I've had an honor of watching (parts) of Empire in this country, the Netherlands on TV. They don't dubb, so, it is subtitled. Things go something like "Vader, jij vermoord mijn vader." "Luke, ik ben jouw vader. "Vader, ben jij mijn vader?" (Sorry for bad Dutch.) It's pretty hilarious.
I wish you had told that to Steve in 1992. He should have waited before he ditched hardware.
I wonder how your plan would work out. Things were different in 1992. They were using BSD (neither Free nor Open) and could not support all the vanilla box out there. The NeXT brochure came with the list of hardware (x86 machines) they supported, and the list was short.
Now in 2006, Darwin is an open source and has a potential to support more hardware. According to this link, it seems to support quite a few hardware.
Back in 1992, Steve had to fight against many more vendors than today, including Microsoft and Apple. Things are different now. Microsoft may not be so eager to destroy the enemy, fearing another anti-trust lawsuit. Apple is gone (or not?), etc.
But I still wonder if that's in Steve's mind: to become a software company.
I'm not familiar with WebObjects/EnterpriseObjects, but there was a little surprise in XCode 2.1. Now it comes with full version of WebObjects 5.3. So, it appears that EnterpriseObjects is back in OS X, if that's what you would have liked.
There was very little, or more like no, fanfare about this, but considering that WebObcjects cost so much till a few days ago, isn't it significant that now it is free (as in beer).
NeXTSTEP was far superior to anything anybody offerred. What happened to it? Well, it still survives as OS X, but the company that built boxes around it, using 680x0 is gone. When the company started selling the OS to x86 was the beginning of the end.
I'm really curious what Jobs sees the current situation compared to 11, 12 years ago.
I'm more than certain as soon as Apple starts selling Mac mini x86, or even before, there will be people who hack OS X and make it run on pretty much all the x86 boxes.
Considering the fact that Darwin runs on x86, and that the backend of XCode is gcc, there really isn't anything that stops people booting OS X on regular x86 boxes. Some BIOS hacks?
Note the remark about the preview 10.4.1? On which machine are you supposed to run it when Mac mini x86 is not yet available?
I suppose the high end machine won't be called "Power" Mac any more. I wonder what the name will be. For that matter, no more "Power"books either? The name does predate PowerPC, though.
I think you are very insightful. I'm from Japan and it does seem this is another scheme to generate consumption.
The car manufacturers want people keep buying cars every three to five years. Tell them that your car is obsolete and you'll have to switch to hybrid or whatever.
But where do those inefficient cars go?
When I was visiting Bangladesh, I saw tons of Japanese cars. Many of them still had signs that they used to run on the streets of Japan. Obviously, it is cheaper to export used cars cheap to the third world than to scrap and recycle the material. Thanks to the quality, those cars would probably last for another decade or more. Making people in Japan buy new, more efficient cars don't help much in "global" sense.
I wouldn't say such an initiative motivated by economic concern is evil, but the picture is not as bright as it would seem.
If I had mod points, I would mod you "interesting".
That's what I've been thinking. Maybe Apple wants to determine where it "leaks". It's entirely conceivable that Jobs starts his keynote referring to this rumor, denying.
I wouldn't know. I don't think Jobs forgot the demise of NeXT.
1. Port the OS to x86 2. Stop manufacturing hardware . . . 3. NO profit! (Company bought)
I guess no one reads this comment by now. But here is what I've been wondering...
Anakin doesn't know his father. It is obvious that the two generations (Anakin and Luke) were say gifted. It'd be reasonable to assume that Anakin's father had such a force as the next two generations. Who was he? Yoda?
This is where I suspect the pre-prequel might enter. This time, Lukas may have been thinking of pre-prequels before starting to make prequels.
Japan has long been the country where the Mac market share is bigger than any other countries. That's also where Jobs or Ives get ideas for new designs. Remember the translucen iMac? Japan had had translucent craze about a year before it came.
Europe on the other hand, is a different issue. Apple really does not seem that they are not interested in serious business here. (Yes, I live in Europe.) You can immediately notice it seeing how few has an iPod.
