You kidding me? the average 24h book is about 25 + tax. I saw a Oreilly book on WML and WML Script athat must have been about 200 pages lon and it went for 35 bucks. Hey I love O'Reilly books they are the best but that doesn't mean they are inexpensive. They ussually offer a better value but they are not inexpensive just like the K&R prentice hall C programing language book. It is a great book but it goes for $40. that is simply expensive no matter how good the book is.
I have been using Mac OS X for over three months now. First of all as much as people complain about it being defferent from OS 9 it really isnt that different. My girlfriend and her friend are both hard core mac users (they are both graphic designers) they were reluctant to use OS X on my laptop but eventually they fiddled around with it and set up their own accounts and everything. they customized the look of the commputer and figured their way around all in less than 10 minutes. OS X is very very easy to use and install. It is trully a mix of power and ease. If you install the developers tools you are set. The only problem right now is that there is no office app, no photoshop, and some drivers are missing. Other than that I think it is ready. Sure it can be buggy at times but then with that logic Win 95 and Red Hat Linux 7 would have never been released:-). The most confusing thin g about OS X is that windows don't collapse they minimize into the dock. I wish both features were available since they are useful in different situations.
(Mind you, O'Reilly books are generally inexpensive, but this is true for all publisher)
Huh? Inexpensive? Maybe peachpit press books are inexpensive, or the "learn in 24 hours/24 days" books. Last thing O'reilly books are is inexpensive. Coputer books are some of the most expensive books out there and O'reillys are some of th emost expepsive computer books, some of the best, but still some of the most expepsive.
Well now Bush can feel free to drill the artic wildlife reserve in Haliburton's name. Isn't Dick Cheney feeling fine now! This is ridiculous and irresponsible. We are destroying the planet and we need to start doing something about it instead of being on denial.
You are on crack. Americans have less vacation days per year than any other country in the world. Check out the Utne Reader.They also work more hours on average per week than people in any other country. The problem with America is that we don't realize that this makes us less productive and the way we try to make up for it is to work more hours thus becoming less productive. It is both sick and silly at the same time. The other problem is that we value education way less than European countries and Japan. The more educated you are the more productive you can be. This whole mess comes from the puritan work ethic that created this country. The whole thing was based on working so much you don't have time to do anything bad. Kinda like the way they use sports in high schools to sublimate the libido.
Oh come one. Only middle and upper class people in Puerto Rico know any enough english to actually carry on in a conversation. Poor people know things like hamburger but the syntax of English itself has not moved into the language. Besides the complexity of Spanish structure is a benefit not a hindrance. The only advantage that english has over Spanish is a larger vocabulary but that can be translplanted into Spanish and used within the more complex and exact structure of Spanish. Unix is to DOS and Spanish is to English.
I have an Italian friend who came over to the US because according to him IT workers are looked upon with the same attitude as a secretary and are paid accordingly. As for going to Rome I would do it in a second if I coulod pay for it. I went there to study art history and italian when i was a college student and it was by far the best time i had in college. People in Italy work to live instead of the American live to work routine.
I spaced out on that one. Definitely IE messes around with the extentions. How about IE 5 on os x? I have been using that for a while and it is pretty buggy but of all the other browsers available on os x it works the best and it is pretty fast. Definitely better than fizzilla and Omniweb and iCab.
I am a Republican, and voted for Bush, so obviously I'm biased.
Tell me about it!
However, I clearly think that if Gore continues to go ahead with his lawyers in front of Democrat judges (who already have rewritten the law, in effect changing the rules of the game after the ball has been put in play), he's going to destroy his party.
I'm not sure of how clearly you think but this sure isn't an example of clarity in though. While the majority of the judges in the Florida supreme court were appointed by the democrats (6 out of 7) the court ruled unanymously in favor of extending the recounts. This means that the republican appointed judge voted for it too.
Bush has also been to court. In fact he was the first one to go to court. He even went to the federal district court in Gergia which is very much a republican leaning district court.
The reson gore has won the majority of the court decissions is that he has much firmer legal ground than Bush and what he is asking for as a general rule is more level headed than what Bush asks for.
I believe that at this point he doesn't stand much of a chance of succeding... Surprisingly, weeks of recounts being done in Democrat counties that voted OVERWEALMINGLY for him, using hand recount rules made and remade on the fly by DEMOCRATS didn't change the results.
This is clearly not true. From one county alone Gore gained over 500 votes placing him within 400 votes of Bush. If the Miami-Dade and Palm Beach recounts were allowed and counted Gore would probably win the election by 600-1000 votes.
