I want one! One important question would be whether the modem requires Moto's own service or whether other cable service providers will allow use of this modem in their service. It would suck to only be able to get this kinda thing in certain areas.
You've hit it square on the head. Big-Endian and Little-endian are essentially arbitrary. There may be technical reasons why one is more useful than the other for certain purposes, but considering little-endian "backwards" is just silly.
How much does it support? I would guess USB, ethernet, maybe Modem; what about sound? What graphics modes does it run in? Are there 802.11 implementations for Linux? Would they work with AirPort?
Perhaps the word "dinosaur" was a compliment, as in strong, incredibly adaptable, filling many niches, and ruling the world for 200 million years. Dinosaurs kicked our (mammal) asses, folks. They kept us the size of possums or smaller for millions of years. Comparing PCs to dinosaurs is in no way an insult to PCs. It really bugs me how people misuse the word "dinosaur".
Most Linux users wouldn't buy an OSX layer from Apple, I don't think. Putting it on top of Linux gains them nothing that putting it on top of BSD wouldn't. BSD, while less compatible than linux, and somewhat less user-friendly, is more stable in development (I mean codebase stability, not OS stability) and has better performance in some areas. The Mach microkernel offers significant advantages over the linux kernel for Apple, since Avie is one of the people who created Mach in the first place, and NeXT/OpenStep used Mach primitives in a lot of its low-level stuff. Porting to run on top of linux, unless they brought back mkLinux, would therefore be definitely non-trivial and not necessarily useful.
As for mindshare, Apple is getting plenty. Linux wouldn't help it in it's target market, which is consumers, education, science, and graphics professionals.
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Indeed. Mac OS Rumors is rather unusual among the websites I've visited in that it has acquired a nemesis -- www.mosr.net and a dedicated suck-style parody: Mac OS Rumorz. Basically, they occasionally get a thing or two right, but they're more often wrong than right -- much, much more often.
Sometimes the stuff they post is just plain unbelievable -- like a G4 with the FSB overclocked to 133 running a 666MHz G3. Sound plausible? Might, if not for the fact that the "sawtooth" motherboard doesn't have any FSB-adjusting jumpers or any other way to adjust it, and that no one makes G3s with the proper configuration to fit into the wierd socket on that motherboard.
They also one said that their information came from a "secure video feed" from inside Apple headquarters. Excuse me? What the fuck is a "secure video feed"?
Of course, they might well be completely right about this Crusoe business, just because it seems completely sensible as something Apple might do. They might be great for a Sub-iBook with their low power drain, and according to the Arstechnica review of Crusoe, Transmeta is also working on a version that's designed for performance rather than low power use.
Well, I downloaded it tonight. The installer took an ungodly amount of time, I went out to the store and came back before it was done. My Mac isn't exactly slow, either.
Well, the widgets are improving. Text boxes work better. Still no fscking drag and drop. No scroll bars. Would it kill them to use normall OS features like that? The Scroll bars on the window look OK for mac users using normal-style themes, but I've got a nice-looking NeXT-style theme on mine and I've also got double scroll arrows on each end of the scroll bar. Mozilla's stuff looks ugly as sin in comparison (though not as ugly as windows).
I really have to wonder what the Mozilla teams' aversion is to using normal OS widgets. Sure, you have to have a bit of code divergence. Maybe Windows and Linux users are used to different applications having wildly divergent UIs? I can tell you now, Mac users aren't!
I've tried to use mail and news and I really can't get them to work very well. They obviously don't get preferences from the internet set.I'm assuming that this will be in the release version; if not, they'll really be sacrificing usability for the sacred cow of cross-platform code.
At this moment, that seems to be the basic problem -- if the code is identical between platforms, that means that the browser will behave and look identical between platforms.
Now, cross-platform apps are great. Code should be kept platform-agnostic WHEN it does not sacrifice usability. I believe that if the final version of Mozilla looks like this, it will be largely rejected by end users.
Yes, I know that the appearance is user-configurable with chrome and skins and themes and schemes, and that my own use of a NeXTStep theme on the Mac OS seems to counter my own argument of UI consistency.
But consistency needs to be within an OS, and between appplications. If I apply my NeXT theme, or a brushed metal Quicktime-style theme, or a psychedelic multi-colored theme, or what have you, I want that everywhere! I want things to work the same throughout the OS, because it's easier for me to forget they're there and just USE them.
iCab lets me do that better than any other browser I've ever used. MS IE isn't quite as good, but it's close. Netscape 4 isn't even close. Mozilla. . . *shakes his head sadly*
War of the Worlds did have the martians dying as a result of earthly diseases, but it was never specified what diseases. That was an allegory for malaria, I believe, as the whole book was an allegory for Western Colonialism.
