While not a 3D modeler, Quesa is a LGPL API that emulates QuickDraw 3d. Quesa runs on classic MacOS, MacOS X, Windows 9.x/NT, Linux, and apparently work on a BeOS implementation is in progress.
Hmm, and I wondered where those came from. For a while there there seemed to be applications using the IBM guidelines as stated above, the apple guidelines, and of course the scattering of "I can come up with my own shortcuts" programs roaming around.
I see that you don't remember windows 2.0 or 3.1. When it first came out there seemed to be no standard for much of anything. Ever see the Windows 3.1 interface guidlines? No? That's because there weren't any.
Actually many windows applications "borrowed" things from the apple interface guidelines.
An example of this is (cmd is the key with the apple and squiggly thingie on it) cmd-x, cmd-z, cmd-a, cmd-c, cmd-o, cmd-n, were all established mac standards before M$ picked them up.
What I prefer, and is IMHO much faster than this: hightlight, right click, scroll to copy/cut, move cursor to where you wish to paste, right click, scroll down to paste business..... is the ability to: highlight text/a graphic/whatever, click on it and hold the button down, drag it to where you want it, and let go. Between applications. Using command/control/function keys is faster than the damned contextual crap windows seems to rely on for the most part, however just grabbing and dropping is much more efficient.
You should see the expressions of some computer users when they see that done, as to how simple and quick it is. BTW there are some windows apps that support this, however that number is far too few.
This is the sort of functionality I would like to see in X-windows, especially since I cannot get a Mac-GUI to run on FreeBSD *grin*. BTW any ubercoders want to make me a bastard version of enlightment crossed with MacOS drag-and-drop and some of the nicer aspects of the MacOS GUI let me know *snicker*....
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, on being asked if they stole from PARC, or if Microsoft stole from the Mac:
"Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great [though immature] technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing at all. Apple didn't get any stock from Microsoft. Nor was Apple dealt with openly in this area by Microsoft."
It always annoys me to hear the old Apple stole from Xerox, so it was ok for M$ to steal from Apple line. Get a clue. M$ steals from everyone. Which is why open source is so effective against them. It is easy to steal things cloaked in shadow (closed source), however stealing something that is in broad daylight (open source) is much harder.
Another reason they may have been laughed out of court is that they recieved Apple stock for that little visit at Palo Alto. They just felt later on that they had not quite recieved enough stock, however they were paid for it. Always annoying to keep hearing ignorant claims about how Apple is as bad as M$ because they did to Xerox, what M$ did to them. You guys have any idea of how much crap Xerox people came up with at that particular research center that was never followed up on?
One thing that should also be noted: the apple thingie is a Trademark. And as people many people here have stated they must protect it.... *shrug* If you say so guys. The skin in particular contained an Apple thingie.
And they say Steve Jobs has a reality distortion affect....
ps: I am not saying that Apple's legal staff isn't a bunch of assholes, they are complete assholes in my opinion. However if you think that going after someone who makes a skin they feel infringes their 'trademark' makes them worse than a compnmay who wilfully breaks contracts and then uses the legal team to keep the law from being upheld (in the case of Real, Looking Glass, and Sun) or outright steals a product and uses the legal staff to hold the case up in court so they can continue selling stolen code (Stacker) then I must say that we have very little in common in the way of ethical standards.
Trojan horse: 1. An apparently harmless program containing malicious logic that allows the unauthorized collection, falsification, or destruction of data. [2382-pt.8]that is not written/sponsored by a large company and plainly stated in legalese terms that require above average intelligence to comprehend. 2. [A] program containing hidden code allowing the unauthorized collection, falsification, or destruction of information.
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Oh, I see the difference Juno is a large company with lots of money and the hidden parts are stated in terms that at least 5% of the population can understand.
So maybe I am a pessimist but, you must be aware that at least 80% of the population doesn't seem to understand what an OS is or what it does, none the less be able to comprehend legalese. The average reading comprehension level in the US is what, 8th grade, perhaps 10th grade...
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And where exactly will these children go to once they get these vouchers? Many schools are so overcrowded that they are already breaking fire codes and such (especially here in Phx AZ). Do you think that if funding gets cut off from inner city schools? Do you think that the wealthy neighborhood schools will welcome them?
While I realize many of the misconceptions placed apon schools by what some call "liberal" organizations, the expectation by some people that 100 centuries of classism will vanish because of vouchers is not very logical. What will happen is what happened where I am from however the arguments used will be different. Results will be similar though.
Prince Edward (Then): The end of school segregation stating that students attending the "black" school (read: poorer), should go to school at the same school as the white (read: richer) students. Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Students attending schools who fail to meet educational criteria (read: poorer) should go to the same school as the students who attend schools meeting these goals (read: poorer)
Prince Edward (Then): Black schools (read: poorer) closed and a private white only school (read: richer) set-up. Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Schools not meeting goals (read: poorer) lose funding and close, schools meeting goals (read: richer) already beyond maximum legal capacity.
Prince Edward (then): Black students denied education at local private school since "that would be against our beliefs", many don't attend at all. Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Poorer students denied entry into other already overcrowded local schools since "that would really break the law even more", many don't attend school at all.
Prince Edward-Result: Poorer students shafted by those in power. Phoenix-Result: Poorer students shafted by those in power.
We should guarantee (I mean that not in the way the Gov't means it these days, with the clause only if politically expedient) that ALL children in this country get a decent education.
BTW those neighborhoods that have failing schools don't generally contain any rich people... Trust me, my whole family is in education. None are union.
My roommate's iMac is incredibly quiet. I had never noticed how loud my computers were until he got it. Sometimes you will hear the hard drive, however when it goes to sleep there is virtually no noise whatsoever. It is the only computer to be kept in a bedroom in our place due to this. This is due to the lack of fans which is made possible by the fact that G3 processors are incredibly low power/heat dissapation.
