Ohmagod! I can't believe someone remembers Mac and Me! I must of been 7 years old when that came out (1989, right?) that movie was the shit even at such a young age, I was struck by the magnitude of what I was seeing.
Capturing up aliens with vacum cleaners! Strange hippie orphan girls living alone in tents on the edge of town! It was something to be remembered.
However, Mac and Me has been lost to history....how sad....we really need a Mac and Me Special Edition.
the Mac freaks are going to buy the stuff no matter what Apple does, and no one else gives a damn anyway.
How nice it is to log onto Slashdot and be stereotyped and insulted for my choice of platform. If anyone ever wonders why many Mac owners have a negative attitude towards x86 users, look no further than ignorant comments such as this.
I wonder what the response would be if I stuck a completely unnecessary and untrue line about all Linux or Windows users being 400 pound acne faced, Star Trek uniform wearing and utterly clueless Linus/Gates worshipers onto the end of a story?
I would probably have an army of rabid Penguins released into my house in the dead of night!
I believe AppleScript is probably the closest thing to a natural language text based interface I have seen so far.
It uses common English phrases to do just about anything in almost any application. It is one of the main reasons many graphics-oriented businesses didn't drop the Mac back in the dark days of the mid '90s. It is very easy to learn and makes common tasks, especially batch processing large groups of files fast and easy.
Somehow I fear most of its syntax will be lifted and relabled a Microsoft "innovation".
....of the third millenium of mankind (give or take a few). Ten years after the Cold War. The ISS Project was a money hole given form. Its goal, to create a place where NASA could justify its budget and get on the nightly news while researching the effects of zero-G on Dandelions.
It's a home away from home - for astronauts, cosmonauts and others who would be better off actually exploring.
Americans and Foreigners wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of 386 workstations.
All Alone In The Night.
It can occasionally be a remotely interesting place, but it's our last, best hope for growing the most expensive geraniums the galaxy has ever seen.
This is the story of the first of the obsolete-by-the-time-they-are-done-10-years-late-s tations.
SETI at Home was designed so the Average Joe could contribute to the project in their spare time, not to prove a point about the ability of distributed computing.
However, there are some of us who want to do more than throw scraps of processor time at the project. We want to cross the line and more actively contribute and do something a little extra because we believe in it and we want to push it even the smallest bit forward.
We may never live to see anything come of it. But just doing what we do may make it happen sooner, if it ever does.
A: Generally on all computers that have a free standard PCI slot. Drivers and batch-procedures are available for PCs running Windows(TM) 95/98/NT/2000 and linux. Macintosh drivers are in preparation. If your system is not supported at present, let us know, and we will try to find a solution.
When do you ever hear a statement like this anymore? My opinion of the company was just improved immensely. Cross platform hardware support is too rare, and usually incredibly political.
....but unlike the last time, I thought I could see the seeds of the Anti-Mac in systems developed as free software today.
The problem with many of them is that instead of replacing the guidelines, theory and structure of the Mac interface with something revolutionary, or at least greatly improved, they simply toss it out alltogether.
This is not a good thing.
It appears that many of them simply are different for the sake of being different and do not approach the overall design of the UI with any goals or guidelines whatsoever. This of course is justified (whenever I mention it at least) with the argument that it is for the sake of freedom. Freedom to take the design wherever you wish, etc.
A UI by its very nature, requires some constants, absolutes, etc. Its value is based on the ability to work consistantly and logically throughout. Rejecting this usually results in a messy, and needlessly difficult to use interface.
With Linux, BSD, etc, you are given the choice to create what you will. However you do not lose your freedom by setting parameters and rules in what you make. You lose your freedom by being forced by someone else to do things their way. If I recall correctly, no one is forcing anyone to use any particular UI and self determination is not opression.
What I am trying to say is, you have the freedom to make badly designed software. However you also have the choice not to.
You have the freedom to take the design wherever you want. Take it somewhere good.
