Maya is being ported to the Mac. Maxon's Cinema 4D is available on the Mac (go BeOS port!). Tonnes and tonnes of OpenGL software is available for pro 3D stuff - the new Macs have done wonders for pro 3D on that platform.
BeOS is a microkernel architecture. What that means is that apps using library calls simply communicate those calls to the servers, which then carry them out. Consider two programs which use the printing libraries under Windows. When you run both, you get the printing libraries loaded twice into memory. In BeOS, it simply loads it into the print_server, and apps call the print_server.
Aah... but if there were not a whole network infrastructure, I *could* probably say the ethernet sucked. X sucks because it tries to be more than it is. Miguel thinks UNIX sucks (and LWN trollishly rephrased him on this - note that LWN is now Tucows!!!) because it doesn't provide the application framework, and as a result fails miserably at providing a richdesktopenvironment.
He worked in the *Divinity School* - if you can glean anything from that name, you'd notice that they probably have a pretty strong objection to that type of stuff.
Note that employers also can take away your company car for speeding, or fire you if you get into an accident with it. A Christian orginization has every right to fire one if its employees for partaking in strongly objectionable material with company resources... no different than being fired for soliciting sex in the company car.
If it was his home computer, it might have been different, but not much. He signed on to work with a *religious orginization* and as such needs to hold himself to the morals of that orginization... or find somewhere else to work that's not connected to a religious orginization.
OK. Apparently I didn't make myself clear - it provides no more application-building functionality then a raw framebuffer. Xt, an addon, provides a basic widget set, which is one piece of the puzzle. Network Transparency is nice, but it hardly qualifies X to be a whole application-development framework.
It depends. Is it a book review, or an essay based on the concepts that he presents? He should have asked for permission, because Jeffrey Rosen has the power to claim that it is a copyright violation. This isn't so much a book review as a multi-page summary of the points of the book, which is a little too much.
Can pseudonymous downloading, "snoop-proof" e-mail, digital pseuds called "nyms," PDA-like machines, allegedly untraceable digi-cash and other changes in software and the architecture of cyberspace preserve privacy and restore some privacy and the idea of the "Inviolate Personality?" Part Two in a series based on Jeffrey Rosen's new book, "The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America." (Part Two; Part One here.)
Basing something on a book is technically copyright violation. You did ask for permission, didn't you?
In The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy In America, law professor and columnist Jeffrey Rosen first blames expanding sexual harassment and gender discrimination law for wanton destruction of individual privacy. Cyberspace is second on his list. A growing number of lawyers and scholars, including Rosen, say they now believe that fundamental changes in Net architecture are necessary to protect constitutional values and restore the notion of the "inviolate personality" to the private lives of Americans. These would include copyright management systems to protect the right to read anonymously, permitting individuals to pay with untraceable digital cash; prohibiting the collection and disclosure of identifying information without the reader's knowledge, or using digital certificates to create psudonymous downloading.
Who controlls the digital certificates? It only works if there's a way for a real life->online id translation.
To Rosen, author of Gaze, cyberspace is posing a greater menace to privacy by the day. He details the l998 forced resignation of Harvard Divinity School dean Ronald F. Thiemann, who downloaded pornography onto his university-owned home computer. A Harvard technician installing a computer with more memory at the dean's residence was transferring files from the old computer to the new one and noticed thousands of pornographic pictures. Although none of the pictures appeared to involve minors, the technician told his supervisor. University administrators asked the dean to step down.
Well, gee. It's a business computer:
Harvard justified its decision by claiming that Divinity School rules prohibited personal use of university computers in any way that clashed with its educational mission. But the dean was using his computer at home, not work. And no student or colleague suggested he had improperly behaved in any way as head of the Divinity School. His work was never questioned. It's ludicrous to
Bah humbug. They own the computer, they dictate how it's used. Simple as that. This isn't about privacy or lack of it - my employer has every right to watch what I'm doing at work (like this post), whether by a physical boss with eyes or with an electronic monitoring system. I can be fired at any time for any reason relating to inappropriate use, even if it's excessive eBay watching.
suggest that the school would have fired him if he'd been downloading sports scores or bidding for furniture on eBay. But although he'd committed no crime and performed well in his job, he was forced out in disgrace, while his intimate communications were discussed in public. Even in a supposedly freedom-loving and prestigious university, what Justice Louis Brandeis dubbed the right of every citizen to an "inviolate personality" -- the part of our private thoughts, communications and explorations once thought beyond the reach of exposure and dissemination -- that is private could be invaded and voided.
Well, gee, it's not a case of him doing it on his own computer. It's a fscking university-owned computer! If it was his own, there would be a problem. But inappropriate use of company resources has always been a reason for firing somebody.
