Totally. We talk to other companies every day that bitch about their DSL service being flaky while we sit on our over-priced-yet-never-been-down T1. When we got it, it was a deal, but now it's a bit over priced. But like you said, stability of connection is key.
We talked to our local computer supplier about getting no OS boxes. They were fine with that except that they had to have a way to test all the parts of the box that we wanted. A 'burn in' phase to let it run for a day or two to make sure that everything works. Since they know they we just format the drives as soon as we get them, they put DOS on them just to make sure the damn things boot.
The thing that I really like about GiS is the "inside view" of slashdot. I'm being totally serious. It's nice to hear a little bit more on a topic that was posted than "from-the-stuff-that-you-should-read-dept."
I like the fx with the new equipment. The last episode was painful (fx wise that is)
As many others have said, humor is always good. Nothing like a little inside joke with the small group of slashdot readers...;-)
It makes me want to get into radio again...of course I doubt chico state would let me back in now...
The day they make Oracle simple enough for your mom to use it the day that geeks will be useless.
Hey, it could happen!
Seriously though, things will get easier and harder. It's not like technology is standing still. I don't think there will be some grand sweeping simpilization that will breeze through and invalidate techincal competance.
What hubris it is for humans to even dare suggest that they are indeed exempt from natural selection. Do you think that out in the wild parents (read: animals) allow their offspring to go on living if it is clear that they can not fend for themselves? Clearly not. Only the strong survive. This is the natural way of things. The only thing that separates humans from the natural world is their disgusting way of thinking.
Except for the fact that the "parents" are not the ones doing the natural selection. Usually the weak or sick are taken from the population by predators. Natural selection is just that...natural. As soon as people start trying to enforce natural selection it is no longer natural. Thus the argument doesn't really apply to this situation.
Not really. When Sherlock first came to be, a lot of sites started calling Apple telling them they didn't really like this. Apple cuts them in on the deal and even serves ads from the searched site to sherlock. It was all done above the table so to speak. This only counts for the plug-ins that actually ship with MacOS. There are plenty of home rolled plugins that don't cut the searched site in on the goods (so to speak).
That's right! How dare any company make it easier for people to invade our sacred area of owning a computer. The audacity of Jobs is boundless! He is ruining it for us! We won't be half as 3l33t anymore. The mysticism will be gone... Sigh.
With the success of the Star Wars trailer, I doubt it. It may be on the wane with unix users since xanim can't handle the new codes (through no fault of its own obviously!)
> MS Netshow, RealVideo, etc. are (arguably) on their way up.
Which is why I think Apple is trying to put a foot on their throat and squash them all. They obviously want QT to be they video platform.
As for how they plan to address the growing number of *nix users is a big question. Maybe when they have QT4 client up to snuff on Mac OS X Server then can work on porting it to the other platforms.
Of course, all the 'Be free or die' people will say that it wont be on all platforms until they GPL the source. Because we all know that all those people running Plan 9 out there really want QT4;-)
Don't count on Sorenson being opened up anytime soon. Quicktime is an Apple cash cow and undoubtedly very important to the company in the near future. You can read all the Golden Convergence articles at Mac Week. Some of you may find it interesting...
Funny how people only want code to the cool things out there;-)
"We don't want the Windows source code." "Hey Apple, open up Quicktime."
So often people refer to how Apple has acted in the past. The whole "Not Invented Here" syndrome which almost doomed them. That way of thinking has been cleaned out and no longer lives at Apple.
To ignore the ideas that Apple has introduced to computing would be silly. To say that any good idea in computing has come from Apple is equally silly.
See how they recently embraced OpenGL. They are trying to make the fastest Java runtime for personal computing. They are a new company and I suggest you all take a new look at what Apple has done recently.
If you feel you are being slighted, you should point Rob to those posts. Like he said before, this is a system in flux and there will be people who abuse the system. He needs to know so he can make it better.
Personally I think the amount of user control of/. is getting pretty f-ing cool. Pretty soon there will be a My Yahoo SlashBox 8-)
Pat
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RedHat is certainly the most visible dist out there from a suit perspective. Since this is all so new, expect them to change after they figure out what dists really are;-)
Hopefully we will also see companies take Oracles lead and have a baseline kernel/C lib instead of a dist name for support (as mentioned in a previous post).