Gore going any further proves that Gore thinks more of himself than the country to continue to be the cause of damaging faith in the Constitution, law, and fairness. And he is the SOLE cause of all this. Some day, when less biased historians write of this era will paint this election and Gore's actions as the final chapter of the corrupt Clinton machine.
Are you serious? Please do some reading so you know what is actually happening in Florida. I think these articles are pretty interesting maybe you should check them out and broaden your mind: Winning by intimidation
Patriot missile
Raising the Stakes
BTW, Gore's lawyer, Boyd, is the lead government lawyer in the Microsoft case, don't know if anyone's mentioned that yet. This shakes my faith in the Reno case against them, IMO, he has damaged his credibility severely by arguing specious cases on Gore's behalf.
BTW, David Boies, Gore's Lawyer, was the lead government lawyer in the M$ case. He left the DOJ months ago. He is Napster's lawyer now. Why would any of this "shake your faith" on what you call "Reno's" case? First of all the M$ case isn't Reno's case. She just happens to be the Attorney General but it isn't as if this is some sort of vendetta that she has embarked upon. There was a findings of fact an M$ didn't come out so well. The judge was not compromised in any way and he still sided with the DOJ. Just because a legal decission isn't what you would like it to be it doesn't mean that the ruling is a bad one.
Maybe Motorola and AMD need to get together and share some technology. Let's hope that means that Athlons will be cooler and PowerPCs will move beyond 500 Mhz. But see how the universe loves a perverse outcome and how people are ussualy more hard headed about keeping their bad decissions we will probably get an Athlon that cant get beyond 500 Mhz and a PowerPC chip that can cook the thanksgiving turkey in ten minutes flat.
If Microsoft thought there was any chance of that, they wouldn't have propped Apple up with their development and money (Office suite, IE - both of which keep the Mac alive.)
How about the fact that M$ spent tons of money on the new Office (2001) yet somehow "forgot" to carbonize it in the process. This clearly will keep a lot of people from moving to OS X as quickly as they would otherwise have.
That's interesting because i have used photoshop for 12 hours stright (no rebooting at all) on my wallstreet (266Mhz 192 ram --i.e. not nearly enough) laptop but i have seen PIII (600Mhz 256 ram) choke left and right on it. How much ram do you have on the G3? Anyway windows has nothing that comes close to ColorSync.
There are no professional graphic designers or publisher that use Linux.
There are no REAL professional graphic designers or publisher that use Windows either. They use macs because of ColorSync and because Photoshop actually runs much much better on macs.
Its reganomics but instead of inflating the Military spending you use it for services. However we all know how reganomics turned out. Its taken 8 years for clinton to reverse the path that Reganomics put us in.
Stock options are not taxed as icome you jackass. they are taxed as capital gains. Capital gains tax is much much lower than income tax and you dont have to pay social security or medicare or anything on it other than the actual capital gains tax.
There is a reason that no broadband company would bother with equiping the area with broadband, they'd almost certainly lose lots of money off of it...
well duh if the private companies wont do it is then the governements job to provide it for the people
The telephone company (which had been owned by the government until then) in Puerto Rico was sold to GTE a few years ago. One of the main debates was that since about 75% of the population lives in San Juan and its sorrounding towns (about 24% lives on some smaller cities in the south) people up in the rural areas would get shafted on phone service because there is no way GTE could make money on it. They could now becuse the governement had spent all the money to set up the lines but upkeep would be to costly so slowly they would see their rates go up or their phone service disappear. So in some instances i guess it is cool for the rest of us to pay for stuff so that some people dont have to live in the dark ages:)
This article is the rmablings of a person who spent no time trying to back up any of his points. And while it would be nice to see the share of microsoft oss out there this report acts like M$ will stand by passively as Unix goes for the jugular.
The performance advantages of RISC over Intel-based servers will decline by about 20 percent to 30 percent each year, leading to two viable long-term RISC technologies - Sun's SPARC and IBM's Power - with the addition of Compaq Alpha in a "dark horse" role
I dont believe this at all (IBM's Power4 can run circles around anything Intel will release in the next two years) but for the sake of argument lets let it be true. Knowing the close relationship between M$ and Intel if Intel begins to close in the gap between it and other chips and we take into account that Intel could give preferential treatment to M$ then maybe it isnt such a straightforward thing that Unices will take over the world.
I guess all Im trying to say is that this report is more an exercise in mental masturbation than a rigorous analysis.
