Kryeziu said he's under unfair scrutiny because people refuse to believe the product is real.
"If it isn't, it will ruin my reputation," he said. "I will end up as a bartender. I do not want to be a bartender.""
That's a great insult to bartenders all over the world. What's wrong with being a bartender? Besides, being a bartender would get one laid 1,000 times more than being a programmer.
Um, the CherryOS folks were selling it as a proprietary software. No source, not free as beer.. Wouldn't that be wrong, assuming that its origin was PearPC?
I just Xbenched my installation of Mac OS X on PearPC over WinXP.
It's an AthlonXP 3000 (oced to 2400MHz or thereabout) box with 1GB RAM. I've assigned 512MB for PearPC.
The overall score is indeed abysmal 2.89. For comparison, my PB 12" (867MHz) gets something in the range of 80, I think.
But if I look at the score more closely, I notice that major drag comes from vecLib FFT test (scored 0.15!) and all kinds of graphics test (OpenGL test being the worst).
For other things, it scores about 30 to 60 scores range. Disk test is pretty impressive. I only have a regular ATA drive on my PC. Got the score better than my PB disk.
These results are quite understandable considering what PearPC is doing. I would say for some tasks, this might even be usable.
Maybe I missed it, but not many people seem to have expressed what I feel about the issue.
I don't know if the post was an observation balloon from Apple, but I hope they don't listen to/. folks on the issue. They, or Steve Jobs, must remember what happend to Apple when it was still called NeXT.
Everybody was envious and awe-struck by the beauty and ease of use and the power in NeXTSTEP. Everybody who's ever seen it work wanted it on his desk. But the hardware was prohibitively expensive. So, when they figured out that their hardwares were not selling, they stopped selling the hardware and ported the OS (whatever it was called or however it was capitalized at that time). That should have prompted bunch of nerds jumping to the NeXTSTEP, which never happened.
Things may be different these days, PC hardware may be more or less uniform and easier to support. If *BSDs support certain hardware, they may not have to worry about them. The compiler is gcc which is available for ton of architectures. So, softwares available for OS X/ppc should be available for OS X/x86 easily.
On the other hand, the experience you get from Apple hardware in combination with OS X will not be the same as OS X on x86 hardware. Does anybody notice how this brushed metal look in OS X corresponds to their current displays? Do people honestly believe that OS X would look as nice as on a PowerBook when it is on a Dell/Toshiba laptop?
Also, despite the myth, Apple hardware is not much more expensive than those in the x86 world. Still, they are not selling very well.
Considering the above, I highly doubt that those who said they would switch with a heartbeat will actually switch when OS X became available on the x86 hardware. They may as well complain why they have to pay $150 when Windows comes with the hardware or they can get Linux for free. I'm afraid that the momentum that an OS has on people is so much bigger than one would think.
If you listen to the debate about one button mouse or menubar on top of the screen, it's all about which way they learned first:( Most people do have hard time changing habits, and they think their ways is the right way. So, I think very few people would switch even when OS X became available on x86. Those who will switch should have switched by this time or they will switch at the next computer purchase regardless of which architecture the OS runs on. Actually they don't even have to switch. Why not have two or more OSes running on different computers at the same time?
For sound, It appears that your understanding seems correct. Mac can do surround sound only with optical system. (Although I find the sound quality on my PowerBokk is far superior to that on my nForce board. Surround may be nice when I pay FPS online to figure out where the e is;) My understanding might be incorrect because I never pursued that option myself.
But for multilingual support, there is no os that supports multilingual seamlessly and transparently like Mac OS X.
I was completely appalled when I built this PC for gaming purpose to find out that I cannot choose system language in Windows like I can with any installation of OS X distributed all over the world. I would have to buy Multi-lingual kit (or whatever) to make menus and dialogues to be in English? (I got a Dutch version of Windows).
