IIRC, when Apple first starting morphing Rhapsody into OS X, there was this concept of "boxes". There was a red (windows applications), yellow (java), and blue ("Classic") box.
Where that technology went is anybody's guess. But the fact that it probably still exists, and now no longer would have to emulate the processor, makes me think that in a year or two, Jobs will be saying "Oh, and one more thing..." just as he leave the stage, and then go on to show how to use any Windows application on a Mac/Intel.
The word I should have used is "pervasive". It's a common syntax across the system and applications.
I admire the Open Source movement, but a holistic design is not something that can be accomplished by 1000's of separate hackers (heck, look at the *wide* acceptance of LSB). You kinda cheated and used KDE apps, commandline, and OpenOffice as exeamples; which require 4 different scripting languages. Apple has the money and the drive to make the scripting language uniform and ubiquitous.
Which unless you have written for it, you won't get its power.
I don't think your definition of scripting and Apple's quite line up...
There is a pervasive language of scripting (called oddly enough AppleScript) that can launch applications, as well as control their actions. Sure I can launch sylpheed with a shell script, but I can't make it do anything past that. Ditto for every other Linux app (okay, I'll get flamed for that bit...).
I can call shell scripts from AppleScript, and vice-a-versy. It's a lot more extensive (and restrictive, figure that oxymoron out by going to an Apple store and checking it out...) than what is in your scripts Horatio.
Nope, the solution to this is the Grokster case. Once you show that the creator of a product is liable for it's (mis)use, you can sue the pants off the company that made corrupted files that crippled your indie band's viability.
Hell, you could hire hackers to flood the network, prove damages, and then earn <dr evil> BILLIONS </dr evil>. Of course, this implies the Supreme Court in the US rules the way I am implying...
Now, the thing that suprises me most, is that the mini ITX crowd don't all jump up here and defend the Mac Mini...
You don't have a small form factor, and I hardly doubt that it's quiet. For some people, those are important design considerations. Now if you spec out a mini ITX box (say with a VIA Eden chipset, or whatever they are up to now-a-days...), it would be more relevant.
The probe is built somewhere and sits in a hangar before launch. The vast majority of the mission time is spent waiting for the probe to arrive. Once it arrives, stuff happens relatively rapidly.
You can easily run through the routine of what happens as the probe approaches, and lands, multiple times. It should not be a mystery as to who turns on a transmitter.
Then after you run the test, you make sure that your checklist of how to recharge the systems is covered and the probe reset for the next test (or the actual flight).
I should've figured that according to slashdot rules that you wouldn't RTFA...
Here's a quote from the end:
So when all of the savings and tax breaks are added up, the solar systems produce net revenue of about $50/month or $600/year, which isn't too bad. In addition to the direct return on investment, the systems provide several additional direct and indirect benefits, including:
* Increase in home value: each $1 in utility bill reduction is estimated to increase home value by $20. Therefore, the energy production systems increase the value of my home by about $34,000, yielding an immediate 50% return on investment.
* Stable, long-term energy costs: because it produces most of its power, my home is largely protected against increases in energy costs. As energy costs increase, the math becomes even more favorable toward renewable energy systems.
* Protection against property incursions: local zoning rules often prohibit neighboring property owners from building anything that will cast a shadow on rooftop solar installations. This is a helpful protection in urban environments, as it prevents someone from building a "McMansion" next door to your home, which helps to protect your home's appearance and value.
Sounds like a winning proposition for him in California. Your position (literally and figuratively) is quite different.
I'd like to 'back' innovative companies like Vonage, but it appears that they are privately held...anyone got a ticker symbol or stock recommendations?
If you are only slightly heavier than the surrounding water, and shaped like a wing, then gliding slowly down to depth is not energy intensive.
When you reach the depth you want, pump the ballast out (or use electrolysis to make gas?) and slowly rise to the surface, again gliding slowly upwards.
With the yo-yo glider technique, you can cover huge areas.
I just installed Ubunut, and it was similar, no developers tools installed by default.
But, that's not a big deal as long as there are packages for what you want installed...why compile when there are packages? 'apt-get' everything you need.
So I can see how you can distill the entire content of the web that your bot has crawled into a database, but is it possible to pump enough queries into Google to get the entire database? (Or in more mathematical speak: Is this a well posed inverse problem?)
I don't think so. You still have to have your own crawler (to use on the top ranked results of any query). And a good set of queries to hit google with (so you have an idea of what to index)...which changes constantly. Look at Google's zeitgeist some time (link left to some karma whore...)...
QuickTime player may not have been ground breaking, but the entirety of the framework was.
Name one other multimedia framework that has been around as long as Quicktime. And don't mention Video for Windows...I'll take your response off the air.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, we all know The Flash is faster...(sorry, couldn't resist).
Redneck's second to last words:
"Hold my beer..."
But let's go on a brief flight of fancy here.
IIRC, when Apple first starting morphing Rhapsody into OS X, there was this concept of "boxes". There was a red (windows applications), yellow (java), and blue ("Classic") box.
Where that technology went is anybody's guess. But the fact that it probably still exists, and now no longer would have to emulate the processor, makes me think that in a year or two, Jobs will be saying "Oh, and one more thing..." just as he leave the stage, and then go on to show how to use any Windows application on a Mac/Intel.
Just my tinfoil hat speaking.
Thanks for making my prediction come true.