MIDDLE AMERICA - A record number of parents were found in violation of the Basic Human Responisibility Act which forbids them from using any form of new technology as a babysitter for anyone, especially children under 13.
When asked for comment, one Diane Whitestreet of Green Meadows, Indiana (not her real name or town) was quoted as saying "I heard about this new Internet thing, and, well, my kids said we just had to have it. So my husband bought a $7,000 Dell for each of our children and for a while, it was great. Between Soccer, Ballet, Gymnastics, Dance and of course, school, we never heard them complain there was nothing to do. If they asked for Mommy or Daddy's credit card, we let them borrow it because it made them happy and happy children are quiet, and less annoying children.
Then, when I found out these "sites" were actually recording my child's names and adresses for shipping information, I became, well, enraged. That they could hurt them in this way. It is just horrible. I can barely...talk.
I had mys husband call their company and he said perhaps we should be more careful about how we let our children use our credit cards! How dare they tell me how to raise my children! They are my responsibility!
So the next thing I did was call our representative and have him pass a bill make sure these terrible things never happen again. Thank God this is a free country and with one phone call I can prevent such things and Protect The Children."
Mrs. Whitestreet's children are a few years older now, they have gone through a lot since then...two more Dells for each child, four SUVs (only because one broke down, notes Ms. Whitestreet) and in her words "A lot of growing up."
She counts her blessings even now. "It could have been much worse." she says. "They could have been taking meth, listening to rap and hanging out with those people or even been turned homosexual by one of their recruiters!"
Mr. and Ms. Whitestreet's have since been sent to prision until their all children turn 18 so that they might have a shot at a normal life with a responsible parent assigned to them by the state.
This is a work of fiction. However you are blind if you can't see the truth in it!
The New iMacs are basically last year's models, the Cube is insultingly overpriced and the iBooks haven't been updated for a year now.
Not to mention the fact the dual 500Mhz G4 costs $7,498.00 and has a RAGE PRO 128!!!! The $1599 base models have only 64MB of RAM, along with almost all the iMacs. They even removed DVD from the iMac DV!
There is no expandable entry model and the Cube is pointless.
If the FBI wants to read my e-mail, no problem. All I ask is that they have an agent click on my All-Advantage referrer link. They could then use their accounts to help subsidize the project.
I discovered what I call The CD-ROM Cable Of Death. The origional iMac's CD-ROM can rev itself up to the point where it feels and sounds like it is going to take off out of your computer and fly into the upper atmosphere.
If this isn't bad enough, the cable that connects to the drive is incredibly loose by its very nature, compunding this is the fact it is not clamped to the drive or any part of the chassis nearby which leads to unexplaned CD-ROM failures caused by the cable shaking itself off.
At least a dozen people disovered this in a single week in April, then MacNN posted a comment about it and retracted it the same day without explination.
Recent events have caused me to seriously doubt the immediate future of gaming. The focus on quality has dropped dramatically. Making pretty looking deathmatches is the only thing that seems to matter anymore. Not that I haven't spent hours playing Capture the Flag or Domination in UT, but it seems as if multiplayer action is the only thing that matters.
When a story actually enters the picture it appears to be something cooked up in about 5 minutes and added to the game over a span of a single lunch hour.
ID is the worst offendor when it comes to this. I do not doubt Carmack's technical skills, it is simply that the man has limited ability when it comes to creating a coherant story, or even a new concept.
The seed planted with DOOM has been rehashed countless times over the past 6 years and I see the return to it almost as an admission of failure by the ID team. Instead of sitting on their well served laurels and thinking it over, they simply jump into the next project which is invariably a repeat of several others. In doing so, they take away from their achievements and look like one trick ponies / engine whores.
It is nice that this game will actually have a story (abeit old and tired),be mostly a single player affair and have great graphics. However I question the merits of the continued drive towards technical innovation while leaving the plot and real creativity behind.
