I think you are wrong, simply by observing that the world is full of Hello Kitty paraphernalia, and then we have Tesla, or the Newton. Cool tech dies if no one (sane) is around to sell it.
Microsoft understands it, and relied on it. It was called casual software piracy, and the carrot was cool colors, lots of compatible software, feeling naughty, and sticking it to the man.
Now, corporate IT knows what that carrot was dangling from.
How about a *four* dimensional GUI! That way, when you perform a search, you don't just get measly 2-D directory information, you get "file found:/root/etc/west 10 feet/last Tuesday"
But folks aren't implementing the Aqua UI. They are implementing button shape and color, which is decidedly *not* the same thing as a well though out GUI.
There have been stories of evidence of Roman/Greek/Egyptian/whatever visitation to North America for quite a while. Other than L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which is probably a real viking settlement, most likely, the "evidence" is from ballast that was shovelled into the hulls of ships that travelled here much later.
Regardless if a few Egyptians found their way onto shore, say, in Ft. Lauderdale, or Vikings in Newfoundland, they didn't hang around very long, and had no cultural impact, so it's like they were never here anyway. Maybe enough to make you go "hmph. Well I'll be damned" like you would if you found a puppy under your wheelbarrow after a flood. You certainly won't be telling the puppy story 30 generations from now.
Now why would dragging something to the trash imply that it would be erased? Where the hell did that metaphor come from? Certainly not from real life.
When I put something in the trash, I want it out of my house (out, out, damn disk!), not molecularly scrambled so I can use its mass again.
Called the "Sea of Galilee boat." One of my professors, Shelley Wachsman, was involved in that one, and wrote a book.
The substance was increasing molecular weights of Polyethelene Glycol (PEG) which is basically a wax, and substitutes itself for the water that is lost in waterlogged wood when brought to the surface.
Ironically, the less deteriorated the wood, the harder it is to get PEG to penetrate, which is why something like the Swedish vessel the Vasa is still being treated: it was in too good a shape.
So the Baltic is pretty much the only place in the world to find ancient ships
Nahh. You can find wood from shipwrecks almost anywhere the current leaves the sediment alone. Anything below the sediment layer is anoxic for the most part, and preserves the wreck.
The program I was in was known for their work on Bronze Age ships in the Mediterranean. A little bit of wood was found under the sediment, primarily because it was 120-190 ft. down.
And we've found entire vessels in the polders (the drained Zuider Zee), and they were in dirt.:)
Well. I was wondering when something like this might roll along my way.
I was an underwater archaeologist in a past incarnation. While it makes for fabulous cocktail conversation, and I wouldn't be the same person had I not pursued it, archaeology is a bit like the larger picture of academics as viewed by the corporate married with children set (which I am now among):
looks great and romantic and carefree on paper, but the reality is there are fiefdoms and unchecked politics to deal with, and every month in the field is two years in a blinky fluorescent 8 X 8 lab room.
Unless you love the subject (my particular area was medieval/postmedieval Northern European shipwrecks. How's that for obscure?), and I mean love in the "religious exctasy...hold me down before I evanesce" sort of dedication, your interest becomes a soul-crushing, only-eating-mac-and-cheese-this-month (or "how far can stretch $500"), no-personal-life grind, particularly if it involves endless graduate school. I have friends still pursuing a Master's after 7 years.
bleah. Though I'd like to be a dig bum for a summer again!
Yup. In polish. I worked with a couple of poles in the Netherlands, and they used to absolutely crack up at dessert time, when they were offered an ice cream called "Chipolata." Apparently something to do with discharge.
They always declined politely, as they snickered.
Hmmm. Maybe we can start something on SourceForge:
The Failing School System - Summary
The Failing School System is an indictment of incompetant administrators and our callous disregard for anything that requires commitment of time, money and resources over an extended period of time by various administrations and our society as a whole.
Development Status: 10 - Man, are we behind (doesn't Ecuador have better AP scores?)
Environment: 50 States (MS Windows - Hmmm. Contributing Factors?)
Intended Audience: Students, Parents, Teachers. Everybody.
License: GNU General Public License (Yah, you wish).
Operating System: Grey matter. Plus some legal shit.
Programming Language: DNA
Topic: Our responsibility toward the future.
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Exactly. Apache and Sendmail are *not* on by default. Sendmail is actually rather complicated to enable (for a typical user...config files) but Apache is a radio button away.
I use dyndns and a firewall, so I feel pretty confident. But maybe Apple *really* doesn't need to be worried until the broadband revolution, happening RSN (TM).
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Actually, I think this is best served by 3rd party software like this. Apple can just keep stuff (telnet, apache, etc.) turned off by default (Apple now ships with OpenSSH for access rather than telnet), and if you want fancy stuff, get a GUI firewall configurator.
That would be "penny wise, and pound foolish" meaning that they are really careful about the cost of dixie cups, while spending a bajillion dollars on every shuttle launch to watch how bacteria and mice do in space. Which will come in handy when we start building all those space TCBY and pet stores.
