Yep, I remember that line; the manuals definitely had a touch of whimsy about them. The Apple ][ was much cooler than the Pet because it had colour and expansion ports, an assembler/mini-assembler in ROM and the monitor ROM listing in the back of the manual. It felt like an enthusiast's machine rather than a corporate product like the PET and TRS-80. Mind you, the Atari 400/800 was light-years ahead of all of them when it came out in 1979...
> Isn't it essentially an evolution from Solaris' CDE ?
When was CDE released? I thought Sun was still gamely developing NeWS in 1988, when NeXTStep (with the dock) was on sale. At best they were parallel developments. I don't think Steve Jobs was looking at the X Window System for inspiration for good GUI design...
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"Chicken Run" off the charts hysterical (5/5 Dreamworks 2000). "W&G Curse of the Were-Rabbit" smart and funny (5/5 Dreamworks 2005).
These were both Aardman animation production / Disney distribution the same way "Toy Story" was Pixar / Disney distribution -- but that just goes to make your point better.
People go nuts about a 0.1 incremental upgrade to the Mac OS, and are only too happy to pay $130 for it. Longhorn is a far more important and comprehensive upgrade than Tiger and all anyone can say about it is how much it sucks because it looks like Windows?
Blimey, first we had the megahertz myth, now we have the version increment myth. MacOS X incremental upgrades are (for example) from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9, and are free. Sort of like MS service packs.
MacOS X releases are 10.3 -> 10.4 and are the $130 packages that people queue up for. They may only seem like incremental upgrades to you, but that is because Apple got the fundamentals right in the first place.
Another difference between MacOS X and MS releases is that the Apple releases get faster. All that tweaking under the hood in major releases makes MacOS X more efficient on the same hardware - revolutionary idea which means my five year old cube is still quite usable.
Not to mention that several of them we kidnapped from countries other than Afghanistan (e.g. one UK citizen somewhere in Africa) and handed over to the US under very shady circumstances...
Is that so many tech people who buy macs do it because they claim they like that its "based in UNIX" (who gives a shit, is my thought), but then never, ever touch anything. I have NEVER seen a modified OS X
Wow... where to begin? "Based on Unix" I give a shit because it' fast, reliable, familiar... and not Windoze. "never seen a modified OS X" - what do you mean by modified? I have a couple of kernel hacks (not written by me) to remap the Capslock on my laptop keyboard, and to enhance the track pad. All my other modifications are user-level programs that do stuff I want. If, by modifying you mean tuning the kernel, or linking a custom kernel - life's too short; I bought the Mac to do work, which it does perfectly, so there is no need to tinker. PCs are for tinkering.
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Never, please...
Neither Smalltalk nor Self have multiple inheritance and Smalltalk practically defined OO.
So by your argument Bill Gates is 'better' more than Ghandi, Jesus etc. because he gave more money away than either of them... time for you to have a reality check, I think!
I'm a director of an entrepreneurial company in the UK (well, I like to think so anyway:-) and we tried to get to go to this conference, but we're firmly not invited. It's only for those "innovators" in big business, see. This makes me quite bitter because big business only accounts for about 20% of the UK economy, making them fairly irrelevant as far as growth and innovation are concerned.
Well that, and the fact that the large cream pie in your fridge is going to waste;-)
Problem with regulations is the standards tend to lack in quality and never seem to be upgraded/reviewed. Back to the car example... bumpers once had a 5 mph impact standard. It's often 2.5 mph today.
Errm, sorry, I don't live in the US - does this mean that the 5mph impact-resistant bumper legislation has been repealed, or are car manufacturers ignoring it?
With today's knowledge of metals and plastics along with detailed crash data, we should be able to make cars low weight that have 50 mph impact standards. Will companies do this out of the kindness of their heart?
Well no and yes. There are two problems here which are basic physics. When a car (auto) crashes, a certain amount of energy (originally the kinetic energy of the car) has to be dispersed safely. The safest way of doing this by building 'crumple zones' into the car; bending these crumple zones uses up energy, and also slows the car progressively, reducing the deceleration forces which the car and its occupants are subject to. If you build a rigid car able to survive higher impact speeds, the energy of these crashes has to be dispersed, and 'non-upgraded' components of the car (read - the occupants) tend to absorb more of the energy. So the car survives, but the occupants are pureed.
Also if a light object ("supercar") collides with a heavier one ("SUV") then more of the energy of the collision is imparted to the lighter object (try headbutting a train - which recoils most, and which receives the most damage?)
They weren't fourteen years ago (or was it fifteen?) when I got mine - best ink flow and smoothest nib I had ever tried. It is still going strong today, so I've had no reason to change. I have only used Mont Blanc Ink in it; perhaps that makes a difference.
1) Paper makes a big difference; you need good paper for fountain pens.
2) Good fountain pens write smoothly out of the box
3) Don't let others use your fountain pen too much
4) Use a biro for signing credit cards, payment slips etc
I use a Mont Blanc Meisterstuck (medium sized). My friend Steve (hi!) let me have a go with his about 14 year ago, and it was a revelation after the Parkers I had used until then. It cost two and a half times as much, but was incomparably better... I got one that evening and am still using it... (and yes, my hand does hurt)
I have a 667MHz PB with 1GB RAM, and as a Java programmer I can tell you I need more speed ('specially since a bud'o'mine got a G5)... I might even be willing to stump up my money, rather than the companies!