In my sleep deprived stupor, I thought that they spent millions of $$ to invent the "Print Screen" button. Then I realized what they were talking about.....I think it's time to crash....
The $70-$80 "Discover Programming Edition" of Code Warrior does not allow you to redistribute any binaries or source code that you develop with it, even if it is done for free.
I am not quite sure how they could tell if you were uploading to a CVS server, but...
Now that they have completed the Human Genome Project, they can get to work on things like the Ascetic Virtues, the Morgan Energy Bank or possibly the Space Elevator.
Though I am sure the Ascent to Transcendance is a few years off, at least in the southern U.S where some areas are still trying to ascend to the 20th Century, but anyway.....
Coccoa, which is the revised OpenStep API with a few new tricks.
Carbon, which is the OS 7,8,9, etc API minus the cruft, which allows software makers to create native OS X apps with only minor modification (Photoshop was ported within two weeks). It is not an emulator.
Classic, a OS 9 Virtual Machine is used for running Classic MacOS apps.
Microsoft would port to either Carbon or Coccoa. They wouldn't even touch the BSD innards. Now a simple trip to http://www.apple.com/macosx/ could have answered this question in about 30 seconds. Next time Slashdot should use some care, not just post anything that includes "Office, ported and BSD or Linux" in the same message.
If Bill Gates put up 60 of his 68 billion to fund commercial space endevours, it would probably be the boost needed to jumpstart the industry and pave the way for widespread space travel.
And it may be enought to get Slashdot off of Bill Gates' back.:-)
Just think of all the private ventures who need "only" a million or two $$ to make a *manned* launch (there are some). As an investor, I would much rather spend my cash on that, than a Dot-Com who doesn't even bring in *any* revenue whatsoever.
Now the only question is, and I can't believe no one has asked this yet, but do we want Star Trek or Star Wars type ships?
(This is my opinion only....not a statement of fact and I have no factual knowledge about the case other than what has been publicly reported. I am not a lawyer, etc)
This is never going to trial. Ever.
It will be settled outside of court, under a sealed settlement, amounting to nothing more than a pledge not to piss of Adobe anymore by carefully avoiding anything other than a whisper about new products until they are so close to introduction that it doesn't matter.
Why? Because it doesn't make sense to bring this to trial, there is no reason to believe that Adobe would even attempt to do so. Frankly, unless they can prove that AI actively engaged in industrial espionage, they are quite possibly setting themselves up for a First Amendment showdown. They don't need that kind of press.
In my opinion, they have an incredibly weak case, enough to scare MacNN into a settlement, but nothing more.
To bankrupt a publication for sneak peeks and rumor mongering would probably result in an enormous amount of bad blood in the media, who would probably see themselves as possible future targets of software makers.
It is probably a bluff. However, it is one MacNN should not call.
About 4 years ago, studios started asking for Macs as props. At the time, Apple was on crack and didn't know what to do about it. So they had a woman by the name of Heidi-something handle requests on a part time basis. Paramount, New Line, etc would put in a request and they would get a Mac. The problem was, there weren't that many allocated for promotional purposes, so they were returned after filiming.
Soon, the studios didn't want to send them back and they started buying them. However, due to mismanagement elsewhere in the company, promo supplies dwindled. It was only later on, after the NeXT merger that it recieved the support it deserved.
Apparently, it is working quite well. Apple doesn't give them away however, if you want one, you pay for it like anyone else. That doesn't seem to anyone, though.
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Ohmagod! I can't believe someone remembers Mac and Me! I must of been 7 years old when that came out (1989, right?) that movie was the shit even at such a young age, I was struck by the magnitude of what I was seeing.
Capturing up aliens with vacum cleaners! Strange hippie orphan girls living alone in tents on the edge of town! It was something to be remembered.
However, Mac and Me has been lost to history....how sad....we really need a Mac and Me Special Edition.
