This is going to be excellent. The Hoberman sphere is very cool and looks good hanging in the living room, but doesn't allow for much interaction. This should be both interesting to look at and fun to play with. Also makes a great learning tool for geometric designs.
Too bad you can't order direct from the site. But I know a science store in my neighborhood that will likely carry them.
I'm excited. I haven't played with anything prebuilt like this for 20 years. Does anyone remember a set of translucent blue plastic triangles that snapped together to form pyramids and other multi-sided shapes? I wish I still had those.
I left the end off because it changes from episode to episode. I changed the period to an ellipsis to make this clearer. And you know what? The slash code corrects all of my current comments that haven't gone static. Neat.
Is trademarking any different from corporate branding? If someone tried to trademark NikeLinux or CokeLinux, lawyers would be at your door the morning after they heard of it. Are Nike and Coke protected more because they cover several different markets (shoes/sports/clothing - softdrinks/sports/clothing), while Linux is "just an OS"?
If Nike and Coke have special rights because they have a brand name, we should promote the fact that Linux has an assortment of geek clothing as well. The unique rise in production of stuffed penguins in the last ten years is not coincidental.
Next, we take the bankrupt LinuxOne and turn them into our softdrink distribution company; 'LinuxOne, the refreshing Linux beverage.' PowerSolutions can sell our soda at Californian flea markets while giving away cds. Then come the promotional geek trading cards...
I did have a serious question but it seems to have slipped away.
If Apple doesn't continue with Appearance Themes in OS X, someone else will do it.
Here is the URL for news on the Allegro Themes Project. And here is the page for info on Theme Machine, which is a MacOS theme builder currently under development.
I'm sure that Apple will leave the Platinum appearance as an option in OS X. What happens if you end up using several Classic Apps? Those apps won't be using the new features and I'm assuming won't be able to use Aqua unless it is an Appearance Theme. So it would be sensible to be able to switch back to platinum in order to keep consistency.
I also don't like the new button configuration. Not only are they scrunched together like Windows, but the traffic light analogy just doesn't work for me. The buttons should be able to show up uniquely in monochrome. I know these are new, fancy color computers, but there are reasons for not tying your OS to a color interface.
First things first, Mac OS X is not going to be fully open sourced. The core system based on BSD and the Mach kernel is already open sourced under a project called Darwin. You can find more info on that at Apple's publicsource site.
Second, WINE will not work on PPC. It will only run Windows apps under x86 Linux. IIRC the WINE team has written several of their own DLLs and just send the Windows app calls to those sections of code using the processor as usual.
A similar project for PPC to make Mac apps available under Linux would be Mac On Linux or sheepshaver.
Correct. Whoever misinterpreted Job's statement that OS X was open source doesn't seem to know that the underpinnings (Darwin) are already open. I think it was just a simple misunderstanding. It seemed clear to me when I was listening that Jobs was speaking about Darwin being "like Linux". OS X will have all of the other fun stuff sitting on top.
One more beta in the Spring and then a release in the Summer. Looking forward to playing with all the new doodads. And thankful that Jobs has solidified his position at Apple, although he still retains the iCEO title. Good humor and fun to see them growing as a company again.
I would think it shouldn't be too dificult to set up a series of cheap digital cameras to achieve the same kind of effect. Your finished product wouldn't have the same quality as real film but it would still be functional and fun to play with.
Just sync each of the digicams to pull frames from a designated section for the angle you want filmed. I envision a joystick type controller that would rotate your viewing angle thru the array of cams, pulsing the lead camera to shoot continuous and the camera on each side to catch every other frame for effect.
All of this would be combined downstream and easily manipulated in digital form. Then add in what ever else you need in the scene and you have a lower quality but still impressive piece of photography.
Just think of the extra profits that all of the MegaCorps will reap in not having to worry about net tariffs. This isn't a friendly gesture on their part, it's a well concocted plan to maintain their profit margin. They stand to make so much money by avoiding these tariffs. If it costs more to import MS software, less money makes it back to the company. Not to mention that it encourages competitive pricing.