I can't think of any books/movies/short fiction that had the first theme, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Viruses WILL evolve resistance. When there is a selective pressure of the sort that this drug will produce in a human body, either evolution or extinction will result. Given the number of viruses, and their speed of evolution, there's no way that we could drive them to extinction!
Those who say that there's no way for the viruses to evolve resistance because the active site is integral to reproduction are fooling themselves. If a viroid such as Tobacco Mosaic can reproduce as a naked nucleic acid strand, then a virus can find a way to reproduce with a different protein coat.
Viruses evolve faster than any other replicating entity in the biosphere. We can at most hope to enter a red queen's race, in which we run as fast as we can to stay in the same place in regards to our opponents.
Perhaps he meant holistic. Homeopathy is a specific division within holistic medicine. Holistic medicine (treating the person, not the disease) can work well.
I'm not sure what the legal status of "look & feel" is. The Apple vs. MS case was determined on the basis of Apple's licensing fuckup, not on the validity of "look & feel" as intellectual property.
Apple may be trying to protect it's reputation in some way -- if someone downloads a "Mac OS X" skin and finds that it sucks in some way, it may turn them off the actual Mac OS X completely without actually using it. After all, there's no way that a skin can accurately mimic the real way that an OS works.
Does Apple really think that this will do any good? It'll build up resentment, antipathy towards apple among the geek community (as if there wasn't already enough!), slashdotters will mirror the skins by the bazillions and more people may download the skin now than would have otherwise.
Maybe they're thinking that there's no such thing as bad publicity? If so, someone's been hanging out at Pixar too much. It may be true in Hollywood; it's definitely not true in Silicon Valley.
It is not a non-issue. The dialog box is not a solution to a poorly designed interface. Saving is the best choice only if you intended to exit; otherwise, you lose your Undo history. Cancelling is the best choice only if you didn't intend to click the close button; otherwise, it's just a PITA when you do want to exit.
Well, if you exit without saving, you lose your undo history anyway, right? Unless history is saved in the document, although in photoshop et al. I can see why it isn't! (30 GB files, anyone?) Also, most applications only ask you if you want to save if you have any unsaved changes. So it isn't a PITA at all.
I disagree about the close box; at least in the Mac OS the finder has so many windows that you end up using the close box an awful lot.:) (Yeah, I know -- that's why they're updating the finder! Still, some people like having lots of windows.)
On the issue of the left-side stuff -- have you ever used a NeXT/OpenStep machine? You'll note that the scroll bars were on the left! Although it might be a bit disconcerting at first, it's a definite advantage when in Miller Column mode -- you can move continuously accross columns, selecting and scrolling, without having to backtrack with the mouse. There was a forum post at appleinsider a few weeks ago in which the poster had a number of screenshots of the NeXTStep GUI. Here's the link: http://forum.appleinsider.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000725.html The pictures are about halfway down the page. That GUI was a work of ART and I'm glad the MacOS X GUI maintains the level of gorgeousity, even though the two are of distinctly different styles. (Dark, industrial-looking grey and black vs. candy-coated robitussin liqui-gels!)
I have about 5 different CDs I'm planning to buy from MP3.com. . .
If we like the sound of an artist, we should buy their CD. Duh! It's a question of simple morality. It's our choice whether or not to support the artists we like. If we choose not to, there's no guarantee that they will even be around, much less release any more music in MP3 format.
Certain CDs from MP3.com are definitely on my wish list this X-mas.
The title is actually ''Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution''. Hmm, it would have been a better title if they had taken out ''Open Source'' in the subtitle. ''Voices from the Revolution'' has a nice rhythm.
That the FBI considers disagreeing with crypto laws a potential crime is not the most disturbing thing. . . it's that crypto laws seem to make sure that they could find out what he's saying to anyone even if he encrypts it. . .
I believe this was what Neal Stephenson envisioned Hiro and others using in Snow Crash. It's probably the best solution until someone invents a holodeck or a forcefield.
Yeah, I agree. The Seti@home client MUST be opensourced AT ONCE! I mean, we all know what we're doing, right? It's not like we can't figure out an obscure bit of code that does something we don't understand with data that we can't see and produces results that we can't check -- it's just drawring purty pitchurs, ain't it? And HOW DARE those scientists think that they can control the manner in which they analyze their data? Science isn't about control! It's about freedom! Freedom! Freedom! It doesn't matter if they just want to discover something that could change the world. If it ain't open source then it's E-VILLE! Control of data computing methods my ass. Just who do they think they are, rocket scientists?
If "macs are useless" then why do people use them? I guess I've been using useless computers since 1986. . . *sigh* all those wasted years. Why, I could have been using DOS!;)
Seriously, though, macs suck. It's just that IMO, windows sucks about 100x more. Linux sucks less but I don't have the hard drive space. Be sucks still less but it doesn't have the apps I need, nor does it run on my computer.
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Or is the H key an example of western imperialism that you're rebelling against?
