Presumably, their next step will be to change text output, so that text is displayed at a rate of a few characters per second, again accompanied by suitable sound-effects. Oh, and make it so that passwords can be guessed by a bright kid after a few tries...
... and for each of the first few incorrect tries, there needs to be a flashing red ACCESS DENIED message, with a corresponding green ACCESS GRANTED message when the correct password is finally input.
I do some development work on MacOS (9 and X) and I have something to say about it.
Yeah, it's a nice Unix system, but all that shiny GUI stuff gets in my way most of the time. My primary workhorse machine is still my Linux box. Configuring certain network options is kinda strange, in particular; you can't just go in and muck around in/etc; your settings there will immediately be supplanted by some sort of NeXTStep networking that Apple has.
So in some ways it's a Unix that tries very hard to pretend it's not Unix. When I want to run Photoshop, that's okay, but when I really want to get in and muck with some of the settings, the shiny, friendly upper layers interfere. I don't have a real dislike for Mac OS X the way I did for Mac OS X, but I treat it as its own phenomenon rather than a substitute for Linux or NetBSD.
To develop Cocoa applications, I highly recommend Project Builder over CodeWarrior. CodeWarrior is rather clunky to me but was really the only option in MacOS 9; everybody else (especially Adobe) used CodeWarrior, therefore you had to.
Integration with MacOS X is kinda sorta not-there-yet for CodeWarrior. Project Builder is really geared toward Objective-C and the Cocoa API and was designed from the ground up with the MacOS X environment in mind. It's easy to use, and free.
For the most part I'm content to use my PC as my major gaming device, either with native games or through emulation. However... there are occasions when a developer releases a console game that just absolutely blows me away.
Recently this happened with Rez, the immersive musical shooter from Sega. Every gamer should own a PS2 and a copy of Rez. Rez is very hard to describe, but it is a beautiful, enchanting experience, one you will never forget. It is a fundamentally different game from what we're used to seeing, especially on the PS2, whose largest genres are extreme sports games, Bandicoot/Jak & Daxter style platformers, big-boobs-and-guns games (think Tomb Raider or Resident Evil), and Square-style RPG's.
It's things like that that make console gaming a worthwhile endeavor. Not to denigrate the PC, which was host to Doom, the first game to ever truly send chills up my spine. But... innovative gaming comes from unexpected places.
Well, humans like to think they're rational beings, but they're really just apes with reason available as an optional add-in module (and incomplete standards support).
What we really need is a lifeform designed from the ground up with rationality in mind.
I said this once on newsforge but it's worth repeating:
The way to beat free software is through the psychology of value. "You get what you pay for." Us free software guys like to think that we are the exception, but business guys think it's true. And they'd rather pay lots of money for the backing of the Microsoft brand name than get an OS which they perceive as a "college kid's project" for little or no money. The reality is different, and we know this, but it is the PERCEPTION that counts.
Between Beowulf and MOSIX, Linux pretty much has low-end clustering sewn up. It's at the cutting edge. Microsoft will beat Linux at clustering in the business sector, by creating the PERCEPTION that Windows NT clusters are reliable (even if it takes a huge support infrastructure just to tell the MCSE monkey to reboot the damned machine) and that Linux clusters are somehow less reliable because they lack said support infrastructure. That is my prediction.
When it comes down to technology, Linux wins. When it comes down to people's feelings, and perceptions, and their sense of security, Microsoft wins because they can afford to hire the people and purchase the companies necessary to make it happen. In the end, it's people's perceptions that really count... not the technology.
The citizen? such as yourself who only criticizes rather than calls his congressman to complain about quality and states a willingness to be taxed more if that is what it takes?
... or sends a $50,000 check to the [D|R]NC if *that's* what it takes?
To get back on track, however, I think the previous poster was referring to the filer of the patent. In other countries, if you fuck with the system and get caught, there are stiff penalties. In the U.S., if you fuck with the system, there's no real loss for getting caught, but there's big profits to be made if you get away with it.
Use this. But on a large scale. Perhaps by convincing ISP's to install Bayesian filters on their mail relays? The spam gets silently dropped, and the good mail goes through. No need for the kind of sabre-rattling and politics that accompanies a blacklist plan.
I will catch flamage for this not-entirely-flattering description, but what the hell. I got karma to burn.
Near as I can tell, design patterns are to programming what paint-by-numbers is to art. I haven't met a gifted programmer who made extensive use of them, but they seem to be a sort of helpful template for average coders of the sort hired in legion strength for "enterprise" projects in Java and the like.
b4 u crit-eye-size tha use of language n r schools u have 2 realize that language is an art 4m. 4 we live n a free land, and without tha ability 2 express r-selves r freedom is lost. and without freedom of creative language, unconstrained by rules of grammer and spelling which r 2 strict, we 4sake r freedom 2 share r hearts and r minds.
