It's no different than photocopied lecture notes. Digital means of delivery doesn't change any of the fundamentals of "intellectual property." Copying without the copyright owner's permission is illegal, no matter the means.
It's OpenSTEP, formerly NextSTEP. Circa mid-1980s. It's a very mature platform, with one of the better application frameworks around.
But, yeah, it's hard to argue that Apple hasn't been putting serious new capability with each new revision. It's certainly not "updates." It's "upgrade" type work.
It's not surprising at all that Mac fans would be critical of Apple. You're critical about things you care about. Yes, there are a bunch of braindead Mac-Macs, but they're not what I truly call the Mac Fanatics. I stopped counting the number of Macs I've owned when it hit 13. I've been invited to Cupertino three times already. You better believe that I bitched directly to VPs and product managers when I was there. The upside is that Apple finally started to listen to all the bitching, usually providing exactly what we were asking for.
So, don't be surprised that Mac fans are vocal and hard on Apple. They just want the Mac to get better...
We have just evaluated their Opteron-based workstations (running RedHat, but just because my testers were most familiar with RHEL). Not even the 2100 - the 1100 was a great platform for Shake, mostly due to the great video card. We are seriously considering replacing our Dell workstations with 2100s.
In my experience, the only time I've had a Netra die, the Sun guy showed up just as quickly as the Dell (Unisys) guy. Only the Sun guy brought the right part, and left with a fixed box within an hour. The Dell guy was sent the wrong part, had to come back the next morning. "4 hour gold support" took only 18 hours. The HP guy was really thorough and detailed when he set up our rp server. But all 3 have excellent online and phone support (after Dell brought theirs back from Bangladesh or wherever).
Anyway, it's fun to bash Sun, but you should really look at their new products. I only wish we needed a bunch of dual Opteron 1U servers, because their price kills Dell all over the place.
Au contraire. I am one of the biggest fans of Mac OS X, simply because I cut my teeth on REAL computing on Sun workstations and VAX clusters. I also owned several Macs. When Apple made my Mac a Unix box, I was smitten. I already KNOW Unix, and this just made my Mac all the more precious to me.
However, my wife has NEVER used a Unix box in her life. Yet she immediately gravitated towards Mac OS X. She's a much better expert at the iApps than I (okay, maybe not with iMovie, but I'm only barely more adept than her - she's never used it).
Using Mac OS X to the fullest does not require you to learn Unix. It's just that there's this wholesome crunch goodness Unix layer underneath an already great platform.
IBM's R&D strategy for the last decade or so has been to take hard science and develop it into product technologies. Now, IBM doesn't necessarily need to produce those products. They simply need to license the technologies for others to build the products that they can then use for their services operation. This includes storage technologies, chip fabrication, even open source code.
IBM's mantra has been, for some time, "sell anybody's boxes, as long as IBM gets paid." It's a smart move.
ISS is capable of receiving routine and emergency visits from automated Soyuz and Progress vehicles. They can stay up there indefinitely, get parts to fix the shuttle, etc. A shuttle can only really "doc" with the Science Lab.
IBM spends billions on R&D every year. They are one of the companies that actually invents the things it patents. Gerstner finished what Akers started - heavy investment in R&D. Only Gerstner was able to turn that into a royalties payoff. Now just about every chip manufactured today employs IBM-invented technologies. So, they're in a much better position to follow Gerstner's mantra - "it doesn't matter who's box the customer uses, as long as IBM gets paid."
Patent abuse tends to dilute IBM's position as a R&D-to-royalties focused technology company. They are simply protecting their position. I suspect other R&D-heavies (HP, GE, etc.) will back this, if they're smart.
..the level of respect you get. I'm a "techie turned manager," and I can tell you for certain that when I was exclusively a "techie," I was a "genius" and "guru" and people loved me. Today, I'm a manager, and though lots of people still love me, they're also aware that I can affect the amount of pain or pleasure they experience from our IT services. It's a lot more responsibility, which comes with its own share of politics. People know this.