How nice it is to log onto Slashdot and be stereotyped and insulted for my choice of platform. If anyone ever wonders why many Mac owners have a negative attitude towards x86 users, look no further than ignorant comments such as this.
I wonder what the response would be if I stuck a completely unnecessary and untrue line about all Linux or Windows users being 400 pound acne faced, Star Trek uniform wearing and utterly clueless Linus/Gates worshipers onto the end of a story?
I would probably have an army of rabid Penguins released into my house in the dead of night!
The point is, be more respectful.
I would perfer one or possibly two 22" Apple Cinema Displays hooked up to two Radeons over this setup anyday.
Give your application a name like:
- g00pr4.5.5.27-8.22.2.1.rpm
software-title-goes-here-.0.1.2.9.p4.7.3.2.9.9.c7
Add a new version number at random everytime you write two lines of code. This will make you a kewl OSS programmer.
Wow, I wish someone could build a Beowulf clus......oh shit, never mind...
I believe AppleScript is probably the closest thing to a natural language text based interface I have seen so far.
It uses common English phrases to do just about anything in almost any application. It is one of the main reasons many graphics-oriented businesses didn't drop the Mac back in the dark days of the mid '90s. It is very easy to learn and makes common tasks, especially batch processing large groups of files fast and easy.
Somehow I fear most of its syntax will be lifted and relabled a Microsoft "innovation".
Anyway, here are a few links:
Apple's AppleScript Site
ScriptWeb
AppleScripter.com
....of the third millenium of mankind (give or take a few). Ten years after the Cold War. The ISS Project was a money hole given form. Its goal, to create a place where NASA could justify its budget and get on the nightly news while researching the effects of zero-G on Dandelions.
s tations.
It's a home away from home - for astronauts, cosmonauts and others who would be better off actually exploring.
Americans and Foreigners wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of 386 workstations.
All Alone In The Night.
It can occasionally be a remotely interesting place, but it's our last, best hope for growing the most expensive geraniums the galaxy has ever seen.
This is the story of the first of the obsolete-by-the-time-they-are-done-10-years-late-
The year is 2000. The name of the place...The ISS
This was a parody of Babylon 5 (if you hadn't guessed already) which is Copyright © 1997 Warner Bros., Inc. All Rights Reserved. The origional work parodied was written by J. Michael Straczynski and can be found before every first season episode of B5.
This was done in good fun and is not an attempt at infringing on anyone's trademark's, etc, etc, etc.
SETI at Home was designed so the Average Joe could contribute to the project in their spare time, not to prove a point about the ability of distributed computing.
However, there are some of us who want to do more than throw scraps of processor time at the project. We want to cross the line and more actively contribute and do something a little extra because we believe in it and we want to push it even the smallest bit forward.
We may never live to see anything come of it. But just doing what we do may make it happen sooner, if it ever does.
That's good enough for me.
When do you ever hear a statement like this anymore? My opinion of the company was just improved immensely. Cross platform hardware support is too rare, and usually incredibly political.
The problem with many of them is that instead of replacing the guidelines, theory and structure of the Mac interface with something revolutionary, or at least greatly improved, they simply toss it out alltogether.
This is not a good thing.
It appears that many of them simply are different for the sake of being different and do not approach the overall design of the UI with any goals or guidelines whatsoever. This of course is justified (whenever I mention it at least) with the argument that it is for the sake of freedom. Freedom to take the design wherever you wish, etc.
A UI by its very nature, requires some constants, absolutes, etc. Its value is based on the ability to work consistantly and logically throughout. Rejecting this usually results in a messy, and needlessly difficult to use interface.
With Linux, BSD, etc, you are given the choice to create what you will. However you do not lose your freedom by setting parameters and rules in what you make. You lose your freedom by being forced by someone else to do things their way. If I recall correctly, no one is forcing anyone to use any particular UI and self determination is not opression.
