... Rather than argue about their right to have the app, they simply pulled it so people wouldn't be able to argue about it on the blogosphere. And that's why we are arguing about it here.
Breathing even wood (or spaghetti) dust regularly can be toxic. I know people who have worked 10+ years in saw mills (third-world country, no mask) and ended up with major respiratory problems.
RTFpost...he gave the wrong account #...it was his mistake, and by doing it, he got bumped off the automated (and quick) activation queue and got on a slower pile (probably requiring human intervention)...and you want him to brick apple's store for that?
Well, you "partner in crime" is correct in that Aqua is not OSS, and is only available from Apple. But AFAIK, there are atleast a few Aqua-lookalike skins floating around, and some of them are OSS.
I hacked away at Darwin to see if it would run on Intel a bit before Apple bit Intel for chips. Almost worked, but i needed those modules that bypassed the TPC stuff...
If indeed it has been closed, it is going down the wrong philosophical path, and Steve Jobs should rethink the strategy on this (loss in revenues from pirating vs. goodwill from OSS.) But then I have not seen Apple indicate that it will be closed.
He actually has a desire to recompile the kernel and not get ad hits as far as this article appears.
I remain skeptical. How many Mac users are there who are recompiling xnu (not just to blog about it on Infoworld etc., but because they have actually studied it, and improved upon it?)
Even the parts of the OS that are most useful for tinkering were an afterthought for Apple.
You lost me on that. The part of the OS that is "most useful for tinkering" is xnu, the kernel. For those who care, the only missing piece right now is xnu; it has not been updated - there is no "afterthought for Apple" (yet).
FWIW, xnu from Darwin released before the Intel switch six months ago is still available for Infoworld blogers to recompile to their heart's content.
UAE operating a spaceport? We have problems about even letting them manage the logistics of loading/unloading containers at seaports, and we'll let them fly rockets capable of putting a payload in LEO?
Dantzig (with Fulkerson and Johnson) was also the first to publish a TSP algorithm that optimized a 49-city tour. Of course these days, 13k-city solutions are considered par for the course, but back in the 1950's a 49-city tour was a very big deal.
Another thing I'll remember him for is his interesting exercise in urban design Compact City
Drdink's list of apps is a good start. I have a list of OS X software I made for two of my "switcher" friends, and now that you are in the same boat, here it is.
These are all the free (as in beer) applications I use all the time:
WireTap: Save an audio file of any sound being played on the Mac by any other application.
DVDBackup: Great for backing up DVDs (while removing region coding, CSS encryption, and Macrovision encryption.) You'll still need Toast to burn the DVDs though.
PixelNhance: A must-have to tinker with the color/brightness/contrast etc. of your digital pictures.
Pixen: The best pixel-level editor on any platform.
ChartSmith: Wonderfull for making all kinds of charts you have ever thought of (and some you haven't).
EvoCAM: Great app to record/play (or otherwise control) a Firewire/USB camera hooked to your Mac. Well worth the shareware price. (Also checkout their other offerings - ImageDV and VideoScope)
Intaglio: The 2D vector drawing/CAD program of my choice for simple CAD/ technical drawings.
Keynote: A (much better than) PowerPoint replacement from Apple. I use this all the time. (When it came out originally, I paid $$ for it; I heard Apple is bundling it with iLife now?)
Little Snitch: Keeps tabs on any stealth connections being made to/from your Mac, Shareware.
Intuem: Nice MIDI app with a clean interface. (GarageBand, one of Apple's iLife apps, is great for Audio/MIDI as well, but I find it limiting for my purpose because it does not do MIDI-out to my keyboard/synth.)
Haven't used it in almost 15 years, but back when I did, VersaTerm Pro used to handle evrything I threw at it (mostly Tektronix emulation for wild SASGraph plots, but I also remember doing tn3270 with some tweaking). It might work for you.
On an 11 kilometer stretch of Interstate 15's isolated High Occupancy Vehicle lanes, the National Automated Highway System Consortium (nahsc.volpe.dot.gov) embedded magnets in the surface of the road. Along the shoulder, radio beacons were installed. Test vehicles were outfitted with optical sensors, radio communication equipment and computers. On August 8, 1997, these vehicles were driven by an experimental automated highway system along the test track. Human "drivers" sat behind the wheel, but it was the computer that dodged obstacles, merged vehicles and braked to stop.
The cars moved in two basic formations. As "free agents," each vehicle traveled independent of the others. As a "platoon," several cars followed each other within a few meters, forming an "auto train" that could grow or shrink as vehicles left and joined the platoon.
The effort described in the parent article is just another small step in the automation of transporting people safely and efficiently, and these are the type of cars that could potentially populate such an automated system.
