You might also take a look at Apple'sDeveloper Site:
http://www.apple.com/developer
There are both free and paid registrations for the Dev site; naturally, the free registration doesn't provide you with CDs, but it does give you access to the full gamut of information.
Re:Why *shouldn't* Apple release buggy software?
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Another Look At OS X
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As far as I'm concerned the problem here is that the software is non-Free
I really don't mean to feed the trolls, so I will accept your proposition at face value, and suggest that you check out Apple's OpenSource project, and the release of the source and documentation of the underpinnings of the OS.
Yes, I understand the difference between Darwin, which is free and opensource, and Quartz and the other userland stuff, which is neither. However, I am assuming for the sake of argument that you sincerely didn't realize that an important part of OS X was, in fact, opensource and beer-free.
This is pretty much fan-boy speculation, but speaks to your idea anyway: since Mac OS X is Unix based, it is really desgined to project desktops remotely over pretty thin connections. Add in an Airport card, already enabled in X, and you have much of what you're looking for--a thin client that is simply displaying your session, while the heavy lifter within range of your Airport enabled handheld, or even remotely over the Internet as long as there is a local Ariport Hub, is processing. You could have a handheld with virtually only a tiny screen, an Airport card, and just enough a proc to run the card.
if Bush sends an MP3 of a Metallica song, as an attachment through the email, does it then become public domain, subject to the FOIA? Or does it remain under copyright protection, since Bush had no right to reproduce it anyway?
If it is protected, can Bush simply copyright his emails? If not protected, do we have a backdoor method of receiving copyrighted material into the PD?
And if the encryption of MP3 bothers you, let's use a plain-text hypothetical, such as a poem or a short story, as the example. The idea occurred to me while watching West Wing last week--one of the characters read Dickens during a filibuster. Well, UIMM (unless I'm much mistaken) every word uttered on the Senate floor is archived, and becomes part of the public record. So what copyrighted works have been read during a previous filibuster, and are now quotable in the context of the public record of the Senate?
As a Mac user, I can tell you that it takes more than just having games--or even having MS Office. Although we have lots of good games--we like to think that Windows serves as our crap filter--Macs still don't have a large marketshare.
There are disadvantages to the Mac platform that Linux doesn't have, sure, but Macs still suffer from a "chicken and egg" perspective--not enough software, or so its said, so fewer people buy Macs, so less software is made. Mostly, all FUD--I've never had a really hard time finding software that I need, or want, including games.
Another interesting thing, is that, even with OpenGL supported on the Mac, some games ported from D3D to OpenGL--are only released as a Linux version, not also as a Mac version. Do developers really think that there are more game-buying (like with real money) Linux users than there are game-buying Mac users?
I see no reason why Apple should not emerge as a major threat to the Linux/MS hegemony over the next 10 years.
Well, anyone that can predict what the next 10 years will mean for computing is a fool. Who would have thought of.NET in '92, for example? Did anyone really expect Linux to have as much mindshare as it does now, 10 years ago? The next 10 years are shaping up to be as disruptive as the last 10. I do think X is an interesting competitor, as well as the system that is being developed right now in someone's garage. To cede the field to MSFT at this point, is, in my opinion, premature. Remember--they have only been dominant, for, say, 5 years--an age in Internet time, but a pittance by any other standard.
Oh, c'mon. I'm sure they got DVDs more like "Alien" and "Space Odyssey 2001."
In all seriousness, I would expect pretty "green" films--nothing like having sterilized air, sterilized clothes, sterilized food, sterilized water, and trapped in a stainless steel tuna can to make you want organic rmovies.
Start typing to make a document. Start drawing with a pen tablet to make a drawing
Somebody please let me know if I'm wrong, but isn't Whistler, or some other future OS of MSFT, supposed to be more like this, ie one field is available on the screen, and, depending on the content that you fill that field with, the OS determines the best application to handle it and automatically launches?
And, if this is the case, wouldn't it be buggier than hell? Like, how would it tell the difference between an email and a document that I wanted to word-process and print?
*Why* can't I select files in the gui, and have a shell "smart enough" to know what I selected!?
In Mac OS X, by dragging a file to the term.app window, the path to that file appears on the command line. Not quite what you're looking for, but closer.
