The x86 ISA is older than I am...and I'm not a kid niether. Intel's most recent high volume CPU core was released in 1994 (pro) and has been the basis for what their doing for a long time. The p4 is slower than the p3. Until I see it in stores, Itanium is vapor.
My G4 is a bit more with the times, as far as computing technology than most implementations of the x86 ISA. Athon's a viable alternative, but remeber, they licensed thier copper fabrication process from....Motorola.
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IBM's got some nifty stuff coming down the pipe (SOI, POWER 4) that really should blow the doors of most x86 implementations.
Mass Transit will become all the rage, as "The Claw" (picks you up in place and deposits you at destination like a claw game in an arcade) and an elaborate system of catapults, nets, parachutes and fly-by-wire technologies are deployed.
3 dimensional zero-g pool will become the game of space hustlers.
Somebody will successfully market flying cars for about a quarter, until some student driver crashes a flying SUV into the factory.
McDonalds will perfect replicator technology like in Star Trek, and build a chain of pay replicator kiosks throughout the world. They will be sued, because the food will be too hot.
Autonomous robot pooper scoopers.
Missle Defense system sold to AOL-Time/Warner for use as 4th of July spectacle.
Somebody once posted or quoted here that running microsoft OS's on the net was like planting the same strain of corn throughout the entire country, and that a single corn disease could wipe them all out.
It doesn't matter whether or not some crackers futzed with the 'doze source. I think all of us agree that it's so darned insecure and widespread that even as a checksummed audited binary, it's a national security threat.
All a foreign nation needs to do to really screw us over is combine the growth mechanism of melissa or ILOVEYOU and the bittersweet tang of back orifice (modified enough to fool the 2 year old virus patterns most people are using), and they've got us by the balls.
Windows by itself is a threat to national security. Thankfully, we have alternatives who's component schemes have ACL's built in , whose source has been audited for buffer overflows, and for the most part are free. The applications are there, and free, to replace office, explorer and most other things.
And I know this works in practice, too. Because I've never owned a windows box in my 20+ years of computing, I've been able (combined with some common sense) to avoid getting a single virus, without the aid of virus scanning utilities.
Back in 97, when I first was getting into server os's, and rhapsody was in dev, I layed out a plan for how I was going to meet my computing needs without using M$ or intel, and it's bearing fruition.
My mac is a powermac 6500, fat chance that it'll run OS X, but it will run various linux distros, I got it in late 96. Since late '83, I've been getting new macs and selling the old ones. But now i need a server.
So I set out to learn unix, the red hat based linux distro's in particular. I prefer to not even have x-windows on my servers, takes up space and I'm never going to use it.
OS X is going to be my workstation. I've been using it for months, and it's sweet. LinuxPPC or YellowDog will be on my 6500 as chains/masq box. The only intel hardware are the pci controllers in the 6500. I have a k6-2/via box running linux which will be my file server.
I imagine this will be the scheme of how OS X will fit in with linux in the home. OS X for day to day work...it literally is fun to use, and has all the nifty unix bits in it to fit in seamlessly with the servers. The servers will be linux or bsd boxen made up of, you guessed it, the old family computer that was otherwise going to be a doorstop or paperweight.
I can even run samba for my roomate's 'doze box.
So I don't think Linux and OS X are going to go head to head...I think they'll go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
man, do I enjoy having the ease of MacOS and a shell in the same OS. It's gotten to the point that Linux is someting I run on my handmedown frankenputers for packet filtering and File serving, and MacOS X is the workstation OS that fits within that landsacape like chocolate and peanut butter.
I guess this is what this is all about. GPL'd OS for the mission critical stuff, and OS X built on unix for the users. I've been living like this for a few months, and man is it ever so sweet. I really dig the ability to use MacOS for most tasks....it's FUN...In my 20+ Years of using computers..this is the first time I've "whistled while I work" while at the same time being able to co-opt the OS with the shell when I've had to get something done NOW despite what the GUI offers me.
I've been using linux for years, but for day to day getting things done with a unix....it's slim pickins on the "average joe getting things done" compared to OS X.
In any case...the proportion of informed people who choose a unix instead of windows is directly proportional to the national security of the nation where it occurs.
At the college I went to, CIS was part of the school of business. I wasn't a CIS major, but had a lot of access to the curriculum because I worked for the school of business. The CIS people were learning networking, how to install office, scripting et al. The CS people were learning all the complex detailed stuff (algorithims, data structures, search functions etc...).
