'I think the ball is now in the court of "take no action"'
I disagree. Before the world spends itself silly fighting AGW, I want to see solid scientific evidence that it's worth spending all that money. And the current computer models using data tweaked to agree with the predetermined conclusions are far from solid proof.
I grew up "poor". Single mother household. Etc. Not living on the street, but still poor.
Going hungry wasn't one of our problems. Good food is cheap in this country. A healthy died of rice, beans, some meet (chicken and hamburger), and veggies does not cost a lot. Of course, if you eat every meal at McDonalds or KFC you'll quickly spend a lot of money.
Apple may be run by a "friend of bill" and have Al Gore on it's board, but it's "image" is certainly not defined by politics, but rather by building cool products that are easy to use.
Have you ever visited a "retirement village" down in Florida? They are filled with limited range electric vehicles. They are also known as golf carts. People cruise around in them all over the place.
Using IM would be more polite than the verbal exchanges we used in the olden days.
Back when I attended RPI, my friends and I once got kicked out of class because of a large "discussion" we were having over the newspaper we were reading in the back of the class. IM would certainly have been less disruptive:-)
I just don't see myself buying a new phone that doesn't have Bluetooth included.
I have a Nokia phone that has served me well, but I am looking to trade up to a new phone this year. Without Bluetooth, this phone won't be on my list of possiblities.
Count me as another happy RackShack user. I have a vanilla Linux box with them. It's cheap ($125 / month) for the box and way more bandwidth than I could use. It just humms along.
Ask yourself, what framework and language is Apple using to create their iApps for Mac OS X?
The answer is Cocoa and Objective-C. You should too.
Get one of the books that have come out about Cocoa (hmm, they all use Objective-C as their language, wonder why?) and spend a week or two familiarizing yourself with it. You'll be building useful code in no time.
One of the best aspects of Cocoa/Obj-C is that it's perfect for wrapping chunks of plain C or even whole Unix command line programs. Apple's develolper web site has a few examples of doing this.
Carbon is a fine API - if running on Mac OS 9 is important to you or you have a large existing base of classic Mac OS code to bring to Mac OS X. Otherwise, there is no real point.
I've been a Mac programming for a dozen years and switched to Cocoa/Obj-C a year ago. I'm more productive than I've ever been before and am having more fun doing it.
Mac OS X printing is not based on OS9 printing at all.
Mac OS X native printing uses PDF as the spool file format and uses completely different drivers than OS9 - this is why many older printers are supported in Classic, but not native Mac OS X.
iPod price vs. Toshiba drive price
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I followed the link to Toshiba site. They will sell me the 5 GB little hard drive for $399 retail. Apple will sell me a complete iPod for $399.
If anyone wants the Toshiba drive, they should buy an iPod and rip it apart. This gives them the drive, PLUS you get a battery, various ICs, an LCD display, and some decent earbuds:-)
Guess Apple's price for the iPod isn't really a rip off.
-- Olentangy
Re:rebuilding the towers.. - YES.
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YES!
And each tower should have one extra floor added as a memorial to those who died.
And to show that while our enemies may strike, we will always bounce back better.
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'I think the ball is now in the court of "take no action"'
I disagree. Before the world spends itself silly fighting AGW, I want to see solid scientific evidence that it's worth spending all that money. And the current computer models using data tweaked to agree with the predetermined conclusions are far from solid proof.
No one is proposing trillion dollar economic changes based on the big bang theory. They are proposing such changes based on AGW theories.
If the big bang is wrong, some physicists will be embarrassed, if AWG theory is wrong, trillions of dollars will have been wasted.
News flash: during war armies also advocate killing people.
We're talking about war here.
> The Vice President outed a CIA operative to settle a political score.
Time to catch up with reality. It was Richard Armitage who told Novak about Plame.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Novak.27s_.22primary_source.22:_Richard_Armitage
Wishing something to be true doesn't make it so...
I grew up "poor". Single mother household. Etc. Not living on the street, but still poor.
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Going hungry wasn't one of our problems. Good food is cheap in this country. A healthy died of rice, beans, some meet (chicken and hamburger), and veggies does not cost a lot. Of course, if you eat every meal at McDonalds or KFC you'll quickly spend a lot of money.
And what about statistics like the following "More than a third of 3-year-olds in low-income households in major U.S. cities are overweight or obese," LA Times ahref=http://www.latimes.com/features/health/nutr
Being poor isn't great, but apart from mentally ill folks (drug addicts included), being poor in the US doesn't equate with starvation.
When will the "Union of Concerned Scientists" change their name to "Union of Liberal Scientists"? It should have been their name from day one.
