Don't kid yourself. It's MacOS so it's gonna break and malfunction all kinds. What are you going to do when it comes time to upgrade your new iBook? These computers are not made to be hardware configurable. Some team of guys at apple got together and decided what would go into this system. You have little or no control over it. I think this system is great for people that need to use a computer with little or no knowledge but I'm not that person. I like to build my computers from the ground up and compile my kernel to the exact specifications that I like. I install the software that I want to use and I love every second of it. I'm not saying that the iMac and iBook don't have their places I'm just saying they are not for me. It's not about showing off to my friends. It about being in control of the one item that occupies more of my time than anything else. If you think I'm on a high horse let me set you straight. The approach I take is hard. I spend many frustrated hours trying to figure out simple things that Mac's do automatically. But when I'm done I am happy because I have learned how the computer actually works. And I have a system that is tailored to exactly to suit my needs. So please spare me your misguided accusations until you can grow up and make informed ones.
Oh, and as for a product that doesn't assume you're an idiot: How 'bout Linux.
"The iBook has a tough polycarbonate body built to withstand life in a backpack-and no doors or latches to break."
also they say:
"Great for surfing the Internet, whipping out homework assignments, sending and receiving email, or beating the daylights out of friends at multiplayer games"
Not to mention that they pretty much assume that their customer is an idiot. Who doesn't know what a jack is:
"Because however well designed your home or dorm is, chances are your jacks-those little holes in the wall you plug your phone line into-are in the wrong place, or in not enough of the right places to be really convenient."
Sorry, I don't buy products that are designed from the ground up to assume I'm an idiot.Besides they look just plain silly.
What makes you think there will be any problem running linux on an amiga? It runs on almost every PC platform (Mac, Sun, alpha, Intel, SGI, and more probably)! Linux runs great on Intel machines but that doesn't mean it's optimized for them. Most code optimization comes from compilers which may or may not be optimized for pentiums...
It's really amazing how well you can read other people's ideas and regurgitate them. How many hundreds of times have I heard RH being compared to M$? The plain fact it they are trying to be successful. It doesn't matter whether or not they are here to help linux or become linux because the very nature of linux and the GPL prevents that from happening. Any software they write still gets GPL'd. Do you see M$ GPLing their software? no. Why? because they are money hungry bastards. RH believes in the Open Source Movement and they also believe that they can still get rich by supporting it. I wish them all the luck because every piece of software that they write and GPL does indeed help the Linux community! I may decide to switch over to debian because I don't want GNOME or KDE but not because they are now "evil" because they want to turn a profit.
And Suppose for just a minute that RH succeeds in becoming as succesful as M$. Let's ask ourselves what that would mean. It would mean that RH has created a distribution that my mom could install and use. She won't ever have to learn to compile a kernel or use vi. She will never have to learn about any of the unix command line utilities that I love so much. But she will be able to have an environment that is as easy to use as windows but can run indefinately. Granted this is not the distribution for me but it is ideal for the average computer user. The user that M$ targets. Debian will still be around for us "power users" and RH will never be able to do anything about that. How can any of this be bad for linux?
Redhat is the only distribution I know of that is trying to compete with Microsoft. Do you have any idea how hard that must be? This tiny little company (big for linux small for the PC industry) has the balls to walk up the the industry leader and try to beat them by distributing (get this...) quality software. It very reminiscent of david and goliath. Luckily for RH they are not actually competing with M$. (Do you think david would have won if he'd tried to fight goliath with a sword?) Instead RH has something under their hat (no pun intended) that M$ can't compete with: Free Software. That's our slingshot! Die M$ Die!!!!
I work for a company that makes massively parallelized boards for doing text matching at extremely fast rates. I know for a fact that getting a single board with no faulty chips can be quite a chore. Assuming that the NSA could produce thousands or millions of these boards I bet only 75% of those would work. (that's gonna kick the price up a little!) Plus mainframes can lose a processor a day. If you had 10 zillion chips how many of those would die every day? Surely that would slow them down. All that taken into account my guess is that 3 secs is WAY longer than it ACTUALLY takes;-)
Why does some of the code need to be hardcoded? Why not just put the hardcoded part that is to be outputted in a file and read it in from the program? That way the file wouldn't have to be GPL'd. Seems like a simple solution. My guess is that your trying to avoid this.
Programmer... now that's not glamorous enough. We want to make people think it's cool to sit in a dark room coding away for 15 hours at a time. How about "coder" or we could just stick with the word we all know and love: Nerd.
To put together their bull shit and convince people that it wasn't all a scam. Then people realized: Wait! I shouldn't have to reboot just because I installed a new program!
Becuase he said that HE administrated setting up the servers. You see, the commas form an interjection. But if you take out the stuff between the commas the sentence should be perfectly clear to someone with no short-term memory
I saw a Dateline story and found this article that confirms it. A Burlington Coat factory sold coats lined with dog fur. An interesting aside, I thought. It's still great news that linux is getting some commercial use. Gives me hope that I'll be able to get a job programming that doesn't involve knowing MFC.
