I haven't renewed my Verizon plan for 5 years. I sure as hell won't when the 3G iPhone arrives and this consolidation of competition makes me want to vomit.
Capitalism my f'n ass.
Where is the broad competition? I see a group of Lords running the Phone companies, once again.
This f'n country just loves to sodomize it's patrons over and over again.
Even Red Dwarf fans could be called a cult. The sign said Dangerous Cult.
Plus when talking about mind control cults we should be using cult expert methodology rather than broad dictionary terms.
But yes, Christianity started out as a Jewish sect. There's no question about that.
The problem is that Jehova's Witnesses, Scientologists etc. are used to saying "we're no more a cult than Christianity is". So don't fall for it. I'm Agnostic.
Here's how to find that asshole out:
- Put your car in a viewable area, but preferably semi-secured
- attach RF or microwave devices to a microphone
- when the tyres are slit, the mic triggers the gates to close
the asshole is trapped.
Alternatively, mount dye sprayers under the wheel well, and when the mic detects a library sound of knife-slitting, the trigger pumps florescent dye on the fucker.
If you REALLY want to nail that fucker, put a sonic gun on your car somewhere, and when they slit the tire, and the mic detects it, the sonic device hits them with nausea-inducing waves. well, that assumes you don't need a US-DOD permit to obtain such a device or that you don't need FCC permission or a county health permit to activate such a device.
The asshole who wants to surf PORN on company time should get a pricey phone or an i-Phone for that. Addictive, non-damaging surfing is ONE thing. It's a disciplinary matter. PORN surfing, OTOH, can cause MULTIPLE "victimised" co-workers to sue and cost EVERYBODY their job. Selfish prick you have for a co-worker.
Checking Stock Quotes is a much higher distraction than Pornography. People groundhogging over a cubicle seeing Sasha engulfing a pole even a horse would envy would immediately alienate you from ever working in your current job.
On the other hand, countless hours about fantasizing what you'll buy because your company's stock is doing well is so common you'd think people only work in Startups hoping to get bought for stock bonuses and later sippin' Rum on some beach in the Mediterranean. Nah! That nevvvver happens.
"two of the key figures behind the success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser â" listed inclusivity and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project."
That sure wasn't our experience with contributing to FireFox. My company contributed several person months of code to FireFox 3 to build out a text placement capability. Our patches were never accepted; However, they took 80% of the code and reused it to fix half a dozen incidental issues that we had had to fix in order to implement the character placement issue that we were addressing.
All of which is OK, except that our authors were not given any acknowledgement or attribution.
But then they turned around and said we'd have to rework our original patch because now "80% of the code is redundant".
We are not contributing to FireFox any more. I thought about point out our experiences to Brendan Eich and asking him if he's OK with his people's behaviour. But it was easier just to walk away. We've now changed our focus to WebKit.
cult:
â"noun
1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
What protects Christianity from being a "Cult" is that many consider it NOT TO BE FALSE.
Yup. I stopped "special" surfing at the office when I put a linux box on a hub between the network internet router and the switches. I simply sniffed all traffic for image files and displayed it on a 42" LCD out in the sales area.
Images were displayed of what people were surfing. I also attached the ip address of the user to the image.
It stopped inappropriate internet surfing in that office in 3 days.
When everyone can wee what you are doing, you get back to real work.
Yet, I don't know who has managed to slit my tires consistently for the past 3 years since I started this approach. Also, since I never get asked to company socials I've got more free time to think of even more creative ways to piss off my fellow staff members.
Of course this all could be solved if we worked in a business that required actually creating/inventing products instead of managing peoples services.
disclaimer: I am a physics graduate.
EM waves consist of an oscillating electric field (along with its magnetic counterpart)...what was that electric field doing before it started oscillating? It was probably a static field. Think about this, if I have a magnet and I wiggle it around, the disturbance in the field of the magnet travels outward from the source at the speed of light, but the field was there but merely static initially. Same deal with gravity waves. So whether the local field is static or oscillating, it was always previously existent regardless of its state. While I don't believe in the luminiferous aether either I also don't see how a field disturbance (electric, magnetic or gravitational) can travel through something that isn't there. I hope people can see what I'm talking about because while relativity and the aether don't make sense on their own, there are aspects of both theories that accurately describe reality and as is often the case in modeling reality it is not often a case of either / or, eg wave-particle duality in describing the sub-atomic world. That wave is not static, it's vibrational displacement is assumed inert/static because we have no way of approximating such a minute difference in change, for now.