The real irony is that university CS programs teach you how to code and research, but not how to program...you learn that on your own or on the job. CIS programs teach you how to program high level things to get things done, but not how to code or understand the theory involved such that you can apply your intellect to it's full potential as a programmer.
So it really boils down to finding out what you want to do and then finding out how to get there. Most universities will let you build special majors. Maybe the best solution is to build a major that incorportates the best of both majors in the direction you want to go.
I chose multimedia art because I found out that what I wanted to do with the technology was creative expression. I was taught Object Oriented Programming in the Art department with Lingo, I learned C on my own, then HTML and JavaScript because I had to make good on what I put on my resume.
So my advice is don't think about the means of getting there so much. Once you've found out the exact nature of point b, the path to it will make itself known, and you'll know how to take the parts of CS and CIS and make them work for you.
Yeah, the article is completely off base. What they fail to take into account when they decide what's vaporware and what's not is that project managers are not dionne warwicks psychic friends, and they can't possibly foresee every pitfall a project will encounter when they make their shipping estimates. Just because a project slips doesn't mean it's vapor. In my opinion, a thrashing project becomes vapor when the developers give up on it.
I use OS X PB at work for my primary operating system. The only glaring problem I see is that appleshare has some serious issues, but since scp is available from the shell, it's not that big of a deal....actually, it forces me to operate more securely. The OS is a far cry from vapor.
If you want vapor, try a new shipping core from intel that doesn't suck entirely. C'mon...their workhorse PC core is still the P6, released in '94 I believe. They've been promising a nifty replacement since then, and have failed to do anything that impresses users. In fact, it has let AMD whoop some serious ass. OS X was started in '97 as rhapsody/openstep. For an OS project that has changed direction, kernels and goals many times in ~4 years and achieved this much progress, I would have to say it's the furthest thing save a shipping product from vapor.
I've been using os x pb for a while now as my primary OS. I've also been a mac user since before they were shipping to customers, and a linux user since kernel 2.0. What I have to say about reaction to the gui is it depends on what kind of user you are. I won't go back to the old GUI...even though I love it so....I get things done so much faster, smoother, and I find that i actually enjoy computing a whole lot more with aqua...i call it the "whistle while you work" factor. The thing is that it takes a few weeks to hit your stride with the interface, and a lot of people are willing to deride and hack at it before they get a rtrue feeling for what it does for them.
There are three types of os X PB user.
first week of usage:
Unix guy: "Hey, the filesystem looks all funky, how come editing half the stuff in/etc does nothing? Neat ssh and sshd are installed alraedy"
Mac - Linux guy: "Where's the chooser? Where am I? screw it...cd../ what happens if I nmap this box?"
Mac guy: "Where's my damned tabbed folder...where's the chooser?"
Week 3:
Unix guy: "Cool...NetInfo does all the etc stuff...not to self, do not give anyone UID 500"
Mac - Linux guy "Sweet...got X-windows apps running in aqua, screw classic environment to run pshop...I've got gimp. Macos 9 gui is butt ugly compared to aqua"
Mac guy: "Ok...I can put an alias on the desktop, that'll be kinda like tabbed folders. I can get to the fileserver through the go menu. Internet Explorer is a piece of crap that doesn't know how to save files...classic is slow"
Week 5:
Unix guy "holy crap...if I type >console at login, I get a console....sweet"
mac - linux guy "cool, I can customize the desktop and GUI to my liking at the prompt....this is WAY better than ResEdit...I can get all the things I mis....wait, I don't miss the finder at all"
XML gives you your polygons (scalable vector graphics), text and points to other data. Stylesheets determine layout. You can have a different set of styles for diferent devices (web, pda, mp3 players). ECMA-262 Hooked on top a custom DOM will give you client side programming for whatever you may need it for, and if you need something more hefty, tell the DTD to use shockwave or something when it sees that datatype. All the associated files generated here can also be the output of java servelet apps or some other form of app server, so that's a pretty powerful widget that does even more than what you asked for, and is production guy friendly to some extent. If you'd like to help speed it along:
All markup will be in a character set represented 60 bit Babylonian positional/grouping numeration. No alphabetic values allowed. Files are to be stored on metal sheets, and written on with blood. transport of the files will be via semafore, with bonobo chimpanzees with flags in hands and feet as routers. Layout information will be not only mixed in with the data, it will be encoded with rot13, with the data in rot8, to aid in insanity of web developer.
If telco's are a chief provider of bandwidth to the "last mile" and there's nothing they can do about VoIP happening (crypto and open source kick ass), then maybe they should find a way to profit from it without lobbying for policy and laws.
