...and using an HP ethernet printer, everytime I want to print to the darn thing, I need to reset the printer (known HP driver bug that has lasted for about 3 months now.)
I had a way more positive experience on OS 9 with printer discovery and sharing. AppleTalk on OS X is just slow and broken.
I've been programming for more than a decade using Objective-C, until recently on Yellow box, and not so long ago, switched to GNUSTEP and Cocoa.
Even if the syntax is very close from C if you want it to be that way, I've never had the feeling of programming with a language that ressembles any other C based languages. It's quite powerful, indeed, and gets your projects done in less than anything else I know of, and the environment is just beautiful too.
For those of you who live in a totalitarian country that is able to articulate such idiotic taxe policies, here is the scoop:
It's very easy to block a GPS signal and render the whole tracking system unoperational. I work on something similar as a project recently, and things got very complicated when we had to take the shielding of metallic objects in account. So all I am saying is that their stuff: it's not for tomorrow
For details on GPS and tracking, check the latest Dr Dobbs journal. There is a programmer centric view on the system.
As a company that doesn't know shit about UI, Sun beats them all. What else beside Gnome for Sun? CDE? Give me a break!
When I think that they had the opportunity to use OpenStep 7 years ago when they licensed it from NeXT. Idiots!
Oh, and the metal look is just a windows knock off. Better, if you want to have a good laugh, just read the "Designing UI for Java" by Sun Press. Hilarous!
If MS is a company that doesn't have taste (according to SJ), then Sun must be the company that has no taste at all.
In a related news: Philip K. Dick announced that he would rewrite the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." to make sure it would come along the lines of the new Ridley Scott's director's cut release.
Seriously: Fuck you Ridley Scott! Why don't you show us something new rather than adding 3 frames every years to your 1982 movie.
Do I have an opportunity to work on the piece of software that I wrote 20 years ago? No, so get a f...ing life Man.
Star Office won't never become main stream. You get MS Office almost for free with a PC (when you work at a company, it's licensed in bundle, when you buy from DELL, it's not much more and usually people select the option.) So why on earth, should people pay to obtain something they don't need?
Don't get me wrong, anything I can use that doesn't have an MS logo is fine. But people will need more than the anti MS mind and will want to see some sort of advantage to shift to something else. Price was a big reason until now, that is.
Also, does that mean that volunteer work from the open office developers will get converted to $ by Sun? It's not a secret to anyone that open office source base gets heavily used by the Star Office dev team. Come on, that doesn't sound right. Even MS have the decency to pay for their development team. It would seem really dumb for people to put efforts in a project that is used for profit by a corporate which recently licensed a bunch of people including friends developers of mine.
I don't trust Sun. I don't trust MS. They are both evil. So is Oracle and IBM btw.
You will need 300MB of free space on your macosx volume to download and because I partitioned my disk and there is no way in the updater to specify a different volume, well I am fscked. The installer will start filling up what ever free space you have before giving you the error message, so you lose all that time before finding out. Bug!
I've got two (2) ibooks here. And YES, if you have two or more machines, you will need to do the download n times because the file can't be opened after download.
apple.slashdot.org: I think it sucks. It just put people like me who use both Linux and OS X on the tip toe. Please do something about that and remove this alienated walls around mac stuff.
... OS X core foundations on Windows XP/NT, now you are talking.
Yellow box has been killed. WebObject shifted to Java. Now if Apple would offer the Aqua Look and Feel and Services including CoreAudio, CoreGraphics, OpenGL, and QuickTIme (the full blow version, not the bad windows implementation), on top of Windows and Linux kernels on Intel, that would be the real killer thing.
PPA, the girl next door.
A visionary's gutfeel regarding 64-bit widespread
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Inside the Itanium
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· Score: 3, Interesting
When Steve Jobs was asked about what he was envisioning regarding 64-bit processor adoption (related to the fact that at that time, IBM came out with the Power4 kick ass cpu), his reply was that it would take about 10 years for the common of the mortals (you and me mostly, but not him:-) to see 64-bit systems on the shelves at Fry's or CompUSA.
