OSX is NOT UNIX. It is a proprietary OS, which has some Unix-like properties but is not UNIX by any means. Besides, FreeBSD does not claim it is UNIX, just that it's derived from one.
for a more visual look at it, see the Unix timeline. on the timeline you can trace Mac OS X all the way back to the 1st AT&T release of UNICS. (not a typo)
Give me a break. There is nothing "leading" about a DRMed PC in a fancy case mod. Oh, wait. That is exactly what Microsoft is redefning "innovation" to mean, isn't it?
Microsoft might be rebranding it Innovation, but i'm rebranding it Terrorism (why not, everything else has been defined as terrorism)
i seem to recall that a few years ago (early ninties) we had a chip called a Math CoProccessor. it was an FPU when the CPU didn't have one. then someone (intel? moto?) integrated the FPU onto the CPU and things got faster! thats why we don't have SPU's, CPU's with integrated SPU's are faster then CPU's and external SPU's
that made no sence but i'm pushing the post button anyway
Though sony actually made the the Powerbook 100, if I remember correctly. So it's almost ironic.
yes and no, sony repackaged the Macintosh Portable as the PowerBook 100. sony has also made quite a few other products for apple... the early CD-ROM drives, early color screens... etc
heck, on System 6 and older you could currupt your hard drive by calling a file ".sony" because thats the same file name as the (sony) floppy disk driver (or so the story goes)
Apple had a (tenuous) reason to not include a second button...up until they introduced context menus triggered by *control-clicking*. At this point, they're just being stupid.
it would only be stupid if apples Human Interface Guidlines didn't strictly forbid the use of the contextual menu as the only way of accessing certan commands, unlike some other componanies (sadly, i can think of examples of both OS's that you need the context menu to do something, however, it's a bit more common on windows though)
just think of the context menu as something a power user has the option of using, not something that a newbie is required to use.
The NES Max is, however, the only first-party Nintendo controller that I know of with Turbo buttons
i had an NES MAX, and a PowerPad (arcade style joystick) and the PP had a Turbo toggle switch for A and for B. i also had a Sattelite, (a wireless 4 player adapter) and again, there was a turbo switch on the sat for A and B, that affected all 4 players!
all three of these were first party:P
however, you are right, a Turbo Button is a bit diffrent from a toggle switch (i beleave the SNES version of the PowerPad had buttons, but i never had one)
I'm going to go with darth on this one. Obvious is the opposite of subtle, and as anyone who has studied news-speak knows, an un prefix means it's the opposite of what ever the un is attached to, (ungood = bad, etc) hence unsubtle = obvious. Since the "not" cancels out the "un," it is a subtle attempt at pro-windows propaganda.
you gadda be the dumbest newbies i ever seen you've got white out all over your screen you think your comadore 64 is realy neeto what kind of chip you got in there a dorito? your using a 286 don't make me laugh your windows boots up in what a day and a half? you could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskett
The plitting-up of the world into three great superstates was an event that could and indded was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth centuary. With the absoption of Europ by Russia and the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectivly in being.
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In one combination or another, these threww superstates are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihalting struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth centuary. It was a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another,
have no material cause for fighting, and are not divided by a genuine ideological difference.
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war hysteria is continuos and universal in all countries, and as such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and the reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked apon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side, and ny by the enemy, meritorious. But in a physical sence warinvolves very small numbers of people, mostly highly trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties.
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War has in fact changed its character.More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. Motives which were already preent to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth centuary have now become dominant and are conspiciusly reconized and acted upon.
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The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously reconized and not recongnized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
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it was...clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destrution - indeed, in some sence was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. In a wolrd in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed amotorcar or even an airplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once bacem general, wealth would confer no distinction.
that 1984? i could go on, but my arms are getting tired from all the typing:P
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OSX is NOT UNIX. It is a proprietary OS, which has some Unix-like properties but is not UNIX by any means. Besides, FreeBSD does not claim it is UNIX, just that it's derived from one.
