[whiney slashdot geek voice] I'd buy Mac OS X if it didn't cost anything, ran on x86, and came with a 2 button mouse. [/whiney slashdot geek voice]
BULLSHIT! You're not going to switch, be content with Gnome/KDE and contribute when you have something intelligent/pertinant to add to the conversation. Rehashing the same old tired Slashdot FUD against Apple/MacOS is **NOT** an intelligent controbution.
1) I wanted to burn a CD for my father's windows machine on my G4 PowerBook a while back. I started looking into mkisofs and cdrecord before I discovered that the Apple included cd burning software burns disks in hybrid mode by default.
2) After the CD thing I wanted to piggy back off of a Windows machine's Internet connection. I figured no problem, they both have ethernet ports, I'll get a crossover pigtail and do that. But my crossover cables and pigtails were packed in boxes three states away. A little bit of research and I find out that Mac OS X will detect when you're plugged into ethernet 'straight-though' and cross the cable with software.
These two things alone made the whole Mac experience for me.
Aren't there any EE's in die Hause? This is nothing more than Phase Modulation for Fiber. You really can't use Frequency Modulation to transmit info down a fiber (Though maybe you could if you think about it with sensitive enough recievers would only need like 2 Hz/Channel for Digital FM.) You usually use Amplitude Modulation (in this case on/off), so why not Phase Modulation?
My question is this, could you increase the data throughput by encoding one signal with AM and another signal with PM? Have one frequency carrying two channels? You'd take a hit on the PM channel since you don't have a constant carrier, but still it'd be cool.
It's plenty to carry say... an MH-53J Pave Low, it's support team, and a platoon/company of Special Ops folks. Can you say covert insertion and support? The only thing you're really missing here is an AC-130 Combat Talon for arial refuleing. Though, such a manuver would hardly be covert.
Black wedgies to transport the black helicopters. Hmmmmm.
The wife (who is a phone tech by day) says you need a Toshiba DK40 + Stratagy voice mail. I've programmed the DK 424 myself (with the add-on computer interface) and have to say it wasn't too bad. Don't let the sales guy tell you you can program it all through the phone though:)
I mean, face it that's what you're proposing. I don't think it's nessessarily a bad thing to propose either, BUT... look at the situation globally.
I've got to imagine that other governments, which are becoming more and more computer dependant don't like the idea of being dependant on a US company for their systems. Thus the murmer from other countries about using OpenSource software. Developers in their own countries can develop the software, see the source, et. al. Maybe we'd still have that with IBM Linux, but the question you should be asking is what's to stop the US Government form asking Microsoft to stop producing a Aribic language version of their software? Could they do the same with IBM linux?
Hasn't anyone here actually played with project builder? Apple lets people develop in project builder in either ObjC, *OR* Java. I'll bet this is what they're doing. There's probably nothing happening with Swing or any of the Java UI crap. What they're probably doing is writing the underlying code in java and allowing it to compile with either the new apple front end, or swing on other platforms. This sounds much more like a Sun strategy since they're so hip on Java in the first place, and cross platform apps secondly.
While it's fun to speculate about Apple going to X 86, it's more likely that they'll shift to IBM PowerPC Chips, perhaps the single processor POWER4 that they've been working on. The major thing that's tying Apple to the G4 right now is AltiVec, for the acceleration of Quartz Graphics. However 10.2 releases QuartzGL, which off loads some of the quartz rendering to the GPU. If Apple can offload enough of this processor intensive work to the GPU then they have reduced their need for AltiVec (which is a Motorola PPC only technology) and opened the door to going with POWER4. Now considdering that POWER4 right now comes 2 CPU's to a die this could be a big win for Apple in the workstation arena. a Dual processor POWER4 machine (for an actual total of 4 processors) with the right graphics card could give the SGI Fuel a run for it's money, especially if the claims about Apple's fast IDE can be believed. Or if RapidIO/InfiniBand ever materialize.
The government funded research on security is available to everyone...
Oh come now. You seriously think that? Some of the government funded research into security software is released. The stuf that runs the bowels of the NSA will never see the light of day.
Yeah, that all works until Rummy or his cronies decided to make a mandate that the DOD will use M$. (Speaking of Howitzers did you see how FUD killed the Crusader?)
I nominate Steven Northcutt. He's no longer with the Navy, but did create Shadow and has done a lot for the Security community, and I'd assume the open source community as well.
Have none of you read "The Light of Other Days"? by Clarke (Yes that Clarke) and Baxter? They have these things all over the place. Roll it up take it with you, browse from anywhere. And yes they even have the 'smart shrouds' you're talking about. Check it out it's only $6 on Amazon.
It's Dreamwork SKG, which makes this kinda interesting, seeing as SKG stands for Spielberg, Katzenburg, Gates. So linux is an evil scourge, unless you're talking about Billy's movie studio, then it's okay....
Hasn't anyone had the perl style guide dropped on their desk the first day they started doing perl for a company? That and a few commandments from my old boss worked wonders:
Thou shalt use strict Thou shalt use -w Thy subs shall fit in one page. Thy programs shall produce output from pod2txt Subs used in more than one program shalt be included in a module.
