You shouldn't need to muck around, resolving driver conflicts, trying to get Linux to run with your video card, etc.
As long as the reality is "You shouldn't have to much around...but you can if you want to", and not "You shouldn't have to much around, so we're going to keep you from doing so", then I'm happy.
Given Mac OS X's BSD underpinnings, I'm (fairly) confident that muck-around ability will exist in future Mac OS's. How supported it will be is another issue. =/
Large numbers of USB peripherals did not start to appear (and in correlation, appear cheaply) until Apple forced the issue with the iMac.
Since the PCs still had traditional serial ports, companies saw no compelling reason to start producing USB peripherals, despite the superiority of technology.
Of course, USB support in the various Windowsen also aggreived the problem.
Well, de-vor-ack obviously (well, that first e should be a schwa of course, but...) if you're spelling it as above. However, if it gets all the nifty punctuation (like Anton Dvorak), then it becomes de-vor-zhock.
A large part of the problem is that authors are focused too much on the visual presentation[1], rather than the semantic meaning of the data being presented.
People forget that denoting something as a list (be it ordered, unordered, or list of definitions) is more important than the list being displayed indented with little swirly bullets next to it.
Remember -- different page renderings are good -- not everyone has the same needs or wants from data presentation.
[1] This is especially silly when there's no guarantee that a page will be rendered visually
IBM has been on the XML bandwagon for some time, with their development of xml4j, xml4c (Java and C++ XML parsers) and LotusXSL (a Java XSL implementation). See IBM AlphaWorks for more info.
Katz is posting using characters that are outside the acceptable ranges for use in HTML. It just happens that the curly-quotes that Windows uses are outside these ranges. Hence, they're replaced by ?'s.
David Brin wrote a short story about this (it was a research station, not a hotel), in the story "Tank Farm Dynamo". I read it in his collection River of Time
Of course, all the places I've looked say that it's out of print. I found my not-for-sale-in-the-US copy at a local Borders (in Michigan -- not sure how they got it).
It's funny that you mention this, because so much of what has happened to the web has been the emphasis of design over usability.
I think a lot of the problems that have come about with letting the web grow organically is that for quite a long time, the dominant technologies on the web weren't open -- what with Netscape setting de facto standards, then Microsoft following suit.
I don't think TBL is trying to make the web into something it's not -- it's more of optimizing the ways in which it is growing. People wanted "visual design" on the web. At first it was done through nasty Netscape hacks. The w3c saw this, and specified CSS to meet this need. People wanted a standard way to communicate available resources, and RDF emerged.
People often forget that the only way (technically) to legally buy a copy of the MacOS is to have a Mac to run it on.
Well, this isn't entirely true. You can buy a copy off the shelf and do nothing with it. =) But I digress...
The reason that I'm a big fan of LinuxPPC is the hardware that it's running on. I'm sure part of it is that I have a lot of experience with Apple's hardware. I know that (at least for all the machines I have) that it's high-quality and standardized. But the installs and configuration of Linux on Apple hardware has been easier than doing the same on Intel hardware. It all feels a lot more stable to me. Maybe it just irritates me that (most? all?) Intel boxes don't support Open Firmware, don't have standardized ethernet, don't have standardized sound. I mean, I guess this brings back the whole default v. custom argument, but for the most part, when it comes to hardware support, I'd rather have good and easy v. great and hard.
But yes, Apple hardware is kind of expensive. But of course, hardware is always just a small part of the cost. The greater concern would be the much better software support and size of the community for Linux/Intel.
Good programmers are in very high demand. If you don't like ths situation you're in, find another one. Or negotiate a better one where you are right now.
Put it in your contract that you only work 40 hour weeks. Or find a place that pays you to work 60 hour weeks.
This is sort of off-topic, but it would be really sweet if there were a checkbox or some such widget that you could select before posting a reply that would automatically quote the text of the original message with a line-prefix like ">".
Except that HTML isn't a fixed-length posting medium like Usenet is. Putting the original text into
Would I run a web server on a 7200? No thank you. Not even on one running NetBSD or Linux, the machine just doesn't have the capacity.
That's funny. I do just that. A 7200 running LinuxPPC r4. Granted, it only has an ISDN line it can saturate, so that's not too hard...but if people tout 486s running Linux for a web server...well, a 7200 has quite a bit more muscle than that.
I've dug around everywhere I can think to look, but haven't found any details on how GIMP produces it's GIFs -- whether it uses it's own code, or libungif, etc. I'm almost certain I *don't* have giflib installed.
What it boils down to is: How do I configure/compile my system/GIMP to make sure I'm using uncompressed/non-LZW GIFs?
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IIRC, it is like all well-named things, and is a recursive acronym:
WINE Is Not an Emulator.
Well, that is what the L stands for, after all. XML = eXtensible Markup Language
Well, even without the one-time profits, they still beat estimates. So it's not /all/ smoke and mirrors.
