THOSE PARASITIC BSD BASTARDS! They give me all of their code for free, but they won't try to tell me that I have to do the same thing. I hate those fucks!
OBL is trying to build a Muslim empire and take Muslims' land back from the Christians and Jews who have exercised control over it for many years.
But the Muslims took that land from the Christian Roman Empire. Doesn't that make it Christian land? No, wait, the Romans took it from the Jews. Doesn't that make it Jewish land? No, wait, the Jews took it from the Caanaanites (aka Phoenicians). Doesn't that make it Phoenician land? Er, wait, there are no more Phoenicians.
So it looks like if you're going to use a 'who had it first' standard, then it is Jewish land. Quitcher whining.
Same reasoning applies to all the other areas ObL mentions in his war declarations, pretty much. I particularly like his claim to Andalusia. Do you agree that Spain should hand half of itself over to the Muslims? Well, exactly what is the difference between him claiming Spain and him claiming Israel? Both have been occupied by Muslims, both aren't now. He sees no difference, so neither should you.
Sidenote - As a firewire drive, I'm assuming it should be pretty straightforward to hook it up to whatever your hardware religion is.
Yep. This is almost certainly the same.2x1.8" Toshiba mechanism as found in the SmartDisk FireLite for instance (I just posted the link in some other comment).
And their price is $399.95 as well... but they don't play MP3s.
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$400!!!! for a freakin MP3 player!?!?!?
No, $399.95 MSRP for a freakin'.2x1.8" 5 GB Toshiba FireWire bus-powered hard drive.
Hello... VHS vs Beta (tried, but true example of marketing versus quality).
Actually, as usual, the conventional wisdom is wrong in their explanation. Beta was actually well ahead in unit sales until the rise of pr0n on VHS. No, really.
See, to RECORD a Beta tape, you needed a Sony-licensed machine; very expensive. On the other hand, anybody could make a (comparatively) cheap VHS camera. And the numbers tell the story; when Beta and VHS had about the same number of titles available, Beta led in sales. About seven months after the first VHS cameras hit US shelves, VHS had six times as many titles available, of which not quite half were cheap pr0n flicks. And, needless to say, VHS piracy was rampant, while Beta piracy was next to nonexistent.
Sales of the two respective systems, which until then had moved along similar trendlines, promptly diverged radically.
Lesson to be learned from this: Technology adoption is driven by piracy and pr0n. As if looking at any contemporary P2P network hadn't made that clear to you already...
The inimitable Ian Ollmann (who brings up Mac implementation issues on the mac-sound-dev list often) has an interesting piece on why OpenAL sucks here. For the link-shy:
Two things are holding such people back from making more substantial contributions to OpenAL. First of all it is not entirely clear to me that the API is all that well designed. Modelling it after OpenGL was probably a mistake. In addition, there are certain fundamental assumptions put into the API that assume preemptive multitasking for some things to work well, most notably spooling file play. There was no thought put into using it for anything other than 3D sound effects for games. So, for example if you attempt to write a MOD player using OpenAL to hopefully be able to take advantage of their SoundFont technology and EAX in your MOD player's core and reverb functionalities, you are pretty much out of luck. OpenAL's source queues lack the functionality required for doing proper timing of various effects that you would need in order to pull it off.
The other problem is that the designers of OpenAL dont want to fix these problems, or let 3rd party developers do it for them. I have argued passionately for months for API improvements such as queue completion callbacks, defered object deletion and a more extensible API to make the library more generally useful for applications and operating systems other than 3D games on linux. I have been unable to convince them to make even the smallest changes to the spec. So, really until we can get some more flexibility and input into the API design, it is somewhat unrealistic to expect me or any other third party, including Apple, to be able to do much for OpenAL.
I have both an Apple Airport base-station and a Handspring Visor.
So do I...
Why I won't buy it: $299 + tax + shipping.
Why you SHOULDN'T buy it:
It's not WiFi compliant, which means IT DOESN'T WORK WITH AIRPORT. It will only work with the Xircom access point. (Standards? What standards?)
