Why? CodeWarrior is a very acceptable IDE. It does C, C++, Java and, uh, Pascal. The Java rad is *extremely* well put together (at least compared to Jbuilder, who's rad reminds me of pushing a couch around a room). If there's a problem other than image, I don't see it... and if image is really that big a deal, just buy some empty rackmount cases and a rack and tell visitors you use the iMac to telnet (oops! ssh! Sorry theo)
1. PowerPlant is complicated? Really, go write a metric conversion program with just toolbox calls. Now go and do it in PP. Love that PowerPlant!! Or you could just move to maczoop
2.Who says you have to use Cocoa? Carbon is perfectly legit and that
carbondater is sure a neat little tool.
3. Sure, poop on java. It's a valid option for lightweight or network savvy apps... and it helps aleivate that tough-to-port-to/from-winders blues.
Holy cow, is it mandatory? to say this now? It's like there are folks who know next to nothing about macs but feel compelled to post, so they fall back on the "too expensive" thing because they heard somebody else say it. Ack!
Let's actually look at the product shall we? For $3500 cdn I got a dual proc 450 machine with 128mb a 30gb hd, dvd, firewire (2), usb, gigabit ethernet (yes, gigabit) and a damn fine optical mouse. That's a lot of computer for the money. The thing to remember is that, until this recent batch o' iMacs, apple didn't really have a "low" end.... they started at mid-range and went up.
the Home User has X / 2 Bandwidth (not X / 500) as it should be), there is a BIG problem.
As it "should be?" Hm. Seems the only people who are losing here are the big time sites (your Amazons of the world, if you will). I honestly have a hard time feeling sorry for them. We seem to have gotten ourselves in a position where Joe User views the internet as a broadcast/receive medium, like TV or radio, when the real strength of the internet is that has the potential to be a more broadcast/broadcast medium like CB radio. Give everyone massive bandwidth and the big broadcasters get sunk. Who replaces them? The smaller, more disperesed broadcasters... the users themselves. The result is greater diversity online, greater narrowcasting and less content-dictation by select broadcasters. A gentleman's anarchy, if you will.
Back in the "old days", I would take my handy-dandy Mac Plus down to a $30 hotel, sign in as "Scott Free" and hack til check out off their number. Saves the payphone hassle (ie, cruising eBay for an acoustic coupler... ha!) and you get a bathroom and all the free soap you can steal thrown in to the deal...
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
hang on... information wants to be free, right? the price of freedom is eternal vigilance? Does this imply that the price of information is eternal vigilance?
I think I'll wait till boxing day when it's marked down to "casual observation"
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I should really think about changing my.sig
after ranting about "flashing your bios" for a half-screen I think you should change it too...
Re:Stop saying a kernel isn't slash dot material
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Why do I see people who have clearly been reading slashdot for less than a year saying that a stable kernel release isn't slashdot material?
The deal is that there is always something that somebody things is unworthy of coverage. The hardcore linux guys deride Mac coverage, the mac folks are bored with "rms catches a cold: says 'linukths'" stories, Amiga nuts think it's unfair Quake has it's own category, javaheads think c# gets too much air time, space junkies think anime is a waste, everyone hates the book reviews... yatta yatta.
For a significant portion of readers, this is news. Period. If your don't care about it, don't read it... if you really don't care about it, go to your prefs and ditch the penguin picture
Actually, after I posted I was reminiscing about my ill-fated forray into language parsing... lots of shuffling pointers up and down strings, lots of recursive calls on said strings....
but done here only to show it can be done without the compiler complaining
You got that from the "what's wrong with this code?" Ad they always run in Dr. Dobbs didn't you? Damn, I hate those ads... takes me more time to read them than the rest of the magazine.
Okay, the compiler doesn't catch it. There's no conceivable reason why you would want to construct something like this anyway (at least not to me!) I could put gasoline in my windsheild washer reservoir, the nozzle fits perfectly... but why the hell would I?
Actually, I thought it was rather high... just think, if each one of the 50,000 people wrote only 1000 lines of good, useable code a year, in less than three years we could have the source code for Win2000!