Of course MS is using the WTO as a grandstand, that's what the WTO is all about, a big press party to take pictures of suits signing treaties. Microsoft will make this announcement before all the cameras and come off looking like they have been fighting for the freedom to disperse their product without restraints all these years. But the big bad government and 17 states have been attempting to restrict Microsoft's way of business. Watch out! Microsoft has a new best friend and their lawyers are going to make very good use of it. Much more than just self-serving press. They have the opportunity to make a multi-national organization give them clearance to continue their anti-competitive marketing strategies... world wide... without reprieve.
I work at an (unspecified) company that will be coordinating with the media and police in Seattle. The people in this city don't know what's going to hit them. There are over 25 scheduled marches throughout the week. Several of which will shut down major arteries of the city (which was recently rated #3 in worst traffic). The largest will be the AFL/CIO march on Nov. 30 which joins with an unpermitted Direct Action Network March. I expect all hell to break loose around 3pm as the people who were foolish enough to come work can't leave the city.
Already there have been several "professional protesters" who took actions last week by hanging (themselves included) a sweatshop slogan banner over the Old Navy store downtown. Today they hung over the side of the freeway retaining wall, slowing Interstate 5. By the way, last Wednesday's Seattle Post Intelligencer was covered with a mock front page with fake headlines concerning trade.
The frightening thing from my point of view is how the media is really blowing this out of proportion. All of the protest groups I've spoken with are adamantly non-violent, but you wouldn't know that from the news. Plus the police tend to over react in this town.
But best of all is that Fidel Castro may make an appearance. If that doesn't send the secret service into a frenzy I don't know what will... Castro of all people belongs here. Spokesperson of the shitty end of trade embargos.
So besides Microsoft's announcement, some Monsanto poison seeds and what the protest groups are upset about, has anyone actually seen a WTO agenda?
Actually, imaclinux.net is using Squishdot which just happens to look strikingly familiar to slashdot. Same with Technocrat.net, both of which use a combination of Squishdot and Zope.
From Technocrat...
Our web content manager
software is Zope. Zope is written in Python. The weblog software that displays our articles is a Zope component called Squishdot. It looks a lot like the Slashdot software, but the software is entirely different from Slashdot and it's expected to evolve its own unique look and feel over time.
So each package offers some of the same features, but the development seems to be progressing faster with Squish. When was the last time the Slash code was publicly updated and released?
Really, just what they need. Another reason to raise tuition. Anticipating future use of knowledge, notes will now be taxed. Maybe recruiters will pay annual visits to make sure you aren't sharing that extra information with friends or family. After all, we go to universities to raise ourselves above the sniveling masses, not share information to create a better world.
Doubt it. I'm sure they would take the DIVX approach to marketing these appliances. Sell the unit cheap, but keep them paying for the service. After a week of not checking in to the main server, a polite call from the company asking if there is a problem and would you like to add another year of service/features...
Oil for all the lamps in China. How many families don't have telephone, cable, internet or some other monthly service? It's getting to be a frightening world.
"This stand-alone QuickTime 4 installer does not require a Internet connection during initial installation. To update QuickTime to a future version, you can run the QuickTime Updater on the Internet or download a future version of this stand-alone installer."
We use these Macs: 300MHz Power Mac 9600 Two 266MHz Power Macintosh G3s A new 333MHz iMac An old Performa 6115 (we did all our publicity materials on this baby!)
Apple already has there own Office Suite. Ever heard of AppleWorks? Formerly ClarisWorks. It's a nice bundled suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, draw/paint program etc.
Apple has got their own *nix distro as well. BSD/OpenStep based MacOSX and Darwin. They would just as soon shelve the Corel distro if a buyout ever happened.
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We would hope not, but I think there is reliable evidence to the contrary. The CIA was exporting cocaine and distributing it down thru the various levels of dealers to fund their covert actions in South & Central America for the past 30 years. The distributers and dealers were mostly protected leaving the users to fend for themselves in the "war" on drugs.
It is very likely that most drug dealers and users are very well tracked and could have this information used against them if it was necessary to put them away for awhile, e.g. the case against Dewayne Holmes.