Lobbying for all that costs money...lots of it...and if the law is challenged in the courts...that's a big hidden cost. Cost of the due diligence work of monitoring traffic for VoIP costs money too. And just how good a reputation will a telco get by prosecuting individuals or groups for finding a way to use equipment they own and bandwidth they pay for to excersize their rights to free speech (if in a country where free spech is protected)...probably not a good one. I'd switch long distance companies over that practice....in fact I'd organize a boycott if y'all would help me.
It makes more sense to to have a three-pronged billing scheme: One for packets only, one for switching only and one for both. DSL makes this entirely possible over the same hardware layer. This way, the company gets to charge appropriately for the use patterns of the user without having to restrict what they do. This also saves them added security costs of a restricted system because it won't be restricted. It's also cheaper to tell the diference between a phone conversation and packets than it is to look at all the packets and tell one protocol than the other...so the billing scheme's fraud detection scheme is cheaper to implement than for a restricted system.
Think about it. The capabilities exist, and the geeks are geeky enough to implement VoIP in such a way that it's extremely difficult and costly to tell if someone's using VoIP. It costs a lot to put restriction and the needed security to make it happen in place. Any corporation would be more prudent and practical in changing their billing scheme to best make use of market conditions rather than spend lots of money trying to dictate market conditions, and HOPING that it works.
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yeah....performance. I've been using OS X PB as my primary OS for over a month. The 2D drawing is a bit latent....but i attribute that to debug code and optimizations to follow. AFAIK....if you take into consideration all the graphical bells and whistles in there....the beta code is prety darned fast. On the under the hood front...it takes a bit more time to launch some services than I expect...maybe it's a similar problem as 2D. In any case, the single most helpful thing you can do in OS X to speed things up is to not use the classic environment...that thing has a vsize of 1.5GB!!!! When I'm not using it, things are smoooothe:)
Remember your first computer? Maybe you were little, your dad brought it home. You were curious. I remember getting an apple IIe one day, and typing very long and polite requests for assitance at the prompt. I didn't know how it worked, but I was curious and intrigued. I tinkered with it, and I learned. Same thing happened when I got my first mac in late 1983...I was 8, and I tinkered with it and learned.
Imagine an 8 year old, next year, getting an iMac. She tinkers with it, and learns....only this time, when she finds Terminal.app, she's learning UNIX. What age were you when you used your first UNIX. If 8, would you have ever bought a windows box? Yes, the delicious, chewy UNIX insides of MacOS X are hidden by a crunchy GUI outside, but larval geeks will find it.
I think OS X's true contribution to computing is that an entire generation of children will learn UNIX. The easy to use GUI will not intimidate them....so they won't be scared away, and the ones who will be inclined to code will likely eventually be turned on to the fact that if they write if for the UNIX bits, they can share it with all their friends who use BSD and Linux.
Remember looking for warez at some point in your life? Imagine a legion of pre-pubescent coders making it so that nobody has to...using GPL.
Never mind the technical differences between this UNIX and that. OS X is the pony car for recruiting OSS coders before they can ride a bike.
I remember waiting outside a BART station waiting for a friend to meet me, when a maketing type (the kind that roam around college campuses with a clipboard full of credit card applications) approached me. This person knew absolutely nothing about the internet. I raised the security question, and this is the gist of the answer:
"@home has special sotware that makes it so nobody can get in your computer"
that's a rough paraphrase as it was about a month ago. Upon hearing this, I gave the girl a quick and dirty guide to internetworking. I asked her where she heard that, and she said the guy who hired her.
I think anyone in this forum can understand that a firewall would be involved if that were the case, but I have never heard of @home installing a firewall on every client machine on their network.
In any case, if the people who know better don't educate their friends on how to defend themselves against these attacks....they will go and get tougher laws passed to make up for their ignorance when they get tired of being cracked.
This is nothing new. All web polls are inherently invalid because of numerous faults in sampling method.
I remember during Apple's really dark times being on the Evangelista email list. My god did we slant some web polls. I would say at least weekly, a post about some webpoll somewhere would pop up, and "the power of mac way" would give them pollsters some religion.
I don't really have any bad feelings about doing this. We were in a death match over mindshare, and I'll be damned if I was going to sit by while nobody did anything...letting MS win by default. We were the only major group fighting for alternative CONSUMER OS's at the time, and all's fair in love and war.
Now I truly dig the free software movement, because now I can fight tech opression AND help shape what I'm fighting for.
In this instance, the webpoll is a bit moot. It's no longer which OS you use, it's what you do with it that makes a difference. The windows sheep can vote in polls all they want. I'm running the same net/web app they are, only my VM is more stable.