But wait! It gets better! After biting my tongue on many bad words and buying the @#($&@!! Xircom Special Super Secret 802.11 Version access point, you know what we found? There's a bug in the Ethernet->PPP translation layer THAT THROTTLES THE CONNECTION TO SERIAL SPEED. Palm acknowledges it but has no plans to fix it.
As a matter of fact, names removed to protect the guilty, here's what Palm had to say about it EXACTLY:
...I'm not sure you're gonna get a super-high bandwidth connection on today's PalmOS. Maybe the symbol device would be good--I think that they take the PPP overhead out, since I think they have a real ethernet driver...
So, at this moment, the Quest For Handheld Bandwidth here is hoping that the new Xircom m505 cradle, which IS alleged to be WiFi compliant, will magically give us a video strength connection without changing anything.
If not, well, off to worship at the altar of the Beast from Red Mound we go, I suppose. An @migo PD-600C is on its way here too...
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If he does i bet shes not shallow, vapid and stupid, all characteristics of people with consumer-centered (read:fucking pathetic and offensive) priorities...
Hmmm... a normal person likes attractive objects, be those clothes, vehicles, residences, members of the appropriate sex, or, yes, even computers.
The original fellow seems just clueless, and when he starts dating he'll figure out in short order that in normal society it is expected that one pays at least moderate attention to the aesthetics of one's existence -- but you, now, display an altogether different level of fear and loathing. My diagnosis is advanced sociopathy manifesting itself as an alleged rejection of mainstream values in an effort to disguise your inability to relate to polite society -- what does your therapist say?
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people who seriously factor the appearance of a computer into their buying choices are idiots... It's like buying a furnace or water-heater for its looks.
Only problem: Only supported platform now is Windows.
They have Mac support in the works too. At least, I assume so, because a few months back they were posting on comp.sys.mac.programmer.* and there was a job with them posted on the usual Mac job sites. Since it hasn't shown up lately, I presume they filled it.
I was fishing around for a couple of things that I figured that anyone soft-headed enough to feel that Linux should only be used for medical research would see as "bad."
Well, the Humans Off Planet loons would see medical research as bad, so there you go...
Does anybody have any information on wireless networking (Bluetooth, 802.11b, etc.) options for this device? All the options I know of are for Visors only, but this would be a pretty sweet little puppy to use as a mobile terminal...
Maybe it's because Windows users know that the only person that wants to see videos of you is you.
Bzzt, thanks for playing.
Actually, I'm not getting it to do any videos of me... the first project is a DVD version of the Seattle Aerobattle paragliding video. Presumably I'll do a good enough job of that so further work just falls into my lap:)
And moderators on crack can call me a troll all they want, but for doing that the apps I mentioned really ARE killer. Bring it on, bitches, my karma can take it:)
And anyways, why should you upgrade?
I still have a G3, the G4 Velocity Engine kicks collective industry ass for video optimized work like DVD encoding, and the DVD-R is only available internally. I'm just waiting for the twin 733 model that's coming out at WWDC in a month... it will be *quite* the video encoding workstation, I confidently expect, as all relevant codecs and applications are MP-aware and Altivec optimized. Which means they should wipe the floor with dedicated workstations costing an order of magnitude more, never mind other mere PCs.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like the deal Apple got along with their $150 million.
Well, there's a few extra twists. Roughly in order of how Microsoft perceived their importance:
1) Apple agreed not to drag them through the courts for being caught stealing QuickTime source code;
2) Apple had to kill not only Rhapsody/x86 but also Yellow Box for Windows;
3) Apple had to give IE pride of place over Netscape in all system releases etc.
In return, Apple got:
1) Cash, which they really didn't need
2) Committment to deliver a new version of office for 9.x (this is office 2k1) and X.x (coming sometime) which is pretty darn important for ANY new OS to get traction
3) Chairman Bill up on the videowall at MacWorld promising to not kill Apple, really, which was probably the most important part of the whole deal from the analysts' point of view.
So.. apple releases OS X for x86 and becomes a major software company as WELL as a hardware company. The software side of the company alone has already been proven to be viable as a money-maker, so where's the problem?
