"Similarly, Maxwell's equations further suggest that lenses that would normally disperse electromagnetic radiation would instead focus it within this composite material. This is because Snell's law, which describes the angle of refraction caused by the change in velocity of light and other waves through lenses, water and other types of ordinary material, is expected to be exactly opposite within this composite. "
Two words : Transparent Aluminum:-)
It's all over as of 2:33 AM the wrong guy (for slashdotters everywhere) is in office congrats anyways.
-- to GWB
on a more positive note, Kantwell beat Gorton...
When both sides of an issue like this are very dedicated to their stances, you have to try to find ways that don't necessarily outright discredit the other view. If you just walk up to a pro-censorware person and shout, "Censorship is wrong!", they'll just say back "We have to protect our children's eyes!" And you'll have many merry hours of saying basically the same things to each other for as long as the both of you can put up with each other. Yes you are quite correct it is similar to the abortion/rtl issue. But the comeback I'd use on protecting children's eyes is either, "no we don't!," or "protecting children from knowledge both good and bad is absurd."
I want my kids (whenever I have them) to be able to seek out all forms of knowledge, and if they run across things by accident, I want them to ask questions about those things and be informed. I want them to know how to guard themselves against the true sickos, but not stifle their natural development during puberty (13-17 where porn is still illegal...silly thing). To illustrate that this stuff is pure fantasy and not to guide their lives by... and of course to quell the rebellious urge to just obtain the stuff because dad says it's off limits.
IE for Mac isn't bad at all. 5.5 Beta is great on OS X, but I still prefer OmniWeb Beta 7. They seem to do everything right. They also make more use of the native widgets and are one of the few Cocoa apps available that I'd use every day. The only thing I can't do with OmniWeb is chat on beseen.com, and I can, but it doesn't auto-update, so I have to click refresh all the time.
Funny I installed OmniWeb just fine. It is also just about the best browser I've ever seen. Too bad it is only Cocoa, because it would make a great browser on any platform. Well actually I should say too bad Apple has discontinued the Yellowbox runtimes for any OS other than OS X. Get the stuffit archive in ie, let it do its mumbo jumbo... double-click the smi, and drag the icon to the applications folder.. done... If you have problems dragging it, log in as administrator or root, and then add it to the Apps folder. Beta 7 works wonderfully, the only problem being a lack of Java Applet support, and this is Apple's fault right now.
Anyone know if chirally opposite caffeine works on the brain? I'll stick with my coffee plunger until then.
probably not since the molecule would be a different shape and have a different pucker to the ring structure. The enantiomers and diastereomers of caffeine would probably be toxic since these structures are alkaloids. Which chiral center do you want to modify since I believe there is more than one last time I checked?
That's formaldehyde... cyanide suffocates people at less than.04 mg, and is an inorganic gas, and/or salt (HCN...and NaCN or KCN respectively), so it would not solvate caffeine. Organics solvate each other formaldehyde being quite polar and organic. HCOH.
O'Douls, Guinness Kaliber, Clausthaler, Birrell, Kingsbury, O'Douls Amber, Moussy, Pabst NA, Near Beer, Coors Cutter, St. Pauli's Non Alcoholic Variety,...
Yummy Beer flavored water. They have less than.5% alcohol by volume, and were only great when I was an unfortunate kid with a taste for beer (yes I like beer for the taste... have since I was 3 [got sips from the grandpa]) Now since I'm way past legal age, they don't cut it... they're worse than light beer. In fact I prefer Colt 45 now for a good full beer taste.
The only thing that pissed me off was as a kid one grocery store still tried to refuse sale. They got the manager, and I basically reported that it indeed was legal... they finally gave it to me... though Anheuser Busch's booth wouldn't at an Air Show, but that's different (not sending a message that they condone drinking habits in minors) Kudos to them.
Think about it this way; I download an emulator, fill its content with unpleasant sexual material and advertise "RapeQuest" or "Ultima Paedo Edition". Ought not the creators of the original server application to have some protection against this?
Wouldn't that be twice removed...(now definitely bringing copyright to the forefront) i.e. first emulating the original program, and then using it for the purpose of satire/parody which is apparently legal in copyright issues. The second product would probably not be legal since it uses the full Ultima name. Ever heard of the joke game called Pyst which is a comedy parody of Myst? Then there is the whole issue of free speech.
So a shiny turd is more marketable than a dull diamond in your mind?
