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Yes. The mac is slowly moving away from it's ROMs.
Apple's unified motherboard architecture (inside ibooks, imacs, g3s, g4s) doesn't have hardware ROMs. Just OpenFirmware pointing to a boot file.
MacOS X is kinda guaranteed to not need a hardware ROM, if Apple wants it to run on any macs released in the past few years.
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I didn't think it was a voltaire quote. I've seen it attributed to him in the past, but I've also seen variations attributed to a million others. Mark Twain most of all.
I didn't think you were wrong or right, I just thought that it was a funny parallel issue. --
That's probably the first book that olaadee should read, just because it's about the proper way to bring up a little girl. And I think it's mostly right.
Snow Crash was more revolutionary to Sci-Fi, I know I would have loved them both at 13, but Diamond Age is custom designed for his purposes. --
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I suppose one of the best uses of this technique would be to properly determine the originator of your sig quote.
Um, yeah, transparency has some nice features. I want my mugger to get caught too.
The problem is, despite our wishes, everyone will be transparent, but most people will be blind:)
It costs money to get access to surveillance. The CIA, NSA, etc have money. They can watch us. I don't see a near future where we can watch them back.
So we'd be infinitely accountable for our actions, but they will not. People do scary shit when they aren't accountable. That's why we need to at least attempt to guard our own privacy as long as possible.
It is possible that soon, your average slashdot-reading geek will have access to surveillance, but it'll be a damn long time before the uneducated poor does. That's scary too. --
Um, I want my computer to be able to write my code for me and be better than me at it. Duh.
It certainly doesn't mean that I'd have to find work elsewhere. Someone with expertise still needs to oversee the code/music that the computer puts out. Someone needs to set up the system. --
It seems like the New York Times is monitoring their free logins a little better now...
First they disabled cypherpunks/cyberpunks/whatever.
Then, after the last slashdot post, when someone noted the availability of test_user, they disabled that as well.
If they're just looking at multiple IPs simultaneously loging in, that's one thing... it's more interesting if it turns out that they're monitoring/. --
I remember this issue came up during the BeOS initial developement. They were still deciding how they were going to do imaging, and someone suggested that they base everything on vectors.
Then they got into all kinds of trouble, 'cause there was no good way to address a pixel.
I don't think that would be the only way to make text scale automatically, but it would be difficult to make sure that all other elements scale around the text properly without going completely vector-based.
Heh. I think windoze has some kind of feature like this, though. You can set it to "use large fonts" in the display settings, which mostly just means "use even uglier fonts." It doesn't exactly do what you're talking about, but it does make things more readable on high-res monitors.
Then again, I haven't used a 'doze machine for the past four months.
Gosh, that's odd, 'cause I'm running Mac OS 9b3 right now.
They aparently figured out the trademark issues with the makers of OS 9. For a while, everyone thought it would be called "Mac OS 8.7" but that's changed. --
I mean, aside from all that stuff about the proletariat.
One argument the Commies always used is that competition is wastefull. Sure it is. The alternative is worse.
We can have one huge, flawed, anti-competitive company, or we can have a bunch of smaller ones wasting resources. Without competition, there's no way to stop the huge company from wasting our resources at their pleasure, and, eventually, it gets a lot worse than the waste produced by competition.
That's one of the things that makes Linux great. There is no monopoly on the code. When something needs to be done (like, er, write a distribution), there are several different groups willing to do their best. Sure, it's wasteful to create multiple distros, but their competition makes them significantly better.
SGI says they're doing the brand change so that they can reposition their marketing, and they use NCR as an example of how this could work to their advantage.
Thing is, it mostly reminds me of KFC. Ever noticed how they never mention what KFC stands for anymore? That's cause people got health conscious, and Kentucky Fried Chicken didn't sound so good anymore.
Silicon Graphics, Inc doesn't sound so good if you're gonna pitch a server solution to a pointy-haired boss... --
There was a Wired article on some guy that said he could reflect gravity. It involved a superconducting disk, and the Wired article made him out to be a loony, but they didn't discount the possibility.
The idea being that the superconducting disk would diminish the force of gravity between any objects on opposite sides of the disk.
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Yes. The mac is slowly moving away from it's ROMs.
Apple's unified motherboard architecture (inside ibooks, imacs, g3s, g4s) doesn't have hardware ROMs. Just OpenFirmware pointing to a boot file.
MacOS X is kinda guaranteed to not need a hardware ROM, if Apple wants it to run on any macs released in the past few years.
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I didn't think it was a voltaire quote. I've seen it attributed to him in the past, but I've also seen variations attributed to a million others. Mark Twain most of all.
I didn't think you were wrong or right, I just thought that it was a funny parallel issue.
