I'm tired of all these Victorian storage devices with their mechanical pieces whirling like some kind of gyroscope. I want solid state storage! Everything else in a computer is solid state; how come my storage is primitive?
There are parts of The Two Towers that I skim past. It's not that they are boring but are somewhat distasteful. I really don't care for Fordo and Sam's trip through the marshes when they leave the great river. Reminds me too much of Muncie Indiana; grey, damp, and smelly.
I much prefer The Return of the King and it's battles. The battles really seem to harken back to the first age. The Silmarillion is where it's at for me, now days. By the end of the Lord of the Rings, you can see the path to our world just a little too clearly.
I haven't installed YDL 2.0 yet but DebianPPC was a bit of a pain to install, compared to YDL 1.0 or LinuxPPC 2k. Even NetBSD on my Quadra was easier to get up and running.
what if you create a JPEG in photoshop and then give it to your friend who doesnt have photoshop?! The OS (re MacOS) throws a fit thats what happens.
On most modern Macs, if they don't have Photoshop installed (as indicated by the creator code), the Mac will see from the type code that the file is a jpeg and will bring up a list of applications that support jpeg, as well as offering to open the file in applications that don't directly support jpeg, by way of translation with Quicktime.
The problem with file types being appended to file names occurs when a user takes a Word file (listbday.doc) and renames it listb.day (or something equally stupid). If an app is solely depending on name extensions for file types, it's screwed. The user has just changed the file type without actually changing the data.
As we get ready for another freshman deluge tomorrow I work ITS at a small college), I have to say that the majority of 18 year olds coming in are not that tech savvy. Sure, they can download and install AIM (and leave 3 or 4 copies of the installer on the desktop) and surf the web and such. But when it comes to something as basic as hooking up their computers to our dorm network using dhcp, a lot of them freak out. And this is with printed instructions containing screen captures.
Even worse is our recruitment of student workers for ITS. Out of an incoming class of 600 students or so, at most 10 will have the problem solving mindset that makes them any use to us. That's the big factor; aproaching a problem with an open, inquisitive mind. We all know users who freak out as soon as they get a print error or a 404 on a web page. To the majority of computer "users" out there, the computer is still a vague box full of piss and voodoo, just waiting to rain all over them.
After having a problem solving attitude, the next thing a 'hot' computer geek needs is a desire to see the big picture when dealing with the various systems that make up 'tech'. Too many techs seem content to master their small domain without looking beyond. Again, we get some students who are ''Win95/98 wizards" but balk when they are put to work on DOS, Mac or Linux machines. Finding ones that enjoy the challenge of learning a new system and aren't afraid of appearing clueless about something they've never touched before is also a hassle.
Oh well, as more young people have access to computers, more hot geeks will be showing up. Think of all the computer genuses who lived and died before computers came along or are in the other 2/3's of the world and might never have a chance to shine.
The main difference in the GUI's at Xerox Parc and at Apple (Lisa/Macintosh) are that Xerox Parc was focusing the GUI on a verb metaphor where you would click on icons that would execute scripts, as well as have a basic windowing system. Raskin's big contribution was that the GUI would be more Noun based. Icons would represent objects (data files) and the verb action would happen when you moved them on the screen. Pretty wild stuff.
Apple's big contribution is that they put a GUI out to the public in large numbers, sorta' like what they're doing with unix under OSX. They tend to popularize computer technologies and make them more mainstream.
I wonder if the new DVD of HG will have the Japanese soundtrack with the re-translated English sub-titles like the Criterion laser disk did. Pee-in-the-pants funny.
So what he's basicly saying is that the corporations and goverments already have the dirt on everyone. Sorta' like the fat cats have X-Ray glasses. If you can pony up enough cash, make the right connections, you're in the club and can then don the glasses too. If not, too bad, so sad. Of course, it's good for 'us' to be able to watch all of 'you'. This way we can help you without you even asking.
If this is indeed the case, then let's turn this thing into a big nudist colony and have everyone naked. Make all the data available to everyone. How about full sunshine laws for every goverment office, NGO, and corporation?
