Steve's rationale for this, according to a buddy of mine who works at Apple, is that the credit lists are never complete and are generally dictated by whoever is writing the credit code, so some deserving people get left out. Appearantly Steve sent all the employees a memo to this effect.
Course, the OS 8 credit easter egg with the names of the engineers who laid off in the massacre of '96 was pretty damn cool.
The total collapse of the discredited evolutionary "theory" was the first big public wake-up call,
What events constituted the collapse of the theory of evolution?
I'm not trying to troll or start a flame war, I really am curious. The public perception of evolution as a theory often differs wildly from the rather conservative notions of the actual text of the theory as written by Darwin, and I've often noticed that observations and explanations which are claimed to discredit evolution are actually aimed at the perception rather than the theory itself.
I really hope you respond, because in recent years my parents - after encouraging my interests in science throughout my childhood and adolescence - have developed a fascination with creation science, but can't explain their precepts well due to a difference in the focus of their educations. I would really like to understand what they believe, and I have a feeling that understanding what you're saying here would help me understand them.
As it's been well-explained above, the economic realities of the situation make consumer pirating in lieu of purchase unfeasible. Equally, it does little to aid commercial DVD pirates.
However, it opens access by a technologically savvy, notoriously stubborn group of people with a higher-than-normal percentage of disposable income (Us. The Linux community.) to their product.
Unfortunately, they will likely do something very reactionary and stupid, and will sell more DVDs regardless.
At least one of the planes at the end of the circular terminal is a McDonnell Douglas DC9. The engines on a DC9 aren't longer than 2 or 3 meters, yet they seem to be between 4 and 6 pixels in length.
It must be like DSL, where they gaurantee [sp] a certain minimum performance, and then routinely deliver in excess of it.
If there is actually a second video chipset, you should be able to. One of the things that the MacOS excels at is dual monitor support at multiple resolutions.
Because when MacOS 9 ships in a few weeks, it'll have Sherlock 2.
Sherlock 2 has internet search categories, like people, and news, and auctions.
Tell it you want to search for auctions of rare mono The Who vinyl, (to send to your good buddy Rob) and it'll find them for you, on eBay, on Yahoo, on Amazon, ect. It'll tell you the current bids and how long they have to run.
I think they're just upset because someone else is grabbing impressions with their content. I probably would be to.
of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small, unregarded, yellow sun...
I can keep that up for hours.
Seriously, I have been waiting 12 years for this. I've tried to build it several times myself. Once as a BASIC program, once as a HyperCard stack (a buddy of mine still has that little chunk of insanity on a Newton in a drawer somewhere.) Recently, when I was drunk, I've given thought to doing it in HTML.
Glad to see Douglas is having a go at it.
(I still keep in towel in my car. I'm comfortable with how big a geek that proves me to be.)
Don Negro
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I guess they missed the whole post-moderation aspect of/., not to mention they got the definition of 'slashdot' wrong.
Also, and non-practicing 'trained and professional journalist', I can say that 'journalistic integrity' is 99% of the time, simply and excuse to tell people to fuck off.
The truly unbiased journalist has never been invented, as heretofore they have all been somewhat-recognizably human.
AFAIK, it's not so much an emulator as a run-time environment that accesses the MacOS ROMs from within BeOS/LinuxPPC. So, essentially, you're running the MacOS in a window, not emulating the API calls.
M$ was one of the CHRP partners, along with IBM, Moto, Apple and others. Their part of the bargain was to port NT4 to PPC.
They never did. (Needless to say.)
That's part of why Mac cloning died the horrible death it did. All the companies weren't intended to be competing solely for the Mac market, they were supposed to go after the NT market as well.
As to why they didn't, one-word guess. Intel.
I'd imagine the concept of competing against a (let's face it ) better architecture pushed by Big Blue *and* Moto (this is back in '94, when Somerset was kicking ass and taking names) scared Andy Grove shitless.
God only knows what he offered Bill in exchange for killing the PPC port.
Anyway, that's the skinny on that. Any further details from people in the know are, of course, appreciated.
I took Ed Nather's Astronomy in Science Fiction class at UT in the spring of 1997.
God, was that man cool.
I had previously read The Story of Mel, but it wasn't until just now that I put the two together.