"Hmmm. The mouse is *floating* and seems to be incontinent. Slight muscle atrophy.... JENKINS!!! Are you writing this down!!??"
"UUuuhhh yessiryessir... atrophy in muscles... peeing... yup got it."
Try Stepwise's http://softrak.stepwise.com/Apps/WebObjects/Softra k, or http://www.osxfaq.com/. But aside from Darwin, the neat thing is running them with a nifty GUI. Otherwise, just get FreeBSD.
No, it's the drivers and apps. That's why Apple is OpenSourcing (tm). Get all the wonks to compile it on x86, get pissy that it can't see the nVidia card, then port a driver. Iterate Meanwhile, Apple keeps replacing all that proprietary crap with industry standard stuff, gets the costs down, identical motherboard architectures across product lines, kick ass cases and value add stuff (AirPort, Firewire disk target mode, etc.) and you got Apple with competitively priced hardware, a GUI with built-in SIMD acceleration, MP support, a motherscratching TCP/IP stack, internet tools (iDisk, NetBoot, etc.). *BAM* Voila! OS X storms into all the boxen out there, with beaucoup hardware support via pissy wonks and beats the crap outta the Win flavors.
EIGRP: Proprietary Cisco routing protocol CGMP: Proprietary Cisco multicast protocol IOS: Buggy piece of do-everything shit. It's like using NetBEUI when everyone is buying microsoft. Yes, we can deal with it. But we have to. We can throw EIGRP over OSPF, but that doesn't mean "it works together;" it means we have to make it work, or nobody buys our stuff.
It's not *really* a router, but an optical switch. Ya can't route light. Unless those tiny little mirrors are manned by tiny little mites taking instruction via nanoheadsets.
I agree. What a bunch of crap these whiners spout. They're going to hold them to "Apple II forever?" Sheesh. How far up is that corncob? Give the tech sector a break will ya? Or at least let them borrow your Magic 8 Ball (tm). How much of your personal and professional life did you invest in the Newton? Or Rhapsody on your Mac clone? If you say a whole lot, I call you a fool. Get over it. Let that anger go. It's not like Apple's your best friend who promised you that rookie Reggie Jackson. Unless of course your friend has Wall Street to please, a billion in inventory to try to price after a parts shortage, has to wrangle the media, maintain margins to satisfy stockholders, all the while cranking out stuff that the whole sector tries to copy.
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I think you are wrong, simply by observing that the world is full of Hello Kitty paraphernalia, and then we have Tesla, or the Newton. Cool tech dies if no one (sane) is around to sell it.
Isn't MPEG 4 based on the Quicktime framework?
Microsoft understands it, and relied on it. It was called casual software piracy, and the carrot was cool colors, lots of compatible software, feeling naughty, and sticking it to the man.
Now, corporate IT knows what that carrot was dangling from.
How about a *four* dimensional GUI! That way, when you perform a search, you don't just get measly 2-D directory information, you get "file found: /root/etc/west 10 feet/last Tuesday"
But folks aren't implementing the Aqua UI. They are implementing button shape and color, which is decidedly *not* the same thing as a well though out GUI.
There have been stories of evidence of Roman/Greek/Egyptian/whatever visitation to North America for quite a while. Other than L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which is probably a real viking settlement, most likely, the "evidence" is from ballast that was shovelled into the hulls of ships that travelled here much later.
Regardless if a few Egyptians found their way onto shore, say, in Ft. Lauderdale, or Vikings in Newfoundland, they didn't hang around very long, and had no cultural impact, so it's like they were never here anyway. Maybe enough to make you go "hmph. Well I'll be damned" like you would if you found a puppy under your wheelbarrow after a flood. You certainly won't be telling the puppy story 30 generations from now.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Now why would dragging something to the trash imply that it would be erased? Where the hell did that metaphor come from? Certainly not from real life. When I put something in the trash, I want it out of my house (out, out, damn disk!), not molecularly scrambled so I can use its mass again.
That was a shameless plug, by the way. :)
You should get a riverstone router. They do opensource (perl artistic) even.
Called the "Sea of Galilee boat." One of my professors, Shelley Wachsman, was involved in that one, and wrote a book.
The substance was increasing molecular weights of Polyethelene Glycol (PEG) which is basically a wax, and substitutes itself for the water that is lost in waterlogged wood when brought to the surface.
Ironically, the less deteriorated the wood, the harder it is to get PEG to penetrate, which is why something like the Swedish vessel the Vasa is still being treated: it was in too good a shape.
So the Baltic is pretty much the only place in the world to find ancient ships
:)
Nahh. You can find wood from shipwrecks almost anywhere the current leaves the sediment alone. Anything below the sediment layer is anoxic for the most part, and preserves the wreck.
The program I was in was known for their work on Bronze Age ships in the Mediterranean. A little bit of wood was found under the sediment, primarily because it was 120-190 ft. down.
And we've found entire vessels in the polders (the drained Zuider Zee), and they were in dirt.
Well. I was wondering when something like this might roll along my way.
