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z80 writes "I've started to scan all the NeXT-related material I can get my hands on and put it online. Others are more than welcome to participate to gather more information, articles about and other printed stuff about NeXT Inc., NeXTSTEP and Openstep, as well as other related products from NeXT.
This great OS is the foundation on which Apple and the Mac will be built on for years to come and it would be fun if more Mac users would learn about where it comes from."
Get a fucking lawyer. You do know that Apple is a cuntfaced crybaby when it comes to this shit right?
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What protocol do the old NeXT cubes use for UI peripherals? I picked up a petite, sexy, never-used NeXT keyboard at my university's 'slough-sale' for about $10CD (about $0.2 american, I'm sure). But I haven't been able to get it to work 'out of the box' with PS/2 ports (it has a mini-DIN 5 connector). Is it ADB? Or do I have to reverse-engineer the protocol myself?
- undoware.ca
Make sure you post the contents of the cease and desist letter when you get it - oh... probably 15 minutes from now.
Don't blame me, I get all my opinions from my Ouija board.
"The Omelette" - A retort to Malda's Omelette analogy.
Let me try to give you an analogy for Slashdot's homepage.
Yes, please liken something to something in a cliché staid analogy because we the reader are too stupid to understand any overly complex and high level reason why you can't explain yourself properly. Either that or you are full of crap, don't know what you are doing and are lucky as hell to have what you have.
It's like an omelette: it's a combination of sausage and ham and tomatoes and eggs and more.
It is a motley collage, a miasma, a montage or eclectic and seemingly unrelated things. It may be a myriad of unrelated things, related at only the most abstract levels. It certainly isn't an omelette.
Over the years, we've figured out what ingredients are best on Slashdot.
What critical acclamations have you had that makes you think this is so? Just because you get a lot of hits, and subsequently subject your readership to unwanted bandwidth consuming detritus, doesn't mean you know what's best. It is just like a Reynolds family member claiming they know what's best for them, nicotine and smoke are not unhealthy, and then they die of lung cancer. You are an egotistical megalomaniac. If this site was run based on a meritocratic method rather and juvenile selfishness, it would have serious potential.
The ultimate goal is, of course, to create an omelette that I enjoy eating: by 8pm, I want to see a dozen interesting stories on Slashdot.
The ultimate goal is to please yourself, to feed your id. You have no desire to please the community by which you make your living. You are selfish, sheltered and removed from your community. You are on a one way soapbox, a pulpit, and you talk at people. I would probably include you in a list of people I would kill if I could get away with it.
I hope you enjoy them too.
I do not.
I believe that we've grown in size because we share a lot of common interests with our readers.
Mobocracy is good? You would rather collect people without regard to quality. This means nothing. Budweiser is the most consumer beer, but its garbage. This is analogous to Slashdot, to stoop to your food and beverage analogy. Bud beer. Its good because a lot of people drink it. No, no. Don't bother trying to get critical acclimation. Don't bother, you know as long as you "control" Slashdot, you never will.
But that doesn't mean that I'm gonna mix an omelette with all sausages, or someday throw away the tomatoes because the green peppers are really fresh.
So serving rotten food is acceptable how? Its better to keep your silence and let people wonder if you are fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. "Gonna." Pathetic. Simply pathetic. This is a hick like expression, akin to something on the order of, "I'm gonna open a can of whup ass on him for peggin Mary Joe Susie Lee."
There are many components to the Slashdot Omelette. Stories about Linux. Tech stories. Science. Legos. Book Reviews. Yes, even Jon Katz.
Jon Katz is the worst thing about this place. If it isn't the wasting of my bandwidth that I pay for, its this that bothers me the most. On a sidebar, I would like to hold you and the rest of the scum who send ad banners to my connection legally liable for unwanted bandwidth usage. This crap half the time doesn't even come from your site. It would be less of an affront if you stored you vile ads on your own site, but you took the easy way out and decided to outsource the production of garbage to similarly-devoid-of-ethics people with slightly more intelligence and infrastructure to provide this illegal content.
