In other words, you refuse to believe it AND you refuse to look into it.
WTO is not exactly a vague event. Not exactly hard to look into.
So, your disagreement amounts to the fact that you are ignorant, and wish to remain that way, therefore, I must be wrong.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense-- you're a christian. That's what christianity IS. The worship of the elimination of human rights, perpetrated by ignorant people who willfully ignore reality.
Why should I expect you to understand-- you wanna kill everyone who doesn't give sanction to your petty god.
And I bet you're even in denial of that basic truth!
Cellphones aren't about building hardware. Cellphone hardware is given away at cost (or you pay dearly for it, depending on your perspective.)
Cellphones are all about minutes. And that is where the competition is. The NYT says "building the hardware is easy, but building the infrastructure is hard". Which is why they miss the point--- apple isn't going to try and make money on cellphone hardware, apple is going to try and make money on cellphone minutes (if they even do this at all).
They would do this by providing an easy to use cellphone (certainly built by someone else and possibly co-branded) but would introduce some compelling feature that adds minutes, and adds value to the infrastructure carrier. And thus do a deal with them.
Much like they thought they'd make money with their earthlink partnership (which they may have, just hasn't been gangbusters, I bet.)
The iPod took and MP3 player and added three killer features: the useability of the wheel, the next generation battery, and the next generation storage device (a small hard drive.) Expect an iphone, if there is one, to have three killer features as well.
But I suspect that all thats going on is Apple is spending R&D money watching the market, and keeping efforts going to integrate the mac into the "Digital hub" of our lives.
When and idea comes up that improves this integration, apple turns it into a product (iSync)... but I believe apple has realized that the Mac is the platform, and eveything should support that.
It will make more money, and is far easier to grow mac market share, than to enter a totally new market and try to dominate it. The Newton was not a bad idea because it CREATED a totally new market. But a PDA or Phone would be pointless until there were three significant advantages (like the iPod had) and even then the MP3 player market was tiny when Apple entered it, and the PDA and phone markets are already big.
Apple's watching the convergence and I'm sure product ideas are developed periodically-- I'm sure they've internally built apple brand/style iPhones-- but that doesn't mean they are planning to release one. All products from good companies go thru these revisions, and speculative development to see if there really is an opportunity there.
But the economics of the situation is that unless there are some compelling reasons to believe this would be very profitable to apple, they are highly unlikely to do it. Better to spend the time and money and FOCUS on improving the Mac profitability.
At first I just thought you were a bitter guy. Then you mentioned WebObjects and claimed you couldn't do it in 6 months of WebObjects but you could using Microsoft tools in 3 months.
That's when I realized you were full of it. As someone who's used WebObjects, it takes days if not weeks to finish a project that previously took 5-6 months using the more traditional Microsoft tools. ITs shockingly fast.
Furthermore, I've gotten great support from Apple when I've needed it, there's a very active developer community and I've seen very few questions on the WO discussion lists that go unanswered. Even when I ask a stupid one, there's an answer, and often a tutorial length description from one of the WO engineers than hangs out there. Furthermore, the only reason ANY webobjects project is likely to fail is programmer incompetence. The tool is stable, extensive, and superior to everything else I've seen in the market. But it does mean you have to understand object oriented programming. Those who won't learn fail.
Anyway, its clear that you're just one of these PC users who has a long list of perceived mistakes on apples part that you like to trott out to bash apple whenever you get the chance.
Rational standards. The very act of being rational requires these judgements. You know what you know for fact, by direct sense of it. You know the rules of logic. You infer from that whether what you're hearing is bunk or not.
If its bunk, you know its not true. If it may not be bunk, you can provisionally say its true. If you know its true, then you know its true.
But you cannot say "That is blasphemy!" and use THAT as an excuse to suppress it. This is what moral relativists and other religious people (such as right wingers and liberals) do all the time-- liberals are always beating the drums of untruth and telling Big Lies-- such that merely saying the truth becomes blasphemy to anyone who has swallowed the Big Lie. An example of a big lie is "obviously greenhouse gasses are leading to global warming". A rational person recognizes that this may be true and there is some supporting evidence, but there is also evidence that brings this into question, so its not "obviously" true.
Those who want you to believe in irrationality use blasphemy as a tool-- they make it unthinkable (ie you're not allowed to think about) the ideas that they disagree with. Such as its not obvious that every human owes every other human their support. Or as Bush recently said, 4 years of our lives giving back to the "greater good". (I thought that's what taxes are.) Thats one of the biggest lies out there.
