Please. In probably less than two months, all you command line freaks can sit there in the terminal in OS X and do whatever the heck it is you do. Pick up a copy of OS X PB and you can do it today.
Even I, who really don't care much for Aqua, am really looking forward to MacOS X.
Having a machine that doesn't crash and has real dynamic memory allocation will be heaven for most Mac users. All Apple really needs to do is take out that friggin debug code so the thing doesn't run slow as shit.
MacOS X was originally due in fall '99. Jobs then changed this when Aqua was introduced, pushing it back a year(IIRC). Then it was delayed again to Jan 2001, and then "early" 2001.
Anyway, Rhapsody was originally due out in '98, and while MacOS X Server did eventually come out in '99, it really didn't fulfill the promise of Rhapsody: a stable consumer OS. So you could say that MacOS X is really about 3 years late now.
Also, Rhapsody was originally going to run on x86 machines as well as PPC, which was completely dropped after Apple realized that if it did, no one would buy Apple's overpriced hardware.
-this is from a long time Apple/Mac user: Apple IIe, Classic, Classic II, 5200, Blue G3, G4/400
1.)Have you ever worked anywhere that required working with colors and shapes? What if those colors and shapes needed to look the same on every monitor in the shop? Well, that new Apple Display Connector should help.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? ADC is just an interface combining power, DVI, and USB in one cable/port. It's only purpose is to eliminate cable clutter.
Macs have been known for color consistency for years because of ColorSync. This has nothing to do with ADC, which is based on a 3 year old IBM technology and was introduced only 6 months ago with the CP machines.
Everyone who wants in chips in some money and gets a server with many terabytes of data...and puts it in the middle of the ocean
Why? Because you're in international waters, and pretty much can't be charged with shit. Do any illegal thing you want. Store MP3s, warez, MS Kerbos, whatever.
this is actually quite a neat little bit of trivia(and BTW: I'm a Mac user, and I still love Sagan). anyway:
When the PowerPC first came out, Apple released three machines: the 6100, the 8100, and the 7100. The code names for these machines were PDM(for Piltdown Man), Cold Fusion, and Carl Sagan, respectively.
Sagan was pissed at being grouped with the two hoaxes(or gaffe at least, in the case of PDM). Sagan got pissed, called his lawyer, and Apple changed it to BHA. This is where most of the stories end. But in fact, Sagan found out, as did most people, that BHA stood for butt-head-astronomer. When he learned this, he again called his lawyer.
Apple finally rested on the name LAW(lawyers are wimps). One might find some irony of the 1995 Apple saying lawyers are wimps when the present-day Apple sues anyone who makes something bondi blue, but...
Man thanks for telling me that. I'll turn off my Blue G3(rev 1 even) right now and disconnect my Maxtor 13 gig slave. I'll also have to take the 60 gig maxtor slave drive out of my G4. What a bummer.
They're more civilized than us in just about anything you look at: drug laws, executions, guns, welfare, pollution, etc. About the only place America is still ahead is free speech. It seems most Europeans still don't understand that free speech applies even to speech you don't like. It means even though the Nazis did horrible things, it's not worth bending on the issue of free speech.
The Germans ban Nazi stuff, the French ban cults. When are they going to learn?
I shouldn't gloat too much though, without the Supreme Court the Puritans would have taken over this country years ago.
For a while I ran a terminal version of seti@home on MacOS X in the background. The client was originally made for rhapsody, but worked on OS X too. Even something that simple would probably get at least a few CPU hours out of me for folding@home.
Are you a computer programmer? What if everyone became a computer programmer? Your garbage wouldn't be picked up. You wouldn't have food to buy at the supermarket.
Oh no, guess that means no one should be a computer programmer.
there seems to be more and more evidence accumulating which seems to point to life being very, very common. I mean, even if there is no life no Mars on Ganymede or anywhere else in the solar system than Earth, doesn't just the fact that these planets *have* water tip the Drake Eq to there being billions of life forms on other planets in the Universe, and perhaps just in our galaxy?