That and when i was writing most of my code I was also teaching one of the Jr. Admins Perl so my code was commented ad naseum (I really think that my scripts were 50% or more of just comments.)
It made me feel all warm and fuzzy when my acolyte e-mailed me a year after I'd left and told me that the Sr. SA had taken one of my scripts and converted it to a module in 1/2 a day to extend one of their applications.
Ummm... your handgun analogy doesn't work. The Government DOES say that you can't buy a handgun with more than a 10 cartridge capacity. Nevermind that the handguns available from Glock and Beretta (and others) can hold 13 - 15 rounds (depending on caliber) stock. The government ALSO mandates (or will soon) hammer locks on new Handguns so that only the owner of the key can fire the handgun (or whoever (s)he gives the key to) Now if this isn't directly analogus to Digital Rights management, I don't know what is.
And you know what? I have NO problem with the hand gun restrictions. Now I can feel safe leaving my Glock under my bed knowing that the key is on my keychain in my pocket.
Huh? You think IBM would drop the POWER line in it's UNIX boxen just because they bought Sun and got the Sparc? Nuh uh. Don't think so. IBM has been marketing up POWER vs. Sparc for the last year (possibly longer) they aren't going to drop the arch just because they acquire what they considder an inferior chip.
Conservation of Energy anyone?
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What really chaps my hide about this story is all the discussion of destrution of light. You *CAN'T* Destroy light (well unless maybe you hit it with an antiparticle) you merely transform the photon into another form of energy, such as say exciting an electron, or heating the black asphault as described in the article. No one creates or destroies light, they just convert photons from one form of energy to another.
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I would have to say that the technology that allows the transformation from one media to another is where the tax should be placed. Place it on CD-Rippers, or MP3 Encoders. Of course since MP3's and CD (so far) are basically open there's precious little way to enforce the tax.
I really wouldn't mind paying an extra $2 for iTunes or a disk burner. I WOULD mind paying $.02 for every CD I ripped, or every disk I burned.
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Suuuuuure... and I was expecting Yakko as Morpheous, Wakko as Neo, and Dot as Trinity. Sure, go ahead and spoil my expectations!
[whiney slashdot geek voice] I'd buy Mac OS X if it didn't cost anything, ran on x86, and came with a 2 button mouse. [/whiney slashdot geek voice]
BULLSHIT! You're not going to switch, be content with Gnome/KDE and contribute when you have something intelligent/pertinant to add to the conversation. Rehashing the same old tired Slashdot FUD against Apple/MacOS is **NOT** an intelligent controbution.
How's this for annecdotal evidence.
1) I wanted to burn a CD for my father's windows machine on my G4 PowerBook a while back. I started looking into mkisofs and cdrecord before I discovered that the Apple included cd burning software burns disks in hybrid mode by default.
2) After the CD thing I wanted to piggy back off of a Windows machine's Internet connection. I figured no problem, they both have ethernet ports, I'll get a crossover pigtail and do that. But my crossover cables and pigtails were packed in boxes three states away. A little bit of research and I find out that Mac OS X will detect when you're plugged into ethernet 'straight-though' and cross the cable with software.
These two things alone made the whole Mac experience for me.
Aren't there any EE's in die Hause? This is nothing more than Phase Modulation for Fiber. You really can't use Frequency Modulation to transmit info down a fiber (Though maybe you could if you think about it with sensitive enough recievers would only need like 2 Hz/Channel for Digital FM.) You usually use Amplitude Modulation (in this case on/off), so why not Phase Modulation?
My question is this, could you increase the data throughput by encoding one signal with AM and another signal with PM? Have one frequency carrying two channels? You'd take a hit on the PM channel since you don't have a constant carrier, but still it'd be cool.
It's plenty to carry say... an MH-53J Pave Low, it's support team, and a platoon/company of Special Ops folks. Can you say covert insertion and support? The only thing you're really missing here is an AC-130 Combat Talon for arial refuleing. Though, such a manuver would hardly be covert.
Black wedgies to transport the black helicopters. Hmmmmm.
The wife (who is a phone tech by day) says you need a Toshiba DK40 + Stratagy voice mail. I've programmed the DK 424 myself (with the add-on computer interface) and have to say it wasn't too bad. Don't let the sales guy tell you you can program it all through the phone though :)
I mean, face it that's what you're proposing. I don't think it's nessessarily a bad thing to propose either, BUT... look at the situation globally.
I've got to imagine that other governments, which are becoming more and more computer dependant don't like the idea of being dependant on a US company for their systems. Thus the murmer from other countries about using OpenSource software. Developers in their own countries can develop the software, see the source, et. al. Maybe we'd still have that with IBM Linux, but the question you should be asking is what's to stop the US Government form asking Microsoft to stop producing a Aribic language version of their software? Could they do the same with IBM linux?
Hasn't anyone here actually played with project builder? Apple lets people develop in project builder in either ObjC, *OR* Java. I'll bet this is what they're doing. There's probably nothing happening with Swing or any of the Java UI crap. What they're probably doing is writing the underlying code in java and allowing it to compile with either the new apple front end, or swing on other platforms. This sounds much more like a Sun strategy since they're so hip on Java in the first place, and cross platform apps secondly.