He got his Bacherlors in 1947, and his Doctorate in 1972 (I had a bad habit of checking out my prof's credentials). I always meant to ask him what he did for those 25 years; now I guess I know.
Call me crazy, but maybe trying to make Rob Malda look stupid is the wrong thing to be doing with your.sig around here. Hard to believe, but some of the regulars are a little protective of the guy.
Equally bad would be 'Alan Cox - you are what you eat' and 'Linus fscks penguins.'
The subject says it all. That's why Apple had to buy out PowerComputing when it did. If the PowerTower Pro G3 had been released, Apple would have sold about 1/4 the G3s that they did. Here's why: 1) The PTP G3 was based on a Tsunami logic board, like the one in the 9600/300 and/350. The PowerMac G3 was based on the Gossamer logic board. The Gossamer board had a 66Mhz main bus and 3 PCI slots, the Tsunami, while only running at 50Mhz on the main bus, had 6 PCI slots.
2) Like all the other Power machines, it would have been cheaper.
Thus, every G3 sold to a high-end customer (which are the ones who needed the power offered by the G3 chip), would have come from PowerComputing. And if Apple matched them on price, they'd have made much less profit than they would have otherwise. That would have been disasterous. Here's why: Apple's comeback strategy as laid down by Gil Amelio (who's whiny but a generally competant manager and a very good engineer) was entirely based around the G3, which was the best selling computer in Apple history until the iMac (which is itself a form of G3). The incredible speed inherant in the chip's architecture allows for faster computation at lower speeds than the 604e that the previous generation of PMs and PTPs had been based on, and that means easier engineering (which is cheaper, allowing higher margins) and, above all, cheaper cache memory. The 604e/350 and the G3/233 both had 512k backside cache running at 2:1, and memory that can handle 117 Mhz I/O is way the hell cheaper and easier to come by than memory that can handle 175Mhz I/O. Again, higher margins, more profit. Apple pulled out of it's profitability nosedive by the skin of it's teeth. Without every last bit of cash that they made off the first G3s, Apple probably wouldn't exist today. Certainly, they wouldn't be an independant company.
So, that's why Apple had to buy PowerComputing, and why they did so when they did. Neither UMAX nor Motorola nor Daystar was planning to release a G3 based machine until after their contracts were to come up for renewal, but Power was, and so *had* to be dealt with in the short term. All Steve Khang, the CEO of PowerComputing, wanted to to make some quick money and get back to making Wintel machines (he was the engineer who designed the Leading Edge clone back in the 80's). So, when Apple offered 200 mil, he and the board took it and ran. Most of the rest of the Power execs used the experience to springboard themselves into better jobs elsewhere. Joel Koher, then Power president, is now CEO of MicronPC, for instance.
ASCAP is a little more old-school and technophobic that BMI, which is why my songs are represented by BMI. They at least seem to *want* to have a clue.
In the publicity photos I've seen, he looks like the young Steve, especially in the bowtie get-up like the one Steve wore to the original Mac presentation. I'm wondering, however, if Wiley will be able to duplicate that 'I am the baddest motherfucker alive' expession Steve had on his face that day. If you haven't ever seen that, see if you can dig up a movie of it somewhere on the net.
It's the perfect picture of a 27-year old who was quite convinced that he was truly the shit.
Without/., I might actually get some work accomplished. As it is I just reload about 30 times a day. This is by far the best site on the web, and I'm proud to be even a tiny little part of it. I just wish I'd gotten off my ass sooner and gotten an account. As it happened I was 70 to late to get a 3-digit one.
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Steve's rationale for this, according to a buddy of mine who works at Apple, is that the credit lists are never complete and are generally dictated by whoever is writing the credit code, so some deserving people get left out. Appearantly Steve sent all the employees a memo to this effect.
Course, the OS 8 credit easter egg with the names of the engineers who laid off in the massacre of '96 was pretty damn cool.
Don Negro
The total collapse of the discredited evolutionary "theory" was the first big public wake-up call,
What events constituted the collapse of the theory of evolution?
I'm not trying to troll or start a flame war, I really am curious. The public perception of evolution as a theory often differs wildly from the rather conservative notions of the actual text of the theory as written by Darwin, and I've often noticed that observations and explanations which are claimed to discredit evolution are actually aimed at the perception rather than the theory itself.