I think we need to start spending large amounts of money, right away, to find out if there really is life on any of these planets or moons. If there is, say we find the fossils of some life form on Mars, I think we need to immediately begin a massive project to search for planets(Hubble-replacement, anyone?) and a larger radio telescope(or array) to search for signals. If life occured two or more separate times in our solar system alone, it would seem to be nearly immpossible that it hasn't occured many times elsewhere. And if it has occured elsewhere, it also nearly nearly immpossible that we are the most advanced civilization in existence(i.e. that no other ETI is out there looking).
If there are any little green men out there, it's our obligation as an intelligent race to try to find them.
Also, there were many claims as early as Tuesday night from hundreds Democrats loudly complaining that they tried to vote for Gore but then thought they accidently voted for Buchanan. I heard no such claims from Republicans that night, nor have I since.
First off, the Libertarians get very little press converage because no one is going to vote for them. You may see this as circular reasoning, but Nader is now getting at least some mass media coverage, and Buchanan is getting none. Buchanan was getting significantly more than Nader until everyone realized that Buchanan was polling under 1%, and Nader was polling at 4-7%. Browne will probably get a hell of a lot less votes than even Buchanan. If you're going to ask why Browne doesn't get coverage, at least be fair and ask why the Constitutional, Natural Law and Socialist parties don't get coverage either, since their candidates are probably doing at least as well as Browne.
And as to your second point, I have read and heard a lot of info from Nader, and I like almost all of it. He is very socially liberal, but his economic ideas aren't too nutty(at least not as bad as Browne), and he, unlike Browne, will do something to protect the environment. Stop telling me who I want to vote for when you have no idea where I stand on the issues.
Heh, if it was going for Redmond Gates would probably just personally fund a ship to go up there and take it out. Hell with the kind of money he has, he could get Bruce Willis *and* Robert Duvall, thus having a redundancy of suicidal mission commanders.
No, it means that because the only "logical" way to view a small clump of cells as a human being is if you have a religous belief that God "injects" a soul into the zygote at the instant of conception. Only then can you be so rabidly pro-life as many are.
As someone already told you, you are being much too black and white with this. We all pollute all the time in our everyday lives. If we completely outlaw pollution, we'll have to ban cars, electricity, lawn mowers, flashlights, and farting.
Some amount of pollution by the human race would be acceptable, because the planet is really not that fragile. It's just like drinking: alcohol is poisonous to your body, but if you only have three or four drinks, you'll be OK. If you have 30, you'll die. Does that mean you should never drink anything containing alcohol? No, it means you should drink in moderation. We should pollute in moderation. Some pollution is avoidable, some isn't. Therefore we tax it to try to keep the level to something below planet-killing.
This is a fairly simple concept, and it's too bad that most Libertarians can't understand it.
OK, so we should just let megacompanies pollute to such an extent that we either die of lung cancer or wind up with our homes underwater because of global warming? Ever heard of the tragedy of commons?
All these behaviors we're talking about: polluting, smoking, or even stock market speculation, are examples of the tragedy of commons.
Lets hear your solution to that without taxes or other penalties for the people destroying the commons. And please don't say private ownership of everything unless you are going to suggest a way for me to own and control the air hovering above my house, and to prevent the flood waters of the melted artic ice from destroying my property.
Except that it wasn't under any evolutionary pressure during those 250 million years, so that number doesn't mean very much. In a sense, it's actually had 250 million years less to evolve than every other life form on Earth.
People weren't talking about his accident much afterwards, and I assumed he'd had serious a brain injury or something. I'm really glad he's OK, even if LinuxPPC may have a problem with OS X now on the scene.
Slashdot Mirror
Please. In probably less than two months, all you command line freaks can sit there in the terminal in OS X and do whatever the heck it is you do. Pick up a copy of OS X PB and you can do it today.
Even I, who really don't care much for Aqua, am really looking forward to MacOS X.
Having a machine that doesn't crash and has real dynamic memory allocation will be heaven for most Mac users. All Apple really needs to do is take out that friggin debug code so the thing doesn't run slow as shit.
MacOS X was originally due in fall '99. Jobs then changed this when Aqua was introduced, pushing it back a year(IIRC). Then it was delayed again to Jan 2001, and then "early" 2001.