If you look inside.app bundles (an application) on OS X, you find bunch of directories named.lproj. You can switch what language you want to use throughout your OS X experience wherever you buy your copy of OS X, or independently for an app. Changing these settings is intuitive through International preference pane. (The name can change according to the systemwide language preference.) You can prioritize which language you prefer through that Preferences pane so that if an app support preferred language (if that comes with.lproj for that language), then the menu, etc. will be presented in that language. I set my most preferred language as Sanskrit (yes, there is such a menu item!) just for a kick. Whenever an app comes with st.lproj (or whatever Apple assigned for Sanskrit), I should get menus etc. in Sanskrit! (I read Sanskrit, by the way.)
As for Japanese support, you don't want to read anything written in Japanese on Windows because it comes with such a horribly ugly Japanese fonts. 4 or 5 Japanese fonts that come with OS X are utterly beautiful. They make Ryumin-light appear hideously ugly. Japan is perhaps the country where the Mac has the most popularity in the world. They use exactly the same OS X in Japan as you get anywhere in the world. From here you can figure the Japanese support in OS X.
Not that I disagree with you, but I saw AppleScript as extension of HyperTalk. Apple indeed did not have an equivalent of shell scripts and users had to rely on third party solutions to automate repeated tasks. It was a welcome addition to the system when it came around. But just like everything else from Apple, when something shows up first, it's dog slow. I mean slooooow (remember Opendoc/CyberDog anyone?), and didn't have the cleanliness of HyperTalk. I don't think great many people used AppleScript. I personally realized that general users don't write scripts. Those who write shell scripts are not exactly your grandmas. I highly doubt that there will be a day when people actually start writing scripts however it may become simple. It's not their thing.
Oh, nice thing about AppleScripts in these OS X days is that we have do shellscript (or sometihng).
I just registered the cd key that came on the ATI coupon with Steam. The available games show CS:Source. Oh, it shows up as an available game and now it's updating...
Well, I had this old CD of CS retail lying around here when I built this PC. Somehow I was talked into installing Steam (not knowing what was happening in that scene in the past couple of years). I never played HL and don't have much interest either, but I thought it was kind of nice that I was given a chance to play. And the coupon that came with my 9800XT was somehow not lost. So, here I am ready to play CS:Source now.
It just finished loading the stuff. I'll see what it's like:) The problem is... I forgot how to play CS:D
The parent was talking about PearPC. So, it is fair to assume that he was talking about Mac OS X on PearPC on his 2GHz (presumably) x86 laptop, I think. At least I read it that way.
But wasn't Apple the sole manufacturer of personal computer systems (meaning, not kits that you have to put together parts yourself) for a while when double Steves started selling Apple I? That'd make them having more than 95% of marketshare, wouldn't it?
I'm not 100% sure OSX has this today? I also believe OS9 didn't have it.
I was doing expanded desktop on my SE/30 running System 7. It may be that Mac had expanded desktop (meaning that if you connect a second monitor, you get a big connected desktop) has been around at least since the System 6 days.
Seriously guys, you had a chance to be running side by side with Mac OS X if many folks had spent time finalizing GNUstep. Considering the fact that Mac OS X is NeXTSTEP (pardon me for a probably wrong capitalization), copying OS X features would have been a lot easier.
Through '97 to 2001 I was using Linux with WindowMaker, hoping that one day GNUstep wouldl mature, while most coders were busy copying Windows features. It never happened.
Even before '97, most popular X window managers were in some ways rip-offs from the NeXTSTEP. Or, even one of the most popular file managers... TkDesk had column view!
Now that NeXT hardware is affordable and comes in the form of laptops, I cut the middle man and got an iBook and a PowerBook.
PS: I recently built a PC running XP for gaming purpose. It ain't that bad. Somehow the PC gives me a certain feeling of driving souped up Civic, though.
YOu may be thinking of the SR-71, which was around for maybe 25 years before they started talking about it in public.
That doesn't seem to be correct, either. According to this and other pages, YF-12 was first acknowledged in 1964. That was only two years after A-12 flew for the first time. A-12, YF-12 and SR-71 are the same plane. Either to confuse the purpose of the airplane or being unable to decide what use that high-speed/high-altitude plane had, they kept changing names till they settled for SR-71.