My girlfriend works at the Art Technology Group and they have a fooseball table (aptly named Dynamo), a pool table, and a big tv with a playstation and while it might the best perk of the job (probably everyone getting a Palm V last quarter is up at the top) it is greatly appretiated and used by meny of them in the company. I can only wish they have a fooseball table at my next job.
Many murder scene analogies have been made, but they have all been flawed, in my opinion, for one reason: the laws of physics do not apply to the internet.
We all wish that the pesky laws of physics did not restrain the internet however they do. Probably what you mean by this is that the landscape of the internet is diferent from the one of the real world and that the murder scene analogy breaks down in some instances.
It is interesting though that you say that the murder scene analogy doesnt work and then you try to use it.
People will gawk at a murder scene.
Sure and people stop trafic to look at car accidents. The problem is that they way you fiddled around the website made you a suspect. The problem is that while this might be a regular reaction (to stop and look) it might not be the smartest thing to do (which is what people were trying to tell you, not that it is "unnatural" to do what you did)
I just telnetted to them, without knowing if they were even open or not
Oh come on telneting to a website is not exactly looking at the crime scene. It is definitely more involved than that. Basically you began to mess around with a website that had been compromised? Something very similar to messing around with a crime scene. No?
So, the police show up, and I'm standing over a broken window.
It more like you are leaving the house as the police come and then you try to explain to them that yes you were in the crime scene but only out of pure curiousity and that they should let you go because you clearly didnt do it even though you do have a gun of similar make as the murder weapon.
I get carted to the police station, get questioned for a couple hours, and they let me go. However, In this circumstance, they stuck me in a squad car, and while they were questioning me, they searched my house.
If you or your finger prints were found in a crime scene you can be sure they are not just going to question you for a couple of hours and then let you go. You better get your sorry ass a lawyer or you are going to be detained for a long long time.
On an aside note.
On the internet, everyone is your neighbor.
Speaking of bad analogies... Nope in the internet everyone isnt your neghbor annymore than in the real world. The truth is that in the internet we can theoretically move at the speed that electricity moves so while everyone isnt our neighbor we do have an increased ability to see people who live far away.
Slashdot Mirror
You kidding me? the average 24h book is about 25 + tax. I saw a Oreilly book on WML and WML Script athat must have been about 200 pages lon and it went for 35 bucks. Hey I love O'Reilly books they are the best but that doesn't mean they are inexpensive. They ussually offer a better value but they are not inexpensive just like the K&R prentice hall C programing language book. It is a great book but it goes for $40. that is simply expensive no matter how good the book is.
I have been using Mac OS X for over three months now. First of all as much as people complain about it being defferent from OS 9 it really isnt that different. My girlfriend and her friend are both hard core mac users (they are both graphic designers) they were reluctant to use OS X on my laptop but eventually they fiddled around with it and set up their own accounts and everything. they customized the look of the commputer and figured their way around all in less than 10 minutes. OS X is very very easy to use and install. It is trully a mix of power and ease. If you install the developers tools you are set. The only problem right now is that there is no office app, no photoshop, and some drivers are missing. Other than that I think it is ready. Sure it can be buggy at times but then with that logic Win 95 and Red Hat Linux 7 would have never been released :-). The most confusing thin g about OS X is that windows don't collapse they minimize into the dock. I wish both features were available since they are useful in different situations.
(Mind you, O'Reilly books are generally inexpensive, but this is true for all publisher)
Huh? Inexpensive? Maybe peachpit press books are inexpensive, or the "learn in 24 hours/24 days" books. Last thing O'reilly books are is inexpensive. Coputer books are some of the most expensive books out there and O'reillys are some of th emost expepsive computer books, some of the best, but still some of the most expepsive.
Well now Bush can feel free to drill the artic wildlife reserve in Haliburton's name. Isn't Dick Cheney feeling fine now! This is ridiculous and irresponsible. We are destroying the planet and we need to start doing something about it instead of being on denial.
You are on crack. Americans have less vacation days per year than any other country in the world. Check out the Utne Reader .They also work more hours on average per week than people in any other country. The problem with America is that we don't realize that this makes us less productive and the way we try to make up for it is to work more hours thus becoming less productive. It is both sick and silly at the same time. The other problem is that we value education way less than European countries and Japan. The more educated you are the more productive you can be. This whole mess comes from the puritan work ethic that created this country. The whole thing was based on working so much you don't have time to do anything bad. Kinda like the way they use sports in high schools to sublimate the libido.