But they don't try to make a rational case for it, they just repeat it over and over until their followers end up repeating it as well. And standing up to it becomes blasphemy.
Here's another example: To a gay person, saying "yes that person has a right to decide who will live in the apartment they are renting" is blasphemy-- because they belive that "gay rights" triumphs over property rights. They don't. Just as gay people have the right of free association, people who own apartment buildings do as well. If a christian kicks me out of their apartment building because I'm a non-christian, then that is their right (Assumign they follow the lease) I don't want to do business with someone who doesn't want to do business with me. It may not be fair, but it is their right.
But many people say that anything that is "unfair" is wrong-- and that puts you into quite a moral quandry when you think about it. Because life isn't fair and you can't MAKE it fair. But to keep people from recognizing the quandry-- the questioning of it is treated as blasphemy.
Yeah right. Just look in the Houston Papers in the early to mid 90s. Hell, you can go look now and you'll see it.
Jsut a couple weeks ago we saw cops slamming some kids head on the trunk of a car repeatedly, on national television. You gonna work to bring him to justice?
Or the guys who beat rodney king?
I love that you say private agencies would be abused but you don't think that public ones are-- when the public ones are not held accountable AT ALL under the law. sheesh.
You refuse to see, and so you pretend it doesn't exist.
But how long can you do this when video keeps coming out of this stuff? How about the cop that shot the guy who was threatening to commit suicide a few years ago? or the Cop Riot in Seattle we had for WTO? Was your TV broken that week? The cops frikking RIOTED.
Sheesh.
And not one of those WTO cops has even had a hearing, a grand jury brought up or anything. Know why? all of them had their badges covered, making it impossible to identify them. Now why would they go and do something like that, upstanding, law abiding people that they were. That's not premeditation, is it? Gee.
BTW, I was here, I talked to people first hand, I saw what went on during WTO first hand. I wasn't involved, but anyone who went to the window of their office building in the right parts of town could see it with their own eyes. Not to mention the video tape that was broadcast nationally-- for instance the one where the cop stopped the art students car, made them roll down the window, and then PEPPER SPRAYED THEM. They were just going home from a night college class, but he was pissed so he took it out on a couple young girls. Yeah, great police force we have here.
So, of course, pointing out that the article is a troll and flamebait is the equivilent of trolling and flame baiting and my post has been moderated as such.
Yeah, Slashdot is really pro-apple.
Sheesh.
There is no science here, no rationality, no technology. And its sad. There should be a place for geeks to congregate online... without being overrun by the never wrote a program crowd.
There's actually a very easy way to ask. One simple question:
"What is your markup?"
If they are a reputable company, they will tell you. If they tell you that "client confidentiality" prevents them from revealing it, or any other excuse, they are not a reputable company.
They are marketing your skills and taking a cut of your pay to do so. Companies that misrepresent those they market, often have a huge markup-- which is the worst possible situation, the client expects more from you than you are capable of and is paying a huge amount of money to get it, but you're not getting the huge amount of money.
This, so far, has been %100 effective for me. IT does screen out most contracting agencies (Hal Kinion, etc.) but then, most of them are not reputable (including Hal Kinion).
I don't think how long they have been in business, or glowing reviews from people who have gotten jobs from them is a good way to tell when they are reputable. I was really excited about 7 years ago when one of these poor agencies got me a job at $55 an hour. Little did I know they sold the client at $200 an hour-- and the client was not happy. Needless to say it was a poor experience!
Expect that they have to pay %8 for social security and another 2-4 percent for unemployment insurance. So, a markup of %20-%40 is probably ok, with %40 being a bit on the high end. If they are reputable, they will break down their costs in the markup (for instance, if they pay health insurance for you, thats part of it, and if they provide vacation pay, etc.) Don't be stingy.
But if they won't talk about it, then they are not worth your time. After all, they are being deceptive-- this is not confidential information, YOU Are the product!
If its confidential to anyone its confidential to you.
I wrote a lenghty debunking of this, but deleted it.
What's the point?
It doesn't matter how stupid, incorrect or subtly falsified the sophistry is-- if it bashes Macs, it gets posted to slashdot.
Its a dick thing-- nobody wants to think their dick is small, so everyone will gather around and argue about whether Macs are inferior or not.
