>The only first hand account I see is that she says "I didn't get anything worse than tear gas". ----- I didn't get anything worse than tear gas, but police have been beating with riot sticks peaceful protestors who sat or lay on the ground. They have taken protestors who were wearing face masks, covered the inside of the mask with pepper spray and forced it back onto the person's face. They dragged an elderly woman across the ground by her hair and an arm. They've shot rubber bullets at ranges of a few feet, and one officer pulled a real gun on protestors before other officers restrained him. -----
All of that sounds like first-hand observations to me. I wish I could understand what causes people to stick their heads in the sand, beleive the police-edited version of the story, and refuse to beleive the first hand testimony of people who were actually there. The refusal to beleive that the system could actually be doing something wrong is so prevelant, that the government (especially the United States government) can oppress it's citizens, and people just look the other way, even to gigantic rights violations. It's reminiscent of Nazi germany, IMO. "Just ignore the Gestapo, we're good citizens, they won't bother us".
I think everyone's pretty much covered the speed-to-production and ease-of-programming advantages to using Perl, but I'm suprised no-one mentioned using 'perlcc'. To me the biggest speed disadvantage Perl has to C/C++/whatever is that it's interpreted and not compiled, but what little people realise is that there is a perl compiler out there (comes as part of the source distribution I think, but for some reason my Redhat 6 box didn't have it installed.. odd). It seems to me that if everyone who was concerned about speed compiled their scripts they'd have a lot less to complain about. I know with some Interbase/SQL scripts I was working on last year I got a fair speed increase by compiling my scripts, especially on our old P150s.:)
Let's see what kind of bands are currently in my mp3 folder:
Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, Danzig, Offspring, Godsmack, the Grateful Dead, Rob Zombie, Pearl Jam, Soft Cell, ZZ Top, Weird Al, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Guns n Roses, Annihilator, Slayer, etc, etc.
>I proceeded to put an anamorphic movie in and used a software DVD >decoder program (WinDVD) to watch the movie. This was true >progressive scan, being resampled up to 1024x768... >I kid you not, it looked like FILM.
You don't go to a lot of movies in the theater, to you? The idea that by scaling the crappy NTSC signal up to 1024x768 could make it higher quality is utterly laughable.
All I can say is that if you think HDTV isn't worth it, you really don't understand the ideas of digital transmission and higher resolution.
They have techspecs on all the models, and many of the peripherals. They sell them out of Canada, but they have an automatic price converter built into their online catalogue so you can see right away what it'll cost you in US dollars.
> No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a > Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or > animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of
(Yes, I know this's a troll, but dammit, I can't stand non-objectiveness)
Don't get me wrong, I love Amigas, I have a souped-up 500 sitting in my bedroom that I'm preparing to either run DNS or a webserver off of, but I can say without a doubt that the graphics and sound are far below that of a new computer, any brand make or model. *Especially* in animation and 3d rendering. Lightwave on my Amiga takes hours to render a complex scene at 320x240... the same scene on my G3 can be rendered in Lightwave at 1024x768 in under 10 minutes.
The Amiga is great, but you have to face the facts that the hardware is *old*.
Guess I missed the price, which puts it out of the range of machines in competition with the iMac. But with a design like that, I was sure that's what they were targeting.
Seems like for $2500 with that little expandability I don't know who they think is going to buy it, but oh well.
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M4= Milestone 4 of the Mozilla project. It means a semi-major update of the project, usually includes new features, is more stable, etc.
To quote a friend of mine, "it's just more better." =)
I think it's pretty obvious that this is just the first version of the license, and that Apple is aware that everyone has a lot of concerns. The GPL didn't develop overnight, and I don't expect that the APSL should either. Give them a little time to update it and work on it. If in 3-6 months the main concerns haven't been met, then there's a problem, but after only a few weeks it's too soon to say that things are set in stone.
So, I sent an e-mail to Toshiba Canada expressing my distaste for their business practices, and I got a phonecall back from someone there. Over the course of the conversation, he let it slip that everywhere in Canada, Toshiba now puts the EULA on the powerswitch, so that you cannot turn on the computer without agreeing to the EULA.
It turns out that there are some local laws here in Saskatchewan, Canada, that ensure you can get your refund, even if M$ or the manufactuer refuse:
The Consumer Products Warranties Act (provincial) states among other things that the retailer is responsiblle for carrying out *all* guarantees and warantees, including implied performance guarantees, stated by the manufactuer.
So, if you buy a PC bundled with Windows that has an MS EULA stating that Windows can be returned for a refund, you can return it to the retailer and force them to give you the refund immediately. They may fight you, but it's the law here.
I suggest everyone check their local laws, as I suspect many other provinces and states may have similar laws +/ statutes.
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>The only first hand account I see is that she says "I didn't get anything worse than tear gas".
