I re-write the kernel everytime I turn my machine on, changing memory locations manually with static electricity gathered by rubbing a ballon against my head...
Steve Jobs didn't do squat at Apple except to harass a group of technical geniuses into hacking out a half-assed copy of the Xerox Alto. He was (and still is) a marketing guy. If you want to fawn over him, go ahead. It just proves how powerful his cult of personality had become, before it came crashing down to the real world.
If you want to fawn over someone who matters, try Larry Wall (I think he'd appreciate the humor in that) or Torvalds(almost a Cult leader already).
That's a good idea, but it's like the Go tourney's for computer programs, all it tests is the programs ability to play chess, not the Holy War(tm) that one would hope would arise...
Sounds like FUD to me, I've had a Leatherman Suprertool for years without any trouble at all. Except that time that I was punching a jammed set pin loose with the tiny screwdriver (it worked!). I twisted the end and called up Leatherman, they sent me out a mailer and fixed it in 3 days, even though it was obviously my own stupidity that caused the damage (Of course, I live right here in Portland, shipping time may vary). Don't dis Leatherman, they got it going on. {holy war/}Gerber is a second rate knock-off probably made in Taiwanese sweatshops by underage indentured servants {/holy war}
I bought my copy of Red Hat 5.2 for $1.29 plus shipping (another $2). SCO will sell me a non-commercial disk for $20 plus shipping. They claim it's to cover the cost of the disk. That's fraud. I refuse to believe that copying CDs costs SCO 17x what it costs infomagic.
I bought my copy of Red Hat 5.2 for $1.29 plus shipping (another $2). SCO will sell me a non-commercial disk for $20 plus shipping. They claim it's to cover the cost of the disk. That's fraud. I refuse to believe that copying CDs costs SCO 17x what it costs infomagic.
I think there's a little Ted Kaczinski in all of us, and he's tryin' to get out, if you'll let'em...
The perfect place to for a Weather Dominator(tm)!
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This is precisely the kind of lair that I was looking for to build my Weather Dominator(tm) in. Looks like there is plenty of room to house an army of Fembots(tm), as well. I guess I ought to go get the power cube from the plant people at the north pole now... (guess that reference... if you dare!)
Nobody gives a Rat's ass anymore. The implications that Wild Bill is attacking Serbia to draw attention away from his sexual affairs is ridiculous, because in most American minds, it's a dead issue, AND his approval ratings (pre-bombing campaign) are as strong as the ever were.
Pardon me if I'm beating a dead horse, but can anyone tell me what exactly it is that makes Esther Dyson significant? I understand that she's Freeman Dyson's daughter, but has she done anything to merit being considered part of the Geek Elite? Or is she a scenester, clinging to the status of her dead father? (I assume he's dead, I dunno)
All I've heard anyone ever say about her is some fancy-pants gathering that her company holds every year. That and the odd pundit published in various mainstream news articles.
What did I say, AC? I said that Mac OS X can't run Mac OS apps natively. The impression that I'm getting is that either Mac adovocates can't read, OR they don't know what it means to run a program without some form of f-izz-ucked emulation.
I agree with your assesment of Palm's recent additions to their lines.
I don't agree with your statments about Windows CE. Every quarter, they crash in new and even more unusual ways. Now, you can see what it looks l;ike to crash in color!
The things that matter to me, and I think a lot of people who use handhelds, aren't getting any better on the wince machines i.e. battery life, stability, utility. Color is nice, but it conflicts directly with the battery life thing.
When wince devices meet all my personal criteria for a PDA, I'll buy one. It doesn't look like that's going to happen in any of this years iterations though.
I agree with your assesment of the Hardware. Hardware-wise, Newton was a pig.
Previous posts suggested a Newton-like OS on Palm hardware. That's what I was commenting about.
All I'm saying is that I've wasted much time and money developing for a viable product line that was unceremoniously dropped, even though it had a healthy developer and user base. It didn't have the numbers of the PalmPilot, but then again nothing else does. I'm not going to lift a finger, or drop a dime, to purchase any more development software for an Apple re-marketed Palm.
Nope. Apple refused to sell the Newton technology when they killed it. They spun the division off into it's own company, and then after about 2 months, re-integrated it to kill it off.
I think the powers at Apple are intelligent enough to realize that they ought to do what's best for their product line, even if it means buying processors from Intel (or taking money from Microsoft, oh yeah).
The so-called pissing match between Apple and the Wintel world probably goes over well on the Mac Advocate mailing lists, but the company seems a bit more canny than that, fortunately.