Re:Difficult to install Linux on a laptop, try Win
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"But you probably wouldn't want to run Linux on a laptop, unless the manufacturer supports Linux; otherwise, it's a real chore to find and install the right hardware drivers."
I can install an Unix-based OS on a laptop in 20 minutes.
Of course, I mean OS X on an Apple laptop made in the last 3 years. But a lot of the criticisms that he makes about Linux aren't true compared to "the other side of the chip." Application support, full-time well paid kernel hackers who can react quickly to market forces, innovative development directions (iDVD, for example), etc, are all there in Cupertino.
The only thing that Apple doesn't have is a Free operating system. Fine. If you feel like acting as your own support service, use Linux. If you just want to get work done and don't care about the OS, use OS X. If you want to store your data on servers in Redmond, and only use applications when some dildo has set the DNS correctly, you're braver than I am.
Good God! Just imagine if some whacko in Montana set up a web site in their own compound, and painted swastikas on it and dispersed their ideas to right thinking people in New York! Or, golly gosh, they might even start communicating to them with email, with even PGP, so it can't be regulated by the Good Folks at the FBI!
Take a look at the new Mac OS X server pages put up at Apple over the Expo. Don't forget to download the pdf FAQ , and think about competition in the server space when reading things like: native file sharing for Macintosh, Windows, Unix, and Linux clients... . Apache is included, and...integrated into Apache is WebDAV... . Also supported: Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Unix, and Mac CGI scripts. WebObjects will be an included part of the package.
I don't really think MS has woken up to the threat OS X could be. Expect big news at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this spring.
The 533s have a second processor option--add one for $300, at the Apple Store. That makes a DP 533=$2499, with all the other goodies, like a 133Mhz bus, CD-R/W, iMusic, and iMovie.
Before it gets flying too thick, take a look at buying a 533 G4 for $2199 and adding a SECOND processor for a lousy $300, from the Apple Store as a "Build to Order" option. Total=$2499, including 128 RAM, 40 G HD, CD-R/W, Nvidia Card, and Gig-E.
The NY Times article implied that this service was going to be provided by 802.11. (See! I read before I post!) However, is this the actual fact, or will it be some proprietary hybrid? Does anyone know more about this?
I think the above post is right on: get out of their way, assisting by teaching them the public resources that are available, more than instructing them in knowledge.
As an addition, I would provide this child resources in the history of electronics and development; it is simply not enough to have good ideas. It is also necessary to have the skills to make those ideas prevail in the marketplace, and it is simply not true that money will chase good ideas--it will only chase the good ideas that it knows about and understands itself.
One of the biggest lessons in the last 30 years have been the education in proprietary vs. collaborative knowledge; the Internet certainly wouldn't have become what it did if someone tried to keep the standard closed (witness AppleTalk), and the greatest fortune the world has ever seen wouldn't have been amassed if all knowledge was open.
Recent explorations in the deep sea, much deeper than the penetration of light would allow, have found life much more complicated than algae. It turns out that life, even as we know it, only requires energy to survive; it just so happens that most of the life on this planet use energy from the sun. However, some life, even here on Earth, have developed such that they can draw life-sustaining energy from vents in the bottom of the ocean, and geothermal energy deep in the mantle.
However, one issue the article doesn't mention is the fantastic pressures that must be involved. A liquid trapped under 100 miles of ice would be under tremendous pressure--IANAS (I am not a scientist) but I would expect that the liquid could be a result of the pressurization itself, rather than any heat source. I dunno if the pressure would be enough to prevent life, but I expect it might be.
Liquid water only exists in a very narrow range of temperatures, relative to the rest of Universe. 100 degress Centigrade of permissable range is nothing compared to the millions of degrees of temperature scale throughout the Universe. From this perspective, water can exist as liquid in only a very few places.
It is not "certainly true" that life can exist without water. It might be theoretically possible, but that is a long distance from certainly true. The only thing that is certain, in fact, is that some life requires water. It may well turn out that all life requires water, and we won't know until we have seen a negative, which we haven't
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Apple's Site:
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http://www.darwinfo.org
You might also take a look at Apple'sDeveloper Site:
http://www.apple.com/developer
There are both free and paid registrations for the Dev site; naturally, the free registration doesn't provide you with CDs, but it does give you access to the full gamut of information.