The Harvard case also underscores the blurring of boundaries between home and work caused by technology. Millions of employees and workers criss-cross between their employer's equipment and their own for work and personal communications.
*snip*
The idea of the "inviolate personality" is one of the greatest and newest freedoms in history. In our time it's not only being nibbled to death but obliterated, and almost all of us are willing, even enthusiastic participants.
Gee, if there's anybody with a personality, I'd agree with you. However, people lost there individuality to the collective many moons ago, before the 'net - it's called popular culture. The price of popular culture is losing yourself. Your choice can be to live a hermit life; then you have yourself and your privacy. As soon as you give up yourself to the culture, though, then it will eat you. It already ate most people's brains, now it spies on their "privacy". Big deal. I'm so sorry for you.
Like I said, X is a framebuffer. It's really just an abstraction layer on top of/dev/fb0. There is no application toolkit. You could do something like BeOS on top of X, because then you're just replacing the framebuffer... big deal.
The Wrath of Steve costs Apple big time yet again... not shipping the Radeon in the cube isn't going to hurt ATI as much as it's going to hurt Apple. If Apple did ship the Radeon in the Cube, they'd be flying off the shelves. Not so now, because the Rage 128 is simply lackluster.
Once again, it seems that somebody needs to control Steve. He's just a kid, and needs somebody to stop his tempertantrums before he destroys what good he's done for Apple.
The problem with *NIX (and he really doesn't mean *NIX - there's quite enough shared code in a console-only system, the problem is with the X apps he named) is that X windows is just an overgrown framebuffer, not an actual graphics and development kit. If you look at something like BeOS, it provides a whole bunch of "servers" (a microkernel design) that handle different functions, but X windows was an overgrown framebuffer stuck on top of a command line to provide a clock, a load monitor, and a terminal.
The terminal does just fine with the components it has. There are quite a few shared libraries, and for (for instance) printing, everything uses lpr - plain and simple. But a drawing model like X does not a application kit make.
Personally, I think that the best approach for an application development framework is a server-based model like BeOS. In Windows, programs duplicate functionality that's handled by one server in BeOS. Linux (and UNIX) is a great command-line environment, and provides a rich environment on top of that. Just don't use X for anything more than xterm, xclock, and xload.
Whoa... cool. I'm having trouble getting through to apple's site and was wondering if I could rip out the Rage128 and replace it witha GeForce 2 MX... mmm.. gaming...
First of all, the sad reality of slashdot is that we're paranoid, so I don't know if we're legit.
That said, Apple has put a lot of work into the color on their LCD's - I'm not a graphics expert, but when they first came out PEI, CGW, et. al. all talked about their color software. And they all mentioned how good the viewing angle is on this one.
The cube is another cute computer with a bit more power than the iMac. Personally, what I'm wowed with is the MP G4's because I as a programmer know what BSD goodness will do for MacOS in terms of multithreading.
Sad to say, they're all too expensive for me. I'm no longer a Macintosh user (I run BeOS now on a Dual Pentium II 400) but am still following closely, because MacOS X has me excited.
Personally, I think that Intel should be screaming at Adobe for not porting Photoshop to BeOS... Photoshop was definitely crippled in the benchmarks by Windows. (That dual OptiPlex number on the website should have been much lower, if it weren't sabatoged by Windows NT's piss-poor SMP).
Frankly, though, I do wonder if you're legit - the Apple displays, with a proper color kit (there are USB ones out now) should do great color for you. Apple caters to the photo-and-publishing people, and their displays show it.
I was under the impression that (at least the PowerMac G4's) had 4 slots, the fourth called the Schwe (sp?) slot, and took up to 1.5GB (or was it 2GB? I dunno).
Obviously the ISP thinks DDOS'ed == Hacked. The site was DDOS'ed by/., and that's probably what they were referring to. I was watching the site minute-by-minute until it went down, and there was no "hacked" page.
Actually, not. The point is that I haven't been moderating up my own posts or causing friends to do the same... I know how to work the system. This is a proof of concept and my fourth +1 bonus account.
Apple, Inc. (stock ticker APPL) announced that it would be signing a marketing contract with Paramount Studios, Inc.'s Star Trek division for their new PowerMac G4 Cubes.
"The similarities to the Borg Cube are not just superficial", Apple President Steve Jobs was quoted as saying. "The technology we used was very highly influenced by the popular Star Trek TV series."
According to the agreement, Paramount Studios will be providing QuickTime clips of special shows featuring the Borg fighting the evil 8472 with the help of the PowerMac G4 Cube. Executives declined to comment on whether or not the 8472 would be featuring Microsoft, Inc.'s rival Windows operating systems.