The labels are basically loan brokers who promote music to ensure returns. If I'm an artist, and i want to make a record, they give me noney, I make the record, then pay them back somehow.
Usually, the company also handles distribution, promotion, touring...you name it. This all costs money. So what they do is handle all the money, take what they payed for out of the artists profits plus their cut, and leave the scraps to the artist. So If they give me a $50 million dollar contract, I may still be making less than a janitor per year, while they get rich.
If the recording is a work for hire, then they need to hire and pay me to do it. They also need to hire me to perform it on tour. In this context, they would need to pay the artist a fixed, promised amount, and that's the end of it. They can't loan me money and take more than they give anymore. No more smoke and mirrors eating away at an artist's profits. Artists didn't see this oppurtunity to sue for back wages and profit, but the recording industry did and is trying to save it's ass.
In short then:
Artist: "You hired me to make a recording in exchange for $n, where's the money you promised, beotch...I'm calling my lawyer"
RIAA: "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for them meddling kids!"
The only person who can really claim intellectual property over the definition of a cube is Euclid. The mac Cube isn't even a cube. It's longer on one side with the transparent stuff...I wonder if cobalt just figured "lets fart some money on a lawsuit." I've worked with the cobalt cube, and it's a totally different box than the mac cube, designed for different things and markets. besides, I think if you put linux on a mac cube, it would handily SMOKE a cobalt cube (gee, 128bit vector units), which is what this pissing contest is all about.
Any of you guys heard of a thing called open source? If I'm a geek, and I want to run python/zope/php/mysql/whatever...on 2 G4's on a mach based UNIX, oh what am I to do. GCC is part of osX, so maybe "make-make install" comes to mind. Of course apps will get ported to osX from UNIX. When a graphics shop shells out $x10exp9 on G4's, and all of a sudden want's to cluster batch jobs on the cheap, I think we'll see macGimp and maybe beowulf. Geeks love UNIX. They like to play with more than one kind (if wise). And they want to run their favorite apps. Easy math.
Remember, though, jackson didn't stay the sanctions, so now MS is moreso legally bound to act fairly in the market (as if they ever fucking cared about fair market practices, however) than everybody else starting in october. DOJ saw this coming and they advised jackson to hold off the ruling because of it. Now instead of a quick resolution with the supremes, they have a gavel up their butt for two years.
So let me get this straight, instead of using a high-performance open source RTP-RTSP server to serve quicktime (darwin streaming server), you now have the option of paying out the nose for a proprietary one (real)?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
And seeing as how Darwin runs on these platforms:
FreeBSD 3.4 (server and proxy) Red Hat Linux 6.2 (server and proxy) Solaris 7 (server and proxy) Windows NT Server/Windows 2000 Server(server)
AND real player can play RTP-RTSP streamed media anyway, why on earth would you bother with real's server at all?
This is how I learned the relationship between the interface and the code, how info flows between them. I learned c, and it got me nowhere until I learned how my code fit in the scheme of things. By teaching javascript form handling, you teach i/o between your code and the UI, which is important. Also, javascript is garbage collected and only has one kind of variable, "var", so it's easy to get loops and other stuff down, and build from there without getting discouraged by memory and variable quirks. With mozilla, javascript has a lot of potential for doing some serious development, so it's an easy language to learn were you see immediate results, and potentially accomplish a lot of great stuff....just the thing to keep a kid motivated. Since the syntax is a lot like c, and it's object oriented, it isn't a big jump to java and c++ after you've mastered js.
I see a lot of "host your site in *" posts. Well, no government eyeing the ecommerce pie in the sky wants to look like pirate island to the rest of the world, so a cryptonomiconesqe "crypt" would be too difficult to set up, not to metnion easy to attack (one location). Why not set up a distributed vhosting protocol with freenet-like anonymity? It's harder to track down and sue the owner of a website when the http server is a different box depending on where you connect, possibly even localhost. Also, if this vhttp network had it's own top-level domain, or used httpv or something as the protocol, then we can hack mozilla so that the protocol has it's own DNS that will block ownership seeking lookups, so that if somebody in a third world country wants to combat the goverment-sanctioned death squads by organizing a resistance, the death squad will be SOL. We could just say "use freenet", but the people you're tyring to reach with such messages may be intimidated by even the web, so we have to make it simple for use by anybody.
Possibly, this can be done differently by adding the functionality onto freenet, and have users point to a node for their DNS.
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The x86 ISA is older than I am...and I'm not a kid niether. Intel's most recent high volume CPU core was released in 1994 (pro) and has been the basis for what their doing for a long time. The p4 is slower than the p3. Until I see it in stores, Itanium is vapor.