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You should keep in mind is that Apple did say that they were going to make Carbon 64 for Leopard, but dropped it and took their sweet time saying anything about it. In short, Apple announced Carbon 64 WWDC '06, and announced there was no Carbon 64 WWDC '07.
You should also keep in mind that Final Cut Pro and much of the ret of Final Cut Studio is also in Carbon. Apple too is taking their sweet time too. Apple had ten years to push their Pro App developers to Cocoa and have yet to actually make good on a transition. Apple finally realized they didn't have to depend upon Adobe for growth. Carbon never should have lasted past 10.2.
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But then wasn't the date pushed out as "large companies" had some trouble with transition? I agree that they should have planned to that date but at that point, the date may have been ambitious given the changes OS X and Cocoa itself would undergo in the intervening years... I think in some ways all companies took the best paths open to them, it just happens here near the end game we have something of a discontinuity.
Microsoft I feel less sorry for than Adobe as they have a more purely OS X focused product and don't have to try to engineer a cross platform codebase (as far as I know there's really no Office UI code shared from Windows to the Mac version and the Mac BU is pretty independent).
The date was pushed out because Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft were refusing to move, firstly to Carbon, and later to Cocoa. I had to answer any and all questions at WWDC '97 and '98 about moving to ObjC/Cocoa--it wasn't for a lack of technical clarifications and help that kept them from moving forward: it was a deliberate vision and decions not to move ahead. In early May 1998 the first release of the iMac was revealed to us outside of it's core team and we al liked the little bugger at DeAnza College. Soon after the industry was talking constantly about the iMac.
The problem that Apple had no leverage over the big 3 was apparent in their marketshare leading it to have very little industry mindshare. Since then, the tides have turned and they turned after the first year of the iPod's success. This didn't change matters. They were still going to exert their leverage and delay the transition to Cocoa knowing Apple was still not in a position to challenge completely. With the advent of software applications, at Apple, to fill the gaps and often take marketshare in direct competition from the big 3 it was a clear shot over the bow that they either get on-board or soon will be left at the dock.
This upcoming next major release is the first release us ex-NeXT engineers would have loved to see back in 2001.
As I've said, Adobe whined about Carbon and continues to deflect about Cocoa. With the merger of Macromedia it hasn't accelerated much, other than their latest Lightroom which managed to be written in Cocoa. [detractors will say it's because they started with a clean code base. When you are a large corporation with hundreds of in-house test applications, the thought of fresh code base is rather cut and paste.] They have had plenty of time to hire Cocoa engineers. They could have even accelerated the training, in-house, by hiring some of the top trainers [Big Nerd Ranch] to smooth the transition. We used to have a team of NeXT engineers at Adobe for their in-house custom applications and WebObjects/Cocoa needs.
Regarding the Cocoa-Java Bridge written by Mike Ferris, Ali Ozer and others, it was a stop-gap never intended to be a first citizen unifying API. We always saw ObjC/Cocoa as the top class at NeXT and part of the reason for the merger with Apple. Java was added due to it's industry prevalence, not it's superiority over ObjC and it's many in-house frameworks. WebObjects prior to Java was a beautiful piece of Server-Side development. It was mismanaged and I personally am not suprised with certain individuals in-charge of it's well-being doing exactly was they did to it--manage it into the ground.
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Long term, Apple is probably doing what is going to be best for Apple.
I have been really heavy into Java development from the start. But you know what? I can see that Java desktop apps are always going to be a smaller subset of native apps. There just is not widespread adoption to date, thus the greatly diminished focus on keeping the Java->Cocoa bridge healthy.
As for the Carbon (what you incorrectly label C/C++ API's), well Apple said all along that the plan was to transition to Cocoa, and that Carbon was a bridge to that end. It's true that Adobe got rather screwed in particular in that at a crucial point in time they were told Carbon was going to last a few more years than Apple is saying it will now. But Adobe also had a really long time to work on a Cocoa port.... note that Lightroom has no issues in that regard. That was unfortunate for both Apple and Adobe, but in the long run it's going to make everyone switch to a single API sooner which means more support can go into maintaining and improving one API rather than two.
As a side note, just because Cocoa is more of an Objective-C API doesn't mean you can't easily call it from C/C++ code.
