Nuclear power could very easily become the safest, cleanest powersource currenly known to humankind if it weren't for all of the FUD caused by the cold war.
Nuclear energy has so much potential (at least it seems to me...IANANuclear Physicist nor am I an expert in anyway).Take the fission process. It releases enormous(sp?) amounts of power (and even it is child's play compared to fusion), and we use this energy to boil water! (which in turn turns the turbines for the generators) This doesn't seem particularly efficient to me, and I'm sure there must be a better way of harnessing this energy (any nuclear physicists in the audience?). But it seems to me that FUD has caused major stalls in research, and this probably has a lot to do with public perception.
Mention nuclear anything to the average Joe or Jane on the street and chances are you will have a negative reaction. And probably because of this very FUD, we as a species will ignore a very viable, very powerful resource. And that is a shame.
You said:
"Now... Apple... Steve, baby, talk to me. Why is this wrong? Why can't I and all the other people out there who like both their Macs and their Linux actually have them both? For that matter, why support MKLinux and then not let those of us who use it or another distro make it look and feel as Mac like as we want? We are running it on your machines."
In a few months (or even now, if you want to play with the beta version), you will have both. You have your aqua interface and it is running on top of your *nix. It's called OS X.
One of the reasons Apple has a problem with things like your statement is because MacOS (and it's relevent GUIs) is their baby. They did not spend countless dollars over the years to produce these systems just to have someone else steal it and use it for free (yes, this is capitalism here).
They want people to buy their computers so they invest a lot of money to make an OS that will cause people to want to use those computers. They do not invest that money so that anyone who wants to can have a machine that looks and maybe acts like a mac but is not a mac. They are a hardware company. If it becomes that any POS $300 home-brew box can look and act like a Mac, then what will make the consumer want to buy a Mac? If Apple allows people to do this, they will die.
So, Apple requested Themes.org to remove the relevant themes. Whether they did it in a nice way or not is unknown to us. But they did it to save their butts.
If you must have have your aqua GUI running on *nix, then buy a Mac and get OS X PB(or wait a few months for the final version of OS X and buy a Mac w/ it bundled as the OS).
A little note...I have used Linuxppc and now I am using OS X PB, and I must say that OS X PB is awesome! Any linux user that has a Mac should seriously consider getting it.
"By asking the right questions in the right way, you can get your punters to justify your policies, whatever they may be. Anybody remember `Yes, Prime Minister'? "
Which is why you do it along the lines of: have the poll and have a page where people can post comments on it(a la/.).If a poll is unfair, then people will say so. If you have more to say or wish to explain your vote in the poll, you can do so.
Of course, if you want to go into "ultra-conspiracy theory mode" you can always argue that the government can then edit those posts to make them say what they please. But that road leads to futility...
Who knows...perhaps there may actually be some goverment officials that will listen to what the people say...I dunno...probably just wishful thinking, but a young man can hope, ne?
How about having an opinion poll about a current issure or two on the main page. Perhaps in the way that/. does it so that people feel that they can voice their opinions and the government can perhaps get a feel for what the people seem to think.
Granted, this could be prone to abuse, but I think it would be a step forward in listening to the people that the government is representing,
Other than that, just about everyone else covered the interface and usability requirements quite well, so I have nothing to add there.
Well, I have heard/read about/seen Discovery Channel specials/etc. that the Japanese had all of the US codes cracked in the Pacific, until we utilized Navajo "code-talkers." The Japanese were never able to decode the Navajo language.
Just my $.02US
Granted, most of our (well, _my_ anyway) morals and beliefs say that the Amazon.com "one-click" patent is stupid, but they do own it for the time being. Apple is smart (as a business) for agreeing with the current law. They do not feel the need for a law suit right now, regardlees of the stupidity of the idea of the one-click patent.
I believe the popular phrase would be "covering their a$$es.", something that most will do whenever possible.
If (and I sincerely do hope) the time comes when the Amazon.com patent gets repealed, Apple will probably say something along the lines of "regardless of the fact that we licensed an unfair patent, you can still buy your computer with a single click." They were playing it safe, and I don't think that they are particularly in a position to stand up for a cause such as that at the moment.
I don't pretend to agree with Apple's politics, but I do like (and use) what they sell, and I don't frown upon them for keeping things on the safe side for the time being.. Just my $0.02US
Wow! This story actually made/. front page news, eh?
I think a lot of people, including IMG are over-reacting to Mr. Soell's comments. His original forum post at Rampancy.net only indicated that a few people made some "snarfy comments." It is not like Microsoft in general is in a state of discontent because Bungie Studios is using Linux to power their Bungie.net servers.
Honestly, I doubt Microsoft in general really cares, as long as the product works and makes them money. Granted they don't make much if anything off of Bungie.net, but the people who use it are the same people who are going to buy Halo when it is released.
So, I guess the point is: there is no need to over-react because a couple of OS fanatics made a few remarks...people here do it all of the time...
Well, if the site ever gets un-slashdotted, maybe I'll get to read the article. However, as a preliminary post:
players would "rather run around in short shorts raiding tombs than experience real stories...