As soon as YF-12 started breaking world records, they went public. I think the people who read about the plane those days had an impression that YF-12 was one of those experimental palnes (X-planes). I remember a magazine article about the world records. (I was collecting back issues of an aircraft magazine.)
That was a very common problem among the first generation iPod (5GB) . That model had contacts for remote surrounding the headphone jack and the plastic part separating the jack itself from the surrounding contacts very often broke. Go to Apple's discussion forums -> iPod -> Usage and search for "brokne jack" and see for yourself. Most of them, including mine, didn't stop at producing statics, but stopped producing any sound eventually.
I tried to repair it through Apple. Apple Europe refused to repair it for free, saying that the part does not break for itself even though my iPod was still covered by warranty.
I was bitten by faulty iBook (went to service three times and every time Apple refused to cover the cost by warranty. I don't even feel like contacting them for that iBook motherboard paying back program), too, and wonder why I still have faith in Apple, especially the European branch. (Apple Japan was prompt and helpful repairing my iBook when I was visiting Japan.) They have a huge issue in their QC. They should stop manufacturing their goods in Taiwan.
People like to liken Apple products to BMW or Mercedes, but maybe it's more like Ferrari. Expensive, looking cool, but requires a lot of maintenance...
It's not just you. I noticed a bunch of Miyazaki elements: robots from Laputa or Nausicaa, the premise of a lone flying hero whose face is invisible on a retro plane from Rosso (or even Nausikaa). The scenes filled with all-wing flying machines may look like from Conan (if anyone knows this TV series, not to be confused with Arnold movie).
Still, even with all those elements, I wouldn't call the movie a rip off of Miyazaki. Certainly the creators were inspired by Miyazaki's works, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Miyazaki, too, was influenced by many other creators himself--Nausikaa was a Dune rip-off. etc.
Congratulations for getting a 5 digit ID:) I got 4 digit ID there:)
No one remembers when they launched slashdot.jp? Taco visited Japan to celebrate it.
Looks like not really many people remember when user id was first introduced. Lots and lots of people objected to the idea. Not many people wanted to create and ID. As for me, I decided to create one when this threshold business got into my nerve for not showing score -1 comments. Ancient history...
For those do not know, Panini is the author of the Sanskrit grammar. I don't quite figure why the article was linked here in this context. Sanskrit was dead for a couple of millennia, but it's not like it was lost. And it's not like if Sanskrit had not been dead, we would have had a much better computer language today.
One irony is that Paninikilled the Sanskrit language. He effectively made the language rigid by describing the grammatical rules so beautifully in about 4,000 sutras. If one does not compose a Sanskrit sentence following the rules prescribed in the Astadhyayi (Panini's sutras), it was not sanskrtam (purified). Thus the language became something that keeps changing, or something that has to be learned while growing up. It officially got the status of a dead language, not that it's bad.
On the other hand, think about this: modern linguistics started after the discovery of Sanskrit, including Panini's grammar. It actually helped forming many linguistic concepts. Modern linguists helped forming computer languages. Is it a surprise that there are many things in common?
One of my teachers, who happens to be the leading scholar in the field of Sanskrit grammar, always emphasized us that one of the big misconception about the grammar of Panini is that it dictates how to compose a Sanskrit sentence. He said, it is more of a tool to analyze grammatically correct sentence. It does not know syntax. It would appear that, say, a past participle stem from the root pac- may have derived by going through several Paninian rules, but the matter of fact was that there was the form pakta long before the grammar was formed.
Those mechanisms working in Panini's grammar is amazing and the logic behind it seems indeed like computer language. Still, an article like the one linked here is not much different from trying to find something that was not originally intended to show the supremacy of one civilization. Even the commentators of the grammar emphasize that the grammar is not the first but the speech was the first.
So, stop moaning about the death of Sanskrit as a language. A techie should be grateful that it was dead as a language, but frozen and kept. No wonder India can produce so many good programmars. For some, programming is something similar to what they have been doing for a couple of thousand years. By the way, I'm not an Indian or a programmar.
