One strike against AJAX is that search engines won't be able to see any of your 'dynamic' content. Sure, you can code around it by providing static links to the same content, but it's something to keep in mind.
I don't know very much about this stuff, but shouldn't "Wine" be able to run under OS X on Intel? Wouldn't you potentially be able to run Windows apps inside OS X?
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions. A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.
So, when Apple says, "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac", this is no different then the current situation...
So, the question becomes, will they prevent OS X from booting on a stock x86 box using some combination of hardware and encryption?
I think everyone realizes that any copy-protection scheme the come up with will eventually be cracked. Apple is not stupid, they might just say in the SLA that you have to run OS X on Apple-labeled computers... Anyone not running it on non-Apple boxes is breaking their license.
In fact, I think it's rather admirable of Apple to do this - they are *clearly* shooting sales of current gen systems in the foot (who wants to buy this stuff when the new things are right around the corner?) but they are giving their customers fair warning
I'm thinking that it must have been a lose-lose situation anyway. Apple probably to a look at what IBM could offer in the next 12-18 months in terms of G5 speed increases, and determined that IBM was going nowhere fast... With all the new gaming platforms using PPC, I'm pretty sure the IBM's focus isn't on making faster G5 desktop chips for Apple.
On the other hand, Apple will be supporting PPC for a long time. And, who's to say that they won't make new PPC Macs in the future if IBM gets their act together and comes up with a kick-ass laptop chip.
Well, let's take Apple stock for example. Pick any time-frame over the last year and Apple stock would have been at a 52 week high. Today it's at $83, a new 52 week high. Yesterday it was at $81, also a new 52 week high.
Everyone is kicking themselves for not buying at 16, 20, 24, etc... But, if you bought at $60 you still would have made gains. So, who's the bigger dummy: The person who didn't but at all, or the person who bought at $60?
You don't buy a stock because "it's cheap". You buy it because you believe in the company, and you think that it's value will increase in the future.
I disagree with the parent comment. I don't feel Pat's comments reflect a "Benevolent Dictator" attitude at all. And, it's silly to think that the owner of a project could, or indeed should, distance themselves personally from their project...
Here is the quote from the changelog: And about my status... I didn't want to have to bring this up again, but since a lot of people are under the impression that I've recovered and I'm just fine (and are beginning to make the usual demands of my time;-), I'd better clarify what's going on. Especially since I'm not exactly fine.
Most open-source project owners don't work on their projects full time. It would be great if they could, but it's more like a really, really time consuming hobby. And, you don't realize just how demanding it can be until you're a project owner yourself.
There are many ways in which project and owner are intertwine. Half the project owner's job involves the usual stuff which you would expect: programming, packaging the distributions, fixing bugs, determining what features/functions to include, etc... But the other half involves lots and lots communication.
Like it or not, the project owner is the face of the project. He/She gets (and hopefully answers) all the user emails, questions, coordinate sub-projects, etc... A good owner is always visible and doesn't work in a vacuum. If this makes him/her a benevolent dictator, then so be it (...jedi.)
All of these tasks are demands placed on the owner for his/her time. If there are situations in the owner's life that are effecting the quantity or quality of his time (i.e. health problems, busy at work, changing jobs, having a baby, going on vacation) then he owes to the users to make this knowledge public.
Would I have gone into so much detail? Probably not. (But, since he was flamed so badly last time he commented on his health, he's just trying to be thorough...)
Is the changelog the best forum to do this? Maybe. How many changelogs do you normally read? And would you have paid attention if it wasn't front page on SlashDot?
It's too bad that neither film is based on the LEGACY OF HEOROT by Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, and Jerry Pournelle. I really enjoyed this book when I read it, but it's been a while.
...Also, the Option key with the arrow keys will move the insertion point one WORD at a time. (And, holding down the Shift key with select text. So Shift-Option-right-arrow will high-light the next word in the line...)
Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.
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There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.