For more info read Dark Alliance by Gary Webb or some essays by Michael Parenti and others on the misguided efforts of the drug war.
I think that is a great idea. But what if you are away from your personal machine and don't remember your password? True anonymous posting should always be available. But I really would like ability to "cloak" my posting. This would also help the people who post with and automatic karma of 2 or higher. By cloaking their identity each post would be set to 1 for comments that were felt to be slightly off-topic.
I have a friend up here in the NW who's in charge of watching the ATM lines and making sure they get rerouted when necessary. His interpretation of the Worldcom outage was, 'They were testing a Y2K patch and it failed.' I think the ATMs will do OK. Far better than us normal people with businesses to run.
Leads me to wonder why it wasn't handled a bit better, but them's the breaks. We had flaky access last weekend and off and on through the week. Completely dead yesterday at noon but up early this morning.
I just pushed our machines thru a proxy server on a dialup during the outages to avoid complete loss of connectivity. One good reason to have lots of small companies to choose from for your service.
I added this a few posts up but it's worth repeating. For a good rundown of specs and performance between the K7 and G4 with a few references to the Pentiums check out www.MacKiDo.com/Hardware/K7.html.
almost always 100% of the parents were willing to sign it.
Absolutely. We have a lab at the school I volunteer for in which we offer students email accounts on the system. The parents *and* the kids sign a waiver regarding the responsibilities and such. Pretty straight forward stuff and no one has turned it down yet.
To the guy with the original question... Get in touch with your local schools. They *love* volunteers. Talk to whoever is running the technology side of things and see how you can help. Content should be the school's problem to solve. We just teach our kids to be kind to each other, post as themselves and browse like your parents were watching over your shoulder. So far everyone has been well behaved and the few slip ups have been good lessons for everyone.
Here's a link that has several of the well known TCP ports. These are the common points of connection for certain services over a network. Wish I had a better explanation, but this should get you started.
Slashdot Mirror
This is going to be excellent. The Hoberman sphere is very cool and looks good hanging in the living room, but doesn't allow for much interaction. This should be both interesting to look at and fun to play with. Also makes a great learning tool for geometric designs.
Too bad you can't order direct from the site. But I know a science store in my neighborhood that will likely carry them.
I'm excited. I haven't played with anything prebuilt like this for 20 years. Does anyone remember a set of translucent blue plastic triangles that snapped together to form pyramids and other multi-sided shapes? I wish I still had those.
Yes, the Dock can be turned off. Or it can be set to autohide, and show up only when you mouse down to the bottom of the screen.
I'm startled (although I shouldn't be) at how many news sites are saying the Dock is like the Windows taskbar. Have they never heard of Next? Yeesh.
Aye, it is.
I left the end off because it changes from episode to episode. I changed the period to an ellipsis to make this clearer. And you know what? The slash code corrects all of my current comments that haven't gone static. Neat.
Is trademarking any different from corporate branding? If someone tried to trademark NikeLinux or CokeLinux, lawyers would be at your door the morning after they heard of it. Are Nike and Coke protected more because they cover several different markets (shoes/sports/clothing - softdrinks/sports/clothing), while Linux is "just an OS"?
If Nike and Coke have special rights because they have a brand name, we should promote the fact that Linux has an assortment of geek clothing as well. The unique rise in production of stuffed penguins in the last ten years is not coincidental.
Next, we take the bankrupt LinuxOne and turn them into our softdrink distribution company; 'LinuxOne, the refreshing Linux beverage.' PowerSolutions can sell our soda at Californian flea markets while giving away cds. Then come the promotional geek trading cards...
I did have a serious question but it seems to have slipped away.
That is an excellent site with a short, succint definition of trademark and other terms we are all becoming too aware of lately. Thanks
For the copy and past challenged, here is the hyperlink .
If Apple doesn't continue with Appearance Themes in OS X, someone else will do it.
Here is the URL for news on the Allegro Themes Project. And here is the page for info on Theme Machine, which is a MacOS theme builder currently under development.