As far as I'm concerned the problem here is that the software is non-Free
I really don't mean to feed the trolls, so I will accept your proposition at face value, and suggest that you check out Apple's OpenSource project, and the release of the source and documentation of the underpinnings of the OS.
Yes, I understand the difference between Darwin, which is free and opensource, and Quartz and the other userland stuff, which is neither. However, I am assuming for the sake of argument that you sincerely didn't realize that an important part of OS X was, in fact, opensource and beer-free.
This is pretty much fan-boy speculation, but speaks to your idea anyway: since Mac OS X is Unix based, it is really desgined to project desktops remotely over pretty thin connections. Add in an Airport card, already enabled in X, and you have much of what you're looking for--a thin client that is simply displaying your session, while the heavy lifter within range of your Airport enabled handheld, or even remotely over the Internet as long as there is a local Ariport Hub, is processing. You could have a handheld with virtually only a tiny screen, an Airport card, and just enough a proc to run the card.
So doesn't this beg the question:
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if Bush sends an MP3 of a Metallica song, as an attachment through the email, does it then become public domain, subject to the FOIA? Or does it remain under copyright protection, since Bush had no right to reproduce it anyway?
If it is protected, can Bush simply copyright his emails? If not protected, do we have a backdoor method of receiving copyrighted material into the PD?
And if the encryption of MP3 bothers you, let's use a plain-text hypothetical, such as a poem or a short story, as the example. The idea occurred to me while watching West Wing last week--one of the characters read Dickens during a filibuster. Well, UIMM (unless I'm much mistaken) every word uttered on the Senate floor is archived, and becomes part of the public record. So what copyrighted works have been read during a previous filibuster, and are now quotable in the context of the public record of the Senate?
IANAL but I play one on
So, did NASA take a casulty deduction on their 1040 when the Mars Observer blew up?
In general, I think it is all part of a much larger problem that almost no OSes (except for Linux and FreeBSD) provide a kernel driver
Pardon my cluelessness, but now MacOS X will have the same level of security, yes? FreeBSD kernel and all.
This article is from Feb 2001.
For more on Wireless Firewire, search "wireless" from the group's homepage. Always moving forward, basically.
As a Mac user, I can tell you that it takes more than just having games--or even having MS Office. Although we have lots of good games--we like to think that Windows serves as our crap filter--Macs still don't have a large marketshare.
There are disadvantages to the Mac platform that Linux doesn't have, sure, but Macs still suffer from a "chicken and egg" perspective--not enough software, or so its said, so fewer people buy Macs, so less software is made. Mostly, all FUD--I've never had a really hard time finding software that I need, or want, including games.
Another interesting thing, is that, even with OpenGL supported on the Mac, some games ported from D3D to OpenGL--are only released as a Linux version, not also as a Mac version. Do developers really think that there are more game-buying (like with real money) Linux users than there are game-buying Mac users?
I see no reason why Apple should not emerge as a major threat to the Linux/MS hegemony over the next 10 years.
.NET in '92, for example? Did anyone really expect Linux to have as much mindshare as it does now, 10 years ago? The next 10 years are shaping up to be as disruptive as the last 10. I do think X is an interesting competitor, as well as the system that is being developed right now in someone's garage. To cede the field to MSFT at this point, is, in my opinion, premature. Remember--they have only been dominant, for, say, 5 years--an age in Internet time, but a pittance by any other standard.
Well, anyone that can predict what the next 10 years will mean for computing is a fool. Who would have thought of
Oh, c'mon. I'm sure they got DVDs more like "Alien" and "Space Odyssey 2001."
In all seriousness, I would expect pretty "green" films--nothing like having sterilized air, sterilized clothes, sterilized food, sterilized water, and trapped in a stainless steel tuna can to make you want organic rmovies.
Start typing to make a document. Start drawing with a pen tablet to make a drawing
Somebody please let me know if I'm wrong, but isn't Whistler, or some other future OS of MSFT, supposed to be more like this, ie one field is available on the screen, and, depending on the content that you fill that field with, the OS determines the best application to handle it and automatically launches?