The i18n support of OS X is much better than any other OS on the planet. You buy a copy of OS X, and it comes with all the languages it supports. Not like XP which you only get the localized version by default and it's a huge pain in the ass to get even the International English version. Besides, if you wanted Devanagari or CJK support, you'd either have to download the kits or buy a kit separately. Moreover, not even the MS apps have the same degree of support of i18n. Wonder why OS X comes on a DVD? That's because it comes with all those pesky.lproj.
and once you are inside cpan, you should issue a command "force install Tk". You have to force because cpan fails some of the tests.
I wouldn't have had problem installing Bastille, but I noticed that the install script installs all the files under/usr (like/usr/sbin,/usr/lib, etc.). So, I simply changed all the/usr/ to/usr/local/ where I usually install stuff myself.
Then, the install script runs OK, but... we don't have the script "bastille" installed! It's still lying in the bin/ directory of the distribution. As far as I can tell, the other install script doesn't seem to install the script either:O
So, I'd copy the script to the/usr/local/bin, and run... no luck because the bastille script expects the files it needs to be installed in/usr/share or/usr/lib or/usr/sbin:(
Then, I'd change those hard-coded locations in the bastille script by hand, and run. Another error. It still cannot find Bastille/*.pm in/usr/local/lib/Bastille because the $LIBPATH or whatever in the bastille script has/usr/local/lib/Bastille instead of just/usr/local/lib:(
I'd correct it and run bastille, and now I get another error telling something about it cannot find some information. At that point, I decide to rm -fr/usr/local/lib/Bastille and/usr/local/share/Bastille and a couple of files the install script installed in/usr/local/sbin:(
The only true shell got to be sh. It was a shame when Panther came around, Apple decided to replace/bin/sh with bash binary. Up until Jaguar, Mac OS X had BSD sh. It just felt so cool. Too bad Apple succumbed to Linux crowd who wanted bash for everything.
Actually, I really don't care which shell I use. Most shells have enough customize options. Using other shells feels so cool (oh, but not csh or tcsh).
Seriously though, It's kinda sad that this nice flamebait which is the parent I'm replying is not producing so many responses./. readers these days don't use shell much, I suppose.
I don't dispute your point, but Mazinga was not the first. There had been Tetsujin 28 gou (Iron Man model 28) (heh, they made a remake), Giant Robo (do you own google) a.k.a Johnny Sacco (why?) before Mazinga Z to name a few that I remember.
I think Tetsujin was the oldest of the fighting robot genre. But obviously the author was inspired by Atom (a.k.a Astroboy), a work of his master. Oh, when I think about it, both Tetsujin and Giant Robo were created by the same author. They were not exoskeleton, but controlled remotely... by a boy, who happened to be related to (a son of) the creator of the robot.
They've come. Have your heard of T-Mobile? That's the mobile branch of Deutsch Telekom (German). Doesn't DoCoMo provide some sort of services to American careers? DoCoMo is mobile branch of NTT (Japanese).
I don't know how they operate in the US. I'm living in Europe. But from what I can gather, their practices seem to be adjusted to the American market.
Significantly missing is Vodafone... They are all over the world, but I don't see their presence in the US.
I'd add my voice to those who said this is newsworthy because the problem is widespread. I'm also one who never got sick for playing games but get sick by playing HL2. In about 20 to 30 mins. I begin to feel quite uncomfortable, and can't play longer than an hour, which might actually be a good thing.
To add my experience, proposed solutions from changing the fov (I even tried 120), to setting high refresh rate (I had already set it at 85hz) to disabling AI in ATI CCC to dsiabling AA, did little to solve the problem. I still get sick and sort of decided not to play any more. (I was in the Ravenholm.) As some other posters mentioned, the problem may in fact be in the way the textures are drawn.
I tried to RTFA, but the site is gone... I already see obligatory "The site must be hosted on the said Centris, lmao", etc. As of the time of writing, I didn't see any comment...
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I've had an honor of watching (parts) of Empire in this country, the Netherlands on TV. They don't dubb, so, it is subtitled. Things go something like "Vader, jij vermoord mijn vader." "Luke, ik ben jouw vader. "Vader, ben jij mijn vader?" (Sorry for bad Dutch.) It's pretty hilarious.
I wish you had told that to Steve in 1992. He should have waited before he ditched hardware.
I wonder how your plan would work out. Things were different in 1992. They were using BSD (neither Free nor Open) and could not support all the vanilla box out there. The NeXT brochure came with the list of hardware (x86 machines) they supported, and the list was short.
