I know there are many who resist this view. Many believe MSFT is the devil. I'm not one of those people. And my concern is that if we obsess about old wars, we won't understand the nature of the new.
Look everyone, a big wooden horse, it must be a gift. Come on everyone, lets get it into the town. That walls going to have to come down though.
Why do the editors of Slashdot ALWAYS put their unproductive, derogatory, flaming, two cents at the end of _every_ story regarding something "AWFUL" Microsoft has done?
Yeah, that wouldn't be annoying if it didn't happen so often. It seems in every weekly story about a major new virus, they have to make their biased comments... wait a second
It seems to me that one of the primary purposes of advertising is to sell you things you didn't know you needed. So if advertising is so targeted that the commercials and products only reflect ones already forged tastes, then how does that help to sell more widgets? Like the news, this sounds like a way to sell us what we already know about or what we already want, and doesn't seem to lend itself to increasing sales or opening new markets.
I agree. Without trying to tell us about new things it just degenerates into petty fighting between brands (i.e. Coke vs Pepsi> Accept it, there is no difference).
(Age 11, Movie: Blade, Scene: Opening where the guy who keeps losing his hand as getting a blow job at the rave --
everything else is cool).
Seriously? He can see vampires showering in blood and a 800 pound guy getting fried, but no sex? Before now I never believed people who said our society had screwed-up values.
Sure, you can find a Java implementation of a word processor, but will it last as long as Emacs? Is it as flexible? Is it as customizable? Is it as powerful? An Emacs based on Common Lisp (instead of its own crippled Lisp) would be even more of an improvement.
I think he means a text editor written is lisp. Emacs is written in C.
You'll notice that all of these are created to solve real-world problems, where it might not be obvious how
a computer could help you. Word processing and 3D-shooters are all very securely "inside the box" of what
computers are known to do, and have been done many times. Lisp is for taking on the world, forging into
new territory, and kicking the world's ass. If you want to stay safe and do "yet another" of the same old
thing, maybe Java is all you need.
So... lisp can't do it, but thats ok because... it's easy to do.
... for everyone on/. to start fighting this perversion of language. Downloading music is not stealing, it is copyright violation. And don't even get me started on "piracy". Words do matter, metaphors are the main way that non-geeks learn about this stuff. Everyone, start calling it copyright violation, when someone calls it stealing correct them, when a website calls it stealing email them. And remember, bad metaphors are double-plus-ungood. </rant>
Has anyone thought about setting up some donation system? I'm sure a lot of people would choose to give more money to eliminate large annoying banners for everyone then they would just for themselfs. Or if there already is a donation system in place draw more attention to it (I don't know of one, and if people don't know of it they can't donate). Without of course being annoying about it, IMO sites begging for donations on every page is as annoying as ads. Then again, maybe I'm just overestimating peoples generosity.
Umm... it's been a while but I don't remember you having to give out you social insurance number to get a/. account. It's not an issue of privacy, it's an issue of not even being bothered to spend a minute to get yourself an account. (Paraphrasing some guys.sig) If you're post isn't even worth a pseudonym, I don't wanna hear it.
One of the most obvious is that maybe some people want an ultra-modern operating system that runs just as well on hardware a few years old.
Like he said, on new apples.
Another reason may be to do some serious programming (serious meaning developing other tools, things like Apache and Gimp), where there are tons of free already ported and tested dev tools.
Get your facts straight, both Apache and the Gimp run on OS X (and Apache comes with it). And if you want dev tools, maybe you should look on the dev tools cd that comes with OS X?
Since when has Slashdot been only about hard news? Will you look right above that story: Monty Python Lego! That's (IMO) one of the great things about/., it's half funny/cool stuff and half important tech news. If you don't like it, don't bitch about it, go read Wired news or the Register.
"Hmm... here's an article by Jon Katz, who I hate. Lets see, I could: A) Scroll down a couple inches and read the next story, or B) Read the article, in depth, noting every little error. Then, take the time to post a comment saying that having to scroll that extra 300 pixels a couple of times a month is an intolerable waste of my time, instead of doing something that might actually fix this, like sending an email to someone in charge."
Yeah, and I'm sure your 56k modem loads web pages at a full 56k/sec...
That's 56kiloBITS not kiloBYTES so it's actually 7k/sec, which I have gotten up to on occasion. Although it usually more like 5k/sec, which is %71 of the theoretical top speed. If you apply the same percentage to the 300bps modem you get 401wpm.
This is false. The key point that the P4 is design for clock ramping to maintain Moore's law. The G4's performance ramp has fallen *way* off of Moore's law and looks to be an already dead architecture.
As I recall, Moore's law is about the SPEED of computers. Not just the MHz. If (as the article says) G4s run at comparable speed to P4s, even though they have lower MHz, HOW has that fallen off Moore's law?
Quake III is the only truly fair real world benchmark that you can run on both of these machines.
Fair, assuming that it is equally optimized on both platforms.
I believe the x86s just wipe the floor floor with iMacs.
