totalitarianisim is not defined by the mass murder of millions of people. Infact, you dont want to kill people, you want to controll them. if you have to kill millions (regularly) because they oppose you then you arent doing a very good of controling them are you?
I have to admit, sport bikes.. especaly hondas, hold alot of attarction for me. I like the way they feel and if I was ever to own 2 bikes a honda sport bike in the 900 range would be high on my list.
for the kinds of riding im doing right now, cruisers are the way to go.
Why anyone would ride a bike with a V-6 cramed in to a tiny little space I will never know.
I have never liked the Valkarie. In addition I realy dont like the styling on any of the newer honda cruisers. for styling reasons alone, I would buy a V-star or Road-star before a recent model honda. Its just my opinion of course, other people might love them, but they just dont do it for me.
I used to like the Kawasakis but for reasons unknown the look of the 1500 cruiser do much for me anymore, and I think the roadstar is a better deal.
The reason I dont buy an old bike is that I dont have the time or skill to do a full rebuild on a bike... The new 88 ci engine from harley is a beautiful piece of work, and it will provide me with all the hours of riding that I desire this summer, and this winter I can tear it down and get my hands dirty.
thats what I am looking for in a bike, and the harley delivered it nicely. It also helps that I got a good deal on a bareley broken in 2000 FXDL (under 5k miles) with plenty of extras on it, most of which were things I would have spent money on anyway.
Dont get me wrong. I hold no ill will to japaneese bikes (even sport bikes, I kind of like them actualy) and you definitely pay a premium for the harley davidson, but for me, it was worth the money to get the exact bike I wanted. hopefully, with proper maintinence I will be riding it for years to come.
you cannot compare a harley with a japaneese bike that costs 5 grand. They arent the same animal, and the engine size (and power) is a big deal. And, if you are talking about a sport bike, the comparison is even more flawed, they are entirely different animals, made for different uses.
I am a cruiser rider, so I will limit my reply to thoes types of bikes.
the Heavier jappaneese cruisers are quite nice. I am fond of the Yammaha road-star Silverado, they come with a decent amount of chrome and good accessories. They also cost around 11-12 grand. The low-rider, which is a beautiful harley, comes with far more chrome although less accessories and costs a bit more at 14-15 grand, this is not even the cheepest harley, the cheepest electra-glide is even less expensive and comes with hard luggage. It is an excelent deal if you are looking for a bike that can do reasonably long trips in comfort.
'Thats realy the purpose of the harley... long rides in relative comfort. I know thats why I choose mine. Style is another consideration, as is ease of maintenence. I do a little work on my bike, and I am learning to take on larger and larger jobs. When I owned a japanees bike (my starter bikes, which all needed work at some point) I found that it was very difficult to work on the engines, they were cramped and not very serviceable, the harley, by comparison, has been much easier.
the choice between harley and BMW is a more difficult one, I guess for me it did come down to styling, and ride position. I like BMWs but the harley was the way I wanted to go.
It is rare that the person best suited to design a system is the same person that is best suited to implement it.
sure, this wont solve problems, but if it provides an edge to the volunteers in the Peace Corps then I realy dont see how it can be that bad of a thing...
Its nothing more than the verbing of a perfectly good noun.
when the word was first use people werent sitting around thinking, hum... I need to come up with a word that doesnt mean the same as release, they just wanted to sound important, I spent years watching people do this, Ive even dabbled in it myself.
I certainly agree with your first point (and the others actualy)
As a mac user I am always annoyed at the number of apps that dont support apple-script when they realy should, it realy doesnt take that much more time to write your program well and add in the necessary hooks for applescript, it can also help for testing, a basic smoke test can be automated and this can realy cut down on the amount of time QA wastes on screwing with builds that just arent going to work.
and if your developing on MacOS X give your user all of the scriping ability possible, from shell to applescript.
I think what he is refering to is that the MPEG-4 data format is based on the quicktime format.
quicktime is a data format (and a huge multimedia service, but forget that for now) and its that format that MPEG-4 is based on.
For the record, its not the royalties that Apple would have to pay for MPEG-4 its the royalties that Content Poviders would have to pay that have caused Apple to delay release. they dont think it will be successful with this licencing scheme and it would be very dificult to market for a variety of reasons.
I could be wrong but I dont think you need webobjects for database work. I belive everything you need for that is in enterprise objects which I think comes with the dev environment... and I belive web objects is only needed for web development.
on the otherhand I could be mistaken.
Other than that I totaly agree with your assesment cocoa rocks. Unfortunately it isnt cross platform it would make my life alot easier if it was (or if I was only developing on the mac):(
Actually... at least regarding the media glyphs thing. If I recall the story correctly, most of the world was based on media glyphs but the primer was not. it would read aloud to the child and would eventualy teach the child how to read (as well as how to do many other things).
or, better yet... 1 21 as your primary and 2 17" as secondarys on either side.