Given that it was coming out from the mouth of the CEO of a company that :
- can afford the move quickly and nicely (PowerPC architecture is clean compare to IA-64 + x86 and is 32-bit backward compatible).
- had successfully shifted the kernel to a clean replacement (less kludges) allowing the transition in a blink of an eye (ok, maybe 6 months)
- has a park of installed machines in places like labs (see gentech), and design studio.
- runs applications that would benefit the most are all in the Apple camp (A/V and number crunching apps like photoshop, maya and final cut)
- develops a big chunck of the major apps for its platform leading the way in term of design and adoption of new tech.
it would seem that we have about 8 more years of 32-bit glory or galore in front of us, before the current cpu architectures get displaced and eventually die.
Which 64-bit architecture will succeed is not clear today. Knowing that MS doesn't rush their OS out of the door to support the IA-64, it seems to be a little premature to tell.
The act of throwing these discs after they have become useless is like dumping a soda can in the lake. Personaly, I won't even think contributing to this act of destruction.
Receiving unsolicited AOL cds and now dvds in "tin cans" at my home makes me feel so bad already for our environment. What are these idiots thinking really? Is there any limit to human stupidity acting in the reason of benefits and ROI? Are these people who designed this stuff conscious that there children won't be able to walk in a land without garbage?
Are we going to get a new color of recycling bin specifically designed to recycle these dvds and aol's ones? Companies like AOL MacDonald's and maybe now Blockbuster should be all liable and fined for the pile of garbage their customers are dropping all over.
I'll go back and read Zodiac from Neil Stephenson...
I suspect that Bill Joy's article is not totally objective here. I was almost expecting the word "Advertisement below" to flash above this article.
See, the problem is that MS may have the killer Java technology here on the server side, and Sun smells it. So expect to hear more from people at Sun bashing hard on.NET and C#.
What's Bill's point anyway? Ok, he knows stuff as he wrote vi and csh both in C, so he probably got into pointer trouble while writing his code. But, I am not sure about what he claims here. Is he asking MS to add the keyword "unsafe" into the C# language and is he bitching because MS already moved to the ECMA?
At least MS had the decency to move their language to a standard body right away, instead of tip toeing for about 2 years like Sun did with Java. And Sun still controls Java BTW.
Visibly, the guy with the gray goo on top of his head is running of fuel. It shows.
This book is cool (and the follow up : more exceptional C++) but that is not a book for beginners.
I personaly like books which are both published online and on dead trees. That gives the reader the choice of buying the book when/if they decide it's good enough.
I also don't care too much for computer books because the style of the writing is terrible (Knuth's books are okay though.) If it's a pure reference book, then having a PDF or HTML is so much more valuable for searching than a block of cellulose.
Personally, I read online most of the time. HTML and PDF are fine, And I have emacs open next to it to take notes and write sample code. I went down from having 5 full shelves of books to just a few sitting on my desk (GoF + companion, C++ SE, Steven's Unix Networking, Unix SysAdmin Handbook.) The rest, I gather online, or buy it at Borders and return it in the 30 days period. Why? Because I found out that when it is not something I need open on my desk all the time, then I don't really need it.
Warning: We're are on the drifting sands of OT lands, but let me answer to you, as I suspect that your comment was a mean to ignitiate my reply.
butt-ugly, I don't think so. On the contrary, I am from Asian lineage with an adorable face and a cute butt. I fit more the second description in your comment.
That said, if I had the choice, and the money, I would be a philanthrop. I am not materialist except for my windup toy collection and would gladly skip the money part in my sex activities if I could afford it. Regarding Open Source software, I just like programming and find it simple when I can look anywhere I want.
Porn is not prostitution but If prostitution was legal, STD would be under much more control than it is now. The same goes with hard drugs.
Who said that Eve was the first whore in history btw?