The G4 cube systems have no fan either. I also understand that the new G4 powerbooks are likewise not cooled by a fan. Does anyone know what game systems are or are not fan cooled? If I am not mistaken I think that the PS, PS2, and N64 are not cooled by fans, however since I am mostly uninterested in consoles...
Processor fans seem to be mostly an X86 thing due to the high amounts of heat dissapation for a 32 bit processor. My sister's Compaq laptop is fan cooled. My K6-2 would fry if I removed the fan, my overclocked p-166 (200) was having issues til I added another fan to the case, the fileserver in my apt, a P233MMX was having some issues when the proc fan started dying. I would imagine if Transmeta ever got around to putting some processors into PC desktops, maybe we could get something in as radical a form factor as the cube (and without a fan). The fact you can fry an egg on most x86 procs these days seems kinda sad. If it were an Alpha, or a Power, I could kinda see it.
I will probably be leaving my Yellow Dog partition on my 8500 AV, however my new machine will be running MacOS X, and probably no Linux partition. I have already gone from dual booting Slackware/Win98SE on my PC to FreeBSD/Win98SE. In all likelyhood when I order G4, probably next month, my main platform will be X. My roomate on the other hand will still be running Slack on the file/web/mail server here and my best guess is that if Slack is still being developed in 20 years he will still be running it on his server. However, he will probably also be using MacOS X as his main OS of choice for desktop/day-to-day things.
Personally I really like xml based config files
If you want better numbers for Linux using Mac owners talk to the guys at Linux PPC, Yellow Dog Linux, etc they should be able to give you better numbers than 3.5. BTW I prefer Linux on Mac hardware, esp the old beige G3s. They are incredibly stable as far as desktop hardware goes, and pretty over clockable to boot. Tho the B&W G3s are insanely clockable, I have seen a 350 pushing 500Mhz, without a proc fan!!!
Sure, lets use a jury of M$'s peers, that would be fair. Now onward to finding a jury of peers. M$ is a computer (hardware and software) corporation, so therefore their peers are other corporations. So, using that logic most of those who would be on any "fair" jury are actually witnesses for the prosecution. Sun, IBM, Apple, Compaq, etc. are the peers of M$. I hardly see any of them doing a great deal to defend M$.
On an another more serious note, I was discussing the M$ thing with soemone I go to church with. Their reply, (after hearing about all of the theft, threats, false promises, broken contracts, etc.) was that everyone does these things in that industry and that Bill Gates made computers easy to use for people so we should overlook 'his' shortcomings. (BTW: people see things this way: Bill Gates=Microsoft, personally and figurativly) Also he gives so much to charity and has done so many great things. We should just leave him alone. Who needs a choice we should all use windows because everything would be simpler then and everything would be compatible and would magically work then. Does this sound objective to you?
What does the average consumer need with a 1 Ghz machine anyway? Oh yeah I forgot Office 2000, more bloat than a Richard Simmons Video... I mean really my PC is a 500 K6-2 w/128 M ram and a 16M voodoo banshee. UT runs rather nicely. Doing graphics and such on windows sucks anyways and my roomates 450 G3 is fast enough. Besides most PC's these days have no video ram, so games run much much slower on them than one with a real vid card. Benchmark a 800 Althon Compaq vs. a 800 Althlon Gateway playing UT, Q3, etc and see what I mean.
They have achieved a goal with this move, just not the one they were hoping for. They have suceeded in further alienating the people responsible for their salaries, their customers. I really watch very little TV due to the massive amount of painful stupidty (things that are so dumb they make you cringe) that runs rampant on today's TV. America's funniest home crotch-shot videos, anyone? Anyway, I was almost looking forward to when TV went digital, actually even thinking of getting cable (quite a leap for me), for discovery, sci-fi, history channel, etc. However now I think I will not. I will stick to my non-digital TV (and a small one at that, my computer monitor is larger), and my entertainment will be continue to be derived 95% from the internet, books, games, and my wife.
I can actually imagine that if the moron majority gets ahold of these things afer paying a premium (with the 'computer is a incomprehensible magic box' take on things they generally have), and finding out that they no longer have the freedom to get recordings of these psycologically damaged soap operas they are addicted to from their friends that they will be incredibly angry. At that point, with the clamping down, on americas favorite waste of time (soaps, sports, sit-coms, etc) we may actually witness the waking up of america to the erosion of their freedoms.
...most of it seems pretty reasonable and it seems like they're giving themselves a clear legal mandate to boot abusive users off the service.
Up until this point I can agree with you. When I was working for a start-up, we worded our eula so that we had fairly broad mandate to kick abusive/problem users. We did this while specifically allowing usage of portscaning and other measures.
Personally I'd love if providers started kicking port scanners off their
system as it is irritating, and a complete waste of bandwidth... (clip)
Argue all you want about your right to port scan but the reality is that you have no such right to probe other people's computers for vulnerabilities like that. Go out at 2 in the morning and try all the door knobs in your neighbourhood and see what sort of treatment it gets you. "But I was only trying to improve security!"
Here is where you begin to come off like a M$-sheep in my eyes. Portscanning can be a very useful tool. Portscanning is your right according to the latest court precedent. And lastly, what is it with the stupid door handle analogy, it is a poor one at best.