My G4 is a bit more with the times, as far as computing technology than most implementations of the x86 ISA. Athon's a viable alternative, but remeber, they licensed thier copper fabrication process from....Motorola.
Als0 als0 wik:
IBM's got some nifty stuff coming down the pipe (SOI, POWER 4) that really should blow the doors of most x86 implementations.
Mass Transit will become all the rage, as "The Claw" (picks you up in place and deposits you at destination like a claw game in an arcade) and an elaborate system of catapults, nets, parachutes and fly-by-wire technologies are deployed.
3 dimensional zero-g pool will become the game of space hustlers.
Somebody will successfully market flying cars for about a quarter, until some student driver crashes a flying SUV into the factory.
McDonalds will perfect replicator technology like in Star Trek, and build a chain of pay replicator kiosks throughout the world. They will be sued, because the food will be too hot.
Autonomous robot pooper scoopers.
Missle Defense system sold to AOL-Time/Warner for use as 4th of July spectacle.
Somebody once posted or quoted here that running microsoft OS's on the net was like planting the same strain of corn throughout the entire country, and that a single corn disease could wipe them all out.
It doesn't matter whether or not some crackers futzed with the 'doze source. I think all of us agree that it's so darned insecure and widespread that even as a checksummed audited binary, it's a national security threat.
All a foreign nation needs to do to really screw us over is combine the growth mechanism of melissa or ILOVEYOU and the bittersweet tang of back orifice (modified enough to fool the 2 year old virus patterns most people are using), and they've got us by the balls.
Windows by itself is a threat to national security. Thankfully, we have alternatives who's component schemes have ACL's built in , whose source has been audited for buffer overflows, and for the most part are free. The applications are there, and free, to replace office, explorer and most other things.
And I know this works in practice, too. Because I've never owned a windows box in my 20+ years of computing, I've been able (combined with some common sense) to avoid getting a single virus, without the aid of virus scanning utilities.
Back in 97, when I first was getting into server os's, and rhapsody was in dev, I layed out a plan for how I was going to meet my computing needs without using M$ or intel, and it's bearing fruition.
My mac is a powermac 6500, fat chance that it'll run OS X, but it will run various linux distros, I got it in late 96. Since late '83, I've been getting new macs and selling the old ones. But now i need a server.
So I set out to learn unix, the red hat based linux distro's in particular. I prefer to not even have x-windows on my servers, takes up space and I'm never going to use it.
OS X is going to be my workstation. I've been using it for months, and it's sweet. LinuxPPC or YellowDog will be on my 6500 as chains/masq box. The only intel hardware are the pci controllers in the 6500. I have a k6-2/via box running linux which will be my file server.
I imagine this will be the scheme of how OS X will fit in with linux in the home. OS X for day to day work...it literally is fun to use, and has all the nifty unix bits in it to fit in seamlessly with the servers. The servers will be linux or bsd boxen made up of, you guessed it, the old family computer that was otherwise going to be a doorstop or paperweight.
I can even run samba for my roomate's 'doze box.
So I don't think Linux and OS X are going to go head to head...I think they'll go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
man, do I enjoy having the ease of MacOS and a shell in the same OS. It's gotten to the point that Linux is someting I run on my handmedown frankenputers for packet filtering and File serving, and MacOS X is the workstation OS that fits within that landsacape like chocolate and peanut butter.
I guess this is what this is all about. GPL'd OS for the mission critical stuff, and OS X built on unix for the users. I've been living like this for a few months, and man is it ever so sweet. I really dig the ability to use MacOS for most tasks....it's FUN...In my 20+ Years of using computers..this is the first time I've "whistled while I work" while at the same time being able to co-opt the OS with the shell when I've had to get something done NOW despite what the GUI offers me.
I've been using linux for years, but for day to day getting things done with a unix....it's slim pickins on the "average joe getting things done" compared to OS X.
In any case...the proportion of informed people who choose a unix instead of windows is directly proportional to the national security of the nation where it occurs.
MOOF!!!!!
At the college I went to, CIS was part of the school of business. I wasn't a CIS major, but had a lot of access to the curriculum because I worked for the school of business. The CIS people were learning networking, how to install office, scripting et al. The CS people were learning all the complex detailed stuff (algorithims, data structures, search functions etc...).
The real irony is that university CS programs teach you how to code and research, but not how to program...you learn that on your own or on the job. CIS programs teach you how to program high level things to get things done, but not how to code or understand the theory involved such that you can apply your intellect to it's full potential as a programmer.
