For something to run on MacOS X doesn't necessarily make it BSD compatible. My guess is it will be a Carbonised application, which for those of you who haven't been following Apple closely means a regular MacOS application without the calls to system functions that weren't re-entrant and stuff.
www.mackido.com probably has a good explaination of what the Carbon environment is. I'm just too tired to look it up for you.
As one commedian put it: The Constitution was not written with UZIs in mind. It was written with flintlock rifles in mind: power, tamp down with rod, ball, tamp down with rod, aim, and hopefully it will fire correctly. Repeat.
AC, I am uncertain what you mean by multitask. Multitasking on a Macintosh was intruduced with system 6 in the late 1980's. On my work Mac I run and use at least 1 web browser with several windows open, 1 email client, and 1 text editor (BBEdit) for HTML/code editing. In addition I may have some or _all_ of the following running at once: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat 4 (not reader), Distiller, IE 2/3/4/5. Please let me know if you have a definition of Multi-tasking that means something other than running and using multiple programs at one time.
As far as rebooting when fatal errors occur, I fail to see how this is much different from a BSOD.
I would also strongly advise that if you checked carefully you would find your head was lodged so far up your rectum that you could kiss your own heart.
All of you MS Bashers remind of Mac users from a few years back. So in love with your precious OS, so blinded by your hate of MS, so much so that your own shortcomings are invisible to you.
What about Mac users now? Are you disparaging us while implying that now the platform rocks?
A few years ago... aww, hell, MacOS 7.5.3 was about the worst bit of software Apple has ever had the nerve to put out. It was rough being a Mac user then, the company was being mismanaged into the ground. But I digress, as bad as it was back then, to Mac users the vision that brought the system to that point still made for a far better computing experience than the kludged together bits of stolen ideas that was the Windows Experience(tm).
Why do Mac users hate M$? Personally, I find the products needlessly inconsistant, painfully frustrating, and frighteningly buggy. The thought that anyone would choose that over an elegant solution is like astro-turfing your lawn.
Actually, I would think it was also sad to be doing anything other than getting married. It just seems to me that to be distracted by anothing other than the person you are pledging your life, love, and devotion to is antithetical to the ceremony.
If you are getting married give it all your attention.
And furthermore I am judging not whining. I will extend the same courtesy you and say that you are judging, not whining about my comment.
Maybe a discussion should not be moderatable until at least 50 comments are made. This would allow inexperienced moderators to see the possibility of more intelligent comments than those made by Signal 11.
I believe that MTBE gas is being pulled. Anyone able to comment on that one?
I never claimed that gas additives were the work of "environmentalists". That is probably a result of some perversion or concession (read env. loss) on some bill.
American gasoline is pretty cheap, afaik. I think that in Europe, where pollution standards are tighter, "petrol" is around $4 a gallon.
The "idea that cleans the air and fucks up the water" by the supposed environmentalists you are referring to is most likely due to the numerous extraneous, often unrelated crap that gets tacked to practically every bill that goes through congress. If, for example, one put through a bill banning self-destructing DVD's, attached would probably be a concession or loophole for a plastics company to dispose of their waste in some awful way, or a contract for the government to purchase self-destructing DVD's for CIA use. The system is fucked, environmentalists are people who are trying to keep the world a safe place but desperately losing the battle.
You're probably right, I keep thinking in 3 dimensions... But until they actually make it in 4 dimensions, I stick by the assertion that it holds water.
From the photos on YoJ's professor's web page it certainly looks that if you poured water in the bottom and turned it wide side down it would hold water. It's not that it has zero volume but a continuous, unbroken surface. That is, the mouth of the bottle is just a tube sticking out its bottom. Why does that sound like a politician?
It's simply an impractical curiosity, not a revolutionary idea.
Design with more than needed: high-end audio equipment, SUV's
Fuel injection can be done without computers, but that doesn't mean the computer can't improve the process.
Oxygen sensors measure the completeness of fuel combustion and the computer improves the process. Why don't you unplug your O sensor and see if your car runs different (check your mpg too). The completeness of combustion varies based on several factors: fuel quality, air/fuel mixture, acceleration, engine load, spark quality, spark timing, ambient air temperature, engine temperature, amount of oil leaking past the seals, amount of oil/gas fumes returned to the mixture from the PCV valve, and probably several other factors I don't know of. The sensor helps the engine run more efficiently and thus cleaner.
I resolve to boycott any product with the number 2000, Y2K, or millennium (or any "clever" variations on the words) in its title.
Exceptions are 1. a calendar. 2. If Apple starts adding year numbers to its machine lineup since there isn't much other way to tell a spring 1999 powerbook from a fall 1999 powerbook except for the keyboard color. i.e. user says I have a Powerbook G3, Admin asks "original, bronze keyboard, or [whatever distinguishes the next version]?"
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For something to run on MacOS X doesn't necessarily make it BSD compatible. My guess is it will be a Carbonised application, which for those of you who haven't been following Apple closely means a regular MacOS application without the calls to system functions that weren't re-entrant and stuff.
www.mackido.com probably has a good explaination of what the Carbon environment is. I'm just too tired to look it up for you.
Use it to smell out horny women.
Crud, spelling errors reign. "power" = "powder" as in gunpowder.
As one commedian put it: The Constitution was not written with UZIs in mind. It was written with flintlock rifles in mind: power, tamp down with rod, ball, tamp down with rod, aim, and hopefully it will fire correctly. Repeat.