And of course, slashdot likes controversy these days.
So, I'm going to stop taking these bashing articles on their merits -- it gets tiresome explaining computer technology to people who should know this stuff, but apparently graduated high school, read a perl book, and decided they are nerds.
Oh, and Ars Technica is the Weekly World News of computer technology. They wouldn't know a microprocessors feature size from a Martian! Baby! Attacks!
Adobe has its place too but its not a real standard, and its not free.
Sure it is. Its an open standard.
Apple created the OS X compositing engine to be compatible with PDF, making PDF generation a trivial thing for Mac Apps, and they did this without paying Adobe any money.
AFAIK there are Open source implementations of PDF as well, if not then its only because nobody wanted it enough to write one.
Or did you mean Free as in GNUtalitarian? "Sure, you're free to use our icon, you just have to open the source for your whole program. No, just releasing the changes you make to our work isn't enough, sorry."
Right, because if you put it in your keychain, then its only protected by an easy to guess single password, right?
Has anyone tried making the keychain itself better protected? (Say, putting IT on an AES partition) or putting it on a removable USB keychain drive?
(And then encrypting it with PGP or something.)
I've considered doing this, but haven't had a chance to experiment -- I wonder if OS X can handle the keychain being somewhere other than ~/Library/Keychain, like/Volumes/Toyota/?
Where by "Rasterization trick" I meant to say "raycasting trick". A good technology for the time, and also not invented by Carmack, but put to good use in Doom. It just isn't an actual 3D modeled world.
Descent used the same trick, only it used two raycasts, so instead of boxes, you got tunnels.
This is not to bash Carmack, his merits speak for themselves. But the perception of him is a bit out of line with reality-- I find no fault with him, but he is a mortal, not a god.
Hell, the networking in the current version of Quake still sucks even though I showed him a better way well back in 1996!
And of course its worth pointing out that Doom is actually a 2-D game with the 2.5D rasterization trick.
I worked on a killer game that was a LOT of fun, was true threeD and came out before Quake. I think its the first true 3D game ever released. The name of the game was Locus.
It was a great game, better technology than Quake, ran faster, etc. But due to poor marketing on the part of GT Interactive, and a game concept slightly more difficult than the obvious no-thought first person shooter, it did not sell too well.
So, everyone thinks Quake was the first 3D game (Some even think Doom was!) and history, as they say, is written by the winners.
There might have been a true 3-D game before Locus (I played ultima Underworld, both kinds, but don't think it qualified).. so I might be wrong. But we certainly beat quake to market.
Apple doesn't have a factory they own making PCBs.
Apple contracts with others to make thier PCBs. (This is quite an industry, actually, you can take your desing file, email it to people and get a PCB back in a week.)
The colors vary from vendor to vendor, and don't really mean anything... so during prototype they'll have one color depending on which vendor made it (they probably use multiple-- one for overnight turnaround, one when they want to run a dozen and one when they want to run a couple hundred.)
The final PCBs are made by yet another company, probably in asia, which due to local supplier variation will likely produce PCBs with a different color than the US prototyping houses.
That digitalvideoediting.com site is even more biased than Apple. For instance, for their video performance benchmarks they use and orphaned unsupported application on the mac side-- one that isn't optimized.
A fair comparison would be to use Final Cut Pro on the Mac side and see how fast it does the comperable work.
IF you really want to compare how fast you can GET STUFF DONE, that is.
Unfortunately, most benchmarks out there are really pre-designed to give the answer the creator wants.
Apple is explicit when they say the 18Gflops is a max performance, not a typical one.
Drive Restore- its a pretty good program, and while a little buggy, recovered my drive after I let Norton and another product really fsck it up. (NEVER USE NORTON!)
For backup, I started putting my files into encrypted.dmg drives that disk copy can make. Then you can just burn them on DVD regularly, and back them up regularly to an external hard drive (Which is what I do mostly now.)
> despite oppressive unions - friend recently > got fired from his job because he wasn't a > union member)
And what about the Enron employees who got fired because their bosses systematically looted the company? You can't have it both ways.
Apparently you ARE defending Marxism. Those employees were free to leave at any time. Enron was free to let them go at anytime. There was no contract binding them to employment, or enron to the other situation.
However, when my friend went to wkr, the company wanted to hire him, he wanted to work there. This was a freely entered contract by these two people. The union has no business in it- they are not parties to the contract, but because the laws are such that they are, they were able to get him fired because they weren't able to extort money from him.