You think PPC's are really that bad... If you are a UNIX/Linux fan I find that hard to believe. Even on the low end it's more of a Plymouth Neon vs. Yugo comparison.
They love people like you in jail. Anal rape again? No problem, you'll find the silver lining.
Hmm personal insults (Moderators tell me why my comment which had far more depth even if it was a bit charged up stayed at 1 and this insult page made it to 2)
What reason is there not to? Parallel is good for many things. Fine, you'll get no arguement that USB is better, as long as there is a segment of the user base who wants/needs it, it's fucked up to cut them off.
So we should continue to manufacture 386's today just because they do enough to let some people work.
That says a lot more about you than it does about the hardware.
It says absolutely nothing about me other than the fact that I've had to support cruft for 15 years, and I'm tired of it. I've been running 600+ user servers on several UNIX flavors over the years. OS X promises to make the job a bit easier (OS X Server already does).
The problem with the Mac is that by trying to remain as simple as possible, it appeals mostly to people who are not really computer litterate (I know I know there are exceptions... ). This is the market that they target and it is fine. Where it becomes a problem is that the next generation will learn to use computers really young, understand them more than any of us can because they will litterally be raised in an environment filled with computers.
I am just wondering what will be the appeal of the Mac for such a generation and what part of the market it will be able to hold on through the next 30 years of so...
Really? I hope so (on the point of users understanding computers better in the next generation), but I really see this population dwindling more and more every day. Computers are being stressed upon every day to be bigger, badder, cuter idiot boxes. People want to learn less and less about how to use them. There will always be the tinkerers (both clued and non-clued), but now that the computer market virtually includes sea slugs, I don't see the sea slugs miraculously becoming dolphins (not for many generations at least)...re. Darwin:-) The Mac, and then misc' WAP devices, etc. will hang around for a long time.
How about some bashing from a former Mac zealot? Steve Jobs really needs to lay off of the acid. The trippy colors and goofy cases REALLY annoy me. Overnight Apple decides to dump compatibility with "old" hardware. No serial, No SCSI, No Comm Slots, and No ADB, just USB, and fire wire. What about those of us who have several thousand dollars invested in our old peripherals that still work great? They tell us "You can get a USB to X adapter..." Fuck you! I bought all of this stuff to work with my mac. So, in order to upgrade I'll have to spend 2 grand minimum to get a decent machine AND you want me to spend MORE money? No thanks. I suffered through the hard times with Apples. When I was 15 I remember going to an electronics boutique and seeing 4 mac titles while there were hundreds of dos/win titles.
You know you obviously don't have any patience, money, time, or idea of what sells to the consumer. Showmanship and radical new ideas are very catchy, and have been instrumental in netting Apple's 8th profitable quarter. Also they don't give a crap about you. If I were you I wouldn't complain a bit. I bought a Blue and White G3... no SCSI (so I bought the LVD 9GB BTO option... solved and cheap). I also added the $49 SCSI-2 card for low speed periphs...(get this I didn't even have a bunch of legacy periphs...my first mac), but it's still cheap. USB to serial... no problem, and it works better than serial by itself since there are no annoying serial lock-ups and 63 devices possible per port.. same with firewire... (SCSI isn't hot-pluggable). With users like you we would be using parallel ports well into 2020. Floppy? Crap! by a SuperDisk and plug it in... still cheap, but now you can use SuperDisks (these even work nicely with VirtualPC). You certainly can't boot MacOS off a floppy anymore, so they are useless... (Zips are far more ubiquitous in the Mac World... and still totally supported)
I'm seriously considering selling off all of my Mac hardware(4 Machines and lotsa goodies) and going to x86-Linux/*BSD as my main OS. I'm tired of being fucked over by Apple.
Good for you, maybe someone will make a nicer home for your hardware unless you haven't bought a new mac since the 68k days. BTW I have a dual Pro running BSD and Win2K Prof... it's nice... but I never use it. OS X is my OS of choice, and 9.0.4 when I need to burn CD's or scan. With computers you get what you pay for, spend some money or live with your hardware. I personally prefer my nice brand-new cruft-free mac to nursing along a constantly upgraded PC or mac.
Curious point... unless they have changed the MacOS X chooser connection, I didn't see the MacOS X Server's AppleTalk name as a chooser item. You had to enter the IP AND have AppleshareIP Client !! A drawback for older systems running >7.6.1 .
That's because, as I understand it, AppleTalk is dead, it is not going to be a part of OS X. It's all AppleTalk-over-TCP/IP now.
