What I liked about the original Planet of the Apes is that it was told that the monkeys started to say "No!" if I remember correctly. I always imagined it as some kind of evolutionary development. Nature fought back! This one gets it all wrong. Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes? This is ridiculously homocentric.
Apple's secret weapon is the product itself. And with the product“ I don't mean the iPad alone. It's the whole iPad experience. It all begins with the buying experience in the Apple Store (like it or not), goes on with their perfect minimalist design, the quality of the software, the software update process, the iTunes/AppStore infrastructure, and, not to forget the fact that the iPad is the gadget you want to own if you want to be part of the in-group. It almost seems unbeatable for the ex-hippie silverback generation and not so individualistic younger consumers alike.
You mean that because we haven't seen e.g. any natural disaster that could cause a meltdown, we're safe? To quote from a great movie: Can you guarantee my safety?“ or the safety of the West“? I tend to disagree.
I hope this disaster let some people come to their senses. I mean those who said in the last year that a equilibrated mix of energy production, including nuclear power“ is the way to go for the future. This technology is _not_ safe, nor is it clean. It's a threat to people and we need to push hard for renewable energy as soon as possible!
I live in Germany. We had a sound exit strategy for nuclear power that would have allowed us to get nuclear-free in the foreseeable future. Conservative politicians, like Angela Merkel (CDU) and neo-liberals, like Guido Westerwelle (FDP), alike have recently diluted this sound strategy, because they thought it to be the work of crazy left-wing politicians and ecologists. It's not. We need to get out of nuclear power and we need to do it fast.
Everyone is allowed to remove the catalytic converter and muffler from his car. The car is not allowed to be used after that though. The same goes for removing seat belts. Rolling back an odometer is forging, a completely different topic.
I cannot understand why changing some kind of hardware you own, or changing hardware of other people can be illegal. The use of unlicensed games on a modified device could be, but not the modification itself.
In that way, your remark was very much to the point, although to be read without sarcasm.
Mellel is the best word processor for scientific writing I've ever seen. Its main advantage is stability (of the program and of the layout). One downside is, that it doesn't have a formula generator, but you could use either Grapher or LaTeX Equation Editor to do the job.
Here are a few links: On equations on the Mac and Mellel's Homepage
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago." (Fortune, 1996-02-19) - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Jobs
That's exactly what happens at the moment. I think it's sad, nevertheless, you can't say Mr. Jobs doesn't keep his promises. The iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV are obviously the next great things.
I remember having sample code for small programs in both the manuals of my C64 and C128D. That's where you could get started. Actually most of the manual was about how to program your computer. That's where I got hooked. I found the computer under the christmas tree und read the manual. It was rather technical, but fascinating nonetheless.
Then there have been many magazines that had sample programs in it. And I don't mean special programmers' magazines, but normal mainstream magazines for the C64. It was amazing and I miss it very much.
I don't mean high level software projects like: Understanding OpenOffice.org sourcecode in 24 hours/years, but small, simple fun stuff.
They aimed at the desktop, and yes, they were the first to do a real good desktop linux distribution, but I fear they are heading in the wrong direction. They should concetrate on what made them great: the desktop. Unfortunately, I've often read that they don't want to include some apps that are really pure and nice desktop apps, like F-Spot, Helix Banshee, Beagle and Tomboy in their standard CD-based distribution. This is because of capacity problems. If this is really true, this may lead to an even smaller niche -> no real desktop focus plus no real enterprise focus.
We will see if this announced feature will eventually make it for Vista final. (I have my doubts!) The difference is: In Vista, it will simply be a feature. I think Apple will build a complete ecosystem around resolution independence and hd computing.
I guess this will be what Spotlight was for Tiger: The next big thing.
You seem to miss the fact, that this is all part of what Apple plans to do with their OS and apps in the near future. Think of Front Row and Apple's way to digital home entertainment. They need to accomodate for big screens. Dashboard needs to scale up, too, as this is a visible part of the OS, that will need to be supported for big screens, and relies on html and javascript. It could probably play an important role in some digital home entertainment device of Apple's.