This is the same as the mobster who burns your store (destroying your job) because you won't pay him protection money.
Interestingly, Jimmy Hoffa, the "great union leader" here in america got started that way-- he'd try to "organize" (eg: get protection money from the employees of) a drycleaner, or some other store, and if they didn't join up, he'd come back later and torch the joint!
Unions are a protection racket-- they are not about protecting employees rights, they are about extorting money from companies and employees.
Enron is irrelevant. The union didn't stop that from happening, only made it faster.
The US budget deficit is shooting through the roof. Personal indebtedness is at historic highs, the savings ratio at historic lows.
Nevermind that you changed the subject. Economic prosperity caused people to start increasing their debt-- that's true, but thats THEIR FAULT. Their stupidity.
AS to "savings ratio" being at historic lows, thats just plain false. Savings and investment went thru the roof in the 90s, which is what drove the stock market up.
But all of this is irrelevant-- marxism says you don't get to save, you have to give up all your money to your owners( whether it be the state , or the union, etc.) and in exchange they'll protect you from being fired by your evil greedy bosses-- by replacing them with their own evil greedy state functionaries.
Everyone knows the history of the soviet union-- hell anyone educated should see how completely these ideas failed in the UK and India, as well as russia.
So why do people, like yourself, keep advocating marxism, even when they claim not to?
Yes, at my expense. You want to pretend that by "Spreading it around" it lightens the load, but of course, everyone else is freelaoding too.
This is just more communism. Communism, ultimately, inevitably, results in a brutal repressive regime. Because communism doesn't work-- its trading free choice for slavery.
I will not be your slave.
As to this era of abundance you speak of, its a fantasy. It doesn't work economically, or technologically. Sure, helping people will get easier-- you'll be able to feed more people who need it with your given dollar of donation.
But as long as that donation isn't freely given (or withheld) then what you are advocating is slavery.
The cops who shot people, while drunk, on the freeway, were witnessed by dozens of people, if not hundreds. These people were interviewed and thier statements went into the papers, and I'm sure court records somewhere. Same thing with the drownings. And the white cop, who'd been brought up on chrages 4 times in the prior 5 years for excessive use of force against black men, who shot an unarmed black man in the back 5 times as the man crawled away from him--- he was never charged either (and all the previous incidents were dropped).
There was plenty of evidence to prosecute. Yes, the DAs are corrupt. And if you think the FBI actually cares, you're a fool. Who do you think it IS protecting cops? OTHER COPS. What do you think the FBI IS?
You don't like private security agencies (answerable under the law) because you prefer the public one (not answerable under the law)-- you trade liberty for the illusion of security.
And, by the way, a cop with a badge is no different than any other person. They have no moral special rights. The law treats them different, but then, the law isn't moral.
But I remain amazed at sheeps willingness and eagerness to have a corrupt police force. Point out corruption and they don't care. They just don't want to have to "pay" for their police.
By the way, are you really that poor at math that you think you couldn't afford a private security agency? Who's paying for the police who don't protect you now? YOU ARE. And you're paying more than you would if your providers had incentive to provide a good deal. And you'd get better service because they'd work for you, rather than for the state.
Well, you want this police state. Eventually it will kill you, one way or another. You asked for it. Personally, I'm working to change things.
(Ironic that you talked about being irked at people who don't do anything about it, when the status quo is what you advocate... sheesh, irked with yourself?)
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In other words, you refuse to believe it AND you refuse to look into it.
WTO is not exactly a vague event. Not exactly hard to look into.
So, your disagreement amounts to the fact that you are ignorant, and wish to remain that way, therefore, I must be wrong.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense-- you're a christian. That's what christianity IS. The worship of the elimination of human rights, perpetrated by ignorant people who willfully ignore reality.
Why should I expect you to understand-- you wanna kill everyone who doesn't give sanction to your petty god.
And I bet you're even in denial of that basic truth!
Cellphones aren't about building hardware. Cellphone hardware is given away at cost (or you pay dearly for it, depending on your perspective.)
Cellphones are all about minutes. And that is where the competition is. The NYT says "building the hardware is easy, but building the infrastructure is hard". Which is why they miss the point--- apple isn't going to try and make money on cellphone hardware, apple is going to try and make money on cellphone minutes (if they even do this at all).
