Second link worked for me...was able to navigate to Mac version no problem. So even though the front door of Mozilla.Org is crashed, going through the side door worked. No idea about the back door, don't like that kind of stuff.
...is solid as the Rock of Gibraltar on my MacBook. It's a stability improvement over 10.5.2 and a far cry from 10.5.0 and 10.5.1 which I avoided and stuck with 10.4.11. I'd put it right up there with Debian.
10.6 is something I'd be willing to pay for, though. Grand Central and true Intel 64 bitness would be awesome and make this MacBook rock. And as I mentioned earlier ZFS on a multi-disk future Time Capsule appliance would rock my world.
Imagine a future version of the Time Machine which has multiple drives. One drive bites the big one. No worries! You just go to Fried or Office Despot or wherever and get a replacement. You plug the little sucker in and BAM! The drive gets "re-silvered" and your data is safe. If two of the drives go TU, same thing. Anyone know how many drives can fail at once in a RAID-Z2 before you are 100% SOL?
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NeXTStep is based on the same BSD Unix that Free/Open/NetBSD was created from. And Mac OS X is being added to by people who started off as FreeBSD hackers. So reports of *BSD's demise are highly exaggerated. Mac market share has been on the rise, while Windows market share, particularly Windows Vista market share, has been on the outs.
Add to this the rise of less expensive Linux-based desktops and particularly "Net-tops," and the OS picture has never been more competitive since the early 1980s.
No, that simply makes him someone who's been gaming for a while. Me, I started around '83. Traveller. AD&D. Good times. Yes, girls were playing back then. There just weren't a hell of a lot of us. Stopped playing back in '87 or so. Got reintroduced with BESM. Too bad Tri-Stat is pretty much dead...thanks a lot White Wolf. Very cool system of gameplay for "storyteller" kind of FRP campaigns, not so much for "dice weenie" kind of FRP campaigns.
If you want more, go to Chris Prynoski's blog and you will find instructions on how to see the entire series. Including the 5th episode, "The Con" which is what this clip I linked to is from.
"NO! She's revealed the secret map!!! The campaign is ruined!!!"
Interesting that the 10.5.3 update was the least "eventful" update in recent memory. It seems the whiners have been largely shut up by this update. 10.5.2 was pretty solid too. Most of the time it takes a few point updates for a vintage of Mac OS X to be truly "drinkable." It was like that with Classic too.
Current personal fave keyboard: the one that came with the fruity iMacs, the Blue-and-White G3, and the Graphite G4. Compact, plenty of tactile feed back, and almost immortal. Remember, they were designed for use in a K-12 environment, and nobody is harder on a keyboard than a little kid.
I do miss the Model M, but alas they don't work gracefully with a Mac. The colorful iMac keyboard works for me.
BTW worst keyboard: the one on the MacBook. 1983 called, they want their chiclet keyboard back.:P
...for patients in hospitals. When the City of Hope had their new hospital, the Helford Clinical Research Hospital, designed, one of the goals was to maximize the amount of natural light in the hospital. Lots of windows, skylights, and lobbies on all floors that are almost half glass and show a spectacular view of the Sierra Madre mountains. The result is something less clinical and alien, and something more like a hotel instead of a hospital.
I would think that heating and cooling a hospital with that huge amount of glass would be a difficult thing to do, and certainly not the most energy efficient. But the decision was made, and certainly the patients, doctors and nurses feel the difference. If a more energy efficient way can be found to bring daylight into the design of a hospital, that would be so much better.
Windows 2000 took the NT codebase and made it way friendlier, which was far easier than taking the "DOS in Windows" codebase (95/98/ME) and making it stable. Yeah, I know that ME came after 2K, sue me, but it basically was the same deal. It was downhill after 2K, as it was irresistible to Microsoft not to encrust the next operating system with more useless eye-candy and cruft.
They will eventually clone a human - somewhere in the world - regardless of laws.
Arguably this has already taken place. If you mean clone a human and implant the clone in a human womb, or else have some sort of artificial womb technology to bring the cloned embryo to term...that may take a while.
We will eventually have computer chips embedded under our skin - it will start with a way to track children, then a way to expedite purchases, then a way to hold critical medical info and so on.