You may as well say that every one who looks at camera layout in a bank or store is a would-be criminal. What about a person who checks out building layout, security guards attentiveness, etc before buying into a lease for their business? Are they also would be criminals? When I am consider doing business with an e-commerce site I always scan them. Always. Anyone that I am supposed to trust with my business, credit card numbers, bank account, etc I check out. Always. Going by the above logic I should listen to/read information by a companies' marketing department about how secure they are and blindly trust that they aren't as stupid as M$ is and not install patches, etc to their networked machines to protect my business/money/livelihood. This is the same sort of retarded thinking that I heard from an ISP owner I know. "As long as I keep my (unlicensed) Win 2k servers patched I am entirely secure, because M$ said so." He knows relativly nothing about security and know not much more about Win2k than the minumum required to run his business.
By the way I have not been burned by trusting a company with poor security, Have you? Are you sure that you won't be? How are you sure?
I would agree that much of their eula is to be expected, and understandable. Much of the reaction seems to be just standard/. overblown response, however stating in your policy that you disallow game servers (which is a big reason many people want broadband), is pathetic. If they want to disallow these things then they should run Quake Lithium, Quake3, UT, etc servers of their own. Games seem to drive much more of the industry than most of these corporate type seem to understand... Also some of the other prohibitions seem to come from the same sort of corporate disconnect as the game one.
Actually I was referring to the common denominator method of teaching, which the low students are really challeged, the middle students are somewhat challenged, and eveyone left is bored all to hell. They wouldn't let me read non-class related books so mostly I slept.
What I always find so incredibly odd is that whenever you see some mac guy say something about how he prefers MacOS and that it is better from his point of view, or in this case where a mac guy responds to ESR or the like a bunch of upward moderated trolls/flamebait/ignorant BS appears. perhaps it is just me, but somehow I think not. By the way before I continue I have used MacOS X. Has anyone else?
Now I use Windows/Linux/BSD/MacOS on a somewhat regular basis (well the BSD box is currently down) but the point is that I have used about 10 different OSes in 20 years. I don't claim guru status on any. However I am familiar with most of them. OSes require certain concepts to be learned to be usable. MacOS was the first truly objective(concept) OS I ever used that really expressed that paradym. You can grab (hold the mouse button down for you morons out there) something and put it where you want it, and double click to open. And you could do this in 1990 almost as well as you can today in any OS. This includes files, text in an open program, whatever. Once you have this concept everything is pretty damn simple to use on a mac. You can move text/graphics/etc from one app to another by highlighting, grabbing, and dropping onto the other open apps window. It's nice, it's fast, and used for it's intended purpose my grandmother could be chugging along quite quickly in a week. If there is trouble there is a menu that is nearly always at the top of the screen that says "help". As far as compatibility, I have a PC Voodoo 3 2000 in my mac, as well as a pretty standard ethernet card, and BTW in case you didn't know PCI 2.1 is pretty standard as well. Also since when is PC 100 not standard? How about USB, is that not standard because Apple pushed it into popularity, or was the timing of that just coincidence? As far as coding for it, I agree that sucks. Running it as a network server sucks.
Now windows in my opinion is a poor copy, and BTW I used windows first. I switched from Windows to MacOS/Linux due to annoyance with Windows. The thing I find the most insulting out of any computer product I have ever used is the way MS porducts always attempt to second guess what I want to the point that it makes it hard for me to actually do what I want to do and not what IT thinks I want to do. Every copy of word I am forced to use, I have to go in and turn off all of those annoying "features". Ever attempt to select the first half of a word and a space before that word in MSIE? It auto-selects all of the spaces before the word, puctuation before that, and the entire word as well. To make it work you have to "somehow" know to hold the shift key while left clicking. How nice. Too many things like that. Too much time trying to tell other people how to do things. However what windows does have going for it is a bunch of games, which is why I have an install of it at all. Or how about all those users that just delete files leaving registry entries strewn about? If you ask me windows is a mess, full of.dlls everywhere which some programs replace seemingly at whim (yes I know what they are and what they do, and why AOL can cause machines to be unstable even if AOL is not running), a registry that every app you install gets to change yet is a pretty major requirement of stable operation, etc.
And *nix based OSes those 300 in 1 kits reborn as software, which by the way rocked. I am a big fan of the *nix based OSes, esp. Linux and BSD. I am more familiar with Linux but my last install of FreeBSD (which no longer boots, due to compaq mobo) really impressed me. I love ripping the thing apart and making it mine, much the same way I used a tool called ResEdit to do some minor editing on MacOS. I like the mutiple window managers. However my wife, most of my friends who even touch *nix, etc use KDE. They are somewhat confused by Enlightenment on my system (no Gnome). I can imagine that standard users would be terrified to go from something like KDE which is incredibly windows-like to E. So as far as MacOS-X and Win2k coming with a standard-looking interface is not just unsurprising, it is the only way 95% of the population would even touch a machine and not freak. Windows confuses the hell out of 50% of its users if not more. What effect do you think E/Afterstep/etc would have? And command line, my god, I can see a ton of trashed systems resulting. Now as much as I love our network server (Slack 7, Intel), I can simply not imagine it being useable to the public in a large fashion in a desktop. Most people whether the Slashdot community likes it or not know NOTHING about computers. And no matter how much I rant about MS breaking up standards, they make arguments like MS is a standard. Now I see people on here making the same kind of arguement about hardware... What happened to the Open Source Community likes diversity, aparently only when it does not apply to Apple hardware. It's truly amazing. What is even more amazing is that there seems to be more anti-Apple sentiment about being non-standard than there is at compaq Intel(bleah), or compaq Alpha, or IBM, etc. Let me tell you, PC hardware standards are not followed as closely as MS and Intel would have you believe.
Apple makes a system my grandmother can use and I can teach my mom to troubleshoot with ease. They decide that BSD rocks. They based config files in their new OS on fairly standard BSD config files and easily edited XML. They allow people to download the source to the core of their new OS. They work on making an velocity enabled version of gcc and provide it for free download. The Open Source Community says "Apple Sucks, they are too proprietary, they aren't providing source to everything, I'd rather use MS, there is no software, whatever. Nice message there guys. Way to tell the man what we think of large companies trying to see what Open Source can offer.