AC, I am uncertain what you mean by multitask. Multitasking on a Macintosh was intruduced with system 6 in the late 1980's. On my work Mac I run and use at least 1 web browser with several windows open, 1 email client, and 1 text editor (BBEdit) for HTML/code editing. In addition I may have some or _all_ of the following running at once: Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat 4 (not reader), Distiller, IE 2/3/4/5. Please let me know if you have a definition of Multi-tasking that means something other than running and using multiple programs at one time.
As far as rebooting when fatal errors occur, I fail to see how this is much different from a BSOD.
As far as FPU performance, weren't pc users claiming that integer performance was more important a few years ago before the G3 & G4 started mopping the floor with your asses? Please note comparisons where a G3 beats dual PII machines and single PIIIs.
I would also strongly advise that if you checked carefully you would find your head was lodged so far up your rectum that you could kiss your own heart.
Good day, sir.
At last a computer I can use in the shower!!
All of you MS Bashers remind of Mac users from a few years back. So in love with your precious OS, so blinded by your hate of MS, so much so that your own shortcomings are invisible to you.
What about Mac users now? Are you disparaging us while implying that now the platform rocks?
A few years ago... aww, hell, MacOS 7.5.3 was about the worst bit of software Apple has ever had the nerve to put out. It was rough being a Mac user then, the company was being mismanaged into the ground. But I digress, as bad as it was back then, to Mac users the vision that brought the system to that point still made for a far better computing experience than the kludged together bits of stolen ideas that was the Windows Experience(tm).
Why do Mac users hate M$? Personally, I find the products needlessly inconsistant, painfully frustrating, and frighteningly buggy. The thought that anyone would choose that over an elegant solution is like astro-turfing your lawn.
Actually, the only mathematical impossibilty arises when you go exactly the speed of light.
So light travelling at the speed of light routinely breaks this equation? What are the implications of that?
Agreed.
Actually, I would think it was also sad to be doing anything other than getting married. It just seems to me that to be distracted by anothing other than the person you are pledging your life, love, and devotion to is antithetical to the ceremony.
If you are getting married give it all your attention.
And furthermore I am judging not whining. I will extend the same courtesy you and say that you are judging, not whining about my comment.
My vote is for the sadder one.
I always thought human relationships were the most basic fundamental of life. How fucked up to do it in a fake world.
Maybe a discussion should not be moderatable until at least 50 comments are made. This would allow inexperienced moderators to see the possibility of more intelligent comments than those made by Signal 11.
I believe that MTBE gas is being pulled. Anyone able to comment on that one?
I never claimed that gas additives were the work of "environmentalists". That is probably a result of some perversion or concession (read env. loss) on some bill.
See Section9's post.
Too many people believe that technology will fix the world. But the world's not broken, we are.
That's why I only charge my electric car with power from a solar plant.
Seriously, how many people mind returning a rental?
Gets my ass out of the house... A Good Thing(tm)
American gasoline is pretty cheap, afaik. I think that in Europe, where pollution standards are tighter, "petrol" is around $4 a gallon.
The "idea that cleans the air and fucks up the water" by the supposed environmentalists you are referring to is most likely due to the numerous extraneous, often unrelated crap that gets tacked to practically every bill that goes through congress. If, for example, one put through a bill banning self-destructing DVD's, attached would probably be a concession or loophole for a plastics company to dispose of their waste in some awful way, or a contract for the government to purchase self-destructing DVD's for CIA use. The system is fucked, environmentalists are people who are trying to keep the world a safe place but desperately losing the battle.
I'm pretty pissed about Letterman too...
What? oh...
So what if one mega-media-corporation is screwing over another mega-media-corporation.
Prevention and education just isn't entertaining. It's hard work, and that's just not what America is about.
Cops ride-along-video shows, news, and movies of big crime make money.
Education costs money.
I nominate a kick in the crotch as being funnier than Tom Green also.
For a truly funny Green, check out Red Green. Been on the telly for about 3 years now.
You're probably right, I keep thinking in 3 dimensions... But until they actually make it in 4 dimensions, I stick by the assertion that it holds water.
Supposedly the same holds true of a person, as long as both their sphincter and mouth are closed.
From the photos on YoJ's professor's web page it certainly looks that if you poured water in the bottom and turned it wide side down it would hold water. It's not that it has zero volume but a continuous, unbroken surface. That is, the mouth of the bottle is just a tube sticking out its bottom. Why does that sound like a politician?
It's simply an impractical curiosity, not a revolutionary idea.
Design with more than needed: high-end audio equipment, SUV's
Fuel injection can be done without computers, but that doesn't mean the computer can't improve the process.
Oxygen sensors measure the completeness of fuel combustion and the computer improves the process. Why don't you unplug your O sensor and see if your car runs different (check your mpg too). The completeness of combustion varies based on several factors: fuel quality, air/fuel mixture, acceleration, engine load, spark quality, spark timing, ambient air temperature, engine temperature, amount of oil leaking past the seals, amount of oil/gas fumes returned to the mixture from the PCV valve, and probably several other factors I don't know of. The sensor helps the engine run more efficiently and thus cleaner.
I resolve to boycott any product with the number 2000, Y2K, or millennium (or any "clever" variations on the words) in its title.
Exceptions are 1. a calendar. 2. If Apple starts adding year numbers to its machine lineup since there isn't much other way to tell a spring 1999 powerbook from a fall 1999 powerbook except for the keyboard color. i.e. user says I have a Powerbook G3, Admin asks "original, bronze keyboard, or [whatever distinguishes the next version]?"
An excellent point. But I believe that boring, stupid people can only see in stereotypes. Is the last sentence a stereotype unto itself?