I think it's a little bigger than that. XHTML was never intended to be the answer, but rather an intermediate step.
Since you asked, here's a reason off the top of my head: As an XML application, XHTML requires you to have a well-formed document. That's good for me because later on, i can work with it.
If I need a PDF of a 4 year old document that is written in half-assed, abused, non well-formed HTML It's going to be very difficult for me to parse it into something useful.
Here's another reason: try maintaining bad html over the long haul. Overlapping tags can be a real pain.
'There's at least two free FLAC quicktime plugins that let you play FLAC from any quicktime-capable application including iTunes.'
On searching, I found the FLAC links. Thanks- when I first got the machine, I looked and there wasn't much out there.
'There's at least two implementations of Java available.'
Maybe I should be more specific about the Java thing. I've been looking for a 1.5 SDK. Apple doesn't plan on releasing that until Panther and I can't find another one.
'Theres three applications for this, two of them free.'
You're right about the multiple desktops. As I said in my post, that list is a list of things off the top of my head.
'All the open source ones, plus all the Classic Mac OS ones, plus Office X and Pages... that's not enough for you?'
I stand by my original post.
'And the reason for paying the Apple Tax instead of getting an Opteron was...?'
What i was responding to in my post was the attitude that anyone running linux on a Mac is insane because OS X is the greatest thing on the planet. I disagree with that. I originally bought the machine to run OS X and I've since found that I'm more comfortable and productive under linux, so I switched back. I still use OS X, but not day in and day out.
Maybe some people don't like OS X. It is possible, you know. I run deb on my dual 1.8Ghz G5.
In some ways, OS X is the worst of both worlds.
It's FreeBSD... but, well, it's not FreeBSD. It has linux ports... but, well, it's not really linux either.
Another analogy: OS X is to *nix what tofu is to meat.
It looks great- but is missing some fundamental stuff that 'just works' under linux. The end result is that I have a great looking operating system that doesn't really run much that I like or do what i want it to do. Here are some quick examples off the top of my head:
* Finding a free FLAC player takes some work (MacAmp) whereas, under linux I have several choices.
* Apple's Java is seriously broken and I don't really have much of a choice. Under linux, I can use IBMs Java.
* Multiple Desktops would be nice under OS X.
* File browsing with Konquerer is unmatched. Period.
* Lack of decent Office packages under OS X. MS Office? Well, I said decent. Appleworks? sorry. With the exception of Openoffice.org, the rest are overpriced (Mariner Write etc.). Openoffice under OS X simply blows. IIRC, their OS X project was cancelled.
In short, linux is much more usable for me than OS X is. Besides, i just plain like it.
That being said, some downsides to linux on ppc include: broken sound on newer G5s and 3d support non-existent with nothing in sight.
I can already see the way these posts are heading.
Talk about a bunch of ungrateful children...
He is now and has been consistent in his views. He hasn't changed his message. The fact that his message is still relevant after 20 years should say something.
Richard Stallman, over the past 20 years, has done more than most of you put together will do in your entire lifetime and all you can do is complain and make fun of him for it.
1. Everyone accused of anything in court has a right to defend themselves and make the accuser prove it. This system protects every other right you have.
Unless, of course, you are in a U.S. military tribunal- then you have no rights or counsel.
2. The folks at LokiTorrent want to exercise that right. In order to do so they need financial assistancec.
Fair enough. Although, I never understood how your right to defend yourself was dependent on how much money you had available to you at the time. Isn't a right, by nature, something that is supposed to be unconditional (see #1 above)?
3. We all benefit from NOT having a system whereby a well funded organization cannot assume it will win because it can afford lawyers, a system where the big money always wins.
You're right. Let me know when you find one. There are many ways money can control the outcome of trials. For example, if I am sued by the MPAA and, as part of that suit, I am informed that I can either settle out of court for ~$3000 OR fight them, it makes sense to fight them if i am doing nothing wrong. However, the legal fees don't stop with my own costs. They also sue for recovery of their own legal fees. How is the average person supposed to defend themselves against that?