Anybody who manages geeks would be wise to keep that "geeks are our friends" culture going. It's never MY success, even if I was the one whose plan is being implemented, I chose the solutions, got the funding for it, etc. As far as our users are concerned, we just have a really great staff who always looks out for them, even if their manager is a jerk;)
Hmm. I never use proper names in my sentences. Nor am I clever enough to understand that "gates" (the swinging type that keep people out of your yard) "do marketing."
What do people expect when they expect so little from Microsoft?
Sex was developed to maintain established genes, NOT to "mix genes up" as some people mistakenly assert. Sex is anti-mutational. Homologous recombination's magic is that it favors the reproduction of "known" sequences.
I've told people for years that "AI" has been going the wrong direction. Developments like Deep Blue only helped to feed this (incorrect) belief that "intelligence" very directly equates to "computational ability." This is so wrong, and so obviously wrong.
Look at your average toddler (I have one at home to study - get your own). Does this child compute the millions of different parameters required to negotiate a different path up, down, around, through, under their environment every time they want to go play with their train set? Nope. The kid throws his foot in front of him, in a basically "informed guess" that's partially learned, partially innate. He learns to then simply go along with whatever comes out. Swing your center of gravity to one side, and your body figures out how to deal with it in real time, based on an "informed guess" - no laborious computation as to trajectories or kinetics. Just some general goals and a shove in the right direction.
I call this concept "profoundly intuitive logic." Yes, we can be extremely rational about every motion, every activity, every human endeavour, but you'll find it's a lot easier to "just wing it." That's true intelligence.
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It's absolutely great. It's free (as in beer). You can even buy support for it.
.edu license).
OpenOffice aint' so bad, neither, but I prefer SO (and take advantage of the
This is what you call the RIAA/MPAA:
Family Entertainment and Copyright Act Lobby
It's no different than photocopied lecture notes. Digital means of delivery doesn't change any of the fundamentals of "intellectual property." Copying without the copyright owner's permission is illegal, no matter the means.
You know, the guys who do it out of their dad's basement?
I get all these emails with bogus tracking numbers in them, and a link to a phishing site. What does Google come up with for them?
It's OpenSTEP, formerly NextSTEP. Circa mid-1980s. It's a very mature platform, with one of the better application frameworks around.
But, yeah, it's hard to argue that Apple hasn't been putting serious new capability with each new revision. It's certainly not "updates." It's "upgrade" type work.
It's not surprising at all that Mac fans would be critical of Apple. You're critical about things you care about. Yes, there are a bunch of braindead Mac-Macs, but they're not what I truly call the Mac Fanatics. I stopped counting the number of Macs I've owned when it hit 13. I've been invited to Cupertino three times already. You better believe that I bitched directly to VPs and product managers when I was there. The upside is that Apple finally started to listen to all the bitching, usually providing exactly what we were asking for.
So, don't be surprised that Mac fans are vocal and hard on Apple. They just want the Mac to get better...
We have just evaluated their Opteron-based workstations (running RedHat, but just because my testers were most familiar with RHEL). Not even the 2100 - the 1100 was a great platform for Shake, mostly due to the great video card. We are seriously considering replacing our Dell workstations with 2100s.
In my experience, the only time I've had a Netra die, the Sun guy showed up just as quickly as the Dell (Unisys) guy. Only the Sun guy brought the right part, and left with a fixed box within an hour. The Dell guy was sent the wrong part, had to come back the next morning. "4 hour gold support" took only 18 hours. The HP guy was really thorough and detailed when he set up our rp server. But all 3 have excellent online and phone support (after Dell brought theirs back from Bangladesh or wherever).
Anyway, it's fun to bash Sun, but you should really look at their new products. I only wish we needed a bunch of dual Opteron 1U servers, because their price kills Dell all over the place.
Au contraire. I am one of the biggest fans of Mac OS X, simply because I cut my teeth on REAL computing on Sun workstations and VAX clusters. I also owned several Macs. When Apple made my Mac a Unix box, I was smitten. I already KNOW Unix, and this just made my Mac all the more precious to me.
However, my wife has NEVER used a Unix box in her life. Yet she immediately gravitated towards Mac OS X. She's a much better expert at the iApps than I (okay, maybe not with iMovie, but I'm only barely more adept than her - she's never used it).