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Don't kid yourself. It's MacOS so it's gonna break and malfunction all kinds. What are you going to do when it comes time to upgrade your new iBook? These computers are not made to be hardware configurable. Some team of guys at apple got together and decided what would go into this system. You have little or no control over it. I think this system is great for people that need to use a computer with little or no knowledge but I'm not that person. I like to build my computers from the ground up and compile my kernel to the exact specifications that I like. I install the software that I want to use and I love every second of it. I'm not saying that the iMac and iBook don't have their places I'm just saying they are not for me. It's not about showing off to my friends. It about being in control of the one item that occupies more of my time than anything else. If you think I'm on a high horse let me set you straight. The approach I take is hard. I spend many frustrated hours trying to figure out simple things that Mac's do automatically. But when I'm done I am happy because I have learned how the computer actually works. And I have a system that is tailored to exactly to suit my needs. So please spare me your misguided accusations until you can grow up and make informed ones.
Oh, and as for a product that doesn't assume you're an idiot: How 'bout Linux.
Is obviously a kid aged 16-20. From the website:
"The iBook has a tough polycarbonate body built to withstand life in a backpack-and no doors or latches to break."
also they say:
"Great for surfing the Internet, whipping out homework assignments, sending and receiving email, or beating the daylights out of friends at multiplayer games"
Not to mention that they pretty much assume that their customer is an idiot. Who doesn't know what a jack is:
"Because however well designed your home or dorm is, chances are your jacks-those little holes in the wall you plug your phone line into-are in the wrong place, or in not enough of the right places to be really convenient."
Sorry, I don't buy products that are designed from the ground up to assume I'm an idiot.Besides they look just plain silly.
What makes you think there will be any problem running linux on an amiga? It runs on almost every PC platform (Mac, Sun, alpha, Intel, SGI, and more probably)! Linux runs great on Intel machines but that doesn't mean it's optimized for them. Most code optimization comes from compilers which may or may not be optimized for pentiums...
It's really amazing how well you can read other people's ideas and regurgitate them. How many hundreds of times have I heard RH being compared to M$? The plain fact it they are trying to be successful. It doesn't matter whether or not they are here to help linux or become linux because the very nature of linux and the GPL prevents that from happening. Any software they write still gets GPL'd. Do you see M$ GPLing their software? no. Why? because they are money hungry bastards. RH believes in the Open Source Movement and they also believe that they can still get rich by supporting it. I wish them all the luck because every piece of software that they write and GPL does indeed help the Linux community! I may decide to switch over to debian because I don't want GNOME or KDE but not because they are now "evil" because they want to turn a profit.
And Suppose for just a minute that RH succeeds in becoming as succesful as M$. Let's ask ourselves what that would mean. It would mean that RH has created a distribution that my mom could install and use. She won't ever have to learn to compile a kernel or use vi. She will never have to learn about any of the unix command line utilities that I love so much. But she will be able to have an environment that is as easy to use as windows but can run indefinately. Granted this is not the distribution for me but it is ideal for the average computer user. The user that M$ targets. Debian will still be around for us "power users" and RH will never be able to do anything about that. How can any of this be bad for linux?
Redhat is the only distribution I know of that is trying to compete with Microsoft. Do you have any idea how hard that must be? This tiny little company (big for linux small for the PC industry) has the balls to walk up the the industry leader and try to beat them by distributing (get this...) quality software. It very reminiscent of david and goliath. Luckily for RH they are not actually competing with M$. (Do you think david would have won if he'd tried to fight goliath with a sword?) Instead RH has something under their hat (no pun intended) that M$ can't compete with: Free Software. That's our slingshot! Die M$ Die!!!!
I work for a company that makes massively parallelized boards for doing text matching at extremely fast rates. I know for a fact that getting a single board with no faulty chips can be quite a chore. Assuming that the NSA could produce thousands or millions of these boards I bet only 75% of those would work. (that's gonna kick the price up a little!) Plus mainframes can lose a processor a day. If you had 10 zillion chips how many of those would die every day? Surely that would slow them down. All that taken into account my guess is that 3 secs is WAY longer than it ACTUALLY takes ;-)
Why does some of the code need to be hardcoded? Why not just put the hardcoded part that is to be outputted in a file and read it in from the program? That way the file wouldn't have to be GPL'd. Seems like a simple solution. My guess is that your trying to avoid this.
Programmer... now that's not glamorous enough. We
want to make people think it's cool to sit in a dark room coding away for 15 hours at a time. How about "coder" or we could just stick with the word we all know and love: Nerd.
To put together their bull shit and convince people that it wasn't all a scam. Then people realized: Wait! I shouldn't have to reboot just because I installed a new program!
Windoze. . . what a crock of shit.
Becuase he said that HE administrated setting up the servers. You see, the commas form an interjection. But if you take out the stuff between the commas the sentence should be perfectly clear to someone with no short-term memory
I saw a Dateline story and found this article that confirms it. A Burlington Coat factory sold coats lined with dog fur. An interesting aside, I thought. It's still great news that linux is getting some commercial use. Gives me hope that I'll be able to get a job programming that doesn't involve knowing MFC.
Also, they call linux shareware!?