The design is much smaller/simpler (and hence more limited too), and far more modern. Sure it has its shell, but the shell isn't really anything like bourne shell. More than dos batch files but much less than bourne shell.
Filesystem and device model is completely different. e.g. volumes have their own namespace, devices aren't attached to filesystem nodes, etc.
Apart from being a 're-entrant pre-emptive multitasking os with a shell', there's really nothing at all similar between unix and amigaos (and even those areas are a stretch in many cases). Mores the pity for GNU in that regard.
These things have been on TV here in Australia more than once in the last year or so, they're very cool devices. And indeed, there is no measurable pulse, despite being installed along-side the existing (sick) heart.
The neat thing technologically is the completely frictionless impeller which is suspended by magentic fields and the lubricated by the flow of blood. Without damanging the blood because it is far enough away from the pump walls and moves slowly enough.
Because there is no friction the pump itself should last effectively indefinitely, assuming the wiring doesn't burn itself out.
10-12mph? Uh, so 16-20Km/h. I wouldn't hit below 16Km/h on all but the steepest hills, and can sit on 25-30 for hours on mixed terrain without too much effort. I don't see 16Km/h being much faster than 30, or even 20, and i'm no athelete. For $US2K I could get a pretty sweet bike, or even two very decent ones.
You're also forgetting the exercise. Exercise, walking, cycling, makes you feel good, as well as being good for you. The exertion is good for you. Humans are designed to undertake arduous physical tasks, if they don't then they don't operate properly, or look particularly sexy. And we have enough of an obesity epidemic as it is too.
They will never catch on except as perhaps a step on the course to the zimmer frame, for the ederly. They will never be licensed for the road, and would be a danger to pedestrians on the footpath. They're just such an absurd idea.
Well there a few things you can do with a book that you either can't or shouldn't do with an ebook, or presumably they wont let you do with ebooks:
Start a fire.
Wipe your bum.
Use it to reach higher places (thick enough books).
Rip out a page and put it on a wall to look at.
Give it to your friend, their friend, a charity, if the publishers have any say in the matter.
Buy and sell second hand, as above.
The last two points are just another impingement on our personal freedoms and property rights by non-human person-entities (companies), which will mean it will happen eventually, once the technology is sufficiently capable and cheap.
It'll mean the death of libraries, and everything will become 'user pays', 'pay per view'.
Bzzt, no its not. Its just like the registry, only less reliable. xml? pah, thats only a poorly implemented backend storage format. It doesn't even do structured storage. If the xml interface was exposed you might at least be able to do that, but you can't. Its a joke.
The only reason its not like the registry is that nothing really important (like god forbid, system information) is ever stored in it.
And errr, last time I looked, ie and firefox were both web browsers. It was never claimed gconf IS the windows registry, only that its just as bad a solution that works similarly.
Hmm, Apple don't give a flying toss about being the best, they're primarily a marketing company, that is all. They are only and always have only been about making money, nothing else. Just like every public company is legally obliged to be.
This happens naturally, all the time. But, some might say unfortunately, its biodiversity protects the species as a whole. Sure people die, but look at SARS, very few people actually died - a minority of few people who even caught it. But people die all the time anyway - its a natural part of life.
It's the mono-culture of Windows which is its main downfall, regardless of how insecure or otherwise it might be 'inherently'. And conversely one of Linux's strengths - even if you're running the same buggy kernel, which you probably wont be, and even if you're running on the same architecture, which you needn't be, you're probably not running the same buggy version of the same buggy app anyway.
Other mono-culture environments - like modern food production - now thats where bioengineered viruses (and even natural ones) could get really nasty. Particularly with the 'bioengineered' (engineering is somewhat over-used here, its more like trying to build a car by chucking lumps of metal in a can and shaking it up) crops which generally go for yield or appearance over, say, disease resistance (or taste, or anything else it seems).
Well, its not like the local keystone cops aren't trying to do this too, but they couldn't find their arse in the dark with a torch in their hands.