Another detail most people even don't notice but take advantage of in the Finder's behavior is that if you move the mouse as soon as clicking on a filename, it becomes editable. No click-wait-then click again necessary. Also, as long as you don't move the mouse, the file just remains selected.
I'm sure one can find hundreds of those niceties in OS X.
I was also very skeptical when I frist read the article. I actually remember reading newspaper articles about huge siberian pipeline explosion in Siberia that wiped out passenger trains back in the '80s. My memory was not clear as to exactly which year, though.
According to this page, it appears that the explosion I remember happened in June 1989, rather than June 1982 as Safire states in the article. And that explosion did kill 575 people, as well as injuring 623 people.
There is no pipeline explosion in the USSR recorded in 1982.
Other than that, most search on "siberian explosion" brings up the Tungska explosion of 1908:(
So, Safire made up the story loosely based on the real event(s). That's my theory. Even if it was an incorrect date (1982 instead of 1989), he wrongly stated that no one was killed.
Some other people already have answered what Nozomi means, so, I won't repeat it.
I always found it was rather interesting how they named the bullet trains. The first generation of the bullet train (introduced in 1964) had two variants--Kodama (echo) and Hikari (light). Kodama was the slower one, making stops at every available station. Considering that echo travels at the speed of sound, I think the idea was to name bullet trains with something really fast. The Japanese word for sound would be ``oto,'' but that doesn't sound too great. I guess that was why they chose the name Kodama. That sounds nicer.
When the time came for them to introduce new, faster train, I suppose they were in trouble. For, they had already used the word for light. I think the choice Nozomi was rather ingenious. The hope or the will or just a thought can reache anywhere in an instance. I can think of the end of the universe now. Much faster than the light.
I'm afraid that they will have to introduce a new train, be it either a new generation of the Shinkansen or a maglev train. I'm curious what kind of name they will come up with at that time. Tachyon? Anti-matter?
I don't want to be overtly critical, but the question does not make much sense.
Several questions:
What are those remote servers? Why does one need to have access to four servers? Are they X serve or just regular Macs that share files? If the former was the case, they should be running OS X Server, which I am not very familiar, but I doubt that four of them got Netinfo database corrupted.
Regardless of X-Serve or regular Mac, it does not seem very likely that one can install FreeBSD on them. Is there a FreeBSD distribution for PowerMacs? The last time I checked, OpenBSD was available, but not FreeBSD.
Also, if the problem was Netinfo, why he didn't just restore the corrupted Netinfo database, as described in the linked documents?
Why is root being disabled a problem? If one has a physical access to the machines, (s)he can always cmd+s to boot into the single user mode. sudo sh should work, too.
Overall, the post does not make much sense, does it? At least I'm a bit confused.
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That's a great insult to bartenders all over the world. What's wrong with being a bartender? Besides, being a bartender would get one laid 1,000 times more than being a programmer.
Um, the CherryOS folks were selling it as a proprietary software. No source, not free as beer.. Wouldn't that be wrong, assuming that its origin was PearPC?
I just Xbenched my installation of Mac OS X on PearPC over WinXP.
It's an AthlonXP 3000 (oced to 2400MHz or thereabout) box with 1GB RAM. I've assigned 512MB for PearPC.
The overall score is indeed abysmal 2.89. For comparison, my PB 12" (867MHz) gets something in the range of 80, I think.
But if I look at the score more closely, I notice that major drag comes from vecLib FFT test (scored 0.15!) and all kinds of graphics test (OpenGL test being the worst).
For other things, it scores about 30 to 60 scores range. Disk test is pretty impressive. I only have a regular ATA drive on my PC. Got the score better than my PB disk.
These results are quite understandable considering what PearPC is doing. I would say for some tasks, this might even be usable.
Very impressive, I must say.
Like Fool's Errand, or the first Myst, or the original SimCity?
Maybe I missed it, but not many people seem to have expressed what I feel about the issue.
/. folks on the issue. They, or Steve Jobs, must remember what happend to Apple when it was still called NeXT.