I really hope you respond, because in recent years my parents - after encouraging my interests in science throughout my childhood and adolescence - have developed a fascination with creation science, but can't explain their precepts well due to a difference in the focus of their educations. I would really like to understand what they believe, and I have a feeling that understanding what you're saying here would help me understand them.
Don Negro
I know that their rendering farm is comprised of Sun boxen, but that's about all I know.
Don Negro
Why?
As it's been well-explained above, the economic realities of the situation make consumer pirating in lieu of purchase unfeasible. Equally, it does little to aid commercial DVD pirates.
However, it opens access by a technologically savvy, notoriously stubborn group of people with a higher-than-normal percentage of disposable income (Us. The Linux community.) to their product.
Unfortunately, they will likely do something very reactionary and stupid, and will sell more DVDs regardless.
Don Negro
Courtesy of Cornell University
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/ch22.html
Don Negro
At least one of the planes at the end of the circular terminal is a McDonnell Douglas DC9. The engines on a DC9 aren't longer than 2 or 3 meters, yet they seem to be between 4 and 6 pixels in length.
It must be like DSL, where they gaurantee [sp] a certain minimum performance, and then routinely deliver in excess of it.
Don Negro
Jane's is about as authoritative as it comes.
Don Negro
If there is actually a second video chipset, you should be able to. One of the things that the MacOS excels at is dual monitor support at multiple resolutions.
Because when MacOS 9 ships in a few weeks, it'll have Sherlock 2.
Sherlock 2 has internet search categories, like people, and news, and auctions.
Tell it you want to search for auctions of rare mono The Who vinyl, (to send to your good buddy Rob) and it'll find them for you, on eBay, on Yahoo, on Amazon, ect. It'll tell you the current bids and how long they have to run.
I think they're just upset because someone else is grabbing impressions with their content. I probably would be to.
Don Negro
of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small, unregarded, yellow sun...
I can keep that up for hours.
Seriously, I have been waiting 12 years for this. I've tried to build it several times myself. Once as a BASIC program, once as a HyperCard stack (a buddy of mine still has that little chunk of insanity on a Newton in a drawer somewhere.) Recently, when I was drunk, I've given thought to doing it in HTML.
Glad to see Douglas is having a go at it.
(I still keep in towel in my car. I'm comfortable with how big a geek that proves me to be.)
Don Negro
Typos a-plenty, flame away.
Don Negro
I guess they missed the whole post-moderation aspect of /., not to mention they got the definition of 'slashdot' wrong.
Also, and non-practicing 'trained and professional journalist', I can say that 'journalistic integrity' is 99% of the time, simply and excuse to tell people to fuck off.
The truly unbiased journalist has never been invented, as heretofore they have all been somewhat-recognizably human.
Don Negro
AFAIK, it's not so much an emulator as a run-time environment that accesses the MacOS ROMs from within BeOS/LinuxPPC. So, essentially, you're running the MacOS in a window, not emulating the API calls.
Don Negro
M$ was one of the CHRP partners, along with IBM, Moto, Apple and others. Their part of the bargain was to port NT4 to PPC.
They never did. (Needless to say.)
That's part of why Mac cloning died the horrible death it did. All the companies weren't intended to be competing solely for the Mac market, they were supposed to go after the NT market as well.
As to why they didn't, one-word guess. Intel.
I'd imagine the concept of competing against a (let's face it ) better architecture pushed by Big Blue *and* Moto (this is back in '94, when Somerset was kicking ass and taking names) scared Andy Grove shitless.
God only knows what he offered Bill in exchange for killing the PPC port.
Anyway, that's the skinny on that. Any further details from people in the know are, of course, appreciated.
Don Negro
Can you imagine ProTools/24 with the 888 and having it not being dragged down by MacOS or *shudder* NT.
I'll take it a step further. Let's say a 4-way SMP G3 ProTools for LinuxPPC Digital Audio Workstation.
I won't even get into the G4 or what a 128-bit Altivec unit could do for ProTools.
God, I'm getting the shakes just thinking about it.
Don Negro
Well Done.
Don Negro
I took Ed Nather's Astronomy in Science Fiction class at UT in the spring of 1997.
God, was that man cool.
I had previously read The Story of Mel, but it wasn't until just now that I put the two together.
