Apple could do it though if the included an "Apple Only" bios, or made the system non-standard. They could get the cheap Intel comodity hardware, but still maintain their hardware lock in.
You don't have to agree with it to consider it great reading material. As long as it gets you thinking.
I understand your point - but the essay wasen't a thoghtfully considered and honestly examined viewpoint. It was just a mindless 'I hate GWB' rant.
On has to wonder though, if there is a boundy between admiration for a well written argument, and admiration for the argument itself. At some point, the idiodic argument itself overshadows the brilliant writing, and should cause the whole work to be discarded in the minds of the thoughfull.
I recently read a great essay called "The Rise of the Fourth Reich" which compares G.W Bush to Hitler.
Are you that hard up to hate Republicans that you think that compairing them the Third Reich is 'great?' Bush will have faults, but postulating that he will murder million people is going to be one of them.
By your twisted logic, we should do away with vegitarians who love animals, don't drink and are loyal to their mates. After all - the Furher fitst this description.
I have mine as an onbject d'art.
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I mounted a 16K model-100 on the wall - with the powercord hidden by the dry-wall. It has a crappy "Draw-Random-Lines-And-Pereodically-Clear-The-Scre en" basic program. If you hold the space bar down, it shows the time.
It's easily the most facinating thing, for my guests, in my house. It's a reminder to me that computing doesen't have to be high-powered and expensive in order to make our quality of life better.
Side note - the things have a built in 300 Baud modem and a serial port (typical Radio-Shack DIN-5 style), I have another one that I hookup to all the OpenBSD routers/firewalls that I've installed for my clients - the batteries never seem to run out.
I think all.gov and.mil addresses should be changed to.gov.us and.mil.us addresses.
We should leave the.mil namespace alone - so when the Three-Headed Mars Menace takes over our military thought their mind-rays, we can easily find the.mil DNS servers and cover hem with aluminum foil (shinny side out) to keep them under our controll. That and,.mil and.edu is kinda of an homage to the people who helped develope the internet.
Would you like to see a list of homonyms [cooper.com] so you don't make an idiot of yourself in public?
People from 'Kuro5hin' don't have the right to accuse other people of being spelling idiots.
Would you like to see a dictionary so you don't make an idiot of yourself in public? Hint: 'Kuro5hin' isen't in there.
Clippy:"It looks like your Searchig and Replacing!"
Drone421:(Absently talking to Clippy)"Yep, I good go through each one of these.h and.c files and get the BSD copytight out of them - the states wann'a see the source"
Clippy:"Please type your question"
Drone421:"hmmmmmm..." How to I do a global search and replace?
Clippy:"Please choose your Encarta (TM) topic: Harlem Globetrotters, Search and Rescue, or UNIX"
Drone421:"Hmmmm... I think on second thought, I'll ask the Hotmail people how they got rid of all the BSD copyright stuff in their code"
I got hold of an old IBM 'Letter Quality' impact printer and hooked it up to my TRS-80 - I used typing paper; one day, one of my teachers complement me on having the perserverance and skill to use an old typewriter.
Its impressive, sure, but it begs the question: WHY?
The pairing of Apples inexpensive and yet open hardware with the seamless Gome/KDE/Mofif desktop is unbeatable. To add to it - you have all the fun of simulating a three button mouse with waky key-mouse combos - I think A,B,B,A,Left,Right,Start simulates a middle mouse button press.
Habing the kernel be preemptable.. hay look p0rn... will greatly help with the responsivness... Where a good place to get an OpenBSD ISO... of most processes in Linux... XP has a Teletubby interface... thus increasing productivity. Not like those... wow! free cheese... Max 9.0 people who can only do on thing at a time.
There is A SINGLE WINDOWS SYSTEM in the top 50. Why? Beacuase Windows crashes and beacuse Windows has security problems. The rest are all a form of *nix. Nice and stable and secure.
The reasons are complicated, but I suspect it comes down to a form of the British disease
IMHO - Psion dropped the ball when they tried to grab market share by making the money losing Revo. Most Psion users (like me) diden't care what the things cost and would glady have paid the high costs of a product that allowed Psion to make a profit. Simply put - Psion should have played to their strengths: wonderfully built little computers. Palm already had the cheap little organiser market locked up.
I wish Apple would have an option to sell the IMac 2 without the 15" LCD monitor - it would be sorta a rounded Mac Cube. You could hook up Apple 22" cinema display (a bargan for a 22" LCD display) and have an almost silent XWindows terminal that looks preyy cool on your desk.