I'm sure that Apple will leave the Platinum appearance as an option in OS X. What happens if you end up using several Classic Apps? Those apps won't be using the new features and I'm assuming won't be able to use Aqua unless it is an Appearance Theme. So it would be sensible to be able to switch back to platinum in order to keep consistency.
I also don't like the new button configuration. Not only are they scrunched together like Windows, but the traffic light analogy just doesn't work for me. The buttons should be able to show up uniquely in monochrome. I know these are new, fancy color computers, but there are reasons for not tying your OS to a color interface.
First things first, Mac OS X is not going to be fully open sourced. The core system based on BSD and the Mach kernel is already open sourced under a project called Darwin. You can find more info on that at Apple's publicsource site.
Second, WINE will not work on PPC. It will only run Windows apps under x86 Linux. IIRC the WINE team has written several of their own DLLs and just send the Windows app calls to those sections of code using the processor as usual.
A similar project for PPC to make Mac apps available under Linux would be Mac On Linux or sheepshaver.
Hope this helps...
Correct. Whoever misinterpreted Job's statement that OS X was open source doesn't seem to know that the underpinnings (Darwin) are already open. I think it was just a simple misunderstanding. It seemed clear to me when I was listening that Jobs was speaking about Darwin being "like Linux". OS X will have all of the other fun stuff sitting on top.
One more beta in the Spring and then a release in the Summer. Looking forward to playing with all the new doodads. And thankful that Jobs has solidified his position at Apple, although he still retains the iCEO title. Good humor and fun to see them growing as a company again.
I would think it shouldn't be too dificult to set up a series of cheap digital cameras to achieve the same kind of effect. Your finished product wouldn't have the same quality as real film but it would still be functional and fun to play with.
Just sync each of the digicams to pull frames from a designated section for the angle you want filmed. I envision a joystick type controller that would rotate your viewing angle thru the array of cams, pulsing the lead camera to shoot continuous and the camera on each side to catch every other frame for effect.
All of this would be combined downstream and easily manipulated in digital form. Then add in what ever else you need in the scene and you have a lower quality but still impressive piece of photography.
Just think of the extra profits that all of the MegaCorps will reap in not having to worry about net tariffs. This isn't a friendly gesture on their part, it's a well concocted plan to maintain their profit margin. They stand to make so much money by avoiding these tariffs. If it costs more to import MS software, less money makes it back to the company. Not to mention that it encourages competitive pricing.
Of course MS is using the WTO as a grandstand, that's what the WTO is all about, a big press party to take pictures of suits signing treaties. Microsoft will make this announcement before all the cameras and come off looking like they have been fighting for the freedom to disperse their product without restraints all these years. But the big bad government and 17 states have been attempting to restrict Microsoft's way of business. Watch out! Microsoft has a new best friend and their lawyers are going to make very good use of it. Much more than just self-serving press. They have the opportunity to make a multi-national organization give them clearance to continue their anti-competitive marketing strategies... world wide... without reprieve.
I work at an (unspecified) company that will be coordinating with the media and police in Seattle. The people in this city don't know what's going to hit them. There are over 25 scheduled marches throughout the week. Several of which will shut down major arteries of the city (which was recently rated #3 in worst traffic). The largest will be the AFL/CIO march on Nov. 30 which joins with an unpermitted Direct Action Network March. I expect all hell to break loose around 3pm as the people who were foolish enough to come work can't leave the city.
Already there have been several "professional protesters" who took actions last week by hanging (themselves included) a sweatshop slogan banner over the Old Navy store downtown. Today they hung over the side of the freeway retaining wall, slowing Interstate 5. By the way, last Wednesday's Seattle Post Intelligencer was covered with a mock front page with fake headlines concerning trade.
The frightening thing from my point of view is how the media is really blowing this out of proportion. All of the protest groups I've spoken with are adamantly non-violent, but you wouldn't know that from the news. Plus the police tend to over react in this town.
But best of all is that Fidel Castro may make an appearance. If that doesn't send the secret service into a frenzy I don't know what will... Castro of all people belongs here. Spokesperson of the shitty end of trade embargos.
