Xbox and Live users are directly responsible for companies believing they can charge for content the rest of us used to get for free. No sympathy here, you've made your bed, and messed ours up into the bargain.
They're working on it (sort of). These types of concerns are being addressed much more quickly nowadays as interest in Common Lisp increases. CL will be a much nicer Lisp to have underneath Emacs anyway.
Incidentally, most (if not all) CL implementations are compiled nowadays. Even ones that act as an interpreter can compile forms behind the scenes quickly enough that you can't tell the difference.
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I recognise Paul's name from comp.graphics.api.opengl, used to read it several years ago. It's great to see him condensing his knowledge into book form, thus helping newbies en masse. I learned a great deal from reading his posts, and iirc he used to maintain the FAQ. Kudos to someone who helped make (a part of) Usenet useful.
There is a balance and place which will remain in place and should. I honestly hope neither side ever wins and that they alway balance out. there needs to be a balance between science and mroality. There needs to be a balance radicals on both sides can screw this up.
Nice of you to arrogate the definition of morality to the Christian (or indeed any) religion. Not in so many words, but it's right there in the context of your post. It's not entirely fair to specifically attack you for this; religious people do it all the time. Please recognise that some people need not believe in anything supernatural at all to have a strong and well defined sense of morality, and further that the secular practice of science is not inherently amoral.
Oh well, thanks for setting me straight, I know next to nothing about the formats involved, since I can't buy AAC, and don't want a PSP. I actually bought a DS so I could play games I've never seen before, not ones my friends with PS2s bought. I was just excited I might get to actually use a modern music distribution method.
I think it's pretty clear that Apple are willing to be plenty pig headed about this, as they had basically every other major label in Australia signed up to the store until Sony took its ball and went home.
To make a vaguely on topic remark: L0L, Sony!!!1etc
I read an article a little while back reporting on how wrangling between Sony and Apple over the price of tracks and Apples refusal to open the iPod to ATRAC was holding up ITMS.au. I'm hoping that this is a sign of Sony realising that users don't care about their music format, they just want the music. Dammit.
I take your points, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. We have a Competition and Consumer Commission, which while not perfect, will be all over the split Telstra, not to mention an increasing number of smaller ISPs and telcos who will scream blue murder if any such thing takes place. A large number of people in the local industry have been chasing this result for years.
It wouldn't be beyond this government to try a sly act like you suggest, but Australia is a different environment.
Yep, mine's a 19" (phillips even), 8 ms response, decent colour reproduction, no ghosting that I can see. I know people like their massive Walls O'Entertainment, but I've had TVs smaller than this thing. What's the big difference here?
Maybe it's taking a bit longer for the better tech to 'trickle up' from the PC world? Assuming it is applicable.
>Indeed. Yet people still down^H^H^H^Hfreeload. Care to speculate why?
I am in Australia, and the ITMS launch here was recently blocked by Sony/BMG. We have dodgy workarounds to let us use the overseas stores, but there's one answer for you.
Maybe so, however it's difficult to assume anything about such a poorly understood syndrome. I have suffered from the same problem, which screwed my life right over for a few years. It started happening to me at much the same age it did to my mother, but luckily, after a few years we both found ways to mitigate its effects (dietary restrictions and drugs). AFAIK there is no history of anyone in my maternal line taking anything of that nature. I suspect a genetic defect personally, but take that for what it's worth.
Already way OT, so I won't go into any more detail, but I hope your uncle has found ways to live his life despite this debilitating condition.
and got modded down for a day or two back. The Intel switch announcement was a troll, with the the meta aspect that it's actually real. Jobs must have been gleeful about dropping that one on the faithful attendees. People are wailing and rending their clothes, as much as thinking sensibly.
As for the people complaining about the cost of porting just after OS X has stabilised, this is a perfect demonstration of why portable code matters, even when you don't have a multiplatform market.
Because you only ever think you have a sole platform to target, the world is always going to change out from under you one day. Deliberately non-portable code for no specific good reason is self inflicted pain. If you had a good reason to write PPC specific code, then you probably knew how much it might hurt later, and took steps to hide stuff behind #ifdefs.
Wasn't the Rhapsody Intel release and NeXT/OpenStep heritage enough of a heads up? Or maybe I just caught me a whiff of that MacIntel crack.
Google has infected the search button at the bottom of the page, hmm.
I'm hoping Jobs announes this today, if only because it would be a huge kick in the nuts to zealots and fanboys of so many platorms at once. It will be the troll of the year.
Mac fanboys rationalising the shift to *hiss*Intel, AMD 'enthusiasts' offended Apple went with the inferior technology, Windows um, supporters pissed off because everyone hates their shit (no change there), and Linux zealots pissed off that Apple is stealing their x86 desktop Unix thunder. The flamewar could see out the decade.
