Are we on the same page? Speaking the same language? In the same gene pool?
As per hardware company with an OS on top: Sun has Sparc + Solaris, and weren't going to continue Solaris for x86 *until* a surprise release of v9 for x86.
Apple has Mac + OS X, and *do* have an up to date Darwin for x86 though it's limited through driver support to a select hardware platform.
Neither is trying particularly hard to push their OSes without their hardware; both have x86 for development and testing purposes.
As per wanting the Mac OS: How do you compare Java, a runtime, programming language, and a set of libraries, with an OS? Apple has Cocoa, otherwise known as Objective C, and it doesn't run *everywhere*, but it does run on Solaris 8, Windows 2000 (x86), and Mac OS X.
So what are you trying to point out? That Sun supports more platforms with it's variation of cross platform computing? That Macs are more hardware oriented than Sun? That x86 support is the end all and be all of 'effective'?
Work, man, I don't get a choice. The firewalls and stuff restrict me to what apps I run at work.
At home it's Eudora, Netscape, and Fire.
But thanks anyway, I was hoping to make a more complicated script eventually, with if-then-else clauses and logon if already active and do nothing if active *and* logged on, etc.
Pudge has a site with lots of Mac+Perl info and projects, including a link to this, a tool to connect Perl to the Apple Event model.
Of course this begs the question why you haven't already looked at AppleScript Studio and AppleScript, which allows you to script the OS and many of it's Apps?
This snippet allows me to start my apps when I get into work:
tell application "ICQ 3.0X"
activate end tell tell application "AOL Instant Messenger (SM)"
activate end tell tell application "Yahoo! Messenger"
activate end tell tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate end tell
It's not particularly complex nor instructive, but AppleScript is full featured and extensive. I have a cronjob run an AppleScript in the mornings, where the AppleScript opens iTunes, opens a playlist, and then start playing, as my alarm clock!
tell application "iTunes"
play user playlist "Sweet-Sad"
play end tell
How about every single thing Apple develops that Linux folk appropriate or use?
I'm not saying it's right or wrong...
But Aqua widgets and Platinum themes and the modern WiMP paradigm and, gee, laser printers, TrueType fonts, PostScript fonts, multi-monitor setups, sound on PCs, wysiwyg, etc.
To put it another way, Apple is going to popularize MPEG4 where Microsoft would as soon abandon it in favor of WMF, an in popularizing MPEG4 increase the number of files you can view in.mp4 format.
Imagine if there were no.mpg videos for you to watch? A world of *only* Quicktime or AVI files?
Does the uncertainty exist in the particle or in the observer?
Just because *we* don't know the characteristics of an electron, does that mean the electron doesn't know it's own mass, momentum, velocity, spin, etc?
Unless I misunderstand quantum, there's no conflict between determinism and quantum mechanics.
I think the point being that if something is unobserved, an object is the sum of all it's possible states until it is observed.
Technically the wavefunction collapses.
Quantum mechanics doesn't tell us about determinism or nondeterminism except that the act of observing a state will change the state, meaning the universe is technically deterministic (perhaps) while being practically nondeterministic.
As far as I can recall, one of the basic premises of entropy and information theory is that *everything* can be expressed in bits.
If everything can be expressed in bits, then everything is computable.
A stupid question is whether the universe is a determinstic Turing machine or not, or whether it is by very nature indeterministic:P
It's not that something has to be made into a computer so much as redefining one's perspective of what a computer is to accomodate the realities of the universe; that DNA is a storage mechanism, with RNA and DNA replication and protein synthesis being complex computation processes. Or that the universe is really expressible as a bunch of states (read his article, and you'll see that), and as such the traversal from state to state is no more complex than following a state diagram in a really big state machine...
Sure the hardware doesn't compete against the range, but for the narrow band in which XServe does compete (dual CPU, 2GB DDR, GigaE, 480GB storage, $7000), there are absolutely *no* OS licensing per CPU or per user fees.
Right, but you don't own one of those PowerBooks. You own a Pismo.
I own a 400MHz PowerBook with a Rage 128 M so no QE love for me.
So I dunno what you want out of this other than the impossible? QE cannot physically run on systems with less than 16mb of ram and less than Radeon quality performance. It's not Apple's fault, any more than Doom 3 will require very similar specs. Hardware acceleration requires the proper hardware!