Taken into consideration that resolution independent UI could be turned on for testing purposes on Tiger, it's a bet that HD-computing will be an important part of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) which is supposed to be revealed in august at the WWDC.
I bet we will see a switch from pixel based gui elements to svg-elements all the way in the Mac OS X gui. Moreover, resolution independent ui will be switched on by default, bringing a whole new experience to the end user. Expect Apple to add some wow-features!:)
I guess at the time the iTunes Movie Store gets online, they will have a more or less complete and unique infrastructure for it ready with Leopard. I expect it to sport a new Front Row, too, which will eventually integrate with your new HD-TV. All this together will probably be without compare elsewhere on the market, like it is with iTunes, the iPod and the iTunes Music Store.
"A literal translation of the word 'ubuntu' would be 'humanity'. Old dictionaries will show that the word humanity in English had a very rich meaning: 1 humans collectively, 2 human nature, 3 human quality, 4 educated, 5 civilised, 6 humane and dignified. But as the information overload increases, the richness of the word has immerged in the ascending order. The pollution of information leads to the trivialisation of knowledge. Now only meaning 1 probably survives. However, the word 'ubuntu' still has all six meanings in ascending order of emergent importance! The deepest or highest meaning of ubuntu is thus to become humane while behaving with dignity. Let us not pollute and thus trivialise this word ubuntu!"
There is a blog on Novell Evolution 2 development. Very nice info on the status of that long expected update. Unfortunately it is now called "Novell Evolution":
Ximian is dying a slow dead after Novell has acquired it last year: The next version of Evolution is called "Novell Evolution", their Website is redirected to Novell and there hasn't been any significant update to Ximian Desktop for a while. XD2 is the only product labelled "Ximian" anyways. I really would love to see some kind of roadmap or at least some kind of statement about Ximian Desktop. (As Novell provided for Evolution and Mono).
After they acquired Ximian they talked about keeping Ximian together and their products still being worked on. As I see it this is not the case and I feel very sad to lose Ximian eventually.
I used GEOS 128 with a RAMLink drive on my C128-D (metal case). It started in seconds and was blazingly fast. Together with GeoPubisher it was a great way to do dtp. GEOS 128 could be run in 80 chars mode and had a much better resolution. GeoProgrammer was a great development enivronment, too, btw. The CMD RAMLink drive was very nice for playing The Last Ninja, too. It all loaded in an instant.
Mine is SuSE Linux. It really feels much more solid than Mandrake or RedHat. I used Mandrake 7.2 and it turned the standart look into this childish look. I prefer standart looks (although SuSE does change the desktop a bit either).
Moreover I think SuSE has the better timing. When they will release SuSE 7.2 (or 8.0?) there will be perhaps a usable beta of KDE 2.2 out (or even kde 2.2 final as it is planned for july).
I can't find anything that Konqueror (KDE2s filemanager/browser) doesn't have or that couldn't be built in there. KDEs component based code allows to implement _all_ the mentioned features that Nautilus has. Should you really take a filemanager because of services the company that coded it will make money with?
BTW, Konqueror looks much more beautyfull anyway.
http://www.konqueror.org
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as we're waiting for releases. I think KDE2 stable is at least two-three weeks delayed. According to their release-plan it should be out...yesterday? yes: _yesterday_:-(
I'm looking at Eazel development for quite a while now, and I think, that the Eazel Project is one of the Projects I would call Open Force. It has the possibility to blow down M$! Not because of its speed or stability, but because of all the stuff that we still miss on GNU/Linux. Ease of use, beauty and function overload. Yes, it will need faster computers with more RAM to work fast (because of MP3-Preview functions etc.), but it doesn't matter. The end-user has the money to buy new hardware.
Why don't we create an Open Force Software union that is possible to break into the desktop market. There should be in: Eazel, Koffice and... any other suggestions?
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When it comes to the social sphere, it will always be much cooler to drink the beer, and not to brew it.
What I liked about the original Planet of the Apes is that it was told that the monkeys started to say "No!" if I remember correctly. I always imagined it as some kind of evolutionary development. Nature fought back! This one gets it all wrong. Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes? This is ridiculously homocentric.
and it has -moz-animation and @-moz-keyframes support. Works great! Special thanks to David Baron for his work on this.