It would just be so, so right. Anyway, now that SCO looks like going down in flames, the Unix world needs a new holy war, right?
So I was just imagining Team USA's strong play in the last World Cup? US national teams do compete in the various world championships, it's just more emphasis is put on Olympic participation.
Sure, you guys put on an impressive effort there, considering you're not known as a soccer playing nation. I wasn't looking to make it an issue of national pride. There are respectable US competitors in many genuine world sports, in and out of the Olympics. Lance Armstrong being a prime example. I am a cycling fan, and I consider the man a legend, whose accomplishments will not easily be bested for many years.:)
Those leagues are the apex of their respective sports and the champions of those leagues can take on any national team.
There is a yawning gulf between 'can' and 'do'. It's easy to be the big boy when you're the only one in the sandpit. Sport is about real results, not chest beating. The simple fact is that labelling what are primarily domestic US sports as world championships is silly, one of those 'only in America' things.
Can you name a league that plays the game at a level comparable to the NFL? Otherwise the description is apt.
No it isn't. I'm from Australia and I couldn't name any other league that plays gridiron. I'm sure there are college teams and whatnot, and I guess a couple of dozen guys from Melbourne might play on the weekends. Outside your borders, a world championship sport involves competition between teams or individuals from more than one nation. Calling a national league of a game noone else cares about a world sport is self aggrandising nonsense.
> I sympathise with your predicament, but blaming Apple is hardly going to solve anything.
I agree fully, and basically stipulated in my second post that I was whining. That aside, even if they can't get the upgrade, they still have a great computer, and I still won't be doing unpaid Microsoft tech support for the next few years.
It would be nice if perhaps, when people order an imminently upgraded model, the order could be mysteriously delayed until presto! you get a call 'uh, we have your computer, but it's faster than the one you ordered, for the same money'. Done within a week or two of upgrade time, it would lead to some much happier customers. And that way Apple doesn't have to confirm upgrade leaks.
> If it was ordered last Friday and has not yet shipped you will get a free upgrade to the 1.8Ghz base model.
They ordered it via one of the Apple retailers they know in town here, so they actually got the machine Friday night. I'm still going to chase this up for them. Allowing people to order the slower machines 2-3 working days before a line upgrade is just not good enough in my book.
Not like it's the first time someone has vented on/.:) Thanks for the tips though, guys. If it doesn't work out at least I know my mum will have a decent computer.
I know, it sucks. Just last Friday my folks ordered a 1.6Ghz iMac G5. I even had them waiting to see if this rumoured upgrade was going to be announced, but eventually they had to buy. Now I feel like I steered them badly, seeing as they could have had a nicer machine for their outlay. Thanks Apple.
Well there are always sinister plots happening *somewhere*. I have to wonder about the real motivations of the people who keep pushing this China bashing? Prepping the next Evil Empire, boys?
The PRC are not perfect, but neither is the government of any powerful nation. Some just have better PR than others.
This comment posted from a Free Speech Zone in accordance with the Patriot Act.
Uh, dude that's nonsense, there are any number of 1.5/256 plans available in Oz with generous quotas, if you can get ADSL, and some people are able to get 8/1 (speaking only of plans widely available as retail offerings).
Sorry, but maybe you should spend some time shopping around on Whirlpool, it sounds like you're getting ripped off. It's no Hong Kong, but there are better and more affordable options that your absurd suggestion, and it's improving all the time.
John, it sounds like you're not planning another open source hackfest like the one you did with the utah-glx guys after Quake 3? I was sort of hoping you'd feel moved to do something on one of the new X forks. Anyways, just curious.
Glad you haven't quit to make rockets and raise babies just yet. Happy hacking.
From everything I've heard about this book, there is no specific force attempting to subvert society. Rather, individuals go along with it because they *LIKE* it that way. That's a very disturbing idea to be putting in the minds of young adults.
It seems to me you're the one conceiving of our young people as sheep. Seriously, 'putting' ideas in their minds? Any literate fiction reader is able to grasp the concept that different characters have different points of view, and that the same set of events portrayed in the story may appear very different depending on the choice of protagonist. Simply reading a book that offers the viewpoint of a hopeless character is not going to wedge those characteristics into the young readers' head.
Give your kids some credit, they may be more sophisticated readers than you seem prepared to believe. They (should) have minds of their own, and might even enjoy stretching their minds around some unfamiliar or even unpalatable concepts.
Fair enough. Its got me interested enough that I'm using my rainy Saturday downloading cvs E with the notion of doing some experiments in OpenGL and perhaps Cg, and people are testing the benchmark and trying stuff out. With any luck at least a little useful feedback will come back to the project.
Since you're involved (according to your site), any idea to what extent CVS runs at the moment? Last time I tried a few months ago I used the Gentoo cvs packages, and wasn't sure whether I got everything working (or not) as it should have, so consequently wasn't certain what was a bug, what was stubbed out feature, and what was a distro bug.