Now in 2006, Darwin is an open source and has a potential to support more hardware. According to this link, it seems to support quite a few hardware.
Back in 1992, Steve had to fight against many more vendors than today, including Microsoft and Apple. Things are different now. Microsoft may not be so eager to destroy the enemy, fearing another anti-trust lawsuit. Apple is gone (or not?), etc.
But I still wonder if that's in Steve's mind: to become a software company.
I'm not familiar with WebObjects/EnterpriseObjects, but there was a little surprise in XCode 2.1. Now it comes with full version of WebObjects 5.3. So, it appears that EnterpriseObjects is back in OS X, if that's what you would have liked.
There was very little, or more like no, fanfare about this, but considering that WebObcjects cost so much till a few days ago, isn't it significant that now it is free (as in beer).
NeXTSTEP was far superior to anything anybody offerred. What happened to it? Well, it still survives as OS X, but the company that built boxes around it, using 680x0 is gone. When the company started selling the OS to x86 was the beginning of the end.
I'm really curious what Jobs sees the current situation compared to 11, 12 years ago.
Who would want to run those half baked ugly Windows apps on their Mac?
Oh, you mean games? That I understand.
I'm more than certain as soon as Apple starts selling Mac mini x86, or even before, there will be people who hack OS X and make it run on pretty much all the x86 boxes.
Considering the fact that Darwin runs on x86, and that the backend of XCode is gcc, there really isn't anything that stops people booting OS X on regular x86 boxes. Some BIOS hacks?
Note the remark about the preview 10.4.1? On which machine are you supposed to run it when Mac mini x86 is not yet available?
I suppose the high end machine won't be called "Power" Mac any more. I wonder what the name will be. For that matter, no more "Power"books either? The name does predate PowerPC, though.
The future is interesting...
If the Finder is gone with Carbon, I'd wholeheartedly welcome the transition to x86.
I think you are very insightful. I'm from Japan and it does seem this is another scheme to generate consumption.
The car manufacturers want people keep buying cars every three to five years. Tell them that your car is obsolete and you'll have to switch to hybrid or whatever.
But where do those inefficient cars go?
When I was visiting Bangladesh, I saw tons of Japanese cars. Many of them still had signs that they used to run on the streets of Japan. Obviously, it is cheaper to export used cars cheap to the third world than to scrap and recycle the material. Thanks to the quality, those cars would probably last for another decade or more. Making people in Japan buy new, more efficient cars don't help much in "global" sense.
I wouldn't say such an initiative motivated by economic concern is evil, but the picture is not as bright as it would seem.
If I had mod points, I would mod you "interesting".
That's what I've been thinking. Maybe Apple wants to determine where it "leaks". It's entirely conceivable that Jobs starts his keynote referring to this rumor, denying.
I wouldn't know. I don't think Jobs forgot the demise of NeXT.
1. Port the OS to x86
2. Stop manufacturing hardware
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.
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3. NO profit! (Company bought)
Is history repeating all over again?
I guess no one reads this comment by now. But here is what I've been wondering...
Anakin doesn't know his father. It is obvious that the two generations (Anakin and Luke) were say gifted. It'd be reasonable to assume that Anakin's father had such a force as the next two generations. Who was he? Yoda?
This is where I suspect the pre-prequel might enter. This time, Lukas may have been thinking of pre-prequels before starting to make prequels.
Brought peace?
You should have been given funny mods.
Like Linus is not already running an IBM powerd machine?
Command-W works though.
Japan has long been the country where the Mac market share is bigger than any other countries. That's also where Jobs or Ives get ideas for new designs. Remember the translucen iMac? Japan had had translucent craze about a year before it came.
.lproj.
Europe on the other hand, is a different issue. Apple really does not seem that they are not interested in serious business here. (Yes, I live in Europe.) You can immediately notice it seeing how few has an iPod.
The i18n support of OS X is much better than any other OS on the planet. You buy a copy of OS X, and it comes with all the languages it supports. Not like XP which you only get the localized version by default and it's a huge pain in the ass to get even the International English version. Besides, if you wanted Devanagari or CJK support, you'd either have to download the kits or buy a kit separately. Moreover, not even the MS apps have the same degree of support of i18n. Wonder why OS X comes on a DVD? That's because it comes with all those pesky
For perl/Tk, just run
/usr (like /usr/sbin, /usr/lib, etc.). So, I simply changed all the /usr/ to /usr/local/ where I usually install stuff myself.
