I was an Apple ][ geek in high school, writing cool little 3d maze games in 6502 assemby language. The day I first saw a Mac, it was a 128k mac with an external 400k floppy drive, and had a go with MacPaint I was hooked. I begged my bank manager to loan me the $4k i needed to buy one but my frind with the rich dad bought one for him (a fat mac) and I used it to do all of my university maths assignments. Not to solve them, just to lay them out using MacDraw! I taught myself 68k assemby language and with some others wrote a basic compiler for the early mac and dropped out of uni as a result. Apple gave us loads of macs then. It was 1985 and I got my first MacPlus with a full meg of ram. I'm still a programmer, I still have a mac. I am about to get a new 1Gb ram, 1Ghz TitG4 with a superdrive next week to replace my old TitG4 that got stolen by crack addicts with guns. I've been working on a borrowed 12" iBook for the last 6 months and have grown to love it. I've never used windows, and only ever used linux/solaris via a terminal. I am a.Mac member. I paid up becasue of the backup software. My last mac was stolen as I said, along with my entire home network while I sat blindfolded with a gun at my head. A week later Apple released Backup. I was sold on the spot. I use it every damn day now, and I use iSynch to synch between my mac and my account on girlfriend's G3 laptop. I use my iDisk a lot. I never switched from apple in 20+ years and have had nothing but joy from my machines. I expect this will go on until someone pulls my mac from my cold dead hands.
you say US government doesn't maintain a specially horrific prision for the children of dissidents, doesn't gas its own citizens, doesn't execute military officers by the hundreds, doesn't explicitly repress free speech, etc.
There are many documented instances of the US gassing their own people. here's just one and didn't the russians just gas their own people too? and for the record those kurds supposedly gassed by Iraq were actually gassed by Iran with US and british supplied weapons.
actually the US does execute miltary officers by the hundreds. in fact the US executed thousands of retreating iraqi soldiers in 1991. Not onlty that but the US is guilty of political assasination, car bombing, torture, and general mayhem associated with their ongoing war of terror. I mean Nixon and Kissinger and Rumsfeld actually extended the vietnam war (95% civillian casualties) by years just to get Nixon elected.
and finally to say the US doesn't repress free speech is too much of a joke. even google is staffed by NSA spooks. self censorship is at an all time high - wake up and smell what your are shovelling. If the press in the US were really free you'd probably know a bit more about your own evil soaked government and their clients.
george w bush and his oil coup cronies are far more evil than saddam could ever hope to be.
- Demand regime change in the USA now.
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how about unicode arbitrary case insensitive strings being valid domain names. i mean why exactly do we need the damn dots.
why can't my website be http://davesag and aliased as http://dave sag.
air portugal would not let me play dvds or cds but would allow me to watch quicktime movies once i had explained that there was no cd or dvd playing, just the hard disk. apparently the laser/LED in the cd/dvd drive in some very rare circumstances can emit interference. I posted a query to MacSlash about this about a year ago and the various comments there confirmed that air italia, aer lingus, Iberian air and others also have this policy.
i am a long time java developer who has never done any c is his life. i went from 68k assember to java via ada, 4d and stuff like lingo and javascript. what books would you recommend for java programmers wanting to learn Objective C and Cocoa? how easy is it to connect front end cocoa stuff like drawers, services access, etc to java backend services. can rendesvous and jini map together? can one write an osx preference pane using java?
2-Componant Divx Players, or more likely DVD players that can also play DIVX content. People want to watch movies on their tv, not their computer, and only geeks have good tv-output capabilities.
if you fly a lot then putting movies on your hard disk makes perfect sense, just because of the battery life you save. many flights don't allow cd players or dvd players on board, but you can almost always be using a computer in-flight. i love the idea of loading up 10 or so movies, even at 1/2 size for watching in-flight on long haul flights, or boring train rides.
most computers have some sort of output to TV don't they? mine always have
-- 1. All the money we give out every year to keep most 3rd world countries from colapsing?