(Disclaimer- I have worked on more than a few ITS projects:)
These would likely be illegal to operate in most (if not all) parts of the US. There is a rule governing the placement of axles (and the weight they can carry) for highway trucks. It is called the Bridge Formula and provides the maximum load carried by 2 or more consecutive axles in a vehicle. Its purpose is to reduce the risk of damage to highway bridges and protect "structurally deficient" bridges from failure.
For this reason, you'll see that most "doubles" (2 trailers+tractor) won't have tandem axles in the trailers, while the doubles with tandem axles in the trailers won't be able to carry any where close to the 36 kip max allowable.
AFAIK, only a couple of western states allow "triples" (3 trailers+tractor) and they can operate only on a very small designated part of the highway network.
Sonny, as of this summer, I am a happily retired individual, who (I'll wager) has invested more in this country's economy and well being than you can even dream of. I guess that makes me "a waste of protoplasm".
...preserving the tradition of nicety....
Ah yes......the hallowed bastion of nicety that you have preserved for humanity all these years. Future generations will thank you.
Chill out. No one is forcing it down your throat, nor forcing you to part with $9.00 to see this movie. If people want to see it (and judging from the packed theaters, a lot do), more power to them. That is the essence of freedom. Just as you are perfectly free to utter:
Just fuck you and anyone who looks like you.
hmm...I definitely pray that I don't look like you, since I would be embarassed if any one ever mistook me for you (or vise-versa). However, since I have no Idea what your face might look like, I'll offer the following bit of gentle advice to save yourself from "f*@#ing" yourself as per your own dictum: do consider changing "looks" to "thinks". In which case I am certain there will be no ambiguities.
Have a nice day.
cheers- raga
(yes, that's a handle not a name, not that it makes a difference to a racist redneck)
What makes the US the great country that is espouses to be is freedom of speech, and thought. It seems like you miss living in a strict totalitarian dictatorship, Perhaps the USSR under Stalin? or China under Mao? Or how about Iraq under Saddam? Or you would like to turn the US into one of the aformentioned states (as what GWB said on camera "I'd live to be a dictator" (don't have the excat wuote...but that is as close as I can remember)
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I agree that oil is "likely to continue to be the primary source of energy at least through the middle of the century. But that is not the same as saying that the production of oil is nearing its peak, and that we are almost at the end of the era of "cheap oil". You can quibble about whether the peak will happen in 5 years or 15. But all data suggests that it will happen soon (1-2 decades max.)
It may difficult to predict where exactly we are on a 'S' shaped logistic curve for oil production. But one thing is certain - we are definitely past the intial exponential growth phase and most likely on (the more or less) linear mid-section of the 'S'. All that remains is the saturation phase (the upper part of the 'S' curve). You can argue all you want with words, but the data sez otherwise.
BTW, I know a few oil co. geologists and engineers. They are of the same opinion.
cheers- raga
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I do get annoyed by peakoil scaremongerers who ignore the fact that people continue making new finds around the world - even in bizarre places where we've never even thought of looking before, such as granite basement rock (????... ok, someone explain to me how that one works;) And yet, look at Vietnam, and all of its granite fields like White Tiger...).
This is not scaremongerering. Similar analysis has been done by engineers/geologists from ExxonMobil, BP, Shell etc. Campbell's seminal article in SciAm is probably the best discussion I have seen.
Add to the mix the fact that some oil companies have been overestimating their oil reserves, and you have a looming problem that is notscaremongering.
Are we adapting (using our oil resources more wisely/conserving)? Not really.
The total fleet fuel economy peaked in 1987 at 26.2 mpg when light trucks made up a mere 28.1 percent of the market. By 2001 with light trucks making up 46.7 percent of the market total fleet fuel economy fell to 24.4 mpg.
The standards for all light trucks manufactured is set at 21.0 mpg for MY 2005, 21.6 mpg for MY 2006, and 22.2 mpg for MY 2007. This rule is effective May 5, 2003.
Unfrotunately, any debate on oil quickly degenerates into partisan bickerring. The fact remains tha gasoline is cheap and we are used to it. Adjusted for inflation, we should be paying almost twice of what we are used to. Like it or not, we are headed for sharply higher oil prices. This will likely provide a shock to the stock market and and a related price rise in other comodities we consume.
BTW, none of theses views are from "liberal environmentalist caremongerers" (whoever the heck they are.)
This is not a submarine patent. However, Forgent may be on shaky grounds as far as collection of huge amounts of license fee is concerned. The JPEG Committee specifically states that "Specifically, SC 29 affirms the ISO policy of only considering technology that is free of "IP rights" or which is available on a royalty and license fee free basis or which is available under reasonable terms and conditions on a non-discriminatory basis." (IANAL:)Checkout this page.