Still. How about getting out of your fucked up corner of the world and realising there's more to the world than your useless corner of the world? Ahh I guess no. Oh well, nevermind. Die in your own blood eh?
yeah, why do people think this is something new? seems very old news. even back in the modem days they tapped data via court order, and with internet its even easier. in most places it seems this is merely covered by phone tapping laws anyway, which have been around forever.
and i have no time for abusers of children in any form either, rot in prison, arseholes.
Funny, I thought the comments would be so completely opposite to this.
Good on ya mate. Whether I agree or not (and to be honest, generally I do), you're welcome to your own opinion. And anyones own opinion seems to have become too much of a byword for terrorism lately. Hah! So much for "free bloody speech" eh? Bloody hypochrites.
Terrorists are pricks, but you don't fight them by strenghtening their popular base of support by terrorising innocent people instead. Instead you undermine their base - fight poverty and social injustice - NOT strenghen it. And why do the yanks do such a good job at it - its a pity. American's aren't stupid, on the whole, but by fuck they do a good job of making out they are, by their skewed environment and upbringing it seems. Its a real pity that recent events didn't bring them more into the real world - I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. As they say. They're not the only ones.
Whats the other one? You can't fool all of the people all of the time?...
I guess time will tell. The mighty always fall eh? We'll see.
Cancel does nothing other than cancel that action. No other side effects.
This is why it should be the last button. Always in the same spot, so you know what you're getting when you hit it - its totally spatial, man. Your argument above leads directly to this conclusion, but then you turn around and claim otherwise.
i.e. The least-destructive option should always be in the same spot and be the default. And the best spot is the lower-right corner.
This is why this is probably the single most worst decision by these so called usability experts.
Just the fact that its different to every other app on the planet that anyones ever actually used is enough reason not to do it - all your spatial knowledge is toast, let alone the hell of trying to work with such apps at the same time.
It sucks. Most people, historically, meet their spouses at work. How the hell are you gonna do that at home? Most people meet most of their mates at work. Same deal. How the fuck you gonna go for after work drinks to whine about your boss or the shit of the week, with a bloody laptop to talk to?
Working from home is a lonely lonely thing. Western society is already turning into a personal-space fortress, this just makes it worse. You also end up working extreme hours; its hard to separate work from home, and you end up just getting stuck doing work-shit well into what should be personal time.
I've been working from home for most of the last 4 years and its a big relief finally having an office to work from, even if my office-mates aren't my work-mates. Sure working from home is convenient, at times, but the majority of people still need a structured social environment to meet people and being social beings, this is all so very very important to help with becoming a happy human-worm-person.
The Bible is also referred to as "God's word", and God being an unerring omniscient being, it couldn't possibly contain mistakes, right? These people must take it as 100% accurate, otherwise, they are by definition of their religion, heretics.
Of course, interpretation of the actual truth in this unerring perfect text has caused countless wars, extreme suffering, intolerance and justified horrendous behaviour.
But I guess that's just human nature, or something. Oh thats right, God's Will.
Noah's Ark, oh groan, even the Australian Aboriginal dream-time stories have more believability than the crap at the start of the bible (giant snakes and all). At least they're a hell of a lot more imaginative anyway.
I'm embarassed by how much memory evolution eats. But - sometimes you don't have much choice, and we constantly work on addressing the issue, including many custom data structures and memory managers.
People want to do a lot of crap with their email and they want it to be instant. And they want to do it with more data than they ever used to. That just takes memory - there's not much you can do about that.
I've got nearly 1GB of email files, you could'nt even dream of having that much hard drive space lying around for email a few years ago (to me, essentially wasted, i only have it for testing). The trade-off I use to justify evolution's memory hogging is that it starts up fast, and if you dont have much mail, it doesn't use as much memory. Its memory use for me is comparable to mozilla (browsing), but handles scads and gobs more data.
You can have disk-based algorithms, but they're complex and hard to write properly, and slower. So then you go the RDBMS route, and forget about memory saving forever (scales well for many users, but for a personal user, no chance).
I'm not sure altruism has anything to do with it...
I do care, but if someone with 2GB of email complains that evolution eats 100MB of their ram, i'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
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No way was it even close to unix.