Anyway, Rhapsody was originally due out in '98, and while MacOS X Server did eventually come out in '99, it really didn't fulfill the promise of Rhapsody: a stable consumer OS. So you could say that MacOS X is really about 3 years late now.
Also, Rhapsody was originally going to run on x86 machines as well as PPC, which was completely dropped after Apple realized that if it did, no one would buy Apple's overpriced hardware.
-this is from a long time Apple/Mac user: Apple IIe, Classic, Classic II, 5200, Blue G3, G4/400
1.)Have you ever worked anywhere that required working with colors and shapes? What if those colors and shapes needed to look the same on every monitor in the shop? Well, that new Apple Display Connector should help.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? ADC is just an interface combining power, DVI, and USB in one cable/port. It's only purpose is to eliminate cable clutter.
Macs have been known for color consistency for years because of ColorSync. This has nothing to do with ADC, which is based on a 3 year old IBM technology and was introduced only 6 months ago with the CP machines.
Here's my idea for OceanStore:
Everyone who wants in chips in some money and gets a server with many terabytes of data...and puts it in the middle of the ocean
Why? Because you're in international waters, and pretty much can't be charged with shit. Do any illegal thing you want. Store MP3s, warez, MS Kerbos, whatever.
this is actually quite a neat little bit of trivia(and BTW: I'm a Mac user, and I still love Sagan). anyway:
When the PowerPC first came out, Apple released three machines: the 6100, the 8100, and the 7100. The code names for these machines were PDM(for Piltdown Man), Cold Fusion, and Carl Sagan, respectively.
Sagan was pissed at being grouped with the two hoaxes(or gaffe at least, in the case of PDM). Sagan got pissed, called his lawyer, and Apple changed it to BHA. This is where most of the stories end. But in fact, Sagan found out, as did most people, that BHA stood for butt-head-astronomer. When he learned this, he again called his lawyer.
Apple finally rested on the name LAW(lawyers are wimps). One might find some irony of the 1995 Apple saying lawyers are wimps when the present-day Apple sues anyone who makes something bondi blue, but...
(in your best australian accent):
"that's not a magic 8 ball - this is a magic 8 ball"(seriously, it's real):
http://8ball.federated.com/
Man thanks for telling me that. I'll turn off my Blue G3(rev 1 even) right now and disconnect my Maxtor 13 gig slave. I'll also have to take the 60 gig maxtor slave drive out of my G4. What a bummer.
They're more civilized than us in just about anything you look at: drug laws, executions, guns, welfare, pollution, etc. About the only place America is still ahead is free speech. It seems most Europeans still don't understand that free speech applies even to speech you don't like. It means even though the Nazis did horrible things, it's not worth bending on the issue of free speech.
The Germans ban Nazi stuff, the French ban cults. When are they going to learn?
I shouldn't gloat too much though, without the Supreme Court the Puritans would have taken over this country years ago.
It doesn't look DVD Quality and it's Sorsenson, not MPEG4. I've seen both, and MPEG4 is better.
Also. 300K is equal to 2400k, which is the unit the original poster was measuring in. To get down to 750k, try a 100k movie.
For a while I ran a terminal version of seti@home on MacOS X in the background. The client was originally made for rhapsody, but worked on OS X too. Even something that simple would probably get at least a few CPU hours out of me for folding@home.
Are you a computer programmer? What if everyone became a computer programmer? Your garbage wouldn't be picked up. You wouldn't have food to buy at the supermarket.
Oh no, guess that means no one should be a computer programmer.
there seems to be more and more evidence accumulating which seems to point to life being very, very common. I mean, even if there is no life no Mars on Ganymede or anywhere else in the solar system than Earth, doesn't just the fact that these planets *have* water tip the Drake Eq to there being billions of life forms on other planets in the Universe, and perhaps just in our galaxy?