Oh, unless you mean you want hardware acceleration using your Rage 128?
How manytimes have you heard it? 10.2 will see significant performance boosts; just don't expect to run QE.
Well, considering that the PCI bus you're hooking up the GB adaptor to has a 264MBps max throughput (32bit 66MHz on the Mac), factoring in overhead and such, it's not surprising that GigaE runs at 200MBps...
Now if they had a 64bit 66MHz adaptor (since the XServe has two of those), you could maybe see ~400MBps...
Then factor the fact that there are 2 CPUs and two GigaE boards means if they share one PCI bus, then the bottleneck is neither the CPU nor the cards... here's to hoping that each board sits on a separate PCI bus:)
I don't need to shut up if you don't need to stop:P
"It has it's place in the world. It has its risks. And it is worth the risk."
So I'll keep preaching and you'll keep pirating. I wish there was a better term, especially since I never recall calling it 'pirating'; I just said 'download or use'.
So I'll keep telling you how wrong you are, and you can keep downloading software you haven't paid for.
But these companies do have a right to set the price they want to do a transaction at;
If that means $584 for Photoshop, then that's what you need to fork over. If you don't like it... doesn't mean you have the right or privilege to download or use it.
Then there's the $89 version of Photoshop Elements.
Or you can get an older, cheaper version of Photoshop. Photoshop 5.5, 5.0, 4.0. 3.0, all worked, and continue to work today.
Or you can use gimp.
If you can't afford to use the program, you can't afford to use the program, and that's how simple it is.
If you *need* the program, then you can afford it. If a $584 copy of Photoshop allows you to earn $30,000 a year in consultation fees, you can afford Photoshop.
If you just want to put pictures on the web... use the $89 of Photoshop.
Regardless, a $199 XBox is great, even if I never plan to buy one, because it is responsible, in part, for a $199 PS2 and a $149 GameCube...
Hmm, and a GBA costs $70 now? Hmmm:)
32mb recommended, 16mb supported...
on
Apple Updates iBook
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· Score: 5, Informative
As long as it's a Radeon, on Apple's OS X page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
Near the bottom in grey.
Anyway, you're saying the small form factor, the reasonable price, the excellent battery life, the full complement of ports and features, the Unixy OS, *and* it's future OS update isn't enough for you?
There are several things that make a console: Good price (check! Cheaper than a GBA) Good software (check! Fun games, both old *and* new) Good availability (check! The old PSX library plus PS2's PSX compatibility means lots of games available)
Graphics and sound are not enough for a good game experience:)
Which is just as irrelevant, as the G3 they're using now has double the L2 cache as their last G3, which is at least one architectural improvement. I wouldn't be surprised if this were IBM's Sahara chip...
*COMPETITION* works. Which is why Microsoft needs to be dealt with in the OS market because right now the consumer has no *CHOICES*.
He or she cannot decide between more than TWO desktop OSes right now; Mac OS X and Windows (XP, 2000, etc), and then there's the fact that a Mac will cost about $1500 to the PC's $900...
So if you like pricing, innovation, quick to market, etc... you too should support *some* kind of action to restore competition in all the markets Microsoft has a monopoly over.
For over a year or so I'm thinking of moving from Linux to Mac OS X. Why? Because of the stability and usability. Mac OS X appears to be very stable and no one can deny that they are lightyears ahead of anything on linux when it comes to desktop comfort.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles. (Hint, IE for Mac)
I've developed a lot of software for unix and am now seriously considering porting them to Mac OS X. Hell, it will be a lot easier to sell these things as well. Right now, I don't even have to bother. (porting is much simpler from Linux to the BSDish Mac than from Linux to Windows)
...
So how about it... Porting my own software to Mac OS X. I don't see a lot of problems. filesystem links, permissions are all supported. Most applications can be scripted...
Anyone have experience going from unix/linux to Mac OS X?
You misunderstand the intent of the stone grid if you compare it to stonehenge.
Read the WIPP article.
The stone grid will feature at least a row, probably two or three, or more, deep, of huge stone blocks, rough hewn and very irregular.