It really is quite hilarious. The thing is, these people actually seem to believe the illogical spam they put on their site. Much to their credit, however, surprisingly open to opposing viewpoints (if only to try to shoot them down with Cold War analogies). When the JPEG patent news broke, I posted a parody of Scott's articles to the site... and they started asking me for guest commentaries!
If my home were on an island in the Carribean, some sort of banana republic where "copyright" means "duplicate correctly" (and it would be, given my enormous wealth), I could also start building the ultimate music archive using KaZaA!
The reason why it's making so many headlines is because a "mainstream" Unix-based OS is finally emerging, vindicating all of us Linux/BSD geeks who loved Unix for all this time. MacOS X makes an okay Unix, but has a great GUI. Something the free desktop projects should think about emulating... oh, wait, they already are.
hehe, I'm tempted to cup my hands in front of my mouth and make guttural "hweeeeyooowww hweeeyoooow" noises in imitation when I hear one on TV. Especially at the beginning of Rocko's Modern Life.
The misinformation here is rather ridiculous. When it comes to the topic of IA-64 vs. x86-64, Slashdotters crawl out from under their bridge to slam the IA-64 often because of its "technical inferiority."
Actually, when IA-64 first hit the market, Slashdot was where I found initial reports of truly tear-jerking performance from people who run high-intensity FP applications. All that's changed now as the more mundane crowd joins the CPU verbal fray, since you can't play Quake on an Itanium (at least not without the Carmack doing a recompile and releasing the binaries) whereas x86-64 offers that promise. "Hey, 64 bits, and I can still run Word and Counter-Strike!" Not even the average Slashdotter is terribly performance concerned here, so Hammer definitely has huge marketing leverage.
A tip for hax0rs: The power glove is very SMALL (even the large one). I completely dispensed with the original glove that came with it to make mine. I took the control pad off and put a simple belt clip on it.
You must look like Captain N when wearing this bit of kit!:)
The point of XP isn't to be a nazi, it's to open the lines of communication to where a team of programmers becomes a parallel, distributed system. Programmers want to write good code, but sometimes need help getting in sync with the rest of their colleagues on a project. XP is one methodology to fix this.
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I do some development work on MacOS (9 and X) and I have something to say about it.
/etc; your settings there will immediately be supplanted by some sort of NeXTStep networking that Apple has.
Yeah, it's a nice Unix system, but all that shiny GUI stuff gets in my way most of the time. My primary workhorse machine is still my Linux box. Configuring certain network options is kinda strange, in particular; you can't just go in and muck around in
So in some ways it's a Unix that tries very hard to pretend it's not Unix. When I want to run Photoshop, that's okay, but when I really want to get in and muck with some of the settings, the shiny, friendly upper layers interfere. I don't have a real dislike for Mac OS X the way I did for Mac OS X, but I treat it as its own phenomenon rather than a substitute for Linux or NetBSD.
To develop Cocoa applications, I highly recommend Project Builder over CodeWarrior. CodeWarrior is rather clunky to me but was really the only option in MacOS 9; everybody else (especially Adobe) used CodeWarrior, therefore you had to.
Integration with MacOS X is kinda sorta not-there-yet for CodeWarrior. Project Builder is really geared toward Objective-C and the Cocoa API and was designed from the ground up with the MacOS X environment in mind. It's easy to use, and free.
For the most part I'm content to use my PC as my major gaming device, either with native games or through emulation. However... there are occasions when a developer releases a console game that just absolutely blows me away.
Recently this happened with Rez, the immersive musical shooter from Sega. Every gamer should own a PS2 and a copy of Rez. Rez is very hard to describe, but it is a beautiful, enchanting experience, one you will never forget. It is a fundamentally different game from what we're used to seeing, especially on the PS2, whose largest genres are extreme sports games, Bandicoot/Jak & Daxter style platformers, big-boobs-and-guns games (think Tomb Raider or Resident Evil), and Square-style RPG's.
It's things like that that make console gaming a worthwhile endeavor. Not to denigrate the PC, which was host to Doom, the first game to ever truly send chills up my spine. But... innovative gaming comes from unexpected places.
... now this is just wrong.
Well, humans like to think they're rational beings, but they're really just apes with reason available as an optional add-in module (and incomplete standards support).
What we really need is a lifeform designed from the ground up with rationality in mind.
I said this once on newsforge but it's worth repeating:
The way to beat free software is through the psychology of value. "You get what you pay for." Us free software guys like to think that we are the exception, but business guys think it's true. And they'd rather pay lots of money for the backing of the Microsoft brand name than get an OS which they perceive as a "college kid's project" for little or no money. The reality is different, and we know this, but it is the PERCEPTION that counts.
