The B1 is a great example of Republican defense priorities. Cancelled by Carter in the 1970s, resurrected by Reagan. First saw combat under Clinton, in the Kosovo campaign. Billions for what capability, exactly?
I am not willing to accept that the consumers have chosen to use Windows. Because Microsoft used illegal tactics to prevent consumers from having a choice.
No, paper has a much greater dynamic range than any display. Black on paper is much darker than the "black" on a CRT or LCD, which can get no darker than the gray that shows when the display is off. Also, under many lighting conditions, paper is brighter than a CRT or LCD display.
Try it! Hold a piece of white paper next to your display. Which is brighter? Unless you are in a very dimly lit place, the paper will be brighter.
I disagree. There is no such thing as an operating system that is "too easy".
The computer is a tool to Get Things Done. The right tools enable their users to concentrate on the job, and not worry about the tool. Regardless of whether the job is modern abstract art and the tool is a paint can (just saw Pollock), or tweaking a photo spread for just the right emotional impact to open an article.
The competent want a tool that lets them focus on the hard part of doing the job, and not on the tool itself.
MacOS X does not sacrifice power for ease of usability.
After March 24 (release of BSD-based MacOS X) get an iMac or a G4 Cube. Both are fanless; the only noise comes from the speakers (on the iMac) or the Hard Drive.
The US Government has been trying to regulate crypto for a very long time. Who remembers the Clipper Chip? With this history of regulation, plus the abuse and corruption generated by the War On Drugs, it is reasonable for the/.er on the net to be wary of government calls for more regulation.
Edison did make many improvements to the telephone, for (IIRC) Western Union. Which owned the Gray patent for the telephone. Unfortunately for Western Union and Gray, the Bell patent application arrived at the Patent Office earlier in the day.
As part the judgement in AT&T's Patent Infringement case against WU, AT&T got to use all of Edison's improvements (the carbon microphone being one that lasted until the 1970s.)
Right. MacOS X supports three operating environments:
Cocoa (OpenStep API),
Carbon (Carbon API, derived from Classic MacOS), and
Classic (Classic MacOS; all applications are in one shared memory address. One crashing Classic application can take out all classic applications, but will not take out the OS, Carbon, or Cocoa applications).
It is wise to read the references you post, to see if they support the argument you are trying to make.
In this case, you were foolish. For, at http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/fa q.html, it says
"Darwin and BSD
Q. Why is Darwin based on BSD UNIX?
A. There are several reasons for this. The first one is historical. Mac OS X draws a lot of its code base from a system called OPENSTEP, created by NeXT Software, which Apple bought in 1997. OPENSTEP and its predecessor, NEXTSTEP, were based on 4.3 BSD.
"
Which clearly disprooves the point you were trying to make.
Mac OS X appears to have a bright future...I see a place for a Mac OS X box on my desk in the near future.
Coming from a very technically-oriented FreeBSD core developer, I found this also surprising. It shows how MacOS might now appeal to both the very technical, the very artistic, and the very newbie - something not normally possible. Again, we'll see what happens here (I, for one, would never wish to waste money to buy the overexpensive hardware and software compared to a decent Linux box).
I'm not surprised at all. For a decade, I've earned a living coding for Unix, while using a Mac for personal use. The mark of a professional is use of the right tool for the right job.
To an economy, money is all that matters [one need only look to most Asain economies, where health or illness of economy seems to have little to do with civil rights]
No, this is not true. When prices take into all side-effects of a transaction, this works.
But when side-effects escape, like carbon dioxide out the tailpipe raising global climate temperatures, which serves up bigger and more powerful hurricanes/typhoons, which cause more damage, then no, money is not all that matters.
One of the rolls of government is to set up the right kinds of rules to push these side-effects back into the prices folks pay. Trading pollution-allottments are a policy along these lines that works well.
Feel free to provide an online service of unknown provinence that is making their money by selling personal information everything needed to assume your identity.
Not particularly informative, but my mod points went away.
OOP exists to make it easier to build exactly these constructs. The earliest C++ compilers produced C code as output, and this is how they did it. Yes, the two constructs are equivalent. But the C code example is more error prone.
Yes, this is the real risk to MkLinux (which would be installed on my PowerMac 6100, if it were on a desk and connected to power. Never did get ppp running on it, though...) and LinuxPPC.
When OS X ships as the standard MacOS, there will be precious little reason to move to LinuxPPC. I am a unix geek (hey, it pays the bills), and a Mac geek (since I wrote my Master's thesis in 1986, on a Mac plus). I will have no reason to use LinuxPPC. I will buy MacOS X shortly after it is released.
I can already code in Perl, Java, Python, and Tcl/Tk on MacOS, sometimes with slight differences. MacOS X puts a real flavor of Unix underneath, so I don't have to take any steps (like saving and rebooting) to balance the checkbook, pay taxes, write letters, or get my snapshots polished and up on the web. In a few months more, I'll be editing video. Best of Both Worlds.
Would Linux i386 users pay $99 for a package that let them run the latest Win2000 applications on their Linux box, with full vendor support?
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The B1 is a great example of Republican defense priorities. Cancelled by Carter in the 1970s, resurrected by Reagan. First saw combat under Clinton, in the Kosovo campaign. Billions for what capability, exactly?