While it's fun to speculate about Apple going to X 86, it's more likely that they'll shift to IBM PowerPC Chips, perhaps the single processor POWER4 that they've been working on. The major thing that's tying Apple to the G4 right now is AltiVec, for the acceleration of Quartz Graphics. However 10.2 releases QuartzGL, which off loads some of the quartz rendering to the GPU. If Apple can offload enough of this processor intensive work to the GPU then they have reduced their need for AltiVec (which is a Motorola PPC only technology) and opened the door to going with POWER4. Now considdering that POWER4 right now comes 2 CPU's to a die this could be a big win for Apple in the workstation arena. a Dual processor POWER4 machine (for an actual total of 4 processors) with the right graphics card could give the SGI Fuel a run for it's money, especially if the claims about Apple's fast IDE can be believed. Or if RapidIO/InfiniBand ever materialize.
Three words: Li Mu Bai. Things would have been better if Yoda had had the dignity of Mu Bai for this fight scene.
Wouldn't that just be a bad ass crossover, Li Mu Bai against Doku. Then I could stomach the flying because it would be graceful, not like Sonic.
Shoulda had Woo Ping choerograph the fight. Maybe we can hope King George will get him to consult for the next one.
The government funded research on security is available to everyone...
Oh come now. You seriously think that? Some of the government funded research into security software is released. The stuf that runs the bowels of the NSA will never see the light of day.
Yeah, that all works until Rummy or his cronies decided to make a mandate that the DOD will use M$. (Speaking of Howitzers did you see how FUD killed the Crusader?)
I nominate Steven Northcutt. He's no longer with the Navy, but did create Shadow and has done a lot for the Security community, and I'd assume the open source community as well.
Have none of you read "The Light of Other Days"? by Clarke (Yes that Clarke) and Baxter? They have these things all over the place. Roll it up take it with you, browse from anywhere. And yes they even have the 'smart shrouds' you're talking about. Check it out it's only $6 on Amazon.
It's Dreamwork SKG, which makes this kinda interesting, seeing as SKG stands for Spielberg, Katzenburg, Gates. So linux is an evil scourge, unless you're talking about Billy's movie studio, then it's okay....
Of course we wouldn't (the US that is) build a supercomputer to study global warming. We all know that global warning is caused by the AIDS quit.
/sarcasam
Hasn't anyone had the perl style guide dropped on their desk the first day they started doing perl for a company? That and a few commandments from my old boss worked wonders:
Thou shalt use strict
Thou shalt use -w
Thy subs shall fit in one page.
Thy programs shall produce output from pod2txt
Subs used in more than one program shalt be included in a module.
That and when i was writing most of my code I was also teaching one of the Jr. Admins Perl so my code was commented ad naseum (I really think that my scripts were 50% or more of just comments.)
It made me feel all warm and fuzzy when my acolyte e-mailed me a year after I'd left and told me that the Sr. SA had taken one of my scripts and converted it to a module in 1/2 a day to extend one of their applications.
Ummm... your handgun analogy doesn't work. The Government DOES say that you can't buy a handgun with more than a 10 cartridge capacity. Nevermind that the handguns available from Glock and Beretta (and others) can hold 13 - 15 rounds (depending on caliber) stock. The government ALSO mandates (or will soon) hammer locks on new Handguns so that only the owner of the key can fire the handgun (or whoever (s)he gives the key to) Now if this isn't directly analogus to Digital Rights management, I don't know what is.
And you know what? I have NO problem with the hand gun restrictions. Now I can feel safe leaving my Glock under my bed knowing that the key is on my keychain in my pocket.
Huh? You think IBM would drop the POWER line in it's UNIX boxen just because they bought Sun and got the Sparc? Nuh uh. Don't think so. IBM has been marketing up POWER vs. Sparc for the last year (possibly longer) they aren't going to drop the arch just because they acquire what they considder an inferior chip.
What really chaps my hide about this story is all the discussion of destrution of light. You *CAN'T* Destroy light (well unless maybe you hit it with an antiparticle) you merely transform the photon into another form of energy, such as say exciting an electron, or heating the black asphault as described in the article. No one creates or destroies light, they just convert photons from one form of energy to another.
YEAH! So like...
%light = { properties => 'something' };
$condensate = (\%light);
print $condensate->{properties} . "\n";
This is such a great Idea I'm surprised that San Francisco didn't try to pass it. ;)
I would have to say that the technology that allows the transformation from one media to another is where the tax should be placed. Place it on CD-Rippers, or MP3 Encoders. Of course since MP3's and CD (so far) are basically open there's precious little way to enforce the tax.
I really wouldn't mind paying an extra $2 for iTunes or a disk burner. I WOULD mind paying $.02 for every CD I ripped, or every disk I burned.
Wasn't that what GreenStar and InFielder were all about? Nice to see that Slashdot has caught up with early 90's AgTechnology.
Just because we live in the Heartland doesn't make us Technological Morons.
There goes Taco Raggin' on the mouse again. Can't you slap him around Kathleen?