Losing $3000 will break some people for a long time- losing the case becomes too large a risk to take, whether you are wrong or not.
4. Ergo we all benefit from LokiTorrent exercisisng its rights. Why then should we not help them out if we are able?
I agree that it will be nice to see someone try adn defend themselves. I won't help them out, however, because I feel that they are using the same semantic manipulations and legal gray areas to defend themselves as the MPAA. You could argue that when things are bad, you need to fight fire with fire, but you already said that you were proud of the modern justice system.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got burned by theKompany.
to sum it up, don't purchase kivio, and shawn gordon is an ass.
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i disagree.
Doing a job that involves brainwork doesn't make you better- but in some cases it makes your contribution to the company more valuable.
A tech worker who keep an entire office of computers running provides a far larger contribution to their company than a mcdonalds worker who pulls trays out of a fryer when it beeps.
Further, jobs that involve brainwork generally have a higher level of responsibility than those that don't. Getting paid more means that it's your ass when things break.
There are many ways to work hard, and brainwork can be just as taxing and stressful as physical work.
How about a relief map of the world that is also a puzzle. Ocean names are in raised text, and the continents are inset into the board. Each piece of the puzzle is a country in the continent.
By feeling your way around the oceans, you can feel the 'holes' where the continents go. Then you fit the pieces into the holes, learning which countries go with which continents as well as geographical features.
Maybe breaking it up into smaller pieces will make building a larger picture in the mind easier.
What I like about all of those books is that they are geared towards encouraging kids to explore the world around them and use their imaginations.
I'm guessing that your daughter won't really care what you do for many years to come. Keeping the curiosity flame lit seems far more important than filling her head with facts. If she grows up curious about the world around her and wanting to explore it, she may gravitate towards scientific fields all by herself.
I'm not talking about the obliteration of a profession. I'm talking about long term loss of skills. The profession isn't disappearing like buggy whip makers, it's growing. it's also being picked up and dropped in someone else's lap because of greedy, short-sighted decision making on our part. no one seems to care about anything but what they can get right now.
To put it in terms of making shoes:
Assume you live in a small town and are the town shoe maker. Since you're the only shoe maker you find yourself quite busy. After awhile, you decide you need some help doing the more mundane work. After looking around, you decide that, since it's cheaper, you are going to hire an apprentice shoe maker from a neighboring town.
Time goes by, and your apprentice gradually learns a whole lot about making shoes. Eventually, you die or retire. Your apprentice, having no ties or interest in your town, packs up and moves back to his own town and sets up shop as a successful shoe maker. What he takes with him is your town's ability to make shoes. Who else is going to do it? You didn't train anyone from your own town to make shoes.
Now your town finds itself in a position of having to buy shoes from a neighboring town because they no longer know how to make their own. Oops. they have lost both important knowledge and self-sufficiency.
This is a waaaay simplified and, im sure, flawed example, but i think it illustrates my point.
In essense, the company outsources maybe 300 lower skill IT jobs to save 1000 higher skill IT jobs in the US.
I couldn't let this one go. Eliminating all of the 'lower skill' positions in the IT industry to save the higher positions is a bad idea.
What you are basically doing is eliminating the possibility for the next generation of IT workers to enter the industry. The jobs that are most commonly outsourced are the entry level positions. When those are gone, what do you do? It becomes prohibitively difficult for new people to enter the industry. Existing workers (if they survuce the cuts) will age and, eventually, retire. When this happens, there will be no younger local workers with the necessary skills to replace them.
This also means that we will lose huge amounts of intellectual capital. We need intellectual capital to maintain any sort of advantage.
When that's gone, we are truly screwed and will be, as a previous poster put it, 'hollowed out'.
Your mentioning of medical school reminds me of an observation a friend of mine made a couple of years ago.
What she noticed was that children who come from money are taught to consider careers as doctors, lawyers, scientists or professors. Children who come from poor backgrounds are taught to consider careers as nurses, paralegals, lab technicians and high school teachers.
I think she's right.
To further your point, it seems that (in addition to the new factory-colleges) there is a very subtle social control in place that coerces people into staying relatively close to their starting point in terms of learning and social influence.
