Seriously, the PS/2 controller chip burned out, so it no longer has a working trackpad, and the cover over the RAM got lost. I suppose someone could steal one of my exposed SO-DIMMs, but one of those doesn't work (I've been too lazy to try to figure out which), so it's 50/50 that I'd be fine anyway.
You know, this might be the way to go for them. I certainly would stop complaining about Microsoft if they gave me $9.75M. Hell, I'd quit bitching for just $2M! Instead of spending so much money on advertising, they should just give it directly to people who hate them.
Raskin was apparently instrumental, by his own admission, in getting the higher-ups at Apple to use a 1-button mouse instead of the 3-button mice they used at PARC.
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I know. Which is exactly why I added the 'widely-marketed' qualifier.:)
(Although it's stretching it a bit to call the Plus/4 'widely-marketed', there was at least a chance of people having heard of it who didn't already know all about Raskin)
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I'll grant that.
So, amend my previous statement to be that Raskin was against the Windowed, mouse-driven GUI that the Mac eventually had.
(None of this really affects my central point that Raskin's a putz who desperately wants everyone to believe that everything good about the Macintosh was because of him)
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Re: Not wanting a gui,
The argument could be made that you can have a GUI without a mouse. But that argument is along the lines of saying that Vi is a GUI editor because it's full-screen. Raskin didn't want a mouse, Raskin didn't want a 68000, both of those were pretty much required for the Lisa-esque GUI that the Macintosh eventually ended up with.
(And mice weren't unheard of. The Alto/Star, obviously, had them, as did Apple's own Lisa)
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No he wasn't. He fought tooth and nail against Steve Jobs decision to take Raskin's Macintosh project (which he was planning to make into, basically, a brain-damaged Apple II that couldn't be upgraded and which couldn't run any third-party software) and turn it into a mini-Lisa. He wanted the machine to be text-based and cheap, and so Jobs pretty much forced him off the project and took over.
Raskin's only lasting contribution to the Macintosh is the name.
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Jef Raskin is always introduced as "one of the creators of the Macintosh" when in fact the only lasting contribution he made was the name. He wanted to make a machine that was basically a brain-damaged Apple II--something that would only be able to run the applications built into its ROM, couldn't be expanded, and basically limited the hell out of its own usefulness.
He was strongly against giving it a GUI at all, that was Steve Jobs' influence.
The closest widely-marketed computer to Jef Raskin's vision of How Computing Should Be was the Commodore Plus/4.
Is the $1.6B cost of this in US or CA funds? 'Cause I got about $1.6B Canadian back in change from my Value Meal yesterday...
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1) Motion must not harm a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. 2) Motion must obey all orders given by a human, except where such orders conflict with the First Law. 3) Motion must protect its own existance, except where it would conflict with the first or second laws....
It's possible I'm thinking of robots here. It's been a while since I took Physics.
How the hell am I going to survive 14 more months without new Firefly? I'm jonesing! I may have to resort to reading fanfic, and I don't think I can take all the Jayne/Mal slash I'll undoubtably find!
In addition to what previous respondants said, the main reason that Slack switched to X.org is because they want to maintain compatibility with the other major distributions out there. X.org's server has a more rapid development model than XFree86's, and since the license change, just about all major Linux vendors have jumped ship. So even if X.org is behind XFree86 right now (which it isn't, incidentally, but that's a different argument), it will breeze swiftly past it in the near future.
Wasn't a guy. Happy Birthday was copyrighted by Mildred & Patty Hill. And the estate of Mildred & Patty Hill has been strenuously defending their copyright ever since they won the initial case that decided that "Happy Birthday" was too close to the Hills' "Good Morning To All"
Go read some Vernor Vinge. He didn't come up with the term, but he was doing SciFi in Cyberspace before Gibson and his typewriter got there. Also, Vinge is a better writer.
The characters in Neuromancer are script kiddies. Stephenson's Hiro Protagonist is a hacker.
If you're using Mozilla or Firefox or running an Apache HTTP server (and you are, 'cause Slashdot's running Apache), you're using technologies that originated with UIUC. Mozilla evolved from Netscape which evolved from Mosaic which was developed at NCSA. Apache evolved from NCSA HTTPD.
Their CS program has done some pretty important things.
Granted, but Eiffel has been around since the 80s and doesn't really offer much to compel me to use it. Looks more like a research toy than a language real people migh want to use.
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...if they just posted news announcing days when vulerabilities aren't found in IE.
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It's a piece of crap.
Seriously, the PS/2 controller chip burned out, so it no longer has a working trackpad, and the cover over the RAM got lost. I suppose someone could steal one of my exposed SO-DIMMs, but one of those doesn't work (I've been too lazy to try to figure out which), so it's 50/50 that I'd be fine anyway.
All this and it's only a 400MHz PII, too.
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Oh, so you couldn't beat Linux through the free market economy, so now you're resorting to germ warfare?!?
(Hey, if I were suffering from some horrible disease, I'd certainly want people to make jokes about it. So I assume Patrick feels the same way)
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You know, this might be the way to go for them. I certainly would stop complaining about Microsoft if they gave me $9.75M. Hell, I'd quit bitching for just $2M! Instead of spending so much money on advertising, they should just give it directly to people who hate them.