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or, A Young Lady's Illustrater Primer
That's probably the first book that olaadee should read, just because it's about the proper way to bring up a little girl. And I think it's mostly right.
Snow Crash was more revolutionary to Sci-Fi, I know I would have loved them both at 13, but Diamond Age is custom designed for his purposes.
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I suppose one of the best uses of this technique would be to properly determine the originator of your sig quote.
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Um, yeah, transparency has some nice features. I want my mugger to get caught too.
:)
The problem is, despite our wishes, everyone will be transparent, but most people will be blind
It costs money to get access to surveillance. The CIA, NSA, etc have money. They can watch us. I don't see a near future where we can watch them back.
So we'd be infinitely accountable for our actions, but they will not. People do scary shit when they aren't accountable. That's why we need to at least attempt to guard our own privacy as long as possible.
It is possible that soon, your average slashdot-reading geek will have access to surveillance, but it'll be a damn long time before the uneducated poor does. That's scary too.
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Um, I want my computer to be able to write my code for me and be better than me at it. Duh.
It certainly doesn't mean that I'd have to find work elsewhere. Someone with expertise still needs to oversee the code/music that the computer puts out. Someone needs to set up the system.
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It seems like the New York Times is monitoring their free logins a little better now...
/.
First they disabled cypherpunks/cyberpunks/whatever.
Then, after the last slashdot post, when someone noted the availability of test_user, they disabled that as well.
If they're just looking at multiple IPs simultaneously loging in, that's one thing... it's more interesting if it turns out that they're monitoring
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I think that UC Berkeley is gonna switch to all NT in the next year or so.
Peer pressure, man.
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No! NeXT was not like that. No one is like that.
I remember this issue came up during the BeOS initial developement. They were still deciding how they were going to do imaging, and someone suggested that they base everything on vectors.
Then they got into all kinds of trouble, 'cause there was no good way to address a pixel.
I don't think that would be the only way to make text scale automatically, but it would be difficult to make sure that all other elements scale around the text properly without going completely vector-based.
Heh. I think windoze has some kind of feature like this, though. You can set it to "use large fonts" in the display settings, which mostly just means "use even uglier fonts." It doesn't exactly do what you're talking about, but it does make things more readable on high-res monitors.
Then again, I haven't used a 'doze machine for the past four months.
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Gosh, that's odd, 'cause I'm running Mac OS 9b3 right now.
They aparently figured out the trademark issues with the makers of OS 9. For a while, everyone thought it would be called "Mac OS 8.7" but that's changed.
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I mean, aside from all that stuff about the proletariat.
One argument the Commies always used is that competition is wastefull. Sure it is. The alternative is worse.
We can have one huge, flawed, anti-competitive company, or we can have a bunch of smaller ones wasting resources. Without competition, there's no way to stop the huge company from wasting our resources at their pleasure, and, eventually, it gets a lot worse than the waste produced by competition.
That's one of the things that makes Linux great. There is no monopoly on the code. When something needs to be done (like, er, write a distribution), there are several different groups willing to do their best. Sure, it's wasteful to create multiple distros, but their competition makes them significantly better.
Duh. We knew this already.
$30 Billion? How much has M$ alread wasted?
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SGI says they're doing the brand change so that they can reposition their marketing, and they use NCR as an example of how this could work to their advantage.
Thing is, it mostly reminds me of KFC. Ever noticed how they never mention what KFC stands for anymore? That's cause people got health conscious, and Kentucky Fried Chicken didn't sound so good anymore.
Silicon Graphics, Inc doesn't sound so good if you're gonna pitch a server solution to a pointy-haired boss...
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There was a Wired article on some guy that said he could reflect gravity. It involved a superconducting disk, and the Wired article made him out to be a loony, but they didn't discount the possibility.
The idea being that the superconducting disk would diminish the force of gravity between any objects on opposite sides of the disk.
Probably BS, but whatever.
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I remember the first time I saw this effect. I thought, "Gosh, they must have a whole bunch of cameras all lined up in a row."
It was for a music video, and since they panned all the way around a scene, you could see the cameras on the other side.
I think it was a Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony video. Can anybody think of the first public example of this technique?
Wouldn't it be cool if we could come up with some previous art, and kill this stupid patent attempt?
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Of course, these are features that may be available elsewhere, but I've never heard of them before:
1) Net-boot. iMacs and B&W G3s can be net-booted off Mac OS X Server. No hard drive required. Designed for easy lab maintenence.
2) Sweet microkernel. Eventually, mklinux and BlueBox might run simultaneously on top of their Mach derivative. Fast. If Apple decides to help.
3) Bundled WebObjects.
4) NeXT style APIs. Some of us liked coding for NeXT about as much as y'all seem to enjoy coding for Linux.
Feel free to flame me for my ignorance...
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