If Apple didn't try to force their operating system to work with hardware they had tested it on, there is a chance a lot of folks would run it on hardware it would not work well on
Maybe for some things, it would even work well for awhile. Then they'd alienate people when they wanted to upgrade their system and it broke backward compatibility. As it stands, they can manage when things are broken more easily.
I'd understand if you needed Mac OS fundamentally for research or something like that, but without that need, exactly why does it need to be tweakable? It's meant to be a consumer OS marketed towards people without degrees in computer science.
And what's even better about it, is that the parts of it you might be interested in as a researcher ARE built into this operating system using open source projects!
It's not trying to be everything to everyone, and if you want something that you can make run on anything, that you can hack at the internals, etc., then theres the BSDs or Linux. And the things you learn on those will actually apply to Apple's machines. FreeBSD is for my server, not my laptop. Much power to the PCBSD guys though.
That's the reason I like OSX more as a consumer/mobile/laptop OS from a for-profit company.
PS. I don't think EVERYTHING Apple has done isn't evil. Just advocating devils and whatnot..
Didn't RTFA, but I'm assuming that the main idea here is lock-in to MS products and technologies. That means it'll be harder to share work and ideas down the road because of artificial dependencies on MS to run the code, etc. Hopefully folks in the field will hold their ground and build their work on top of open, sharable, neutral platforms
Wikipedias relevancy criteria is retarded. What is wrong with having more information on there? It's like slashdot stories you don't like--nobodys forcing you to read them
Yeah totally! Who's ever seen a null pointer dereference crash a Java program?
I didn't RTFA but I agree with the sentiment of the summary. It's NOT THE LANGUAGE, it's the programmer and their knowledge of the interfaces they are working with.
plenty of things can and should be written in C. It is perhaps a sharper blade than Java, but were professionals. There's 100 other mistakes you will make being uncareful when programming that have nothing to do with language choice that are far more important to worry about.
this checked exception hands tied stuff is worse than baby boomer nanny state bullshit
* Will she still be considered 'female' once she's running Linux or will she be reset to a virgin teenage boy?
Unfortunately, I don't think too many teenagers get into Linux these days. At least less so than in the past, I wager..
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They want you to pass calculus for a reason. No matter what kind of scientist you plan to be, your knowledge of calculus will be essential. You'll never use statistics but you will need to use calculus every day.
Are you wooshing me here?
Having an understanding of what a derivative or integral of a function is a good insight to have, no doubt.
But I would argue that statistics is much more broadly applicable, and extremely important for a clear understanding of scientific discourse and all the 'facts' that the poster will encounter.
In reply to the original query, what you're going to need to do is a lot of problems. You need to look at this like getting in shape--you can't do it overnight.
I returned to college after about 5 years off and needed to take placement exams myself. Turned out the test allowed using a Ti-89. I cheated myself out of really 'placing' myself by being able to approximate/calculate all the multiple choice answers and placed highly.
After a few attempts in the classes I was placed in, in the end, I re-took precal and calculus.
I could have avoided that if I had actually done a large volume of problems rather than skimming some books and looking at the answers and deciding that it was 'easy enough'.
Never look at the answers of problems until you try them. Once you know the right answer, you convince yourself the problem was easy and that you didn't need to do it. This will fuck you over in the end.
Find an approach to doing math that makes it enjoyable for you. One thing that helped me a lot was getting a large whiteboard. I find I enjoy doing math more pacing back in front of a board and whatever else comes along with doing work on a board rather than a piece of lined paper. Chalk would have been better.
Lastly, ignore the assholes here who are going to berate you for not knowing what they think is simple, obvious knowledge. Math is rife with 'tricks' and non-intuitive methods to solving problems that come through experience. Someone who had a good experience with math through school and went straight into college is not going to understand your position.
Good luck to you, and if you really want this, do problems and problems and more problems. Put on some music you love and shred through a book or two. Get help at local colleges. Bribe a friend to help you study, or just hire a tutor.
Otherwise, you're going to end up doing it by taking the classes (as I did). One way or another, you have to do the work.