And, if this is the case, wouldn't it be buggier than hell? Like, how would it tell the difference between an email and a document that I wanted to word-process and print?
*Why* can't I select files in the gui, and have a shell "smart enough" to know what I selected!?
In Mac OS X, by dragging a file to the term.app window, the path to that file appears on the command line. Not quite what you're looking for, but closer.
"But you probably wouldn't want to run Linux on a laptop, unless the manufacturer supports Linux; otherwise, it's a real chore to find and install the right hardware drivers."
I can install an Unix-based OS on a laptop in 20 minutes.
Of course, I mean OS X on an Apple laptop made in the last 3 years. But a lot of the criticisms that he makes about Linux aren't true compared to "the other side of the chip." Application support, full-time well paid kernel hackers who can react quickly to market forces, innovative development directions (iDVD, for example), etc, are all there in Cupertino.
The only thing that Apple doesn't have is a Free operating system. Fine. If you feel like acting as your own support service, use Linux. If you just want to get work done and don't care about the OS, use OS X. If you want to store your data on servers in Redmond, and only use applications when some dildo has set the DNS correctly, you're braver than I am.
Good God! Just imagine if some whacko in Montana set up a web site in their own compound, and painted swastikas on it and dispersed their ideas to right thinking people in New York! Or, golly gosh, they might even start communicating to them with email, with even PGP, so it can't be regulated by the Good Folks at the FBI!
Get a grip.
who could address the general desktop user's desire for a shrink-wrapped, pre-installed, integrated system, with one-stop technical support.
Wait a minute! That sounds just like the system that I'm currently running! It..it....sounds like Mac OS X!
Didn't Home Depot just do this?
Since OSX isn't really playing there...
Take a look at the new Mac OS X server pages put up at Apple over the Expo. Don't forget to download the pdf FAQ , and think about competition in the server space when reading things like: native file sharing for Macintosh, Windows, Unix, and Linux clients... . Apache is included, and
I don't really think MS has woken up to the threat OS X could be. Expect big news at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this spring.
The 533s have a second processor option--add one for $300, at the Apple Store. That makes a DP 533=$2499, with all the other goodies, like a 133Mhz bus, CD-R/W, iMusic, and iMovie.
Before it gets flying too thick, take a look at buying a 533 G4 for $2199 and adding a SECOND processor for a lousy $300, from the Apple Store as a "Build to Order" option. Total=$2499, including 128 RAM, 40 G HD, CD-R/W, Nvidia Card, and Gig-E.
I just answered my own question: MobileStar Network Product Page. I can read before I post, sure, but you expect me to answer my own questions, too?
The NY Times article implied that this service was going to be provided by 802.11. (See! I read before I post!) However, is this the actual fact, or will it be some proprietary hybrid? Does anyone know more about this?
Darwin?
I think the above post is right on: get out of their way, assisting by teaching them the public resources that are available, more than instructing them in knowledge.
As an addition, I would provide this child resources in the history of electronics and development; it is simply not enough to have good ideas. It is also necessary to have the skills to make those ideas prevail in the marketplace, and it is simply not true that money will chase good ideas--it will only chase the good ideas that it knows about and understands itself.
One of the biggest lessons in the last 30 years have been the education in proprietary vs. collaborative knowledge; the Internet certainly wouldn't have become what it did if someone tried to keep the standard closed (witness AppleTalk), and the greatest fortune the world has ever seen wouldn't have been amassed if all knowledge was open.
Recent explorations in the deep sea, much deeper than the penetration of light would allow, have found life much more complicated than algae. It turns out that life, even as we know it, only requires energy to survive; it just so happens that most of the life on this planet use energy from the sun. However, some life, even here on Earth, have developed such that they can draw life-sustaining energy from vents in the bottom of the ocean, and geothermal energy deep in the mantle.
However, one issue the article doesn't mention is the fantastic pressures that must be involved. A liquid trapped under 100 miles of ice would be under tremendous pressure--IANAS (I am not a scientist) but I would expect that the liquid could be a result of the pressurization itself, rather than any heat source. I dunno if the pressure would be enough to prevent life, but I expect it might be.