Actually if you set up AppleTalk properly, unless you are doing AppleTalk through a serial cable, it shows up just fine in the chooser. Heck my FreeBSD box running netatalk shows up to both OS X Server, DP4, and 9.0.4. AppleTalk isn't dead at all. It just isn't running over slow serial connections, but TCP/IP (10/100) and gigabit ethernet if you buy a dual G4.
On a note about seeing UNIX... the consumer won't see the UNIX part AT ALL. There will be no BSD tools distributed with the OS. You will have to add them in after install from either Apple Downloads, OS X Server add-ons, or 3rd party. Apple will probably have bsd.pkg downloadable. Another note to consider is that the people at Macworld... even the grannies were goo goo gaga over OS X DP4.1 Kodiak, and that still has a command line since it's a developer system. Everyone realizes it's time for a change, they just didn't know what.
In explorer: Click the first file, hold down Ctrl, click the second file, click the third file. Press Ctrl-C. Scroll the bar up to find the "A:" icon. Click on it. Press Ctrl-V. Might be an easier way, but I had the work done in wincmd probably before the winslows user pressed Ctrl-C!!!
Of course if you want to use the tool in the fashion of the tool it was designed to emulate you just click and drag a box around the files you want, and right click drag to the floppy icon on the left... select copy from the sub-menu. This Control C control V action is so Windows-ish, it reminds me of Office more than file management. If I want to duplicate using explorer I right drag the folder over top of it's parent folder and say copy. Like it or not explorer is actually meant to be moused entirely... rather than combining keystrokes and mouse. Your Win commander was meant for keyboard use primarily. You don't ever have to touch the keyboard in explorer unless you need to type a filename when renaming a file. I'm mainly a UNIX admin btw, so I'm not a GUI user all the time, but I do like my G3.
My question is, why hasn't Jello sued them over their iMac line? THERE'S some serious trademark infringement! They could sue them over "look and feel", too!
Hmm they are made of that nice bullet-proof carbonate (don't try this at home kids)... not quite squishy and jiggly. Have you ever seen graphite jello? (dog biscuits maybe)
Microsoft heard that Apple's Mac OS X will remove the CLI and the BSD apps from use by the populus and won't offer them on the install CD's. No word as to whether they will indeed be available as a Developer CD release, but signs point to yes along with OS X Server add-ons. The trouble is that for Windows, the CLI while useful is becoming less glamorous all the time... for OS X (a BSD 4.4 on Mach system), the CLI is totally useful.
The idea was more related to the small form factor. If Tiqit can make small Pentiums or even PPC Prep boards in the same form factor, the idea was if you have dual port ethernet (not available currently), you could put a lot of these in a small space. But then again a G4 cube is still pretty small for a "super-computer"
Forget that, lets start a kick-ass Uber BSD distro or Hurd distro. Better yet... Darwin+GNUstep+Windowmaker. Omnigroup would probably port... that OmniWeb Beta 4 is pretty sweet on DP4.
Yes I agree the only thing I miss about multiple buttons on a mac mouse is that I die to easily in Quake 3. Other than that... no big diff. I get by with two buttons in BSD on the PC...
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"Similarly, Maxwell's equations further suggest that lenses that would normally disperse electromagnetic radiation would instead focus it within this composite material. This is because Snell's law, which describes the angle of refraction caused by the change in velocity of light and other waves through lenses, water and other types of ordinary material, is expected to be exactly opposite within this composite. "
Two words : Transparent Aluminum
It's all over as of 2:33 AM the wrong guy (for slashdotters everywhere) is in office congrats anyways. -- to GWB on a more positive note, Kantwell beat Gorton...
When both sides of an issue like this are very dedicated to their stances, you have to try to find ways that don't necessarily outright discredit the other view. If you just walk up to a pro-censorware person and shout, "Censorship is wrong!", they'll just say back "We have to protect our children's eyes!" And you'll have many merry hours of saying basically the same things to each other for as long as the both of you can put up with each other.
Yes you are quite correct it is similar to the abortion/rtl issue. But the comeback I'd use on protecting children's eyes is either, "no we don't!," or "protecting children from knowledge both good and bad is absurd." I want my kids (whenever I have them) to be able to seek out all forms of knowledge, and if they run across things by accident, I want them to ask questions about those things and be informed. I want them to know how to guard themselves against the true sickos, but not stifle their natural development during puberty (13-17 where porn is still illegal...silly thing). To illustrate that this stuff is pure fantasy and not to guide their lives by... and of course to quell the rebellious urge to just obtain the stuff because dad says it's off limits.