Give these people time... they don't change their way of business very fast. They aren't used to 'OS' patches coming every 2 weeks;-)
Grades are actually relevant to what the child is doing at school. I don't see how a list of URLs that the child has looked at is relevant. You might as well send a logfile of all the dirty words that were used while not in the presence of an adult. The school that I worked at had an "Acceptable Use" policy that parents had to sign up front before the child was allowed unsupervised access. Children who did not get this signed could still work on assignments if they were in class with the teacher.
This seems like a much better idea than simply sending a daily log file of the childs activity. There still hasn't been any reply to the tracking of email either? Wouldn't this fit right in with the URL tracking plan?
I know most everyone has the best interest of child and parent in mind but you also have to step back and look at what effect these actions would really have on education and how the family interacts.
So the school only has to keep track of what URLs the kids are looking at? As soon as you start doing this everyone will want something tracked. What path around campus their kid takes, what kind of food they eat, etc...
Believe me, I've taught in a high school and if you give one parent one thing, every parent will want their own thing... I'm not saying this is bad, I'm just saying that it is not the job of the school to play big-brother-pass-through for parent's.
The idea of logging what URL's kids look at may seem like a rather harmless idea, but just look at the evil ways in which it would be exploited. Just because you are 16 doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to have any privacy.
This seems so intrusive to me. And it is censorship...working through fear. Fear is no way to rule a child's life. Yes, you as the parent are responsible for that child, but that child is also a person and should be treated as such.
Will you also log every person they send email to as well? Maybe send the parents transcripts of conversations in their apartments? What else will you track about their behavoir? What will you sell to Pepsi for marketing information.
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Totally. We talk to other companies every day that bitch about their DSL service being flaky while we sit on our over-priced-yet-never-been-down T1. When we got it, it was a deal, but now it's a bit over priced. But like you said, stability of connection is key.
We talked to our local computer supplier about getting no OS boxes. They were fine with that except that they had to have a way to test all the parts of the box that we wanted. A 'burn in' phase to let it run for a day or two to make sure that everything works. Since they know they we just format the drives as soon as we get them, they put DOS on them just to make sure the damn things boot.
Most places probably have a similar dilema.
The thing that I really like about GiS is the "inside view" of slashdot. I'm being totally serious. It's nice to hear a little bit more on a topic that was posted than "from-the-stuff-that-you-should-read-dept."
I like the fx with the new equipment. The last episode was painful (fx wise that is)
As many others have said, humor is always good. Nothing like a little inside joke with the small group of slashdot readers... ;-)
It makes me want to get into radio again...of course I doubt chico state would let me back in now...
Why color? Quake 3 of course.
The day they make Oracle simple enough for your mom to use it the day that geeks will be useless.
Hey, it could happen!
Seriously though, things will get easier and harder. It's not like technology is standing still. I don't think there will be some grand sweeping simpilization that will breeze through and invalidate techincal competance.
Except for the fact that the "parents" are not the ones doing the natural selection. Usually the weak or sick are taken from the population by predators. Natural selection is just that...natural. As soon as people start trying to enforce natural selection it is no longer natural. Thus the argument doesn't really apply to this situation.
Not really. When Sherlock first came to be, a lot of sites started calling Apple telling them they didn't really like this. Apple cuts them in on the deal and even serves ads from the searched site to sherlock. It was all done above the table so to speak. This only counts for the plug-ins that actually ship with MacOS. There are plenty of home rolled plugins that don't cut the searched site in on the goods (so to speak).
The current MacOS can access up to 1.5 gigs (even thought the new high end G4s will let you put 2 gigs in).
I thinkNT will let you access 4 gigs. At least that is what I understood from the whole Midcraft fiasco...
I'm not familiar enough with the others to answer...
Isn't that just soooo easy.
What happened Intel? You already had a board with firewire on it? Remember?
Maybe intel couldn't figure out how to make it work? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that happened...
But I forgot, if it isn't free or open, it must suck...like those nice open and bug free PIII chips...yes sir, free and open.
Please don't forget the Patent Pool formed by Apple, Compaq, Matsushita (Panasonic), Philips, Sony and Toshiba
That's right! How dare any company make it easier for people to invade our sacred area of owning a computer. The audacity of Jobs is boundless! He is ruining it for us! We won't be half as 3l33t anymore. The mysticism will be gone... Sigh.
Yes and no. iMac implies USB support. There are plenty of G3 based macs out there with no USB support (unless you have a USB PCI card).
...although it would issue a warning saying that you don't have to run the latest developer kernel. 8-)
> but like so many things, it may be on the wane.
