If you are going try to use factual information, don't use some racist's version of it. I just read that piece (Hard Time) and found many stereotypes and misleading racial statements.
Jared Taylor is a new and dangerous type of American racist. Instead of using his fists and inciting violence, he uses spin and intellectual logic to make a case for racism.
I set up my powerbook 1400cs with two Flash PCMCIA cards. One is used as a boot disk and the second one is used as VM (virtual memory e.g. swap) both of them are 256mb and work fantastically. I removed the internal HD now I get about 6-7 hours of charge. While researching the effectiveness of using Flash in this manner I found some reports as to its low number of writes before breakdown but so far I've had no problems with the card I use as VM (swap).
The real interesting part about this is that after we develop fusion power we can turn around and clean up all the waste from our time using fission. All the nuclear dump sites can be opened up and be neutralized. This will remove several hazards, terrorism, radiation, etc, etc.
They can use other materials to make gamma radiation, the gold is not a key part.
The story is basically saying that SP2 will incorporate things that MS "innovated" in the last year. Firewalls, anti-virus, etc, all stuff thats also supposed to be in Longhorn. Silly.
Mac OS X has trouble running on some of the older iMac's which came out after the PowerMac G3 your talking about. MacOS X simply doesn't have the hardware drivers for the older Mac's, and since Apple does both software AND hardware, it's unlikely that you'll find any third party drivers you can get your hands on.
Read: I don't know anything about Apple or OSX
This is not true, there are drivers for the older machines, you can get them from the Darwin site. Plus both X.1 and X.2 run faster than the public beta and X.0 because most of the debugging code has been removed. Also Panther, X.3, has better support for the older Macs.
Keep in mind that it has always been the pratice of Apple to 'encourage' you to get the latest hardware by making the latest OS require it.
Read: I REALY don't know much about Apple, but everything I need to know I learned from Microsoft. This is also not true. The simple fact is that Macintosh hardware lasts for many years. Apple also bends over backwards to support old hardware and software. The switch from 68k chips to the PPC chips, Apple provided an OS that ran on both chips and the APIs to develop software that could also run on both chips (this was known as "fat") In some cases it simply cannot be avoided, the switch from single CPU to a dual CPU system. This was because Apple wanted faster CPUs but Motorola had their heads up their asses and couldn't do it, so Apple dropped two chips in and started to innovate.
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All of that $5 popcorn goes to the theater that you watch your movie at. The reason for this is that only 20% of the ticket price goes to the theater. If a ticket is $8-$10 the theater is only receiving $1.60 to $2 while the cost to show that movie is lets say, $2000 (rent, labor, licensing, insurance, etc) per showing but at each showing only 70 people buy a ticket then the theater actually loses money!!
So how do they stay in business? Simple, that $5 bucket of popcorn and a long running movie. All of the money spent at the snack bar in your theater goes to the theater and keeps it showing movies, most of your ticket price goes to Hollywood. On the upside, the longer a movie plays in the theater the greater a percentage that the theater gets from Hollywood! A theater can receive up to 55% of the ticket price but only after Hollywood decides that they have milked the movie for all it's worth.
The faster a movie bombs (e.g. Hulk, Gigli, etc) the faster they leave the theater but their whole run will have lost money for the theater. Good, long running movies (e.g. Titanic [Blech!], Greek Wedding, etc) make money for the theater, but Hollywood makes less.
To keep your local theater alive and showing movies, buy the popcorn, watch that movie after the first month and if it's no longer in the theater it was probably very shitty and you can watch it on DVD in a month.
Hollywood thrives on blockbuster weekends, theaters thrive on long runs and popcorn.
It has long been known that cities (large modern cities) effect the weather, and it has been proven that they cause rain many miles down wind from them. But it's good to see it publicly being studied.
Could it be that SCO is doing this to destroy IP and copyright laws? Think about it:
Judge: On what grounds do you have for this case?