Hmmm...I had a great uncle die invading Norway (German army) and two great uncles die in the pacific (US Navy and Marine Corp). Just like the US Civil War, there were families fighting on both sides and the majority of soldiers were upstanding, patriotic citizens, doing what they had sworn to do (obey orders, etc.). While I did not agree with all the reasons we were in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Storm, I did my duty to my country and worked my ass off, because I had taken an oath and stood by it.
From what I remember of Larry Niven's writing (inventor of the Ringworld), a Dyson sphere's interior surface would be about three billion times that of Earth's, if built at Earth's orbit. The Ringworld was only 100,000 (?) miles wide (width of surface, not overall diameter) and had a surface area of three million Earths. I read Niven's essay on extreme space stuctures about 10 years ago so my numbers are likely off.
Desert Storm proved that wars are best fought and won from the air, using precision weapons the minimize damage to surrounding areas. There is no place for the foot soldier anymore, Vietnam proved that.
Desert Storm was a stacked deck in our favour. We had several airbases already set up in Saudi as well as a greatradar net over the area. We were also up against a small "professional" army as well as hundreds of thousands of conscript troops with poor equipment, weapons, training and leadership.
As a medic over there, I mostly treated P.O.W.'s (thousands streaming through our area alone). These people were, for the most part, peasant farmers and such, and a lot of them had WWII era weapons (bolt action rifles, only a few rounds per soldier, etc.). The area we moved through (northward into Kuwait) had these poor shmoes in trenches with barb wire in front of them and behind them. The Republican guard had marched them to the front and then made it impossible for them to retreat. No wonder they were surrendering to news crews and everyone else.
As far as the bombing goes, there's no way to secure an area with an airplane. At best, you can knock out equipment make people on the ground really want to be somewhere else.
One other thing. Despite all the jokes about military intelligence being an oxymoron and such, our military does a hell of a good job and they are not eager to lose troops. If they still see a need for thousands of ground forces in the service, then I have a feeling that they know what they are talking about. Otherwise, we'd have scrapped the ground forces for all air power, right?
Vietnam is not a good example either. If anything, it shows that air power was not as effective as hoped and that the ground troops had to go in to get things done. The failure of Vietnam is due to the politicians running the war. When given a free reign, the U.S. military can get the job done.
JP-4 (jet fuel) is really similar to kerosene. Have fun getting that stuff to explode. Yeah, you might set it on fire and have some flaming trails running down your body but that can be dealt with.
Of course, this is just quibbling. The point is that carrying liquid fuel is hazardous in a combat area
Just being in a combat area is hazardous. The most hazard from any type of carried equipment is the shrapnal it makes when it gets between you and a bullet. I saw some weird shit as a medic in Desert Storm, dealing with all the P.O.W's. A bullet wound's easy to figure out. It's the multiple entry and exit wounds from shattered coins, buckles, etc the go through a person after being shot that piss ya' off.
If Apple was into this, they'd be selling their current motherboards to users, allowing them to build whatever type of machine they'd like. Since they're not doing it already, it's unlikely that they'd start doing it with an ATX board. Except for the board and processor, everything else is pretty much PC standard now. What's the big deal if they have a proprietary X86 board or a proprietary PPC board. They'd still cost the same, so Apple could make it's money from hardware sales.
Just think where the space program would be if a truck load of Mac Cubes, flatpanel displays, a bunch of those PPC-in-a-cdrom-size-box computers, and servers were sent back to 1955. Make sure they're loaded with Linux and all the right software, docs, etc. How much of a change would there be with a 45 year jump in computing technology?
Think about PalmOS or NewtonOS. In devices like that, the OS is really distant. With the NewtonOS, you could enter data into any number of 'apps' but the data was in a 'soup' that can be accessed by other 'apps'. Maybe this is what Raskin was talking about?
Once again, Apple is a hardware company. They make money by selling boxes with electronics in them. If they closed down the clone market on PPC machines, (where they had some influence) because they were just eating into Apple sales and not expanding the market share, do you think they're really going to open it up on x86?
As far as going the straight software approach, that'd put them directly in the ring with MicroSoft. They really are two different companies. As a niche player, Apple's doing ok. Yeah, they're hit in the tech slump but who wasn't? Look all the alternative OS's out there. Doesn't that show that people like choice and will support it? Apple doesn't have to be everything to everyone.