Please. What you are suggesting creates an economic barrier to basic childhood education. Not everyone can afford to send their kids to a private school. Everyone should, however, have the right to a decent education.
As funding for public schools continues to decline, it creates a larger separation between the rich and the poor and ensures an ongoing supply of worker bees. What I get out of your comment is that 'real' learning and knowledge should be constrained to private institutions where only the affluent have access. The public school joke is for the rest.
IMO, This continues into college as well. What do you think the real advantages are of going to places like Harvard or Yale? Sure, the quality of education is good, but more importantly, the students who go there are sons and daughters of presidents, senators and CEOs. They are all socializing with each other and building relationships that they carry with them when they are running the country in 20 years. It is nearly impossible for the average person to make similar 'connections'.
If we concentrate the learning into private schools, we are extending this problem into grade, middle and high schools and causing even further stratification between the upper and lower classes.
public school sucks, but I don't agree with the 'oh well, send them to private school' solution.
I can't tell if you're making a reference to the original infocom game or the storyline itself.
For the benefit of those who haven't played it, the original game came with a small collection of stuff in the box, one of which was a small sealed plastic bag with a label that said 'Microscopic Space Fleet'. I can't recall what the other items were. Actually, IIRC, one of the other items was a 'Don't Panic' button.
Infocom always included a small treasure trove of interesting stuff in their games. Some of which was useful in actually solving it.
I am, to use a bush administration phrase, in 'shock and awe' at how people are arguing over funding for a project like this rather than discussing the idiocy of the idea.
There are things far more important than broadband.
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I think it's a little bigger than that. XHTML was never intended to be the answer, but rather an intermediate step.
Since you asked, here's a reason off the top of my head: As an XML application, XHTML requires you to have a well-formed document. That's good for me because later on, i can work with it.
If I need a PDF of a 4 year old document that is written in half-assed, abused, non well-formed HTML It's going to be very difficult for me to parse it into something useful.
Here's another reason: try maintaining bad html over the long haul. Overlapping tags can be a real pain.
'Ray, how much does a candy bar cost?'
pretty much.
'There's at least two free FLAC quicktime plugins that let you play FLAC from any quicktime-capable application including iTunes.'
On searching, I found the FLAC links. Thanks- when I first got the machine, I looked and there wasn't much out there.
'There's at least two implementations of Java available.'
Maybe I should be more specific about the Java thing. I've been looking for a 1.5 SDK. Apple doesn't plan on releasing that until Panther and I can't find another one.
'Theres three applications for this, two of them free.'
You're right about the multiple desktops. As I said in my post, that list is a list of things off the top of my head.
'All the open source ones, plus all the Classic Mac OS ones, plus Office X and Pages... that's not enough for you?'
I stand by my original post.
'And the reason for paying the Apple Tax instead of getting an Opteron was...?'
What i was responding to in my post was the attitude that anyone running linux on a Mac is insane because OS X is the greatest thing on the planet. I disagree with that. I originally bought the machine to run OS X and I've since found that I'm more comfortable and productive under linux, so I switched back. I still use OS X, but not day in and day out.
troll...
Maybe some people don't like OS X. It is possible, you know. I run deb on my dual 1.8Ghz G5.
In some ways, OS X is the worst of both worlds.
It's FreeBSD... but, well, it's not FreeBSD. It has linux ports... but, well, it's not really linux either.
Another analogy: OS X is to *nix what tofu is to meat.
It looks great- but is missing some fundamental stuff that 'just works' under linux. The end result is that I have a great looking operating system that doesn't really run much that I like or do what i want it to do. Here are some quick examples off the top of my head:
* Finding a free FLAC player takes some work (MacAmp) whereas, under linux I have several choices.
* Apple's Java is seriously broken and I don't really have much of a choice. Under linux, I can use IBMs Java.
* Multiple Desktops would be nice under OS X.
* File browsing with Konquerer is unmatched. Period.
* Lack of decent Office packages under OS X. MS Office? Well, I said decent. Appleworks? sorry. With the exception of Openoffice.org, the rest are overpriced (Mariner Write etc.). Openoffice under OS X simply blows. IIRC, their OS X project was cancelled.
