Agreed. I've had my suggestions rejected in like fashion only to have similar ones posted at a later date.
<RANT bitchiness="leona">Of course this just makes us sound like a bunch of whiners about the "good old days" of Slashdot. But it's an oft-observed effect that once a good thing is started, it doesn't take long for the turkeys to drag it into the mud.</RANT>
One. I run Virtual PC (admittedly on a Powerbook 500Mhz with 320 MB RAM) with perfectly acceptable speed. That includes RedHat Linux 6.2 (with X-Windows), Win95, Win98, WinNT 4 Workstation & Server, and even Windows 2000 Advanced Server. My department is 99.5% PC and it is impossible to avoid M$. I've even taken native PC drive images and put them right into VPC, not only with no difficulties, but actually had it run better than people who have put the same image on their own native PC. Two small problems: When VPC sharing the Mac's ethernet interface you can't access drives shared by the VPC's OS. And I can't install Solaris 8 8^[
Two: My bet is that MacOS X will turn out to be at least as important as the PowerPC is/was to Apple, possibly as much as the original Macintosh. It will bring all that nifty *nix software I've been envying since I first installed Linux on a PC. MacOS X will allow Macintosh faithful to have the best of both worlds (with VPC, the best of all worlds), and not be left behind in Linux's inescapable world domination.
No whining: Not even that MacOS X doesn't support Airport yet, or my slightly old work 9600+G3upgrade. Or even (probably never) my personal ancient Performa 5200CD. I know Airport support will be coming for my PB and I'll buy MacOS X beta or final the moment it does. It's on its way, finally! Yay!
They also never ran this article past a secretary. There is no way a touch-typist could use a temporary touch-screen keyboard. It's missing several things: tactile feedback (to let you know you pressed the key), context (locating [without looking] the keyboard by the space bar, and the home-row key bumps [F&J or D&K]), and pressure sensitivity (just resting your fingers on the touch-screen keys would press them).
I just realised that my analogy was slightly off. I meant to say that a saw doesn't have the ability to recognise the user's skill levels/training/habits to adapt itself to the task and scissors and a sewing machine cannot adapt itself to its user's capabilities as such. Computers, with better programming can.
I'm certain the argument was meant to be that a computer's interface isn't set in stone. It can adapt itself to the user in ways unlike wood adapting itself to the saw or fabric adapting itself to the scissors and thread.
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Still... it is easy to find examples of mental illness on the internet. The beautiful things seem to be kept away for fear of being ripped off.
How many open source art projects do we have out there? Especially vs. free exhibitions of the gruesome?
Agreed. I've had my suggestions rejected in like fashion only to have similar ones posted at a later date.
<RANT bitchiness="leona">Of course this just makes us sound like a bunch of whiners about the "good old days" of Slashdot. But it's an oft-observed effect that once a good thing is started, it doesn't take long for the turkeys to drag it into the mud.</RANT>
My $.02 adjusted for inflation:
One. I run Virtual PC (admittedly on a Powerbook 500Mhz with 320 MB RAM) with perfectly acceptable speed. That includes RedHat Linux 6.2 (with X-Windows), Win95, Win98, WinNT 4 Workstation & Server, and even Windows 2000 Advanced Server. My department is 99.5% PC and it is impossible to avoid M$. I've even taken native PC drive images and put them right into VPC, not only with no difficulties, but actually had it run better than people who have put the same image on their own native PC. Two small problems: When VPC sharing the Mac's ethernet interface you can't access drives shared by the VPC's OS. And I can't install Solaris 8 8^[
Two: My bet is that MacOS X will turn out to be at least as important as the PowerPC is/was to Apple, possibly as much as the original Macintosh. It will bring all that nifty *nix software I've been envying since I first installed Linux on a PC. MacOS X will allow Macintosh faithful to have the best of both worlds (with VPC, the best of all worlds), and not be left behind in Linux's inescapable world domination.
No whining: Not even that MacOS X doesn't support Airport yet, or my slightly old work 9600+G3upgrade. Or even (probably never) my personal ancient Performa 5200CD. I know Airport support will be coming for my PB and I'll buy MacOS X beta or final the moment it does. It's on its way, finally! Yay!
why can't they release something without a blasting marketing campaign?
That was their business plan for the early '90s. Which is one of many reasons they almost went out of business.
On the flip side you could write your own QT work-alike.
If they are given away, they're yours to rip apart. But what if the company "rented" them to the end user?
They also never ran this article past a secretary. There is no way a touch-typist could use a temporary touch-screen keyboard. It's missing several things: tactile feedback (to let you know you pressed the key), context (locating [without looking] the keyboard by the space bar, and the home-row key bumps [F&J or D&K]), and pressure sensitivity (just resting your fingers on the touch-screen keys would press them).
Shouldn't MacOS X's rendering engine based on PDF work perfectly for this sort of stuff?
There's also a crazy rumour that MacOS X is up and running on Alphas. {shrug}
I thought Linux was supposed to be based on tried and true Unix concepts not "cutting edge" stuff (maybe BeOS is a good example of "cutting edge".)
Or it could check if you've gotten laid recently as you enter a department store and alert clerks to your susceptibility to certain products.
Imagine sampling the chemicals given off by your car's interior and targeting or metering the consumer in that fashion.
{Hmmmphh!} Doesn't seem to run on my Mac anyway, so what good is it?
So maybe all the aliens we meet out there will turn out to be humanoids after all!
{sigh} Some moderators have _no_ sense of humor. The poor slob.
Pessimists are just realists.
I just realised that my analogy was slightly off. I meant to say that a saw doesn't have the ability to recognise the user's skill levels/training/habits to adapt itself to the task and scissors and a sewing machine cannot adapt itself to its user's capabilities as such. Computers, with better programming can.
I'm certain the argument was meant to be that a computer's interface isn't set in stone. It can adapt itself to the user in ways unlike wood adapting itself to the saw or fabric adapting itself to the scissors and thread.
Those "old, aging board members" did not know how to make money. Product quality was abysmal and the vision of what an Apple computer nearly died.
Steve may not be right on everything but at least Apple's soul is back.
Maybe I could volunteer name, address and what time I'm about to rob which bank to the police. Very libertarian?
I'm not really going to rob a bank, this was just illustrating a point.
The BBC reports a solar flare every 3-4 weeks, so far no fun.
I suppose you run to an inner room or basement whenever you hear tornado sirens too.
I wonder if that might keep him a little too busy to play with porting X-Windows to Apple's Darwin?
Just flame me if it was another well-known programmer I heard of doing that.
Or just opening up new markets for advertising and consumption.
NT, two words: job security
"The FIN is a non-partisan effort,..." = We'll buy any politician regardless of party.
I just have cron set up to do a daily 404 report for the last seven days with Analog, and read it occasionally.
Duh!