I want one! One important question would be whether the modem requires Moto's own service or whether other cable service providers will allow use of this modem in their service. It would suck to only be able to get this kinda thing in certain areas.
You've hit it square on the head. Big-Endian and Little-endian are essentially arbitrary. There may be technical reasons why one is more useful than the other for certain purposes, but considering little-endian "backwards" is just silly.
At least in my opinion. Apple was right to tell those FreeMac people to take their business elsewhere.
Greptile. . . heh.
How much does it support? I would guess USB, ethernet, maybe Modem; what about sound? What graphics modes does it run in? Are there 802.11 implementations for Linux? Would they work with AirPort?
Perhaps the word "dinosaur" was a compliment, as in strong, incredibly adaptable, filling many niches, and ruling the world for 200 million years. Dinosaurs kicked our (mammal) asses, folks. They kept us the size of possums or smaller for millions of years. Comparing PCs to dinosaurs is in no way an insult to PCs. It really bugs me how people misuse the word "dinosaur".
Just in case anyone was confused. Should be funny, not informative.
Most Linux users wouldn't buy an OSX layer from Apple, I don't think. Putting it on top of Linux gains them nothing that putting it on top of BSD wouldn't. BSD, while less compatible than linux, and somewhat less user-friendly, is more stable in development (I mean codebase stability, not OS stability) and has better performance in some areas. The Mach microkernel offers significant advantages over the linux kernel for Apple, since Avie is one of the people who created Mach in the first place, and NeXT/OpenStep used Mach primitives in a lot of its low-level stuff. Porting to run on top of linux, unless they brought back mkLinux, would therefore be definitely non-trivial and not necessarily useful.
As for mindshare, Apple is getting plenty. Linux wouldn't help it in it's target market, which is consumers, education, science, and graphics professionals.
Indeed. Mac OS Rumors is rather unusual among the websites I've visited in that it has acquired a nemesis -- www.mosr.net and a dedicated suck-style parody: Mac OS Rumorz. Basically, they occasionally get a thing or two right, but they're more often wrong than right -- much, much more often.
Sometimes the stuff they post is just plain unbelievable -- like a G4 with the FSB overclocked to 133 running a 666MHz G3. Sound plausible? Might, if not for the fact that the "sawtooth" motherboard doesn't have any FSB-adjusting jumpers or any other way to adjust it, and that no one makes G3s with the proper configuration to fit into the wierd socket on that motherboard.
They also one said that their information came from a "secure video feed" from inside Apple headquarters. Excuse me? What the fuck is a "secure video feed"?
Of course, they might well be completely right about this Crusoe business, just because it seems completely sensible as something Apple might do. They might be great for a Sub-iBook with their low power drain, and according to the Arstechnica review of Crusoe, Transmeta is also working on a version that's designed for performance rather than low power use.
Well, I downloaded it tonight. The installer took an ungodly amount of time, I went out to the store and came back before it was done. My Mac isn't exactly slow, either.
Well, the widgets are improving. Text boxes work better. Still no fscking drag and drop. No scroll bars. Would it kill them to use normall OS features like that? The Scroll bars on the window look OK for mac users using normal-style themes, but I've got a nice-looking NeXT-style theme on mine and I've also got double scroll arrows on each end of the scroll bar. Mozilla's stuff looks ugly as sin in comparison (though not as ugly as windows).
I really have to wonder what the Mozilla teams' aversion is to using normal OS widgets. Sure, you have to have a bit of code divergence. Maybe Windows and Linux users are used to different applications having wildly divergent UIs? I can tell you now, Mac users aren't!
I've tried to use mail and news and I really can't get them to work very well. They obviously don't get preferences from the internet set.I'm assuming that this will be in the release version; if not, they'll really be sacrificing usability for the sacred cow of cross-platform code.
At this moment, that seems to be the basic problem -- if the code is identical between platforms, that means that the browser will behave and look identical between platforms.
Now, cross-platform apps are great. Code should be kept platform-agnostic WHEN it does not sacrifice usability. I believe that if the final version of Mozilla looks like this, it will be largely rejected by end users.
Yes, I know that the appearance is user-configurable with chrome and skins and themes and schemes, and that my own use of a NeXTStep theme on the Mac OS seems to counter my own argument of UI consistency.
But consistency needs to be within an OS, and between appplications. If I apply my NeXT theme, or a brushed metal Quicktime-style theme, or a psychedelic multi-colored theme, or what have you, I want that everywhere! I want things to work the same throughout the OS, because it's easier for me to forget they're there and just USE them.
iCab lets me do that better than any other browser I've ever used. MS IE isn't quite as good, but it's close. Netscape 4 isn't even close. Mozilla. . . *shakes his head sadly*
War of the Worlds did have the martians dying as a result of earthly diseases, but it was never specified what diseases. That was an allegory for malaria, I believe, as the whole book was an allegory for Western Colonialism.