Building it all by hand will give me something I at least know is worth basing bug reports (or patches) on.
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Xbox and Live users are directly responsible for companies believing they can charge for content the rest of us used to get for free. No sympathy here, you've made your bed, and messed ours up into the bargain.
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They're working on it (sort of). These types of concerns are being addressed much more quickly nowadays as interest in Common Lisp increases. CL will be a much nicer Lisp to have underneath Emacs anyway.
Incidentally, most (if not all) CL implementations are compiled nowadays. Even ones that act as an interpreter can compile forms behind the scenes quickly enough that you can't tell the difference.
I recognise Paul's name from comp.graphics.api.opengl, used to read it several years ago. It's great to see him condensing his knowledge into book form, thus helping newbies en masse. I learned a great deal from reading his posts, and iirc he used to maintain the FAQ. Kudos to someone who helped make (a part of) Usenet useful.
Oh well, thanks for setting me straight, I know next to nothing about the formats involved, since I can't buy AAC, and don't want a PSP. I actually bought a DS so I could play games I've never seen before, not ones my friends with PS2s bought. I was just excited I might get to actually use a modern music distribution method.
I think it's pretty clear that Apple are willing to be plenty pig headed about this, as they had basically every other major label in Australia signed up to the store until Sony took its ball and went home.
To make a vaguely on topic remark: L0L, Sony!!!1etc
I read an article a little while back reporting on how wrangling between Sony and Apple over the price of tracks and Apples refusal to open the iPod to ATRAC was holding up ITMS.au. I'm hoping that this is a sign of Sony realising that users don't care about their music format, they just want the music. Dammit.
This won't work and your government knows that.
I take your points, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. We have a Competition and Consumer Commission, which while not perfect, will be all over the split Telstra, not to mention an increasing number of smaller ISPs and telcos who will scream blue murder if any such thing takes place. A large number of people in the local industry have been chasing this result for years.
It wouldn't be beyond this government to try a sly act like you suggest, but Australia is a different environment.
Yep, mine's a 19" (phillips even), 8 ms response, decent colour reproduction, no ghosting that I can see. I know people like their massive Walls O'Entertainment, but I've had TVs smaller than this thing. What's the big difference here?
Maybe it's taking a bit longer for the better tech to 'trickle up' from the PC world? Assuming it is applicable.
>Indeed. Yet people still down^H^H^H^Hfreeload. Care to speculate why?
I am in Australia, and the ITMS launch here was recently blocked by Sony/BMG. We have dodgy workarounds to let us use the overseas stores, but there's one answer for you.
Maybe so, however it's difficult to assume anything about such a poorly understood syndrome. I have suffered from the same problem, which screwed my life right over for a few years. It started happening to me at much the same age it did to my mother, but luckily, after a few years we both found ways to mitigate its effects (dietary restrictions and drugs). AFAIK there is no history of anyone in my maternal line taking anything of that nature. I suspect a genetic defect personally, but take that for what it's worth.
Already way OT, so I won't go into any more detail, but I hope your uncle has found ways to live his life despite this debilitating condition.
and got modded down for a day or two back. The Intel switch announcement was a troll, with the the meta aspect that it's actually real. Jobs must have been gleeful about dropping that one on the faithful attendees. People are wailing and rending their clothes, as much as thinking sensibly.
As for the people complaining about the cost of porting just after OS X has stabilised, this is a perfect demonstration of why portable code matters, even when you don't have a multiplatform market.
Because you only ever think you have a sole platform to target, the world is always going to change out from under you one day. Deliberately non-portable code for no specific good reason is self inflicted pain. If you had a good reason to write PPC specific code, then you probably knew how much it might hurt later, and took steps to hide stuff behind #ifdefs.
Wasn't the Rhapsody Intel release and NeXT/OpenStep heritage enough of a heads up? Or maybe I just caught me a whiff of that MacIntel crack.
Google has infected the search button at the bottom of the page, hmm.
stuff that might happen.
I'm hoping Jobs announes this today, if only because it would be a huge kick in the nuts to zealots and fanboys of so many platorms at once. It will be the troll of the year.
Mac fanboys rationalising the shift to *hiss*Intel, AMD 'enthusiasts' offended Apple went with the inferior technology, Windows um, supporters pissed off because everyone hates their shit (no change there), and Linux zealots pissed off that Apple is stealing their x86 desktop Unix thunder. The flamewar could see out the decade.
It would just be so, so right. Anyway, now that SCO looks like going down in flames, the Unix world needs a new holy war, right?
So I was just imagining Team USA's strong play in the last World Cup? US national teams do compete in the various world championships, it's just more emphasis is put on Olympic participation.