Oh no, wait, I said "good, useable code"... scratch that idea.
Does anyone have any solutions that would work in cars that is affordable
No. Really, all this "mobile no wire" stuff is still in the early-adopter phase. If the rich and committed like it and pay for it, eventually the economics of scale kick in and the price comes down. If you want to lower the price then I suggest either:
a) paying the high price now and contributing to entrenching this as a cheap technology for later on...
b) hyping it until you're blue in the face to people who can afford it...
My Dad's first calculator cost $500 and didn't do square roots. See the parallel? Sattelite connections don't do square roots either...
On the other hand I can go get a cheap $400 PC that is much more powerful. Go figure.
I would strongly disagree that it is "much more powerful". One of the many reasons why I like my macs is that Apple is a "widget" company. They sell you the whole widget and it's a fully-integrated widget. Don't get me wrong, I love my linux box... but it's a Toshiba 4220 SatPro and it is so insanely non-standard in everything that the Linux install is an all day affair of driver-hunting, PnP-disabling and kernel-recompiling. As a geek(tm) I'm okay with that. But I'm also a "regular user" a lot of the time and the joy of knowing that the hardware and software are designed for each other in harmonious widget-ship can be wonderful. And, really, it's beefy hardware too. Seriously. Head to your local mac shop and open up a G4. The easy-access case alone makes me scream in joy (they don't let me into a lot of computer stores any more)... and they're more expandable than my dad's Dell...
Instead of having yesterday's top gadgets forced on us at yesterday's top prices
Forced? Hm. I could buy the G4/400 with a single cpu, and iMac with 100baseT (or a cube) yatta yatta yatta.
Better still, build your own mac at the online store where you can customize to your heart's content. I believe I may have pointed you to this url previously and, possibly, suggested you check it out prior to making statements about mac hardware. Really, give it a try. It won't bite.
we can choose to buy yesterday's toys at a discount
Well, there is a bottom of the line mac as well, for those who choose old and clunky. It's that damn link again isn't it?
illy junk like gigabit ethernet, optical mice, and spare processors.
If that's "silly junk" then I think what you want is a x box not a computer...
It has been a long time since we were reliant on small links.
Well, I read in the Economist that NZ's primary link to the outside world was a waxed piece of twine, and the Aus. government was even demanding that NZ pay for dixie cup replacement on their end... for bigger data needs they mentioned a bi-weekly boatload of DLT tapes makes the trip.
you know that the price/power is always decreasing
but it's not an even descent, it's punctuated. I find that if you buy some hardware 30 minutes after it becomes "obsolete" you get the best deal. The day the iMac came out, I picked up a 9600/233. Two weeks before I'd priced it out at $4200 Cdn. I paid $1400. Good god I loved that machine!
Before y'all get all hot and bothered about that Mac comment, consider it.
Uh, my G4 has gigabit ethernet... that's a standard feature. It has an optical mouse. Standard feature. Dual processors... standard. If, in the future, you would like to do research on what Apple has for sale, the url is www.apple.com
Precise and right are different. I can say pi is 4.985655432 and that is a very precise number. It's also wrong.
And that Frymaster is wrong.
One of the joys of atheism is that you don't have to be right. Atheism is merely a stated disbelief in supreme and supernatural beings. Since a negative can't be proven, and since the burden of proof rests with those who make positive assertions, it's up to you and those squeaky-clean missionaries who show up at my door (woe for them!) to provide proof. I spent 10 years of my life honestly searching for a decent, believable shred of proof. I even asked the Krishnas! The net result was zero proof and far more doubts than when I started. So, I may be wrong. But so are you.
Actually, I was presented with a very strong argument by some Christian on this very website about this that referenced some nifty gematria to show that the calculation of the diameter of the lake of fire is a lot more accurate than the crappy NIV translation (well, crappy is a bit harsh I admit.) I admit it really took the wind out of my sails, since the pi=3 argument used to be one of my faves.... however, I still advocate warning signs on bridges built by fundamentalists.