So it really boils down to finding out what you want to do and then finding out how to get there. Most universities will let you build special majors. Maybe the best solution is to build a major that incorportates the best of both majors in the direction you want to go.
I chose multimedia art because I found out that what I wanted to do with the technology was creative expression. I was taught Object Oriented Programming in the Art department with Lingo, I learned C on my own, then HTML and JavaScript because I had to make good on what I put on my resume.
So my advice is don't think about the means of getting there so much. Once you've found out the exact nature of point b, the path to it will make itself known, and you'll know how to take the parts of CS and CIS and make them work for you.
Yeah, the article is completely off base. What they fail to take into account when they decide what's vaporware and what's not is that project managers are not dionne warwicks psychic friends, and they can't possibly foresee every pitfall a project will encounter when they make their shipping estimates. Just because a project slips doesn't mean it's vapor. In my opinion, a thrashing project becomes vapor when the developers give up on it.
I use OS X PB at work for my primary operating system. The only glaring problem I see is that appleshare has some serious issues, but since scp is available from the shell, it's not that big of a deal....actually, it forces me to operate more securely. The OS is a far cry from vapor.
If you want vapor, try a new shipping core from intel that doesn't suck entirely. C'mon...their workhorse PC core is still the P6, released in '94 I believe. They've been promising a nifty replacement since then, and have failed to do anything that impresses users. In fact, it has let AMD whoop some serious ass. OS X was started in '97 as rhapsody/openstep. For an OS project that has changed direction, kernels and goals many times in ~4 years and achieved this much progress, I would have to say it's the furthest thing save a shipping product from vapor.
I've been using os x pb for a while now as my primary OS. I've also been a mac user since before they were shipping to customers, and a linux user since kernel 2.0. What I have to say about reaction to the gui is it depends on what kind of user you are. I won't go back to the old GUI...even though I love it so....I get things done so much faster, smoother, and I find that i actually enjoy computing a whole lot more with aqua...i call it the "whistle while you work" factor. The thing is that it takes a few weeks to hit your stride with the interface, and a lot of people are willing to deride and hack at it before they get a rtrue feeling for what it does for them.
/etc does nothing? Neat ssh and sshd are installed alraedy"
../ what happens if I nmap this box?"
There are three types of os X PB user.
first week of usage:
Unix guy: "Hey, the filesystem looks all funky, how come editing half the stuff in
Mac - Linux guy: "Where's the chooser? Where am I? screw it...cd
Mac guy: "Where's my damned tabbed folder...where's the chooser?"
Week 3:
Unix guy: "Cool...NetInfo does all the etc stuff...not to self, do not give anyone UID 500"
Mac - Linux guy "Sweet...got X-windows apps running in aqua, screw classic environment to run pshop...I've got gimp. Macos 9 gui is butt ugly compared to aqua"
Mac guy: "Ok...I can put an alias on the desktop, that'll be kinda like tabbed folders. I can get to the fileserver through the go menu. Internet Explorer is a piece of crap that doesn't know how to save files...classic is slow"
Week 5:
Unix guy "holy crap...if I type >console at login, I get a console....sweet"
mac - linux guy "cool, I can customize the desktop and GUI to my liking at the prompt....this is WAY better than ResEdit...I can get all the things I mis....wait, I don't miss the finder at all"
mac guy "I think I can work with this"
XML gives you your polygons (scalable vector graphics), text and points to other data. Stylesheets determine layout. You can have a different set of styles for diferent devices (web, pda, mp3 players). ECMA-262 Hooked on top a custom DOM will give you client side programming for whatever you may need it for, and if you need something more hefty, tell the DTD to use shockwave or something when it sees that datatype. All the associated files generated here can also be the output of java servelet apps or some other form of app server, so that's a pretty powerful widget that does even more than what you asked for, and is production guy friendly to some extent. If you'd like to help speed it along:
http://www.w3.org/XML/
All markup will be in a character set represented 60 bit Babylonian positional/grouping numeration. No alphabetic values allowed. Files are to be stored on metal sheets, and written on with blood. transport of the files will be via semafore, with bonobo chimpanzees with flags in hands and feet as routers. Layout information will be not only mixed in with the data, it will be encoded with rot13, with the data in rot8, to aid in insanity of web developer.
right on, man
If telco's are a chief provider of bandwidth to the "last mile" and there's nothing they can do about VoIP happening (crypto and open source kick ass), then maybe they should find a way to profit from it without lobbying for policy and laws.