-That's true - the US does prop up dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Eygpt, Jordan, etc.
also most us aid goes on marketing of cigarettes, fronts for humint staff, scouting of territory for mcdonalds and extorting slave labour for the gap.
--2. The constant military help we give countries who need it?
-See above. Not to mention the "military help" we're about to give Iraq!
or the help you gave kosovo, or the people who need it like suharto, pinoche, etc
--3. A government run by the people for the people? Granted it could be better.
-Which people are those? Hell, in the last presidential election, they didn't even bother to count all the votes.
the us is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.
--4. Having our women on equal ground with our men in every aspect of our lives?
-One of the best things about America, and Europe, and our culture. I think we're way ahead of everyone on this one. Good call.
but is there truly equal pay and equal opportunity for advancement for both men and women?
--5. Having most of our diverse religous and ethnic backgrounds get along together?
-Well, "get along" might be pushing it. But America is one of the most tolerant and liberal cultures in the world. Now if we can just keep the "conservatives" from destroying it.
most americans are great in person no matter theirt politics. but your leaders are a corrupt gang of thugs and killers who are lining their own pockets with the blood of millions.
--6. Having a country where a "common" class person can become the richest person in the world? Granted I don't like Bill Gates.
-Bill Gates was a "common" class person? Wasn't he a rich kid that went to Harvard? A few working class folks do win the lottery every year.
people who wil lotteries almost always regret it and end up in a worse position than when they started. steve jobs is a uni dropout who runs one of the coolest companies on earth. who would you rather be?
--7. A country where EVERY child has the ability to get an education?
-The schools for poor kids in America are horrible, Europe has us well beat on this one. We need to work harder. Let's show those snotty Europeans - let's triple school funding until we catch up.
europe is excellent. so much more depth and feeling of community here than in the us. i am sad for countries like australia that have been wavign the us flag so hard it must hurt, and iraq turned around and cancelled half a billion in wheat orders, pointing out that they can hardly go buing food from a country so beligerantly towing the us line.
--8. A country that thoughsands of people are fleeing to every year?
-Like Europe? Thousands of people flee to China every year too. Most people flee poor countries to rich countries, wouldn't you?
and australia, south america, anywhere but the middle east. the us puts their prisoners in cuba, australia puts them in nauru. britian used to put theirs in australia.
--9. A country that produces enough food to not only feed themselves but a large part of the world?
-Our socialist farming system has worked very well. Didn't ADM, supermarket to the world, just get a huge subsidy in the "Farm Bill" this year? Of course, America does not feed the world. Hell, most poor countries are sending us food! (See Haiti, Zimbabwe, (sp?), etc.)
exactly. the us didproduce terminator crops though and some poor farmer got sued for patent infringement because some seeds of some other bastard plant had fallen into his own pastures and contaminated his crops. but the us want fair trade and to give food aid. never mind the food aid given is always non-renewable. a bit like army rations,a nd probably made in manilla along with marks & spencers sandwiches and imac superdrives.
--10. A country where people could protest against the government and ANY political official and NOT get shot or have family members killed?
-Freedom of speech is one of the things that makes America great. We are well ahead of Europe on this one. Now, let's just keep the "conservatives" from censoring political speech, and we'll be fine.
oh come on. the press has been full of people in the us being lynched for their religion or creed. especially post 11/9
-IMHO, Bill Clinton was a scumbag, but he was loved and cheered all over the world.
-IMHO, Bush is a scumbag, but he is booed and protested all over the world. I guess that's why he stays at his ranch and plays golf all the time.
-The main reason that people around the world hate the US is not envy, its the BOMBS.
don't get me wrong i think americans are great and their country is beautiful. but your leaders are crazy and in charge of weapons of mass destruction and that scares people. they think about what you did to cambodia - and the fact that rummy was sec of defence then too, and kissinger is still there behind the scenes.
and the whole time, sitting there right behind the wings is the perhaps the most evil man in the world, Donald Rumsfeld. This man who was described by Kissinger as a despot was Secretary for Defence under Nixon, Ford, Regan (by proxy) and Bush - think bombing of cambodia, think nicuragua, think the rise of suharto in indonesia and the US embassy supplied hit lists. As his official CV makes clear, he was CEO of some of the world's most evil companies and full time spook.