I think we need to start spending large amounts of money, right away, to find out if there really is life on any of these planets or moons. If there is, say we find the fossils of some life form on Mars, I think we need to immediately begin a massive project to search for planets(Hubble-replacement, anyone?) and a larger radio telescope(or array) to search for signals. If life occured two or more separate times in our solar system alone, it would seem to be nearly immpossible that it hasn't occured many times elsewhere. And if it has occured elsewhere, it also nearly nearly immpossible that we are the most advanced civilization in existence(i.e. that no other ETI is out there looking).
If there are any little green men out there, it's our obligation as an intelligent race to try to find them.
I did a search on google, check this out(it's pretty freaky):
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html
The ballot's pretty fucking obvious. The number "3" beside Gore's name makes it pretty fucking clear that you punch the third hole for Gore
That's simply not true. Look here:
Palm Beach Ballot
Also, there were many claims as early as Tuesday night from hundreds Democrats loudly complaining that they tried to vote for Gore but then thought they accidently voted for Buchanan. I heard no such claims from Republicans that night, nor have I since.
First off, the Libertarians get very little press converage because no one is going to vote for them. You may see this as circular reasoning, but Nader is now getting at least some mass media coverage, and Buchanan is getting none. Buchanan was getting significantly more than Nader until everyone realized that Buchanan was polling under 1%, and Nader was polling at 4-7%. Browne will probably get a hell of a lot less votes than even Buchanan. If you're going to ask why Browne doesn't get coverage, at least be fair and ask why the Constitutional, Natural Law and Socialist parties don't get coverage either, since their candidates are probably doing at least as well as Browne.
And as to your second point, I have read and heard a lot of info from Nader, and I like almost all of it. He is very socially liberal, but his economic ideas aren't too nutty(at least not as bad as Browne), and he, unlike Browne, will do something to protect the environment. Stop telling me who I want to vote for when you have no idea where I stand on the issues.
And for a real Libertarian FAQ, check here:
Critiques of Libertarianism
Heh, if it was going for Redmond Gates would probably just personally fund a ship to go up there and take it out. Hell with the kind of money he has, he could get Bruce Willis *and* Robert Duvall, thus having a redundancy of suicidal mission commanders.
here you can find higher quality images you can scale down for your desktop:
p hotos.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2000/34/pr-
No, it means that because the only "logical" way to view a small clump of cells as a human being is if you have a religous belief that God "injects" a soul into the zygote at the instant of conception. Only then can you be so rabidly pro-life as many are.
As someone already told you, you are being much too black and white with this. We all pollute all the time in our everyday lives. If we completely outlaw pollution, we'll have to ban cars, electricity, lawn mowers, flashlights, and farting.
Some amount of pollution by the human race would be acceptable, because the planet is really not that fragile. It's just like drinking: alcohol is poisonous to your body, but if you only have three or four drinks, you'll be OK. If you have 30, you'll die. Does that mean you should never drink anything containing alcohol? No, it means you should drink in moderation. We should pollute in moderation. Some pollution is avoidable, some isn't. Therefore we tax it to try to keep the level to something below planet-killing.
This is a fairly simple concept, and it's too bad that most Libertarians can't understand it.
OK, so we should just let megacompanies pollute to such an extent that we either die of lung cancer or wind up with our homes underwater because of global warming? Ever heard of the tragedy of commons?
All these behaviors we're talking about: polluting, smoking, or even stock market speculation, are examples of the tragedy of commons.
Lets hear your solution to that without taxes or other penalties for the people destroying the commons. And please don't say private ownership of everything unless you are going to suggest a way for me to own and control the air hovering above my house, and to prevent the flood waters of the melted artic ice from destroying my property.
Except that it wasn't under any evolutionary pressure during those 250 million years, so that number doesn't mean very much. In a sense, it's actually had 250 million years less to evolve than every other life form on Earth.
People weren't talking about his accident much afterwards, and I assumed he'd had serious a brain injury or something. I'm really glad he's OK, even if LinuxPPC may have a problem with OS X now on the scene.
If you're interested in this, try reading "Manufacturing Consent" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.
I just did, and it was quite the eye-opener.
Anyone remember "2010", where the Chinese astronauts get killed by the giant underwater monster on Europa? Maybe Clarke knew something we didn't...