The design is much smaller/simpler (and hence more limited too), and far more modern. Sure it has its shell, but the shell isn't really anything like bourne shell. More than dos batch files but much less than bourne shell.
Filesystem and device model is completely different. e.g. volumes have their own namespace, devices aren't attached to filesystem nodes, etc.
Apart from being a 're-entrant pre-emptive multitasking os with a shell', there's really nothing at all similar between unix and amigaos (and even those areas are a stretch in many cases). Mores the pity for GNU in that regard.
These things have been on TV here in Australia more than once in the last year or so, they're very cool devices. And indeed, there is no measurable pulse, despite being installed along-side the existing (sick) heart.
The neat thing technologically is the completely frictionless impeller which is suspended by magentic fields and the lubricated by the flow of blood. Without damanging the blood because it is far enough away from the pump walls and moves slowly enough.
Because there is no friction the pump itself should last effectively indefinitely, assuming the wiring doesn't burn itself out.
10-12mph? Uh, so 16-20Km/h. I wouldn't hit below 16Km/h on all but the steepest hills, and can sit on 25-30 for hours on mixed terrain without too much effort. I don't see 16Km/h being much faster than 30, or even 20, and i'm no athelete. For $US2K I could get a pretty sweet bike, or even two very decent ones.
You're also forgetting the exercise. Exercise, walking, cycling, makes you feel good, as well as being good for you. The exertion is good for you. Humans are designed to undertake arduous physical tasks, if they don't then they don't operate properly, or look particularly sexy. And we have enough of an obesity epidemic as it is too.
They will never catch on except as perhaps a step on the course to the zimmer frame, for the ederly. They will never be licensed for the road, and would be a danger to pedestrians on the footpath. They're just such an absurd idea.
Well there a few things you can do with a book that you either can't or shouldn't do with an ebook, or presumably they wont let you do with ebooks:
The last two points are just another impingement on our personal freedoms and property rights by non-human person-entities (companies), which will mean it will happen eventually, once the technology is sufficiently capable and cheap.
It'll mean the death of libraries, and everything will become 'user pays', 'pay per view'.
Too bloody right.
The only reason its not like the registry is that nothing really important (like god forbid, system information) is ever stored in it.
And errr, last time I looked, ie and firefox were both web browsers. It was never claimed gconf IS the windows registry, only that its just as bad a solution that works similarly.
Hmm, Apple don't give a flying toss about being the best, they're primarily a marketing company, that is all. They are only and always have only been about making money, nothing else. Just like every public company is legally obliged to be.
What for? Shit knows.
Perhaps people aren't buying overpriced crap as much as they used to.
People have been copying software forever (it isn't piracy, piracy is killing and maiming people to steal their property). It's nothing new.
Java works well as a COBOL replacement, a backend application language for boring buisiness apps.
Thats what it should be benchmarked against. Comparing it to C is like comparing apples and oranges.
This happens naturally, all the time. But, some might say unfortunately, its biodiversity protects the species as a whole. Sure people die, but look at SARS, very few people actually died - a minority of few people who even caught it. But people die all the time anyway - its a natural part of life.
It's the mono-culture of Windows which is its main downfall, regardless of how insecure or otherwise it might be 'inherently'. And conversely one of Linux's strengths - even if you're running the same buggy kernel, which you probably wont be, and even if you're running on the same architecture, which you needn't be, you're probably not running the same buggy version of the same buggy app anyway.
Other mono-culture environments - like modern food production - now thats where bioengineered viruses (and even natural ones) could get really nasty. Particularly with the 'bioengineered' (engineering is somewhat over-used here, its more like trying to build a car by chucking lumps of metal in a can and shaking it up) crops which generally go for yield or appearance over, say, disease resistance (or taste, or anything else it seems).
You mean their GNU/Linux/GNOME + Java system, right?
Still. How about getting out of your fucked up corner of the world and realising there's more to the world than your useless corner of the world? Ahh I guess no. Oh well, nevermind. Die in your own blood eh?
Suckers.
yeah, why do people think this is something new? seems very old news. even back in the modem days they tapped data via court order, and with internet its even easier. in most places it seems this is merely covered by phone tapping laws anyway, which have been around forever.
and i have no time for abusers of children in any form either, rot in prison, arseholes.