His plan is so simple, yet so evil. Divide the world into the haves and have nots. kill the have nots or use them as slave labour, don't bother making death camps in kolma when you can have prison labour labelling underwear.
the future for the haves is different. they must pay and pay for the privelidge of having.
the have's are really just the cream of the have nots. they, by benefit of luck, some innate special skills or knowledge can seem like they have, even though their main daily activity is the generation of other people's wealth.
there is of course the final elite group, the core cabal, illuminati, star chamber whatever. they have and like the man says, them that have get more. rupert, donny, bill (both of them), the georges charleses etc etc, and all those born to rule date rapists you hated at high school and university. these guys have robbed the whole world blind. they have murdered, stolen, lied, enslaved, violated and desacrated to further their own evil agendas. their agendas have a common goal, they are all in one way or anothers players of a huge game of risk.
this is not a generational war, this is september 11 for your digital rights.
we used to be able to drink water from a stream. now we must buy it in bottles. the guy busking in the local mall will be busted for music piracy, or be forced to pay an APRA fee if he plays covers of songs in order to get a licence to busk.
the war on piracy is a protection racket, like the war on drugs and the war on terra.
you now must pay top dollar to get
clean water
healthy 'organic' food
'fresh', ie 'pollution free' air - often mistaken for cool air.
'unspoiled' (ie by vast acres of self-similar housing developments, ads, human detritus,) wilderness
free (as in beer, marijuhana, nelson mandella) software and data.
i could go on but it's all just too upsetting.
who would have kids in this day and age? they'd be chipped by 6 to protect them from predators lurking on the internet. a bluetooth/802.11/gps/dsp implant to monitor and protect your kiddie 24x7. chipped kids get more rights than unchipped kids, and by chipped think 50cc tablet swallowed before leaving the house, not a permanent implant. this thing will keep an eye on your little darlings for as long as it is in your system, and they then shit it out and need to take another one to be 'protected'. they'll cost a bucket and sell faster than viagra and to be sure, you'll give 'em one with every meal. and who was ceo of some of the world's biggest drugs companies and high-tech bio-surveillance technology companies? big don.
I couldn't agree more. The 70mm format is about the best cinema experince there is. IMAX is only really good for 3d imho. It's all about aspect ratio. In a conventional cinema 3d is strange because you get actors who are 3 m high, 1 m wide and 3 m deep if you sit near the back of the cinema. IMAX's super close up view actually really suits the 3d format, but that's about it imho.
the real problem with IMAX is that no-one has made a single film for IMAX that really uses the format to tell a better story.
Yeah and i remember when i first saw it on dvd on my mac and thinking "man is Laurence Fishburn's skin really that bad!" seeing those nasty pok marks up so close would be terrifying.
also the aspect ratio would be all wrong. take a film like lawrence of arabia. no one disputes that this is a must see on the big screen and seeing the 70mm print is just amazing, but on an imax screen you'll be sitting far too close to get the benefit of the wide shots of the desert.
on the other hand i am all for technologies that can make small images bigger with no loss in quality. how do they do that?
when are we going to see an imax film that is actually any good?
If you are in first or business class, you can always buy their on-board power cords that hook up into the plane (depending on airline).
The guy is on an iBook. The iBook's power supply, like the TitG4's, is not the same size as a 'standard' PC laptop or powerbookg3 plug. I bought a special adapter (about eu100) that connected my titg4 to the powerout in Singapore airline's business class, but as my sibling poster has already pointed out Qantas don't provide any power out in business, or first. (I can confirm that from my own experience - hoorah for upgrade credits).
