of the children" shot it down and we still have landfill. Here is a link: http://homepage.mac.com/herinst/sbeder/incinerator2.html

also google for "high temperature incinerator" +victoria

Actually, I'd prefer it if that technology was in the hands of a coutry with a better record regarding bombing of other countries for no good reason. China, Russia, Israel, Iran have bombed fewer countries combined since 1945 than the US alone.

If you're interested in Balad, here are the pictures I took the first time around. Nothing too revealing, but you get the general lay of the land.

http://homepage.mac.com/hylic/vacation/index.html

Take it easy-

-b

Air Force here- spent a lot of time around Predators and the equipment they are discussing. This article did not come as a surprise to me at all; in fact, I would say that this story was a non-story. Airborne weapons and avionics are designed to be modular and interchangeable. Outside of the actual flight computers, there is no reason that electronics like, for example, a laser targeting pod from an F-16 can't be mounted on an F-15. Heck, even the mounting hardware is the same.

This story is yet another "We're doing X, but IN SPAAAAACCE!!!" or "We're doing Y, but on WEEEEEEEED!!!".

This article could be about installing a Sony CD deck in a chevy. OMG!!!

I don't know what it is about the predator that gets /. stories up to 400-600 comments. Transformers was a movie. Robocop was a movie. These things are simply unmanned, remotely-piloted aircraft. They are slow and ungainly and prone to malfunction*. We've been using unmanned, remotely-piloted aircraft as drones since the early cold war. Your paranoia about the coming police state would be better spent on issues like voting machines and unconstitutional laws- you know, things that actually matter at this point. When the predators start coming for you, it will be because your elected officials passed laws to make it legal to hunt you down. Make your votes count this year.

*Need proof? here is a picture of one that decided to taxi off the runway and crash for reasons known only to it and the predator god: http://homepage.mac.com/hylic/vacation/index4.html

This was not uncommon during the time I spent there.

-b

I entirely agree. I was also surprised to find I can't do the rather fundamental task of viewing in full screen, unless I pay money. And let's not forget their entry in the Interface Hall of Shame (this was particularly worrying, when good UI is the thing that people claim Apple are good at).

Whatever happened to "It Just Works"? It makes me distrust the "I can't explain why Apple is better, it just is, you just have to try it" mantra when, everytime I do try it, I have these experiences.

At the moment a Prius is priced several thousand dollars more than a
comparable-size and power non-hybrid car but that's just because
hybrids are newer and more popular. The cost to manufacture a
hybrid should be less than a traditional car because the hybrid, with
the exception of its battery, is simpler
and with fewer moving parts. The Prius doesn't have a
'multi-speed' gear box, starter motor, alternator, serpentine belt, or
torque converter/clutch so all of those are left out along with the
collateral stuff associated with them such as wiring harness
components, starting battery, interlock controls, and various
mechanical linkages and mounting brackets making the assembly
line simpler and cheaper. Also, stuff like the engine and
radiator are relatively small and presumably less expensive. The
Prius does have a planetary
gear system as a power-splitting device but it's a relatively
simple component to manufacture. The manufacturing cost for the
battery is the biggest adder over a traditional car and that is
probably, at the moment, only about a $1,000 increase in manufacturing
cost over a traditional car while leaving out the other stuff probably
saves several thousand. The bottom line is that hybrids
should eventually be cheaper to buy than a conventional car and likely
cheaper to operate over their service life as well.

he has to ice-pack it all the time because it overheats.

Not that I'm without my fair share of Apple-product problems, but that's an easy one. Tell him to install smcFanControl. Problem solved.

For example most people find it much harder to memorize lines of commands than to look through a set of icons

This is dead fucking wrong. Look at this picture. Tell me, which tabs made immediate sense to you? Hint: they weren't the ones with icons on them.

It really helps manage the temperature and also tells you what the current cpu temps are. It also has multiple profiles, allowing you to setup one for when you're plugged in, another on battery.

Well, this is interesting timing.

A month ago my MacBook Pro (17", GeForce 8600) died horribly while I was playing World of Warcraft. It threw a kernel panic every time I started it up, and while the screen worked, it was a mass of vertical lines.

It looked exactly like the fourth picture in this gallery:
http://gallery.mac.com/justinhart#100193

Apple replaced the motherboard, and I'm fine again, but I never did find out the root cause.

Hmm...

No idea about how he got popular, but his main draw seems to be his terrible understanding of human anatomy.

we'll also see down-to-earth images of the culture at the time that cannot be expressed even in 1000 words.

Obviously

Sorry to say that it's just not whites who are guilty of slavery. And there are parts of Africa that are working. I have seen one of them.

And in these parts that are working, good things can be done. See for yourself.

http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Namibia%202008/D3A0AB87-8276-4741-8F1B-9225C7F23CF7.html

I wouldn't be surprised at the comment. Seems like you might really need the therapy.

My impression of you from finding your name at the top of one too many blindingly self-assured posts: Someone who, through a combination of success and an innate arrogance, never managed to figure out that you don't actually know anything.

Oh the huge manatee

Also, I'm sorry, but I just don't see how keeping 40 tonnes in the air using vertical thrust alone is meant to be a good idea.

What if it's a 24-hour analog clock? :)

http://homepage.mac.com/pete.boardman/24hourclock/

Why are you swearing and spitting and looking silly instead of using the minimized mode?

iTunes5.png (PNG Image, 478×90 pixels)

What more do you want? You can put that in the corner of your screen. You can play, pause, forward/back, see what's playing, and not take up your whole screen to do it.

Joss Whedon himself compared Firefly/Serenity to Star Wars with these words:

"[...] if Han had come into the bar five minutes later and never met that old man."

I am putting together a charity to ship old computers to African schools.

Please contact me if interested. AlexZavatone(spamblock)@gmail.com

http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Off%20to%20Africa.html
http://web.mac.com/zav/iWeb/Zav-O-Matic/Namibia%202008/D3A0AB87-8276-4741-8F1B-9225C7F23CF7.html