Ive always wanted a flight sim (hell, it'd be cool in quake or unreal) that could take advantage of this kind of set up and left and right views up for you so instead of hitting a button to look you could just turn your head
I dont realy mind one screen having better performance than another.
see. with my dual monitor setup one screen is always the pirmary and another the secondary and I use them as such.
for instance, IE goes on just my secondary while most code is written on the primary (with refrence material on the secondary) sometimes code will take up both.
debugging is always on the secondary while the app is running in the primary (this is the only way to debug UI problems... well, other than 2 machine debugging )
I love having 2 monitors... I realy dont know how any programmer gets by without them... hell I wonder how anybody gets by without them:)
and to some degree your second point is true, however it is important to note that many components in apples are the same as the "commodity" parts found in your PC. IDE harddrives, SDRAM. Replacement 1 GHz G4s are a little pricy though.
your third point however, is a little harsh. given the availablilty of the darwin source code (the underlying BSD roots of MacOS X) you actualy can tweak the kernal for your needs. while Im not sure about the ease of this VS tweaking Linux I think it is only fair that this ability be acknowleged.
Of course if you wanted to run a cluster under OS 9 you wouldnt have this ability, but then Im not sure I would bother with clustering under 9 anyway:)
oh yea... Im not saying this tech is totaly useless. infact I think it could be great for certain applications, but I dont see basic home theater as one of them.
people have already shown that they like DVD's and I dont see them swinging around to another format.
Doesnt mean that people wont try though.
as for piracy, I just dont understand the attraction. DVDs are sufficently hard to copy that most people wont bother, and lets face it, thats about as good protection as you can hope for.
I was having trouble figuring out which GF3 card XLR8yourmac was testing.
you wouldnt happen to know which card it is?
also, it is important to note (although I didnt know this earlier) that the GF4 cards support dual monitor setups out of the box, which the GF3Ti200 (and to the best of my knowledge, all of the GF3 cards) do not.
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way to make the Dewey, cheatem and Howe reference... very nice
totalitarianisim is not defined by the mass murder of millions of people. Infact, you dont want to kill people, you want to controll them. if you have to kill millions (regularly) because they oppose you then you arent doing a very good of controling them are you?
And I suppose that ref is as acurate as the refs in the real thing right? :)
:)
hell, if that is the case you could probalby just make a tank and youd get away without even a yellow card
and often even when they have bad ones :)
I have to admit, sport bikes.. especaly hondas, hold alot of attarction for me. I like the way they feel and if I was ever to own 2 bikes a honda sport bike in the 900 range would be high on my list.
for the kinds of riding im doing right now, cruisers are the way to go.
you obviously know absolutely nothing about harleys.
my gas milage is something in the neighborhood of 40-45 MPG and that is with a jet kit installed, stock they get slightly better milage
Why anyone would ride a bike with a V-6 cramed in to a tiny little space I will never know.
I have never liked the Valkarie. In addition I realy dont like the styling on any of the newer honda cruisers. for styling reasons alone, I would buy a V-star or Road-star before a recent model honda. Its just my opinion of course, other people might love them, but they just dont do it for me.
I used to like the Kawasakis but for reasons unknown the look of the 1500 cruiser do much for me anymore, and I think the roadstar is a better deal.
The reason I dont buy an old bike is that I dont have the time or skill to do a full rebuild on a bike... The new 88 ci engine from harley is a beautiful piece of work, and it will provide me with all the hours of riding that I desire this summer, and this winter I can tear it down and get my hands dirty.
thats what I am looking for in a bike, and the harley delivered it nicely. It also helps that I got a good deal on a bareley broken in 2000 FXDL (under 5k miles) with plenty of extras on it, most of which were things I would have spent money on anyway.
Dont get me wrong. I hold no ill will to japaneese bikes (even sport bikes, I kind of like them actualy) and you definitely pay a premium for the harley davidson, but for me, it was worth the money to get the exact bike I wanted. hopefully, with proper maintinence I will be riding it for years to come.
you cannot compare a harley with a japaneese bike that costs 5 grand. They arent the same animal, and the engine size (and power) is a big deal. And, if you are talking about a sport bike, the comparison is even more flawed, they are entirely different animals, made for different uses.
I am a cruiser rider, so I will limit my reply to thoes types of bikes.
the Heavier jappaneese cruisers are quite nice. I am fond of the Yammaha road-star Silverado, they come with a decent amount of chrome and good accessories. They also cost around 11-12 grand. The low-rider, which is a beautiful harley, comes with far more chrome although less accessories and costs a bit more at 14-15 grand, this is not even the cheepest harley, the cheepest electra-glide is even less expensive and comes with hard luggage. It is an excelent deal if you are looking for a bike that can do reasonably long trips in comfort.
'Thats realy the purpose of the harley... long rides in relative comfort. I know thats why I choose mine. Style is another consideration, as is ease of maintenence. I do a little work on my bike, and I am learning to take on larger and larger jobs. When I owned a japanees bike (my starter bikes, which all needed work at some point) I found that it was very difficult to work on the engines, they were cramped and not very serviceable, the harley, by comparison, has been much easier.
the choice between harley and BMW is a more difficult one, I guess for me it did come down to styling, and ride position. I like BMWs but the harley was the way I wanted to go.