So how exactly did the Saturn 2nd Stage reenter the atmosphere and land without burning up?
I am not willing to accept that the consumers have chosen to use Windows. Because Microsoft used illegal tactics to prevent consumers from having a choice.
Try it! Hold a piece of white paper next to your display. Which is brighter? Unless you are in a very dimly lit place, the paper will be brighter.
The computer is a tool to Get Things Done. The right tools enable their users to concentrate on the job, and not worry about the tool. Regardless of whether the job is modern abstract art and the tool is a paint can (just saw Pollock), or tweaking a photo spread for just the right emotional impact to open an article.
The competent want a tool that lets them focus on the hard part of doing the job, and not on the tool itself.
MacOS X does not sacrifice power for ease of usability.
I still have a few copies of Creative Computing from 1975 and 1976. One with the original ad for the $666 Apple motherboard.
After March 24 (release of BSD-based MacOS X) get an iMac or a G4 Cube. Both are fanless; the only noise comes from the speakers (on the iMac) or the Hard Drive.
Unfortunately for your argument, using a monopoly to gain a monopoly in a related market is illegal. And has been for many decades.
Ashcroft lied under oath in his Senate confirmation hearings. And lied in Ronnie White's confirmation hearings.
The US Government has been trying to regulate crypto for a very long time. Who remembers the Clipper Chip? With this history of regulation, plus the abuse and corruption generated by the War On Drugs, it is reasonable for the /.er on the net to be wary of government calls for more regulation.
As part the judgement in AT&T's Patent Infringement case against WU, AT&T got to use all of Edison's improvements (the carbon microphone being one that lasted until the 1970s.)
Cocoa (OpenStep API),
Carbon (Carbon API, derived from Classic MacOS), and
Classic (Classic MacOS; all applications are in one shared memory address. One crashing Classic application can take out all classic applications, but will not take out the OS, Carbon, or Cocoa applications).
NextSTEP 1.0 was released June 1989. BSD 4.4-Lite2 was released June 1995. You do the math.
In this case, you were foolish. For, at http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/fa q.html, it says
"Darwin and BSD
Q. Why is Darwin based on BSD UNIX?
A. There are several reasons for this. The first one is historical. Mac OS X draws a lot of its code base from a system called OPENSTEP, created by NeXT Software, which Apple bought in 1997. OPENSTEP and its predecessor, NEXTSTEP, were based on 4.3 BSD. "
Which clearly disprooves the point you were trying to make.
That would be a lot like driving the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey....
No capsule from Mercury/Gemini/Apollo was ever reused.
Coming from a very technically-oriented FreeBSD core developer, I found this also surprising. It shows how MacOS might now appeal to both the very technical, the very artistic, and the very newbie - something not normally possible. Again, we'll see what happens here (I, for one, would never wish to waste money to buy the overexpensive hardware and software compared to a decent Linux box).
I'm not surprised at all. For a decade, I've earned a living coding for Unix, while using a Mac for personal use. The mark of a professional is use of the right tool for the right job.
No, this is not true. When prices take into all side-effects of a transaction, this works.
But when side-effects escape, like carbon dioxide out the tailpipe raising global climate temperatures, which serves up bigger and more powerful hurricanes/typhoons, which cause more damage, then no, money is not all that matters.
One of the rolls of government is to set up the right kinds of rules to push these side-effects back into the prices folks pay. Trading pollution-allottments are a policy along these lines that works well.
I don't think I will do that, though.
OOP exists to make it easier to build exactly these constructs. The earliest C++ compilers produced C code as output, and this is how they did it. Yes, the two constructs are equivalent. But the C code example is more error prone.
How is C better for low level systems programming? In many ways, C++ is a better C. If you don't use the complex features, the language isn't comples.
Like protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking?
What do 1970s timesharing technologies have to do with Apple's innovations?
if you want these features that are only available on Macs today, you pay for it.
I can't think of a single thing that's only available on a Mac, besides perhaps an eye-poppingly high price tag.
iMovie 2, iTunes, no-hassle connection with digital cameras and other firewire peripherals, iTools.
Pythagorean theorem gives a screen roughly 8.3 x 12.5 inches (for a 15" diagonal and 3/2 aspect ratio). That's 92 dpi. Whaddya want?
When OS X ships as the standard MacOS, there will be precious little reason to move to LinuxPPC. I am a unix geek (hey, it pays the bills), and a Mac geek (since I wrote my Master's thesis in 1986, on a Mac plus). I will have no reason to use LinuxPPC. I will buy MacOS X shortly after it is released.
I can already code in Perl, Java, Python, and Tcl/Tk on MacOS, sometimes with slight differences. MacOS X puts a real flavor of Unix underneath, so I don't have to take any steps (like saving and rebooting) to balance the checkbook, pay taxes, write letters, or get my snapshots polished and up on the web. In a few months more, I'll be editing video. Best of Both Worlds.
Would Linux i386 users pay $99 for a package that let them run the latest Win2000 applications on their Linux box, with full vendor support?
I have this niggle with ignorant slashdot posters. NCSA Telnet has been a Mac application since, what, 1988? A dozen years ago.