You think that Apple licencsing it's technology to Palm would give Palm a boost? I just don't understand how having access to the losing technology would give the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history any sort of advantage. I love the Newton. I have a 130 and used it quite faithfully until I bought my first Palm. I love the OS, and NewtonScript. The Newton is a pig. It eats batteries like pork rinds. It does a thousand things that I'll never need it to. It runs dog slow with a processor that ought to be able to haul ass. The Palm is a svelt competitor.
You couldn't do it easily. Newton OS is wonderful, I have many expensive books explaining the inner beauty of that platform. In comparison Palm Pilots are severely underpowered.
As for the look, the palm looks very similar already. Making those adjustments would be minor. To do the Newton on the Palm, you'd need a higher res screen to handle scalable fonts and Unicode. The Newton has a lot of on screen widgets and a silk screened area (in the 130). There's no way you could fit all the good stuff in a 160x160 screen without changing it significantly.
The Newton has an excellent object oriented OS, and the hardware was just beginning to rock, but Apple killed without much ado because of Steve Jobs ego.
MacOS is a piece of shit. How about memory protection? Pre-emptive multitasking? This being 1999, shouldn't there be a symmetric multi-processing option? Don't even get me started on the MacOS licensing issue.
And don't throw out any "MacOS X Server does all that in spades" Because Mac OS X Server isn't Mac OS, it's Unix, it can't run any of your current MacOS programs natively.
I'll be damned if I spend another minute learning the intricacies of developing for an Apple handheld. I've already been down that route before. When Apple changes CEO's again, or when that Jackass Jobs realizes that he isn't the one steering palm development, or whatever defvice they settle on, Developers will have a closet full of tools for a non-existent product line.
Don't believe the hype. Remember what happened last time and with what callous disregard Apple discontinued their last handheld line (just as it was starting to really kick ass, I might add).
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>that's nuthin! I swing from vine to vine from my >house to my isp, toggling switches manually at >either end for eatch bit ...
Oh man, you're doing it the hard way! get yourself a 10 ft. pole to toggle the switches like I do. That cuts twenty feet off of your trip!
I re-write the kernel everytime I turn my machine on, changing memory locations manually with static electricity gathered by rubbing a ballon against my head...
And how many CP/M machines have you owned?
Steve Jobs didn't do squat at Apple except to harass a group of technical geniuses into hacking out a half-assed copy of the Xerox Alto. He was (and still is) a marketing guy. If you want to fawn over him, go ahead. It just proves how powerful his cult of personality had become, before it came crashing down to the real world.
If you want to fawn over someone who matters, try Larry Wall (I think he'd appreciate the humor in that) or Torvalds(almost a Cult leader already).
That's a good idea, but it's like the Go tourney's for computer programs, all it tests is the programs ability to play chess, not the Holy War(tm) that one would hope would arise...
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I've got this 72oz coffee cup from 7-11 that might work, if the print was real small...
We're all gonna DIE! Game Over, man! Game Over!
This looks like a class action suit waiting to happen...
Sounds like FUD to me, I've had a Leatherman Suprertool for years without any trouble at all. Except that time that I was punching a jammed set pin loose with the tiny screwdriver (it worked!). I twisted the end and called up Leatherman, they sent me out a mailer and fixed it in 3 days, even though it was obviously my own stupidity that caused the damage (Of course, I live right here in Portland, shipping time may vary). Don't dis Leatherman, they got it going on. {holy war/}Gerber is a second rate knock-off probably made in Taiwanese sweatshops by underage indentured servants {/holy war}
I bought my copy of Red Hat 5.2 for $1.29 plus shipping (another $2). SCO will sell me a non-commercial disk for $20 plus shipping. They claim it's to cover the cost of the disk. That's fraud. I refuse to believe that copying CDs costs SCO 17x what it costs infomagic.
I bought my copy of Red Hat 5.2 for $1.29 plus shipping (another $2). SCO will sell me a non-commercial disk for $20 plus shipping. They claim it's to cover the cost of the disk. That's fraud. I refuse to believe that copying CDs costs SCO 17x what it costs infomagic.
I think there's a little Ted Kaczinski in all of us, and he's tryin' to get out, if you'll let'em...
This is precisely the kind of lair that I was looking for to build my Weather Dominator(tm) in. Looks like there is plenty of room to house an army of Fembots(tm), as well. I guess I ought to go get the power cube from the plant people at the north pole now... (guess that reference... if you dare!)
Nobody gives a Rat's ass anymore. The implications that Wild Bill is attacking Serbia to draw attention away from his sexual affairs is ridiculous, because in most American minds, it's a dead issue, AND his approval ratings (pre-bombing campaign) are as strong as the ever were.