Lobbying for all that costs money...lots of it...and if the law is challenged in the courts...that's a big hidden cost. Cost of the due diligence work of monitoring traffic for VoIP costs money too. And just how good a reputation will a telco get by prosecuting individuals or groups for finding a way to use equipment they own and bandwidth they pay for to excersize their rights to free speech (if in a country where free spech is protected)...probably not a good one. I'd switch long distance companies over that practice....in fact I'd organize a boycott if y'all would help me.
It makes more sense to to have a three-pronged billing scheme: One for packets only, one for switching only and one for both. DSL makes this entirely possible over the same hardware layer. This way, the company gets to charge appropriately for the use patterns of the user without having to restrict what they do. This also saves them added security costs of a restricted system because it won't be restricted. It's also cheaper to tell the diference between a phone conversation and packets than it is to look at all the packets and tell one protocol than the other...so the billing scheme's fraud detection scheme is cheaper to implement than for a restricted system.
Think about it. The capabilities exist, and the geeks are geeky enough to implement VoIP in such a way that it's extremely difficult and costly to tell if someone's using VoIP. It costs a lot to put restriction and the needed security to make it happen in place. Any corporation would be more prudent and practical in changing their billing scheme to best make use of market conditions rather than spend lots of money trying to dictate market conditions, and HOPING that it works.
dad worked at the plant in fremont CA. QA for the drives. Got to take one home to play with
yeah....performance. I've been using OS X PB as my primary OS for over a month. The 2D drawing is a bit latent....but i attribute that to debug code and optimizations to follow. AFAIK....if you take into consideration all the graphical bells and whistles in there....the beta code is prety darned fast. On the under the hood front...it takes a bit more time to launch some services than I expect...maybe it's a similar problem as 2D. In any case, the single most helpful thing you can do in OS X to speed things up is to not use the classic environment...that thing has a vsize of 1.5GB!!!! When I'm not using it, things are smoooothe :)
Remember your first computer? Maybe you were little, your dad brought it home. You were curious. I remember getting an apple IIe one day, and typing very long and polite requests for assitance at the prompt. I didn't know how it worked, but I was curious and intrigued. I tinkered with it, and I learned. Same thing happened when I got my first mac in late 1983...I was 8, and I tinkered with it and learned.
Imagine an 8 year old, next year, getting an iMac. She tinkers with it, and learns....only this time, when she finds Terminal.app, she's learning UNIX. What age were you when you used your first UNIX. If 8, would you have ever bought a windows box? Yes, the delicious, chewy UNIX insides of MacOS X are hidden by a crunchy GUI outside, but larval geeks will find it.
I think OS X's true contribution to computing is that an entire generation of children will learn UNIX. The easy to use GUI will not intimidate them....so they won't be scared away, and the ones who will be inclined to code will likely eventually be turned on to the fact that if they write if for the UNIX bits, they can share it with all their friends who use BSD and Linux.
Remember looking for warez at some point in your life? Imagine a legion of pre-pubescent coders making it so that nobody has to...using GPL.
Never mind the technical differences between this UNIX and that. OS X is the pony car for recruiting OSS coders before they can ride a bike.
I remember waiting outside a BART station waiting for a friend to meet me, when a maketing type (the kind that roam around college campuses with a clipboard full of credit card applications) approached me. This person knew absolutely nothing about the internet. I raised the security question, and this is the gist of the answer:
"@home has special sotware that makes it so nobody can get in your computer"
that's a rough paraphrase as it was about a month ago. Upon hearing this, I gave the girl a quick and dirty guide to internetworking. I asked her where she heard that, and she said the guy who hired her.
I think anyone in this forum can understand that a firewall would be involved if that were the case, but I have never heard of @home installing a firewall on every client machine on their network.
In any case, if the people who know better don't educate their friends on how to defend themselves against these attacks....they will go and get tougher laws passed to make up for their ignorance when they get tired of being cracked.
that would do nicely
This is nothing new. All web polls are inherently invalid because of numerous faults in sampling method.
I remember during Apple's really dark times being on the Evangelista email list. My god did we slant some web polls. I would say at least weekly, a post about some webpoll somewhere would pop up, and "the power of mac way" would give them pollsters some religion.
I don't really have any bad feelings about doing this. We were in a death match over mindshare, and I'll be damned if I was going to sit by while nobody did anything...letting MS win by default. We were the only major group fighting for alternative CONSUMER OS's at the time, and all's fair in love and war.
Now I truly dig the free software movement, because now I can fight tech opression AND help shape what I'm fighting for.