I call bullshit! The whole damn thing is unlikely. The quote (attributed to some mystery person?) sounds exactly like it was written by a copywriter.
Here's why:
1) How often have you said, or written, "and to my delight" normal correspondence? Or "and to my delight" for that matter... (Even if you are from the UK...)
2) How many Mac users would use "genuine", "trustworthy" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence?
3) A Mac user would most likely say "double-clicked" instead of "I clicked on the installer file".
4) This quote has no attributable source. Who said this?
Universities have seen all forms of gov't grants diminish. It's hard for universities to get funding for research. Why is funding shrinking? G. W. Bush thinks that private companies should be picking up the tab...
So, unless you're researching something that Monsanto (or any other large corporation) is interested in, you're going to have a hard time finding grants. This is the sad truth.
I think if I lived in Boston, I would probably feel a little deceived. However, I don't think what this guy's doing is a huge deal. I mean he's in Boston for most of the year and in the winter he flies south for 2 weeks out of the month.
However, I have a huge problem with companies like Sinclair Broadcasting. Most of your local TV news probably comes from them. And then you get ultra-conservative jackasses like Mark Hyman injected into your local news. He's the VP of Corporate Relations for Sinclair, and this apparently entitles him to a 2 minute spot (The Point) every night, on TVs nationwide.
not a lot of people are going to care enough to save that dime to be short-changed not only by the WMA restrictions, but the limited "clean" selections as well
You're totally right. The WMA restrictions are brain-dead. This is why Wal-Mart will fail in the online music biz.
I used to be a pretty big Walter Jon Williams fan. I really enjoyed Hardwired, Voice of the Whilwind, and (to some extent) Angel Station. I also enjoyed The Crown Jewels and The House of Shards. All of the above mentioned book were released between 1987 and 1989 (i.e. the heyday of CyberPunk.)
As far as the SciFi goes, I felt they were pretty good books. Maybe not classics, but certainly very good. Williams presented some interesting variations on the CyberPunk theme and I felt his books compared favorably to other stuff being released at the time. However, starting with Days of Atonement (or maybe Aristoi) I felt that his "vision" started going downhill.
At first I thought, maybe I just resented his moving away from CyberPunk. His first couple books could be loosely classified as CyberPunk, however, few of his books have any sort of consistent "world" or "environment". It's pretty clear that WJW like to play around and invent different "world" for almost every book.
But then I realized that the different "worlds" had started taking precedence over the "characters". The characters started becoming imminently forgettable, they were just there to populate this new world he'd invented. The biggest problem is that some of the worlds are interesting (Hardwired, Voice of the Whilwind,) and some are not (Metropolitan, City on Fire).
I actually felt that DEF:tP is better than some of his more recent attempts. However, there were still times I was tempted to just put it down and forget it...:)
Apple should give him a bonus and then take the software as stipulated in their contract.
People who don't read the small print are the bane of modern life.
The fact is, it's not in his contract! It's part of the California Labor Code. Have you read all the labor laws in your state (i.e. fine print) that might pertain to you and your IP rights?
Not likely.
You can be very careful about the contracts that you've signed with your employer, and still get stung with this one. It's not like someone is going to say, "Gee, I'd really like to accept your job offer but I think I'll just wait until they change the CLC."
Seems like an odd choice considering Microsoft will have to port all their tools and API's (i.e. Direct X) to a different architecture. As I understand it, part of appeal of the Xbox to game developers was ease of portability from the desktop PC environment. This would seem to be a step in the other direction. (Not to mention the backward compatibility issue.)
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One strike against AJAX is that search engines won't be able to see any of your 'dynamic' content. Sure, you can code around it by providing static links to the same content, but it's something to keep in mind.
I don't know very much about this stuff, but shouldn't "Wine" be able to run under OS X on Intel? Wouldn't you potentially be able to run Windows apps inside OS X?
So, when Apple says, "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac", this is no different then the current situation...
