Most importantly - Influential senior IT staff with a vested interest in keeping MS in the server room so as to protect their jobs when they have limited skill sets and no real interest in learning anything new.
So, how does it feel to be a mac user? Honestly, weren't you the same guys bitching about us mac guys being "chatty" with AppleTalk?
Ahh, the quaint good old days. How much would you give to go back to the big worry of *dum dum dum DUUUUM!* APPLETALK ZONES!
Who's the pain in the ass now, huh? Got what you wanted, huh? Well, suck it up pal.
Nothing personal, though. You are just the faceless IT guy who told me I couldn't network my mac on campus in '92, but of course I already had, sans AppleTalk. I was the guy with the Duo 210, 16 shades of grey, who was on ethernet, pasting alt.binary posts together and UUDecoding. mwAHAHAHAHA!
Payback's a bitch, aint it? Here I am, productive, and virus free on OS X Panther, while you guys scramble to support schmucks who wouldn't know an open port if it bit them in the ass.
But, hey. Hindsight, 20/20 and all that. Hope you guys enjoy your job. As you sow, so shall ye reap. Of course that means I'm going to have some condescending jerk going "nyah nyah nyah" to me at some point...
What happens when someone steals your source without obeying GPL or anything and turns it into a monster?
That's what Dr. Frankenstein said when he took the corpses for his creature. But he showed them, didn't he! They all thought he was crazy! Bbbut whooss teH CRzy onE now, HAH? You fooLS, YOU ALL LAUGHED, BUT IL HAV THE LAAST LAUHG!
t looks like this thing whacks any competing virus it finds on your computer. So if you have a bunch of sneaky little programs on your computer, all you have to do is "install" this program, then remove it. It's like letting a wild cat loose in a house full of mice, then catching the cat.
Somebody want to strip out the nasty bits, and sell it Microsoft?
If you're not a convicted monopolist, you have a little bit more leverage. Nobody said bundling all the stuff wasn't *convenient*, just an abuse of monopoly power.
Of course it's convenient to get all of that stuff included with your operating system. But if you remember, there used to be a market for things like browsers and video playback software. That market is all but gone, thanks to Microsoft including these products with their OS. I know, there is something called Mozilla for us staunch MS-haters. But good luck trying to sell (or even give) your alternative browser to the public at large.
But think about A/V software for a second. With ubiquitous broadband available within the foreseeable future, and rich media already infiltrating the browser, which do you think is more important - the html parser, or the A/V codecs?
Is it more difficult to plug in an html engine into another app, or have IE, gecko-driven browsers, khtml browsers plug in the A/V capabilities? Obviously the latter. HTML engines are a dime a dozen these days, and your preference is based not really on rendering capabilities anymore, but speed, developer support, open/proprietary, features, etc.
Look at what Apple has done with the lean and mean khtml code - it drives the OS's help system, Sherlock (the web services app), the browser Safari, and whatever other apps want to tap into Apple's pre-built WebKit which includes WebCore as well as JavascriptCore.
A/V code and codecs are key, because they are the presentation layer for a lot of media today, and maybe the entire user experience tomorrow.
Conservatives love killing off all parts of government not associated with the military or law enforcement.
I hadn't thought of this in conjunction with the space program, but it fits in with the current administration's other moves:
No Child Left Behind: Underfund it and make compliance so onerous that the mandate to transfer from failing school to another school becomes an ersatz competition for students.
After the idea of transferring becomes popular, public schools will become privatized.
Social Security: Rely on deficit spending to the extent that Greenspan recommends cutting the Social Security benefits.
After the Social Security funds are raided, privatize it. This is a stated plank of Bush's platform.
Gutting the EPA, Eliminating Medicare leverage for negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, and zero support for organized labor are other examples. I'm sure there are other Bush plans for "getting government out of government," but those are the ones that stick in my mind.
Don't believe Bush is interested in funding anything. He wants to turn over everything to private companies.
And I expect the following to be a hint of what's to come:
In 2005, the Power blades will begin resembling IBM's Unix server line, with a system comprising four PowerPC 970 processors, Dougherty said. And with a four-processor model, IBM's version of Unix--called AIX--becomes a compelling alternative to Linux, he said.
