Japan rocks! Consumer electronics, low-emission vehicles, Karaoke, Bukkake... Japan rocks.
I can't say I'm a fan of Japanese cars, but everything else is dead on:)
This is true of all Mac OS X machines, as well. There is just one Mac OS X for the whole world (although the retail boxes are different because Mac OS 9 is included and it is different in different places).
Yes, I like that about OS X.. I changed my "North American" English version to British English. WTF is North American English? There is no such thing. Even MS knows it. There should be US and Commonwealth English versions at the very least.. oh well. At least my computer knows now that "colour" and "centre" are not misspellings:)
"I know plenty of white people who think that way too."
Really? I know plenty too, who don't.
That's nice, I'm one of them. I think people who do that are stupid, be they chinese, white, or japanese.
"Wow. That was racist."
Is there something wrong with prefering people like yourself? Everyone is a racist--they just don't want to lost their jobs because the government has made it illegal to say so. Except non-whites--its ok for them to be racist, and to beat up whitey.
No, there is nothing wrong with preferring the company of people like yourself. There IS however something wrong with hating somebody based on the colour of their skin or where their ancestors came from. I myself make jokes about other people, like "Wow, you drive like an Indian!" and such. I just don't hate these people.
I am anti-racist, anti-politically correct. I will, under no circumstances refer to somebody as "African-Canadian", for example. There are no hypenations before or after Canadian.. or if you happen to be American, no hypenated Americans either. Somebody is Canadian, whether they're black/white/blue/green/red/yellow... the colour of their skin is just part of their description.
I am also against employment quotas. In Canada, there is a percentage of your employee base that needs to be made up of visible minorities, if your company is big enough. Frankly, I think that's bullshit. If somebody is more qualified for the job, give it to them. Don't turn down a more qualified white person for a less qualified minority. Same deal reversed.. don't turn down a more qualified minority for a less qualified white person.
Are there any similar projects in the works for other computing architectures (Mac, Sun, etc)? Not trying to open another can of worms, just thought I'd ask...:)
GNU/Darwin is kind of like this. It's pretty much a BSD style ports tree on top of Apple's Darwin OS that is used as the base level of MacOS X.
This is something only a jap would do--they do this to shitty little Hondas and Acuras (two cars that weren't meant for racing).
Actually, Acura and Honda are the same company. Just like Ford and Mercury. Anyway, Hondas and Acuras were meant for racing... other racing Acuras and Hondas.
Only a jap could think that a big fat tailpipe that makes lawnmower sounds on a embarassing modded Honda with a spoiler bigger than the car itself is cool.
I know plenty of white people who think that way too.
Actually, I've had kernel panics in every OS I installed on this machine for the first week after I built it. Windows crashed about 20 minutes after I started it for the first time. FreeBSD bombed shortly too. I decided to try Slackware 8.0. It crashed too. I started to debug, turned out to be a bad 256MB DIMM from Techtronics. Got a replacement for free.
I've also seen MacOS X kernel panic (different machine, my iBook). Not in every day use, though. I've only seen it once, I started the computer up with the TV cable in it. The kernel paniced before even before the gui started. It was neat.
I think I speak for every right-minded Canadian here when I say:
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
I, OTOH would have said something witty like: "The article should have read: Canadians do some research, Americans take credit for it." or something equally stupid.
If you're going to bash another country, please don't bring your country down with it, okay?
Perhaps indeed god created life, and then allowed it to evolve, perhaps with a gentle nudge to guide the evolving life in the right direction. Religious zealots are going to come up and say that the universe was created 4000 years ago in 6 days, so there hasnt been enough time for evolution to take place. According to 2 Peter 3:8: "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." So the seven days genesis talks about arent seven days of 24 hours each, rather they could be any period time, 7000 years, or 16 million or however old the universe is believed to be.
That's what Genesis seems to imply. "In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over waters" Genesis 1-2(NIV)
Then the rest of the creation process happens. It doesn't say how long the earth had been in existence, just that it was there before the six days, prehaps from a previous creation attempt?
Wow, 160? That's WAY too much! I could back up DVDS:)
Anyway, $350 is too much. I'm looking at about $300CDN
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The iPod does not allow you to copy mp3s off of it, because they're in a hidden directory that you can't easily see, therefore you can't use it to copy music.
The iPods music is stored in a directory name., in other words, the standard UNIX hiding scheme. All you have to do is hit command+~ in the finder and type its name, or go to the terminal and cd to it.
That reminds me of back in the day when sound cards came with IDE interfaces on them. Though I don't think Creative Labes expects you to attach a CD-ROM drive to it now:)
USB 2 is nice, but it is quite easy to see that FireWire is a better solution. It's faster, it is starting to support longer cables, it has more devices for it, etc etc.