Pretty useless stuff as many people have already pointed out.
When I think about graphic tablet, I wonder how people deal with finger prints all over the screen. It is funny because the photo advertising this useless device has even finger prints on it. Bad photographer, bad!
New to this release is the fact that published APIs are now frozen. Mozilla has been really really annoying at changing their APIs, therefore breaking code from external developers because no backward compatibility and almost no turn around time was given from one release to another. Until 0.9.7 the Plugin API kept changing every time a dot build was made. Well, according to the cvs comments, not anymore. Developers will finally be able to release code which will work for more than 2 releases in a row? Great! This smells like Mozilla is going to be final pretty soon.
In a European country where I used to live and study, drivers in the opposite traffic lane flash there high beams to alert you way ahead of cops sitting on your side with a radar . And this is not illegal.
Why? Couldn't cops catch more speed offenders if the opposite traffic were prevented to inform you?
Sure they would, but that's not the point. The point is to reduce traffic speed on your side, so by letting the other drivers inform you, they can slow down the traffic for more than 50 miles at some point.
The same happens with the Music industry: if they were letting other people rip cds and do the cheap distro, people would discover artists and bands that they haven't heard about before. And owning a CD would be the next thing people would do because let's face it, it's still better quality and more convenient.
So the fascists at the music companies are simply not aware of good marketing. Shouldn't we educate them?
Hell, I was even emailing the distributor about bugs and posting pages on a web site I maintained and newsgroup to provide other users some type of support.
The problem I ran into was exactly this: support. It's fairly easy to write an app for yourself (scratching your itch), figure out that you could make a few bucks out of it because other people like you need this app, package an app and post it on the web then ask $10 for it. The problem is being up to the level of providing long time support.
After spending about $200 in shareware, I got into the problem of running some of these in new environments (Windows mostly, god forbids me) and the shareware to crash beautifully because of some DLL (D HELL HELL.) Contacting the people who develop the system has been a cold and hot experience. Some of them were gone, unavailable. I even got on a spam list after a few mails to a couple of them.
So when the register now pops up in a dialog these days, I tend to deny the offer even if it takes me 10 secs to be able to use the app.
It take some courage and some guts to wipe out a partition where MacOS X has been pre- installed with all the bells and whistles , all the goodies and all the simplicity in terms of usage and connectivity and then install Linux PPC instead.
After shelving about one grant more to get a slower Apple system vs a Pentium or better AMD box , and then trying to make it look like a PC running Linux, you've got to admit that either these people are nuts or heroes.
And all these technies know for sure that Apple's megahertz myth is pure brainwashing for selling embedding cpu at the price of desktops don't they?
So what's left beside the look of the system when you show it to your friends? If you hide the box and let the screen show thru a hole in a cardboard, would they know that you are on a Mac? If at least Linux was easier to use on an Apple hardware than a x86 machine, I would sorta understand. But clearly we are talking about the niche of a niche market here.
The only people I think these efforts bring joy are the hackers like ben who do it for fun. Apple gets more money out of it, they sell platforms at an outrageous price and don't have to provide support for the OS. Even Paul Mackeras, the main PPC kernel maintainer is on IBM payroll and gets big bucks from the patent company to maintain the kernel on PPC.
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...and using an HP ethernet printer, everytime I want to print to the darn thing, I need to reset the printer (known HP driver bug that has lasted for about 3 months now.)
I had a way more positive experience on OS 9 with printer discovery and sharing. AppleTalk on OS X is just slow and broken.
PPA, the girl next door.
I've been programming for more than a decade using Objective-C, until recently on Yellow box, and not so long ago, switched to GNUSTEP and Cocoa.
Even if the syntax is very close from C if you want it to be that way, I've never had the feeling of programming with a language that ressembles any other C based languages.
It's quite powerful, indeed, and gets your projects done in less than anything else I know of, and the environment is just beautiful too.
PPA, the girl NeXT door.