Warning: This bridge built in accordance to Scripture
Of course, if you're holy enough that you can handle snakes and drink poison, crossing a 3pi bridge should be a piece of cake!.
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Why? CodeWarrior is a very acceptable IDE. It does C, C++, Java and, uh, Pascal. The Java rad is *extremely* well put together (at least compared to Jbuilder, who's rad reminds me of pushing a couch around a room). If there's a problem other than image, I don't see it... and if image is really that big a deal, just buy some empty rackmount cases and a rack and tell visitors you use the iMac to telnet (oops! ssh! Sorry theo)
1. PowerPlant is complicated? Really, go write a metric conversion program with just toolbox calls. Now go and do it in PP. Love that PowerPlant!! Or you could just move to maczoop
2.Who says you have to use Cocoa? Carbon is perfectly legit and that carbondater is sure a neat little tool.
3. Sure, poop on java. It's a valid option for lightweight or network savvy apps... and it helps aleivate that tough-to-port-to/from-winders blues.
wow. How about you compare to a pre-built machine? It's exactly these false comparisons I was complaining about...
Holy cow, is it mandatory? to say this now? It's like there are folks who know next to nothing about macs but feel compelled to post, so they fall back on the "too expensive" thing because they heard somebody else say it. Ack!
Let's actually look at the product shall we? For $3500 cdn I got a dual proc 450 machine with 128mb a 30gb hd, dvd, firewire (2), usb, gigabit ethernet (yes, gigabit) and a damn fine optical mouse. That's a lot of computer for the money. The thing to remember is that, until this recent batch o' iMacs, apple didn't really have a "low" end.... they started at mid-range and went up.
big endian
little endian
big problem
As it "should be?" Hm. Seems the only people who are losing here are the big time sites (your Amazons of the world, if you will). I honestly have a hard time feeling sorry for them. We seem to have gotten ourselves in a position where Joe User views the internet as a broadcast/receive medium, like TV or radio, when the real strength of the internet is that has the potential to be a more broadcast/broadcast medium like CB radio. Give everyone massive bandwidth and the big broadcasters get sunk. Who replaces them? The smaller, more disperesed broadcasters... the users themselves. The result is greater diversity online, greater narrowcasting and less content-dictation by select broadcasters. A gentleman's anarchy, if you will.
And I like that idea.
Back in the "old days", I would take my handy-dandy Mac Plus down to a $30 hotel, sign in as "Scott Free" and hack til check out off their number. Saves the payphone hassle (ie, cruising eBay for an acoustic coupler... ha!) and you get a bathroom and all the free soap you can steal thrown in to the deal...
hang on... information wants to be free, right? the price of freedom is eternal vigilance? Does this imply that the price of information is eternal vigilance?
Window upgrade: $99
Mandrake 7.2 download: Eternal Vigilance
I think I'll wait till boxing day when it's marked down to "casual observation"
after ranting about "flashing your bios" for a half-screen I think you should change it too...
The deal is that there is always something that somebody things is unworthy of coverage. The hardcore linux guys deride Mac coverage, the mac folks are bored with "rms catches a cold: says 'linukths'" stories, Amiga nuts think it's unfair Quake has it's own category, javaheads think c# gets too much air time, space junkies think anime is a waste, everyone hates the book reviews... yatta yatta.
For a significant portion of readers, this is news. Period. If your don't care about it, don't read it... if you really don't care about it, go to your prefs and ditch the penguin picture
This is why we have handles!
You got that from the "what's wrong with this code?" Ad they always run in Dr. Dobbs didn't you? Damn, I hate those ads... takes me more time to read them than the rest of the magazine.
Okay, the compiler doesn't catch it. There's no conceivable reason why you would want to construct something like this anyway (at least not to me!) I could put gasoline in my windsheild washer reservoir, the nozzle fits perfectly... but why the hell would I?
gee, I use my ide from the command line:
[frymaster]/home/frymaster:%> cwide &
ta-daaa!!
Actually, I thought it was rather high... just think, if each one of the 50,000 people wrote only 1000 lines of good, useable code a year, in less than three years we could have the source code for Win2000!