That no average user would buy any Apple OS anymore because Microsoft Office would promptly become unavailable for it.
... you don't REALLY think that they'd ship Office for a directly competing OS, do you??
Hell, Microsoft wouldn't even let Apple ship Yellow Box for Windows. The whole OS is *so* not on, if you get my drift.
"Macs are the machines on which the future of computing is designed, tested, and launched into public consciousness. Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X, is just the latest example of this grand tradition."
-- David MacNeill
"I believe in the Mac platform... the hardware that's out now is leaps and bounds ahead of the PC in terms of style and ability."
-- Graeme Devine, id Software
"Life is too short to use anything but a Mac; Windows is just not a human environment."
-- Roger Ebert
"The higher prices for Mac gear amount to a tax on intelligence, which historically has rarely proved wise."
-- Spider Robinson
"Sadly, in my experience this is true. Mac guys have a life; Linux guys get excited if the pizza delivery girl is flirty."
-- Tara Sanders
"Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
-- Simon Helton
There are quite a few True Believers on the macosx-dev list that will flame you relentlessly for wanting to write in Java, yes. We just had a big fight over that, and the moderator stepped in with
"This list is provided so that developers can help each other write software for Mac OS X.
"Mac OS X has a wealth of APIs, and they're not at all exclusive: a single application may use OpenGL for drawing, Cocoa for input, BSD for networking, and Carbon or CoreAudio for sound. Questions about all of these are welcome on this list, along with any other Mac OS X APIs like IOKit, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, SecurityCore (the updated Keychain API), and Java (and that's by no means an exhaustive list). Questions about the development tools provided with Mac OS X such as ProjectBuilder and cvs are also quite welcome. As long as your question is specific to Mac OS X development, you're in the right place."
And that would be about the best words on the subject.
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THOSE PARASITIC BSD BASTARDS! They give me all of their code for free, but they won't try to tell me that I have to do the same thing. I hate those fucks!
:)
Mod parent up
OBL is trying to build a Muslim empire and take Muslims' land back from the Christians and Jews who have exercised control over it for many years.
But the Muslims took that land from the Christian Roman Empire. Doesn't that make it Christian land? No, wait, the Romans took it from the Jews. Doesn't that make it Jewish land? No, wait, the Jews took it from the Caanaanites (aka Phoenicians). Doesn't that make it Phoenician land? Er, wait, there are no more Phoenicians.
So it looks like if you're going to use a 'who had it first' standard, then it is Jewish land. Quitcher whining.
Same reasoning applies to all the other areas ObL mentions in his war declarations, pretty much. I particularly like his claim to Andalusia. Do you agree that Spain should hand half of itself over to the Muslims? Well, exactly what is the difference between him claiming Spain and him claiming Israel? Both have been occupied by Muslims, both aren't now. He sees no difference, so neither should you.
And no intelligent person would intentionally suck hot ash or smoke down his own throat.
Perhaps not, but the super-intelligent do.
Einstein being a case in point...
I wonder who makes such a small hard drive?
D rive.asp
Toshiba, as found in the SmartDisk FireLite.
http://www.smartdisk.com/Press%20Releases/5GBHard
Sidenote - As a firewire drive, I'm assuming it should be pretty straightforward to hook it up to whatever your hardware religion is.
.2x1.8" Toshiba mechanism as found in the SmartDisk FireLite for instance (I just posted the link in some other comment).
... but they don't play MP3s.
Yep. This is almost certainly the same
And their price is $399.95 as well
$400!!!! for a freakin MP3 player!?!?!?
.2x1.8" 5 GB Toshiba FireWire bus-powered hard drive.
c ts/Hard%20Drives/FWFL.asp
No, $399.95 MSRP for a freakin'
http://www.smartdisk.com/Products/Storage%20Produ
Apple's version throws in the MP3 player for free.
Not such a bad deal looked at that way, yes?
I already have a closet full of ...
Yeah, well *I* have a PIPPIN, pose-boy. Top THAT.
Hello... VHS vs Beta (tried, but true example of marketing versus quality).