For those of you who live in a totalitarian country that is able to articulate such idiotic taxe policies, here is the scoop:
It's very easy to block a GPS signal and render the whole tracking system unoperational. I work on something similar as a project recently, and things got very complicated when we had to take the shielding of metallic objects in account. So all I am saying is that their stuff: it's not for tomorrow
For details on GPS and tracking, check the latest Dr Dobbs journal. There is a programmer centric view on the system.
PPA, the girl next door.
As a company that doesn't know shit about UI, Sun beats them all. What else beside Gnome for Sun? CDE? Give me a break!
When I think that they had the opportunity to use OpenStep 7 years ago when they licensed it from NeXT. Idiots!
Oh, and the metal look is just a windows knock off. Better, if you want to have a good laugh, just read the "Designing UI for Java" by Sun Press. Hilarous!
If MS is a company that doesn't have taste (according to SJ), then Sun must be the company that has no taste at all.
PPA, the girl next door.
In a related news: Philip K. Dick announced that he would rewrite the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." to make sure it would come along the lines of the new Ridley Scott's director's cut release.
Seriously: Fuck you Ridley Scott! Why don't you show us something new rather than adding 3 frames every years to your 1982 movie.
Do I have an opportunity to work on the piece of software that I wrote 20 years ago? No, so get a f...ing life Man.
PPA, the anime girl next door.
Oops! I should have typed in the last paragraph:
"Sun fired developers friends of mine recently, including this cute girl that is jobless now."
PPA, the other cute girl next door.
Star Office won't never become main stream. You get MS Office almost for free with a PC (when you work at a company, it's licensed in bundle, when you buy from DELL, it's not much more and usually people select the option.) So why on earth, should people pay to obtain something they don't need?
Don't get me wrong, anything I can use that doesn't have an MS logo is fine. But people will need more than the anti MS mind and will want to see some sort of advantage to shift to something else. Price was a big reason until now, that is.
Also, does that mean that volunteer work from the open office developers will get converted to $ by Sun? It's not a secret to anyone that open office source base gets heavily used by the Star Office dev team. Come on, that doesn't sound right. Even MS have the decency to pay for their development team. It would seem really dumb for people to put efforts in a project that is used for profit by a corporate which recently licensed a bunch of people including friends developers of mine.
I don't trust Sun. I don't trust MS. They are both evil. So is Oracle and IBM btw.
PPA, the girl next door.
You will need 300MB of free space on your macosx volume to download and because I partitioned my disk and there is no way in the updater to specify a different volume, well I am fscked. The installer will start filling up what ever free space you have before giving you the error message, so you lose all that time before finding out. Bug!
I've got two (2) ibooks here. And YES, if you have two or more machines, you will need to do the download n times because the file can't be opened after download.
apple.slashdot.org: I think it sucks. It just put people like me who use both Linux and OS X on the tip toe. Please do something about that and remove this alienated walls around mac stuff.
PPA, the girl next door.
... OS X core foundations on Windows XP/NT, now you are talking.
Yellow box has been killed. WebObject shifted to Java. Now if Apple would offer the Aqua Look and Feel and Services including CoreAudio, CoreGraphics, OpenGL, and QuickTIme (the full blow version, not the bad windows implementation), on top of Windows and Linux kernels on Intel, that would be the real killer thing.
PPA, the girl next door.
When Steve Jobs was asked about what he was envisioning regarding 64-bit processor adoption (related to the fact that at that time, IBM came out with the Power4 kick ass cpu), his reply was that it would take about 10 years for the common of the mortals (you and me mostly, but not him :-) to see 64-bit systems on the shelves at Fry's or CompUSA.
Given that it was coming out from the mouth of the CEO of a company that :
- can afford the move quickly and nicely (PowerPC architecture is clean compare to IA-64 + x86 and is 32-bit backward compatible).
- had successfully shifted the kernel to a clean replacement (less kludges) allowing the transition in a blink of an eye (ok, maybe 6 months)
- has a park of installed machines in places like labs (see gentech), and design studio.