Make them 25 feet or 30 feet high, across, and deep. Place only 2 or 3 feet between each block. Place only 2 or 3 feet between each row. Offset the second row so the interior is not visible from the outside.
Secondly make the interior space radically different from the exterior space, so people will obviously know which side of the wall they are on.
Once inside they should see lots of warnings; rosetta stone type warnings in multiple languages, on the off chance that language has 'evolved'. English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, etc.
Something like "This is not a holy, sacred, or valued site. This site is dangerous and unwanted. This site is used to store deadly and dangerous materials. Our civilization used nuclear fusion to power our cities, but did not figure out how to deal with nuclear waste except to store it at a site such as this. Nuclear power, simply, is a process which takes a heavy unstable atom and split it and using the heat released from it to generate power. A nuclear reaction occurs when the heavy atom releases enough energy to split other similar unstable atoms.
As a side effect of nuclear power, we generate nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is radioactive, meaning that it gives off harmful amounts of energy. The only method we know of to deal with a large amount of nuclear waste is to bury it for 10,000 years until it has lost enough energy to become harmless. This site is meant to store such waste.
"
Past the signs and explanations would be something like an expanse of black nothing. Like 2 or 3 square miles of black rubble or stone. Becomes uncomfortably hot in the day, with no possibility of reaching the center without extreme equipment. Nighttime it would be impossible to reach the center without some equipment because there is no way to get any bearings without stars or electronics, esp if they use magnetic materials to screw up compasses.
It's been free, bundled, and integrated into the Mac out of the box.
For Windows type computers I was under the impression you had to buy $$ software to achieve similar results, and even then it isn't actually integrated as well into the OS (IE, the OS speaks to you when warnings pop up, when you get an ICQ, it's not an API hooked into the OS internals, etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
Cause I don't log out.
I guess I *could*, but I usually just close the screen and go home, open the screen and fire up my AppleScript
Are we on the same page? Speaking the same language? In the same gene pool?
As per hardware company with an OS on top: Sun has Sparc + Solaris, and weren't going to continue Solaris for x86 *until* a surprise release of v9 for x86.
Apple has Mac + OS X, and *do* have an up to date Darwin for x86 though it's limited through driver support to a select hardware platform.
Neither is trying particularly hard to push their OSes without their hardware; both have x86 for development and testing purposes.
As per wanting the Mac OS: How do you compare Java, a runtime, programming language, and a set of libraries, with an OS? Apple has Cocoa, otherwise known as Objective C, and it doesn't run *everywhere*, but it does run on Solaris 8, Windows 2000 (x86), and Mac OS X.
So what are you trying to point out? That Sun supports more platforms with it's variation of cross platform computing? That Macs are more hardware oriented than Sun? That x86 support is the end all and be all of 'effective'?
Work, man, I don't get a choice. The firewalls and stuff restrict me to what apps I run at work.
At home it's Eudora, Netscape, and Fire.
But thanks anyway, I was hoping to make a more complicated script eventually, with if-then-else clauses and logon if already active and do nothing if active *and* logged on, etc.
Have you looked here?
Pudge has a site with lots of Mac+Perl info and projects, including a link to this, a tool to connect Perl to the Apple Event model.
Of course this begs the question why you haven't already looked at AppleScript Studio and AppleScript, which allows you to script the OS and many of it's Apps?
This snippet allows me to start my apps when I get into work:
tell application "ICQ 3.0X"
activate
end tell
tell application "AOL Instant Messenger (SM)"
activate
end tell
tell application "Yahoo! Messenger"
activate
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
activate
end tell
It's not particularly complex nor instructive, but AppleScript is full featured and extensive. I have a cronjob run an AppleScript in the mornings, where the AppleScript opens iTunes, opens a playlist, and then start playing, as my alarm clock!
tell application "iTunes"
play user playlist "Sweet-Sad"
play
end tell
How about every single thing Apple develops that Linux folk appropriate or use?
.mp4 format.
.mpg videos for you to watch? A world of *only* Quicktime or AVI files?
I'm not saying it's right or wrong...
But Aqua widgets and Platinum themes and the modern WiMP paradigm and, gee, laser printers, TrueType fonts, PostScript fonts, multi-monitor setups, sound on PCs, wysiwyg, etc.