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Yep, I remember that line; the manuals definitely had a touch of whimsy about them. The Apple ][ was much cooler than the Pet because it had colour and expansion ports, an assembler/mini-assembler in ROM and the monitor ROM listing in the back of the manual.
It felt like an enthusiast's machine rather than a corporate product like the PET and TRS-80.
Mind you, the Atari 400/800 was light-years ahead of all of them when it came out in 1979...
Cheers mate,
This talk of splash screens is not helping eliminate my mental image of Steve Ballmer squirting...
> Isn't it essentially an evolution from Solaris' CDE ?
When was CDE released? I thought Sun was still gamely developing NeWS in 1988, when NeXTStep (with the dock) was on sale. At best they were parallel developments. I don't think Steve Jobs was looking at the X Window System for inspiration for good GUI design...
"Chicken Run" off the charts hysterical (5/5 Dreamworks 2000).
"W&G Curse of the Were-Rabbit" smart and funny (5/5 Dreamworks 2005).
These were both Aardman animation production / Disney distribution the same way
"Toy Story" was Pixar / Disney distribution -- but that just goes to make
your point better.
Computer == HiFi
M$ software == CD
per-processor licensing == CD price = base price * consumer's-number-of-ears
does anybody else find this ridiculous?
Why do they hate America?
Dude, if you have to ask you will never understand...
Not to mention that several of them we kidnapped from countries other than Afghanistan (e.g. one UK citizen somewhere in Africa) and handed over to the US under very shady circumstances...
Hardy-har.
It ran on NeXTStep before it ran on DOS - that is what it was developed on. Networked DOOM on NS rocked.
Wow... where to begin? "Based on Unix" I give a shit because it' fast, reliable, familiar
"never seen a modified OS X" - what do you mean by modified? I have a couple of kernel hacks (not written by me) to remap the Capslock on my laptop keyboard, and to enhance the track pad. All my other modifications are user-level programs that do stuff I want.
If, by modifying you mean tuning the kernel, or linking a custom kernel - life's too short; I bought the Mac to do work, which it does perfectly, so there is no need to tinker. PCs are for tinkering.
Never, please...
Neither Smalltalk nor Self have multiple inheritance and Smalltalk practically defined OO.
You've just reminded me -
I saw "The taking of Pelham 1 2 3" and missed the first 122
in the franchise ; were they any good?
(Or was it "The Magnificent Seven"? and the first six?
You've just reminded me - I saw the
Damn! I used up all my mod points yesterday, otherwise I'd have dumped a bunch on you. Just what you said.
> Hard Drives make Noise.
Not when they have spun down.
> CD-Roms make noise.
Only when you are using them.
> Floppies make noise.
Floppies? What are they?
>A noiseless computer is impossible because anything with a motor will make noise.
A computer can't be silent all the time but my Cube manages it most of the time.
You missed step 1(a) - Do what your wife tells you to do.
Minde you, most geeks miss it too!
So by your argument Bill Gates is 'better' more than Ghandi, Jesus etc. because he gave more money away than either of them... time for you to have a reality check, I think!
Well that, and the fact that the large cream pie in your fridge is going to waste
I think this Mike Rowe's behaviour sucks.
In fact I'm off now to register mikerowesoftsucks.com and set up a parody website to vent my anger...
Thank goodness no link was posted... how could we sensibly comment on it if we had RTFAed?
Errm, sorry, I don't live in the US - does this mean that the 5mph impact-resistant bumper legislation has been repealed, or are car manufacturers ignoring it?
Well no and yes. There are two problems here which are basic physics.
When a car (auto) crashes, a certain amount of energy (originally the kinetic energy of the car) has to be dispersed safely. The safest way of doing this by building 'crumple zones' into the car; bending these crumple zones uses up energy, and also slows the car progressively, reducing the deceleration forces which the car and its occupants are subject to. If you build a rigid car able to survive higher impact speeds, the energy of these crashes has to be dispersed, and 'non-upgraded' components of the car (read - the occupants) tend to absorb more of the energy. So the car survives, but the occupants are pureed.
Also if a light object ("supercar") collides with a heavier one ("SUV") then more of the energy of the collision is imparted to the lighter object (try headbutting a train - which recoils most, and which receives the most damage?)
They weren't fourteen years ago (or was it fifteen?) when I got mine - best ink flow and smoothest nib I had ever tried. It is still going strong today, so I've had no reason to change.
I have only used Mont Blanc Ink in it; perhaps that makes a difference.
An informative thread, this; to recap:
1) Paper makes a big difference; you need good paper for fountain pens.
2) Good fountain pens write smoothly out of the box
3) Don't let others use your fountain pen too much
4) Use a biro for signing credit cards, payment slips etc
I use a Mont Blanc Meisterstuck (medium sized). My friend Steve (hi!) let me have a go with his about 14 year ago, and it was a revelation after the Parkers I had used until then. It cost two and a half times as much, but was incomparably better... I got one that evening and am still using it... (and yes, my hand does hurt)
Yep, my '2000 cube has 1.25GB in it; the 640MB limit was a new one with the iBook and Powerbook 12".
I have a 667MHz PB with 1GB RAM, and as a Java programmer I can tell you I need more speed ('specially since a bud'o'mine got a G5)... I might even be willing to stump up my money, rather than the companies!