Come on x86ers, save up for a Mac (even a used one) and get more stuff done more enjoyably.
Absolutely. I imagine I will hear how expensive macs are from folks cobbling up their current PCs until Longhorn rolls around, at which point they buy a new beefy box and all of their software will have to be upgraded.
Keep your Win2K box as is, buy a mac, and have the Longhorn experience now. Mac OS 10.3 was actually *faster* on the same hardware as 10.2, which was faster than 10.1, and that faster than 10.0. When's the last time you saw that? I have 10.3 happily chugging away on a non-upgraded (except for 320 MB RAM) 233 MHz, 4 gig drive rev. B bondi iMac from 1998.
Second, what I don't get, is why can't we use electronics to print out a "ballot" with our selections done in the comfort of home, and just take this "ballot" to a polling place? The ballot would, of course, be something similar to a scantron or other paper form, but would also have human readable form of the contained data. Perhaps bar codes or their successors would suffice?
I believe a printout isn't allowed to discourage "vote buying."
Think about it: how quickly could you get a free beer (free as in beer) if your could show your local operative whom you voted for?
This might be interesting in pulling some developers over to OS X. If they become familiar with PPC/endian issues, as well as have MS-sponsored tools to do so, what's to stop a bunch of developers from getting together and setting up an Aspyr-like shop for regular 'doze apps?
The reason is is that much of our bias, one way or another, has come from the media. Yes, much of it can be based on facts, but I think we'd all be lying to ourselves considering the amount of biased media out there.
The media only has a small amount of time to cover the country, world, infotainment, sports, etc. (Headline News notwithstanding), so there has to be some limitations to what editorial spectrum they present. Most of the time, it's middle of the road/conservative. When Noam Chomsky has a talk show, then we can argue about the extent of liberal bias in the media.
I think it was a Tom Tomorrow comic that had the media in pseudo-heated debate about the first Gulf War. Ahh yes, here they are:
It must really suck to keep working on ways to tighten security at MS, and then have marketing whine about "ease of use" and override design decisions.
Or it can be really good, a la OS X; you get to keep both. It's probably pretty fun designing good looking vault, keychain and padlock icons.
Also in typical/. fashion, maps to the presentation room were publicly posted, resulting in beyond-standing-room-only crowds that inadvertently set off the overhead safety sprinkler system, making the presentation inaccessible.
A statement from CmdrTaco stated that due to the heavy traffic and strain on the facilities, the presentation will be 404'd^H^H^H^H^H postponed until enough people leave the room and grab some mops fer Christ's sake!
When I see the QRIO, I also get the unshakeable image in my head of the teddy bear from AI running through the forest, trying to escape the "meat show" people or whatever it is.
Right, and there's also the bizarre feature that must be attributed to lemmings that doesn't exist anywhere else in nature: some innate sense of altruism to maintain *group* fitness (i.e. to relieve population pressures such as food/mate scarcity) by sacrificing yourself, as opposed to regular old *individual* fitness (i.e. fuck you, I saw her *first* - off the cliff you go *shove*).
There is a possibly confusing scenario of kinship selection (eg putting yourself in danger by protecting your offspring, denying yourself food for your brother/sister/children, etc.) that under some circumstances might be mistaken for group selection behaviors, but all have been attributed to the kinship ties among the study subjects.
I mean, think about it. How in God's name does an inheritable trait for suicide get passed down?
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Most importantly - Influential senior IT staff with a vested interest in keeping MS in the server room so as to protect their jobs when they have limited skill sets and no real interest in learning anything new.
So, how does it feel to be a mac user? Honestly, weren't you the same guys bitching about us mac guys being "chatty" with AppleTalk?
Ahh, the quaint good old days. How much would you give to go back to the big worry of *dum dum dum DUUUUM!* APPLETALK ZONES!
Who's the pain in the ass now, huh? Got what you wanted, huh? Well, suck it up pal.
Nothing personal, though. You are just the faceless IT guy who told me I couldn't network my mac on campus in '92, but of course I already had, sans AppleTalk. I was the guy with the Duo 210, 16 shades of grey, who was on ethernet, pasting alt.binary posts together and UUDecoding. mwAHAHAHAHA!