:( Most people do have hard time changing habits, and they think their ways is the right way. So, I think very few people would switch even when OS X became available on x86. Those who will switch should have switched by this time or they will switch at the next computer purchase regardless of which architecture the OS runs on. Actually they don't even have to switch. Why not have two or more OSes running on different computers at the same time?
I don't know if the post was an observation balloon from Apple, but I hope they don't listen to
Everybody was envious and awe-struck by the beauty and ease of use and the power in NeXTSTEP. Everybody who's ever seen it work wanted it on his desk. But the hardware was prohibitively expensive. So, when they figured out that their hardwares were not selling, they stopped selling the hardware and ported the OS (whatever it was called or however it was capitalized at that time). That should have prompted bunch of nerds jumping to the NeXTSTEP, which never happened.
Things may be different these days, PC hardware may be more or less uniform and easier to support. If *BSDs support certain hardware, they may not have to worry about them. The compiler is gcc which is available for ton of architectures. So, softwares available for OS X/ppc should be available for OS X/x86 easily.
On the other hand, the experience you get from Apple hardware in combination with OS X will not be the same as OS X on x86 hardware. Does anybody notice how this brushed metal look in OS X corresponds to their current displays? Do people honestly believe that OS X would look as nice as on a PowerBook when it is on a Dell/Toshiba laptop?
Also, despite the myth, Apple hardware is not much more expensive than those in the x86 world. Still, they are not selling very well.
Considering the above, I highly doubt that those who said they would switch with a heartbeat will actually switch when OS X became available on the x86 hardware. They may as well complain why they have to pay $150 when Windows comes with the hardware or they can get Linux for free. I'm afraid that the momentum that an OS has on people is so much bigger than one would think.
If you listen to the debate about one button mouse or menubar on top of the screen, it's all about which way they learned first
For sound, It appears that your understanding seems correct. Mac can do surround sound only with optical system. (Although I find the sound quality on my PowerBokk is far superior to that on my nForce board. Surround may be nice when I pay FPS online to figure out where the e is ;) My understanding might be incorrect because I never pursued that option myself.
.app bundles (an application) on OS X, you find bunch of directories named .lproj. You can switch what language you want to use throughout your OS X experience wherever you buy your copy of OS X, or independently for an app. Changing these settings is intuitive through International preference pane. (The name can change according to the systemwide language preference.) You can prioritize which language you prefer through that Preferences pane so that if an app support preferred language (if that comes with .lproj for that language), then the menu, etc. will be presented in that language. I set my most preferred language as Sanskrit (yes, there is such a menu item!) just for a kick. Whenever an app comes with st.lproj (or whatever Apple assigned for Sanskrit), I should get menus etc. in Sanskrit! (I read Sanskrit, by the way.)
But for multilingual support, there is no os that supports multilingual seamlessly and transparently like Mac OS X.
I was completely appalled when I built this PC for gaming purpose to find out that I cannot choose system language in Windows like I can with any installation of OS X distributed all over the world. I would have to buy Multi-lingual kit (or whatever) to make menus and dialogues to be in English? (I got a Dutch version of Windows).
If you look inside
As for Japanese support, you don't want to read anything written in Japanese on Windows because it comes with such a horribly ugly Japanese fonts. 4 or 5 Japanese fonts that come with OS X are utterly beautiful. They make Ryumin-light appear hideously ugly. Japan is perhaps the country where the Mac has the most popularity in the world. They use exactly the same OS X in Japan as you get anywhere in the world. From here you can figure the Japanese support in OS X.
Not that I disagree with you, but I saw AppleScript as extension of HyperTalk. Apple indeed did not have an equivalent of shell scripts and users had to rely on third party solutions to automate repeated tasks. It was a welcome addition to the system when it came around. But just like everything else from Apple, when something shows up first, it's dog slow. I mean slooooow (remember Opendoc/CyberDog anyone?), and didn't have the cleanliness of HyperTalk. I don't think great many people used AppleScript. I personally realized that general users don't write scripts. Those who write shell scripts are not exactly your grandmas. I highly doubt that there will be a day when people actually start writing scripts however it may become simple. It's not their thing.