If you want OSX/Aqua, you gotta' pay the piper (Apple) and get a Mac. Instead of bitching about it, why not go and code your own version for x86? The underpinnings are available. You just have to figure out the rest.
Check your numbers. Apple (AAPL) has a little over 4 billion in the bank and a market cap of 6.2 billion. This means that the entire value of Apple, Inc. is a little over 2 billion. This for a company that over 6 biliion in sales last year. Yeah, they're in trouble. Now's the time to be buying Apple stock, if you ask me. 'Course I can only afford $25 a month for this but a little at a time adds up.
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...in refrigerators. Hell, Burroughs talked about how the Martians used this to levitate their airships around a hundred years ago. There's a movie to be made: "A Princess of Mars.:
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I'm tired of all these Victorian storage devices with their mechanical pieces whirling like some kind of gyroscope. I want solid state storage! Everything else in a computer is solid state; how come my storage is primitive?
I much prefer The Return of the King and it's battles. The battles really seem to harken back to the first age. The Silmarillion is where it's at for me, now days. By the end of the Lord of the Rings, you can see the path to our world just a little too clearly.
Anyone tried Suse PPC beta?
With a cash infusion from Bill's mom and some connections she had at IBM.
On most modern Macs, if they don't have Photoshop installed (as indicated by the creator code), the Mac will see from the type code that the file is a jpeg and will bring up a list of applications that support jpeg, as well as offering to open the file in applications that don't directly support jpeg, by way of translation with Quicktime.
The problem with file types being appended to file names occurs when a user takes a Word file (listbday.doc) and renames it listb.day (or something equally stupid). If an app is solely depending on name extensions for file types, it's screwed. The user has just changed the file type without actually changing the data.
Apple shipped over 100,000 copies of OpenBSD based OS software last quarter.
Even worse is our recruitment of student workers for ITS. Out of an incoming class of 600 students or so, at most 10 will have the problem solving mindset that makes them any use to us. That's the big factor; aproaching a problem with an open, inquisitive mind. We all know users who freak out as soon as they get a print error or a 404 on a web page. To the majority of computer "users" out there, the computer is still a vague box full of piss and voodoo, just waiting to rain all over them.
After having a problem solving attitude, the next thing a 'hot' computer geek needs is a desire to see the big picture when dealing with the various systems that make up 'tech'. Too many techs seem content to master their small domain without looking beyond. Again, we get some students who are ''Win95/98 wizards" but balk when they are put to work on DOS, Mac or Linux machines. Finding ones that enjoy the challenge of learning a new system and aren't afraid of appearing clueless about something they've never touched before is also a hassle.
Oh well, as more young people have access to computers, more hot geeks will be showing up. Think of all the computer genuses who lived and died before computers came along or are in the other 2/3's of the world and might never have a chance to shine.
The Czech Plumber's Bag is pretty cool as is the Field Bag. I use the field bag and it get's me down the road.
A cat slowly rotating in midair. There is a slice of buttered toast strapped to its back.
Hmm....Cat...
Why not buy something? I just picked up another GURPS book that I'd been meaning to get "sometime real soon".
Apple's big contribution is that they put a GUI out to the public in large numbers, sorta' like what they're doing with unix under OSX. They tend to popularize computer technologies and make them more mainstream.
I wonder if the new DVD of HG will have the Japanese soundtrack with the re-translated English sub-titles like the Criterion laser disk did. Pee-in-the-pants funny.
If this is indeed the case, then let's turn this thing into a big nudist colony and have everyone naked. Make all the data available to everyone. How about full sunshine laws for every goverment office, NGO, and corporation?
Hmmm...I had a great uncle die invading Norway (German army) and two great uncles die in the pacific (US Navy and Marine Corp). Just like the US Civil War, there were families fighting on both sides and the majority of soldiers were upstanding, patriotic citizens, doing what they had sworn to do (obey orders, etc.). While I did not agree with all the reasons we were in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Storm, I did my duty to my country and worked my ass off, because I had taken an oath and stood by it.