FYI: Mac OS X's core (darwin) is dirrived from FreeBSD therefore, it must be direived from a UNIX.
for a more visual look at it, see the Unix timeline. on the timeline you can trace Mac OS X all the way back to the 1st AT&T release of UNICS. (not a typo)
the best part is that when you start windows, the splash screen goes so fast that you think you just saw a sublimicrosoftsucksminal message
Give me a break. There is nothing "leading" about a DRMed PC in a fancy case mod. Oh, wait. That is exactly what Microsoft is redefning "innovation" to mean, isn't it?
Microsoft might be rebranding it Innovation, but i'm rebranding it Terrorism (why not, everything else has been defined as terrorism)
i seem to recall that a few years ago (early ninties) we had a chip called a Math CoProccessor. it was an FPU when the CPU didn't have one. then someone (intel? moto?) integrated the FPU onto the CPU and things got faster! thats why we don't have SPU's, CPU's with integrated SPU's are faster then CPU's and external SPU's
that made no sence but i'm pushing the post button anyway
it depends on how you look at it.... minidisk holds 74 minuts of audio, therefore it's the same capacity as a CD
why am i playing the devils advicate?!
what like MiniDisk? don't make me puke!
Not only doesn't it journal, it doesn't exist.
oh?
Though sony actually made the the Powerbook 100, if I remember correctly. So it's almost ironic.
yes and no, sony repackaged the Macintosh Portable as the PowerBook 100. sony has also made quite a few other products for apple... the early CD-ROM drives, early color screens... etc
heck, on System 6 and older you could currupt your hard drive by calling a file ".sony" because thats the same file name as the (sony) floppy disk driver (or so the story goes)
Apple had a (tenuous) reason to not include a second button...up until they introduced context menus triggered by *control-clicking*. At this point, they're just being stupid.
it would only be stupid if apples Human Interface Guidlines didn't strictly forbid the use of the contextual menu as the only way of accessing certan commands, unlike some other componanies (sadly, i can think of examples of both OS's that you need the context menu to do something, however, it's a bit more common on windows though)
just think of the context menu as something a power user has the option of using, not something that a newbie is required to use.
The NES Max is, however, the only first-party Nintendo controller that I know of with Turbo buttons
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i had an NES MAX, and a PowerPad (arcade style joystick) and the PP had a Turbo toggle switch for A and for B. i also had a Sattelite, (a wireless 4 player adapter) and again, there was a turbo switch on the sat for A and B, that affected all 4 players!
all three of these were first party
however, you are right, a Turbo Button is a bit diffrent from a toggle switch (i beleave the SNES version of the PowerPad had buttons, but i never had one)
i like this quote from the forward...
"Unix was not designed for the Mac."
poor guy, can't escape unix, and stuck with a computer running an OS that wasn't even designed for it...
I'm going to go with darth on this one. Obvious is the opposite of subtle, and as anyone who has studied news-speak knows, an un prefix means it's the opposite of what ever the un is attached to, (ungood = bad, etc) hence unsubtle = obvious. Since the "not" cancels out the "un," it is a subtle attempt at pro-windows propaganda.
If Lucas himself came out and gave the entire plot of the movie, that would be a spoiler, even if it was "official".
i'd call that a book
steve already shot that one down
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somehow i think thats a bit out of date
you gadda be the dumbest newbies i ever seen
you've got white out all over your screen
you think your comadore 64 is realy neeto
what kind of chip you got in there a dorito?
your using a 286 don't make me laugh
your windows boots up in what a day and a half?
you could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskett
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that 1984? i could go on, but my arms are getting tired from all the typing
/me boots his TiBook inverbose mode
hey look! my keyboard, and trackpad are ADB!
yes ladies and gentlemen, apple's laptops still use the Apple Desktop Bus!
didn't i already see that plot in a movie someware?
mmm lets get some more psudo-1984 quotes going on slashdot!!!
Does anyone know how the response is for Apple Remote Desktop?
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i run 1.1 at 11 Mbps on my Airport connection, it feels just like VNC, slow and choppy
what you want is this:
my TiBook 500 gets voltage=16564 flags=5/0x005 amperage=1200 capacity=2942 current=2931 [99.6%]
i have no idea what it was doing before the updates, but i leave it plugged in 24/7
funny, my ATA controller looks like a SCSI controler!