Do this in the US and you will have a million zillion Christians up in arms. Literally. The "Left Behind" book series was a huge-ass bestseller in a country where most people don't read if they don't have to. This might happen elsewhere, like the PRC, Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation, Japan...in fact, my prediction is that it will happen first in Japan and it will be promoted as a youth trend. It will never happen in the US. It will probably not happen in Alberta, Canada. It will probably not happen in certain Central and South American countries. It will probably not happen in South Korea, which is almost as Christian-centric as the US is.
Nothing is inevitable except death and taxes. Period.
I guess otaku still has a couple of years left, though the folks over in Akihabara are probably going to end up making that mainstream too before long.
Umm...sorry to have to point this out to you...but two words: Gwen Stefani. Otaku, or more accurately Otome (female Otaku) chic, is the latest thing among the trendy.
Thanks. I have some freaks out there who love to downmod me. It usually gets sorted out in metamod. If it doesn't, I just don't give a shit anymore, so it's all good.
It's not just the CPU in question here, and you know it. Let's see...get a good motherboard from, say, Intel or Asus. Then get a shit mobo from Elitegroup, aka PC Chips. Put two identical Core 2 Duo chips in them. Put Crucial RAM in the Intel board and crap no-name RAM from Fried Electronics in the Elitegroup. Get good peripherals for the Intel or Asus, and buy no-name crud for the Elitegroup. Load both with Ubuntu. Boot. Run a "burn-in" utility that will EXERCISE that machine for days on end. See which one fails first. Hint: it won't be the one with the top-drawer parts. It will be the one with the Hacked-by-Chinese, bargain-basement stuff surrounding the perfectly identical Core 2 Duo chips.
...what you pay for. Most of those computers mentioned in the article are made from the absolute cheapest parts that HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. can get. Apple tends to use the best parts they can get, and the results speak for themselves. I have Macs that are still in running order after 20 years.
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Second link worked for me...was able to navigate to Mac version no problem. So even though the front door of Mozilla.Org is crashed, going through the side door worked. No idea about the back door, don't like that kind of stuff.
I don't have to wonder. I lost my husband to it in March.
Obviously I haven't been on Usenet in a long, long time. Yes, classic newsfroup name. Someone ought to start it.
no, more like...
rec.verizon.ate_my_balls
...is solid as the Rock of Gibraltar on my MacBook. It's a stability improvement over 10.5.2 and a far cry from 10.5.0 and 10.5.1 which I avoided and stuck with 10.4.11. I'd put it right up there with Debian.
10.6 is something I'd be willing to pay for, though. Grand Central and true Intel 64 bitness would be awesome and make this MacBook rock. And as I mentioned earlier ZFS on a multi-disk future Time Capsule appliance would rock my world.
Imagine a future version of the Time Machine which has multiple drives. One drive bites the big one. No worries! You just go to Fried or Office Despot or wherever and get a replacement. You plug the little sucker in and BAM! The drive gets "re-silvered" and your data is safe. If two of the drives go TU, same thing. Anyone know how many drives can fail at once in a RAID-Z2 before you are 100% SOL?
NeXTStep is based on the same BSD Unix that Free/Open/NetBSD was created from. And Mac OS X is being added to by people who started off as FreeBSD hackers. So reports of *BSD's demise are highly exaggerated. Mac market share has been on the rise, while Windows market share, particularly Windows Vista market share, has been on the outs.
Add to this the rise of less expensive Linux-based desktops and particularly "Net-tops," and the OS picture has never been more competitive since the early 1980s.
No, that simply makes him someone who's been gaming for a while. Me, I started around '83. Traveller. AD&D. Good times. Yes, girls were playing back then. There just weren't a hell of a lot of us. Stopped playing back in '87 or so. Got reintroduced with BESM. Too bad Tri-Stat is pretty much dead...thanks a lot White Wolf. Very cool system of gameplay for "storyteller" kind of FRP campaigns, not so much for "dice weenie" kind of FRP campaigns.
No, the best evocation of gamer geeks, ever, was in the late, lamented series MTV's Downtown.
Here's a little taste...
The two kinds of people in the world.
If you want more, go to Chris Prynoski's blog and you will find instructions on how to see the entire series. Including the 5th episode, "The Con" which is what this clip I linked to is from.
"NO! She's revealed the secret map!!! The campaign is ruined!!!"
Interesting that the 10.5.3 update was the least "eventful" update in recent memory. It seems the whiners have been largely shut up by this update. 10.5.2 was pretty solid too. Most of the time it takes a few point updates for a vintage of Mac OS X to be truly "drinkable." It was like that with Classic too.