Once you get to europe your kit will work fine. Don't take your airport to france however as it will clash with the french miltary's use of that freqency and land you in lé merde. the mac handles all sorts of flakey voltages okay, and what's better on 240 volts will recharge almost twice as fast as in the USA. ahh the euro advantage:-)
modems etc - same. you should not have any problems, but keep in mind that calls in eu are usually charged by the second, not free like in the USA. but we have GSM phones here that actually work, and iMode and all sorts of new fangled crap.
oh yeah coming out of the USA with your ibook, keep it on and in sleep mode, and be prepared for them to rub a swab on it and test that swab for chemical traces. if you, like some people i know, have a habit of rolling joints on your laptop, be sure to give your ibook a good clean - or you may never get on that plane.
before there can be a game programmer there needs to be a game. too many games are made by people with zero sense of playability. before anyone dives into any sort of game development remember to try to make a fun game first. everything else comes next.
I'm nice to apple and pay my select developer fees, so they seed me with nice toys. jag has been out in developer release for a month or so and the full release just hit the servers with the usual - be nice to the servers please warnings. i expect it will arrive on 3 cds and 1 dvd soon enough - apple love sending their developers such goodies. last month i got a dvd with all the technotes from the beginning of time. i have to say apple really do look after developers well, even if they do tread on them from time to time. when elephants fight the grass is crushed.
of course heinlein, inventor of the waterbed, was a well documented fascist, and of course verhoven (dutch not german as some fool way up this thread declared) lampooned heinlein's fascism brilliantly and made one of the best sci-fi films in history. it is actually the one other collaboration verhaven has made with the guy who aslo wrote robocop and many regard starship troopers as a worthy sequal to robocop.
way off topic the academy awards gave best special effects to ET over BladeRunner in 1983, and they gave Titanic best special effects over StarShipTroopers in 1999. Idiots.
Just need to go through the application and set the defaults from Metric to English
what on earth do you mean? last time i looked, England like the rest of the world save for the U$A, used the Metric system. The older system of measures, officially defunct some 30 years ago in the civilized world, but clung to with a queer nostalgia by americans, is called the Imperial system, not the English system.
this highlights a valid point. page changes to not equate to information loss. page changes on a blog, or web-board, news site or olm are almost all additions to an overall mass of indexed content that does not change much, apart from perhaps the ads, and index or contents pages that change regularly. pages such as these/. comments are always changing, but seldom lose information. the information is continually being sorted for relevance by ant-like readers.
this 'study' suggests to me that there is room for real scientific investigation into the nature of massively webbed information. and google very likely provides a useful tool in the information-scientist's investigative arsenal.
someone using OSX on an eMac will be learing valuable skills that will be of use when they get out in the real world. no matter that the hardware they were using when they were at school is redundant now, they would expect that anyway. but OSX will still be around in 10 years, and unix skills are unix skills. letter writing skills are not affected by the choice of wordprocessor, geography skills are not affected by your school's choice of computer, assuming the school chooses computers that let kid get on with their lessons instead of turning every class into an IT helpdesk class. if you were a parent with primary school ages kids would you prefer their computational study aids ran
windows: certain to be redundant when they leave school, almost certain to crash, get a virus or some other horror
linux: certain to confuse most teachers and even more students. certain to distract from the important lessons being taught. certain to be almost unrecognisably different by the time the kid leaves school
macosx: cheap, unix if they want to grow into it, does all they could need, unobtrusive, easy to admin and likely to be running on 95% of all computers by the time they leave school.
My viewpoint has changed radically. I have an XP box now - it's actually a pretty stable OS. And.NET delivers on all the promises that Sun had made of Java. (M$ has beaten them - intsead of "write once, run anywhere,".NET offers "compile once, run anywhere.")
okay so i'll just run that VB.NET thing on my Mac shall I, or my Palm Pilot, or my Nokia Phone?
come on..NET is not about secure mobile code like java is. the write once, run anywhere offering from Java is really just a trojan so that code can be serialized and sent across a hetrogenous network, deserialized and continue execution. show me how.NET lets you do that?