1997 WWDC Carbon transition API released. 2007 End of Life for Carbon listed. Adobe/Macromedia and Microsoft had a very long run--at least 8 years more than they were expected with Carbon.
Oh, and the correct answer is "discovered".
No, the correct answer is "both."
The relationships and observations that we use mathematics to model are discovered. They are out there, we discover them, and then we model them. That should be obvious to all but the most die-hard of idealists.
The language that we use to do this modeling is invented. It is also refined (i.e. slightly reinvented) over time to better fit our discoveries. That, too, should be obvious to all but the most die-hard of determinists.
I know, this answer isn't very deep, but in my opinion the question isn't nearly as deep as it is being made out to be. It's a beautifully succinct answer that illustrates Universal Equilibrium of Reality and Perception.
It can run anything. If you read the paper, it explains that once you desynchronize the interpreter from the validator, you are running x86 instructions. One might have to tailor the exploit to work differently on Linux/Unix than on Windows due to the different executable addressing schemes, but once that is determined you are in business. And here I was hoping they [Adobe] had managed to get anywhere on AMD64 Linux version for Flash. Perhaps this can be used as an excuse to update this on all platforms, current and upcoming?
To some extent that's true. The current generation of Macs, though, are almost entirely standards-based and use almost all off-the-shelf parts.
PCI, PCI Express, EFI, Core 2 Duo, ATX power supplies and motherboard form factor, SATA drives, USB, DVI, and 802.11b are all things other companies are free to use, including in combination with one another.
It's quite possible, as walterbyrd suggests at #23091740, that there's some small thing Apple uses that's encumbered. In that case, anyone who could figure out how to not use that little bit of patent-encumbered firmware would still be free to build a mostly identical machine.
Whether OS X would run on it unmodified might still be in question, but there's really no major change to the OS needed if it's just checking a checksum or calling an undocumented EFI extension and reading back the return value. Seeing as I used to work there I think you aren't grasping the difference between design and invention of all parts. The motherboard design specs, the heat dissipation specs for case designs, etc., are all Apple patented designs.
The off-the-shelf copies are all upgrades. Apple has been clear about that all along. There was never a copy of 10.4 for Intel Macs sold retail because every single Intel Mac came with a copy of 10.4 (so you never needed an upgarade disk).
The off-the-shelf copies are not upgrades, they are the actual general use copies for the entire supported hardware matrix. The copies included with your hardware purchase are unique to that machine model.
If you have prior Macs you buy the Off-the-Shelf copy so it will install and work as billed.
Considering it's an Intel processor on a mostly PC-compatible motherboard (built by Foxconn last I checked) using the EFI standard developed by Intel for their Itanium systems, Intel/ATI/NVidia graphics (PCI-E), and bog-standard DDR2 memory modules I'll hazard a guess and say no.
They do have a possibly enforceable EULA, although whether it is and to what extent is beyond my layman's legal knowledge.
They also have trademarks on "Macintosh", "iMac", "eMac", "PowerMac", "MacBook", "Mac Pro", and any number of other "Mac" and "Macintosh" derivatives as applied to computer systems. This is probably the first stop for Apple's legal department I'd look for if I was on PsyStar's legal team, but what do I know?
I think there's a good chance that PsyStar just picked up a whole lot of publicity on the cheap, and will cease and desist rather quickly after getting the request from Apple then go on selling this bargain PC as a PC. Assembled is the correct term. The hardware is designed, tested, certified, by Apple [the design includes their choice of 3rd party shelf parts and how it interacts with their motherboard specs designs] and then outsourced to manufacturers to meet Apple's design specs.
However if this is true or not, I think, it's a good idea and should be at least taken in to consideration! Just ask yourself: What would be more useful for the world and U.S. citizens?
a) "Quickly pulling out of Iraq" and therefore loosing some major influence in the middle east?
b) Elevating the education level, in order not only to develop political awareness, which is necessary to prevent the manipulation and disinformation by political leaders? (Not that they would ever do this.)
c) Realizing or -- better -- following the "Vision for Space Exploration", which at the present moment at least, seems only to be in the financial and ideological interest of NASA and its stakeholder?
Note: NASA employees themself are recruited from people with the highest education level! So why not better educate our children, so that they have the chance to dream about space exploration, too?