In this instance, the webpoll is a bit moot. It's no longer which OS you use, it's what you do with it that makes a difference. The windows sheep can vote in polls all they want. I'm running the same net/web app they are, only my VM is more stable.
The labels are basically loan brokers who promote music to ensure returns. If I'm an artist, and i want to make a record, they give me noney, I make the record, then pay them back somehow.
Usually, the company also handles distribution, promotion, touring...you name it. This all costs money. So what they do is handle all the money, take what they payed for out of the artists profits plus their cut, and leave the scraps to the artist. So If they give me a $50 million dollar contract, I may still be making less than a janitor per year, while they get rich.
If the recording is a work for hire, then they need to hire and pay me to do it. They also need to hire me to perform it on tour. In this context, they would need to pay the artist a fixed, promised amount, and that's the end of it. They can't loan me money and take more than they give anymore. No more smoke and mirrors eating away at an artist's profits. Artists didn't see this oppurtunity to sue for back wages and profit, but the recording industry did and is trying to save it's ass.
In short then:
Artist: "You hired me to make a recording in exchange for $n, where's the money you promised, beotch...I'm calling my lawyer"
RIAA: "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for them meddling kids!"
The only person who can really claim intellectual property over the definition of a cube is Euclid. The mac Cube isn't even a cube. It's longer on one side with the transparent stuff...I wonder if cobalt just figured "lets fart some money on a lawsuit." I've worked with the cobalt cube, and it's a totally different box than the mac cube, designed for different things and markets. besides, I think if you put linux on a mac cube, it would handily SMOKE a cobalt cube (gee, 128bit vector units), which is what this pissing contest is all about.
Any of you guys heard of a thing called open source? If I'm a geek, and I want to run python/zope/php/mysql/whatever...on 2 G4's on a mach based UNIX, oh what am I to do. GCC is part of osX, so maybe "make-make install" comes to mind. Of course apps will get ported to osX from UNIX. When a graphics shop shells out $x10exp9 on G4's, and all of a sudden want's to cluster batch jobs on the cheap, I think we'll see macGimp and maybe beowulf. Geeks love UNIX. They like to play with more than one kind (if wise). And they want to run their favorite apps. Easy math.
Remember, though, jackson didn't stay the sanctions, so now MS is moreso legally bound to act fairly in the market (as if they ever fucking cared about fair market practices, however) than everybody else starting in october. DOJ saw this coming and they advised jackson to hold off the ruling because of it. Now instead of a quick resolution with the supremes, they have a gavel up their butt for two years.
So let me get this straight, instead of using a high-performance open source RTP-RTSP server to serve quicktime (darwin streaming server), you now have the option of paying out the nose for a proprietary one (real)?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
And seeing as how Darwin runs on these platforms:
FreeBSD 3.4 (server and proxy)
Red Hat Linux 6.2 (server and proxy)
Solaris 7 (server and proxy)
Windows NT Server/Windows 2000 Server(server)
AND real player can play RTP-RTSP streamed media anyway, why on earth would you bother with real's server at all?
go figure
This is how I learned the relationship between the interface and the code, how info flows between them. I learned c, and it got me nowhere until I learned how my code fit in the scheme of things. By teaching javascript form handling, you teach i/o between your code and the UI, which is important. Also, javascript is garbage collected and only has one kind of variable, "var", so it's easy to get loops and other stuff down, and build from there without getting discouraged by memory and variable quirks. With mozilla, javascript has a lot of potential for doing some serious development, so it's an easy language to learn were you see immediate results, and potentially accomplish a lot of great stuff....just the thing to keep a kid motivated. Since the syntax is a lot like c, and it's object oriented, it isn't a big jump to java and c++ after you've mastered js.
I see a lot of "host your site in *" posts. Well, no government eyeing the ecommerce pie in the sky wants to look like pirate island to the rest of the world, so a cryptonomiconesqe "crypt" would be too difficult to set up, not to metnion easy to attack (one location). Why not set up a distributed vhosting protocol with freenet-like anonymity? It's harder to track down and sue the owner of a website when the http server is a different box depending on where you connect, possibly even localhost. Also, if this vhttp network had it's own top-level domain, or used httpv or something as the protocol, then we can hack mozilla so that the protocol has it's own DNS that will block ownership seeking lookups, so that if somebody in a third world country wants to combat the goverment-sanctioned death squads by organizing a resistance, the death squad will be SOL. We could just say "use freenet", but the people you're tyring to reach with such messages may be intimidated by even the web, so we have to make it simple for use by anybody.
Possibly, this can be done differently by adding the functionality onto freenet, and have users point to a node for their DNS.