M$ spin this bullshit that you need.NET to use web services - that's crap. They say you need.NET to make sense of UDDI - bollocks, They say.NET supports all these languages - who cares, there are millions of crap languages. Java and other MODERN languages force you to structure your thinking. ASP and C# just perpetuate the same old shit. M$ dweebs NEED tons of fancy tools to write M$ code. Java developers need Vi and Javac.
.NET is all about taking on Java, it's not about better code, better software or better design.
well they could and a laptop friendly UltraSpark chip compares nicely to a laptop friendly G4 chip but they'd still be missing out on
decent battery life
wireless networking
integrated dvd player/cd burner
gig of ram (how much can you stuff in a tadpole?)
Firewire (and 10/100 ethernet and usb, and now Bluetooth)
cool peripherals like ipod that impress your friends with your ability to whip out a disco track on demand, and carry around the soundtrack of your life
impact resistant casing (i've dropped my t4 out of my backpack from a moving bicycle into a puddle of mud, and after a clean and rinse the damn thing works fine)
wide screen with business class dinner tray form factor.
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I was an Apple ][ geek in high school, writing cool little 3d maze games in 6502 assemby language. The day I first saw a Mac, it was a 128k mac with an external 400k floppy drive, and had a go with MacPaint I was hooked. I begged my bank manager to loan me the $4k i needed to buy one but my frind with the rich dad bought one for him (a fat mac) and I used it to do all of my university maths assignments. Not to solve them, just to lay them out using MacDraw! I taught myself 68k assemby language and with some others wrote a basic compiler for the early mac and dropped out of uni as a result. Apple gave us loads of macs then. It was 1985 and I got my first MacPlus with a full meg of ram. I'm still a programmer, I still have a mac. I am about to get a new 1Gb ram, 1Ghz TitG4 with a superdrive next week to replace my old TitG4 that got stolen by crack addicts with guns. I've been working on a borrowed 12" iBook for the last 6 months and have grown to love it. I've never used windows, and only ever used linux/solaris via a terminal. I am a .Mac member. I paid up becasue of the backup software. My last mac was stolen as I said, along with my entire home network while I sat blindfolded with a gun at my head. A week later Apple released Backup. I was sold on the spot. I use it every damn day now, and I use iSynch to synch between my mac and my account on girlfriend's G3 laptop. I use my iDisk a lot.
I never switched from apple in 20+ years and have had nothing but joy from my machines. I expect this will go on until someone pulls my mac from my cold dead hands.
I'm sure I wrote "mac osx" but perhaps the headline was truncated on sumbission and then edited carelessly. spooky.
- some history for you.
- the US govt imprisons more of its own citizens per capita than any other country in the world, and the number of children in us prisons is on the rise. Many of these prisons would rate as "horrific", especially for kids.
- There are many documented instances of the US gassing their own people. here's just one and didn't the russians just gas their own people too? and for the record those kurds supposedly gassed by Iraq were actually gassed by Iran with US and british supplied weapons.
- actually the US does execute miltary officers by the hundreds. in fact the US executed thousands of retreating iraqi soldiers in 1991. Not onlty that but the US is guilty of political assasination, car bombing, torture, and general mayhem associated with their ongoing war of terror. I mean Nixon and Kissinger and Rumsfeld actually extended the vietnam war (95% civillian casualties) by years just to get Nixon elected.
- and finally to say the US doesn't repress free speech is too much of a joke. even google is staffed by NSA spooks. self censorship is at an all time high - wake up and smell what your are shovelling. If the press in the US were really free you'd probably know a bit more about your own evil soaked government and their clients.
george w bush and his oil coup cronies are far more evil than saddam could ever hope to be.- Demand regime change in the USA now.