Call me a wuss if you must, but I think there's something wrong when you practically have to take a college level course just to use an plain ASCII text editor.
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Heh heh *snort* heh .sig that ironic.
Er... sorry. It's been a while since I've seen a
Hmm... because those bugs are fixed much faster? or maybe because they TELL us about them, instead of keeping 'em hidden like Microsoft.
Look everyone, a big wooden horse, it must be a gift. Come on everyone, lets get it into the town. That walls going to have to come down though.
Really? The first time I saw this (on dotto I think) I though "Neat... I wonder how many days till this gets cracked".
Yes, of course it would be impossible to add a good GUI and good ease of use to a unix system. *cough* *cough*
Yeah, that wouldn't be annoying if it didn't happen so often. It seems in every weekly story about a major new virus, they have to make their biased comments... wait a second
I agree. Without trying to tell us about new things it just degenerates into petty fighting between brands (i.e. Coke vs Pepsi> Accept it, there is no difference).
I only read Wired for the articles..... I swear.
Seriously? He can see vampires showering in blood and a 800 pound guy getting fried, but no sex? Before now I never believed people who said our society had screwed-up values.
I think he means a text editor written is lisp. Emacs is written in C.
You'll notice that all of these are created to solve real-world problems, where it might not be obvious how a computer could help you. Word processing and 3D-shooters are all very securely "inside the box" of what computers are known to do, and have been done many times. Lisp is for taking on the world, forging into new territory, and kicking the world's ass. If you want to stay safe and do "yet another" of the same old thing, maybe Java is all you need.
So... lisp can't do it, but thats ok because... it's easy to do.
He said don't add things just because they are in windows. Add things that make sense, regardless of if they're in Windows.
MacKiDo has a good series on U.I., with comparisons between Mac and Windows. It's kind of old, but most of it's still relevant.
... for everyone on /. to start fighting this perversion of language. Downloading music is not stealing, it is copyright violation. And don't even get me started on "piracy". Words do matter, metaphors are the main way that non-geeks learn about this stuff. Everyone, start calling it copyright violation, when someone calls it stealing correct them, when a website calls it stealing email them. And remember, bad metaphors are double-plus-ungood.
</rant>
Has anyone thought about setting up some donation system? I'm sure a lot of people would choose to give more money to eliminate large annoying banners for everyone then they would just for themselfs. Or if there already is a donation system in place draw more attention to it (I don't know of one, and if people don't know of it they can't donate). Without of course being annoying about it, IMO sites begging for donations on every page is as annoying as ads. Then again, maybe I'm just overestimating peoples generosity.
Umm... it's been a while but I don't remember you having to give out you social insurance number to get a /. account. It's not an issue of privacy, it's an issue of not even being bothered to spend a minute to get yourself an account. (Paraphrasing some guys .sig) If you're post isn't even worth a pseudonym, I don't wanna hear it.
Like he said, on new apples.
Another reason may be to do some serious programming (serious meaning developing other tools, things like Apache and Gimp), where there are tons of free already ported and tested dev tools.
Get your facts straight, both Apache and the Gimp run on OS X (and Apache comes with it). And if you want dev tools, maybe you should look on the dev tools cd that comes with OS X?
Since when has Slashdot been only about hard news? Will you look right above that story: Monty Python Lego! That's (IMO) one of the great things about /., it's half funny/cool stuff and half important tech news. If you don't like it, don't bitch about it, go read Wired news or the Register.
"Hmm... here's an article by Jon Katz, who I hate. Lets see, I could: A) Scroll down a couple inches and read the next story, or B) Read the article, in depth, noting every little error. Then, take the time to post a comment saying that having to scroll that extra 300 pixels a couple of times a month is an intolerable waste of my time, instead of doing something that might actually fix this, like sending an email to someone in charge."
I never realised hom much ESR likes spoonerisms[?]> . Gill Bates of Sicromoft, Stichard Rallman, and so on.
That's 56kiloBITS not kiloBYTES so it's actually 7k/sec, which I have gotten up to on occasion. Although it usually more like 5k/sec, which is %71 of the theoretical top speed. If you apply the same percentage to the 300bps modem you get 401wpm.
"It comes with something even more pokey: a built-in 300-bps modem that sends text more slowly then the average person can type."
Really... most people type more then 562 words per minute?
Someone had to link to this. I think the comparisons are obvious.
As I recall, Moore's law is about the SPEED of computers. Not just the MHz. If (as the article says) G4s run at comparable speed to P4s, even though they have lower MHz, HOW has that fallen off Moore's law?
Quake III is the only truly fair real world benchmark that you can run on both of these machines.
Fair, assuming that it is equally optimized on both platforms.
I believe the x86s just wipe the floor floor with iMacs.
Since when has the iMac been made for gaming?
Call me a wuss if you must, but I think there's something wrong when you practically have to take a college level course just to use an plain ASCII text editor.
Right sure. No way to install linux, are you high? And no way to install Windows? I'm I missing somthing? Do windows boxes run MacOS?