They would do this by providing an easy to use cellphone (certainly built by someone else and possibly co-branded) but would introduce some compelling feature that adds minutes, and adds value to the infrastructure carrier. And thus do a deal with them.
Much like they thought they'd make money with their earthlink partnership (which they may have, just hasn't been gangbusters, I bet.)
The iPod took and MP3 player and added three killer features: the useability of the wheel, the next generation battery, and the next generation storage device (a small hard drive.) Expect an iphone, if there is one, to have three killer features as well.
But I suspect that all thats going on is Apple is spending R&D money watching the market, and keeping efforts going to integrate the mac into the "Digital hub" of our lives.
When and idea comes up that improves this integration, apple turns it into a product (iSync)
It will make more money, and is far easier to grow mac market share, than to enter a totally new market and try to dominate it. The Newton was not a bad idea because it CREATED a totally new market. But a PDA or Phone would be pointless until there were three significant advantages (like the iPod had) and even then the MP3 player market was tiny when Apple entered it, and the PDA and phone markets are already big.
Apple's watching the convergence and I'm sure product ideas are developed periodically-- I'm sure they've internally built apple brand/style iPhones-- but that doesn't mean they are planning to release one. All products from good companies go thru these revisions, and speculative development to see if there really is an opportunity there.
But the economics of the situation is that unless there are some compelling reasons to believe this would be very profitable to apple, they are highly unlikely to do it. Better to spend the time and money and FOCUS on improving the Mac profitability.
At first I just thought you were a bitter guy. Then you mentioned WebObjects and claimed you couldn't do it in 6 months of WebObjects but you could using Microsoft tools in 3 months.
That's when I realized you were full of it. As someone who's used WebObjects, it takes days if not weeks to finish a project that previously took 5-6 months using the more traditional Microsoft tools. ITs shockingly fast.
Furthermore, I've gotten great support from Apple when I've needed it, there's a very active developer community and I've seen very few questions on the WO discussion lists that go unanswered. Even when I ask a stupid one, there's an answer, and often a tutorial length description from one of the WO engineers than hangs out there. Furthermore, the only reason ANY webobjects project is likely to fail is programmer incompetence. The tool is stable, extensive, and superior to everything else I've seen in the market. But it does mean you have to understand object oriented programming. Those who won't learn fail.
Anyway, its clear that you're just one of these PC users who has a long list of perceived mistakes on apples part that you like to trott out to bash apple whenever you get the chance.
I doubt you've ever used a Mac.
Rational standards. The very act of being rational requires these judgements. You know what you know for fact, by direct sense of it. You know the rules of logic. You infer from that whether what you're hearing is bunk or not.
If its bunk, you know its not true. If it may not be bunk, you can provisionally say its true. If you know its true, then you know its true.
But you cannot say "That is blasphemy!" and use THAT as an excuse to suppress it. This is what moral relativists and other religious people (such as right wingers and liberals) do all the time-- liberals are always beating the drums of untruth and telling Big Lies-- such that merely saying the truth becomes blasphemy to anyone who has swallowed the Big Lie. An example of a big lie is "obviously greenhouse gasses are leading to global warming". A rational person recognizes that this may be true and there is some supporting evidence, but there is also evidence that brings this into question, so its not "obviously" true.
Those who want you to believe in irrationality use blasphemy as a tool-- they make it unthinkable (ie you're not allowed to think about) the ideas that they disagree with. Such as its not obvious that every human owes every other human their support. Or as Bush recently said, 4 years of our lives giving back to the "greater good". (I thought that's what taxes are.) Thats one of the biggest lies out there.
But they don't try to make a rational case for it, they just repeat it over and over until their followers end up repeating it as well. And standing up to it becomes blasphemy.
Here's another example: To a gay person, saying "yes that person has a right to decide who will live in the apartment they are renting" is blasphemy-- because they belive that "gay rights" triumphs over property rights. They don't. Just as gay people have the right of free association, people who own apartment buildings do as well. If a christian kicks me out of their apartment building because I'm a non-christian, then that is their right (Assumign they follow the lease) I don't want to do business with someone who doesn't want to do business with me. It may not be fair, but it is their right.
But many people say that anything that is "unfair" is wrong-- and that puts you into quite a moral quandry when you think about it. Because life isn't fair and you can't MAKE it fair. But to keep people from recognizing the quandry-- the questioning of it is treated as blasphemy.