SCO: Well, thanks to copyright law as set forth in the DMCA, and supported by the RIAA, MPAA and UCITA, it has become exceedingly clear that since we own UNIX and anything that stems from its use, e.g. servers and the internet, we have the right to sue anyone who is abusing our copyright. And under the DMCA everyone who is using a UNIX derived product or service is infringing on our copyright. In other words your honor, "All their bases are belong to us"
Judge: Uh, defense?
IBM Lawyers: Uh, shit. [I call upon the power of ten Deep Blue Mainframes] Your honor, the DMCA is being challenged for its unconstitutional nature along with several other copyright laws because of this very issue. The issue of Intellectual Property is now so clouded and convoluted that one company can claim ownership over everything. We move for a continuance until the issues surrounding the DMCA and other copyright laws are resolved. In other words, "Take off every 'Zig'!!"
Skip the laws covering what is on the CD, how about laws covering basic product usability. If you bought a TV in AU that used NTSC (Used in USA) rather than the PAL standard that is used in AU, could you return it as defective?
I have noticed that contrast between RPGs, and I was wondering if there were any that had a set story line and set characters that also allowed one to make your own character and diverge from the set story line. In much the same way that non-computer RPGs (e.g. AD&D, White Wolf, GURPS, etc") do with pen and paper. I know that there are tons of automatic character generation scripts (and programs) out there and tons of map generators but I've never seen an actual RPG that fulfills both. I could imagine this as a nice change in computer RPGs, a pre-generated character and story line to introduce you to the game and it's mechanics and politics, then later you can play a brand new character to explore the parts that you had to skip over while you were learning.
Not too long ago I saw a story that talked about how Intel was working (had) chips that wouldn't work if speed!=Intel settings. The new chips might prevent this kind of work around.
This concept is used in economics to indicate infinite inelasticity of demand at any price. In other words, units sold (traded, etc) does not change with price if there is no demand. While I still think of x/0 = undefined for mathmatics, the idea that x/0 = infinity is interesting.
First I would notify your client that (s)he is violating copyright (this takes care of your first problem), state what section of your use policy (you have one right?) (s)he is violating. State what your actions will be, removal, reporting, etc. Before the email you had the coverage of plausible deniability, now you don't (anon tip). In the end save your notice and forget it, if anything comes of it, you can state that you had informed him(her) and they removed it, then replaced it at a later date. But, IANAL NarraterDan
Well doesn't that seem sort of backwards? Since it's a bus with space and power constraints, shouldn't you set up the workstations as laptops but have a fixed, tower server?
The story doesn't say that they are towers, and if you look at the picture each cute little tyke is sitting at a laptop...
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I was going to mod this up as "Insightful" or "Interesting" but I really wanted to post on this topic. So I will have to leave the modding to someone else.
You have many valid points and bitches. All of them infact, but some of them are a bit colored. I am a Mac user, but I'm not one of the blind Mac cultists who worship that ego monster Jobs.
I will admit that I was spellbound when Jobs came back as the leader of Apple while it was in its dying spasms, but that soon wore off when I saw that Jobs wasn't dragging Apple kicking and screaming past the cutting edge of technology. All he was doing was playing catch-up and putting it in a nice candy coating for all the candy ravers and people who wanted a computer that went with their choice of carpet and chairs.
Part of Apple's problems are from who they get their CPU's from, Motorola. Motorola needs to get the damn dust out of their clean rooms and start beefing up the Mhz of their chips, the PPC is a great little chip. The only drawback is the problems they are having with making them, IBM has made them faster. What did Motorola do? Got all pissy that IBM wasn't doing the dance their way, and threatened to take away their rights to make the chips. What Motorola should have done was copy IBM's fab system and get on with it.
Another part of Apple's problem is that the OS is half software and half hardware. In the beginning this was great, they could put the whole GUI on a 400k floppy and still have space for a program or two on the same disk. The programers knew it was there, they knew it wasn't going to change over night. The major drawback was that the programmers and hardware makers had to use it, they couldn't just whip up a driver or program for it they had to tie into the ROMs to get stuff to work. Even Apple had to make clever hacks to get their stuff to work with all their machines. The Mac is a hacker's nightmare/dream.