"WG 1 requires all participants within all National Bodies to disclose and identify any and all patent rights and the specific technologies within the Verification Model to which they apply. Further, WG 1 requires this disclosure and identification at the time of submission of technology for VM consideration if submitted by the patent holder or no later than one meeting after submission of technology if the technology is not submitted by the patent holder. Further, WG 1 requires that the form contained in WG 1 N1267 be completed as part of this disclosure. This request is in accordance with ISO/IEC directives Part II, Annex A, Section A.2....
"SC 29 affirms and supports ISO policy that requires disclosure of the existence of Intellectual Property (IP) rights or pending rights (such as patents or pending patent applications), hereafter referred to as "IP rights", associated with any technology submitted to SC 29/WGs for consideration for inclusion in any ISO/IEC standard. Specifically, SC 29 affirms the ISO policy of only considering technology that is free of "IP rights" or which is available on a royalty and license fee free basis or which is available under reasonable terms and conditions on a non-discriminatory basis. "...
In 2002, it became widely publicised that one or more companies were making claims in some countries that they had patents which they believed read on the original JPEG standard IS10918-1. The JPEG Committee produces standards, which have a global basis, and are unable to comment on the validity of such claims, or potential infringement by particular implementations within specific jurisdictions. No such claims have (at January 2004) been registered formally through the appropriate channels at ISO and ITU-T, so far as the Webmaster is aware. In an attempt to provide as much technical background as possible to assist companies approached concerning such patent claims, JPEG have assembled a Historical Archive of as much material as possible, which helps show how decisions were taken, what the technical inputs were behind those decisions, and some of the background information concerning the involvement of companies and individuals in the standardisation process. These are currently provided without further commentary as a service to members of the JPEG committee only, primarily for copyright reasons.
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... Rather than argue about their right to have the app, they simply pulled it so people wouldn't be able to argue about it on the blogosphere. And that's why we are arguing about it here.Breathing even wood (or spaghetti) dust regularly can be toxic. I know people who have worked 10+ years in saw mills (third-world country, no mask) and ended up with major respiratory problems.
RTFpost...he gave the wrong account #...it was his mistake, and by doing it, he got bumped off the automated (and quick) activation queue and got on a slower pile (probably requiring human intervention)...and you want him to brick apple's store for that?
Umm...and who's the f*cking lunatic?
Well, you "partner in crime" is correct in that Aqua is not OSS, and is only available from Apple. But AFAIK, there are atleast a few Aqua-lookalike skins floating around, and some of them are OSS.
cheers- raga
cheers- raga
So all you xnu hackers, please stand up and be counted. As I recall, only three people even came close to understanding the kernel bug in the The Mac OS X Expert Challenge. As previously reported on slashdot, "Also looks like other than these guys, nobody got anywhere with the problem.". So much for the myth of the legions of ubergeeks working with Macs.
You lost me on that. The part of the OS that is "most useful for tinkering" is xnu, the kernel. For those who care, the only missing piece right now is xnu; it has not been updated - there is no "afterthought for Apple" (yet).FWIW, xnu from Darwin released before the Intel switch six months ago is still available for Infoworld blogers to recompile to their heart's content.
cheers- raga
UAE operating a spaceport? We have problems about even letting them manage the logistics of loading/unloading containers at seaports, and we'll let them fly rockets capable of putting a payload in LEO?
Great story (magic, violence, sex), with excellent music, lights, costume, sets ... (and perhaps, most importantly for /. readers, full frontal... :^)
Yes, it is billed an "opera", but the music's cool and the libretto is in english and quite comprehensible!
cheers- raga
Another thing I'll remember him for is his interesting exercise in urban design Compact City
cheers-raga
Start with the Interference Experiments.
Then go on to EMWaves, followed by a visit to the Quantum Zone.
Or if you have the time and the inclination, I'd recommend this entire set as a crash course in modern physics for the physics-impaired.
cheers- raga
it has a strict but simple syntax (far fewer ways you can make unintentional errors, unlike, say C++)
it is blazingly fast (only writing in Assembly code could likely beat it in speed)
it has great compiler flags for parallel processing and optimization (just make sure you have "clean" code that doesn't jump in and out of loops)
it is easily portable (I can run code written for the CRAY X/Y-MP in the 1980s, on a G5 in 2005)
it has a well tested and supported library for almost all types of numerical methods and heuristics.
Other than that, it is pretty much worthless.{grin}
cheers- raga
These are all the free (as in beer) applications I use all the time:
WireTap: Save an audio file of any sound being played on the Mac by any other application.
DVDBackup: Great for backing up DVDs (while removing region coding, CSS encryption, and Macrovision encryption.) You'll still need Toast to burn the DVDs though.
PixelNhance: A must-have to tinker with the color/brightness/contrast etc. of your digital pictures.
Pixen: The best pixel-level editor on any platform.
MorphX: Morphs one image into another.