We had an Apple II that the school ran the lunch program off of. My father was the principal so I taught myself basic on it after school. There were some computer classes, they were on C64s (poor school district). They basically consisted of some "this is a computer, this is a floppy" stuff in 4th grade. During those classes I was working on cheesy little basic apps. There was a computer class in high school, however the classrooms had no computers in them. Maybe if there had been computers in the classes I would have been less bored and slept a lot less in class.
Yeah, I love this. Check out this train of thought.
M$ wires network access into Windows, Office, and other M$ apps in such a way that these products communication with M$'s servers is involuntary (for the user). M$ then builds into this network communication framework required registration number checking, and personal registration. M$ puts in checks to make sure that all the software on on the machine is registered to users that match. Example: If Windows is registered to Big Bird, and Office is registered to Kermit TheFrog, then their servers report your machine for possible piracy. M$ checks your registration number against all others already registered. M$ then stops 'selling' Office, they start requiring a net connection and sell term (1, 2, or 5 year) licenses. M$ checks your copy of office from time to time to make sure that your license is not expired and if it is then they send a kill signal to your copy of Office (Time Bombs and other such fun self-destructive software being made legal by DMCA), which then deletes a needed.dll or does something which disables it.
Now here is the part I love. This is where the fun begins.
Some Cracker buys a copy of Office does something to invalidate the license or anything to get M$ to send the kill signal to the copy of Office. The machine is running a packet sniffer which logs everything. This file gets analyzed and reverse engineered. Now the cracker writes an program that spoofs a Microsoft IP and sends 'Office self-destruct signals' to either random computers, network broadcast addresses, every IP in the network of a hated company, or just sends packets a la network scan method (192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, etc). Ten thousand script kiddies download this program and wreak havok. Leaving a mangled pile of corporate softawre in it's wake.
If you don't pay for your domain you should lose it we can all agree. However somehow not truly connected but somewhat on the same thread is the whole PETA dispute. I love tasty animals too, especially that bit of a chicken I ate for lunch. What is to keep big corporate enterprises from not paying and then suing you when you register the domain they let lapse? Register with joker.com. Joker is a reseller for Core. The interesting thing about Core is, if you follow the link and look at the bottom of the page, that they are based in Switzerland. The Swiss seem to be less stupid about such things than these US people are. So if they try to drag you into court over it, your domain is registered internationally. Lawyers, politicians, and other such people(?) seem to be infatuated with physical jurisdiction. Let them know that they can talk to you in international court.
I find it pretty funny actually. Your car can get repo'd, now your domain can be as well. If you want something, most companies require you to pay for it for you top retain possesion of it. Kinda funny that way, huh?
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Think about it. You are a musician. Your hear a little ditty in your head. Forget the little riff/song/series of nots in your head? No chance, rip out the palm pilot and record it.
Free the handhelds is the rallying cry, however in actuality what does this do for/against the Open Source Movement...
The first thing that it does is give some code hackers a chance to play with the newest toys by removing the handicapping (you will never know what is really going on) OS that runs on these things. It allows a previously unreachable level of software customization with these devices, as well as a way for a bunch of apps to be ported without costly developer kits. Also in this chain of thought there is the accomplishment and furthering of the programmers skill, as in practice makes perfect.
Secondly the programmers and other Open Source fans out there, myself included, get to say how much the platform rocks since it will run on almost anything. Why cannot some other for profit companies accomplish the same? Allowing us to poke fun at our least favorite OS/Software Company.
Third a penguin in the pocket that can sync with our home machines and run some of the cool apps we use at home. It gives the OS geeks among us the ability to astound lesser mortals (meant in jest). I have linux on my PocketPC, "wow, you are so cool".
This is the side of the equation I generally am more apt to see directly, however there are some indirect side-effects.
Fourth by buying one of these devices you have added to Microsofts coffers. They get payed every time one of these things is sold whether you like it or not.
Fifth you are now a statistic. You will be another +1 to the number of CE users Microsoft uses in promotional campaigns and other statistics. They don't care if 5%, 10%, or 25% of these devices are freed, they will still claim that every device sold = another CE user. These statistics are used to sway comsuners, developers, corporate customers, etc.
Sixth, since you are buying a product that offers absolutely no cross platform anything, no Linux support, no BSD support, no MacOS support without giving them negative feedback on it and refusing to give them money they assume everything is as it should be and continue with their single plaform only focus.
Personally I'd prefer a palm. Someone had to port to these things but I'd rather not give the companies making them any money for them. I could maybe see buying a used one.
Also, I am curious as to what apps run on Linux/BSD on these things, how well they work, and how much hacking was required to support them.
That's because San Fran is full of fags, and they are all on the internet downloading their gay porn. Get rid of the faggots and you'll have your bandwidth back.
So you have first hand intimate knowledge of gay porn on the net? Takes up a bunch of bandwith you say? Hmm, I wouldn't know...
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While not a 3D modeler, Quesa is a LGPL API that emulates QuickDraw 3d. Quesa runs on classic MacOS, MacOS X, Windows 9.x/NT, Linux, and apparently work on a BeOS implementation is in progress.
Hmm, and I wondered where those came from. For a while there there seemed to be applications using the IBM guidelines as stated above, the apple guidelines, and of course the scattering of "I can come up with my own shortcuts" programs roaming around.
I see that you don't remember windows 2.0 or 3.1. When it first came out there seemed to be no standard for much of anything. Ever see the Windows 3.1 interface guidlines? No? That's because there weren't any.
Actually many windows applications "borrowed" things from the apple interface guidelines. An example of this is (cmd is the key with the apple and squiggly thingie on it) cmd-x, cmd-z, cmd-a, cmd-c, cmd-o, cmd-n, were all established mac standards before M$ picked them up.