This is where OS X is suposed to come in. OS X is suposed to be completely free of the ROMs, but untill Apple can get it working on the hardware without the need for the ROMs OS 9 will still be around. When they finally do it, the Mac that only runs OS X (XI, XII etc) will forever be unlike the Mac that we all grew to love/hate/ignore.
For all the complaints of how much of a closed system it is and how hard it is to make into what you want it to do, I have seen so many clever hacks from hardware makers and even garage hardware hackers. I've seen so many people who spend hours hacking the latest cuecat or firbie or [insert closed hacker proof product] and yet most bitch about the Mac being a closed system and don't do any hacking on it. Sure it's expencive to replace if you screw up, but that should just make you more carefull about what you are doing. Any hardware hacker worth his salt should have atleast one cobbled together Mac that's not running the Mac OS, be it BeOS, Linux, or something of their own creation.
The PC isn't a Ford, its a freeking GM! The Mac isn't a Bently or any other luxury car. The Mac is a deisel Subaru that has a big wad of black epoxy poured into the engine compartment so that you can't get to it easily.
I have woken up, I don't like candy. Jobs has woken up also, he's just dragging his feet about it. From what I can tell, he knows that OS X is the last chance for Apple. He just doesn't want to let go of the whole kindom just yet. And that is his ego roaring.
He's not full of shit, you're wrong. Course, I don't think what he did was an oops.:-)
One couldn't accidentally put an on OpenStack onto the home card, a home card that just happens to be shared across the entire network.
Actually you can do such a thing with HyperCard. It is a method that a HyperCard virus named Ducaukis (sp?) used to spread itself. True it would only be localized, unless the Home stack was used as the master copy for the rest of the lab. Another thing that you are forgetting is that custom XCMD's and XFCN's allow nonstandard HyperCard actions. One such action could have been the comunication of one Home stack with another over a network.
Even if one did, they could open an unrelated stack directly and nothing would happen beyond the expected.
You probably forgot that HyperCard automaticly opens and checks the local Home stack. HyperCard will not run unless it can find a stack called "Home". If this Home stack was sync'd with the master Home stack, or was passing messages over to the master Home stack through the network, it would do the same thing.
I used HyperCard 2.0 and Lightspeed C to make a stack that acted like a FTP client and server over a LAN. Stupid yes, but it got me an A in the class.
Even though HyperCard had some major problems, it was quite flexible and powerfull.
Look at the vast amount of written word published in the last year and ask "How much is quality?"
Look at the really vast amount of written word published in the last 50 years and ask "How much is quality?"
All someone needs in order to write a novel is an understanding of their language and a dictionary to sound educated.
Programming software is the same, the only real difference is that we learned how to program after we learned our native language. Add to that the huge amount of words and logic structure that we need to know in order to make a simple word processor run in any GUI. If we want to make it as small as possible we need to know the right.lib (.dll, etc) to pull from and the correct functions to pull from that.lib. Writting the same thing for a CLI is much easier but who would use it other than ourselves?
The guy has a point. Software for the most part does suck, but look at all the books out there that suck.
Forgive me if this post is a bit scattered, I've been awake for 48 for no good reason.:-)
If the Earth was formed out of a molten ball of space rubble, then the surface should have been more uniform and less likely to have a single Pangaea aka super continent. However Pangaea could have been formed by the shock wave of this asteroid traveling through the core of the Earth and pushing up a large area of the crust on the other side. This asteroid could also have formed the fault lines that eventually split up Pangaea with the help of technonic forces from the later development of the Moon. This asteroid could also have displaced enough material to form the Moon.
Before this even the sea levels on the Earth may have been too deep for the development of signifigant (sp?) self replicating chemicals. On the other hand there may have been a number of sites for the successful development of these chemicals around the edges of minor meteorite impacts.
I don't know how many of you have played a game of D&D that could be turned into an Oscar winning movie, I know I haven't. Yes, there are minor issues with lame dialog and plot, but it's not much different from an actual game of D&D.