Actually, as usual, the conventional wisdom is wrong in their explanation. Beta was actually well ahead in unit sales until the rise of pr0n on VHS. No, really.
See, to RECORD a Beta tape, you needed a Sony-licensed machine; very expensive. On the other hand, anybody could make a (comparatively) cheap VHS camera. And the numbers tell the story; when Beta and VHS had about the same number of titles available, Beta led in sales. About seven months after the first VHS cameras hit US shelves, VHS had six times as many titles available, of which not quite half were cheap pr0n flicks. And, needless to say, VHS piracy was rampant, while Beta piracy was next to nonexistent.
Sales of the two respective systems, which until then had moved along similar trendlines, promptly diverged radically.
Lesson to be learned from this: Technology adoption is driven by piracy and pr0n. As if looking at any contemporary P2P network hadn't made that clear to you already...
But the people who's first thought is to run to Canada DO NOT DESERVE this country.
No, but they do deserve the quite thorough bootfucking they'll get here if they brag about it.
We sympathized with the Vietnam draft-dodgers because we thought that war was idiotic. That is not the case this time.
http://maccentral.macworld.com/storyforum/forum
The relevant portions read
(yes, it's 31, not 32--Ars is wrong)
A 31-character Pascal string is 32 bytes long.
I would love to buy this module.
No you wouldn't.
I have both an Apple Airport base-station and a Handspring Visor.
So do I...
Why I won't buy it: $299 + tax + shipping.
Why you SHOULDN'T buy it:
It's not WiFi compliant, which means IT DOESN'T WORK WITH AIRPORT. It will only work with the Xircom access point. (Standards? What standards?)
But wait! It gets better! After biting my tongue on many bad words and buying the @#($&@!! Xircom Special Super Secret 802.11 Version access point, you know what we found? There's a bug in the Ethernet->PPP translation layer THAT THROTTLES THE CONNECTION TO SERIAL SPEED. Palm acknowledges it but has no plans to fix it.
As a matter of fact, names removed to protect the guilty, here's what Palm had to say about it EXACTLY:
...I'm not sure you're gonna get a super-high bandwidth connection on today's PalmOS. Maybe the symbol device would be good--I think that they take the PPP overhead out, since I think they have a real ethernet driver...
So, at this moment, the Quest For Handheld Bandwidth here is hoping that the new Xircom m505 cradle, which IS alleged to be WiFi compliant, will magically give us a video strength connection without changing anything.
If not, well, off to worship at the altar of the Beast from Red Mound we go, I suppose. An @migo PD-600C is on its way here too...
If he does i bet shes not shallow, vapid and stupid, all characteristics of people with consumer-centered (read:fucking pathetic and offensive) priorities...
... a normal person likes attractive objects, be those clothes, vehicles, residences, members of the appropriate sex, or, yes, even computers.
Hmmm
The original fellow seems just clueless, and when he starts dating he'll figure out in short order that in normal society it is expected that one pays at least moderate attention to the aesthetics of one's existence -- but you, now, display an altogether different level of fear and loathing. My diagnosis is advanced sociopathy manifesting itself as an alleged rejection of mainstream values in an effort to disguise your inability to relate to polite society -- what does your therapist say?
people who seriously factor the appearance of a computer into their buying choices are idiots ... It's like buying a furnace or water-heater for its looks.
You don't have a girlfriend, do you?
Only problem: Only supported platform now is Windows.
They have Mac support in the works too. At least, I assume so, because a few months back they were posting on comp.sys.mac.programmer.* and there was a job with them posted on the usual Mac job sites. Since it hasn't shown up lately, I presume they filled it.
I was fishing around for a couple of things that I figured that anyone soft-headed enough to feel that Linux should only be used for medical research would see as "bad."
Well, the Humans Off Planet loons would see medical research as bad, so there you go...
Does anybody have any information on wireless networking (Bluetooth, 802.11b, etc.) options for this device? All the options I know of are for Visors only, but this would be a pretty sweet little puppy to use as a mobile terminal...
Maybe it's because Windows users know that the only person that wants to see videos of you is you.