:)
Sure, you guys put on an impressive effort there, considering you're not known as a soccer playing nation. I wasn't looking to make it an issue of national pride. There are respectable US competitors in many genuine world sports, in and out of the Olympics. Lance Armstrong being a prime example. I am a cycling fan, and I consider the man a legend, whose accomplishments will not easily be bested for many years.
Those leagues are the apex of their respective sports and the champions of those leagues can take on any national team.
There is a yawning gulf between 'can' and 'do'. It's easy to be the big boy when you're the only one in the sandpit. Sport is about real results, not chest beating. The simple fact is that labelling what are primarily domestic US sports as world championships is silly, one of those 'only in America' things.
Can you name a league that plays the game at a level comparable to the NFL? Otherwise the description is apt.
No it isn't. I'm from Australia and I couldn't name any other league that plays gridiron. I'm sure there are college teams and whatnot, and I guess a couple of dozen guys from Melbourne might play on the weekends. Outside your borders, a world championship sport involves competition between teams or individuals from more than one nation. Calling a national league of a game noone else cares about a world sport is self aggrandising nonsense.
> the World Champion New England Patriots
*snicker* 'World'. What a joke.
> I sympathise with your predicament, but blaming Apple is hardly going to solve anything.
I agree fully, and basically stipulated in my second post that I was whining. That aside, even if they can't get the upgrade, they still have a great computer, and I still won't be doing unpaid Microsoft tech support for the next few years.
It would be nice if perhaps, when people order an imminently upgraded model, the order could be mysteriously delayed until presto! you get a call 'uh, we have your computer, but it's faster than the one you ordered, for the same money'. Done within a week or two of upgrade time, it would lead to some much happier customers. And that way Apple doesn't have to confirm upgrade leaks.
> If it was ordered last Friday and has not yet shipped you will get a free upgrade to the 1.8Ghz base model.
/. :) Thanks for the tips though, guys. If it doesn't work out at least I know my mum will have a decent computer.
They ordered it via one of the Apple retailers they know in town here, so they actually got the machine Friday night. I'm still going to chase this up for them. Allowing people to order the slower machines 2-3 working days before a line upgrade is just not good enough in my book.
Not like it's the first time someone has vented on
I know, it sucks. Just last Friday my folks ordered a 1.6Ghz iMac G5. I even had them waiting to see if this rumoured upgrade was going to be announced, but eventually they had to buy. Now I feel like I steered them badly, seeing as they could have had a nicer machine for their outlay. Thanks Apple.
Well there are always sinister plots happening *somewhere*. I have to wonder about the real motivations of the people who keep pushing this China bashing? Prepping the next Evil Empire, boys?
The PRC are not perfect, but neither is the government of any powerful nation. Some just have better PR than others.
This comment posted from a Free Speech Zone in accordance with the Patriot Act.
Uh, dude that's nonsense, there are any number of 1.5/256 plans available in Oz with generous quotas, if you can get ADSL, and some people are able to get 8/1 (speaking only of plans widely available as retail offerings).
Sorry, but maybe you should spend some time shopping around on Whirlpool, it sounds like you're getting ripped off. It's no Hong Kong, but there are better and more affordable options that your absurd suggestion, and it's improving all the time.
John, it sounds like you're not planning another open source hackfest like the one you did with the utah-glx guys after Quake 3? I was sort of hoping you'd feel moved to do something on one of the new X forks. Anyways, just curious.
Glad you haven't quit to make rockets and raise babies just yet. Happy hacking.
From everything I've heard about this book, there is no specific force attempting to subvert society. Rather, individuals go along with it because they *LIKE* it that way. That's a very disturbing idea to be putting in the minds of young adults.
It seems to me you're the one conceiving of our young people as sheep. Seriously, 'putting' ideas in their minds? Any literate fiction reader is able to grasp the concept that different characters have different points of view, and that the same set of events portrayed in the story may appear very different depending on the choice of protagonist. Simply reading a book that offers the viewpoint of a hopeless character is not going to wedge those characteristics into the young readers' head.
Give your kids some credit, they may be more sophisticated readers than you seem prepared to believe. They (should) have minds of their own, and might even enjoy stretching their minds around some unfamiliar or even unpalatable concepts.
Fair enough. Its got me interested enough that I'm using my rainy Saturday downloading cvs E with the notion of doing some experiments in OpenGL and perhaps Cg, and people are testing the benchmark and trying stuff out. With any luck at least a little useful feedback will come back to the project.
Since you're involved (according to your site), any idea to what extent CVS runs at the moment? Last time I tried a few months ago I used the Gentoo cvs packages, and wasn't sure whether I got everything working (or not) as it should have, so consequently wasn't certain what was a bug, what was stubbed out feature, and what was a distro bug.
Building it all by hand will give me something I at least know is worth basing bug reports (or patches) on.