Funny, I thought the comments would be so completely opposite to this.
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Good on ya mate. Whether I agree or not (and to be honest, generally I do), you're welcome to your own opinion. And anyones own opinion seems to have become too much of a byword for terrorism lately. Hah! So much for "free bloody speech" eh? Bloody hypochrites.
Terrorists are pricks, but you don't fight them by strenghtening their popular base of support by terrorising innocent people instead. Instead you undermine their base - fight poverty and social injustice - NOT strenghen it. And why do the yanks do such a good job at it - its a pity. American's aren't stupid, on the whole, but by fuck they do a good job of making out they are, by their skewed environment and upbringing it seems. Its a real pity that recent events didn't bring them more into the real world - I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same. As they say. They're not the only ones.
Whats the other one? You can't fool all of the people all of the time?
I guess time will tell. The mighty always fall eh? We'll see.
This is why it should be the last button. Always in the same spot, so you know what you're getting when you hit it - its totally spatial, man. Your argument above leads directly to this conclusion, but then you turn around and claim otherwise.
i.e. The least-destructive option should always be in the same spot and be the default. And the best spot is the lower-right corner.
This is why this is probably the single most worst decision by these so called usability experts.
Just the fact that its different to every other app on the planet that anyones ever actually used is enough reason not to do it - all your spatial knowledge is toast, let alone the hell of trying to work with such apps at the same time.
Well thats what you have to do in this part of the world anyway. None of this table service crap!
And since you have to do it yourself, its pretty bloody easy to know when you need another one, you can see the bottom of your glass!
Working from home is a lonely lonely thing. Western society is already turning into a personal-space fortress, this just makes it worse. You also end up working extreme hours; its hard to separate work from home, and you end up just getting stuck doing work-shit well into what should be personal time.
I've been working from home for most of the last 4 years and its a big relief finally having an office to work from, even if my office-mates aren't my work-mates. Sure working from home is convenient, at times, but the majority of people still need a structured social environment to meet people and being social beings, this is all so very very important to help with becoming a happy human-worm-person.
Get it right guys.
The Bible is also referred to as "God's word", and God being an unerring omniscient being, it couldn't possibly contain mistakes, right? These people must take it as 100% accurate, otherwise, they are by definition of their religion, heretics.
Of course, interpretation of the actual truth in this unerring perfect text has caused countless wars, extreme suffering, intolerance and justified horrendous behaviour.
But I guess that's just human nature, or something. Oh thats right, God's Will.
Noah's Ark, oh groan, even the Australian Aboriginal dream-time stories have more believability than the crap at the start of the bible (giant snakes and all). At least they're a hell of a lot more imaginative anyway.
'cause sure as fuck, brown-nose, deputy-john isn't doing it.
Bring back hicks.
oh they're not in heaven. Remember, if you're not a god-fearing christian, you're headed to hell for eternal damnation!
Wankaaar.
The sooner they FOAD ("fuck of and die"), the better. They are and have always been just a leach on the industry.
I'm pretty offended by this.
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I'm embarassed by how much memory evolution eats. But - sometimes you don't have much choice, and we constantly work on addressing the issue, including many custom data structures and memory managers.
People want to do a lot of crap with their email and they want it to be instant. And they want to do it with more data than they ever used to. That just takes memory - there's not much you can do about that.
I've got nearly 1GB of email files, you could'nt even dream of having that much hard drive space lying around for email a few years ago (to me, essentially wasted, i only have it for testing). The trade-off I use to justify evolution's memory hogging is that it starts up fast, and if you dont have much mail, it doesn't use as much memory. Its memory use for me is comparable to mozilla (browsing), but handles scads and gobs more data.
You can have disk-based algorithms, but they're complex and hard to write properly, and slower. So then you go the RDBMS route, and forget about memory saving forever (scales well for many users, but for a personal user, no chance).
I'm not sure altruism has anything to do with it
I do care, but if someone with 2GB of email complains that evolution eats 100MB of their ram, i'm not going to lose any sleep over it.