- runs applications that would benefit the most are all in the Apple camp (A/V and number crunching apps like photoshop, maya and final cut)
- develops a big chunck of the major apps for its platform leading the way in term of design and adoption of new tech.
it would seem that we have about 8 more years of 32-bit glory or galore in front of us, before the current cpu architectures get displaced and eventually die.
Which 64-bit architecture will succeed is not clear today. Knowing that MS doesn't rush their OS out of the door to support the IA-64, it seems to be a little premature to tell.
PPA, the girl next door.
The act of throwing these discs after they have become useless is like dumping a soda can in the lake. Personaly, I won't even think contributing to this act of destruction.
Receiving unsolicited AOL cds and now dvds in "tin cans" at my home makes me feel so bad already for our environment. What are these idiots thinking really? Is there any limit to human stupidity acting in the reason of benefits and ROI? Are these people who designed this stuff conscious that there children won't be able to walk in a land without garbage?
Are we going to get a new color of recycling bin specifically designed to recycle these dvds and aol's ones? Companies like AOL MacDonald's and maybe now Blockbuster should be all liable and fined for the pile of garbage their customers are dropping all over.
I'll go back and read Zodiac from Neil Stephenson...
PPA, the (eco) girl next door.
I suspect that Bill Joy's article is not totally objective here. I was almost expecting the word "Advertisement below" to flash above this article.
.NET and C#.
See, the problem is that MS may have the killer Java technology here on the server side, and Sun smells it. So expect to hear more from people at Sun bashing hard on
What's Bill's point anyway? Ok, he knows stuff as he wrote vi and csh both in C, so he probably got into pointer trouble while writing his code. But, I am not sure about what he claims here. Is he asking MS to add the keyword "unsafe" into the C# language and is he bitching because MS already moved to the ECMA?
At least MS had the decency to move their language to a standard body right away, instead of tip toeing for about 2 years like Sun did with Java. And Sun still controls Java BTW.
Visibly, the guy with the gray goo on top of his head is running of fuel. It shows.
PPA, the girl next door.
Make that : CAN NOT run JNI Libs.
JNI actually can not be ran in a sandbox. So in that respect, Java applets are safe because they can run JNI libs.
PPA, the girl next door
This book is cool (and the follow up : more exceptional C++) but that is not a book for beginners.
I personaly like books which are both published online and on dead trees. That gives the reader the choice of buying the book when/if they decide it's good enough.
I also don't care too much for computer books because the style of the writing is terrible (Knuth's books are okay though.) If it's a pure reference book, then having a PDF or HTML is so much more valuable for searching than a block of cellulose.
Personally, I read online most of the time. HTML and PDF are fine, And I have emacs open next to it to take notes and write sample code. I went down from having 5 full shelves of books to just a few sitting on my desk (GoF + companion, C++ SE, Steven's Unix Networking, Unix SysAdmin Handbook.) The rest, I gather online, or buy it at Borders and return it in the 30 days period. Why? Because I found out that when it is not something I need open on my desk all the time, then I don't really need it.
PPA, the girl next door.
Warning: We're are on the drifting sands of OT lands, but let me answer to you, as I suspect that your comment was a mean to ignitiate my reply.
butt-ugly, I don't think so. On the contrary, I am from Asian lineage with an adorable face and a cute butt. I fit more the second description in your comment.
That said, if I had the choice, and the money, I would be a philanthrop. I am not materialist except for my windup toy collection and would gladly skip the money part in my sex activities if I could afford it. Regarding Open Source software, I just like programming and find it simple when I can look anywhere I want.
Porn is not prostitution but If prostitution was legal, STD would be under much more control than it is now. The same goes with hard drugs.
Who said that Eve was the first whore in history btw?
PPA, the girl next door.
Although I like girls too, I'd rather be surrounded by cute guys (with ear ring if possible.)
PPA, the girl next door.