In short, linux is much more usable for me than OS X is. Besides, i just plain like it.
That being said, some downsides to linux on ppc include: broken sound on newer G5s and 3d support non-existent with nothing in sight.
I can already see the way these posts are heading.
Talk about a bunch of ungrateful children...
He is now and has been consistent in his views. He hasn't changed his message. The fact that his message is still relevant after 20 years should say something.
Richard Stallman, over the past 20 years, has done more than most of you put together will do in your entire lifetime and all you can do is complain and make fun of him for it.
1. Everyone accused of anything in court has a right to defend themselves and make the accuser prove it. This system protects every other right you have.
Unless, of course, you are in a U.S. military tribunal- then you have no rights or counsel.
2. The folks at LokiTorrent want to exercise that right. In order to do so they need financial assistancec.
Fair enough. Although, I never understood how your right to defend yourself was dependent on how much money you had available to you at the time. Isn't a right, by nature, something that is supposed to be unconditional (see #1 above)?
3. We all benefit from NOT having a system whereby a well funded organization cannot assume it will win because it can afford lawyers, a system where the big money always wins.
You're right. Let me know when you find one. There are many ways money can control the outcome of trials. For example, if I am sued by the MPAA and, as part of that suit, I am informed that I can either settle out of court for ~$3000 OR fight them, it makes sense to fight them if i am doing nothing wrong. However, the legal fees don't stop with my own costs. They also sue for recovery of their own legal fees. How is the average person supposed to defend themselves against that?
Losing $3000 will break some people for a long time- losing the case becomes too large a risk to take, whether you are wrong or not.
4. Ergo we all benefit from LokiTorrent exercisisng its rights. Why then should we not help them out if we are able?
I agree that it will be nice to see someone try adn defend themselves. I won't help them out, however, because I feel that they are using the same semantic manipulations and legal gray areas to defend themselves as the MPAA. You could argue that when things are bad, you need to fight fire with fire, but you already said that you were proud of the modern justice system.
how about solid wood and stone peripherals?
There is also the backlit keyboard, both handy and stylish.
misery loves company.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got burned by theKompany.
to sum it up, don't purchase kivio, and shawn gordon is an ass.
i disagree.
Doing a job that involves brainwork doesn't make you better- but in some cases it makes your contribution to the company more valuable.
A tech worker who keep an entire office of computers running provides a far larger contribution to their company than a mcdonalds worker who pulls trays out of a fryer when it beeps.
Further, jobs that involve brainwork generally have a higher level of responsibility than those that don't. Getting paid more means that it's your ass when things break.
There are many ways to work hard, and brainwork can be just as taxing and stressful as physical work.
I saw 'smart guns' and 'NJIT' and all I could think of was this.
I'm a BANANA.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
How about a relief map of the world that is also a puzzle. Ocean names are in raised text, and the continents are inset into the board. Each piece of the puzzle is a country in the continent.
By feeling your way around the oceans, you can feel the 'holes' where the continents go. Then you fit the pieces into the holes, learning which countries go with which continents as well as geographical features.
Maybe breaking it up into smaller pieces will make building a larger picture in the mind easier.
Alvin's Secret Code is part of a larger series of books about a child inventor that also introduces kids to some interesting scientific concepts.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is also part of a small series of books about a scientist.
A Wrinkle in Time is also a classic.
What I like about all of those books is that they are geared towards encouraging kids to explore the world around them and use their imaginations.
I'm guessing that your daughter won't really care what you do for many years to come. Keeping the curiosity flame lit seems far more important than filling her head with facts. If she grows up curious about the world around her and wanting to explore it, she may gravitate towards scientific fields all by herself.
Does this count?
I'm not talking about the obliteration of a profession. I'm talking about long term loss of skills. The profession isn't disappearing like buggy whip makers, it's growing. it's also being picked up and dropped in someone else's lap because of greedy, short-sighted decision making on our part. no one seems to care about anything but what they can get right now.