IE for Mac isn't bad at all. 5.5 Beta is great on OS X, but I still prefer OmniWeb Beta 7. They seem to do everything right. They also make more use of the native widgets and are one of the few Cocoa apps available that I'd use every day. The only thing I can't do with OmniWeb is chat on beseen.com, and I can, but it doesn't auto-update, so I have to click refresh all the time.
Funny I installed OmniWeb just fine. It is also just about the best browser I've ever seen. Too bad it is only Cocoa, because it would make a great browser on any platform. Well actually I should say too bad Apple has discontinued the Yellowbox runtimes for any OS other than OS X. Get the stuffit archive in ie, let it do its mumbo jumbo... double-click the smi, and drag the icon to the applications folder.. done... If you have problems dragging it, log in as administrator or root, and then add it to the Apps folder. Beta 7 works wonderfully, the only problem being a lack of Java Applet support, and this is Apple's fault right now.
probably not since the molecule would be a different shape and have a different pucker to the ring structure. The enantiomers and diastereomers of caffeine would probably be toxic since these structures are alkaloids. Which chiral center do you want to modify since I believe there is more than one last time I checked?
That's formaldehyde... cyanide suffocates people at less than .04 mg, and is an inorganic gas, and/or salt (HCN...and NaCN or KCN respectively), so it would not solvate caffeine. Organics solvate each other formaldehyde being quite polar and organic. HCOH.
MMMM Burning Grass clippings.....lgllgllglgg
Yummy Beer flavored water. They have less than .5% alcohol by volume, and were only great when I was an unfortunate kid with a taste for beer (yes I like beer for the taste... have since I was 3 [got sips from the grandpa]) Now since I'm way past legal age, they don't cut it... they're worse than light beer. In fact I prefer Colt 45 now for a good full beer taste.
The only thing that pissed me off was as a kid one grocery store still tried to refuse sale. They got the manager, and I basically reported that it indeed was legal... they finally gave it to me... though Anheuser Busch's booth wouldn't at an Air Show, but that's different (not sending a message that they condone drinking habits in minors) Kudos to them.
Mmmm hog fat!....llglgllglg (Homer Simpson) Mod this guy up I nearly pissed on the floor laughing
Wouldn't that be twice removed...(now definitely bringing copyright to the forefront) i.e. first emulating the original program, and then using it for the purpose of satire/parody which is apparently legal in copyright issues. The second product would probably not be legal since it uses the full Ultima name. Ever heard of the joke game called Pyst which is a comedy parody of Myst? Then there is the whole issue of free speech.
You think PPC's are really that bad... If you are a UNIX/Linux fan I find that hard to believe. Even on the low end it's more of a Plymouth Neon vs. Yugo comparison.
They love people like you in jail. Anal rape again? No problem, you'll find the silver lining.
Hmm personal insults (Moderators tell me why my comment which had far more depth even if it was a bit charged up stayed at 1 and this insult page made it to 2)
What reason is there not to? Parallel is good for many things. Fine, you'll get no arguement that USB is better, as long as there is a segment of the user base who wants/needs it, it's fucked up to cut them off.
So we should continue to manufacture 386's today just because they do enough to let some people work.
That says a lot more about you than it does about the hardware.It says absolutely nothing about me other than the fact that I've had to support cruft for 15 years, and I'm tired of it. I've been running 600+ user servers on several UNIX flavors over the years. OS X promises to make the job a bit easier (OS X Server already does).
Really? I hope so (on the point of users understanding computers better in the next generation), but I really see this population dwindling more and more every day. Computers are being stressed upon every day to be bigger, badder, cuter idiot boxes. People want to learn less and less about how to use them. There will always be the tinkerers (both clued and non-clued), but now that the computer market virtually includes sea slugs, I don't see the sea slugs miraculously becoming dolphins (not for many generations at least)...re. Darwin :-) The Mac, and then misc' WAP devices, etc. will hang around for a long time.