So, the question becomes, will they prevent OS X from booting on a stock x86 box using some combination of hardware and encryption?
I think everyone realizes that any copy-protection scheme the come up with will eventually be cracked. Apple is not stupid, they might just say in the SLA that you have to run OS X on Apple-labeled computers... Anyone not running it on non-Apple boxes is breaking their license.
Any legit corporation will probably go along.
On the other hand, Apple will be supporting PPC for a long time. And, who's to say that they won't make new PPC Macs in the future if IBM gets their act together and comes up with a kick-ass laptop chip.
Well, let's take Apple stock for example. Pick any time-frame over the last year and Apple stock would have been at a 52 week high. Today it's at $83, a new 52 week high. Yesterday it was at $81, also a new 52 week high.
Everyone is kicking themselves for not buying at 16, 20, 24, etc... But, if you bought at $60 you still would have made gains. So, who's the bigger dummy: The person who didn't but at all, or the person who bought at $60?
You don't buy a stock because "it's cheap". You buy it because you believe in the company, and you think that it's value will increase in the future.
I disagree with the parent comment. I don't feel Pat's comments reflect a "Benevolent Dictator" attitude at all. And, it's silly to think that the owner of a project could, or indeed should, distance themselves personally from their project...
;-), I'd better clarify what's going on. Especially since I'm not exactly fine.
Here is the quote from the changelog:
And about my status... I didn't want to have to bring this up again, but since a lot of people are under the impression that I've recovered and I'm just fine (and are beginning to make the usual demands of my time
Most open-source project owners don't work on their projects full time. It would be great if they could, but it's more like a really, really time consuming hobby. And, you don't realize just how demanding it can be until you're a project owner yourself.
There are many ways in which project and owner are intertwine. Half the project owner's job involves the usual stuff which you would expect: programming, packaging the distributions, fixing bugs, determining what features/functions to include, etc... But the other half involves lots and lots communication.
Like it or not, the project owner is the face of the project. He/She gets (and hopefully answers) all the user emails, questions, coordinate sub-projects, etc... A good owner is always visible and doesn't work in a vacuum. If this makes him/her a benevolent dictator, then so be it (...jedi.)
All of these tasks are demands placed on the owner for his/her time. If there are situations in the owner's life that are effecting the quantity or quality of his time (i.e. health problems, busy at work, changing jobs, having a baby, going on vacation) then he owes to the users to make this knowledge public.
Would I have gone into so much detail? Probably not. (But, since he was flamed so badly last time he commented on his health, he's just trying to be thorough...)
Is the changelog the best forum to do this? Maybe. How many changelogs do you normally read? And would you have paid attention if it wasn't front page on SlashDot?
It's too bad that neither film is based on the LEGACY OF HEOROT
by Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, and Jerry Pournelle. I really enjoyed this book when I read it, but it's been a while.
...for someone to design a house I can build out of my vast collection of AOL CDs.
And how, pray tell, do you come to that conclusion?
Well, "Don't be evil" is their company motto.
We say the surface of the apple is "simply connected," but that the surface of the doughnut is not.
"Mmmm doughnuts..."
...Also, the Option key with the arrow keys will move the insertion point one WORD at a time. (And, holding down the Shift key with select text. So Shift-Option-right-arrow will high-light the next word in the line...)
It's totally dead now.
Well, all the links seem to be going to "example.com"... (i.e. read more takes you to example.com)
Blosxom really is one of the most impressive programs I've seen in some time. It's worth checking out, and should be considered as an alternative to Movable Type, GreyMatter, Blogger, and the rest more often than it is. Fortunately, a growing number of hosting providers offer Blosxom support, since it's so easy and reliable.
(...Warning! Shameless plug...)
There are a number a Free and Open Source blogs out there. For the last couple of month, I've been working on Simple PHP Blog. It's written in PHP. It uses flat text files to store data (so you don't need MySQL or anything else.) It's GPL.