The only thing I didn't like was how the dragons were shown as a weapon that could be weilded, come on. The best scene with a dragon was the first scene with a dragon, that glimmer in it's eye when it disenchanted that staff of dragon control. Classic dragon.
A car is vintage if it's more than 30 years old. Car makers put out one new model every year.
Computer makers put out a new computer about every six months. IMHO a vintage computer should be 15 years old.
UNIX was written in C
Try writting Windows in VB
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If you are going try to use factual information, don't use some racist's version of it. I just read that piece (Hard Time) and found many stereotypes and misleading racial statements.
Jared Taylor is a new and dangerous type of American racist. Instead of using his fists and inciting violence, he uses spin and intellectual logic to make a case for racism.
I set up my powerbook 1400cs with two Flash PCMCIA cards. One is used as a boot disk and the second one is used as VM (virtual memory e.g. swap) both of them are 256mb and work fantastically. I removed the internal HD now I get about 6-7 hours of charge. While researching the effectiveness of using Flash in this manner I found some reports as to its low number of writes before breakdown but so far I've had no problems with the card I use as VM (swap).
NarratorDan
The real interesting part about this is that after we develop fusion power we can turn around and clean up all the waste from our time using fission. All the nuclear dump sites can be opened up and be neutralized. This will remove several hazards, terrorism, radiation, etc, etc.
They can use other materials to make gamma radiation, the gold is not a key part.
NarratorDan
The story is basically saying that SP2 will incorporate things that MS "innovated" in the last year. Firewalls, anti-virus, etc, all stuff thats also supposed to be in Longhorn. Silly.
This is not true, there are drivers for the older machines, you can get them from the Darwin site. Plus both X.1 and X.2 run faster than the public beta and X.0 because most of the debugging code has been removed. Also Panther, X.3, has better support for the older Macs.
Read: I REALY don't know much about Apple, but everything I need to know I learned from Microsoft.
This is also not true. The simple fact is that Macintosh hardware lasts for many years. Apple also bends over backwards to support old hardware and software. The switch from 68k chips to the PPC chips, Apple provided an OS that ran on both chips and the APIs to develop software that could also run on both chips (this was known as "fat") In some cases it simply cannot be avoided, the switch from single CPU to a dual CPU system. This was because Apple wanted faster CPUs but Motorola had their heads up their asses and couldn't do it, so Apple dropped two chips in and started to innovate.
NarratorDan
All of that $5 popcorn goes to the theater that you watch your movie at. The reason for this is that only 20% of the ticket price goes to the theater. If a ticket is $8-$10 the theater is only receiving $1.60 to $2 while the cost to show that movie is lets say, $2000 (rent, labor, licensing, insurance, etc) per showing but at each showing only 70 people buy a ticket then the theater actually loses money!!
So how do they stay in business? Simple, that $5 bucket of popcorn and a long running movie. All of the money spent at the snack bar in your theater goes to the theater and keeps it showing movies, most of your ticket price goes to Hollywood. On the upside, the longer a movie plays in the theater the greater a percentage that the theater gets from Hollywood! A theater can receive up to 55% of the ticket price but only after Hollywood decides that they have milked the movie for all it's worth.
The faster a movie bombs (e.g. Hulk, Gigli, etc) the faster they leave the theater but their whole run will have lost money for the theater. Good, long running movies (e.g. Titanic [Blech!], Greek Wedding, etc) make money for the theater, but Hollywood makes less.
To keep your local theater alive and showing movies, buy the popcorn, watch that movie after the first month and if it's no longer in the theater it was probably very shitty and you can watch it on DVD in a month.
Hollywood thrives on blockbuster weekends, theaters thrive on long runs and popcorn.
NarratorDan
It has long been known that cities (large modern cities) effect the weather, and it has been proven that they cause rain many miles down wind from them. But it's good to see it publicly being studied.
NarratorDan
Judge: On what grounds do you have for this case?