Apple product designers could not be reached for comment on the rumours of a G3 Sphere.
What was the last hole this big? The clipart SHS hole - exactly causing the life_stages joke worm. This time somebody clever will make another virus - and it will spread like wildfire, before it can even get patched!
Our only hope is to make an antivirus email that uses the hole to install the patch and then forwards itself off.
And of course, the show the SMP mac doing the ultamate benchmark... Seti@HOME!!! Pic here off the apple site, reload a couple times if you geta 403 forbidden.
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Maya is being ported to the Mac. Maxon's Cinema 4D is available on the Mac (go BeOS port!). Tonnes and tonnes of OpenGL software is available for pro 3D stuff - the new Macs have done wonders for pro 3D on that platform.
BeOS is a microkernel architecture. What that means is that apps using library calls simply communicate those calls to the servers, which then carry them out. Consider two programs which use the printing libraries under Windows. When you run both, you get the printing libraries loaded twice into memory. In BeOS, it simply loads it into the print_server, and apps call the print_server.
Aah... but if there were not a whole network infrastructure, I *could* probably say the ethernet sucked. X sucks because it tries to be more than it is. Miguel thinks UNIX sucks (and LWN trollishly rephrased him on this - note that LWN is now Tucows!!!) because it doesn't provide the application framework, and as a result fails miserably at providing a rich desktop environment.
Note that employers also can take away your company car for speeding, or fire you if you get into an accident with it. A Christian orginization has every right to fire one if its employees for partaking in strongly objectionable material with company resources... no different than being fired for soliciting sex in the company car.
If it was his home computer, it might have been different, but not much. He signed on to work with a *religious orginization* and as such needs to hold himself to the morals of that orginization... or find somewhere else to work that's not connected to a religious orginization.
OK. Apparently I didn't make myself clear - it provides no more application-building functionality then a raw framebuffer. Xt, an addon, provides a basic widget set, which is one piece of the puzzle. Network Transparency is nice, but it hardly qualifies X to be a whole application-development framework.
It depends. Is it a book review, or an essay based on the concepts that he presents? He should have asked for permission, because Jeffrey Rosen has the power to claim that it is a copyright violation. This isn't so much a book review as a multi-page summary of the points of the book, which is a little too much.
Basing something on a book is technically copyright violation. You did ask for permission, didn't you?
In The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy In America, law professor and columnist Jeffrey Rosen first blames expanding sexual harassment and gender discrimination law for wanton destruction of individual privacy. Cyberspace is second on his list.
A growing number of lawyers and scholars, including Rosen, say they now believe that fundamental changes in Net architecture are necessary to protect constitutional values and restore the notion of the "inviolate personality" to the private lives of Americans. These would include copyright management systems to protect the right to read anonymously, permitting individuals to pay with untraceable digital cash; prohibiting the collection and disclosure of identifying information without the reader's knowledge, or using digital certificates to create psudonymous downloading.
Who controlls the digital certificates? It only works if there's a way for a real life->online id translation.
To Rosen, author of Gaze, cyberspace is posing a greater menace to privacy by the day. He details the l998 forced resignation of Harvard Divinity School dean Ronald F. Thiemann, who downloaded pornography onto his university-owned home computer. A Harvard technician installing a computer with more memory at the dean's residence was transferring files from the old computer to the new one and noticed thousands of pornographic pictures. Although none of the pictures appeared to involve minors, the technician told his supervisor. University administrators asked the dean to step down.
Well, gee. It's a business computer:
Harvard justified its decision by claiming that Divinity School rules prohibited personal use of university computers in any way that clashed with its educational mission. But the dean was using his computer at home, not work. And no student or colleague suggested he had improperly behaved in any way as head of the Divinity School. His work was never questioned. It's ludicrous to
Bah humbug. They own the computer, they dictate how it's used. Simple as that. This isn't about privacy or lack of it - my employer has every right to watch what I'm doing at work (like this post), whether by a physical boss with eyes or with an electronic monitoring system. I can be fired at any time for any reason relating to inappropriate use, even if it's excessive eBay watching.
suggest that the school would have fired him if he'd been downloading sports scores or bidding for furniture on eBay. But although he'd committed no crime and performed well in his job, he was forced out in disgrace, while his intimate communications were discussed in public. Even in a supposedly freedom-loving and prestigious university, what Justice Louis Brandeis dubbed the right of every citizen to an "inviolate personality" -- the part of our private thoughts, communications and explorations once thought beyond the reach of exposure and dissemination -- that is private could be invaded and voided.