I can't fathom why there can't be an article for every sequence of characters. Would seem to be more informative that way. If 'iagonwoanrboarno' doesn't mean anything, it'll simply be a shorter article, and I probably will never see it anyway.
you'd think some companies might enjoy the sort of publicity and awareness they'd get out of having a lot of people use their software... and without fear on top of it!
not looking forward to the further freedoms I'll lose as an american when the agents of these militias start killing these pilots, and probably some others in the attempt to, on US soil.
im confident the overzealous US government will use this as an excuse to 'protect me' by further tracking my identity and tabs on my life.
point is: keep these pilots who are killing people the fuck away from urban american areas, or we're all going to be targets. and in case you say 'we already are', i don't see any reason to make it worse.
damn mythical 'war' is getting to negatively impact my life more and more, and i'll happily vote for, pay money to, or pledge allegiance to whatever i can to not be involved with the warmongering that this country has been engaged in. pretty confident our behavior in iraq and afghanistan has not generally enhanced the safety for much of anybody, compared to the consequences...
I didn't know that saying that something was a "serious" threat didn't carry enough weight anymore. And in regards to cheating in an online game? Yeah. Hellaserious.
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Not that I completely agree with it, but..
If Apple didn't try to force their operating system to work with hardware they had tested it on, there is a chance a lot of folks would run it on hardware it would not work well on
Maybe for some things, it would even work well for awhile. Then they'd alienate people when they wanted to upgrade their system and it broke backward compatibility. As it stands, they can manage when things are broken more easily.
I'd understand if you needed Mac OS fundamentally for research or something like that, but without that need, exactly why does it need to be tweakable? It's meant to be a consumer OS marketed towards people without degrees in computer science.
And what's even better about it, is that the parts of it you might be interested in as a researcher ARE built into this operating system using open source projects!
It's not trying to be everything to everyone, and if you want something that you can make run on anything, that you can hack at the internals, etc., then theres the BSDs or Linux. And the things you learn on those will actually apply to Apple's machines. FreeBSD is for my server, not my laptop. Much power to the PCBSD guys though.
That's the reason I like OSX more as a consumer/mobile/laptop OS from a for-profit company.
PS. I don't think EVERYTHING Apple has done isn't evil. Just advocating devils and whatnot..
Didn't RTFA, but I'm assuming that the main idea here is lock-in to MS products and technologies. That means it'll be harder to share work and ideas down the road because of artificial dependencies on MS to run the code, etc. Hopefully folks in the field will hold their ground and build their work on top of open, sharable, neutral platforms
Maybe OT but, what about STREET CLEANING? That shit is a scam.
Wikipedias relevancy criteria is retarded. What is wrong with having more information on there? It's like slashdot stories you don't like--nobodys forcing you to read them
One Point Six BILLION horsepower.
so what you're saying is... we need a few more thousand $ for a hemi and some truck balls?
Yeah totally! Who's ever seen a null pointer dereference crash a Java program?
I didn't RTFA but I agree with the sentiment of the summary. It's NOT THE LANGUAGE, it's the programmer and their knowledge of the interfaces they are working with.
plenty of things can and should be written in C. It is perhaps a sharper blade than Java, but were professionals. There's 100 other mistakes you will make being uncareful when programming that have nothing to do with language choice that are far more important to worry about.
this checked exception hands tied stuff is worse than baby boomer nanny state bullshit
you have to put in html paragraph/line breaks yourself around here.
welcome to the discussion.
why rehash a joke thats ALREADY IN TFS. 4/6 comments so far are redundant. you guys aren't even trying today.
granted, neither are the editors.
back on topic: WTF? this is a fucking terrible idea. i hate researchers.
looked nice and scrumptious
not a fan of this guys tech vocabulary
. Search engines unlike hardware sales require large numbers of customers
Why would that be exactly?
* Will she still be considered 'female' once she's running Linux or will she be reset to a virgin teenage boy?
Unfortunately, I don't think too many teenagers get into Linux these days. At least less so than in the past, I wager..