By mixing and matching these things each and every day, we bring you what I call Slashdot. On some days it definitely is better than others, but overall we think it's a tasty little treat and we hope you enjoy eating as much as we enjoy cooking it.
Grotesque things are often of huge interest to people. This holds true with me in regards to Slashdot. I hate you, I hate Jon Katz, I hate most of the content here. Some of the best stuff is written at -1. You would suppress those who are different while you are "different like everyone else," just another marginally educated half assed "programmer" who on the scale of things lucked out even more so than Bill Gates (reason: I would assume your IQ is probably his divided by 2 or 3 and you aren't working at a McDonald's where you should be). Whenever you have participated in a discussion thread, you are obnoxious, rude and ungrateful. You policies are horrible, you content is basically a smattering of other people's work and you benefit from this. You web page reeks of someone who completes nothing that he starts. Your obsession with anime is a testament to how juvenile you are, your spelling is horrific, you grammar is oft questionable; you are a poor editor Mr. Malda.
I hope only the worst outcomes for any and all of your endeavors henceforth. I hope your fiancée or if you are lucky, your marriage falls apart. I hope your Jubei breaks. I hope you lose your job. I hope that you fail because you are displacing true talent.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 6/14/00
This great OS is the foundation on which Apple and the Mac will be built on for years to come
oh, for chrissakes. the mac survived for over 15 years without a hint of heritage from NeXT - in fact, it was quite the opposite, NeXT was founded by Jobs after his ousting from Apple. NeXT was hampered by typically "Steve" problems that were possibly ahead of their time, like a network-booted OS and lack of a disk drive in their NeXT cubes.
regardless, only in OS X's "yellow box" or "cocoa" or whatever the hell you want to call it does Apple show some sign of latter-day NeXT inheritance. WebObjects is still largely proprietary, and is only used as a medium-sized in house business solution. Objective-C is nice, but only in writing "Cocoa" apps that can take advantage of OS X-specific features like antialiased text and the Services menu and so forth.
Java is well-supported on the platform and the majority of the OS X native apps being produced today are using the Carbon APIs, not Cocoa. The mach microkernel, darwin, Java, Classic support and Carbon... there's more to the OS than NeXT legacy, and there's more to Apple than OS X.
I'm all for cleanly-written slick Objective-C apps like OmniWeb, but this is by no means the future of the Mac.
This reminded me of something I found a while back, a scan of the NeXT Network and System Administration Manual. Good one to add to your collection.
How would you know how "cleanly written" OmniWeb is? For its entire history on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP OmniWeb was proprietary. Have they made it Free Software, did you hack on it, or are you just guessing?
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Carbon apps, i.e. apps written using APIs derived from Classic Mac OS, can have anti-aliased text, by using Quartz-specific APIs.
It's only if you use the old Toolbox, Quickdraw-based APIs that you don't get anti-aliased text. Most companies, incl. Microsoft with IE, have figured, "Hey, if it builds, it's Carbonized" and that's how Carbonized apps got the reputation of not having antialiased text. But it's wrong. If you change some of your code, you've got it.
And Carbon can use the Services menu as of 10.1, though there are still some quirks.
While Carbon apps aren't *completely* full citizens on X, they're getting there, and Apple is committed to that, afaik.
Also, I would argue that OS X *is* the Mac, for the foreseeable future. Apple is betting everything on X, and has very little if any 9 development still going on within Apple. The future, for better or worse, is X. So anyone, even people who still like 9 more (like me), who try to argue otherwise are probably not going to like the next couple years.
WebObjects is a wreck. The only people really using it are old NeXTSTEPers who live and die by Objective-C. So what did they do? They ported it to pure Java! Now nobody's happy. And they've never promoted it as an enterprise tool to any of the newer Web shops, it's got no profile. I'll bet they stop working on it within a year or two.
If it weren't for the no-sale clause in section 3 of the license ("3. You may not charge a fee for the Software...") it could qualify as a non-copylefted Free Software license. As it is, it's not Free Software at all.
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