If you think pre-school will make or break your child from becoming a futurist, engineer, or some other highly educated person than you truly are an idiot. The deficiency resides with Parenting and the fact people are forced to have two incomes to offset many of their own inadequacies in balancing their needs vs. wants.
Any Presidential Candidate who thinks they should reduce NASA to fund Pre-kinergarten in this [public school, non-preschool Mechanical Engineer/Computer Scientist] election reminds me of another Moron who has reduced NASA and funneled Billions to Faith-based Organizations WHICH IS AGAINST THE US CONSTITUTION!!!
Yes I hate to break it to the 18-22 year old branch of folks who were pissing in their britches when Bill Clinton was running for US President his wife is the most competent of all the Candidates.
This fear of a Phagina in the United States under the guise of, ``We are all for a woman being President, just not this one,'' lemming of bulls*** is pure and simply a fear of a woman showing up men that she can actually balance a budget, divert funds into our crumbling Infrastructure, higher competent Scientists and Engineers to advance the Country and explore Space to benefit the Human Race. If you think another woman is going to be running for US President by the time you 18-22 reach us approaching the age of 40 then you truly know nohting about History.
We had a poster woman for VP in 1984. It's now 24 years later and Hillary is the first lady running for President. You wanna wager on if it's gonna be another 24 years before the next woman runs for President? The odds aren't in your favor.
Actually, I thought it was Adam and Lilith, but hey, I read too much or something. It was, but the parent poster was hilarious on his sarcasm regarding the translations from Hebrew[we love the desert!]->Greek[what isle of lesbos?]->Latin->[getting weaker with ever Constantine smudging]->King James [oh my gawd! he hates these cans edition!]
What kind of moron goes $2K in the hole to AT&T just so he can have a second test device?
I have around 30 grand in hardware, but I only own one Touch. Why would I need a second one? None of the other mobile companies have ever bricked my devices before. You're goal is to develop and sell software across the installed base of iPhone and iPod Touch markets. If you can't see this you truly aren't a business owner.
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Every time he clicks on his email the Whitey Video gets launched showing his wife ranting away.
He was heard by aides saying to the effect, ``Oh look! Windows installed that feature I requested.''
I haven't renewed my Verizon plan for 5 years. I sure as hell won't when the 3G iPhone arrives and this consolidation of competition makes me want to vomit.
Capitalism my f'n ass.
Where is the broad competition? I see a group of Lords running the Phone companies, once again.
This f'n country just loves to sodomize it's patrons over and over again.
if I truly wanted to...
are recyclin' the urine.
Checking Stock Quotes is a much higher distraction than Pornography. People groundhogging over a cubicle seeing Sasha engulfing a pole even a horse would envy would immediately alienate you from ever working in your current job.
On the other hand, countless hours about fantasizing what you'll buy because your company's stock is doing well is so common you'd think people only work in Startups hoping to get bought for stock bonuses and later sippin' Rum on some beach in the Mediterranean. Nah! That nevvvver happens.
"two of the key figures behind the success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser â" listed inclusivity and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project."
That sure wasn't our experience with contributing to FireFox. My company contributed several person months of code to FireFox 3 to build out a text placement capability. Our patches were never accepted; However, they took 80% of the code and reused it to fix half a dozen incidental issues that we had had to fix in order to implement the character placement issue that we were addressing.
All of which is OK, except that our authors were not given any acknowledgement or attribution.
But then they turned around and said we'd have to rework our original patch because now "80% of the code is redundant".
We are not contributing to FireFox any more. I thought about point out our experiences to Brendan Eich and asking him if he's OK with his people's behaviour. But it was easier just to walk away. We've now changed our focus to WebKit.
There is intelligence that walks amongst Us.cult: â"noun
1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
What protects Christianity from being a "Cult" is that many consider it NOT TO BE FALSE.
Yet, I don't know who has managed to slit my tires consistently for the past 3 years since I started this approach. Also, since I never get asked to company socials I've got more free time to think of even more creative ways to piss off my fellow staff members.
Of course this all could be solved if we worked in a business that required actually creating/inventing products instead of managing peoples services.
Boeing has a surplus of Commercial and Military Contracts. In fact, if we could have a few more prominent startups for Defense Contracting the better.
One can only hope.