Using Mac OS X to the fullest does not require you to learn Unix. It's just that there's this wholesome crunch goodness Unix layer underneath an already great platform.
IBM's R&D strategy for the last decade or so has been to take hard science and develop it into product technologies. Now, IBM doesn't necessarily need to produce those products. They simply need to license the technologies for others to build the products that they can then use for their services operation. This includes storage technologies, chip fabrication, even open source code.
IBM's mantra has been, for some time, "sell anybody's boxes, as long as IBM gets paid." It's a smart move.
ISS is capable of receiving routine and emergency visits from automated Soyuz and Progress vehicles. They can stay up there indefinitely, get parts to fix the shuttle, etc. A shuttle can only really "doc" with the Science Lab.
IBM spends billions on R&D every year. They are one of the companies that actually invents the things it patents. Gerstner finished what Akers started - heavy investment in R&D. Only Gerstner was able to turn that into a royalties payoff. Now just about every chip manufactured today employs IBM-invented technologies. So, they're in a much better position to follow Gerstner's mantra - "it doesn't matter who's box the customer uses, as long as IBM gets paid."
Patent abuse tends to dilute IBM's position as a R&D-to-royalties focused technology company. They are simply protecting their position. I suspect other R&D-heavies (HP, GE, etc.) will back this, if they're smart.
In the hands of someone like Tom Cruise, this could be used for evil!
..the level of respect you get. I'm a "techie turned manager," and I can tell you for certain that when I was exclusively a "techie," I was a "genius" and "guru" and people loved me. Today, I'm a manager, and though lots of people still love me, they're also aware that I can affect the amount of pain or pleasure they experience from our IT services. It's a lot more responsibility, which comes with its own share of politics. People know this.
;)
Anybody who manages geeks would be wise to keep that "geeks are our friends" culture going. It's never MY success, even if I was the one whose plan is being implemented, I chose the solutions, got the funding for it, etc. As far as our users are concerned, we just have a really great staff who always looks out for them, even if their manager is a jerk
Oh wait, that's FreeBSD. Never mind!
Hmm. I never use proper names in my sentences. Nor am I clever enough to understand that "gates" (the swinging type that keep people out of your yard) "do marketing."
What do people expect when they expect so little from Microsoft?
Sex was developed to maintain established genes, NOT to "mix genes up" as some people mistakenly assert. Sex is anti-mutational. Homologous recombination's magic is that it favors the reproduction of "known" sequences.
Finally, a HUI worthy of this, and a number of track-and-field events...
Move closer to where you work, or find work closer to where you live.
Anybody who chooses to spend hundreds of hours every year in their car deserves Clear Channel...
It's not even a real WORD!
It's well worth it. I attended, and since then, we've implemented a large-scale AD-OSX integration.
http://train.apple.com/static/users/it.html
IT IS THE BOMB. Spam loads to my work account dropped by orders of magnitude. Now, Mail.app identifies maybe 2 per day, instead of 200+.
Charles
Shouldn't you be asking, "what do these people want to do with their computers?" before asking how to equip them.
Linux or not, it's still a waste if you don't first ask that question.
Sounds interesting. I will check this out in the morning. Thanks!
I've told people for years that "AI" has been going the wrong direction. Developments like Deep Blue only helped to feed this (incorrect) belief that "intelligence" very directly equates to "computational ability." This is so wrong, and so obviously wrong.
Look at your average toddler (I have one at home to study - get your own). Does this child compute the millions of different parameters required to negotiate a different path up, down, around, through, under their environment every time they want to go play with their train set? Nope. The kid throws his foot in front of him, in a basically "informed guess" that's partially learned, partially innate. He learns to then simply go along with whatever comes out. Swing your center of gravity to one side, and your body figures out how to deal with it in real time, based on an "informed guess" - no laborious computation as to trajectories or kinetics. Just some general goals and a shove in the right direction.
I call this concept "profoundly intuitive logic." Yes, we can be extremely rational about every motion, every activity, every human endeavour, but you'll find it's a lot easier to "just wing it." That's true intelligence.