Pardon me if I'm beating a dead horse, but can anyone tell me what exactly it is that makes Esther Dyson significant? I understand that she's Freeman Dyson's daughter, but has she done anything to merit being considered part of the Geek Elite? Or is she a scenester, clinging to the status of her dead father? (I assume he's dead, I dunno)
All I've heard anyone ever say about her is some fancy-pants gathering that her company holds every year. That and the odd pundit published in various mainstream news articles.
Anybody got the lowdown?
If I'm wrong, rebuff me. Last I checked my facts were straight with reality. My opinions are ALWAYS right ^_^
I concur. Apple OS X (it's not Mac, so why call it that) is Unix and thusly rocks. But it ain't Mac OS, that's for damn sure.
What did I say, AC? I said that Mac OS X can't run Mac OS apps natively. The impression that I'm getting is that either Mac adovocates can't read, OR they don't know what it means to run a program without some form of f-izz-ucked emulation.
READ, Please.
Check your shit at the door, imbecile. MacOS X CAN NOT run MacOS programs in native mode.
I agree with your assesment of Palm's recent additions to their lines.
I don't agree with your statments about Windows CE. Every quarter, they crash in new and even more unusual ways. Now, you can see what it looks l;ike to crash in color!
The things that matter to me, and I think a lot of people who use handhelds, aren't getting any better on the wince machines i.e. battery life, stability, utility. Color is nice, but it conflicts directly with the battery life thing.
When wince devices meet all my personal criteria for a PDA, I'll buy one. It doesn't look like that's going to happen in any of this years iterations though.
I agree with your assesment of the Hardware. Hardware-wise, Newton was a pig.
Previous posts suggested a Newton-like OS on Palm hardware. That's what I was commenting about.
All I'm saying is that I've wasted much time and money developing for a viable product line that was unceremoniously dropped, even though it had a healthy developer and user base. It didn't have the numbers of the PalmPilot, but then again nothing else does. I'm not going to lift a finger, or drop a dime, to purchase any more development software for an Apple re-marketed Palm.
Nope. Apple refused to sell the Newton technology when they killed it. They spun the division off into it's own company, and then after about 2 months, re-integrated it to kill it off.
I think the powers at Apple are intelligent enough to realize that they ought to do what's best for their product line, even if it means buying processors from Intel (or taking money from Microsoft, oh yeah).
The so-called pissing match between Apple and the Wintel world probably goes over well on the Mac Advocate mailing lists, but the company seems a bit more canny than that, fortunately.
"A" paper in 10th grade? Maybe at the 'Tard school. Someone ought to ask Lion if he rides the short bus to school...
You think that Apple licencsing it's technology to Palm would give Palm a boost? I just don't understand how having access to the losing technology would give the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history any sort of advantage.
I love the Newton. I have a 130 and used it quite faithfully until I bought my first Palm. I love the OS, and NewtonScript.
The Newton is a pig. It eats batteries like pork rinds. It does a thousand things that I'll never need it to. It runs dog slow with a processor that ought to be able to haul ass. The Palm is a svelt competitor.
You couldn't do it easily. Newton OS is wonderful, I have many expensive books explaining the inner beauty of that platform. In comparison Palm Pilots are severely underpowered.
As for the look, the palm looks very similar already. Making those adjustments would be minor. To do the Newton on the Palm, you'd need a higher res screen to handle scalable fonts and Unicode. The Newton has a lot of on screen widgets and a silk screened area (in the 130). There's no way you could fit all the good stuff in a 160x160 screen without changing it significantly.
The Newton has an excellent object oriented OS, and the hardware was just beginning to rock, but Apple killed without much ado because of Steve Jobs ego.
MacOS is a piece of shit. How about memory protection? Pre-emptive multitasking? This being 1999, shouldn't there be a symmetric multi-processing option? Don't even get me started on the MacOS licensing issue.
And don't throw out any "MacOS X Server does all that in spades" Because Mac OS X Server isn't Mac OS, it's Unix, it can't run any of your current MacOS programs natively.
Apple: Think Twice.
I'll be damned if I spend another minute learning the intricacies of developing for an Apple handheld. I've already been down that route before. When Apple changes CEO's again, or when that Jackass Jobs realizes that he isn't the one steering palm development, or whatever defvice they settle on, Developers will have a closet full of tools for a non-existent product line.
Don't believe the hype. Remember what happened last time and with what callous disregard Apple discontinued their last handheld line (just as it was starting to really kick ass, I might add).
Apple: Think Twice.