Oh come one. Only middle and upper class people in Puerto Rico know any enough english to actually carry on in a conversation. Poor people know things like hamburger but the syntax of English itself has not moved into the language. Besides the complexity of Spanish structure is a benefit not a hindrance. The only advantage that english has over Spanish is a larger vocabulary but that can be translplanted into Spanish and used within the more complex and exact structure of Spanish. Unix is to DOS and Spanish is to English.
I have an Italian friend who came over to the US because according to him IT workers are looked upon with the same attitude as a secretary and are paid accordingly. As for going to Rome I would do it in a second if I coulod pay for it. I went there to study art history and italian when i was a college student and it was by far the best time i had in college. People in Italy work to live instead of the American live to work routine.
I spaced out on that one. Definitely IE messes around with the extentions. How about IE 5 on os x? I have been using that for a while and it is pretty buggy but of all the other browsers available on os x it works the best and it is pretty fast. Definitely better than fizzilla and Omniweb and iCab.
IE on mac os is pretty fast too though so it might not be entirely a IE Windows thing. but what do i know?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp?cp1=1
I am a Republican, and voted for Bush, so obviously I'm biased.
Tell me about it!
However, I clearly think that if Gore continues to go ahead with his lawyers in front of Democrat judges (who already have rewritten the law, in effect changing the rules of the game after the ball has been put in play), he's going to destroy his party.
I'm not sure of how clearly you think but this sure isn't an example of clarity in though. While the majority of the judges in the Florida supreme court were appointed by the democrats (6 out of 7) the court ruled unanymously in favor of extending the recounts. This means that the republican appointed judge voted for it too.
Bush has also been to court. In fact he was the first one to go to court. He even went to the federal district court in Gergia which is very much a republican leaning district court.
The reson gore has won the majority of the court decissions is that he has much firmer legal ground than Bush and what he is asking for as a general rule is more level headed than what Bush asks for.
I believe that at this point he doesn't stand much of a chance of succeding... Surprisingly, weeks of recounts being done in Democrat counties that voted OVERWEALMINGLY for him, using hand recount rules made and remade on the fly by DEMOCRATS didn't change the results.
This is clearly not true. From one county alone Gore gained over 500 votes placing him within 400 votes of Bush. If the Miami-Dade and Palm Beach recounts were allowed and counted Gore would probably win the election by 600-1000 votes.
Gore going any further proves that Gore thinks more of himself than the country to continue to be the cause of damaging faith in the Constitution, law, and fairness. And he is the SOLE cause of all this. Some day, when less biased historians write of this era will paint this election and Gore's actions as the final chapter of the corrupt Clinton machine.
Are you serious? Please do some reading so you know what is actually happening in Florida. I think these articles are pretty interesting maybe you should check them out and broaden your mind:
Winning by intimidation
Patriot missile
Raising the Stakes
BTW, Gore's lawyer, Boyd, is the lead government lawyer in the Microsoft case, don't know if anyone's mentioned that yet. This shakes my faith in the Reno case against them, IMO, he has damaged his credibility severely by arguing specious cases on Gore's behalf.
BTW, David Boies, Gore's Lawyer, was the lead government lawyer in the M$ case. He left the DOJ months ago. He is Napster's lawyer now. Why would any of this "shake your faith" on what you call "Reno's" case? First of all the M$ case isn't Reno's case. She just happens to be the Attorney General but it isn't as if this is some sort of vendetta that she has embarked upon. There was a findings of fact an M$ didn't come out so well. The judge was not compromised in any way and he still sided with the DOJ. Just because a legal decission isn't what you would like it to be it doesn't mean that the ruling is a bad one.
it was the same way in 18th century US.
Maybe Motorola and AMD need to get together and share some technology. Let's hope that means that Athlons will be cooler and PowerPCs will move beyond 500 Mhz. But see how the universe loves a perverse outcome and how people are ussualy more hard headed about keeping their bad decissions we will probably get an Athlon that cant get beyond 500 Mhz and a PowerPC chip that can cook the thanksgiving turkey in ten minutes flat.
If Microsoft thought there was any chance of that, they wouldn't have propped Apple up with their development and money (Office suite, IE - both of which keep the Mac alive.)
How about the fact that M$ spent tons of money on the new Office (2001) yet somehow "forgot" to carbonize it in the process. This clearly will keep a lot of people from moving to OS X as quickly as they would otherwise have.
That's interesting because i have used photoshop for 12 hours stright (no rebooting at all) on my wallstreet (266Mhz 192 ram --i.e. not nearly enough) laptop but i have seen PIII (600Mhz 256 ram) choke left and right on it. How much ram do you have on the G3? Anyway windows has nothing that comes close to ColorSync.
There are no professional graphic designers or publisher that use Linux.