What about the Marathon Trilogy, by Bungie? Granted, it is fairly linear, but as far as stories go, it beats a lot of RPGs out there. AFAIC, it defines what an FPS SHOULD be for the single player scenario. Of course, a lot of you (read 90+% of this community, I'm sure) x86 people out there may have never played it. Well, they have it for linux over at source.bungie.org.
What I would like to do is hear what other people's definition of 'good anime'. What makes good anime? What
makes DBZ so great? Or so bad? I would love to hear from the thousands of/.'s who regularly watch this sort
of thing.
Good question, but for me the answer is pretty simple. There are only two requirements for "good anime": 1. Good animation 2. Good plot
Of course, what defines those as good is up for grabs. I would define good animation as animation that doesn't interfere with the viewing of the show, kind of along the lines of a book being written well enough that you forget that you are reading it, or a good game interface not interfereing with gameplay. I'm not going to even touch good plot. However, here are a few examples of what I consider good to get my point across.
Serial Experiment Lain - This is a must see for any geek.
Iria: Zeirem the Animation - excellent, a must for those who love the female hero.
Tenchi Muyo/Tenchi Universe - comedy, sci-fi, and romance.
Anyway, that is my $.02. Hopefully the lain reference was enough to keep this on topic for this community.
...and that is that many Mac users are not only OS fanatics, but hardware fanatics as well. I know I am.
I happen to like having that Apple logo plastered all over my cpu and monitor. It lets me know that no matter what, I've got good hardware inside that box; Hardware that is compatible and works properly with the OS.
Personally, I think Apple is wrong to believe that hardware sales would be incredibly hurt w/ a port of the OS to intel. Certainly they may shrink a little, and almost certainly wouldn't grow, but there are a lot of users like myself that would continue to buy it because we need that power and that stability.
Anyway that is my two cents. My new G4 should be here soon.
...that the email boxes of every office in the federal government are not being filled with messages from people like us expressing our outrage at this blatant violation of our first ammendment rights?
Now, I'm not saying mail bomb. I'm saying well thought out, to the point, well-informed messages. I mean, this situation is outrageous.
Does anyone think this might help? I mean, the direct outrcry of thousands of outraged voices cannot be ignored, especially with elections coming up, and hopefully a few candidates that might actually pay attention to what the voters say.
If something like this doesn't work, then we are witnessing the complete and total breakdown of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I was under the impression that this kind of government "shall not perish from this earth."
Now, if you will excuse me, I have some emails to write.
Cheers,
Me.
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-snip- I'm not against Napster, really, it's a great idea, I think that, if anything, it actually promotes record sales, and is generally good for the world. But there is something inherently wrong with a program that gives anyone and everyone access to practically any song ever recorded without compensating the artists. -snip-
So, what about people, such as myself who download things like Bach, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holliday, or any other artist who is dead? Isn't most of their work in the public domain anyway? So why should I have to pay for a whole CD when all I want is Holst's Jupiter?
How better to compensate these artists than by listening to and enjoying their music?
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Nuclear energy has so much potential (at least it seems to me...IANANuclear Physicist nor am I an expert in anyway).Take the fission process. It releases enormous(sp?) amounts of power (and even it is child's play compared to fusion), and we use this energy to boil water! (which in turn turns the turbines for the generators) This doesn't seem particularly efficient to me, and I'm sure there must be a better way of harnessing this energy (any nuclear physicists in the audience?). But it seems to me that FUD has caused major stalls in research, and this probably has a lot to do with public perception.
Mention nuclear anything to the average Joe or Jane on the street and chances are you will have a negative reaction. And probably because of this very FUD, we as a species will ignore a very viable, very powerful resource. And that is a shame.
or perhaps I read too many sci-fi novels. :-)
"Now... Apple... Steve, baby, talk to me. Why is this wrong? Why can't I and all the other people out there who like both their Macs and their Linux actually have them both? For that matter, why support MKLinux and then not let those of us who use it or another distro make it look and feel as Mac like as we want? We are running it on your machines."
In a few months (or even now, if you want to play with the beta version), you will have both. You have your aqua interface and it is running on top of your *nix. It's called OS X.
One of the reasons Apple has a problem with things like your statement is because MacOS (and it's relevent GUIs) is their baby. They did not spend countless dollars over the years to produce these systems just to have someone else steal it and use it for free (yes, this is capitalism here).
They want people to buy their computers so they invest a lot of money to make an OS that will cause people to want to use those computers. They do not invest that money so that anyone who wants to can have a machine that looks and maybe acts like a mac but is not a mac. They are a hardware company. If it becomes that any POS $300 home-brew box can look and act like a Mac, then what will make the consumer want to buy a Mac? If Apple allows people to do this, they will die.
So, Apple requested Themes.org to remove the relevant themes. Whether they did it in a nice way or not is unknown to us. But they did it to save their butts.
If you must have have your aqua GUI running on *nix, then buy a Mac and get OS X PB(or wait a few months for the final version of OS X and buy a Mac w/ it bundled as the OS).
A little note...I have used Linuxppc and now I am using OS X PB, and I must say that OS X PB is awesome! Any linux user that has a Mac should seriously consider getting it.