You know you obviously don't have any patience, money, time, or idea of what sells to the consumer. Showmanship and radical new ideas are very catchy, and have been instrumental in netting Apple's 8th profitable quarter. Also they don't give a crap about you. If I were you I wouldn't complain a bit. I bought a Blue and White G3... no SCSI (so I bought the LVD 9GB BTO option... solved and cheap). I also added the $49 SCSI-2 card for low speed periphs...(get this I didn't even have a bunch of legacy periphs...my first mac), but it's still cheap. USB to serial... no problem, and it works better than serial by itself since there are no annoying serial lock-ups and 63 devices possible per port.. same with firewire... (SCSI isn't hot-pluggable). With users like you we would be using parallel ports well into 2020. Floppy? Crap! by a SuperDisk and plug it in... still cheap, but now you can use SuperDisks (these even work nicely with VirtualPC). You certainly can't boot MacOS off a floppy anymore, so they are useless... (Zips are far more ubiquitous in the Mac World... and still totally supported)
I'm seriously considering selling off all of my Mac hardware(4 Machines and lotsa goodies) and going to x86-Linux/*BSD as my main OS. I'm tired of being fucked over by Apple.
Good for you, maybe someone will make a nicer home for your hardware unless you haven't bought a new mac since the 68k days. BTW I have a dual Pro running BSD and Win2K Prof... it's nice... but I never use it. OS X is my OS of choice, and 9.0.4 when I need to burn CD's or scan. With computers you get what you pay for, spend some money or live with your hardware. I personally prefer my nice brand-new cruft-free mac to nursing along a constantly upgraded PC or mac.
That's because, as I understand it, AppleTalk is dead, it is not going to be a part of OS X. It's all AppleTalk-over-TCP/IP now.
Actually if you set up AppleTalk properly, unless you are doing AppleTalk through a serial cable, it shows up just fine in the chooser. Heck my FreeBSD box running netatalk shows up to both OS X Server, DP4, and 9.0.4. AppleTalk isn't dead at all. It just isn't running over slow serial connections, but TCP/IP (10/100) and gigabit ethernet if you buy a dual G4.
On a note about seeing UNIX... the consumer won't see the UNIX part AT ALL. There will be no BSD tools distributed with the OS. You will have to add them in after install from either Apple Downloads, OS X Server add-ons, or 3rd party. Apple will probably have bsd.pkg downloadable. Another note to consider is that the people at Macworld... even the grannies were goo goo gaga over OS X DP4.1 Kodiak, and that still has a command line since it's a developer system. Everyone realizes it's time for a change, they just didn't know what.
A long time ago it was called OS X Server 1.0.2 The latest Version is v. 1.2
Of course if you want to use the tool in the fashion of the tool it was designed to emulate you just click and drag a box around the files you want, and right click drag to the floppy icon on the left... select copy from the sub-menu. This Control C control V action is so Windows-ish, it reminds me of Office more than file management. If I want to duplicate using explorer I right drag the folder over top of it's parent folder and say copy. Like it or not explorer is actually meant to be moused entirely... rather than combining keystrokes and mouse. Your Win commander was meant for keyboard use primarily. You don't ever have to touch the keyboard in explorer unless you need to type a filename when renaming a file. I'm mainly a UNIX admin btw, so I'm not a GUI user all the time, but I do like my G3.
My question is, why hasn't Jello sued them over their iMac line? THERE'S some serious trademark infringement! They could sue them over "look and feel", too! Hmm they are made of that nice bullet-proof carbonate (don't try this at home kids)... not quite squishy and jiggly. Have you ever seen graphite jello? (dog biscuits maybe)
Microsoft heard that Apple's Mac OS X will remove the CLI and the BSD apps from use by the populus and won't offer them on the install CD's. No word as to whether they will indeed be available as a Developer CD release, but signs point to yes along with OS X Server add-ons. The trouble is that for Windows, the CLI while useful is becoming less glamorous all the time... for OS X (a BSD 4.4 on Mach system), the CLI is totally useful.
The idea was more related to the small form factor. If Tiqit can make small Pentiums or even PPC Prep boards in the same form factor, the idea was if you have dual port ethernet (not available currently), you could put a lot of these in a small space. But then again a G4 cube is still pretty small for a "super-computer"
Forget that, lets start a kick-ass Uber BSD distro or Hurd distro. Better yet... Darwin+GNUstep+Windowmaker. Omnigroup would probably port... that OmniWeb Beta 4 is pretty sweet on DP4.
CARS... think Mercedes
If they pull the price down though it makes an awesome Beowulf cluster. Think of 60 of these tiny things in one rackmount box.
Yes I agree the only thing I miss about multiple buttons on a mac mouse is that I die to easily in Quake 3. Other than that... no big diff. I get by with two buttons in BSD on the PC...
Turn off automatic reboot... then induce a STOP message