What I prefer, and is IMHO much faster than this: hightlight, right click, scroll to copy/cut, move cursor to where you wish to paste, right click, scroll down to paste business..... is the ability to: highlight text/a graphic/whatever, click on it and hold the button down, drag it to where you want it, and let go. Between applications. Using command/control/function keys is faster than the damned contextual crap windows seems to rely on for the most part, however just grabbing and dropping is much more efficient.
You should see the expressions of some computer users when they see that done, as to how simple and quick it is. BTW there are some windows apps that support this, however that number is far too few.
This is the sort of functionality I would like to see in X-windows, especially since I cannot get a Mac-GUI to run on FreeBSD *grin*. BTW any ubercoders want to make me a bastard version of enlightment crossed with MacOS drag-and-drop and some of the nicer aspects of the MacOS GUI let me know *snicker*....
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, on being asked if they stole from PARC, or if Microsoft stole from the Mac:
Here is another link to google. 14,000 matches.
It always annoys me to hear the old Apple stole from Xerox, so it was ok for M$ to steal from Apple line. Get a clue. M$ steals from everyone. Which is why open source is so effective against them. It is easy to steal things cloaked in shadow (closed source), however stealing something that is in broad daylight (open source) is much harder.
Another reason they may have been laughed out of court is that they recieved Apple stock for that little visit at Palo Alto. They just felt later on that they had not quite recieved enough stock, however they were paid for it. Always annoying to keep hearing ignorant claims about how Apple is as bad as M$ because they did to Xerox, what M$ did to them. You guys have any idea of how much crap Xerox people came up with at that particular research center that was never followed up on?
One thing that should also be noted: the apple thingie is a Trademark. And as people many people here have stated they must protect it.... *shrug* If you say so guys. The skin in particular contained an Apple thingie.
And they say Steve Jobs has a reality distortion affect....
ps: I am not saying that Apple's legal staff isn't a bunch of assholes, they are complete assholes in my opinion. However if you think that going after someone who makes a skin they feel infringes their 'trademark' makes them worse than a compnmay who wilfully breaks contracts and then uses the legal team to keep the law from being upheld (in the case of Real, Looking Glass, and Sun) or outright steals a product and uses the legal staff to hold the case up in court so they can continue selling stolen code (Stacker) then I must say that we have very little in common in the way of ethical standards.
Trojan horse: 1. An apparently harmless program containing malicious logic that allows the unauthorized collection, falsification, or destruction of data. [2382-pt.8]that is not written/sponsored by a large company and plainly stated in legalese terms that require above average intelligence to comprehend.
2. [A] program containing hidden code allowing the unauthorized collection, falsification, or destruction of information.
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hmmmm.....
Oh, I see the difference Juno is a large company with lots of money and the hidden parts are stated in terms that at least 5% of the population can understand.
So maybe I am a pessimist but, you must be aware that at least 80% of the population doesn't seem to understand what an OS is or what it does, none the less be able to comprehend legalese. The average reading comprehension level in the US is what, 8th grade, perhaps 10th grade...
And where exactly will these children go to once they get these vouchers? Many schools are so overcrowded that they are already breaking fire codes and such (especially here in Phx AZ). Do you think that if funding gets cut off from inner city schools? Do you think that the wealthy neighborhood schools will welcome them?
While I realize many of the misconceptions placed apon schools by what some call "liberal" organizations, the expectation by some people that 100 centuries of classism will vanish because of vouchers is not very logical. What will happen is what happened where I am from however the arguments used will be different. Results will be similar though.
Prince Edward (Then): The end of school segregation stating that students attending the "black" school (read: poorer), should go to school at the same school as the white (read: richer) students.
Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Students attending schools who fail to meet educational criteria (read: poorer) should go to the same school as the students who attend schools meeting these goals (read: poorer)
Prince Edward (Then): Black schools (read: poorer) closed and a private white only school (read: richer) set-up.
Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Schools not meeting goals (read: poorer) lose funding and close, schools meeting goals (read: richer) already beyond maximum legal capacity.
Prince Edward (then): Black students denied education at local private school since "that would be against our beliefs", many don't attend at all.
Phoenix (some time after vouchers): Poorer students denied entry into other already overcrowded local schools since "that would really break the law even more", many don't attend school at all.
Prince Edward-Result: Poorer students shafted by those in power.
Phoenix-Result: Poorer students shafted by those in power.
We should guarantee (I mean that not in the way the Gov't means it these days, with the clause only if politically expedient) that ALL children in this country get a decent education.
BTW those neighborhoods that have failing schools don't generally contain any rich people... Trust me, my whole family is in education. None are union.
Excellent link at this site. The only problem is that it is partially in German. Use the fish if yah need to, however it is mostly obvious.
p ation__mm2___processM Hz____42____.18M Hz____83____.15M Hz____???___.250 MHz___105___.183 MHz___???___.180 0MHz__217___.18H z_____102___.18H z_____225___.25
Some exerpts:
Processor___Mhz_______L1___Transistors__Pwr_Dissa
G3cx________350-550___64k__21'500'000___4.0W_@400
G4_/_Max____350-500___64k__10'500'000___5.0W_@400
Mobile_Cel__266-400___32k__18'900'000___7.7W_@300
Coppermine__533-1133__32k__28'000'000___26.2W_@80
P3/E_Xeon___600-1000__32k__28'000'000___28.7W_@73
Willamette__1300-1500_20k__42'000'000___54.7W_@15
K-7_(100Mhz)700-1000__128k_22'000'000___42W_@700M
Alpha-EV67__667-750___128k_15'200'000___90W_@750M
My roommate's iMac is incredibly quiet. I had never noticed how loud my computers were until he got it. Sometimes you will hear the hard drive, however when it goes to sleep there is virtually no noise whatsoever. It is the only computer to be kept in a bedroom in our place due to this. This is due to the lack of fans which is made possible by the fact that G3 processors are incredibly low power/heat dissapation.