Apple's secret weapon is the product itself. And with the product“ I don't mean the iPad alone. It's the whole iPad experience. It all begins with the buying experience in the Apple Store (like it or not), goes on with their perfect minimalist design, the quality of the software, the software update process, the iTunes/AppStore infrastructure, and, not to forget the fact that the iPad is the gadget you want to own if you want to be part of the in-group. It almost seems unbeatable for the ex-hippie silverback generation and not so individualistic younger consumers alike.
You mean that because we haven't seen e.g. any natural disaster that could cause a meltdown, we're safe? To quote from a great movie: Can you guarantee my safety?“ or the safety of the West“? I tend to disagree.
I hope this disaster let some people come to their senses. I mean those who said in the last year that a equilibrated mix of energy production, including nuclear power“ is the way to go for the future. This technology is _not_ safe, nor is it clean. It's a threat to people and we need to push hard for renewable energy as soon as possible! I live in Germany. We had a sound exit strategy for nuclear power that would have allowed us to get nuclear-free in the foreseeable future. Conservative politicians, like Angela Merkel (CDU) and neo-liberals, like Guido Westerwelle (FDP), alike have recently diluted this sound strategy, because they thought it to be the work of crazy left-wing politicians and ecologists. It's not. We need to get out of nuclear power and we need to do it fast.
Everyone is allowed to remove the catalytic converter and muffler from his car. The car is not allowed to be used after that though. The same goes for removing seat belts. Rolling back an odometer is forging, a completely different topic. I cannot understand why changing some kind of hardware you own, or changing hardware of other people can be illegal. The use of unlicensed games on a modified device could be, but not the modification itself. In that way, your remark was very much to the point, although to be read without sarcasm.
Unfortunately, it still looks completely out of place.
Looks great, except that 10.0 isn't released yet, and Opera Unite is a "labs build", aka alpha release.
Mellel is the best word processor for scientific writing I've ever seen. Its main advantage is stability (of the program and of the layout). One downside is, that it doesn't have a formula generator, but you could use either Grapher or LaTeX Equation Editor to do the job. Here are a few links: On equations on the Mac and Mellel's Homepage
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago." (Fortune, 1996-02-19) - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Jobs
That's exactly what happens at the moment. I think it's sad, nevertheless, you can't say Mr. Jobs doesn't keep his promises. The iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV are obviously the next great things.
I remember having sample code for small programs in both the manuals of my C64 and C128D. That's where you could get started. Actually most of the manual was about how to program your computer. That's where I got hooked. I found the computer under the christmas tree und read the manual. It was rather technical, but fascinating nonetheless.
Then there have been many magazines that had sample programs in it. And I don't mean special programmers' magazines, but normal mainstream magazines for the C64. It was amazing and I miss it very much.
I don't mean high level software projects like: Understanding OpenOffice.org sourcecode in 24 hours/years, but small, simple fun stuff.
They aimed at the desktop, and yes, they were the first to do a real good desktop linux distribution, but I fear they are heading in the wrong direction. They should concetrate on what made them great: the desktop. Unfortunately, I've often read that they don't want to include some apps that are really pure and nice desktop apps, like F-Spot, Helix Banshee, Beagle and Tomboy in their standard CD-based distribution. This is because of capacity problems. If this is really true, this may lead to an even smaller niche -> no real desktop focus plus no real enterprise focus.
We will see if this announced feature will eventually make it for Vista final. (I have my doubts!) The difference is: In Vista, it will simply be a feature. I think Apple will build a complete ecosystem around resolution independence and hd computing.
I guess this will be what Spotlight was for Tiger: The next big thing.
You seem to miss the fact, that this is all part of what Apple plans to do with their OS and apps in the near future. Think of Front Row and Apple's way to digital home entertainment. They need to accomodate for big screens. Dashboard needs to scale up, too, as this is a visible part of the OS, that will need to be supported for big screens, and relies on html and javascript. It could probably play an important role in some digital home entertainment device of Apple's.
:)
Taken into consideration that resolution independent UI could be turned on for testing purposes on Tiger, it's a bet that HD-computing will be an important part of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) which is supposed to be revealed in august at the WWDC.