SnapNDrag: For screen captures (Grab is another basic screen capture utility that comes bundled with OSX).
Galerie: Puts your photos in a nice album-type gallery of web pages for being served by a web server.
LaTex Equation Editor and Tex Fog: The equation editors I use. Requires Tex/LaTex to be installed..
And if you are into LaTex, you'll also want CPlot: A parametric equation plotter.
CyberDuck: Open source S/FTP client. (Other FTP clients for OSX include osXigen, Transmit, Fetch, Fugu...).
Onyx: A must-have system utility.
MenuMeter: Another must-have system info utility. Excellent.
Books: A library software (book database).
Xnippets: A decent information organiser.
Carbon Copy Cloner: Backup software. (Donationware)
A few apps I have gladly paid money to use:
ChartSmith: Wonderfull for making all kinds of charts you have ever thought of (and some you haven't).
EvoCAM: Great app to record/play (or otherwise control) a Firewire/USB camera hooked to your Mac. Well worth the shareware price. (Also checkout their other offerings - ImageDV and VideoScope)
Intaglio: The 2D vector drawing/CAD program of my choice for simple CAD/ technical drawings.
Keynote: A (much better than) PowerPoint replacement from Apple. I use this all the time. (When it came out originally, I paid $$ for it; I heard Apple is bundling it with iLife now?)
Little Snitch: Keeps tabs on any stealth connections being made to/from your Mac, Shareware.
Intuem: Nice MIDI app with a clean interface. (GarageBand, one of Apple's iLife apps, is great for Audio/MIDI as well, but I find it limiting for my purpose because it does not do MIDI-out to my keyboard/synth.)
cheers- raga
cheers- raga
There are many programs under ITS, one of which, the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative includes research efforts at hands-off driving,. Hands-off driving was first tested on an Interstate Highay in 1997,
The effort described in the parent article is just another small step in the automation of transporting people safely and efficiently, and these are the type of cars that could potentially populate such an automated system.(Disclaimer- I have worked on more than a few ITS projects :)
cheers- raga
For this reason, you'll see that most "doubles" (2 trailers+tractor) won't have tandem axles in the trailers, while the doubles with tandem axles in the trailers won't be able to carry any where close to the 36 kip max allowable.
AFAIK, only a couple of western states allow "triples" (3 trailers+tractor) and they can operate only on a very small designated part of the highway network.
cheers- raga
cheers- raga
cheers- raga
Sonny, as of this summer, I am a happily retired individual, who (I'll wager) has invested more in this country's economy and well being than you can even dream of. I guess that makes me "a waste of protoplasm".
Ah yes......the hallowed bastion of nicety that you have preserved for humanity all these years. Future generations will thank you.
Stop censorship..
Unless you are the one doing it, right?
cheers- raga
Just fuck you and anyone who looks like you.
hmm...I definitely pray that I don't look like you, since I would be embarassed if any one ever mistook me for you (or vise-versa). However, since I have no Idea what your face might look like, I'll offer the following bit of gentle advice to save yourself from "f*@#ing" yourself as per your own dictum: do consider changing "looks" to "thinks". In which case I am certain there will be no ambiguities.
Have a nice day.
cheers- raga
(yes, that's a handle not a name, not that it makes a difference to a racist redneck)
What makes the US the great country that is espouses to be is freedom of speech, and thought. It seems like you miss living in a strict totalitarian dictatorship, Perhaps the USSR under Stalin? or China under Mao? Or how about Iraq under Saddam? Or you would like to turn the US into one of the aformentioned states (as what GWB said on camera "I'd live to be a dictator" (don't have the excat wuote...but that is as close as I can remember)
cheers- raga
cheers- raga
It may difficult to predict where exactly we are on a 'S' shaped logistic curve for oil production. But one thing is certain - we are definitely past the intial exponential growth phase and most likely on (the more or less) linear mid-section of the 'S'. All that remains is the saturation phase (the upper part of the 'S' curve). You can argue all you want with words, but the data sez otherwise.
BTW, I know a few oil co. geologists and engineers. They are of the same opinion.
cheers- raga
Here is what ExxonMobil has to say about the matter. Hardly scaremongering.
Add to the mix the fact that some oil companies have been overestimating their oil reserves, and you have a looming problem that is notscaremongering. Are we adapting (using our oil resources more wisely/conserving)? Not really.
Unfrotunately, any debate on oil quickly degenerates into partisan bickerring. The fact remains tha gasoline is cheap and we are used to it. Adjusted for inflation, we should be paying almost twice of what we are used to. Like it or not, we are headed for sharply higher oil prices. This will likely provide a shock to the stock market and and a related price rise in other comodities we consume.BTW, none of theses views are from "liberal environmentalist caremongerers" (whoever the heck they are.)
Cheers- raga
cheers- raga