It is rare that the person best suited to design a system is the same person that is best suited to implement it.
sure, this wont solve problems, but if it provides an edge to the volunteers in the Peace Corps then I realy dont see how it can be that bad of a thing...
Please
Its nothing more than the verbing of a perfectly good noun.
when the word was first use people werent sitting around thinking, hum... I need to come up with a word that doesnt mean the same as release, they just wanted to sound important, I spent years watching people do this, Ive even dabbled in it myself.
Except that if Macromedia pulled thier support for the mac they would be destroyed by ADOBE over night...
one interesting feature of the V-chip that is now common in TVs is that you can set it to not display video that is unrated.
I believe most advertizing falls into this category, you could probably use something like this to detect ads and remove them
ya know.
Ive never tried it but I dont think that a divide by zero error should result in being unable to reboot your system.
I can see taking down an app... I can even imagine taking out the computer, but not so badly that you cant reboot
I certainly agree with your first point (and the others actualy)
As a mac user I am always annoyed at the number of apps that dont support apple-script when they realy should, it realy doesnt take that much more time to write your program well and add in the necessary hooks for applescript, it can also help for testing, a basic smoke test can be automated and this can realy cut down on the amount of time QA wastes on screwing with builds that just arent going to work.
and if your developing on MacOS X give your user all of the scriping ability possible, from shell to applescript.
I think what he is refering to is that the MPEG-4 data format is based on the quicktime format.
quicktime is a data format (and a huge multimedia service, but forget that for now) and its that format that MPEG-4 is based on.
For the record, its not the royalties that Apple would have to pay for MPEG-4 its the royalties that Content Poviders would have to pay that have caused Apple to delay release. they dont think it will be successful with this licencing scheme and it would be very dificult to market for a variety of reasons.
so I assuem that spinal tap has won in that category :)
I could be wrong but I dont think you need webobjects for database work. I belive everything you need for that is in enterprise objects which I think comes with the dev environment... and I belive web objects is only needed for web development.
on the otherhand I could be mistaken.
Other than that I totaly agree with your assesment cocoa rocks. Unfortunately it isnt cross platform it would make my life alot easier if it was (or if I was only developing on the mac):(
Actually... at least regarding the media glyphs thing. If I recall the story correctly, most of the world was based on media glyphs but the primer was not. it would read aloud to the child and would eventualy teach the child how to read (as well as how to do many other things).
Dimond age is a good bood and well worth a read.
That RULES!
man Im gonna have to try that sometime... I need some more monitors though
or, better yet... 1 21 as your primary and 2 17" as secondarys on either side.
Ive always wanted a flight sim (hell, it'd be cool in quake or unreal) that could take advantage of this kind of set up and left and right views up for you so instead of hitting a button to look you could just turn your head
I dont realy mind one screen having better performance than another.
:)
see. with my dual monitor setup one screen is always the pirmary and another the secondary and I use them as such.
for instance, IE goes on just my secondary while most code is written on the primary (with refrence material on the secondary) sometimes code will take up both.
debugging is always on the secondary while the app is running in the primary (this is the only way to debug UI problems... well, other than 2 machine debugging )
I love having 2 monitors... I realy dont know how any programmer gets by without them... hell I wonder how anybody gets by without them
well, your first point is certainly true.
:)
and to some degree your second point is true, however it is important to note that many components in apples are the same as the "commodity" parts found in your PC. IDE harddrives, SDRAM. Replacement 1 GHz G4s are a little pricy though.
your third point however, is a little harsh. given the availablilty of the darwin source code (the underlying BSD roots of MacOS X) you actualy can tweak the kernal for your needs. while Im not sure about the ease of this VS tweaking Linux I think it is only fair that this ability be acknowleged.
Of course if you wanted to run a cluster under OS 9 you wouldnt have this ability, but then Im not sure I would bother with clustering under 9 anyway
oh yea... Im not saying this tech is totaly useless. infact I think it could be great for certain applications, but I dont see basic home theater as one of them.
people have already shown that they like DVD's and I dont see them swinging around to another format.
Doesnt mean that people wont try though.
as for piracy, I just dont understand the attraction. DVDs are sufficently hard to copy that most people wont bother, and lets face it, thats about as good protection as you can hope for.
sounds kind of like DAT to me.
never realy made it anywhere with the consumer, mostly due to anti-piracy measure that were built into the consumer grade units.
I think, given that DVD has been adopted so very quickly by so many people, there realy isnt to much chance of this taking over.
still it would be cool if you could record HDTV onto D-VHS and replay it at the same quality
I was having trouble figuring out which GF3 card XLR8yourmac was testing.
you wouldnt happen to know which card it is?
also, it is important to note (although I didnt know this earlier) that the GF4 cards support dual monitor setups out of the box, which the GF3Ti200 (and to the best of my knowledge, all of the GF3 cards) do not.