He got his Bacherlors in 1947, and his Doctorate in 1972 (I had a bad habit of checking out my prof's credentials). I always meant to ask him what he did for those 25 years; now I guess I know.
Check out Ed's work with the Whole Earth Telescope sometime. It's pretty cool.
Don Negro
They're black.
Don Negro
Why, yes, I believe it could.
.sig around here. Hard to believe, but some of the regulars are a little protective of the guy.
.sig.
Call me crazy, but maybe trying to make Rob Malda look stupid is the wrong thing to be doing with your
Equally bad would be 'Alan Cox - you are what you eat' and 'Linus fscks penguins.'
If you want to be taken seriously, get a new
Mine's not that great, but it's not flamebait.
Don Negro
The subject says it all. That's why Apple had to buy out PowerComputing when it did. If the PowerTower Pro G3 had been released, Apple would have sold about 1/4 the G3s that they did. Here's why: /350. The PowerMac G3 was based on the Gossamer logic board. The Gossamer board had a 66Mhz main bus and 3 PCI slots, the Tsunami, while only running at 50Mhz on the main bus, had 6 PCI slots.
1) The PTP G3 was based on a Tsunami logic board, like the one in the 9600/300 and
2) Like all the other Power machines, it would have been cheaper.
Thus, every G3 sold to a high-end customer (which are the ones who needed the power offered by the G3 chip), would have come from PowerComputing. And if Apple matched them on price, they'd have made much less profit than they would have otherwise. That would have been disasterous. Here's why:
Apple's comeback strategy as laid down by Gil Amelio (who's whiny but a generally competant manager and a very good engineer) was entirely based around the G3, which was the best selling computer in Apple history until the iMac (which is itself a form of G3). The incredible speed inherant in the chip's architecture allows for faster computation at lower speeds than the 604e that the previous generation of PMs and PTPs had been based on, and that means easier engineering (which is cheaper, allowing higher margins) and, above all, cheaper cache memory. The 604e/350 and the G3/233 both had 512k backside cache running at 2:1, and memory that can handle 117 Mhz I/O is way the hell cheaper and easier to come by than memory that can handle 175Mhz I/O. Again, higher margins, more profit. Apple pulled out of it's profitability nosedive by the skin of it's teeth. Without every last bit of cash that they made off the first G3s, Apple probably wouldn't exist today. Certainly, they wouldn't be an independant company.
So, that's why Apple had to buy PowerComputing, and why they did so when they did. Neither UMAX nor Motorola nor Daystar was planning to release a G3 based machine until after their contracts were to come up for renewal, but Power was, and so *had* to be dealt with in the short term. All Steve Khang, the CEO of PowerComputing, wanted to to make some quick money and get back to making Wintel machines (he was the engineer who designed the Leading Edge clone back in the 80's). So, when Apple offered 200 mil, he and the board took it and ran. Most of the rest of the Power execs used the experience to springboard themselves into better jobs elsewhere. Joel Koher, then Power president, is now CEO of MicronPC, for instance.
So now you know.
Don Negro
Check out U.S. Code Title 17.
As you can see, they mention ASCAP specifically.
ASCAP is a little more old-school and technophobic that BMI, which is why my songs are represented by BMI. They at least seem to *want* to have a clue.
Don Nego
In the publicity photos I've seen, he looks like the young Steve, especially in the bowtie get-up like the one Steve wore to the original Mac presentation. I'm wondering, however, if Wiley will be able to duplicate that 'I am the baddest motherfucker alive' expession Steve had on his face that day. If you haven't ever seen that, see if you can dig up a movie of it somewhere on the net.
It's the perfect picture of a 27-year old who was quite convinced that he was truly the shit.
Don Negro
The National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA and Air Force, among other things, also created the NSA.
I could be wrong about this, does anybody know for sure?
Don Negro
Without /., I might actually get some work accomplished. As it is I just reload about 30 times a day.
This is by far the best site on the web, and I'm proud to be even a tiny little part of it. I just wish I'd gotten off my ass sooner and gotten an account. As it happened I was 70 to late to get a 3-digit one.
I say one billion on or about 9/2/01.
Don Negro
Bring your fat capital and keep this boomtown rolling. It kicks ass around here.
Don Negro