To put it another way, Apple is going to popularize MPEG4 where Microsoft would as soon abandon it in favor of WMF, an in popularizing MPEG4 increase the number of files you can view in
Imagine if there were no
And now you ask, "Why should I care?"
This is where it gets philosophical.
Does the uncertainty exist in the particle or in the observer?
Just because *we* don't know the characteristics of an electron, does that mean the electron doesn't know it's own mass, momentum, velocity, spin, etc?
Unless I misunderstand quantum, there's no conflict between determinism and quantum mechanics.
I think the point being that if something is unobserved, an object is the sum of all it's possible states until it is observed.
Technically the wavefunction collapses.
Quantum mechanics doesn't tell us about determinism or nondeterminism except that the act of observing a state will change the state, meaning the universe is technically deterministic (perhaps) while being practically nondeterministic.
As far as I can recall, one of the basic premises of entropy and information theory is that *everything* can be expressed in bits.
:P
If everything can be expressed in bits, then everything is computable.
A stupid question is whether the universe is a determinstic Turing machine or not, or whether it is by very nature indeterministic
It's not that something has to be made into a computer so much as redefining one's perspective of what a computer is to accomodate the realities of the universe; that DNA is a storage mechanism, with RNA and DNA replication and protein synthesis being complex computation processes. Or that the universe is really expressible as a bunch of states (read his article, and you'll see that), and as such the traversal from state to state is no more complex than following a state diagram in a really big state machine...
Which is just a computer, doncha know?
No OS licensing fees!
Sure the hardware doesn't compete against the range, but for the narrow band in which XServe does compete (dual CPU, 2GB DDR, GigaE, 480GB storage, $7000), there are absolutely *no* OS licensing per CPU or per user fees.
Isn't that exactly what I said? 10.2 will see exceleration on your Pismo, but you won't see QE running on it?
And I'll see even more exceleration, but I still won't be running QE?
Right, but you don't own one of those PowerBooks. You own a Pismo.
I own a 400MHz PowerBook with a Rage 128 M so no QE love for me.
So I dunno what you want out of this other than the impossible? QE cannot physically run on systems with less than 16mb of ram and less than Radeon quality performance. It's not Apple's fault, any more than Doom 3 will require very similar specs. Hardware acceleration requires the proper hardware!
Oh, unless you mean you want hardware acceleration using your Rage 128?
How manytimes have you heard it? 10.2 will see significant performance boosts; just don't expect to run QE.
Well, considering that the PCI bus you're hooking up the GB adaptor to has a 264MBps max throughput (32bit 66MHz on the Mac), factoring in overhead and such, it's not surprising that GigaE runs at 200MBps...
:)
Now if they had a 64bit 66MHz adaptor (since the XServe has two of those), you could maybe see ~400MBps...
Then factor the fact that there are 2 CPUs and two GigaE boards means if they share one PCI bus, then the bottleneck is neither the CPU nor the cards... here's to hoping that each board sits on a separate PCI bus
I don't need to shut up if you don't need to stop :P
"It has it's place in the world. It has its risks. And it is worth the risk."
So I'll keep preaching and you'll keep pirating. I wish there was a better term, especially since I never recall calling it 'pirating'; I just said 'download or use'.
So I'll keep telling you how wrong you are, and you can keep downloading software you haven't paid for.
But these companies do have a right to set the price they want to do a transaction at;
If that means $584 for Photoshop, then that's what you need to fork over. If you don't like it... doesn't mean you have the right or privilege to download or use it.
Then there's the $89 version of Photoshop Elements.
Or you can get an older, cheaper version of Photoshop. Photoshop 5.5, 5.0, 4.0. 3.0, all worked, and continue to work today.
Or you can use gimp.
If you can't afford to use the program, you can't afford to use the program, and that's how simple it is.
If you *need* the program, then you can afford it. If a $584 copy of Photoshop allows you to earn $30,000 a year in consultation fees, you can afford Photoshop.
If you just want to put pictures on the web... use the $89 of Photoshop.
It will have support for hardware accelerated Quartz as well as an extra 100MHz on the olde iBooks.
It's so good to see Microsoft hurt so bad :P
:)
Regardless, a $199 XBox is great, even if I never plan to buy one, because it is responsible, in part, for a $199 PS2 and a $149 GameCube...