Just MNSHO...out.
"By asking the right questions in the right way, you can get your punters to justify your policies, whatever they may be. Anybody remember `Yes, Prime Minister'? "
Which is why you do it along the lines of: have the poll and have a page where people can post comments on it(a la /.).If a poll is unfair, then people will say so. If you have more to say or wish to explain your vote in the poll, you can do so.
Of course, if you want to go into "ultra-conspiracy theory mode" you can always argue that the government can then edit those posts to make them say what they please. But that road leads to futility...
Who knows...perhaps there may actually be some goverment officials that will listen to what the people say...I dunno...probably just wishful thinking, but a young man can hope, ne?
Granted, this could be prone to abuse, but I think it would be a step forward in listening to the people that the government is representing,
Other than that, just about everyone else covered the interface and usability requirements quite well, so I have nothing to add there.
out.
Well, I have heard/read about/seen Discovery Channel specials/etc. that the Japanese had all of the US codes cracked in the Pacific, until we utilized Navajo "code-talkers." The Japanese were never able to decode the Navajo language. Just my $.02US
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I believe the popular phrase would be "covering their a$$es.", something that most will do whenever possible.
If (and I sincerely do hope) the time comes when the Amazon.com patent gets repealed, Apple will probably say something along the lines of "regardless of the fact that we licensed an unfair patent, you can still buy your computer with a single click." They were playing it safe, and I don't think that they are particularly in a position to stand up for a cause such as that at the moment.
I don't pretend to agree with Apple's politics, but I do like (and use) what they sell, and I don't frown upon them for keeping things on the safe side for the time being.. Just my $0.02US
"Food: it's what's for dinner."
"and makes them money..." :-)
I think a lot of people, including IMG are over-reacting to Mr. Soell's comments. His original forum post at Rampancy.net only indicated that a few people made some "snarfy comments." It is not like Microsoft in general is in a state of discontent because Bungie Studios is using Linux to power their Bungie.net servers.
Honestly, I doubt Microsoft in general really cares, as long as the product works and makes them money. Granted they don't make much if anything off of Bungie.net, but the people who use it are the same people who are going to buy Halo when it is released.
So, I guess the point is: there is no need to over-react because a couple of OS fanatics made a few remarks...people here do it all of the time...
In fact, OS X RULES AND ALL OTHER OSs STINK!!
btw, that was sarcasm.
out.
players would "rather run around in short shorts raiding tombs than experience real stories...
What about the Marathon Trilogy, by Bungie? Granted, it is fairly linear, but as far as stories go, it beats a lot of RPGs out there. AFAIC, it defines what an FPS SHOULD be for the single player scenario. Of course, a lot of you (read 90+% of this community, I'm sure) x86 people out there may have never played it. Well, they have it for linux over at source.bungie.org.
out.
Good question, but for me the answer is pretty simple. There are only two requirements for "good anime":
1. Good animation
2. Good plot
Of course, what defines those as good is up for grabs. I would define good animation as animation that doesn't interfere with the viewing of the show, kind of along the lines of a book being written well enough that you forget that you are reading it, or a good game interface not interfereing with gameplay. I'm not going to even touch good plot. However, here are a few examples of what I consider good to get my point across.
Serial Experiment Lain - This is a must see for any geek.
Iria: Zeirem the Animation - excellent, a must for those who love the female hero.
Tenchi Muyo/Tenchi Universe - comedy, sci-fi, and romance.
Anyway, that is my $.02. Hopefully the lain reference was enough to keep this on topic for this community.
I happen to like having that Apple logo plastered all over my cpu and monitor. It lets me know that no matter what, I've got good hardware inside that box; Hardware that is compatible and works properly with the OS.
Personally, I think Apple is wrong to believe that hardware sales would be incredibly hurt w/ a port of the OS to intel. Certainly they may shrink a little, and almost certainly wouldn't grow, but there are a lot of users like myself that would continue to buy it because we need that power and that stability.
Anyway that is my two cents. My new G4 should be here soon.
*nothing clever to say here*
Now, I'm not saying mail bomb. I'm saying well thought out, to the point, well-informed messages. I mean, this situation is outrageous.
Does anyone think this might help? I mean, the direct outrcry of thousands of outraged voices cannot be ignored, especially with elections coming up, and hopefully a few candidates that might actually pay attention to what the voters say.
If something like this doesn't work, then we are witnessing the complete and total breakdown of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I was under the impression that this kind of government "shall not perish from this earth."
Now, if you will excuse me, I have some emails to write.
Cheers, Me.
This post has been spell-checked with Tipo-Fnider1.07b2
I'm not against Napster, really, it's a great idea, I think that, if anything, it actually promotes record sales, and is generally good for the world. But there is something inherently wrong with a program that gives anyone and everyone access to practically any song ever recorded without compensating the artists.
-snip-
So, what about people, such as myself who download things like Bach, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holliday, or any other artist who is dead? Isn't most of their work in the public domain anyway? So why should I have to pay for a whole CD when all I want is Holst's Jupiter?
How better to compensate these artists than by listening to and enjoying their music?
Feel free to flame.