Not knowing too much about what I can do with this FireWire port on the side of my computer, I have to ask...
What is the longes a firewire cable can be, and can I use repeaters? I'm thinking of buying a 40gb FW drive to accompany my iBook (For mp3s, games and large development files (Darwin source) that I don't need at school:)
Oh, connecting to smb://myname@myserver/myshare works. I just can't BROWSE my shares. I can't see what's available. I can do it with SMBrowse, but not with the base system.
OS X is good in the stability department. I run a dual-boot OS9 (HFS+)/OSX(UFS) system (a late-2001 iBook).
It's never crashed unrecoverably, excpet when starting up with the composit video out cable attached, it panics every time.
Some other things it's done: after a failed burn, it refused to eject the coaster, a simple # kill -HUP `ps ax | grep automount | grep -v grep | cut -c 1-5`
in the terminal fixed that.
There's also been some weird issues with the system not logging out. Again, drop to the terminal, and "# reboot" it.
These are the things I want: -- KDE in XDarwin (Not-Apple related) -- The ability to browse windows shares -- Better support for CDRs (They can hold more than 660mb, apple!) -- IPSec -- The ability to build XNU (OSX's kernel) with the tools on the developer CD
I'm 19. I've rented many cars in Saskatchewan and Alberta (Granted not the USA, but still....) They didn't complain about my being 19. The reason: Saskatchewan's insurance is carried on the driver, not the car.
In Alberta, the young people can't rent cars on their insurance because they're under 25. The insurance there is discriminatory against males and young people.
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There were two goals:
1) To kill Jews
2) To determine how long it would take a person to freeze to death, and how much x-rays a person could handle.
Those four cylenders are missing from most new cars.. which is why I drive a very well-tuned 1970 Chev Chevelle.
Japan rocks! Consumer electronics, low-emission vehicles, Karaoke, Bukkake ... Japan rocks.
:)
:)
I can't say I'm a fan of Japanese cars, but everything else is dead on
This is true of all Mac OS X machines, as well. There is just one Mac OS X for the whole world (although the retail boxes are different because Mac OS 9 is included and it is different in different places).
Yes, I like that about OS X.. I changed my "North American" English version to British English. WTF is North American English? There is no such thing. Even MS knows it. There should be US and Commonwealth English versions at the very least.. oh well. At least my computer knows now that "colour" and "centre" are not misspellings
"I know plenty of white people who think that way too."
Really? I know plenty too, who don't.
That's nice, I'm one of them. I think people who do that are stupid, be they chinese, white, or japanese.
"Wow. That was racist."
Is there something wrong with prefering people like yourself? Everyone is a racist--they just don't want to lost their jobs because the government has made it illegal to say so. Except non-whites--its ok for them to be racist, and to beat up whitey.
No, there is nothing wrong with preferring the company of people like yourself. There IS however something wrong with hating somebody based on the colour of their skin or where their ancestors came from. I myself make jokes about other people, like "Wow, you drive like an Indian!" and such. I just don't hate these people.
I am anti-racist, anti-politically correct. I will, under no circumstances refer to somebody as "African-Canadian", for example. There are no hypenations before or after Canadian.. or if you happen to be American, no hypenated Americans either. Somebody is Canadian, whether they're black/white/blue/green/red/yellow... the colour of their skin is just part of their description.
I am also against employment quotas. In Canada, there is a percentage of your employee base that needs to be made up of visible minorities, if your company is big enough. Frankly, I think that's bullshit. If somebody is more qualified for the job, give it to them. Don't turn down a more qualified white person for a less qualified minority. Same deal reversed.. don't turn down a more qualified minority for a less qualified white person.
Are there any similar projects in the works for other computing architectures (Mac, Sun, etc)? Not trying to open another can of worms, just thought I'd ask... :)
GNU/Darwin is kind of like this. It's pretty much a BSD style ports tree on top of Apple's Darwin OS that is used as the base level of MacOS X.
This is something only a jap would do--they do this to shitty little Hondas and Acuras (two cars that weren't meant for racing).
Actually, Acura and Honda are the same company. Just like Ford and Mercury. Anyway, Hondas and Acuras were meant for racing... other racing Acuras and Hondas.
Only a jap could think that a big fat tailpipe that makes lawnmower sounds on a embarassing modded Honda with a spoiler bigger than the car itself is cool.
I know plenty of white people who think that way too.
God I hate japs!
Wow. That was racist.
Actually, I've had kernel panics in every OS I installed on this machine for the first week after I built it. Windows crashed about 20 minutes after I started it for the first time. FreeBSD bombed shortly too. I decided to try Slackware 8.0. It crashed too. I started to debug, turned out to be a bad 256MB DIMM from Techtronics. Got a replacement for free.