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air portugal would not let me play dvds or cds but would allow me to watch quicktime movies once i had explained that there was no cd or dvd playing, just the hard disk. apparently the laser/LED in the cd/dvd drive in some very rare circumstances can emit interference. I posted a query to MacSlash about this about a year ago and the various comments there confirmed that air italia, aer lingus, Iberian air and others also have this policy.
i am a long time java developer who has never done any c is his life. i went from 68k assember to java via ada, 4d and stuff like lingo and javascript. what books would you recommend for java programmers wanting to learn Objective C and Cocoa? how easy is it to connect front end cocoa stuff like drawers, services access, etc to java backend services. can rendesvous and jini map together? can one write an osx preference pane using java?
if you fly a lot then putting movies on your hard disk makes perfect sense, just because of the battery life you save. many flights don't allow cd players or dvd players on board, but you can almost always be using a computer in-flight. i love the idea of loading up 10 or so movies, even at 1/2 size for watching in-flight on long haul flights, or boring train rides.
most computers have some sort of output to TV don't they? mine always have
i wonder if this technology could be adapted to make a device that prevents digital cameras / dv cams from making out youtr details. I mean if the army is going to go around videotaping civillians at protests then protesters need a way to fight that. something along the lines of a scramble suit but lowertech.
um, i was born in 1965 but i am only 36. how come moby gets an extra 2 years?
-That's true - the US does prop up dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Eygpt, Jordan, etc.
also most us aid goes on marketing of cigarettes, fronts for humint staff, scouting of territory for mcdonalds and extorting slave labour for the gap.
--2. The constant military help we give countries who need it?
-See above. Not to mention the "military help" we're about to give Iraq!
or the help you gave kosovo, or the people who need it like suharto, pinoche, etc
--3. A government run by the people for the people? Granted it could be better.
-Which people are those? Hell, in the last presidential election, they didn't even bother to count all the votes.
the us is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.
--4. Having our women on equal ground with our men in every aspect of our lives?
-One of the best things about America, and Europe, and our culture. I think we're way ahead of everyone on this one. Good call.
but is there truly equal pay and equal opportunity for advancement for both men and women?
--5. Having most of our diverse religous and ethnic backgrounds get along together?
-Well, "get along" might be pushing it. But America is one of the most tolerant and liberal cultures in the world. Now if we can just keep the "conservatives" from destroying it.
most americans are great in person no matter theirt politics. but your leaders are a corrupt gang of thugs and killers who are lining their own pockets with the blood of millions.
--6. Having a country where a "common" class person can become the richest person in the world? Granted I don't like Bill Gates.
-Bill Gates was a "common" class person? Wasn't he a rich kid that went to Harvard? A few working class folks do win the lottery every year.
people who wil lotteries almost always regret it and end up in a worse position than when they started. steve jobs is a uni dropout who runs one of the coolest companies on earth. who would you rather be?
--7. A country where EVERY child has the ability to get an education?
-The schools for poor kids in America are horrible, Europe has us well beat on this one. We need to work harder. Let's show those snotty Europeans - let's triple school funding until we catch up.
europe is excellent. so much more depth and feeling of community here than in the us. i am sad for countries like australia that have been wavign the us flag so hard it must hurt, and iraq turned around and cancelled half a billion in wheat orders, pointing out that they can hardly go buing food from a country so beligerantly towing the us line.
--8. A country that thoughsands of people are fleeing to every year?
-Like Europe? Thousands of people flee to China every year too. Most people flee poor countries to rich countries, wouldn't you?
and australia, south america, anywhere but the middle east. the us puts their prisoners in cuba, australia puts them in nauru. britian used to put theirs in australia.
--9. A country that produces enough food to not only feed themselves but a large part of the world?
-Our socialist farming system has worked very well. Didn't ADM, supermarket to the world, just get a huge subsidy in the "Farm Bill" this year? Of course, America does not feed the world. Hell, most poor countries are sending us food! (See Haiti, Zimbabwe, (sp?), etc.)
exactly. the us didproduce terminator crops though and some poor farmer got sued for patent infringement because some seeds of some other bastard plant had fallen into his own pastures and contaminated his crops. but the us want fair trade and to give food aid. never mind the food aid given is always non-renewable. a bit like army rations,a nd probably made in manilla along with marks & spencers sandwiches and imac superdrives.