What I am trying to say is, you have the freedom to make badly designed software. However you also have the choice not to.
You have the freedom to take the design wherever you want. Take it somewhere good.
MIDDLE AMERICA - A record number of parents were found in violation of the Basic Human Responisibility Act which forbids them from using any form of new technology as a babysitter for anyone, especially children under 13.
When asked for comment, one Diane Whitestreet of Green Meadows, Indiana (not her real name or town) was quoted as saying "I heard about this new Internet thing, and, well, my kids said we just had to have it. So my husband bought a $7,000 Dell for each of our children and for a while, it was great. Between Soccer, Ballet, Gymnastics, Dance and of course, school, we never heard them complain there was nothing to do. If they asked for Mommy or Daddy's credit card, we let them borrow it because it made them happy and happy children are quiet, and less annoying children.
Then, when I found out these "sites" were actually recording my child's names and adresses for shipping information, I became, well, enraged. That they could hurt them in this way. It is just horrible. I can barely...talk.
I had mys husband call their company and he said perhaps we should be more careful about how we let our children use our credit cards! How dare they tell me how to raise my children! They are my responsibility!
So the next thing I did was call our representative and have him pass a bill make sure these terrible things never happen again. Thank God this is a free country and with one phone call I can prevent such things and Protect The Children."
Mrs. Whitestreet's children are a few years older now, they have gone through a lot since then...two more Dells for each child, four SUVs (only because one broke down, notes Ms. Whitestreet) and in her words "A lot of growing up."
She counts her blessings even now. "It could have been much worse." she says. "They could have been taking meth, listening to rap and hanging out with those people or even been turned homosexual by one of their recruiters!"
Mr. and Ms. Whitestreet's have since been sent to prision until their all children turn 18 so that they might have a shot at a normal life with a responsible parent assigned to them by the state.
This is a work of fiction. However you are blind if you can't see the truth in it!
It find it interesting that nobody thought it was news when it was o rted</A> to OS X a short time ago.
The New iMacs are basically last year's models, the Cube is insultingly overpriced and the iBooks haven't been updated for a year now.
Not to mention the fact the dual 500Mhz G4 costs $7,498.00 and has a RAGE PRO 128!!!! The $1599 base models have only 64MB of RAM, along with almost all the iMacs. They even removed DVD from the iMac DV!
There is no expandable entry model and the Cube is pointless.
Thanks a lot Apple.
If the FBI wants to read my e-mail, no problem. All I ask is that they have an agent click on my All-Advantage referrer link. They could then use their accounts to help subsidize the project.
I discovered what I call The CD-ROM Cable Of Death. The origional iMac's CD-ROM can rev itself up to the point where it feels and sounds like it is going to take off out of your computer and fly into the upper atmosphere.
If this isn't bad enough, the cable that connects to the drive is incredibly loose by its very nature, compunding this is the fact it is not clamped to the drive or any part of the chassis nearby which leads to unexplaned CD-ROM failures caused by the cable shaking itself off.
At least a dozen people disovered this in a single week in April, then MacNN posted a comment about it and retracted it the same day without explination.
Recent events have caused me to seriously doubt the immediate future of gaming. The focus on quality has dropped dramatically. Making pretty looking deathmatches is the only thing that seems to matter anymore. Not that I haven't spent hours playing Capture the Flag or Domination in UT, but it seems as if multiplayer action is the only thing that matters.
When a story actually enters the picture it appears to be something cooked up in about 5 minutes and added to the game over a span of a single lunch hour.
ID is the worst offendor when it comes to this. I do not doubt Carmack's technical skills, it is simply that the man has limited ability when it comes to creating a coherant story, or even a new concept.
The seed planted with DOOM has been rehashed countless times over the past 6 years and I see the return to it almost as an admission of failure by the ID team. Instead of sitting on their well served laurels and thinking it over, they simply jump into the next project which is invariably a repeat of several others. In doing so, they take away from their achievements and look like one trick ponies / engine whores.