There are no REAL professional graphic designers or publisher that use Windows either.
They use macs because of ColorSync and because Photoshop actually runs much much better on macs.
The father, the son and the holy ghost. there you go. Christian doctrine being used to sell products.
The funny thing about the Blue Man Group in the advertisements is that they use PPC for their work not Pentiums.
http://www.apple.com/creative/stories/blueman/
Its reganomics but instead of inflating the Military spending you use it for services. However we all know how reganomics turned out. Its taken 8 years for clinton to reverse the path that Reganomics put us in.
Stock options are not taxed as icome you jackass. they are taxed as capital gains. Capital gains tax is much much lower than income tax and you dont have to pay social security or medicare or anything on it other than the actual capital gains tax.
There is a reason that no broadband company would bother with equiping the area with broadband, they'd almost certainly lose lots of money off of it...
:)
well duh if the private companies wont do it is then the governements job to provide it for the people
The telephone company (which had been owned by the government until then) in Puerto Rico was sold to GTE a few years ago. One of the main debates was that since about 75% of the population lives in San Juan and its sorrounding towns (about 24% lives on some smaller cities in the south) people up in the rural areas would get shafted on phone service because there is no way GTE could make money on it. They could now becuse the governement had spent all the money to set up the lines but upkeep would be to costly so slowly they would see their rates go up or their phone service disappear. So in some instances i guess it is cool for the rest of us to pay for stuff so that some people dont have to live in the dark ages
This article is the rmablings of a person who spent no time trying to back up any of his points. And while it would be nice to see the share of microsoft oss out there this report acts like M$ will stand by passively as Unix goes for the jugular.
The performance advantages of RISC over Intel-based servers will decline by about 20 percent to 30 percent each year, leading to two viable long-term RISC technologies - Sun's SPARC and IBM's Power - with the addition of Compaq Alpha in a "dark horse" role
I dont believe this at all (IBM's Power4 can run circles around anything Intel will release in the next two years) but for the sake of argument lets let it be true. Knowing the close relationship between M$ and Intel if Intel begins to close in the gap between it and other chips and we take into account that Intel could give preferential treatment to M$ then maybe it isnt such a straightforward thing that Unices will take over the world.
I guess all Im trying to say is that this report is more an exercise in mental masturbation than a rigorous analysis.
Cant we leave this bullshit for the yahoo and motley fool stock message boards? enough with the BVSN, BEAS, BLUE, ARTG trash talk.
My girlfriend works at the Art Technology Group and they have a fooseball table (aptly named Dynamo), a pool table, and a big tv with a playstation and while it might the best perk of the job (probably everyone getting a Palm V last quarter is up at the top) it is greatly appretiated and used by meny of them in the company. I can only wish they have a fooseball table at my next job.
Many murder scene analogies have been made, but they have all been flawed, in my opinion, for one reason: the laws of physics do not apply to the internet.
We all wish that the pesky laws of physics did not restrain the internet however they do. Probably what you mean by this is that the landscape of the internet is diferent from the one of the real world and that the murder scene analogy breaks down in some instances.
It is interesting though that you say that the murder scene analogy doesnt work and then you try to use it.
People will gawk at a murder scene.
Sure and people stop trafic to look at car accidents. The problem is that they way you fiddled around the website made you a suspect. The problem is that while this might be a regular reaction (to stop and look) it might not be the smartest thing to do (which is what people were trying to tell you, not that it is "unnatural" to do what you did)
I just telnetted to them, without knowing if they were even open or not
Oh come on telneting to a website is not exactly looking at the crime scene. It is definitely more involved than that. Basically you began to mess around with a website that had been compromised? Something very similar to messing around with a crime scene. No?
So, the police show up, and I'm standing over a broken window.
It more like you are leaving the house as the police come and then you try to explain to them that yes you were in the crime scene but only out of pure curiousity and that they should let you go because you clearly didnt do it even though you do have a gun of similar make as the murder weapon.
I get carted to the police station, get questioned for a couple hours, and they let me go. However, In this circumstance, they stuck me in a squad car, and while they were questioning me, they searched my house.
If you or your finger prints were found in a crime scene you can be sure they are not just going to question you for a couple of hours and then let you go. You better get your sorry ass a lawyer or you are going to be detained for a long long time.
On an aside note.
On the internet, everyone is your neighbor.
Speaking of bad analogies... Nope in the internet everyone isnt your neghbor annymore than in the real world. The truth is that in the internet we can theoretically move at the speed that electricity moves so while everyone isnt our neighbor we do have an increased ability to see people who live far away.