Simple PHP Blog
And here are some other great choices:
bBlog
Serendipity
Simplog
Check them out. Maybe you'll find one that fits your needs. And, you can help develop them and give back to the world...
I call bullshit! The whole damn thing is unlikely. The quote (attributed to some mystery person?) sounds exactly like it was written by a copywriter.
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Here's why:
1) How often have you said, or written, "and to my delight" normal correspondence? Or "and to my delight" for that matter... (Even if you are from the UK...)
2) How many Mac users would use "genuine", "trustworthy" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence?
3) A Mac user would most likely say "double-clicked" instead of "I clicked on the installer file".
4) This quote has no attributable source. Who said this?
Judge for yourself...
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cf
Universities have seen all forms of gov't grants diminish. It's hard for universities to get funding for research. Why is funding shrinking? G. W. Bush thinks that private companies should be picking up the tab...
So, unless you're researching something that Monsanto (or any other large corporation) is interested in, you're going to have a hard time finding grants. This is the sad truth.
Argh, my hand! You bastard!
I think if I lived in Boston, I would probably feel a little deceived. However, I don't think what this guy's doing is a huge deal. I mean he's in Boston for most of the year and in the winter he flies south for 2 weeks out of the month.
However, I have a huge problem with companies like Sinclair Broadcasting. Most of your local TV news probably comes from them. And then you get ultra-conservative jackasses like Mark Hyman injected into your local news. He's the VP of Corporate Relations for Sinclair, and this apparently entitles him to a 2 minute spot (The Point) every night, on TVs nationwide.
not a lot of people are going to care enough to save that dime to be short-changed not only by the WMA restrictions, but the limited "clean" selections as well
You're totally right. The WMA restrictions are brain-dead. This is why Wal-Mart will fail in the online music biz.
I agree. Awesome trailer. Probably the best one I have seen all year. I got goosebumps.
I used to be a pretty big Walter Jon Williams fan. I really enjoyed Hardwired, Voice of the Whilwind, and (to some extent) Angel Station. I also enjoyed The Crown Jewels and The House of Shards. All of the above mentioned book were released between 1987 and 1989 (i.e. the heyday of CyberPunk.)
:)
As far as the SciFi goes, I felt they were pretty good books. Maybe not classics, but certainly very good. Williams presented some interesting variations on the CyberPunk theme and I felt his books compared favorably to other stuff being released at the time. However, starting with Days of Atonement (or maybe Aristoi) I felt that his "vision" started going downhill.
At first I thought, maybe I just resented his moving away from CyberPunk. His first couple books could be loosely classified as CyberPunk, however, few of his books have any sort of consistent "world" or "environment". It's pretty clear that WJW like to play around and invent different "world" for almost every book.
But then I realized that the different "worlds" had started taking precedence over the "characters". The characters started becoming imminently forgettable, they were just there to populate this new world he'd invented. The biggest problem is that some of the worlds are interesting (Hardwired, Voice of the Whilwind,) and some are not (Metropolitan, City on Fire).
I actually felt that DEF:tP is better than some of his more recent attempts. However, there were still times I was tempted to just put it down and forget it...
Apple should give him a bonus and then take the software as stipulated in their contract.
People who don't read the small print are the bane of modern life.
The fact is, it's not in his contract! It's part of the California Labor Code. Have you read all the labor laws in your state (i.e. fine print) that might pertain to you and your IP rights?
Not likely.
You can be very careful about the contracts that you've signed with your employer, and still get stung with this one. It's not like someone is going to say, "Gee, I'd really like to accept your job offer but I think I'll just wait until they change the CLC."
Outrageous!
You forgot the war on crime, and the war on obesity...
Seems like an odd choice considering Microsoft will have to port all their tools and API's (i.e. Direct X) to a different architecture. As I understand it, part of appeal of the Xbox to game developers was ease of portability from the desktop PC environment. This would seem to be a step in the other direction. (Not to mention the backward compatibility issue.)