The G4 cube systems have no fan either. I also understand that the new G4 powerbooks are likewise not cooled by a fan. Does anyone know what game systems are or are not fan cooled? If I am not mistaken I think that the PS, PS2, and N64 are not cooled by fans, however since I am mostly uninterested in consoles...
Processor fans seem to be mostly an X86 thing due to the high amounts of heat dissapation for a 32 bit processor. My sister's Compaq laptop is fan cooled. My K6-2 would fry if I removed the fan, my overclocked p-166 (200) was having issues til I added another fan to the case, the fileserver in my apt, a P233MMX was having some issues when the proc fan started dying. I would imagine if Transmeta ever got around to putting some processors into PC desktops, maybe we could get something in as radical a form factor as the cube (and without a fan). The fact you can fry an egg on most x86 procs these days seems kinda sad. If it were an Alpha, or a Power, I could kinda see it.
I will probably be leaving my Yellow Dog partition on my 8500 AV, however my new machine will be running MacOS X, and probably no Linux partition. I have already gone from dual booting Slackware/Win98SE on my PC to FreeBSD/Win98SE. In all likelyhood when I order G4, probably next month, my main platform will be X. My roomate on the other hand will still be running Slack on the file/web/mail server here and my best guess is that if Slack is still being developed in 20 years he will still be running it on his server. However, he will probably also be using MacOS X as his main OS of choice for desktop/day-to-day things.
Personally I really like xml based config files
If you want better numbers for Linux using Mac owners talk to the guys at Linux PPC, Yellow Dog Linux, etc they should be able to give you better numbers than 3.5. BTW I prefer Linux on Mac hardware, esp the old beige G3s. They are incredibly stable as far as desktop hardware goes, and pretty over clockable to boot. Tho the B&W G3s are insanely clockable, I have seen a 350 pushing 500Mhz, without a proc fan!!!
Copied from http://www.bloodmoney.net/revenue.htm
GAME LENGTH:5 minute heats
ENTRANCE FEE:100 Bloodmoney Credits
1 Bloodmoney credit is = $.01 US (from somewhere else)
1 dollar for 5 minutes???
Sounded cool at 1st, but go find another sheep, preferably one with more money to waste on such things.
Sure, lets use a jury of M$'s peers, that would be fair. Now onward to finding a jury of peers. M$ is a computer (hardware and software) corporation, so therefore their peers are other corporations. So, using that logic most of those who would be on any "fair" jury are actually witnesses for the prosecution. Sun, IBM, Apple, Compaq, etc. are the peers of M$. I hardly see any of them doing a great deal to defend M$.
On an another more serious note, I was discussing the M$ thing with soemone I go to church with. Their reply, (after hearing about all of the theft, threats, false promises, broken contracts, etc.) was that everyone does these things in that industry and that Bill Gates made computers easy to use for people so we should overlook 'his' shortcomings. (BTW: people see things this way: Bill Gates=Microsoft, personally and figurativly) Also he gives so much to charity and has done so many great things. We should just leave him alone. Who needs a choice we should all use windows because everything would be simpler then and everything would be compatible and would magically work then. Does this sound objective to you?
What does the average consumer need with a 1 Ghz machine anyway? Oh yeah I forgot Office 2000, more bloat than a Richard Simmons Video... I mean really my PC is a 500 K6-2 w/128 M ram and a 16M voodoo banshee. UT runs rather nicely. Doing graphics and such on windows sucks anyways and my roomates 450 G3 is fast enough. Besides most PC's these days have no video ram, so games run much much slower on them than one with a real vid card. Benchmark a 800 Althon Compaq vs. a 800 Althlon Gateway playing UT, Q3, etc and see what I mean.
Hint: The Compaq is much slower.
They have achieved a goal with this move, just not the one they were hoping for. They have suceeded in further alienating the people responsible for their salaries, their customers. I really watch very little TV due to the massive amount of painful stupidty (things that are so dumb they make you cringe) that runs rampant on today's TV. America's funniest home crotch-shot videos, anyone? Anyway, I was almost looking forward to when TV went digital, actually even thinking of getting cable (quite a leap for me), for discovery, sci-fi, history channel, etc. However now I think I will not. I will stick to my non-digital TV (and a small one at that, my computer monitor is larger), and my entertainment will be continue to be derived 95% from the internet, books, games, and my wife.
I can actually imagine that if the moron majority gets ahold of these things afer paying a premium (with the 'computer is a incomprehensible magic box' take on things they generally have), and finding out that they no longer have the freedom to get recordings of these psycologically damaged soap operas they are addicted to from their friends that they will be incredibly angry. At that point, with the clamping down, on americas favorite waste of time (soaps, sports, sit-coms, etc) we may actually witness the waking up of america to the erosion of their freedoms.
...most of it seems pretty reasonable and it seems like they're giving themselves a clear legal mandate to boot abusive users off the service.
/. overblown response, however stating in your policy that you disallow game servers (which is a big reason many people want broadband), is pathetic. If they want to disallow these things then they should run Quake Lithium, Quake3, UT, etc servers of their own. Games seem to drive much more of the industry than most of these corporate type seem to understand... Also some of the other prohibitions seem to come from the same sort of corporate disconnect as the game one.
Up until this point I can agree with you. When I was working for a start-up, we worded our eula so that we had fairly broad mandate to kick abusive/problem users. We did this while specifically allowing usage of portscaning and other measures.