Yeah right. Just look in the Houston Papers in the early to mid 90s. Hell, you can go look now and you'll see it.
Jsut a couple weeks ago we saw cops slamming some kids head on the trunk of a car repeatedly, on national television. You gonna work to bring him to justice?
Or the guys who beat rodney king?
I love that you say private agencies would be abused but you don't think that public ones are-- when the public ones are not held accountable AT ALL under the law. sheesh.
You refuse to see, and so you pretend it doesn't exist.
But how long can you do this when video keeps coming out of this stuff? How about the cop that shot the guy who was threatening to commit suicide a few years ago? or the Cop Riot in Seattle we had for WTO? Was your TV broken that week? The cops frikking RIOTED.
Sheesh.
And not one of those WTO cops has even had a hearing, a grand jury brought up or anything. Know why? all of them had their badges covered, making it impossible to identify them. Now why would they go and do something like that, upstanding, law abiding people that they were. That's not premeditation, is it? Gee.
BTW, I was here, I talked to people first hand, I saw what went on during WTO first hand. I wasn't involved, but anyone who went to the window of their office building in the right parts of town could see it with their own eyes. Not to mention the video tape that was broadcast nationally-- for instance the one where the cop stopped the art students car, made them roll down the window, and then PEPPER SPRAYED THEM. They were just going home from a night college class, but he was pissed so he took it out on a couple young girls. Yeah, great police force we have here.
Denial aint just a river in egypt.
So, of course, pointing out that the article is a troll and flamebait is the equivilent of trolling and flame baiting and my post has been moderated as such.
Yeah, Slashdot is really pro-apple.
Sheesh.
There is no science here, no rationality, no technology. And its sad. There should be a place for geeks to congregate online.
There's actually a very easy way to ask. One simple question:
"What is your markup?"
If they are a reputable company, they will tell you. If they tell you that "client confidentiality" prevents them from revealing it, or any other excuse, they are not a reputable company.
They are marketing your skills and taking a cut of your pay to do so. Companies that misrepresent those they market, often have a huge markup-- which is the worst possible situation, the client expects more from you than you are capable of and is paying a huge amount of money to get it, but you're not getting the huge amount of money.
This, so far, has been %100 effective for me. IT does screen out most contracting agencies (Hal Kinion, etc.) but then, most of them are not reputable (including Hal Kinion).
I don't think how long they have been in business, or glowing reviews from people who have gotten jobs from them is a good way to tell when they are reputable. I was really excited about 7 years ago when one of these poor agencies got me a job at $55 an hour. Little did I know they sold the client at $200 an hour-- and the client was not happy. Needless to say it was a poor experience!
Expect that they have to pay %8 for social security and another 2-4 percent for unemployment insurance. So, a markup of %20-%40 is probably ok, with %40 being a bit on the high end. If they are reputable, they will break down their costs in the markup (for instance, if they pay health insurance for you, thats part of it, and if they provide vacation pay, etc.) Don't be stingy.
But if they won't talk about it, then they are not worth your time. After all, they are being deceptive-- this is not confidential information, YOU Are the product!
If its confidential to anyone its confidential to you.
He was the "Forbidden fruit"-- the reason he killed himself was he was being prosecuted by britian for his homosexuality.
This after he saved won the war for them. Or at least, he may not have won the war, but if he hadn't been there, they most certainly would have lost.
The sad truth is human rights still aren't respected there or here.
But this has nothing to do with the apple logo- turing didn't inspire it.
I wrote a lenghty debunking of this, but deleted it.
What's the point?
It doesn't matter how stupid, incorrect or subtly falsified the sophistry is-- if it bashes Macs, it gets posted to slashdot.
Its a dick thing-- nobody wants to think their dick is small, so everyone will gather around and argue about whether Macs are inferior or not.
And of course, slashdot likes controversy these days.
So, I'm going to stop taking these bashing articles on their merits -- it gets tiresome explaining computer technology to people who should know this stuff, but apparently graduated high school, read a perl book, and decided they are nerds.
Oh, and Ars Technica is the Weekly World News of computer technology. They wouldn't know a microprocessors feature size from a Martian! Baby! Attacks!
Slashdot is quickly going that way as well.
Adobe has its place too but its not a real standard, and its not free.
Sure it is. Its an open standard.
Apple created the OS X compositing engine to be compatible with PDF, making PDF generation a trivial thing for Mac Apps, and they did this without paying Adobe any money.