--10. A country where people could protest against the government and ANY political official and NOT get shot or have family members killed?
-Freedom of speech is one of the things that makes America great. We are well ahead of Europe on this one. Now, let's just keep the "conservatives" from censoring political speech, and we'll be fine.
oh come on. the press has been full of people in the us being lynched for their religion or creed. especially post 11/9
-IMHO, Bill Clinton was a scumbag, but he was loved and cheered all over the world.
-IMHO, Bush is a scumbag, but he is booed and protested all over the world. I guess that's why he stays at his ranch and plays golf all the time.
-The main reason that people around the world hate the US is not envy, its the BOMBS.
-Remember?
there are many reasons why people hate america.
don't get me wrong i think americans are great and their country is beautiful. but your leaders are crazy and in charge of weapons of mass destruction and that scares people. they think about what you did to cambodia - and the fact that rummy was sec of defence then too, and kissinger is still there behind the scenes.
The common thread to all of this is Donald Rumsfeld.
and the whole time, sitting there right behind the wings is the perhaps the most evil man in the world, Donald Rumsfeld. This man who was described by Kissinger as a despot was Secretary for Defence under Nixon, Ford, Regan (by proxy) and Bush - think bombing of cambodia, think nicuragua, think the rise of suharto in indonesia and the US embassy supplied hit lists. As his official CV makes clear, he was CEO of some of the world's most evil companies and full time spook.
His plan is so simple, yet so evil. Divide the world into the haves and have nots. kill the have nots or use them as slave labour, don't bother making death camps in kolma when you can have prison labour labelling underwear.
the future for the haves is different. they must pay and pay for the privelidge of having.
the have's are really just the cream of the have nots. they, by benefit of luck, some innate special skills or knowledge can seem like they have, even though their main daily activity is the generation of other people's wealth.
there is of course the final elite group, the core cabal, illuminati, star chamber whatever. they have and like the man says, them that have get more. rupert, donny, bill (both of them), the georges charleses etc etc, and all those born to rule date rapists you hated at high school and university. these guys have robbed the whole world blind. they have murdered, stolen, lied, enslaved, violated and desacrated to further their own evil agendas. their agendas have a common goal, they are all in one way or anothers players of a huge game of risk.
this is not a generational war, this is september 11 for your digital rights.
we used to be able to drink water from a stream. now we must buy it in bottles. the guy busking in the local mall will be busted for music piracy, or be forced to pay an APRA fee if he plays covers of songs in order to get a licence to busk.
the war on piracy is a protection racket, like the war on drugs and the war on terra.
you now must pay top dollar to get
who would have kids in this day and age? they'd be chipped by 6 to protect them from predators lurking on the internet. a bluetooth/802.11/gps/dsp implant to monitor and protect your kiddie 24x7. chipped kids get more rights than unchipped kids, and by chipped think 50cc tablet swallowed before leaving the house, not a permanent implant. this thing will keep an eye on your little darlings for as long as it is in your system, and they then shit it out and need to take another one to be 'protected'. they'll cost a bucket and sell faster than viagra and to be sure, you'll give 'em one with every meal. and who was ceo of some of the world's biggest drugs companies and high-tech bio-surveillance technology companies? big don.
the real problem with IMAX is that no-one has made a single film for IMAX that really uses the format to tell a better story.
also the aspect ratio would be all wrong. take a film like lawrence of arabia. no one disputes that this is a must see on the big screen and seeing the 70mm print is just amazing, but on an imax screen you'll be sitting far too close to get the benefit of the wide shots of the desert.
on the other hand i am all for technologies that can make small images bigger with no loss in quality. how do they do that?
when are we going to see an imax film that is actually any good?