I bet we will see a switch from pixel based gui elements to svg-elements all the way in the Mac OS X gui. Moreover, resolution independent ui will be switched on by default, bringing a whole new experience to the end user. Expect Apple to add some wow-features!
I guess at the time the iTunes Movie Store gets online, they will have a more or less complete and unique infrastructure for it ready with Leopard. I expect it to sport a new Front Row, too, which will eventually integrate with your new HD-TV. All this together will probably be without compare elsewhere on the market, like it is with iTunes, the iPod and the iTunes Music Store.
Actually your comment is very Euro- or American- centric. And it's a shame!
Ubuntu _is_ a word indeed. It's Swahili for "humanity".
To quote http://www.learning-org.com/97.05/0042.html:
"A literal translation of the word 'ubuntu' would be 'humanity'. Old
dictionaries will show that the word humanity in English had a very rich
meaning: 1 humans collectively, 2 human nature, 3 human quality, 4
educated, 5 civilised, 6 humane and dignified. But as the information
overload increases, the richness of the word has immerged in the ascending
order. The pollution of information leads to the trivialisation of
knowledge. Now only meaning 1 probably survives. However, the word
'ubuntu' still has all six meanings in ascending order of emergent
importance! The deepest or highest meaning of ubuntu is thus to become
humane while behaving with dignity. Let us not pollute and thus trivialise
this word ubuntu!"
There is a blog on Novell Evolution 2 development. Very nice info on the status of that long expected update. Unfortunately it is now called "Novell Evolution":
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/
Ximian is dying a slow dead after Novell has acquired it last year:
The next version of Evolution is called "Novell Evolution", their Website is redirected to Novell and there hasn't been any significant update to Ximian Desktop for a while. XD2 is the only product labelled "Ximian" anyways.
I really would love to see some kind of roadmap or at least some kind of statement about Ximian Desktop. (As Novell provided for Evolution and Mono).
After they acquired Ximian they talked about keeping Ximian together and their products still being worked on. As I see it this is not the case and I feel very sad to lose Ximian eventually.
6) Full media ships with the computer. No crippled OS versions. It is the whole enchilada.
What about that crippled Quicktime version shipping with OS X?
I used GEOS 128 with a RAMLink drive on my C128-D (metal case). It started in seconds and was blazingly fast. Together with GeoPubisher it was a great way to do dtp. GEOS 128 could be run in 80 chars mode and had a much better resolution.
GeoProgrammer was a great development enivronment, too, btw.
The CMD RAMLink drive was very nice for playing The Last Ninja, too. It all loaded in an instant.
Mine is SuSE Linux. It really feels much more solid than Mandrake or RedHat. I used Mandrake 7.2 and it turned the standart look into this childish look. I prefer standart looks (although SuSE does change the desktop a bit either). Moreover I think SuSE has the better timing. When they will release SuSE 7.2 (or 8.0?) there will be perhaps a usable beta of KDE 2.2 out (or even kde 2.2 final as it is planned for july).
I can't find anything that Konqueror (KDE2s filemanager/browser) doesn't have or that couldn't be built in there. KDEs component based code allows to implement _all_ the mentioned features that Nautilus has. Should you really take a filemanager because of services the company that coded it will make money with?
BTW, Konqueror looks much more beautyfull anyway.
http://www.konqueror.org
as we're waiting for releases. I think KDE2 stable is at least two-three weeks delayed. According to their release-plan it should be out...yesterday? yes: _yesterday_ :-(
I'm looking at Eazel development for quite a while now, and I think, that the Eazel Project is one of the Projects I would call Open Force. It has the possibility to blow down M$! Not because of its speed or stability, but because of all the stuff that we still miss on GNU/Linux. Ease of use, beauty and function overload. Yes, it will need faster computers with more RAM to work fast (because of MP3-Preview functions etc.), but it doesn't matter. The end-user has the money to buy new hardware. Why don't we create an Open Force Software union that is possible to break into the desktop market. There should be in: Eazel, Koffice and... any other suggestions?
The next debian release will probably be stable before the 2.4 kernel comes out. Possibly autumn 2001? ;-)