The 22" Apple display has got to be some sort of loss leader for Apple - most competetors charge about $4000 for the same spec monitor.
Remember... 'Survial of the Fittest' doesn't mean survial of the smartest, or survival of the pleasent. That welfare family down the streat with eight bastard children is more 'fitted' to it's environemnt than the nice couple with two well behaved children.
The more money is going to trickle down to the little guys, read us, to develope more business solutions.
I found this to be true in my consulting business: When I don't have to charge them $250 a seat for Widnows, $400 for MS Office and $250 for various CAL and NT Servers - they tend to spend more money on my cool database applications. Less money going to Billionaire Bill means more for me.
Right. Except when it comes to the treatment of our 'prisoners of war'. Then, we are suddenly not at war.
Actually, acording to the Geneva convention - they are captured "Unlawfull Combatants." The Geneva convention makes a distinction between a obvious soldier dressed in a military ragealia and a spy/sabatour dressed in civilian clothing. The former get Geneva POW treatment, the later get close to nothing under the Geneva convention.
Cost of 10 good Intel machines to install Linux on... trivial (pobably about $15,000)...
Cost of 10 good Highend Macs, (about $30,000)...
Another thing to consider: If you use a cluster of Macs for a year - you could resell them and recoup most of your hardware costs. Beige x86 boxes sink in resell value much faster than the shiny Apple boxes do.
Of course, I could point out that nothing stops a Linux virus e-mailing your directories, either.
There are many hurdles to a Linux Virus:
1) Mircosoft programers aren't smart enough to make a Linux virus. Unix programmers are too busy making money, driving fast cars and picking up the babes to bother maing a virus.
2) Any Linux virus would have to come with it's own libraries, or at least come in a SuSE and Red Hat Version.
3) GNU/Virus doesent have a good ring to it.
4) The BSD Ports system would make any Linux virus delivery system obsolete.
5) There is no version of Outlook for Linux.
6) A Linux virus coulden't statically link to some libraries - it might violate the GPL and we couldent have that.
7) Linux users don't have many contacts in their address books, due to their bathing habits.
There were a bunch of little twerp 'round here that sodomised a lady with a hot curling iron and left her for dead. It would be in our best interests if our court system offed them - and their parants as well.
Almost no other country in the world does that.
And most of the rest of the world sucks - Except for parts of Asia and Europe, and a tiny part of North Africa.
I was wiring a 3 phase 220 outlet and I got hit with 220.
Jesus - be carefull with this stuff!
I'm a smart geek - so I figgured that I could wire 220 -- 'just like 110, just with higher voltage.' Woops. Please if any of you fellow geeks get the idea that wiring 220 is just like 110, only stronger - PLEASE CURL UP ONE LATE EVENING WITH A GOOD ELECTRICIAN'S BOOK AND READ IT. I think my genetals are ok now, and the twitching has mostly gone down when I take the pills, but please, don't make Sally Stuthers sad.
Jeepers, it's the "memory is cheap" nonsense again.
Just because an app is large, doesen't nesessarly mean that it's data structres don't fit in cach well, and doesen't mean it's slow. Case in point: Databases with an index take up more memory than ones without indexes but are substantially faster in execution speed.
Granted, a 500K 'hello world' in X11 does raise some eyebrows - but I still like it better than a 10K Win32 executable that's linked to Windows-DLL-Hell - and subsequently crashes.
You deride the 'memory is cheap' as nonsense - but the argument can be valid in some circumstances. I wrote a crappy database for a customer, and it mad more sense for me to throw $200 of memory at the server than waste a day trying to attempt to optimise the querys - and making matanence of the database difficult to boot.
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What do you call a cluster of Windows machines
when they Blue Screen?????
A Cluster Fuck?
(if you diden't know what it ment, then you woulden't be offended)
Don't be too hard on Blizzard themselves. It's all Vivendi's fault.
'I vas only following mein orders'
Blizzard, and it's employees, are to blame just as much as their parent company - unless they take action and distance themselves from Vivendi.
OS X for Intel would be a death sentence, either
Apple could do it though if the included an "Apple Only" bios, or made the system non-standard. They could get the cheap Intel comodity hardware, but still maintain their hardware lock in.
You don't have to agree with it to consider it great reading material. As long as it gets you thinking.