So besides Microsoft's announcement, some Monsanto poison seeds and what the protest groups are upset about, has anyone actually seen a WTO agenda?
From Technocrat...
So each package offers some of the same features, but the development seems to be progressing faster with Squish. When was the last time the Slash code was publicly updated and released?
Really, just what they need. Another reason to raise tuition. Anticipating future use of knowledge, notes will now be taxed. Maybe recruiters will pay annual visits to make sure you aren't sharing that extra information with friends or family. After all, we go to universities to raise ourselves above the sniveling masses, not share information to create a better world.
Apparently information doesn't want to be free.
Doubt it. I'm sure they would take the DIVX approach to marketing these appliances. Sell the unit cheap, but keep them paying for the service. After a week of not checking in to the main server, a polite call from the company asking if there is a problem and would you like to add another year of service/features...
Oil for all the lamps in China. How many families don't have telephone, cable, internet or some other monthly service? It's getting to be a frightening world.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/dow nload/support/
Enjoy
We use these Macs:
300MHz Power Mac 9600
Two 266MHz Power Macintosh G3s
A new 333MHz iMac
An old Performa 6115 (we did all our publicity materials on this baby!)
Source: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/features/ blair/
Apple already has there own Office Suite. Ever heard of AppleWorks? Formerly ClarisWorks. It's a nice bundled suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, draw/paint program etc.
Apple has got their own *nix distro as well. BSD/OpenStep based MacOSX and Darwin. They would just as soon shelve the Corel distro if a buyout ever happened.
We would hope not, but I think there is reliable evidence to the contrary. The CIA was exporting cocaine and distributing it down thru the various levels of dealers to fund their covert actions in South & Central America for the past 30 years. The distributers and dealers were mostly protected leaving the users to fend for themselves in the "war" on drugs.
It is very likely that most drug dealers and users are very well tracked and could have this information used against them if it was necessary to put them away for awhile, e.g. the case against Dewayne Holmes.
For more info read Dark Alliance by Gary Webb or some essays by Michael Parenti and others on the misguided efforts of the drug war.
I think that is a great idea. But what if you are away from your personal machine and don't remember your password? True anonymous posting should always be available. But I really would like ability to "cloak" my posting. This would also help the people who post with and automatic karma of 2 or higher. By cloaking their identity each post would be set to 1 for comments that were felt to be slightly off-topic.
I have a friend up here in the NW who's in charge of watching the ATM lines and making sure they get rerouted when necessary. His interpretation of the Worldcom outage was, 'They were testing a Y2K patch and it failed.' I think the ATMs will do OK. Far better than us normal people with businesses to run.
Leads me to wonder why it wasn't handled a bit better, but them's the breaks. We had flaky access last weekend and off and on through the week. Completely dead yesterday at noon but up early this morning.
I just pushed our machines thru a proxy server on a dialup during the outages to avoid complete loss of connectivity. One good reason to have lots of small companies to choose from for your service.
I added this a few posts up but it's worth repeating. For a good rundown of specs and performance between the K7 and G4 with a few references to the Pentiums check out www.MacKiDo.com/Hardware/K7.html.
For a good comparison of these chips check out David Every's page on the Athlon chip specs.
They're next in line to offer an eIPO! Didn't you all get the letter?
almost always 100% of the parents were willing to sign it.
Absolutely. We have a lab at the school I volunteer for in which we offer students email accounts on the system. The parents *and* the kids sign a waiver regarding the responsibilities and such. Pretty straight forward stuff and no one has turned it down yet.
To the guy with the original question... Get in touch with your local schools. They *love* volunteers. Talk to whoever is running the technology side of things and see how you can help. Content should be the school's problem to solve. We just teach our kids to be kind to each other, post as themselves and browse like your parents were watching over your shoulder. So far everyone has been well behaved and the few slip ups have been good lessons for everyone.
Here's a link that has several of the well known TCP ports. These are the common points of connection for certain services over a network. Wish I had a better explanation, but this should get you started.