I installed Leopard when I upgraded my hard drive...up until then I had 10.4.11 on my MacBook.
PDF files of books are enough of a pain in my ass to where I usually break down and buy the book if I use the PDF enough.
Giving people a taste in PDF form is a great way of promoting your dead-trees book.
Not everyone is going to do the right thing and buy. But they might not have bought anyway.
And make sure Keanu Reeves is nowhere near the project.
Current personal fave keyboard: the one that came with the fruity iMacs, the Blue-and-White G3, and the Graphite G4. Compact, plenty of tactile feed back, and almost immortal. Remember, they were designed for use in a K-12 environment, and nobody is harder on a keyboard than a little kid.
:P
I do miss the Model M, but alas they don't work gracefully with a Mac. The colorful iMac keyboard works for me.
BTW worst keyboard: the one on the MacBook. 1983 called, they want their chiclet keyboard back.
...for patients in hospitals. When the City of Hope had their new hospital, the Helford Clinical Research Hospital, designed, one of the goals was to maximize the amount of natural light in the hospital. Lots of windows, skylights, and lobbies on all floors that are almost half glass and show a spectacular view of the Sierra Madre mountains. The result is something less clinical and alien, and something more like a hotel instead of a hospital.
I would think that heating and cooling a hospital with that huge amount of glass would be a difficult thing to do, and certainly not the most energy efficient. But the decision was made, and certainly the patients, doctors and nurses feel the difference. If a more energy efficient way can be found to bring daylight into the design of a hospital, that would be so much better.
Windows 2000 took the NT codebase and made it way friendlier, which was far easier than taking the "DOS in Windows" codebase (95/98/ME) and making it stable. Yeah, I know that ME came after 2K, sue me, but it basically was the same deal. It was downhill after 2K, as it was irresistible to Microsoft not to encrust the next operating system with more useless eye-candy and cruft.
Look guys, certain things are inevitable.
I don't buy this.
They will eventually clone a human - somewhere in the world - regardless of laws.
Arguably this has already taken place. If you mean clone a human and implant the clone in a human womb, or else have some sort of artificial womb technology to bring the cloned embryo to term...that may take a while.
We will eventually have computer chips embedded under our skin - it will start with a way to track children, then a way to expedite purchases, then a way to hold critical medical info and so on.
Do this in the US and you will have a million zillion Christians up in arms. Literally. The "Left Behind" book series was a huge-ass bestseller in a country where most people don't read if they don't have to. This might happen elsewhere, like the PRC, Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation, Japan...in fact, my prediction is that it will happen first in Japan and it will be promoted as a youth trend. It will never happen in the US. It will probably not happen in Alberta, Canada. It will probably not happen in certain Central and South American countries. It will probably not happen in South Korea, which is almost as Christian-centric as the US is.
Nothing is inevitable except death and taxes. Period.
Always great to see that humans can do something other than destroy!
Seconded. Very well done, JPL! I'm proud of my geeky homeboys.
I guess otaku still has a couple of years left, though the folks over in Akihabara are probably going to end up making that mainstream too before long.
Umm...sorry to have to point this out to you...but two words: Gwen Stefani. Otaku, or more accurately Otome (female Otaku) chic, is the latest thing among the trendy.
Thanks. I have some freaks out there who love to downmod me. It usually gets sorted out in metamod. If it doesn't, I just don't give a shit anymore, so it's all good.
It's not just the CPU in question here, and you know it. Let's see...get a good motherboard from, say, Intel or Asus. Then get a shit mobo from Elitegroup, aka PC Chips. Put two identical Core 2 Duo chips in them. Put Crucial RAM in the Intel board and crap no-name RAM from Fried Electronics in the Elitegroup. Get good peripherals for the Intel or Asus, and buy no-name crud for the Elitegroup. Load both with Ubuntu. Boot. Run a "burn-in" utility that will EXERCISE that machine for days on end. See which one fails first. Hint: it won't be the one with the top-drawer parts. It will be the one with the Hacked-by-Chinese, bargain-basement stuff surrounding the perfectly identical Core 2 Duo chips.
Q. E. D.
...what you pay for. Most of those computers mentioned in the article are made from the absolute cheapest parts that HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. can get. Apple tends to use the best parts they can get, and the results speak for themselves. I have Macs that are still in running order after 20 years.
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It's a Faux News story. I'd like to hear it from another source.
Yes, and we will wind up with Idiocracy.