Personally I'd love if providers started kicking port scanners off their system as it is irritating, and a complete waste of bandwidth... (clip) Argue all you want about your right to port scan but the reality is that you have no such right to probe other people's computers for vulnerabilities like that. Go out at 2 in the morning and try all the door knobs in your neighbourhood and see what sort of treatment it gets you. "But I was only trying to improve security!"
Here is where you begin to come off like a M$-sheep in my eyes. Portscanning can be a very useful tool. Portscanning is your right according to the latest court precedent. And lastly, what is it with the stupid door handle analogy, it is a poor one at best.
You may as well say that every one who looks at camera layout in a bank or store is a would-be criminal. What about a person who checks out building layout, security guards attentiveness, etc before buying into a lease for their business? Are they also would be criminals? When I am consider doing business with an e-commerce site I always scan them. Always. Anyone that I am supposed to trust with my business, credit card numbers, bank account, etc I check out. Always. Going by the above logic I should listen to/read information by a companies' marketing department about how secure they are and blindly trust that they aren't as stupid as M$ is and not install patches, etc to their networked machines to protect my business/money/livelihood. This is the same sort of retarded thinking that I heard from an ISP owner I know. "As long as I keep my (unlicensed) Win 2k servers patched I am entirely secure, because M$ said so." He knows relativly nothing about security and know not much more about Win2k than the minumum required to run his business.
By the way I have not been burned by trusting a company with poor security, Have you? Are you sure that you won't be? How are you sure?
I would agree that much of their eula is to be expected, and understandable. Much of the reaction seems to be just standard
Actually I was referring to the common denominator method of teaching, which the low students are really challeged, the middle students are somewhat challenged, and eveyone left is bored all to hell. They wouldn't let me read non-class related books so mostly I slept.
What I always find so incredibly odd is that whenever you see some mac guy say something about how he prefers MacOS and that it is better from his point of view, or in this case where a mac guy responds to ESR or the like a bunch of upward moderated trolls/flamebait/ignorant BS appears. perhaps it is just me, but somehow I think not. By the way before I continue I have used MacOS X. Has anyone else?
.dlls everywhere which some programs replace seemingly at whim (yes I know what they are and what they do, and why AOL can cause machines to be unstable even if AOL is not running), a registry that every app you install gets to change yet is a pretty major requirement of stable operation, etc.
Now I use Windows/Linux/BSD/MacOS on a somewhat regular basis (well the BSD box is currently down) but the point is that I have used about 10 different OSes in 20 years. I don't claim guru status on any. However I am familiar with most of them. OSes require certain concepts to be learned to be usable. MacOS was the first truly objective(concept) OS I ever used that really expressed that paradym. You can grab (hold the mouse button down for you morons out there) something and put it where you want it, and double click to open. And you could do this in 1990 almost as well as you can today in any OS. This includes files, text in an open program, whatever. Once you have this concept everything is pretty damn simple to use on a mac. You can move text/graphics/etc from one app to another by highlighting, grabbing, and dropping onto the other open apps window. It's nice, it's fast, and used for it's intended purpose my grandmother could be chugging along quite quickly in a week. If there is trouble there is a menu that is nearly always at the top of the screen that says "help". As far as compatibility, I have a PC Voodoo 3 2000 in my mac, as well as a pretty standard ethernet card, and BTW in case you didn't know PCI 2.1 is pretty standard as well. Also since when is PC 100 not standard? How about USB, is that not standard because Apple pushed it into popularity, or was the timing of that just coincidence? As far as coding for it, I agree that sucks. Running it as a network server sucks.
Now windows in my opinion is a poor copy, and BTW I used windows first. I switched from Windows to MacOS/Linux due to annoyance with Windows. The thing I find the most insulting out of any computer product I have ever used is the way MS porducts always attempt to second guess what I want to the point that it makes it hard for me to actually do what I want to do and not what IT thinks I want to do. Every copy of word I am forced to use, I have to go in and turn off all of those annoying "features". Ever attempt to select the first half of a word and a space before that word in MSIE? It auto-selects all of the spaces before the word, puctuation before that, and the entire word as well. To make it work you have to "somehow" know to hold the shift key while left clicking. How nice. Too many things like that. Too much time trying to tell other people how to do things. However what windows does have going for it is a bunch of games, which is why I have an install of it at all. Or how about all those users that just delete files leaving registry entries strewn about? If you ask me windows is a mess, full of
And *nix based OSes those 300 in 1 kits reborn as software, which by the way rocked. I am a big fan of the *nix based OSes, esp. Linux and BSD. I am more familiar with Linux but my last install of FreeBSD (which no longer boots, due to compaq mobo) really impressed me. I love ripping the thing apart and making it mine, much the same way I used a tool called ResEdit to do some minor editing on MacOS. I like the mutiple window managers. However my wife, most of my friends who even touch *nix, etc use KDE. They are somewhat confused by Enlightenment on my system (no Gnome). I can imagine that standard users would be terrified to go from something like KDE which is incredibly windows-like to E. So as far as MacOS-X and Win2k coming with a standard-looking interface is not just unsurprising, it is the only way 95% of the population would even touch a machine and not freak. Windows confuses the hell out of 50% of its users if not more. What effect do you think E/Afterstep/etc would have? And command line, my god, I can see a ton of trashed systems resulting. Now as much as I love our network server (Slack 7, Intel), I can simply not imagine it being useable to the public in a large fashion in a desktop. Most people whether the Slashdot community likes it or not know NOTHING about computers. And no matter how much I rant about MS breaking up standards, they make arguments like MS is a standard. Now I see people on here making the same kind of arguement about hardware... What happened to the Open Source Community likes diversity, aparently only when it does not apply to Apple hardware. It's truly amazing. What is even more amazing is that there seems to be more anti-Apple sentiment about being non-standard than there is at compaq Intel(bleah), or compaq Alpha, or IBM, etc. Let me tell you, PC hardware standards are not followed as closely as MS and Intel would have you believe.