As long as the reality is "You shouldn't have to much around...but you can if you want to", and not "You shouldn't have to much around, so we're going to keep you from doing so", then I'm happy.
Given Mac OS X's BSD underpinnings, I'm (fairly) confident that muck-around ability will exist in future Mac OS's. How supported it will be is another issue. =/
Large numbers of USB peripherals did not start to appear (and in correlation, appear cheaply) until Apple forced the issue with the iMac.
Since the PCs still had traditional serial ports, companies saw no compelling reason to start producing USB peripherals, despite the superiority of technology.
Of course, USB support in the various Windowsen also aggreived the problem.
It would appear that "we have no pants" produces the same result as well.
Well, de-vor-ack obviously (well, that first e should be a schwa of course, but...) if you're spelling it as above. However, if it gets all the nifty punctuation (like Anton Dvorak), then it becomes de-vor-zhock.
Wow. You really hate yourself, don't you? Or, if you don't now, you will soon.
A large part of the problem is that authors are focused too much on the visual presentation[1], rather than the semantic meaning of the data being presented.
People forget that denoting something as a list (be it ordered, unordered, or list of definitions) is more important than the list being displayed indented with little swirly bullets next to it.
Remember -- different page renderings are good -- not everyone has the same needs or wants from data presentation.
[1] This is especially silly when there's no guarantee that a page will be rendered visually
IBM has been on the XML bandwagon for some time, with their development of xml4j, xml4c (Java and C++ XML parsers) and LotusXSL (a Java XSL implementation). See IBM AlphaWorks for more info.
Katz is posting using characters that are outside the acceptable ranges for use in HTML. It just happens that the curly-quotes that Windows uses are outside these ranges. Hence, they're replaced by ?'s.
David Brin wrote a short story about this (it was a research station, not a hotel), in the story "Tank Farm Dynamo". I read it in his collection River of Time
Of course, all the places I've looked say that it's out of print. I found my not-for-sale-in-the-US copy at a local Borders (in Michigan -- not sure how they got it).
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I have 8.5.1 running quite happily on a Power Center Pro 180.
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It's funny that you mention this, because so much of what has happened to the web has been the emphasis of design over usability.
I think a lot of the problems that have come about with letting the web grow organically is that for quite a long time, the dominant technologies on the web weren't open -- what with Netscape setting de facto standards, then Microsoft following suit.
I don't think TBL is trying to make the web into something it's not -- it's more of optimizing the ways in which it is growing. People wanted "visual design" on the web. At first it was done through nasty Netscape hacks. The w3c saw this, and specified CSS to meet this need. People wanted a standard way to communicate available resources, and RDF emerged.
Well, this isn't entirely true. You can buy a copy off the shelf and do nothing with it. =) But I digress...
The reason that I'm a big fan of LinuxPPC is the hardware that it's running on. I'm sure part of it is that I have a lot of experience with Apple's hardware. I know that (at least for all the machines I have) that it's high-quality and standardized. But the installs and configuration of Linux on Apple hardware has been easier than doing the same on Intel hardware. It all feels a lot more stable to me. Maybe it just irritates me that (most? all?) Intel boxes don't support Open Firmware, don't have standardized ethernet, don't have standardized sound. I mean, I guess this brings back the whole default v. custom argument, but for the most part, when it comes to hardware support, I'd rather have good and easy v. great and hard.
But yes, Apple hardware is kind of expensive. But of course, hardware is always just a small part of the cost. The greater concern would be the much better software support and size of the community for Linux/Intel.
I was unaware that gcc isn't available for LinuxPPC.
Wow...I'm just chomping away at all the troll-bait that comes my way this morning. Must be a Monday.
Good programmers are in very high demand. If you don't like ths situation you're in, find another one. Or negotiate a better one where you are right now.
Put it in your contract that you only work 40 hour weeks. Or find a place that pays you to work 60 hour weeks.
Bah. What I meant was putting the original text into a BLOCKQUOTE element.
Except that HTML isn't a fixed-length posting medium like Usenet is. Putting the original text into
That's funny. I do just that. A 7200 running LinuxPPC r4. Granted, it only has an ISDN line it can saturate, so that's not too hard...but if people tout 486s running Linux for a web server...well, a 7200 has quite a bit more muscle than that.
I read that article, and I remember that it sounded a lot like what Google already does.
I've dug around everywhere I can think to look, but haven't found any details on how GIMP produces it's GIFs -- whether it uses it's own code, or libungif, etc. I'm almost certain I *don't* have giflib installed.
What it boils down to is: How do I configure/compile my system/GIMP to make sure I'm using uncompressed/non-LZW GIFs?
I thought GIMP used libungif to produce non-LZW compressed GIFs, thus avoiding the whole patent problem?
Well, the Cerenkov radiation might be a tip-off...