To put it in terms of making shoes:
Assume you live in a small town and are the town shoe maker. Since you're the only shoe maker you find yourself quite busy. After awhile, you decide you need some help doing the more mundane work. After looking around, you decide that, since it's cheaper, you are going to hire an apprentice shoe maker from a neighboring town.
Time goes by, and your apprentice gradually learns a whole lot about making shoes. Eventually, you die or retire. Your apprentice, having no ties or interest in your town, packs up and moves back to his own town and sets up shop as a successful shoe maker. What he takes with him is your town's ability to make shoes. Who else is going to do it? You didn't train anyone from your own town to make shoes.
Now your town finds itself in a position of having to buy shoes from a neighboring town because they no longer know how to make their own. Oops. they have lost both important knowledge and self-sufficiency.
This is a waaaay simplified and, im sure, flawed example, but i think it illustrates my point.
In essense, the company outsources maybe 300 lower skill IT jobs to save 1000 higher skill IT jobs in the US.
I couldn't let this one go. Eliminating all of the 'lower skill' positions in the IT industry to save the higher positions is a bad idea.
What you are basically doing is eliminating the possibility for the next generation of IT workers to enter the industry. The jobs that are most commonly outsourced are the entry level positions. When those are gone, what do you do? It becomes prohibitively difficult for new people to enter the industry. Existing workers (if they survuce the cuts) will age and, eventually, retire. When this happens, there will be no younger local workers with the necessary skills to replace them.
This also means that we will lose huge amounts of intellectual capital. We need intellectual capital to maintain any sort of advantage.
When that's gone, we are truly screwed and will be, as a previous poster put it, 'hollowed out'.
I agree with you 100%.
Your mentioning of medical school reminds me of an observation a friend of mine made a couple of years ago.
What she noticed was that children who come from money are taught to consider careers as doctors, lawyers, scientists or professors. Children who come from poor backgrounds are taught to consider careers as nurses, paralegals, lab technicians and high school teachers.
I think she's right.
To further your point, it seems that (in addition to the new factory-colleges) there is a very subtle social control in place that coerces people into staying relatively close to their starting point in terms of learning and social influence.
Please. What you are suggesting creates an economic barrier to basic childhood education. Not everyone can afford to send their kids to a private school. Everyone should, however, have the right to a decent education.
As funding for public schools continues to decline, it creates a larger separation between the rich and the poor and ensures an ongoing supply of worker bees. What I get out of your comment is that 'real' learning and knowledge should be constrained to private institutions where only the affluent have access. The public school joke is for the rest.
IMO, This continues into college as well. What do you think the real advantages are of going to places like Harvard or Yale? Sure, the quality of education is good, but more importantly, the students who go there are sons and daughters of presidents, senators and CEOs. They are all socializing with each other and building relationships that they carry with them when they are running the country in 20 years. It is nearly impossible for the average person to make similar 'connections'.
If we concentrate the learning into private schools, we are extending this problem into grade, middle and high schools and causing even further stratification between the upper and lower classes.
public school sucks, but I don't agree with the 'oh well, send them to private school' solution.
HA!
Thanks- you've completely made my day.
I can't tell if you're making a reference to the original infocom game or the storyline itself.
For the benefit of those who haven't played it, the original game came with a small collection of stuff in the box, one of which was a small sealed plastic bag with a label that said 'Microscopic Space Fleet'. I can't recall what the other items were. Actually, IIRC, one of the other items was a 'Don't Panic' button.
Infocom always included a small treasure trove of interesting stuff in their games. Some of which was useful in actually solving it.
it's 'compatibility'.
Just thought I'd do my part to halt the spread of bad spelling.
Thank you and have a nice day.
not to nitpick, but if you boot from disk 5 of the woody cd set there is a nice 2.4 kernel waiting for you.
switching to gcc 3 is also just an apt-get and a soft link switch away.
The answer is left as an exercise for the reader.
I agree.
I am, to use a bush administration phrase, in 'shock and awe' at how people are arguing over funding for a project like this rather than discussing the idiocy of the idea.
There are things far more important than broadband.