With the success of the Star Wars trailer, I doubt it. It may be on the wane with unix users since xanim can't handle the new codes (through no fault of its own obviously!)
> MS Netshow, RealVideo, etc. are (arguably) on their way up.
Which is why I think Apple is trying to put a foot on their throat and squash them all. They obviously want QT to be they video platform.
As for how they plan to address the growing number of *nix users is a big question. Maybe when they have QT4 client up to snuff on Mac OS X Server then can work on porting it to the other platforms.
Of course, all the 'Be free or die' people will say that it wont be on all platforms until they GPL the source. Because we all know that all those people running Plan 9 out there really want QT4 ;-)
Don't count on Sorenson being opened up anytime soon. Quicktime is an Apple cash cow and undoubtedly very important to the company in the near future. You can read all the Golden Convergence articles at Mac Week. Some of you may find it interesting...
Funny how people only want code to the cool things out there ;-)
"We don't want the Windows source code."
"Hey Apple, open up Quicktime."
You are right. A conspiracy needs some sort of hidden plan/agenda. This is simply marketing.
A lot of people will say Contextual Menus, which we all know was around before MS.
I do know that Apple caught MS with its hands in the QuickTime source code cookie jar. It was behind the scenes of the $150 mill investment.
Maybe you could say that they stole a crappy protected memory system from 95 with gaurd pages instead of doing it the real way.
If anyone else has some more obvious ones post em!
Pat
So often people refer to how Apple has acted in the past. The whole "Not Invented Here" syndrome which almost doomed them. That way of thinking has been cleaned out and no longer lives at Apple.
To ignore the ideas that Apple has introduced to computing would be silly. To say that any good idea in computing has come from Apple is equally silly.
See how they recently embraced OpenGL. They are trying to make the fastest Java runtime for personal computing. They are a new company and I suggest you all take a new look at what Apple has done recently.
Anyway...
Pat
If you feel you are being slighted, you should point Rob to those posts. Like he said before, this is a system in flux and there will be people who abuse the system. He needs to know so he can make it better.
/. is getting pretty f-ing cool. Pretty soon there will be a My Yahoo SlashBox 8-)
Personally I think the amount of user control of
Pat
RedHat is certainly the most visible dist out there from a suit perspective. Since this is all so new, expect them to change after they figure out what dists really are ;-)
;-)
Hopefully we will also see companies take Oracles lead and have a baseline kernel/C lib instead of a dist name for support (as mentioned in a previous post).
Give these people time... they don't change their way of business very fast. They aren't used to 'OS' patches coming every 2 weeks
Is this simply so you can tell IT that they don't have to standardize on NT since you can run all the apps you need on linux?
From what I've seen IE tends to go into CPU suck mode on Solaris...
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. 8-)
Don't get me wrong. I loved MST3K as much as the next geek...but every TV show has a life span, and I think that MST3K might be at its ending point.
Now I wish the would concentrate on putting the whole shebang out on VHS/DVD. Now that would be cool
Pat
Grades are actually relevant to what the child is doing at school. I don't see how a list of URLs that the child has looked at is relevant. You might as well send a logfile of all the dirty words that were used while not in the presence of an adult. The school that I worked at had an "Acceptable Use" policy that parents had to sign up front before the child was allowed unsupervised access. Children who did not get this signed could still work on assignments if they were in class with the teacher.
This seems like a much better idea than simply sending a daily log file of the childs activity. There still hasn't been any reply to the tracking of email either? Wouldn't this fit right in with the URL tracking plan?
I know most everyone has the best interest of child and parent in mind but you also have to step back and look at what effect these actions would really have on education and how the family interacts.
PatSo the school only has to keep track of what URLs the kids are looking at? As soon as you start doing this everyone will want something tracked. What path around campus their kid takes, what kind of food they eat, etc...
Believe me, I've taught in a high school and if you give one parent one thing, every parent will want their own thing... I'm not saying this is bad, I'm just saying that it is not the job of the school to play big-brother-pass-through for parent's.
The idea of logging what URL's kids look at may seem like a rather harmless idea, but just look at the evil ways in which it would be exploited. Just because you are 16 doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to have any privacy.
PatThis seems so intrusive to me. And it is censorship...working through fear. Fear is no way to rule a child's life. Yes, you as the parent are responsible for that child, but that child is also a person and should be treated as such.
Will you also log every person they send email to as well? Maybe send the parents transcripts of conversations in their apartments? What else will you track about their behavoir? What will you sell to Pepsi for marketing information.
Pat