Hmm, and a GBA costs $70 now? Hmmm
As long as it's a Radeon, on Apple's OS X page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/
Near the bottom in grey.
Anyway, you're saying the small form factor, the reasonable price, the excellent battery life, the full complement of ports and features, the Unixy OS, *and* it's future OS update isn't enough for you?
Man, what do you want then?
now costs less than some PS2 games?
:)
There are several things that make a console:
Good price (check! Cheaper than a GBA)
Good software (check! Fun games, both old *and* new)
Good availability (check! The old PSX library plus PS2's PSX compatibility means lots of games available)
Graphics and sound are not enough for a good game experience
Which is just as irrelevant, as the G3 they're using now has double the L2 cache as their last G3, which is at least one architectural improvement. I wouldn't be surprised if this were IBM's Sahara chip...
But we'll see.
*COMPETITION* works. Which is why Microsoft needs to be dealt with in the OS market because right now the consumer has no *CHOICES*.
He or she cannot decide between more than TWO desktop OSes right now; Mac OS X and Windows (XP, 2000, etc), and then there's the fact that a Mac will cost about $1500 to the PC's $900...
So if you like pricing, innovation, quick to market, etc... you too should support *some* kind of action to restore competition in all the markets Microsoft has a monopoly over.
The same arguments apply:
For over a year or so I'm thinking of moving from Linux to Mac OS X. Why? Because of the stability and usability. Mac OS X appears to be very stable and no one can deny that they are lightyears ahead of anything on linux when it comes to desktop comfort.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles. (Hint, IE for Mac)
I've developed a lot of software for unix and am now seriously considering porting them to Mac OS X. Hell, it will be a lot easier to sell these things as well. Right now, I don't even have to bother. (porting is much simpler from Linux to the BSDish Mac than from Linux to Windows)
...
So how about it... Porting my own software to Mac OS X. I don't see a lot of problems. filesystem links, permissions are all supported. Most applications can be scripted...
Anyone have experience going from unix/linux to Mac OS X?
May 14th
Well...
If the ice age were such that the site were buried under 2 miles of glacial ice, I don't think it matters.
If the site *isn't* under glacial ice, why wouldn't the black top still emit heat like crazy?
You misunderstand the intent of the stone grid if you compare it to stonehenge.
Read the WIPP article.
The stone grid will feature at least a row, probably two or three, or more, deep, of huge stone blocks, rough hewn and very irregular.
Make them 25 feet or 30 feet high, across, and deep. Place only 2 or 3 feet between each block. Place only 2 or 3 feet between each row. Offset the second row so the interior is not visible from the outside.
Secondly make the interior space radically different from the exterior space, so people will obviously know which side of the wall they are on.
Once inside they should see lots of warnings; rosetta stone type warnings in multiple languages, on the off chance that language has 'evolved'. English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, etc.
Something like "This is not a holy, sacred, or valued site. This site is dangerous and unwanted. This site is used to store deadly and dangerous materials. Our civilization used nuclear fusion to power our cities, but did not figure out how to deal with nuclear waste except to store it at a site such as this. Nuclear power, simply, is a process which takes a heavy unstable atom and split it and using the heat released from it to generate power. A nuclear reaction occurs when the heavy atom releases enough energy to split other similar unstable atoms.
As a side effect of nuclear power, we generate nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is radioactive, meaning that it gives off harmful amounts of energy. The only method we know of to deal with a large amount of nuclear waste is to bury it for 10,000 years until it has lost enough energy to become harmless. This site is meant to store such waste.
"
Past the signs and explanations would be something like an expanse of black nothing. Like 2 or 3 square miles of black rubble or stone. Becomes uncomfortably hot in the day, with no possibility of reaching the center without extreme equipment. Nighttime it would be impossible to reach the center without some equipment because there is no way to get any bearings without stars or electronics, esp if they use magnetic materials to screw up compasses.
Really?
It's been free, bundled, and integrated into the Mac out of the box.
For Windows type computers I was under the impression you had to buy $$ software to achieve similar results, and even then it isn't actually integrated as well into the OS (IE, the OS speaks to you when warnings pop up, when you get an ICQ, it's not an API hooked into the OS internals, etc.)