I understand your point - but the essay wasen't a thoghtfully considered and honestly examined viewpoint. It was just a mindless 'I hate GWB' rant.
On has to wonder though, if there is a boundy between admiration for a well written argument, and admiration for the argument itself. At some point, the idiodic argument itself overshadows the brilliant writing, and should cause the whole work to be discarded in the minds of the thoughfull.
I recently read a great essay called "The Rise of the Fourth Reich" which compares G.W Bush to Hitler.
Are you that hard up to hate Republicans that you think that compairing them the Third Reich is 'great?' Bush will have faults, but postulating that he will murder million people is going to be one of them.
By your twisted logic, we should do away with vegitarians who love animals, don't drink and are loyal to their mates. After all - the Furher fitst this description.
I mounted a 16K model-100 on the wall - with the powercord hidden by the dry-wall. It has a crappy "Draw-Random-Lines-And-Pereodically-Clear-The-Scr
It's easily the most facinating thing, for my guests, in my house. It's a reminder to me that computing doesen't have to be high-powered and expensive in order to make our quality of life better.
Side note - the things have a built in 300 Baud modem and a serial port (typical Radio-Shack DIN-5 style), I have another one that I hookup to all the OpenBSD routers/firewalls that I've installed for my clients - the batteries never seem to run out.
I think all .gov and .mil addresses should be changed to .gov.us and .mil.us addresses.
.mil namespace alone - so when the Three-Headed Mars Menace takes over our military thought their mind-rays, we can easily find the .mil DNS servers and cover hem with aluminum foil (shinny side out) to keep them under our controll. That and, .mil and .edu is kinda of an homage to the people who helped develope the internet.
We should leave the
Would you like to see a list of homonyms [cooper.com] so you don't make an idiot of yourself in public?
People from 'Kuro5hin' don't have the right to accuse other people of being spelling idiots.
Would you like to see a dictionary so you don't make an idiot of yourself in public? Hint: 'Kuro5hin' isen't in there.
Clippy:"It looks like your Searchig and Replacing!"
Drone421:(Absently talking to Clippy)"Yep, I good go through each one of these
Clippy:"Please type your question"
Drone421:"hmmmmmm..." How to I do a global search and replace?
Clippy:"Please choose your Encarta (TM) topic: Harlem Globetrotters, Search and Rescue, or UNIX"
Drone421:"Hmmmm... I think on second thought, I'll ask the Hotmail people how they got rid of all the BSD copyright stuff in their code"
I got hold of an old IBM 'Letter Quality' impact printer and hooked it up to my TRS-80 - I used typing paper; one day, one of my teachers complement me on having the perserverance and skill to use an old typewriter.
Its impressive, sure, but it begs the question: WHY?
The pairing of Apples inexpensive and yet open hardware with the seamless Gome/KDE/Mofif desktop is unbeatable. To add to it - you have all the fun of simulating a three button mouse with waky key-mouse combos - I think A,B,B,A,Left,Right,Start simulates a middle mouse button press.
Just kidding.
Habing the kernel be preemptable.. hay look p0rn... will greatly help with the responsivness... Where a good place to get an OpenBSD ISO... of most processes in Linux... XP has a Teletubby interface... thus increasing productivity. Not like those... wow! free cheese... Max 9.0 people who can only do on thing at a time.
function bob( varlist ) { $var = $joe + 12345; return $var; }
.02}
.02
I write code all the time that has excess variables declarred - the help document the code. Consider:
Efficient:
function x( imput) { return gf(imput) +
Manintainable:
funcion DetermineTaxRate ( City) {
RTATaxRate =
TotalWholesaleTax = RTATaxRate + CityTax(City)
Return TotalWholesaleTax
}
A few well known variable names help with mantance. Computers are cheap - I'm not, so ease of mantanace is in my customers best interest.
the ONLY reason Code Red and other such worms exist is because of the popularity if the windows platform
Apache has twice the market share of Windows IIS - and has half the exploits. Take a look at the Netcraft uptimes at http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html . Notice any thing?
There is A SINGLE WINDOWS SYSTEM in the top 50. Why? Beacuase Windows crashes and beacuse Windows has security problems. The rest are all a form of *nix. Nice and stable and secure.