They want you to pass calculus for a reason. No matter what kind of scientist you plan to be, your knowledge of calculus will be essential. You'll never use statistics but you will need to use calculus every day.
Are you wooshing me here?
Having an understanding of what a derivative or integral of a function is a good insight to have, no doubt.
But I would argue that statistics is much more broadly applicable, and extremely important for a clear understanding of scientific discourse and all the 'facts' that the poster will encounter.
In reply to the original query, what you're going to need to do is a lot of problems. You need to look at this like getting in shape--you can't do it overnight.
I returned to college after about 5 years off and needed to take placement exams myself. Turned out the test allowed using a Ti-89. I cheated myself out of really 'placing' myself by being able to approximate/calculate all the multiple choice answers and placed highly.
After a few attempts in the classes I was placed in, in the end, I re-took precal and calculus.
I could have avoided that if I had actually done a large volume of problems rather than skimming some books and looking at the answers and deciding that it was 'easy enough'.
Never look at the answers of problems until you try them. Once you know the right answer, you convince yourself the problem was easy and that you didn't need to do it. This will fuck you over in the end.
Find an approach to doing math that makes it enjoyable for you. One thing that helped me a lot was getting a large whiteboard. I find I enjoy doing math more pacing back in front of a board and whatever else comes along with doing work on a board rather than a piece of lined paper. Chalk would have been better.
Lastly, ignore the assholes here who are going to berate you for not knowing what they think is simple, obvious knowledge. Math is rife with 'tricks' and non-intuitive methods to solving problems that come through experience. Someone who had a good experience with math through school and went straight into college is not going to understand your position.
Good luck to you, and if you really want this, do problems and problems and more problems. Put on some music you love and shred through a book or two. Get help at local colleges. Bribe a friend to help you study, or just hire a tutor.
Otherwise, you're going to end up doing it by taking the classes (as I did). One way or another, you have to do the work.
anyone had any experience with symantec's "reputation based security"? they were also calling this their "quorum" technology.
here's an article i managed to google up on the subject..
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/090809-symantec-quorum-antimalware.html
Go ahead. It won't bite. Some things are over-engineered.
I can't fathom why there can't be an article for every sequence of characters. Would seem to be more informative that way. If 'iagonwoanrboarno' doesn't mean anything, it'll simply be a shorter article, and I probably will never see it anyway.
you'd think some companies might enjoy the sort of publicity and awareness they'd get out of having a lot of people use their software... and without fear on top of it!
opening an account doesn't really get me anywhere. now if i can borrow a little money...
sure, i don't, at least i don't consider them especially evil. did you have a point at all?
not looking forward to the further freedoms I'll lose as an american when the agents of these militias start killing these pilots, and probably some others in the attempt to, on US soil.
im confident the overzealous US government will use this as an excuse to 'protect me' by further tracking my identity and tabs on my life.
point is: keep these pilots who are killing people the fuck away from urban american areas, or we're all going to be targets. and in case you say 'we already are', i don't see any reason to make it worse.
damn mythical 'war' is getting to negatively impact my life more and more, and i'll happily vote for, pay money to, or pledge allegiance to whatever i can to not be involved with the warmongering that this country has been engaged in. pretty confident our behavior in iraq and afghanistan has not generally enhanced the safety for much of anybody, compared to the consequences...
overall, this is a step in the wrong direction.
that said, the dev page is covered with speculative flamebaity news right now.
guess i'll go kill some time at newscientist.com or cacm.acm.org
I find this article just nothing at all. It is an opinion -- an incomplete and pretty obvious one. How did it get to /.'s main page?
you must be new here, and all that.
sorry to say, but that's how news works these days.
thats why i've been mostly just checking developers.slashdot.org on my time around here... less flimsy stories.
I didn't know that saying that something was a "serious" threat didn't carry enough weight anymore. And in regards to cheating in an online game? Yeah. Hellaserious.
And just NY? Have these people been to SF?
Lots of info here: http://www.apple.com/ipad
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