AFAIK there are Open source implementations of PDF as well, if not then its only because nobody wanted it enough to write one.
Or did you mean Free as in GNUtalitarian? "Sure, you're free to use our icon, you just have to open the source for your whole program. No, just releasing the changes you make to our work isn't enough, sorry."
Right, because if you put it in your keychain, then its only protected by an easy to guess single password, right?
Has anyone tried making the keychain itself better protected? (Say, putting IT on an AES partition) or putting it on a removable USB keychain drive?
(And then encrypting it with PGP or something.)
I've considered doing this, but haven't had a chance to experiment -- I wonder if OS X can handle the keychain being somewhere other than ~/Library/Keychain, like
Where by "Rasterization trick" I meant to say "raycasting trick". A good technology for the time, and also not invented by Carmack, but put to good use in Doom. It just isn't an actual 3D modeled world.
Descent used the same trick, only it used two raycasts, so instead of boxes, you got tunnels.
This is not to bash Carmack, his merits speak for themselves. But the perception of him is a bit out of line with reality-- I find no fault with him, but he is a mortal, not a god.
Hell, the networking in the current version of Quake still sucks even though I showed him a better way well back in 1996!
So it goes.
And of course its worth pointing out that Doom is actually a 2-D game with the 2.5D rasterization trick.
I worked on a killer game that was a LOT of fun, was true threeD and came out before Quake. I think its the first true 3D game ever released. The name of the game was Locus.
It was a great game, better technology than Quake, ran faster, etc. But due to poor marketing on the part of GT Interactive, and a game concept slightly more difficult than the obvious no-thought first person shooter, it did not sell too well.
So, everyone thinks Quake was the first 3D game (Some even think Doom was!) and history, as they say, is written by the winners.
There might have been a true 3-D game before Locus (I played ultima Underworld, both kinds, but don't think it qualified).. so I might be wrong. But we certainly beat quake to market.
So it goes, I certainly enjoy Quake3.
Cutting edge for apple == two years ago for the PC world.
Really? Where are the PCs shipping with Firewire 2 that you complained Apple doesn't have?
And who would want USB 2 when Firewire 1 is twice as fast (in real world use)? Ok, I lied, its often ten times as fast.
Oh, and world+dog make Firewire devices, I've never seen nor heard of an external USB 2 device.
Oh, well, I'm having deja vu-- you posted this same list of whines awhile back and I pointed out the same sets of idiocy of it. Why feed the troll?
but I do LOVE the fact that you whine about the lack of firewire two and then claim the PC world had it two years ago. Heh.
DOUBLE PRECISION IS IRRELEVANT.
Gigaflops are SINGLE PRECISION.
You don't get to redefine the term and then accuse apple marketing of redefining the term BACK.
What a waste that would be. (The drives to have eject buttons, if you ever need them.)
Your computer probably has a floppy drive built in. USe it much?
Haven't missed not having one...
Can you imagine what the iMac G4 would be like if they'd included a floppy drive? Sheesh.
Apple doesn't have a factory they own making PCBs.
Apple contracts with others to make thier PCBs. (This is quite an industry, actually, you can take your desing file, email it to people and get a PCB back in a week.)
The colors vary from vendor to vendor, and don't really mean anything... so during prototype they'll have one color depending on which vendor made it (they probably use multiple-- one for overnight turnaround, one when they want to run a dozen and one when they want to run a couple hundred.)
The final PCBs are made by yet another company, probably in asia, which due to local supplier variation will likely produce PCBs with a different color than the US prototyping houses.
It doesn't really mean anything.
I thought "spring loaded folders? who cares?" when I heard about it.
But now that I've been using it, its quite wonderful.
That digitalvideoediting.com site is even more biased than Apple. For instance, for their video performance benchmarks they use and orphaned unsupported application on the mac side-- one that isn't optimized.
A fair comparison would be to use Final Cut Pro on the Mac side and see how fast it does the comperable work.
IF you really want to compare how fast you can GET STUFF DONE, that is.
Unfortunately, most benchmarks out there are really pre-designed to give the answer the creator wants.
Apple is explicit when they say the 18Gflops is a max performance, not a typical one.
Huh? $1700 is out of your price range?
Then just go buy an older G4. I'm certain you can find plenty of used ones on eBay or at the discounters...
Or just wait a few weeks and there will be a mess of them on apple refurbished area (I bet).