From what I remember of Larry Niven's writing (inventor of the Ringworld), a Dyson sphere's interior surface would be about three billion times that of Earth's, if built at Earth's orbit. The Ringworld was only 100,000 (?) miles wide (width of surface, not overall diameter) and had a surface area of three million Earths. I read Niven's essay on extreme space stuctures about 10 years ago so my numbers are likely off.
Desert Storm was a stacked deck in our favour. We had several airbases already set up in Saudi as well as a greatradar net over the area. We were also up against a small "professional" army as well as hundreds of thousands of conscript troops with poor equipment, weapons, training and leadership.
As a medic over there, I mostly treated P.O.W.'s (thousands streaming through our area alone). These people were, for the most part, peasant farmers and such, and a lot of them had WWII era weapons (bolt action rifles, only a few rounds per soldier, etc.). The area we moved through (northward into Kuwait) had these poor shmoes in trenches with barb wire in front of them and behind them. The Republican guard had marched them to the front and then made it impossible for them to retreat. No wonder they were surrendering to news crews and everyone else.
As far as the bombing goes, there's no way to secure an area with an airplane. At best, you can knock out equipment make people on the ground really want to be somewhere else.
One other thing. Despite all the jokes about military intelligence being an oxymoron and such, our military does a hell of a good job and they are not eager to lose troops. If they still see a need for thousands of ground forces in the service, then I have a feeling that they know what they are talking about. Otherwise, we'd have scrapped the ground forces for all air power, right?
Vietnam is not a good example either. If anything, it shows that air power was not as effective as hoped and that the ground troops had to go in to get things done. The failure of Vietnam is due to the politicians running the war. When given a free reign, the U.S. military can get the job done.
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Of course, this is just quibbling. The point is that carrying liquid fuel is hazardous in a combat area
Just being in a combat area is hazardous. The most hazard from any type of carried equipment is the shrapnal it makes when it gets between you and a bullet. I saw some weird shit as a medic in Desert Storm, dealing with all the P.O.W's. A bullet wound's easy to figure out. It's the multiple entry and exit wounds from shattered coins, buckles, etc the go through a person after being shot that piss ya' off.
37th AEG (air evac group).
Then how am I able to run OSXPB (slower than the final version out in two days) on my 233MHz beige G3 with 128MB RAM?
He surrendered in the very first episode. I haven't watched any since then. Thhhbbbbss!
If Apple was into this, they'd be selling their current motherboards to users, allowing them to build whatever type of machine they'd like. Since they're not doing it already, it's unlikely that they'd start doing it with an ATX board. Except for the board and processor, everything else is pretty much PC standard now. What's the big deal if they have a proprietary X86 board or a proprietary PPC board. They'd still cost the same, so Apple could make it's money from hardware sales.
Just think where the space program would be if a truck load of Mac Cubes, flatpanel displays, a bunch of those PPC-in-a-cdrom-size-box computers, and servers were sent back to 1955. Make sure they're loaded with Linux and all the right software, docs, etc. How much of a change would there be with a 45 year jump in computing technology?
Think about PalmOS or NewtonOS. In devices like that, the OS is really distant. With the NewtonOS, you could enter data into any number of 'apps' but the data was in a 'soup' that can be accessed by other 'apps'. Maybe this is what Raskin was talking about?
As far as going the straight software approach, that'd put them directly in the ring with MicroSoft. They really are two different companies. As a niche player, Apple's doing ok. Yeah, they're hit in the tech slump but who wasn't? Look all the alternative OS's out there. Doesn't that show that people like choice and will support it? Apple doesn't have to be everything to everyone.
If you want OSX/Aqua, you gotta' pay the piper (Apple) and get a Mac. Instead of bitching about it, why not go and code your own version for x86? The underpinnings are available. You just have to figure out the rest.
Check your numbers. Apple (AAPL) has a little over 4 billion in the bank and a market cap of 6.2 billion. This means that the entire value of Apple, Inc. is a little over 2 billion. This for a company that over 6 biliion in sales last year. Yeah, they're in trouble. Now's the time to be buying Apple stock, if you ask me. 'Course I can only afford $25 a month for this but a little at a time adds up.
...in refrigerators. Hell, Burroughs talked about how the Martians used this to levitate their airships around a hundred years ago. There's a movie to be made: "A Princess of Mars.: