I'm not sure I've ever read an article from the WSJ that paints Apple in any kind of good light. So, I tend to take their articles on Apple with a few grains of salt.
NocturnalWarrior said: I can say that PHB's like being able to see each other's calendars. Exchange/Outlook makes this really easy to implement and for a small shop (single server, and say under 100 users), it's really easy to set up right out of the box.
There's a product called Meeting Maker that allows controlled, user initiated proxy (viewing of someone else's calendar). *And* it runs on Windows, Mac, PalmOS, Java and UNIX.
It even scales to thousands of users and runs on various server platforms too...
I'm not trying to start anything, but as far as _standards_ go, it's gonna be important to choose something that is available on multiple platforms.
Much as I dislike it, many of my friends use Windows, so if I am gonna encrypt something to send to them, I've got to use something that they can decrypt, right?
Many of my other friends (whom I tend to hold in higher esteem), use one form of Un*x. The same applies to them.
Then there are thoses people who use Macs (I tend to like them right off.)
Anyway, my point is that it's all about communication. If the person I'm sending something to can't decrypt what I'm sending, why send it encrypted?
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(Ah, so you're the one who got MacDude....)
I couldn't agree more. What standard should Apple have supported? Should they have adopted MicroSoft's propriatary standard or someone else's? Digital Video, is Digital Video. If you want to save it as PAL or whatever you can.
It was brought up by someone esle in earlier that if you want professional editing, use Final Cut Pro (or whatever else is available on your platform of choice.), not FreeWare.
Well, you managed to get my attention and a pretty good score form the monderator(s). Having said that, I'd like to say that I disagree. I would like to attempt to invalidate one of your premises,
By roughly age 12, just about everybody has already had most if not all the "great thoughts":
If this were true, then as you aged you would learn new things less frequently and generally, by the time you were 60 or so, very rarely have a "great thought" at all. I'd argue that people like Einstein, Socrates, Curie, Bohrs, Franklin, Fuller, etc. had fairly new and plentiful "Great Thoughts" well after their puberty.
WRT "Philosophy classes are about labels." Well, in so far as labeling things such as ideas allows for further communication, yes that's very true. However, the communication and debate that happens in Philosophy classes *starts* there. As far as I know it's not the goal of any philosophy instructor (other than perhaps an intro course or a course on "The History of Philosophy" [which should not be confused with "The Philosophy of History"]) to get people to learn stock phrases or the dates that so-and-so said such-and-such.
At this point I feel compelled to admit that I have a Philosophy degree myself, so I do have a bit of information about this. BTW-the translation from greek is Philo=Love, Soph=Wisdom thus, "Love of wisdom."
Having said that, if viewing and discussing the ideas that come out of watching the Matrix get people thinking new lines of thought and puzzling about what chicken really tastes like to other people and the implications of virtual reality on everyday life, then power to them. I find myself using my philosophy degree in everyday life, because it taught me new ways to think about things and how to learn more effectively.
Yes, there are a lot of other books and movies that can be used to discuss and reflect on a lot of the same ideas in The Matrix (Check out My Dinner with Andre). *And* the Matrix is hot right now, so it makes good _marketing_ sense to take advantage of it to draw people into the class.
Ender's Game started out as a short story about a boy that was rasied to save the world. He undergoes extensive training and in the end his training pays off.
It's written by Orson Scott Card who has written a number of other books that are available at your favorite bookstore (on or off-line).
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Please read John Gruber's take on this on his Daring Fireball weblog.
FWIW- Here are the books that Neal Stepehnson has written:
* The Big U (1984)
* Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988)
* Snow Crash (1992)
* The Diamond Age (1995)
* Cryptonomicon (1999)
* Quicksilver (2002)
He has also written two books under the psuedonym of Stephen Bury:
* Interface (1994)
* The Cobweb (1996)
Yeah, but at least Stanford beat UCLA this year. ;-)
*Ouch, that was _way_ off-topic.!*
I'm not sure I've ever read an article from the WSJ that paints Apple in any kind of good light. So, I tend to take their articles on Apple with a few grains of salt.
What, me biased?
Actually, the web server that is server the trailers is: . it appears to be throttled at 8K.
;-)
According to NetCraft, it's running Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 on Solaris.
Perhaps it would be faster on an OSX box.
I can say that PHB's like being able to see each other's calendars. Exchange/Outlook makes this really easy to implement and for a small shop (single server, and say under 100 users), it's really easy to set up right out of the box.
There's a product called Meeting Maker that allows controlled, user initiated proxy (viewing of someone else's calendar). *And* it runs on Windows, Mac, PalmOS, Java and UNIX.
It even scales to thousands of users and runs on various server platforms too...
No, I don't work for them or own any stock.
Or the corollary:
Why does everyone assume that people want to run something other than a MacOS on Apple hardware?
I'm not trying to start anything, but as far as _standards_ go, it's gonna be important to choose something that is available on multiple platforms.
Much as I dislike it, many of my friends use Windows, so if I am gonna encrypt something to send to them, I've got to use something that they can decrypt, right?
Many of my other friends (whom I tend to hold in higher esteem), use one form of Un*x. The same applies to them.
Then there are thoses people who use Macs (I tend to like them right off.)
Anyway, my point is that it's all about communication. If the person I'm sending something to can't decrypt what I'm sending, why send it encrypted?
I couldn't agree more. What standard should Apple have supported? Should they have adopted MicroSoft's propriatary standard or someone else's? Digital Video, is Digital Video. If you want to save it as PAL or whatever you can.
It was brought up by someone esle in earlier that if you want professional editing, use Final Cut Pro (or whatever else is available on your platform of choice.), not FreeWare.
Dang. This means that everyone who uses a Mac should be reported to W.A.V.E. because they might "Think Different"...
Oh well, might as well turn myself in... ;-)
-jjhNot to mention Plan9...
Well, you managed to get my attention and a pretty good score form the monderator(s). Having said that, I'd like to say that I disagree. I would like to attempt to invalidate one of your premises,
If this were true, then as you aged you would learn new things less frequently and generally, by the time you were 60 or so, very rarely have a "great thought" at all. I'd argue that people like Einstein, Socrates, Curie, Bohrs, Franklin, Fuller, etc. had fairly new and plentiful "Great Thoughts" well after their puberty.
WRT "Philosophy classes are about labels." Well, in so far as labeling things such as ideas allows for further communication, yes that's very true. However, the communication and debate that happens in Philosophy classes *starts* there. As far as I know it's not the goal of any philosophy instructor (other than perhaps an intro course or a course on "The History of Philosophy" [which should not be confused with "The Philosophy of History"]) to get people to learn stock phrases or the dates that so-and-so said such-and-such.
At this point I feel compelled to admit that I have a Philosophy degree myself, so I do have a bit of information about this. BTW-the translation from greek is Philo=Love, Soph=Wisdom thus, "Love of wisdom."
Having said that, if viewing and discussing the ideas that come out of watching the Matrix get people thinking new lines of thought and puzzling about what chicken really tastes like to other people and the implications of virtual reality on everyday life, then power to them. I find myself using my philosophy degree in everyday life, because it taught me new ways to think about things and how to learn more effectively.
Yes, there are a lot of other books and movies that can be used to discuss and reflect on a lot of the same ideas in The Matrix (Check out My Dinner with Andre). *And* the Matrix is hot right now, so it makes good _marketing_ sense to take advantage of it to draw people into the class.
I object to this statement...
It's written by Orson Scott Card who has written a number of other books that are available at your favorite bookstore (on or off-line).