SCO: Well, thanks to copyright law as set forth in the DMCA, and supported by the RIAA, MPAA and UCITA, it has become exceedingly clear that since we own UNIX and anything that stems from its use, e.g. servers and the internet, we have the right to sue anyone who is abusing our copyright. And under the DMCA everyone who is using a UNIX derived product or service is infringing on our copyright. In other words your honor, "All their bases are belong to us"
Judge: Uh, defense?
IBM Lawyers: Uh, shit. [I call upon the power of ten Deep Blue Mainframes] Your honor, the DMCA is being challenged for its unconstitutional nature along with several other copyright laws because of this very issue. The issue of Intellectual Property is now so clouded and convoluted that one company can claim ownership over everything. We move for a continuance until the issues surrounding the DMCA and other copyright laws are resolved. In other words, "Take off every 'Zig'!!"
Judge: Uh, continuance granted.
NarratorDanSkip the laws covering what is on the CD, how about laws covering basic product usability. If you bought a TV in AU that used NTSC (Used in USA) rather than the PAL standard that is used in AU, could you return it as defective?
True, it works, but not in AU!
NarratorDan
Thank god that someone made this game, I was running out of girlfriends trying to get a better high score in real life.
NarratorDan
"The idea is to perform various moves on breasts."
Wow, thats not a typo.
Bouncing boobs.
NarratorDan
I have noticed that contrast between RPGs, and I was wondering if there were any that had a set story line and set characters that also allowed one to make your own character and diverge from the set story line. In much the same way that non-computer RPGs (e.g. AD&D, White Wolf, GURPS, etc") do with pen and paper. I know that there are tons of automatic character generation scripts (and programs) out there and tons of map generators but I've never seen an actual RPG that fulfills both.
I could imagine this as a nice change in computer RPGs, a pre-generated character and story line to introduce you to the game and it's mechanics and politics, then later you can play a brand new character to explore the parts that you had to skip over while you were learning.
NarratorDan
Not too long ago I saw a story that talked about how Intel was working (had) chips that wouldn't work if speed!=Intel settings. The new chips might prevent this kind of work around.
Oops, I posted.
This concept is used in economics to indicate infinite inelasticity of demand at any price. In other words, units sold (traded, etc) does not change with price if there is no demand. While I still think of x/0 = undefined for mathmatics, the idea that x/0 = infinity is interesting.
but IANAE
NarratorDan
First I would notify your client that (s)he is violating copyright (this takes care of your first problem), state what section of your use policy (you have one right?) (s)he is violating. State what your actions will be, removal, reporting, etc. Before the email you had the coverage of plausible deniability, now you don't (anon tip). In the end save your notice and forget it, if anything comes of it, you can state that you had informed him(her) and they removed it, then replaced it at a later date.
But, IANAL
NarraterDan
I was going to mod this up as "Insightful" or "Interesting" but I really wanted to post on this topic. So I will have to leave the modding to someone else.
You have many valid points and bitches. All of them infact, but some of them are a bit colored. I am a Mac user, but I'm not one of the blind Mac cultists who worship that ego monster Jobs.
I will admit that I was spellbound when Jobs came back as the leader of Apple while it was in its dying spasms, but that soon wore off when I saw that Jobs wasn't dragging Apple kicking and screaming past the cutting edge of technology. All he was doing was playing catch-up and putting it in a nice candy coating for all the candy ravers and people who wanted a computer that went with their choice of carpet and chairs.
Part of Apple's problems are from who they get their CPU's from, Motorola. Motorola needs to get the damn dust out of their clean rooms and start beefing up the Mhz of their chips, the PPC is a great little chip. The only drawback is the problems they are having with making them, IBM has made them faster. What did Motorola do? Got all pissy that IBM wasn't doing the dance their way, and threatened to take away their rights to make the chips. What Motorola should have done was copy IBM's fab system and get on with it.