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I didn't get anything worse than tear gas, but police have been
beating with riot sticks peaceful protestors who sat or lay on the ground. They have taken protestors who were wearing face masks, covered the inside of the mask with pepper spray and forced it back onto the person's face. They dragged an elderly woman across the ground by her hair and an arm. They've shot rubber bullets at ranges of a few feet, and one officer pulled a real gun on protestors before other officers restrained him.
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All of that sounds like first-hand observations to me. I wish I could understand what causes people to stick their heads in the sand, beleive the police-edited version of the story, and refuse to beleive the first hand testimony of people who were actually there. The refusal to beleive that the system could actually be doing something wrong is so prevelant, that the government (especially the United States government) can oppress it's citizens, and people just look the other way, even to gigantic rights violations. It's reminiscent of Nazi germany, IMO. "Just ignore the Gestapo, we're good citizens, they won't bother us".
I think everyone's pretty much covered the speed-to-production and ease-of-programming advantages to using Perl, but I'm suprised no-one mentioned using 'perlcc'. :)
To me the biggest speed disadvantage Perl has to C/C++/whatever is that it's interpreted and not compiled, but what little people realise is that there is a perl compiler out there (comes as part of the source distribution I think, but for some reason my Redhat 6 box didn't have it installed.. odd). It seems to me that if everyone who was concerned about speed compiled their scripts they'd have a lot less to complain about. I know with some Interbase/SQL scripts I was working on last year I got a fair speed increase by compiling my scripts, especially on our old P150s.
Let's see what kind of bands are currently in my mp3 folder:
Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, Danzig, Offspring, Godsmack, the Grateful Dead, Rob Zombie, Pearl Jam, Soft Cell, ZZ Top, Weird Al, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Guns n Roses, Annihilator, Slayer, etc, etc.
>I proceeded to put an anamorphic movie in and used a software DVD >decoder program (WinDVD) to watch the movie. This was true >progressive scan, being resampled up to 1024x768...
>I kid you not, it looked like FILM.
You don't go to a lot of movies in the theater, to you? The idea that by scaling the crappy NTSC signal up to 1024x768 could make it higher quality is utterly laughable.
All I can say is that if you think HDTV isn't worth it, you really don't understand the ideas of digital transmission and higher resolution.
Go to www.nationalamiga.com
They have techspecs on all the models, and many of the peripherals. They sell them out of Canada, but they have an automatic price converter built into their online catalogue so you can see right away what it'll cost you in US dollars.
> No flame here just to note yes both graphics and sound are better than a > Pentium anything PC. Especially if you are trying to do 3d rendering or > animation. At 7.5hz my 500 still does things that my pc or mac dream of
(Yes, I know this's a troll, but dammit, I can't stand non-objectiveness)
Don't get me wrong, I love Amigas, I have a souped-up 500 sitting in my bedroom that I'm preparing to either run DNS or a webserver off of, but I can say without a doubt that the graphics and sound are far below that of a new computer, any brand make or model. *Especially* in animation and 3d rendering. Lightwave on my Amiga takes hours to render a complex scene at 320x240... the same scene on my G3 can be rendered in Lightwave at 1024x768 in under 10 minutes.
The Amiga is great, but you have to face the facts that the hardware is *old*.
AFAIK isn't Exchange limited to a total of 16gb of mail messages? Isn't that only like 670k/mailbox for 25000 users? =)
Guess I missed the price, which puts it out of the range of machines in competition with the iMac. But with a design like that, I was sure that's what they were targeting.
Seems like for $2500 with that little expandability I don't know who they think is going to buy it, but oh well.
M4= Milestone 4 of the Mozilla project. It means a semi-major update of the project, usually includes new features, is more stable, etc.
To quote a friend of mine, "it's just more better." =)
I think it's pretty obvious that this is just the first version of the license, and that Apple is aware that everyone has a lot of concerns. The GPL didn't develop overnight, and I don't expect that the APSL should either. Give them a little time to update it and work on it. If in 3-6 months the main concerns haven't been met, then there's a problem, but after only a few weeks it's too soon to say that things are set in stone.
So, I sent an e-mail to Toshiba Canada expressing my distaste for their business practices, and I got a phonecall back from someone there. Over the course of the conversation, he let it slip that everywhere in Canada, Toshiba now puts the EULA on the powerswitch, so that you cannot turn on the computer without agreeing to the EULA.
*sigh*
It turns out that there are some local laws here in Saskatchewan, Canada, that ensure you can get your refund, even if M$ or the manufactuer refuse:
The Consumer Products Warranties Act (provincial) states among other things that the retailer is responsiblle for carrying out *all* guarantees and warantees, including implied performance guarantees, stated by the manufactuer.
So, if you buy a PC bundled with Windows that has an MS EULA stating that Windows can be returned for a refund, you can return it to the retailer and force them to give you the refund immediately. They may fight you, but it's the law here.
I suggest everyone check their local laws, as I suspect many other provinces and states may have similar laws +/ statutes.
It's sad, in a nostalgic sorta way. I remember how exciting it was learning the Hayes command set on my first modem, a blistering 1200 baud.