I can't think of any books/movies/short fiction that had the first theme, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Viruses WILL evolve resistance. When there is a selective pressure of the sort that this drug will produce in a human body, either evolution or extinction will result. Given the number of viruses, and their speed of evolution, there's no way that we could drive them to extinction!
Those who say that there's no way for the viruses to evolve resistance because the active site is integral to reproduction are fooling themselves. If a viroid such as Tobacco Mosaic can reproduce as a naked nucleic acid strand, then a virus can find a way to reproduce with a different protein coat.
Viruses evolve faster than any other replicating entity in the biosphere. We can at most hope to enter a red queen's race, in which we run as fast as we can to stay in the same place in regards to our opponents.
Perhaps he meant holistic. Homeopathy is a specific division within holistic medicine. Holistic medicine (treating the person, not the disease) can work well.
I'm not sure what the legal status of "look & feel" is. The Apple vs. MS case was determined on the basis of Apple's licensing fuckup, not on the validity of "look & feel" as intellectual property.
Apple may be trying to protect it's reputation in some way -- if someone downloads a "Mac OS X" skin and finds that it sucks in some way, it may turn them off the actual Mac OS X completely without actually using it. After all, there's no way that a skin can accurately mimic the real way that an OS works.
Does Apple really think that this will do any good? It'll build up resentment, antipathy towards apple among the geek community (as if there wasn't already enough!), slashdotters will mirror the skins by the bazillions and more people may download the skin now than would have otherwise.
Maybe they're thinking that there's no such thing as bad publicity? If so, someone's been hanging out at Pixar too much. It may be true in Hollywood; it's definitely not true in Silicon Valley.
Well, if you exit without saving, you lose your undo history anyway, right? Unless history is saved in the document, although in photoshop et al. I can see why it isn't! (30 GB files, anyone?) Also, most applications only ask you if you want to save if you have any unsaved changes. So it isn't a PITA at all.
I disagree about the close box; at least in the Mac OS the finder has so many windows that you end up using the close box an awful lot. :) (Yeah, I know -- that's why they're updating the finder! Still, some people like having lots of windows.)
On the issue of the left-side stuff -- have you ever used a NeXT/OpenStep machine? You'll note that the scroll bars were on the left! Although it might be a bit disconcerting at first, it's a definite advantage when in Miller Column mode -- you can move continuously accross columns, selecting and scrolling, without having to backtrack with the mouse. There was a forum post at appleinsider a few weeks ago in which the poster had a number of screenshots of the NeXTStep GUI. Here's the link: http://forum.appleinsider .com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000725.html The pictures are about halfway down the page. That GUI was a work of ART and I'm glad the MacOS X GUI maintains the level of gorgeousity, even though the two are of distinctly different styles. (Dark, industrial-looking grey and black vs. candy-coated robitussin liqui-gels!)
Maybe it's just me but doesn't this go against what Free Software is all about?
I have about 5 different CDs I'm planning to buy from MP3.com. . .
If we like the sound of an artist, we should buy their CD. Duh! It's a question of simple morality. It's our choice whether or not to support the artists we like. If we choose not to, there's no guarantee that they will even be around, much less release any more music in MP3 format.
Certain CDs from MP3.com are definitely on my wish list this X-mas.
The title is actually ''Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution''. Hmm, it would have been a better title if they had taken out ''Open Source'' in the subtitle. ''Voices from the Revolution'' has a nice rhythm.
That the FBI considers disagreeing with crypto laws a potential crime is not the most disturbing thing. . . it's that crypto laws seem to make sure that they could find out what he's saying to anyone even if he encrypts it. . .
I believe this was what Neal Stephenson envisioned Hiro and others using in Snow Crash. It's probably the best solution until someone invents a holodeck or a forcefield.
Yeah, I agree. The Seti@home client MUST be opensourced AT ONCE! I mean, we all know what we're doing, right? It's not like we can't figure out an obscure bit of code that does something we don't understand with data that we can't see and produces results that we can't check -- it's just drawring purty pitchurs, ain't it? And HOW DARE those scientists think that they can control the manner in which they analyze their data? Science isn't about control! It's about freedom! Freedom! Freedom! It doesn't matter if they just want to discover something that could change the world. If it ain't open source then it's E-VILLE! Control of data computing methods my ass. Just who do they think they are, rocket scientists?
If "macs are useless" then why do people use them? I guess I've been using useless computers since 1986. . . *sigh* all those wasted years. Why, I could have been using DOS! ;)
Seriously, though, macs suck. It's just that IMO, windows sucks about 100x more. Linux sucks less but I don't have the hard drive space. Be sucks still less but it doesn't have the apps I need, nor does it run on my computer.
And what would Apple be? Or Sun? Who plays the role of Poland or Czechoslovakia?