It is no wonder the USA is so opposed to the International War Crimes Court, the international ban on land mines, and joins somalia as one of the only nations *not* to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Subverting emerging democracies, funding, training and arming terrorists, providing safe havens for the world's worst criminals, running drugs, raping children, defrauding pension funds, bombing prisoners, 'dissapearing' many thousands of people within the US and many tens of thousands of people outside of the US. is all part of a days work for the new emerging world order.
To me it's hardly a sustainable plan, but then maybe they know things I don't know.
maybe i am just too prepared to think the unthinkable.
The guy is on an iBook. The iBook's power supply, like the TitG4's, is not the same size as a 'standard' PC laptop or powerbookg3 plug. I bought a special adapter (about eu100) that connected my titg4 to the powerout in Singapore airline's business class, but as my sibling poster has already pointed out Qantas don't provide any power out in business, or first. (I can confirm that from my own experience - hoorah for upgrade credits).
Once you get to europe your kit will work fine. Don't take your airport to france however as it will clash with the french miltary's use of that freqency and land you in lé merde. the mac handles all sorts of flakey voltages okay, and what's better on 240 volts will recharge almost twice as fast as in the USA. ahh the euro advantage :-)
modems etc - same. you should not have any problems, but keep in mind that calls in eu are usually charged by the second, not free like in the USA. but we have GSM phones here that actually work, and iMode and all sorts of new fangled crap.
oh yeah coming out of the USA with your ibook, keep it on and in sleep mode, and be prepared for them to rub a swab on it and test that swab for chemical traces. if you, like some people i know, have a habit of rolling joints on your laptop, be sure to give your ibook a good clean - or you may never get on that plane.
my 2c.
I'm nice to apple and pay my select developer fees, so they seed me with nice toys. jag has been out in developer release for a month or so and the full release just hit the servers with the usual - be nice to the servers please warnings. i expect it will arrive on 3 cds and 1 dvd soon enough - apple love sending their developers such goodies. last month i got a dvd with all the technotes from the beginning of time. i have to say apple really do look after developers well, even if they do tread on them from time to time. when elephants fight the grass is crushed.
Solaris get's a B from me. osx10.2 aka jaguar gets an A+ it actually feels like it's from the future.
drag'n'rip! um, where does the CD go?
sounds like bollocks to me.
way off topic the academy awards gave best special effects to ET over BladeRunner in 1983, and they gave Titanic best special effects over StarShipTroopers in 1999. Idiots.
what on earth do you mean? last time i looked, England like the rest of the world save for the U$A, used the Metric system. The older system of measures, officially defunct some 30 years ago in the civilized world, but clung to with a queer nostalgia by americans, is called the Imperial system, not the English system.
this 'study' suggests to me that there is room for real scientific investigation into the nature of massively webbed information. and google very likely provides a useful tool in the information-scientist's investigative arsenal.
- windows: certain to be redundant when they leave school, almost certain to crash, get a virus or some other horror
- linux: certain to confuse most teachers and even more students. certain to distract from the important lessons being taught. certain to be almost unrecognisably different by the time the kid leaves school
- macosx: cheap, unix if they want to grow into it, does all they could need, unobtrusive, easy to admin and likely to be running on 95% of all computers by the time they leave school.
The eMac will be very successful.okay so i'll just run that VB.NET thing on my Mac shall I, or my Palm Pilot, or my Nokia Phone?
come on. .NET is not about secure mobile code like java is. the write once, run anywhere offering from Java is really just a trojan so that code can be serialized and sent across a hetrogenous network, deserialized and continue execution. show me how .NET lets you do that?
M$ spin this bullshit that you need .NET to use web services - that's crap. They say you need .NET to make sense of UDDI - bollocks, They say .NET supports all these languages - who cares, there are millions of crap languages. Java and other MODERN languages force you to structure your thinking. ASP and C# just perpetuate the same old shit. M$ dweebs NEED tons of fancy tools to write M$ code. Java developers need Vi and Javac.
.NET is all about taking on Java, it's not about better code, better software or better design.