Another part of Apple's problem is that the OS is half software and half hardware. In the beginning this was great, they could put the whole GUI on a 400k floppy and still have space for a program or two on the same disk. The programers knew it was there, they knew it wasn't going to change over night. The major drawback was that the programmers and hardware makers had to use it, they couldn't just whip up a driver or program for it they had to tie into the ROMs to get stuff to work. Even Apple had to make clever hacks to get their stuff to work with all their machines. The Mac is a hacker's nightmare/dream.
This is where OS X is suposed to come in. OS X is suposed to be completely free of the ROMs, but untill Apple can get it working on the hardware without the need for the ROMs OS 9 will still be around. When they finally do it, the Mac that only runs OS X (XI, XII etc) will forever be unlike the Mac that we all grew to love/hate/ignore.
For all the complaints of how much of a closed system it is and how hard it is to make into what you want it to do, I have seen so many clever hacks from hardware makers and even garage hardware hackers. I've seen so many people who spend hours hacking the latest cuecat or firbie or [insert closed hacker proof product] and yet most bitch about the Mac being a closed system and don't do any hacking on it. Sure it's expencive to replace if you screw up, but that should just make you more carefull about what you are doing. Any hardware hacker worth his salt should have atleast one cobbled together Mac that's not running the Mac OS, be it BeOS, Linux, or something of their own creation.
The PC isn't a Ford, its a freeking GM! The Mac isn't a Bently or any other luxury car. The Mac is a deisel Subaru that has a big wad of black epoxy poured into the engine compartment so that you can't get to it easily.
I have woken up, I don't like candy. Jobs has woken up also, he's just dragging his feet about it. From what I can tell, he knows that OS X is the last chance for Apple. He just doesn't want to let go of the whole kindom just yet. And that is his ego roaring.
I'm not blind, but I do have my fingers crossed.
I used HyperCard 2.0 and Lightspeed C to make a stack that acted like a FTP client and server over a LAN. Stupid yes, but it got me an A in the class.
Even though HyperCard had some major problems, it was quite flexible and powerfull.
Look at the vast amount of written word published in the last year and ask "How much is quality?" .lib (.dll, etc) to pull from and the correct functions to pull from that .lib. Writting the same thing for a CLI is much easier but who would use it other than ourselves?
:-)
Look at the really vast amount of written word published in the last 50 years and ask "How much is quality?"
All someone needs in order to write a novel is an understanding of their language and a dictionary to sound educated.
Programming software is the same, the only real difference is that we learned how to program after we learned our native language. Add to that the huge amount of words and logic structure that we need to know in order to make a simple word processor run in any GUI. If we want to make it as small as possible we need to know the right
The guy has a point. Software for the most part does suck, but look at all the books out there that suck.
Forgive me if this post is a bit scattered, I've been awake for 48 for no good reason.
If the Earth was formed out of a molten ball of space rubble, then the surface should have been more uniform and less likely to have a single Pangaea aka super continent. However Pangaea could have been formed by the shock wave of this asteroid traveling through the core of the Earth and pushing up a large area of the crust on the other side. This asteroid could also have formed the fault lines that eventually split up Pangaea with the help of technonic forces from the later development of the Moon. This asteroid could also have displaced enough material to form the Moon.
Before this even the sea levels on the Earth may have been too deep for the development of signifigant (sp?) self replicating chemicals. On the other hand there may have been a number of sites for the successful development of these chemicals around the edges of minor meteorite impacts.
I don't know how many of you have played a game of D&D that could be turned into an Oscar winning movie, I know I haven't. Yes, there are minor issues with lame dialog and plot, but it's not much different from an actual game of D&D.
The only thing I didn't like was how the dragons were shown as a weapon that could be weilded, come on. The best scene with a dragon was the first scene with a dragon, that glimmer in it's eye when it disenchanted that staff of dragon control. Classic dragon.
'Nuff said.
NarratorDan
oops, forgot I had a .sig, was my own first post.
Doh!
A car is vintage if it's more than 30 years old. Car makers put out one new model every year. Computer makers put out a new computer about every six months. IMHO a vintage computer should be 15 years old. UNIX was written in C Try writting Windows in VB