Payback's a bitch, aint it? Here I am, productive, and virus free on OS X Panther, while you guys scramble to support schmucks who wouldn't know an open port if it bit them in the ass.
But, hey. Hindsight, 20/20 and all that. Hope you guys enjoy your job. As you sow, so shall ye reap. Of course that means I'm going to have some condescending jerk going "nyah nyah nyah" to me at some point...
But we've already seen the fragmentation of Java by Microsoft. How would opening the source have any effect other than increasing that risk?
The search function on the ADC reference library is now powered by Google, so you should get much better hits now, and moreso as more people use it.
Well, umm, space-time is curved, sorta, so they could go with that.
That, or have Pluto somewhere deep beneath the mantle of the earth.
What happens when someone steals your source without obeying GPL or anything and turns it into a monster?
That's what Dr. Frankenstein said when he took the corpses for his creature. But he showed them, didn't he! They all thought he was crazy! Bbbut whooss teH CRzy onE now, HAH? You fooLS, YOU ALL LAUGHED, BUT IL HAV THE LAAST LAUHG!
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
t looks like this thing whacks any competing virus it finds on your computer. So if you have a bunch of sneaky little programs on your computer, all you have to do is "install" this program, then remove it. It's like letting a wild cat loose in a house full of mice, then catching the cat.
Somebody want to strip out the nasty bits, and sell it Microsoft?
If you're not a convicted monopolist, you have a little bit more leverage. Nobody said bundling all the stuff wasn't *convenient*, just an abuse of monopoly power.
Of course it's convenient to get all of that stuff included with your operating system. But if you remember, there used to be a market for things like browsers and video playback software. That market is all but gone, thanks to Microsoft including these products with their OS. I know, there is something called Mozilla for us staunch MS-haters. But good luck trying to sell (or even give) your alternative browser to the public at large.
But think about A/V software for a second. With ubiquitous broadband available within the foreseeable future, and rich media already infiltrating the browser, which do you think is more important - the html parser, or the A/V codecs?
Is it more difficult to plug in an html engine into another app, or have IE, gecko-driven browsers, khtml browsers plug in the A/V capabilities? Obviously the latter. HTML engines are a dime a dozen these days, and your preference is based not really on rendering capabilities anymore, but speed, developer support, open/proprietary, features, etc.
Look at what Apple has done with the lean and mean khtml code - it drives the OS's help system, Sherlock (the web services app), the browser Safari, and whatever other apps want to tap into Apple's pre-built WebKit which includes WebCore as well as JavascriptCore.
A/V code and codecs are key, because they are the presentation layer for a lot of media today, and maybe the entire user experience tomorrow.
Conservatives love killing off all parts of government not associated with the military or law enforcement.
I hadn't thought of this in conjunction with the space program, but it fits in with the current administration's other moves:
No Child Left Behind: Underfund it and make compliance so onerous that the mandate to transfer from failing school to another school becomes an ersatz competition for students.
After the idea of transferring becomes popular, public schools will become privatized.
Social Security: Rely on deficit spending to the extent that Greenspan recommends cutting the Social Security benefits.
After the Social Security funds are raided, privatize it. This is a stated plank of Bush's platform.
Gutting the EPA, Eliminating Medicare leverage for negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, and zero support for organized labor are other examples. I'm sure there are other Bush plans for "getting government out of government," but those are the ones that stick in my mind.
Don't believe Bush is interested in funding anything. He wants to turn over everything to private companies.
And I expect the following to be a hint of what's to come:
In 2005, the Power blades will begin resembling IBM's Unix server line, with a system comprising four PowerPC 970 processors, Dougherty said. And with a four-processor model, IBM's version of Unix--called AIX--becomes a compelling alternative to Linux, he said.
http://news.com.com/2100-1010-5171648.html
Come on x86ers, save up for a Mac (even a used one) and get more stuff done more enjoyably.
Absolutely. I imagine I will hear how expensive macs are from folks cobbling up their current PCs until Longhorn rolls around, at which point they buy a new beefy box and all of their software will have to be upgraded.