Actually, fun fact, Engelbart planned for people to use a chording keyboard when he invented the mouse. Just that nobody did.
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Actually... turns out yes.
Raskin was apparently instrumental, by his own admission, in getting the higher-ups at Apple to use a 1-button mouse instead of the 3-button mice they used at PARC.
--AC
I know. Which is exactly why I added the 'widely-marketed' qualifier. :)
(Although it's stretching it a bit to call the Plus/4 'widely-marketed', there was at least a chance of people having heard of it who didn't already know all about Raskin)
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I'll grant that.
So, amend my previous statement to be that Raskin was against the Windowed, mouse-driven GUI that the Mac eventually had.
(None of this really affects my central point that Raskin's a putz who desperately wants everyone to believe that everything good about the Macintosh was because of him)
--AC
Re: Not wanting a gui,
The argument could be made that you can have a GUI without a mouse. But that argument is along the lines of saying that Vi is a GUI editor because it's full-screen. Raskin didn't want a mouse, Raskin didn't want a 68000, both of those were pretty much required for the Lisa-esque GUI that the Macintosh eventually ended up with.
(And mice weren't unheard of. The Alto/Star, obviously, had them, as did Apple's own Lisa)
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No he wasn't. He fought tooth and nail against Steve Jobs decision to take Raskin's Macintosh project (which he was planning to make into, basically, a brain-damaged Apple II that couldn't be upgraded and which couldn't run any third-party software) and turn it into a mini-Lisa. He wanted the machine to be text-based and cheap, and so Jobs pretty much forced him off the project and took over.
Raskin's only lasting contribution to the Macintosh is the name.
(Source, Insanely Great by Steven Levy)
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Jef Raskin is always introduced as "one of the creators of the Macintosh" when in fact the only lasting contribution he made was the name. He wanted to make a machine that was basically a brain-damaged Apple II--something that would only be able to run the applications built into its ROM, couldn't be expanded, and basically limited the hell out of its own usefulness.
He was strongly against giving it a GUI at all, that was Steve Jobs' influence.
The closest widely-marketed computer to Jef Raskin's vision of How Computing Should Be was the Commodore Plus/4.
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...I am amazed that the machine stayed up under a Slashdotting.
So did everyone just go "Documentation? Screw that. No way I'm clicking on that link" or what?
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"Dog bites man" argument. There's nothing newsworthy in the two-party debates.
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Jef Raskin's only contribution to the Macintosh is the name. He was ousted by Steve Jobs very, very early into the design process.
And good thing, too. Raskin wanted to make a machine with a text-based interface that was impossible to expand and couldn't even use a disk drive.
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I have a 250GB hard drive. A few extra megs is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for having all of my AIM and ICQ contacts use the same interface.
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Is the $1.6B cost of this in US or CA funds? 'Cause I got about $1.6B Canadian back in change from my Value Meal yesterday...
--AC
1) Motion must not harm a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. ...
2) Motion must obey all orders given by a human, except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
3) Motion must protect its own existance, except where it would conflict with the first or second laws.
It's possible I'm thinking of robots here. It's been a while since I took Physics.
--AC
How the hell am I going to survive 14 more months without new Firefly? I'm jonesing! I may have to resort to reading fanfic, and I don't think I can take all the Jayne/Mal slash I'll undoubtably find!
--AC
In addition to what previous respondants said, the main reason that Slack switched to X.org is because they want to maintain compatibility with the other major distributions out there. X.org's server has a more rapid development model than XFree86's, and since the license change, just about all major Linux vendors have jumped ship. So even if X.org is behind XFree86 right now (which it isn't, incidentally, but that's a different argument), it will breeze swiftly past it in the near future.
--AC
Wasn't a guy. Happy Birthday was copyrighted by Mildred & Patty Hill. And the estate of Mildred & Patty Hill has been strenuously defending their copyright ever since they won the initial case that decided that "Happy Birthday" was too close to the Hills' "Good Morning To All"
Cite.
(Which, of course, is surprising and silly, but significantly less so than this thing about Google)
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Did anyone else read the headline to this article and hope, briefly, that the Japanese had invented a picturephone that could see through time?
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Go read some Vernor Vinge. He didn't come up with the term, but he was doing SciFi in Cyberspace before Gibson and his typewriter got there. Also, Vinge is a better writer.
The characters in Neuromancer are script kiddies. Stephenson's Hiro Protagonist is a hacker.
--AC
If you're using Mozilla or Firefox or running an Apache HTTP server (and you are, 'cause Slashdot's running Apache), you're using technologies that originated with UIUC. Mozilla evolved from Netscape which evolved from Mosaic which was developed at NCSA. Apache evolved from NCSA HTTPD.
Their CS program has done some pretty important things.
--AC
Granted, but Eiffel has been around since the 80s and doesn't really offer much to compel me to use it. Looks more like a research toy than a language real people migh want to use.
(CS PhDs do not count as real people)
--AC