Between Beowulf and MOSIX, Linux pretty much has low-end clustering sewn up. It's at the cutting edge. Microsoft will beat Linux at clustering in the business sector, by creating the PERCEPTION that Windows NT clusters are reliable (even if it takes a huge support infrastructure just to tell the MCSE monkey to reboot the damned machine) and that Linux clusters are somehow less reliable because they lack said support infrastructure. That is my prediction.
When it comes down to technology, Linux wins. When it comes down to people's feelings, and perceptions, and their sense of security, Microsoft wins because they can afford to hire the people and purchase the companies necessary to make it happen. In the end, it's people's perceptions that really count... not the technology.
To get back on track, however, I think the previous poster was referring to the filer of the patent. In other countries, if you fuck with the system and get caught, there are stiff penalties. In the U.S., if you fuck with the system, there's no real loss for getting caught, but there's big profits to be made if you get away with it.
Use this. But on a large scale. Perhaps by convincing ISP's to install Bayesian filters on their mail relays? The spam gets silently dropped, and the good mail goes through. No need for the kind of sabre-rattling and politics that accompanies a blacklist plan.
I will catch flamage for this not-entirely-flattering description, but what the hell. I got karma to burn.
Near as I can tell, design patterns are to programming what paint-by-numbers is to art. I haven't met a gifted programmer who made extensive use of them, but they seem to be a sort of helpful template for average coders of the sort hired in legion strength for "enterprise" projects in Java and the like.
b4 u crit-eye-size tha use of language n r schools u have 2 realize that language is an art 4m. 4 we live n a free land, and without tha ability 2 express r-selves r freedom is lost. and without freedom of creative language, unconstrained by rules of grammer and spelling which r 2 strict, we 4sake r freedom 2 share r hearts and r minds.
thank u.
It really is quite hilarious. The thing is, these people actually seem to believe the illogical spam they put on their site. Much to their credit, however, surprisingly open to opposing viewpoints (if only to try to shoot them down with Cold War analogies). When the JPEG patent news broke, I posted a parody of Scott's articles to the site... and they started asking me for guest commentaries!
I'd become the ultimate LPB!
If my home were on an island in the Carribean, some sort of banana republic where "copyright" means "duplicate correctly" (and it would be, given my enormous wealth), I could also start building the ultimate music archive using KaZaA!
The reason why it's making so many headlines is because a "mainstream" Unix-based OS is finally emerging, vindicating all of us Linux/BSD geeks who loved Unix for all this time. MacOS X makes an okay Unix, but has a great GUI. Something the free desktop projects should think about emulating... oh, wait, they already are.
It is a violation of the EULA for Mac OS to run it on any non-Apple-branded hardware. This goes for things like MOL too.
hehe, I'm tempted to cup my hands in front of my mouth and make guttural "hweeeeyooowww hweeeyoooow" noises in imitation when I hear one on TV. Especially at the beginning of Rocko's Modern Life.
Actually, when IA-64 first hit the market, Slashdot was where I found initial reports of truly tear-jerking performance from people who run high-intensity FP applications. All that's changed now as the more mundane crowd joins the CPU verbal fray, since you can't play Quake on an Itanium (at least not without the Carmack doing a recompile and releasing the binaries) whereas x86-64 offers that promise. "Hey, 64 bits, and I can still run Word and Counter-Strike!" Not even the average Slashdotter is terribly performance concerned here, so Hammer definitely has huge marketing leverage.
A free market is actually a good thing. Too bad it doesn't exist in implementation.
A tip for hax0rs: The power glove is very SMALL (even the large one). I completely dispensed with the original glove that came with it to make mine. I took the control pad off and put a simple belt clip on it.
:)
You must look like Captain N when wearing this bit of kit!
"Get your hands out of that cereal box! How many times have I told you never to open a new box until you've finished the last box?"
Don't you remember GW-BASIC? How about COBOL? Scary...
I don't think the Itanium ISA will "greatly limit" any of our language choices. The way I see it, at the very least we have two choices:
.NET CLR, which by the time Itanium takes off will be the standard development platform.
1) Compile to C, and then compile the C to native code.
2) Compile to the
The point of XP isn't to be a nazi, it's to open the lines of communication to where a team of programmers becomes a parallel, distributed system. Programmers want to write good code, but sometimes need help getting in sync with the rest of their colleagues on a project. XP is one methodology to fix this.
That's actually cool. I thought I was being suckered into goatse or something.
Gee, back when we played Revolution Xwe thought a CD-shooting gun was a dumb idea but now it seems totally cool.
Wow, Scott McCollum! Fancy meeting you here...