I was an underwater archaeologist in a past incarnation. While it makes for fabulous cocktail conversation, and I wouldn't be the same person had I not pursued it, archaeology is a bit like the larger picture of academics as viewed by the corporate married with children set (which I am now among):
looks great and romantic and carefree on paper, but the reality is there are fiefdoms and unchecked politics to deal with, and every month in the field is two years in a blinky fluorescent 8 X 8 lab room.
Unless you love the subject (my particular area was medieval/postmedieval Northern European shipwrecks. How's that for obscure?), and I mean love in the "religious exctasy...hold me down before I evanesce" sort of dedication, your interest becomes a soul-crushing, only-eating-mac-and-cheese-this-month (or "how far can stretch $500"), no-personal-life grind, particularly if it involves endless graduate school. I have friends still pursuing a Master's after 7 years.
bleah. Though I'd like to be a dig bum for a summer again!
Yup. In polish. I worked with a couple of poles in the Netherlands, and they used to absolutely crack up at dessert time, when they were offered an ice cream called "Chipolata." Apparently something to do with discharge. They always declined politely, as they snickered.
Hmmm. Maybe we can start something on SourceForge:
The Failing School System - Summary
The Failing School System is an indictment of incompetant administrators and our callous disregard for anything that requires commitment of time, money and resources over an extended period of time by various administrations and our society as a whole.
Development Status: 10 - Man, are we behind (doesn't Ecuador have better AP scores?)
Environment: 50 States (MS Windows - Hmmm. Contributing Factors?)
Intended Audience: Students, Parents, Teachers. Everybody.
License: GNU General Public License (Yah, you wish).
Operating System: Grey matter. Plus some legal shit.
Programming Language: DNA
Topic: Our responsibility toward the future.
Exactly. Apache and Sendmail are *not* on by default. Sendmail is actually rather complicated to enable (for a typical user...config files) but Apache is a radio button away. I use dyndns and a firewall, so I feel pretty confident. But maybe Apple *really* doesn't need to be worried until the broadband revolution, happening RSN (TM).
Actually, I think this is best served by 3rd party software like this. Apple can just keep stuff (telnet, apache, etc.) turned off by default (Apple now ships with OpenSSH for access rather than telnet), and if you want fancy stuff, get a GUI firewall configurator.
That would be "penny wise, and pound foolish" meaning that they are really careful about the cost of dixie cups, while spending a bajillion dollars on every shuttle launch to watch how bacteria and mice do in space. Which will come in handy when we start building all those space TCBY and pet stores.
"Hmmm. The mouse is *floating* and seems to be incontinent. Slight muscle atrophy.... JENKINS!!! Are you writing this down!!??"
"UUuuhhh yessiryessir... atrophy in muscles... peeing... yup got it."
I think this speaks for itself: "Jef Raskin can be reached for response to this column by e-mailing him at: JefRaskin@aol.com."
Try Stepwise's http://softrak.stepwise.com/Apps/WebObjects/Softra k, or http://www.osxfaq.com/. But aside from Darwin, the neat thing is running them with a nifty GUI. Otherwise, just get FreeBSD.
No, it's the drivers and apps. That's why Apple is OpenSourcing (tm). Get all the wonks to compile it on x86, get pissy that it can't see the nVidia card, then port a driver. Iterate Meanwhile, Apple keeps replacing all that proprietary crap with industry standard stuff, gets the costs down, identical motherboard architectures across product lines, kick ass cases and value add stuff (AirPort, Firewire disk target mode, etc.) and you got Apple with competitively priced hardware, a GUI with built-in SIMD acceleration, MP support, a motherscratching TCP/IP stack, internet tools (iDisk, NetBoot, etc.). *BAM* Voila! OS X storms into all the boxen out there, with beaucoup hardware support via pissy wonks and beats the crap outta the Win flavors.
EIGRP: Proprietary Cisco routing protocol CGMP: Proprietary Cisco multicast protocol IOS: Buggy piece of do-everything shit. It's like using NetBEUI when everyone is buying microsoft. Yes, we can deal with it. But we have to. We can throw EIGRP over OSPF, but that doesn't mean "it works together;" it means we have to make it work, or nobody buys our stuff.
It's not *really* a router, but an optical switch. Ya can't route light. Unless those tiny little mirrors are manned by tiny little mites taking instruction via nanoheadsets.
I agree. What a bunch of crap these whiners spout. They're going to hold them to "Apple II forever?" Sheesh. How far up is that corncob? Give the tech sector a break will ya? Or at least let them borrow your Magic 8 Ball (tm). How much of your personal and professional life did you invest in the Newton? Or Rhapsody on your Mac clone? If you say a whole lot, I call you a fool. Get over it. Let that anger go. It's not like Apple's your best friend who promised you that rookie Reggie Jackson. Unless of course your friend has Wall Street to please, a billion in inventory to try to price after a parts shortage, has to wrangle the media, maintain margins to satisfy stockholders, all the while cranking out stuff that the whole sector tries to copy.