The date was pushed out because Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft were refusing to move, firstly to Carbon, and later to Cocoa. I had to answer any and all questions at WWDC '97 and '98 about moving to ObjC/Cocoa--it wasn't for a lack of technical clarifications and help that kept them from moving forward: it was a deliberate vision and decions not to move ahead. In early May 1998 the first release of the iMac was revealed to us outside of it's core team and we al liked the little bugger at DeAnza College. Soon after the industry was talking constantly about the iMac.
The problem that Apple had no leverage over the big 3 was apparent in their marketshare leading it to have very little industry mindshare. Since then, the tides have turned and they turned after the first year of the iPod's success. This didn't change matters. They were still going to exert their leverage and delay the transition to Cocoa knowing Apple was still not in a position to challenge completely. With the advent of software applications, at Apple, to fill the gaps and often take marketshare in direct competition from the big 3 it was a clear shot over the bow that they either get on-board or soon will be left at the dock.
This upcoming next major release is the first release us ex-NeXT engineers would have loved to see back in 2001.
As I've said, Adobe whined about Carbon and continues to deflect about Cocoa. With the merger of Macromedia it hasn't accelerated much, other than their latest Lightroom which managed to be written in Cocoa. [detractors will say it's because they started with a clean code base. When you are a large corporation with hundreds of in-house test applications, the thought of fresh code base is rather cut and paste.] They have had plenty of time to hire Cocoa engineers. They could have even accelerated the training, in-house, by hiring some of the top trainers [Big Nerd Ranch] to smooth the transition. We used to have a team of NeXT engineers at Adobe for their in-house custom applications and WebObjects/Cocoa needs.
Regarding the Cocoa-Java Bridge written by Mike Ferris, Ali Ozer and others, it was a stop-gap never intended to be a first citizen unifying API. We always saw ObjC/Cocoa as the top class at NeXT and part of the reason for the merger with Apple. Java was added due to it's industry prevalence, not it's superiority over ObjC and it's many in-house frameworks. WebObjects prior to Java was a beautiful piece of Server-Side development. It was mismanaged and I personally am not suprised with certain individuals in-charge of it's well-being doing exactly was they did to it--manage it into the ground.
1997 WWDC Carbon transition API released. 2007 End of Life for Carbon listed. Adobe/Macromedia and Microsoft had a very long run--at least 8 years more than they were expected with Carbon.
Time to move on or lose profits.
DUH!
...Bill Gates strangles puppies & treads on the heads of kittens.Please stop using NTFS.
But at least Bill Gates hasn't killed his wife.
True. Yet she clearly could kick his ass and handle herself in hand-to-hand so I'm not worried about him getting the upperhand.The off-the-shelf copies are not upgrades, they are the actual general use copies for the entire supported hardware matrix. The copies included with your hardware purchase are unique to that machine model.
If you have prior Macs you buy the Off-the-Shelf copy so it will install and work as billed.
However if this is true or not, I think, it's a good idea and should be at least taken in to consideration! Just ask yourself: What would be more useful for the world and U.S. citizens?
Note: NASA employees themself are recruited from people with the highest education level! So why not better educate our children, so that they have the chance to dream about space exploration, too?
If you think pre-school will make or break your child from becoming a futurist, engineer, or some other highly educated person than you truly are an idiot. The deficiency resides with Parenting and the fact people are forced to have two incomes to offset many of their own inadequacies in balancing their needs vs. wants.
Any Presidential Candidate who thinks they should reduce NASA to fund Pre-kinergarten in this [public school, non-preschool Mechanical Engineer/Computer Scientist] election reminds me of another Moron who has reduced NASA and funneled Billions to Faith-based Organizations WHICH IS AGAINST THE US CONSTITUTION!!!
Yes I hate to break it to the 18-22 year old branch of folks who were pissing in their britches when Bill Clinton was running for US President his wife is the most competent of all the Candidates.
This fear of a Phagina in the United States under the guise of, ``We are all for a woman being President, just not this one,'' lemming of bulls*** is pure and simply a fear of a woman showing up men that she can actually balance a budget, divert funds into our crumbling Infrastructure, higher competent Scientists and Engineers to advance the Country and explore Space to benefit the Human Race. If you think another woman is going to be running for US President by the time you 18-22 reach us approaching the age of 40 then you truly know nohting about History.
We had a poster woman for VP in 1984. It's now 24 years later and Hillary is the first lady running for President. You wanna wager on if it's gonna be another 24 years before the next woman runs for President? The odds aren't in your favor.