Oh no, wait, I said "good, useable code"... scratch that idea.
Actually, I think hubris is a good thing... as long as it doesn't mean damaging other people or common property in any way...
Wow! Your site is the most amazing example of net-hubris I have ever seen. It's like a 12 minute guitar solo...
No. Really, all this "mobile no wire" stuff is still in the early-adopter phase. If the rich and committed like it and pay for it, eventually the economics of scale kick in and the price comes down. If you want to lower the price then I suggest either:
a) paying the high price now and contributing to entrenching this as a cheap technology for later on...
b) hyping it until you're blue in the face to people who can afford it...
My Dad's first calculator cost $500 and didn't do square roots. See the parallel? Sattelite connections don't do square roots either...
I would strongly disagree that it is "much more powerful". One of the many reasons why I like my macs is that Apple is a "widget" company. They sell you the whole widget and it's a fully-integrated widget. Don't get me wrong, I love my linux box... but it's a Toshiba 4220 SatPro and it is so insanely non-standard in everything that the Linux install is an all day affair of driver-hunting, PnP-disabling and kernel-recompiling. As a geek(tm) I'm okay with that. But I'm also a "regular user" a lot of the time and the joy of knowing that the hardware and software are designed for each other in harmonious widget-ship can be wonderful. And, really, it's beefy hardware too. Seriously. Head to your local mac shop and open up a G4. The easy-access case alone makes me scream in joy (they don't let me into a lot of computer stores any more)... and they're more expandable than my dad's Dell...
Forced? Hm. I could buy the G4/400 with a single cpu, and iMac with 100baseT (or a cube) yatta yatta yatta.
Better still, build your own mac at the online store where you can customize to your heart's content. I believe I may have pointed you to this url previously and, possibly, suggested you check it out prior to making statements about mac hardware. Really, give it a try. It won't bite.
we can choose to buy yesterday's toys at a discount
Well, there is a bottom of the line mac as well, for those who choose old and clunky. It's that damn link again isn't it?
illy junk like gigabit ethernet, optical mice, and spare processors.
If that's "silly junk" then I think what you want is a x box not a computer...
Well, I read in the Economist that NZ's primary link to the outside world was a waxed piece of twine, and the Aus. government was even demanding that NZ pay for dixie cup replacement on their end... for bigger data needs they mentioned a bi-weekly boatload of DLT tapes makes the trip.
but it's not an even descent, it's punctuated. I find that if you buy some hardware 30 minutes after it becomes "obsolete" you get the best deal. The day the iMac came out, I picked up a 9600/233. Two weeks before I'd priced it out at $4200 Cdn. I paid $1400. Good god I loved that machine!
Uh, my G4 has gigabit ethernet... that's a standard feature. It has an optical mouse. Standard feature. Dual processors... standard. If, in the future, you would like to do research on what Apple has for sale, the url is www.apple.com
Precise and right are different. I can say pi is 4.985655432 and that is a very precise number. It's also wrong.
And that Frymaster is wrong.
One of the joys of atheism is that you don't have to be right. Atheism is merely a stated disbelief in supreme and supernatural beings. Since a negative can't be proven, and since the burden of proof rests with those who make positive assertions, it's up to you and those squeaky-clean missionaries who show up at my door (woe for them!) to provide proof. I spent 10 years of my life honestly searching for a decent, believable shred of proof. I even asked the Krishnas! The net result was zero proof and far more doubts than when I started. So, I may be wrong. But so are you.
Actually, I was presented with a very strong argument by some Christian on this very website about this that referenced some nifty gematria to show that the calculation of the diameter of the lake of fire is a lot more accurate than the crappy NIV translation (well, crappy is a bit harsh I admit.) I admit it really took the wind out of my sails, since the pi=3 argument used to be one of my faves.... however, I still advocate warning signs on bridges built by fundamentalists.
Warning: This bridge built in accordance to Scripture
Of course, if you're holy enough that you can handle snakes and drink poison, crossing a 3pi bridge should be a piece of cake!.
Today my shirt is yellow (it's laundry day)