I've also seen MacOS X kernel panic (different machine, my iBook). Not in every day use, though. I've only seen it once, I started the computer up with the TV cable in it. The kernel paniced before even before the gui started. It was neat.
I think I speak for every right-minded Canadian here when I say:
SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
I, OTOH would have said something witty like:
"The article should have read: Canadians do some research, Americans take credit for it." or something equally stupid.
If you're going to bash another country, please don't bring your country down with it, okay?
They're a right wing newspaper that tries to serve the interest of large corporations.
How is this worse than the left-wing newspapers serving the intersts of the vocal minority?
Are you saying that had it been published in the Globe and Mail that it would somehow be more reliable?
Mozilla is my only browser on OS9, and my primary browser in OSX. It's just very slow in OSX, but is getting better with every release.
For me on my iBook it works fine in OS9. In OS X it leaves something to be desired, though. Maybe they can speed it up a bit somehow?
Okay, by some estimates, life on earth began 4-5 billion years ago.
Now, for the sake of argument, assume that to God 1 day = 1 billion human years.
God started with a "formless and empty" earth. He then proceeded to creat life in 6 days..
That's 6 billion years. Close to 5, eh?
Perhaps indeed god created life, and then allowed it to evolve, perhaps with a gentle nudge to guide the evolving life in the right direction. Religious zealots are going to come up and say that the universe was created 4000 years ago in 6 days, so there hasnt been enough time for evolution to take place. According to 2 Peter 3:8: "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." So the seven days genesis talks about arent seven days of 24 hours each, rather they could be any period time, 7000 years, or 16 million or however old the universe is believed to be.
That's what Genesis seems to imply. "In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over waters" Genesis 1-2(NIV)
Then the rest of the creation process happens. It doesn't say how long the earth had been in existence, just that it was there before the six days, prehaps from a previous creation attempt?
Wow, 160? That's WAY too much! I could back up DVDS :)
Anyway, $350 is too much. I'm looking at about $300CDN
The iPod does not allow you to copy mp3s off of it, because they're in a hidden directory that you can't easily see, therefore you can't use it to copy music.
., in other words, the standard UNIX hiding scheme. All you have to do is hit command+~ in the finder and type its name, or go to the terminal and cd to it.
The iPods music is stored in a directory name
That reminds me of back in the day when sound cards came with IDE interfaces on them. Though I don't think Creative Labes expects you to attach a CD-ROM drive to it now :)
Actually, Sony's iLink interface is not quite firewire. iLink isn't powered, where firewire is, so I couldn't charge my iPod off my Viao.
USB 2 is nice, but it is quite easy to see that FireWire is a better solution. It's faster, it is starting to support longer cables, it has more devices for it, etc etc.
:)
Not knowing too much about what I can do with this FireWire port on the side of my computer, I have to ask...
What is the longes a firewire cable can be, and can I use repeaters? I'm thinking of buying a 40gb FW drive to accompany my iBook (For mp3s, games and large development files (Darwin source) that I don't need at school
Oh, connecting to smb://myname@myserver/myshare works. I just can't BROWSE my shares. I can't see what's available. I can do it with SMBrowse, but not with the base system.
This is true up till Win2K. I can't browse my 2K box from my OS X box. I can browse my sister's 98 box just fine.
Oh, from the finder, type command-K and you'll get the connect box.
Oh, and hopefully some rackmountable Apple gear so I can run a server with a little style. I've been hearing rumors from inside the Compound itself...
:)
Like these?
They look cool, a dual G4 rack!
OS X is good in the stability department. I run a dual-boot OS9 (HFS+)/OSX(UFS) system (a late-2001 iBook).
It's never crashed unrecoverably, excpet when starting up with the composit video out cable attached, it panics every time.
Some other things it's done: after a failed burn, it refused to eject the coaster, a simple
# kill -HUP `ps ax | grep automount | grep -v grep | cut -c 1-5`
in the terminal fixed that.
There's also been some weird issues with the system not logging out. Again, drop to the terminal, and "# reboot" it.
Anything else on people's wishlists for 10.2?
These are the things I want:
-- KDE in XDarwin (Not-Apple related)
-- The ability to browse windows shares
-- Better support for CDRs (They can hold more than 660mb, apple!)
-- IPSec
-- The ability to build XNU (OSX's kernel) with the tools on the developer CD
In Canada, a 25 year-old can have sex with a 14 year old. 14 is the age of consent, for vaginal sex... anal is 18.
There's a political issue going on that isn't getting much press. Gay people are saying that it discriminates against gays. Interesting, eh?
I'm 19. I've rented many cars in Saskatchewan and Alberta (Granted not the USA, but still....) They didn't complain about my being 19. The reason: Saskatchewan's insurance is carried on the driver, not the car.
In Alberta, the young people can't rent cars on their insurance because they're under 25. The insurance there is discriminatory against males and young people.