The reasons are complicated, but I suspect it comes down to a form of the British disease
IMHO - Psion dropped the ball when they tried to grab market share by making the money losing Revo. Most Psion users (like me) diden't care what the things cost and would glady have paid the high costs of a product that allowed Psion to make a profit. Simply put - Psion should have played to their strengths: wonderfully built little computers. Palm already had the cheap little organiser market locked up.
I wish Apple would have an option to sell the IMac 2 without the 15" LCD monitor - it would be sorta a rounded Mac Cube. You could hook up Apple 22" cinema display (a bargan for a 22" LCD display) and have an almost silent XWindows terminal that looks preyy cool on your desk.
The 22" Apple display has got to be some sort of loss leader for Apple - most competetors charge about $4000 for the same spec monitor.
Remember... 'Survial of the Fittest' doesn't mean survial of the smartest, or survival of the pleasent. That welfare family down the streat with eight bastard children is more 'fitted' to it's environemnt than the nice couple with two well behaved children.
The more money is going to trickle down to the little guys, read us, to develope more business solutions.
I found this to be true in my consulting business: When I don't have to charge them $250 a seat for Widnows, $400 for MS Office and $250 for various CAL and NT Servers - they tend to spend more money on my cool database applications. Less money going to Billionaire Bill means more for me.
Right. Except when it comes to the treatment of our 'prisoners of war'. Then, we are suddenly not at war.
Actually, acording to the Geneva convention - they are captured "Unlawfull Combatants." The Geneva convention makes a distinction between a obvious soldier dressed in a military ragealia and a spy/sabatour dressed in civilian clothing. The former get Geneva POW treatment, the later get close to nothing under the Geneva convention.
Cost of 10 good Intel machines to install Linux on... trivial (pobably about $15,000)...
Cost of 10 good Highend Macs, (about $30,000)...
Another thing to consider: If you use a cluster of Macs for a year - you could resell them and recoup most of your hardware costs. Beige x86 boxes sink in resell value much faster than the shiny Apple boxes do.
Of course, I could point out that nothing stops a Linux virus e-mailing your directories, either.
There are many hurdles to a Linux Virus:
1) Mircosoft programers aren't smart enough to make a Linux virus. Unix programmers are too busy making money, driving fast cars and picking up the babes to bother maing a virus.
2) Any Linux virus would have to come with it's own libraries, or at least come in a SuSE and Red Hat Version.
3) GNU/Virus doesent have a good ring to it.
4) The BSD Ports system would make any Linux virus delivery system obsolete.
5) There is no version of Outlook for Linux.
6) A Linux virus coulden't statically link to some libraries - it might violate the GPL and we couldent have that.
7) Linux users don't have many contacts in their address books, due to their bathing habits.
something which popped up every 1000 key strokes (or whatever) reminding you to give you wrists a rest.
.jpg files viewed, reminding you to give your wrists a rest. Wink Wink. You know what I mean.
Howabout, Something wich popped up every 100
but they [children] can be sentenced to death.
And the problem with that is?
There were a bunch of little twerp 'round here that sodomised a lady with a hot curling iron and left her for dead. It would be in our best interests if our court system offed them - and their parants as well.
Almost no other country in the world does that.
And most of the rest of the world sucks - Except for parts of Asia and Europe, and a tiny part of North Africa.
I was wiring a 3 phase 220 outlet and I got hit with 220.
Jesus - be carefull with this stuff!
I'm a smart geek - so I figgured that I could wire 220 -- 'just like 110, just with higher voltage.' Woops. Please if any of you fellow geeks get the idea that wiring 220 is just like 110, only stronger - PLEASE CURL UP ONE LATE EVENING WITH A GOOD ELECTRICIAN'S BOOK AND READ IT. I think my genetals are ok now, and the twitching has mostly gone down when I take the pills, but please, don't make Sally Stuthers sad.
Jeepers, it's the "memory is cheap" nonsense again.
Just because an app is large, doesen't nesessarly mean that it's data structres don't fit in cach well, and doesen't mean it's slow. Case in point: Databases with an index take up more memory than ones without indexes but are substantially faster in execution speed.
Granted, a 500K 'hello world' in X11 does raise some eyebrows - but I still like it better than a 10K Win32 executable that's linked to Windows-DLL-Hell - and subsequently crashes.
You deride the 'memory is cheap' as nonsense - but the argument can be valid in some circumstances. I wrote a crappy database for a customer, and it mad more sense for me to throw $200 of memory at the server than waste a day trying to attempt to optimise the querys - and making matanence of the database difficult to boot.