The word I should have used is "pervasive". It's a common syntax across the system and applications.
I admire the Open Source movement, but a holistic design is not something that can be accomplished by 1000's of separate hackers (heck, look at the *wide* acceptance of LSB). You kinda cheated and used KDE apps, commandline, and OpenOffice as exeamples; which require 4 different scripting languages. Apple has the money and the drive to make the scripting language uniform and ubiquitous.
Which unless you have written for it, you won't get its power.
I don't think your definition of scripting and Apple's quite line up...
There is a pervasive language of scripting (called oddly enough AppleScript) that can launch applications, as well as control their actions. Sure I can launch sylpheed with a shell script, but I can't make it do anything past that. Ditto for every other Linux app (okay, I'll get flamed for that bit...).
I can call shell scripts from AppleScript, and vice-a-versy. It's a lot more extensive (and restrictive, figure that oxymoron out by going to an Apple store and checking it out...) than what is in your scripts Horatio.
Nope, the solution to this is the Grokster case. Once you show that the creator of a product is liable for it's (mis)use, you can sue the pants off the company that made corrupted files that crippled your indie band's viability.
Hell, you could hire hackers to flood the network, prove damages, and then earn <dr evil> BILLIONS </dr evil>. Of course, this implies the Supreme Court in the US rules the way I am implying...
move the servers to Russia or some other place where they still have freedom
Man how times have changed...
You can take my mac when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
..or befunge
Actually, I have had nothing but success using Google to find LaTex additions and tips.
You just have to be careful and type 'LaTex' not 'latex', otherwise you are in a world of hurt (no pun intended).
Golden Eye: Rouge agent
I gotta believe that a cross dressing Bond would have attracted a larger audience...but that's just me. Or did you mean rogue agent?
Now, the thing that suprises me most, is that the mini ITX crowd don't all jump up here and defend the Mac Mini...
You don't have a small form factor, and I hardly doubt that it's quiet. For some people, those are important design considerations. Now if you spec out a mini ITX box (say with a VIA Eden chipset, or whatever they are up to now-a-days...), it would be more relevant.
Shenanigans.
The probe is built somewhere and sits in a hangar before launch. The vast majority of the mission time is spent waiting for the probe to arrive. Once it arrives, stuff happens relatively rapidly.
You can easily run through the routine of what happens as the probe approaches, and lands, multiple times. It should not be a mystery as to who turns on a transmitter.
Then after you run the test, you make sure that your checklist of how to recharge the systems is covered and the probe reset for the next test (or the actual flight).
Not everything is a conspiracy out of Richmond.
Maybe not, but out of Redmond, definitely...
I should've figured that according to slashdot rules that you wouldn't RTFA...
Here's a quote from the end:
So when all of the savings and tax breaks are added up, the solar systems produce net revenue of about $50/month or $600/year, which isn't too bad. In addition to the direct return on investment, the systems provide several additional direct and indirect benefits, including:
* Increase in home value: each $1 in utility bill reduction is estimated to increase home value by $20. Therefore, the energy production systems increase the value of my home by about $34,000, yielding an immediate 50% return on investment.
* Stable, long-term energy costs: because it produces most of its power, my home is largely protected against increases in energy costs. As energy costs increase, the math becomes even more favorable toward renewable energy systems.
* Protection against property incursions: local zoning rules often prohibit neighboring property owners from building anything that will cast a shadow on rooftop solar installations. This is a helpful protection in urban environments, as it prevents someone from building a "McMansion" next door to your home, which helps to protect your home's appearance and value.
Sounds like a winning proposition for him in California. Your position (literally and figuratively) is quite different.
Maybe you missed this?
Sure it's about conventional photovoltaics in California, but it seems economic to me.
Yeah, much the same way you can find Apple's Newton technology in its current offerings...
I'd like to 'back' innovative companies like Vonage, but it appears that they are privately held...anyone got a ticker symbol or stock recommendations?
<all this taken with a grain of salt>
Works fine with OS X....
You probably meant x86 running Windows?
If you are only slightly heavier than the surrounding water, and shaped like a wing, then gliding slowly down to depth is not energy intensive.
When you reach the depth you want, pump the ballast out (or use electrolysis to make gas?) and slowly rise to the surface, again gliding slowly upwards.
With the yo-yo glider technique, you can cover huge areas.
Actually it's the punchline to the following (bad) joke:
What's slicker than grease on Olivia?
Great! Just what I need as a desktop user: a powerful, hard to configure interface for superior security!
Would the BSD concept of privilege separation work better, without configuration, out of the box? </talking out of orifices>
I just installed Ubunut, and it was similar, no developers tools installed by default.
But, that's not a big deal as long as there are packages for what you want installed...why compile when there are packages? 'apt-get' everything you need.
So I can see how you can distill the entire content of the web that your bot has crawled into a database, but is it possible to pump enough queries into Google to get the entire database? (Or in more mathematical speak: Is this a well posed inverse problem?)
I don't think so. You still have to have your own crawler (to use on the top ranked results of any query). And a good set of queries to hit google with (so you have an idea of what to index)...which changes constantly. Look at Google's zeitgeist some time (link left to some karma whore...)...
QuickTime player may not have been ground breaking, but the entirety of the framework was.
Name one other multimedia framework that has been around as long as Quicktime. And don't mention Video for Windows...I'll take your response off the air.