:O
/usr/local/bin, and run... no luck because the bastille script expects the files it needs to be installed in /usr/share or /usr/lib or /usr/sbin :(
/usr/local/lib/Bastille because the $LIBPATH or whatever in the bastille script has /usr/local/lib/Bastille instead of just /usr/local/lib :(
/usr/local/lib/Bastille and /usr/local/share/Bastille and a couple of files the install script installed in /usr/local/sbin :(
cpan
and once you are inside cpan, you should issue a command "force install Tk". You have to force because cpan fails some of the tests.
I wouldn't have had problem installing Bastille, but I noticed that the install script installs all the files under
Then, the install script runs OK, but... we don't have the script "bastille" installed! It's still lying in the bin/ directory of the distribution. As far as I can tell, the other install script doesn't seem to install the script either
So, I'd copy the script to the
Then, I'd change those hard-coded locations in the bastille script by hand, and run. Another error. It still cannot find Bastille/*.pm in
I'd correct it and run bastille, and now I get another error telling something about it cannot find some information. At that point, I decide to rm -fr
Similarly,
Mac OS X 10.1 = Darwin 5
Mac OS X 10.2 = Darwin 6
Mac OS X 10.3 = Darwin 7
Mac OS X 10.4 = Darwin 8
Currently, Mac OS X 10.3.9 gives Darwin 7.9 when you do 'uname -a'.
This thread is very helpful.
We should officially start considering those who way "charging money for a point release" trolls by now.
No way. bash is so gay, and it's so '90s.
/bin/sh with bash binary. Up until Jaguar, Mac OS X had BSD sh. It just felt so cool. Too bad Apple succumbed to Linux crowd who wanted bash for everything.
/. readers these days don't use shell much, I suppose.
The only true shell got to be sh. It was a shame when Panther came around, Apple decided to replace
Actually, I really don't care which shell I use. Most shells have enough customize options. Using other shells feels so cool (oh, but not csh or tcsh).
Seriously though, It's kinda sad that this nice flamebait which is the parent I'm replying is not producing so many responses.
More likely to include Objective Zealot, no?
This project was originally posted herein August 2003. I guess they've come a long way.
I don't dispute your point, but Mazinga was not the first. There had been Tetsujin 28 gou (Iron Man model 28) (heh, they made a remake), Giant Robo (do you own google) a.k.a Johnny Sacco (why?) before Mazinga Z to name a few that I remember.
I think Tetsujin was the oldest of the fighting robot genre. But obviously the author was inspired by Atom (a.k.a Astroboy), a work of his master. Oh, when I think about it, both Tetsujin and Giant Robo were created by the same author. They were not exoskeleton, but controlled remotely... by a boy, who happened to be related to (a son of) the creator of the robot.
They've come. Have your heard of T-Mobile? That's the mobile branch of Deutsch Telekom (German). Doesn't DoCoMo provide some sort of services to American careers? DoCoMo is mobile branch of NTT (Japanese).
I don't know how they operate in the US. I'm living in Europe. But from what I can gather, their practices seem to be adjusted to the American market.
Significantly missing is Vodafone... They are all over the world, but I don't see their presence in the US.
I'd add my voice to those who said this is newsworthy because the problem is widespread. I'm also one who never got sick for playing games but get sick by playing HL2. In about 20 to 30 mins. I begin to feel quite uncomfortable, and can't play longer than an hour, which might actually be a good thing.
To add my experience, proposed solutions from changing the fov (I even tried 120), to setting high refresh rate (I had already set it at 85hz) to disabling AI in ATI CCC to dsiabling AA, did little to solve the problem. I still get sick and sort of decided not to play any more. (I was in the Ravenholm.) As some other posters mentioned, the problem may in fact be in the way the textures are drawn.
``Graham Hancock'' and ``plausible''? This is one of the funniest post I've read in a while.
I tried to RTFA, but the site is gone... I already see obligatory "The site must be hosted on the said Centris, lmao", etc. As of the time of writing, I didn't see any comment...