"staked its image on progressive politics"
Huh?
Apple may be run by a "friend of bill" and have Al Gore on it's board, but it's "image" is certainly not defined by politics, but rather by building cool products that are easy to use.
Remember, Rush Limbough is a Mac user.
> Proving that iPod users are either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA than owners of lesser music players."
Not really. It's just that it's so much easier to buy from the iTunes store than it is to run some lame P2P app.
I agree.
I wonder why there isn't a competitive pottery competition too?
Have you ever visited a "retirement village" down in Florida? They are filled with limited range electric vehicles. They are also known as golf carts. People cruise around in them all over the place.
Apple distrubutes a number of things on DVD such as iLife and Mac OS X.
My wife went ahead and clicked the "OK, Update me" button this morning. All was well until near the end of the install when it froze.
:-(
She finally gave up and pressed restart.
BAD!
The Finder now could not stay up. This was now an unusuable system.
So we tried Disk First Aid. It found plenty of errors and said it was fixing them - each time it was run. But it wasn't really
So she spend most of the day constructing a new system on an external hard disk. Luckily little was lost, except her time.
Not a happy experience.
Apple needs to test these problem cases better. Please Apple, invest in more QA!
Back when I attended RPI, my friends and I once got kicked out of class because of a large "discussion" we were having over the newspaper we were reading in the back of the class. IM would certainly have been less disruptive :-)
I just don't see myself buying a new phone that doesn't have Bluetooth included.
I have a Nokia phone that has served me well, but I am looking to trade up to a new phone this year. Without Bluetooth, this phone won't be on my list of possiblities.
Count me as another happy RackShack user. I have a vanilla Linux box with them. It's cheap ($125 / month) for the box and way more bandwidth than I could use. It just humms along.
I don't expect Apple to be building in USB 2.0 until they also build in the next generation of FireWire.
Although the current FireWire is superior to USB 2.0 in many ways, it's a little too close for comfort.
Expect to see both in the next major release of the PowerBook.
I've been using my old Lucent 802.11b PC-card in my old TiBook for some time because the internal card has such poor range.
The driver up on source forge works fine.
Fine, but how is this news?
Right, but the Finder was a PORT from Mac OS 9. So of course they used Carbon. That's what it's for.
Expect to see a Cocoa based Finder next time they rewrite it.
Ask yourself, what framework and language is Apple using to create their iApps for Mac OS X?
The answer is Cocoa and Objective-C. You should too.
Get one of the books that have come out about Cocoa (hmm, they all use Objective-C as their language, wonder why?) and spend a week or two familiarizing yourself with it. You'll be building useful code in no time.
One of the best aspects of Cocoa/Obj-C is that it's perfect for wrapping chunks of plain C or even whole Unix command line programs. Apple's develolper web site has a few examples of doing this.
Carbon is a fine API - if running on Mac OS 9 is important to you or you have a large existing base of classic Mac OS code to bring to Mac OS X. Otherwise, there is no real point.
I've been a Mac programming for a dozen years and switched to Cocoa/Obj-C a year ago. I'm more productive than I've ever been before and am having more fun doing it.
Enjoy!
A group I worked with used both a team in India and a team in Russia. For whatever reason, the Russias worked out great, while the Indians did not.
We started both teams on simple stuff. The Russians quickly master that, proved their worth, and moved on to some key parts of the project.
The Indian never accomplished much.
Get references.
Mac OS X printing is not based on OS9 printing at all.
Mac OS X native printing uses PDF as the spool file format and uses completely different drivers than OS9 - this is why many older printers are supported in Classic, but not native Mac OS X.
I followed the link to Toshiba site. They will sell me the 5 GB little hard drive for $399 retail. Apple will sell me a complete iPod for $399.
:-)
If anyone wants the Toshiba drive, they should buy an iPod and rip it apart. This gives them the drive, PLUS you get a battery, various ICs, an LCD display, and some decent earbuds
Guess Apple's price for the iPod isn't really a rip off.
-- Olentangy
YES!
And each tower should have one extra floor added as a memorial to those who died.
And to show that while our enemies may strike, we will always bounce back better.
-- michael
> Dell Latitude: Watch out, this one wasn't designed for NT at all, so Linux probably wouldn't like it.
I've got Red Hat 7 installed on a Dell Latitude CS and it's working very well. No special configurations or anything.
I even popped in a Lucent 802.11b card and it worked without doing anything special.
> display(postscript, PDF)
No display postscript in there any more.
Quartz, the new apple graphics system, is PDF based.