Keep your Win2K box as is, buy a mac, and have the Longhorn experience now. Mac OS 10.3 was actually *faster* on the same hardware as 10.2, which was faster than 10.1, and that faster than 10.0. When's the last time you saw that? I have 10.3 happily chugging away on a non-upgraded (except for 320 MB RAM) 233 MHz, 4 gig drive rev. B bondi iMac from 1998.
1) Code review by the NSA (or other governmental agency) to ensure that no backdoors have been added to the programs.
NSA, huh? Hmm.
NSA: Nope, no backdoors here... We'll have to fix that
typetypetype...
Second, what I don't get, is why can't we use electronics to print out a "ballot" with our selections done in the comfort of home, and just take this "ballot" to a polling place? The ballot would, of course, be something similar to a scantron or other paper form, but would also have human readable form of the contained data. Perhaps bar codes or their successors would suffice?
I believe a printout isn't allowed to discourage "vote buying."
Think about it: how quickly could you get a free beer (free as in beer) if your could show your local operative whom you voted for?
This might be interesting in pulling some developers over to OS X. If they become familiar with PPC/endian issues, as well as have MS-sponsored tools to do so, what's to stop a bunch of developers from getting together and setting up an Aspyr-like shop for regular 'doze apps?
The reason is is that much of our bias, one way or another, has come from the media. Yes, much of it can be based on facts, but I think we'd all be lying to ourselves considering the amount of biased media out there.
The media only has a small amount of time to cover the country, world, infotainment, sports, etc. (Headline News notwithstanding), so there has to be some limitations to what editorial spectrum they present. Most of the time, it's middle of the road/conservative. When Noam Chomsky has a talk show, then we can argue about the extent of liberal bias in the media.
I think it was a Tom Tomorrow comic that had the media in pseudo-heated debate about the first Gulf War. Ahh yes, here they are:
Equating non-equivalence, and arguing from an initial fallacy (I'm sure there are real rhetorical terms for those, but I'm too lazy to look them up; not lazy enough to read those comics, though!)
It must really suck to keep working on ways to tighten security at MS, and then have marketing whine about "ease of use" and override design decisions.
Or it can be really good, a la OS X; you get to keep both. It's probably pretty fun designing good looking vault, keychain and padlock icons.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/security/
Emulated OS on emulated hardware gets emulated virus. Emulated virus-checker emulates removal.
Users emulate customer satisfaction - give emulated kudos to emulated customer-centric software company.
I know this is /. and all, with geeks and whatnot, but you do understand that a bunch of iTunes/Pepsi ads will be run during the *SuperBowl* yes?
Something over 50 million eyeballs for just the ads, I think. I'd say some people will be educated soon.
They are looking at close to 12kW/rack, which pushes the envelope on what you can do with air.
It's water cooled. As I recall, they said if they air cooled, it would require 60 mph winds. Then your paperweight needs a paperweight.
Also in typical /. fashion, maps to the presentation room were publicly posted, resulting in beyond-standing-room-only crowds that inadvertently set off the overhead safety sprinkler system, making the presentation inaccessible.
A statement from CmdrTaco stated that due to the heavy traffic and strain on the facilities, the presentation will be 404'd^H^H^H^H^H postponed until enough people leave the room and grab some mops fer Christ's sake!
Here's a table of original HCI group members that seems to be updated occasionally. Note that some key HCI personnel still work at Apple.
I think you could make the argument that the group is now more product focused now than before.
Obligatory reference to centerfolds and geeks.
Carry on.
When I see the QRIO, I also get the unshakeable image in my head of the teddy bear from AI running through the forest, trying to escape the "meat show" people or whatever it is.
BRRRRRR
Irregardless, I think he has a point.
Right, and there's also the bizarre feature that must be attributed to lemmings that doesn't exist anywhere else in nature: some innate sense of altruism to maintain *group* fitness (i.e. to relieve population pressures such as food/mate scarcity) by sacrificing yourself, as opposed to regular old *individual* fitness (i.e. fuck you, I saw her *first* - off the cliff you go *shove*).
There is a possibly confusing scenario of kinship selection (eg putting yourself in danger by protecting your offspring, denying yourself food for your brother/sister/children, etc.) that under some circumstances might be mistaken for group selection behaviors, but all have been attributed to the kinship ties among the study subjects.
I mean, think about it. How in God's name does an inheritable trait for suicide get passed down?