A couple.
Drive Restore- its a pretty good program, and while a little buggy, recovered my drive after I let Norton and another product really fsck it up. (NEVER USE NORTON!)
For backup, I started putting my files into encrypted
You think the industrial age wasn't going on in 1879?
I wasn't saying Marx had a car, I was responding to the robotic car manufacture example.
You need to read some history. "Dude"
> despite oppressive unions - friend recently
> got fired from his job because he wasn't a
> union member)
And what about the Enron employees who got fired because their bosses systematically looted the company? You can't have it both ways.
Apparently you ARE defending Marxism. Those employees were free to leave at any time. Enron was free to let them go at anytime. There was no contract binding them to employment, or enron to the other situation.
However, when my friend went to wkr, the company wanted to hire him, he wanted to work there. This was a freely entered contract by these two people. The union has no business in it- they are not parties to the contract, but because the laws are such that they are, they were able to get him fired because they weren't able to extort money from him.
This is the same as the mobster who burns your store (destroying your job) because you won't pay him protection money.
Interestingly, Jimmy Hoffa, the "great union leader" here in america got started that way-- he'd try to "organize" (eg: get protection money from the employees of) a drycleaner, or some other store, and if they didn't join up, he'd come back later and torch the joint!
Unions are a protection racket-- they are not about protecting employees rights, they are about extorting money from companies and employees.
Enron is irrelevant. The union didn't stop that from happening, only made it faster.
The US budget deficit is shooting through the roof. Personal indebtedness is at historic highs, the savings ratio at historic lows.
Nevermind that you changed the subject. Economic prosperity caused people to start increasing their debt-- that's true, but thats THEIR FAULT. Their stupidity.
AS to "savings ratio" being at historic lows, thats just plain false. Savings and investment went thru the roof in the 90s, which is what drove the stock market up.
But all of this is irrelevant-- marxism says you don't get to save, you have to give up all your money to your owners( whether it be the state , or the union, etc.) and in exchange they'll protect you from being fired by your evil greedy bosses-- by replacing them with their own evil greedy state functionaries.
Everyone knows the history of the soviet union-- hell anyone educated should see how completely these ideas failed in the UK and India, as well as russia.
So why do people, like yourself, keep advocating marxism, even when they claim not to?
There's no "having it both ways" involved.
Yes, at my expense. You want to pretend that by "Spreading it around" it lightens the load, but of course, everyone else is freelaoding too.
This is just more communism. Communism, ultimately, inevitably, results in a brutal repressive regime. Because communism doesn't work-- its trading free choice for slavery.
I will not be your slave.
As to this era of abundance you speak of, its a fantasy. It doesn't work economically, or technologically. Sure, helping people will get easier-- you'll be able to feed more people who need it with your given dollar of donation.
But as long as that donation isn't freely given (or withheld) then what you are advocating is slavery.
The cops who shot people, while drunk, on the freeway, were witnessed by dozens of people, if not hundreds. These people were interviewed and thier statements went into the papers, and I'm sure court records somewhere. Same thing with the drownings. And the white cop, who'd been brought up on chrages 4 times in the prior 5 years for excessive use of force against black men, who shot an unarmed black man in the back 5 times as the man crawled away from him--- he was never charged either (and all the previous incidents were dropped).
There was plenty of evidence to prosecute. Yes, the DAs are corrupt. And if you think the FBI actually cares, you're a fool. Who do you think it IS protecting cops? OTHER COPS. What do you think the FBI IS?
You don't like private security agencies (answerable under the law) because you prefer the public one (not answerable under the law)-- you trade liberty for the illusion of security.
And, by the way, a cop with a badge is no different than any other person. They have no moral special rights. The law treats them different, but then, the law isn't moral.
But I remain amazed at sheeps willingness and eagerness to have a corrupt police force. Point out corruption and they don't care. They just don't want to have to "pay" for their police.
By the way, are you really that poor at math that you think you couldn't afford a private security agency? Who's paying for the police who don't protect you now? YOU ARE. And you're paying more than you would if your providers had incentive to provide a good deal. And you'd get better service because they'd work for you, rather than for the state.
Well, you want this police state. Eventually it will kill you, one way or another. You asked for it. Personally, I'm working to change things.
(Ironic that you talked about being irked at people who don't do anything about it, when the status quo is what you advocate... sheesh, irked with yourself?)