Apple makes a system my grandmother can use and I can teach my mom to troubleshoot with ease. They decide that BSD rocks. They based config files in their new OS on fairly standard BSD config files and easily edited XML. They allow people to download the source to the core of their new OS. They work on making an velocity enabled version of gcc and provide it for free download. The Open Source Community says "Apple Sucks, they are too proprietary, they aren't providing source to everything, I'd rather use MS, there is no software, whatever. Nice message there guys. Way to tell the man what we think of large companies trying to see what Open Source can offer.
We had an Apple II that the school ran the lunch program off of. My father was the principal so I taught myself basic on it after school. There were some computer classes, they were on C64s (poor school district). They basically consisted of some "this is a computer, this is a floppy" stuff in 4th grade. During those classes I was working on cheesy little basic apps. There was a computer class in high school, however the classrooms had no computers in them. Maybe if there had been computers in the classes I would have been less bored and slept a lot less in class.
Yeah, I love this. Check out this train of thought.
.dll or does something which disables it.
M$ wires network access into Windows, Office, and other M$ apps in such a way that these products communication with M$'s servers is involuntary (for the user).
M$ then builds into this network communication framework required registration number checking, and personal registration.
M$ puts in checks to make sure that all the software on on the machine is registered to users that match. Example: If Windows is registered to Big Bird, and Office is registered to Kermit TheFrog, then their servers report your machine for possible piracy.
M$ checks your registration number against all others already registered.
M$ then stops 'selling' Office, they start requiring a net connection and sell term (1, 2, or 5 year) licenses.
M$ checks your copy of office from time to time to make sure that your license is not expired and if it is then they send a kill signal to your copy of Office (Time Bombs and other such fun self-destructive software being made legal by DMCA), which then deletes a needed
Now here is the part I love. This is where the fun begins.
Some Cracker buys a copy of Office does something to invalidate the license or anything to get M$ to send the kill signal to the copy of Office.
The machine is running a packet sniffer which logs everything. This file gets analyzed and reverse engineered.
Now the cracker writes an program that spoofs a Microsoft IP and sends 'Office self-destruct signals' to either random computers, network broadcast addresses, every IP in the network of a hated company, or just sends packets a la network scan method (192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, etc).
Ten thousand script kiddies download this program and wreak havok. Leaving a mangled pile of corporate softawre in it's wake.
Check out Trusted BSD.
They are Targeting Orange Book specs. If I am not mistaken Orange Book is the government's defintion of Trusted.
If you don't pay for your domain you should lose it we can all agree. However somehow not truly connected but somewhat on the same thread is the whole PETA dispute. I love tasty animals too, especially that bit of a chicken I ate for lunch. What is to keep big corporate enterprises from not paying and then suing you when you register the domain they let lapse? Register with joker.com. Joker is a reseller for Core. The interesting thing about Core is, if you follow the link and look at the bottom of the page, that they are based in Switzerland. The Swiss seem to be less stupid about such things than these US people are. So if they try to drag you into court over it, your domain is registered internationally. Lawyers, politicians, and other such people(?) seem to be infatuated with physical jurisdiction. Let them know that they can talk to you in international court.
I find it pretty funny actually.
Your car can get repo'd, now your domain can be as well. If you want something, most companies require you to pay for it for you top retain possesion of it. Kinda funny that way, huh?
Think about it. You are a musician. Your hear a little ditty in your head. Forget the little riff/song/series of nots in your head? No chance, rip out the palm pilot and record it.
Free the handhelds is the rallying cry, however in actuality what does this do for/against the Open Source Movement...
The first thing that it does is give some code hackers a chance to play with the newest toys by removing the handicapping (you will never know what is really going on) OS that runs on these things. It allows a previously unreachable level of software customization with these devices, as well as a way for a bunch of apps to be ported without costly developer kits. Also in this chain of thought there is the accomplishment and furthering of the programmers skill, as in practice makes perfect.
Secondly the programmers and other Open Source fans out there, myself included, get to say how much the platform rocks since it will run on almost anything. Why cannot some other for profit companies accomplish the same? Allowing us to poke fun at our least favorite OS/Software Company.
Third a penguin in the pocket that can sync with our home machines and run some of the cool apps we use at home. It gives the OS geeks among us the ability to astound lesser mortals (meant in jest). I have linux on my PocketPC, "wow, you are so cool".
This is the side of the equation I generally am more apt to see directly, however there are some indirect side-effects.
Fourth by buying one of these devices you have added to Microsofts coffers. They get payed every time one of these things is sold whether you like it or not.
Fifth you are now a statistic. You will be another +1 to the number of CE users Microsoft uses in promotional campaigns and other statistics. They don't care if 5%, 10%, or 25% of these devices are freed, they will still claim that every device sold = another CE user. These statistics are used to sway comsuners, developers, corporate customers, etc.
Sixth, since you are buying a product that offers absolutely no cross platform anything, no Linux support, no BSD support, no MacOS support without giving them negative feedback on it and refusing to give them money they assume everything is as it should be and continue with their single plaform only focus.
Personally I'd prefer a palm. Someone had to port to these things but I'd rather not give the companies making them any money for them. I could maybe see buying a used one.
Also, I am curious as to what apps run on Linux/BSD on these things, how well they work, and how much hacking was required to support them.
That's because San Fran is full of fags, and they are all on the internet downloading their gay porn. Get rid of the faggots and you'll have your bandwidth back.
So you have first hand intimate knowledge of gay porn on the net? Takes up a bunch of bandwith you say? Hmm, I wouldn't know...