It is nice that this game will actually have a story (abeit old and tired),be mostly a single player affair and have great graphics. However I question the merits of the continued drive towards technical innovation while leaving the plot and real creativity behind.
In my sleep deprived stupor, I thought that they spent millions of $$ to invent the "Print Screen" button. Then I realized what they were talking about.....I think it's time to crash....
The $70-$80 "Discover Programming Edition" of Code Warrior does not allow you to redistribute any binaries or source code that you develop with it, even if it is done for free.
I am not quite sure how they could tell if you were uploading to a CVS server, but...
Now that they have completed the Human Genome Project, they can get to work on things like the Ascetic Virtues, the Morgan Energy Bank or possibly the Space Elevator.
Though I am sure the Ascent to Transcendance is a few years off, at least in the southern U.S where some areas are still trying to ascend to the 20th Century, but anyway.....
OS X has two main APIs.
Coccoa, which is the revised OpenStep API with a few new tricks.
Carbon, which is the OS 7,8,9, etc API minus the cruft, which allows software makers to create native OS X apps with only minor modification (Photoshop was ported within two weeks). It is not an emulator.
Classic, a OS 9 Virtual Machine is used for running Classic MacOS apps.
Microsoft would port to either Carbon or Coccoa. They wouldn't even touch the BSD innards. Now a simple trip to http://www.apple.com/macosx/ could have answered this question in about 30 seconds. Next time Slashdot should use some care, not just post anything that includes "Office, ported and BSD or Linux" in the same message.
If Bill Gates put up 60 of his 68 billion to fund commercial space endevours, it would probably be the boost needed to jumpstart the industry and pave the way for widespread space travel.
:-)
And it may be enought to get Slashdot off of Bill Gates' back.
Just think of all the private ventures who need "only" a million or two $$ to make a *manned* launch (there are some). As an investor, I would much rather spend my cash on that, than a Dot-Com who doesn't even bring in *any* revenue whatsoever.
Now the only question is, and I can't believe no one has asked this yet, but do we want Star Trek or Star Wars type ships?
Is there a LinuxPPC/YellowDog RPM/Source lying around?
Puhleeze?
The latest update concerning Office 2001 was pulled as a result of Microsoft ordering them to do so.
They just can't win!
(This is my opinion only....not a statement of fact and I have no factual knowledge about the case other than what has been publicly reported. I am not a lawyer, etc)
This is never going to trial. Ever.
It will be settled outside of court, under a sealed settlement, amounting to nothing more than a pledge not to piss of Adobe anymore by carefully avoiding anything other than a whisper about new products until they are so close to introduction that it doesn't matter.
Why? Because it doesn't make sense to bring this to trial, there is no reason to believe that Adobe would even attempt to do so. Frankly, unless they can prove that AI actively engaged in industrial espionage, they are quite possibly setting
themselves up for a First Amendment showdown. They don't need that kind of press.
In my opinion, they have an incredibly weak case, enough to scare MacNN into a settlement, but nothing more.
To bankrupt a publication for sneak peeks and rumor mongering would probably result in an enormous amount of bad blood in the media, who would probably see themselves as possible future targets of software makers.
It is probably a bluff. However, it is one MacNN should not call.
About 4 years ago, studios started asking for Macs as props. At the time, Apple was on crack and didn't know what to do about it. So they had a woman by the name of Heidi-something handle requests on a part time basis. Paramount, New Line, etc would put in a request and they would get a Mac. The problem was, there weren't that many allocated for promotional purposes, so they were returned after filiming.
Soon, the studios didn't want to send them back and they started buying them. However, due to mismanagement elsewhere in the company, promo supplies dwindled. It was only later on, after the NeXT merger that it recieved the support it deserved.
Apparently, it is working quite well. Apple doesn't give them away however, if you want one, you pay for it like anyone else. That doesn't seem to anyone, though.