It's also possible that the device will sport the latest 10GB HD that will also be featured in a upcoming rev of the Apple iPod (really soon now.)
PPA, the girl next door
Symbolics used the word Metakeys for their bunch of modifier keys.
The only diff is : Metakeys sounds cool. Metapad sounds dumb.
PPA, the girl next door
Pretty useless stuff as many people have already pointed out.
When I think about graphic tablet, I wonder how people deal with finger prints all over the screen. It is funny because the photo advertising this useless device has even finger prints on it. Bad photographer, bad!
PPA, the girl next door.
I selected to be an (amateur) porn actress by day, and an Open Source Software geek at night.
Actually, my job keeps me busy only a few days in the month, so the rest of the time, I'm doing software development with the community.
One needs to make a living and do what they like the most. Luckily, I can do both.
PPA, the girl next door.
New to this release is the fact that published APIs are now frozen. Mozilla has been really really annoying at changing their APIs, therefore breaking code from external developers because no backward compatibility and almost no turn around time was given from one release to another. Until 0.9.7 the Plugin API kept changing every time a dot build was made. Well, according to the cvs comments, not anymore. Developers will finally be able to release code which will work for more than 2 releases in a row? Great! This smells like Mozilla is going to be final pretty soon.
PPA, the girl next door.
In a European country where I used to live and study, drivers in the opposite traffic lane flash there high beams to alert you way ahead of cops sitting on your side with a radar . And this is not illegal.
Why? Couldn't cops catch more speed offenders if the opposite traffic were prevented to inform you?
Sure they would, but that's not the point. The point is to reduce traffic speed on your side, so by letting the other drivers inform you, they can slow down the traffic for more than 50 miles at some point.
The same happens with the Music industry: if they were letting other people rip cds and do the cheap distro, people would discover artists and bands that they haven't heard about before. And owning a CD would be the next thing people would do because let's face it, it's still better quality and more convenient.
So the fascists at the music companies are simply not aware of good marketing. Shouldn't we educate them?
PPA, the girl next door.
Hell, I was even emailing the distributor about bugs and posting pages on a web site I maintained and newsgroup to provide other users some type of support.
The problem I ran into was exactly this: support. It's fairly easy to write an app for yourself (scratching your itch), figure out that you could make a few bucks out of it because other people like you need this app, package an app and post it on the web then ask $10 for it. The problem is being up to the level of providing long time support.
After spending about $200 in shareware, I got into the problem of running some of these in new environments (Windows mostly, god forbids me) and the shareware to crash beautifully because of some DLL (D HELL HELL.) Contacting the people who develop the system has been a cold and hot experience. Some of them were gone, unavailable. I even got on a spam list after a few mails to a couple of them.
So when the register now pops up in a dialog these days, I tend to deny the offer even if it takes me 10 secs to be able to use the app.
PPA, the girl next door.
This is NOT a flame, I repeat, not a flame.
It take some courage and some guts to wipe out a partition where MacOS X has been pre- installed with all the bells and whistles , all the goodies and all the simplicity in terms of usage and connectivity and then install Linux PPC instead.
After shelving about one grant more to get a slower Apple system vs a Pentium or better AMD box , and then trying to make it look like a PC running Linux, you've got to admit that either these people are nuts or heroes.
And all these technies know for sure that Apple's megahertz myth is pure brainwashing for selling embedding cpu at the price of desktops don't they?
So what's left beside the look of the system when you show it to your friends? If you hide the box and let the screen show thru a hole in a cardboard, would they know that you are on a Mac? If at least Linux was easier to use on an Apple hardware than a x86 machine, I would sorta understand. But clearly we are talking about the niche of a niche market here.
The only people I think these efforts bring joy are the hackers like ben who do it for fun. Apple gets more money out of it, they sell platforms at an outrageous price and don't have to provide support for the OS. Even Paul Mackeras, the main PPC kernel maintainer is on IBM payroll and gets big bucks from the patent company to maintain the kernel on PPC.
PPA, the girl next door.