... the first project is a DVD version of the Seattle Aerobattle paragliding video. Presumably I'll do a good enough job of that so further work just falls into my lap :)
:)
... it will be *quite* the video encoding workstation, I confidently expect, as all relevant codecs and applications are MP-aware and Altivec optimized. Which means they should wipe the floor with dedicated workstations costing an order of magnitude more, never mind other mere PCs.
Bzzt, thanks for playing.
Actually, I'm not getting it to do any videos of me
And moderators on crack can call me a troll all they want, but for doing that the apps I mentioned really ARE killer. Bring it on, bitches, my karma can take it
And anyways, why should you upgrade?
I still have a G3, the G4 Velocity Engine kicks collective industry ass for video optimized work like DVD encoding, and the DVD-R is only available internally. I'm just waiting for the twin 733 model that's coming out at WWDC in a month
... and they're both from Apple.
... which means I'm buying a Macintosh.
:)
Final Cut Pro 2
DVD Studio Pro
Hey, I'm buying a new computer specifically to run them well
Maybe Windows lusers have no killer apps -- but that's because they have no lives to make a video out of
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like the deal Apple got along with their $150 million.
Well, there's a few extra twists. Roughly in order of how Microsoft perceived their importance:
1) Apple agreed not to drag them through the courts for being caught stealing QuickTime source code;
2) Apple had to kill not only Rhapsody/x86 but also Yellow Box for Windows;
3) Apple had to give IE pride of place over Netscape in all system releases etc.
In return, Apple got:
1) Cash, which they really didn't need
2) Committment to deliver a new version of office for 9.x (this is office 2k1) and X.x (coming sometime) which is pretty darn important for ANY new OS to get traction
3) Chairman Bill up on the videowall at MacWorld promising to not kill Apple, really, which was probably the most important part of the whole deal from the analysts' point of view.
So.. apple releases OS X for x86 and becomes a major software company as WELL as a hardware company. The software side of the company alone has already been proven to be viable as a money-maker, so where's the problem?
That no average user would buy any Apple OS anymore because Microsoft Office would promptly become unavailable for it.
... you don't REALLY think that they'd ship Office for a directly competing OS, do you??
Hell, Microsoft wouldn't even let Apple ship Yellow Box for Windows. The whole OS is *so* not on, if you get my drift.
Check out Novus High-Speed Internet.
Note that the prices are C$ arctic pesos and not real dollars to boot...
True, you won't find any Mac zealots on Slashdot,
... the hardware that's out now is leaps and bounds ahead of the PC in terms of style and ability."
Oh yes you will.
"Macs are the machines on which the future of computing is designed, tested, and launched into public consciousness. Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X, is just the latest example of this grand tradition."
-- David MacNeill
"I believe in the Mac platform
-- Graeme Devine, id Software
"Life is too short to use anything but a Mac; Windows is just not a human environment."
-- Roger Ebert
"The higher prices for Mac gear amount to a tax on intelligence, which historically has rarely proved wise."
-- Spider Robinson
"Sadly, in my experience this is true. Mac guys have a life; Linux guys get excited if the pizza delivery girl is flirty."
-- Tara Sanders
"Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
-- Simon Helton
Processor speed is stuck at 500 MHz
ahem.
Hell, iMacs are 600 MHz these days.
Not a bad troll otherwise, but getting the obvious stuff wrong is a pretty clear tipoff...
*rolls eyes*
There are quite a few True Believers on the macosx-dev list that will flame you relentlessly for wanting to write in Java, yes. We just had a big fight over that, and the moderator stepped in with
"This list is provided so that developers can help each other write software for Mac OS X.
"Mac OS X has a wealth of APIs, and they're not at all exclusive: a single application may use OpenGL for drawing, Cocoa for input, BSD for networking, and Carbon or CoreAudio for sound. Questions about all of these are welcome on this list, along with any other Mac OS X APIs like IOKit, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, SecurityCore (the updated Keychain API), and Java (and that's by no means an exhaustive list). Questions about the development tools provided with Mac OS X such as ProjectBuilder and cvs are also quite welcome. As long as your question is specific to Mac OS X development, you're in the right place."
And that would be about the best words on the subject.