Well, gee, it's not a case of him doing it on his own computer. It's a fscking university-owned computer! If it was his own, there would be a problem. But inappropriate use of company resources has always been a reason for firing somebody.
The Harvard case also underscores the blurring of boundaries between home and work caused by technology. Millions of employees and workers criss-cross between their employer's equipment and their own for work and personal communications.
*snip*
The idea of the "inviolate personality" is one of the greatest and newest freedoms in history. In our time it's not only being nibbled to death but obliterated, and almost all of us are willing, even enthusiastic participants.
Gee, if there's anybody with a personality, I'd agree with you. However, people lost there individuality to the collective many moons ago, before the 'net - it's called popular culture. The price of popular culture is losing yourself. Your choice can be to live a hermit life; then you have yourself and your privacy. As soon as you give up yourself to the culture, though, then it will eat you. It already ate most people's brains, now it spies on their "privacy". Big deal. I'm so sorry for you.
I'm quite positive that it's not... can anybody who is/was there and can look at one verify this?
Like I said, X is a framebuffer. It's really just an abstraction layer on top of /dev/fb0. There is no application toolkit. You could do something like BeOS on top of X, because then you're just replacing the framebuffer... big deal.
Once again, it seems that somebody needs to control Steve. He's just a kid, and needs somebody to stop his tempertantrums before he destroys what good he's done for Apple.
The terminal does just fine with the components it has. There are quite a few shared libraries, and for (for instance) printing, everything uses lpr - plain and simple. But a drawing model like X does not a application kit make.
Personally, I think that the best approach for an application development framework is a server-based model like BeOS. In Windows, programs duplicate functionality that's handled by one server in BeOS. Linux (and UNIX) is a great command-line environment, and provides a rich environment on top of that. Just don't use X for anything more than xterm, xclock, and xload.
Won't Minix run on the Plus?
How do we get these glial cells to communicate with the airport antennas on my new G4 Cube so I can use my brain as a processor?
Whoa... cool. I'm having trouble getting through to apple's site and was wondering if I could rip out the Rage128 and replace it witha GeForce 2 MX... mmm.. gaming...
That said, Apple has put a lot of work into the color on their LCD's - I'm not a graphics expert, but when they first came out PEI, CGW, et. al. all talked about their color software. And they all mentioned how good the viewing angle is on this one.
The cube is another cute computer with a bit more power than the iMac. Personally, what I'm wowed with is the MP G4's because I as a programmer know what BSD goodness will do for MacOS in terms of multithreading.
Sad to say, they're all too expensive for me. I'm no longer a Macintosh user (I run BeOS now on a Dual Pentium II 400) but am still following closely, because MacOS X has me excited.
Personally, I think that Intel should be screaming at Adobe for not porting Photoshop to BeOS... Photoshop was definitely crippled in the benchmarks by Windows. (That dual OptiPlex number on the website should have been much lower, if it weren't sabatoged by Windows NT's piss-poor SMP).
Frankly, though, I do wonder if you're legit - the Apple displays, with a proper color kit (there are USB ones out now) should do great color for you. Apple caters to the photo-and-publishing people, and their displays show it.
And WTF is that comment about the Bible doing in there?
I was under the impression that (at least the PowerMac G4's) had 4 slots, the fourth called the Schwe (sp?) slot, and took up to 1.5GB (or was it 2GB? I dunno).
Mac Pluses make perfect OpenBSD routers.
Obviously the ISP thinks DDOS'ed == Hacked. The site was DDOS'ed by /., and that's probably what they were referring to. I was watching the site minute-by-minute until it went down, and there was no "hacked" page.
Actually, not. The point is that I haven't been moderating up my own posts or causing friends to do the same... I know how to work the system. This is a proof of concept and my fourth +1 bonus account.
"The similarities to the Borg Cube are not just superficial", Apple President Steve Jobs was quoted as saying. "The technology we used was very highly influenced by the popular Star Trek TV series."
According to the agreement, Paramount Studios will be providing QuickTime clips of special shows featuring the Borg fighting the evil 8472 with the help of the PowerMac G4 Cube. Executives declined to comment on whether or not the 8472 would be featuring Microsoft, Inc.'s rival Windows operating systems.
Apple product designers could not be reached for comment on the rumours of a G3 Sphere.
Our only hope is to make an antivirus email that uses the hole to install the patch and then forwards itself off.
And of course, the show the SMP mac doing the ultamate benchmark... Seti@HOME!!! Pic here off the apple site, reload a couple times if you geta 403 forbidden.
Whoa, on-topic first post. Dude.
LOL! MacJunkie got their entire site pulled by their ISP... their main page turned into their ISP's main page.