Oh, nice thing about AppleScripts in these OS X days is that we have do shellscript (or sometihng).
I just registered the cd key that came on the ATI coupon with Steam. The available games show CS:Source. Oh, it shows up as an available game and now it's updating...
:) The problem is... I forgot how to play CS :D
Well, I had this old CD of CS retail lying around here when I built this PC. Somehow I was talked into installing Steam (not knowing what was happening in that scene in the past couple of years). I never played HL and don't have much interest either, but I thought it was kind of nice that I was given a chance to play. And the coupon that came with my 9800XT was somehow not lost. So, here I am ready to play CS:Source now.
It just finished loading the stuff. I'll see what it's like
The parent was talking about PearPC. So, it is fair to assume that he was talking about Mac OS X on PearPC on his 2GHz (presumably) x86 laptop, I think. At least I read it that way.
If one is so inclined, (s)he can take the 1337 path as well.
/Volumes/*******'s iPod/iPod_control/Music/
Mount the iPod as a firewire drive and ls, cp, mv., using one's favorite shell. All the music files are in
on a 3g 20GB iPod. I think it was arranged differently on a first gen. iPod.
But wasn't Apple the sole manufacturer of personal computer systems (meaning, not kits that you have to put together parts yourself) for a while when double Steves started selling Apple I? That'd make them having more than 95% of marketshare, wouldn't it?
As someone posted above, this robot is a Japanese product.
The manufacturor has several more movies, too.
I was doing expanded desktop on my SE/30 running System 7. It may be that Mac had expanded desktop (meaning that if you connect a second monitor, you get a big connected desktop) has been around at least since the System 6 days.
Seriously guys, you had a chance to be running side by side with Mac OS X if many folks had spent time finalizing GNUstep. Considering the fact that Mac OS X is NeXTSTEP (pardon me for a probably wrong capitalization), copying OS X features would have been a lot easier.
Through '97 to 2001 I was using Linux with WindowMaker, hoping that one day GNUstep wouldl mature, while most coders were busy copying Windows features. It never happened.
Even before '97, most popular X window managers were in some ways rip-offs from the NeXTSTEP. Or, even one of the most popular file managers... TkDesk had column view!
Now that NeXT hardware is affordable and comes in the form of laptops, I cut the middle man and got an iBook and a PowerBook.
PS: I recently built a PC running XP for gaming purpose. It ain't that bad. Somehow the PC gives me a certain feeling of driving souped up Civic, though.
It's a bit of off-topic, but I'm using my Apple Extended Keyboard II with my PC through iMate (ADB USB converter) :)
That doesn't seem to be correct, either. According to this and other pages, YF-12 was first acknowledged in 1964. That was only two years after A-12 flew for the first time. A-12, YF-12 and SR-71 are the same plane. Either to confuse the purpose of the airplane or being unable to decide what use that high-speed/high-altitude plane had, they kept changing names till they settled for SR-71.
As soon as YF-12 started breaking world records, they went public. I think the people who read about the plane those days had an impression that YF-12 was one of those experimental palnes (X-planes). I remember a magazine article about the world records. (I was collecting back issues of an aircraft magazine.)
That was a very common problem among the first generation iPod (5GB) . That model had contacts for remote surrounding the headphone jack and the plastic part separating the jack itself from the surrounding contacts very often broke. Go to Apple's discussion forums -> iPod -> Usage and search for "brokne jack" and see for yourself. Most of them, including mine, didn't stop at producing statics, but stopped producing any sound eventually.
I tried to repair it through Apple. Apple Europe refused to repair it for free, saying that the part does not break for itself even though my iPod was still covered by warranty.
I was bitten by faulty iBook (went to service three times and every time Apple refused to cover the cost by warranty. I don't even feel like contacting them for that iBook motherboard paying back program), too, and wonder why I still have faith in Apple, especially the European branch. (Apple Japan was prompt and helpful repairing my iBook when I was visiting Japan.) They have a huge issue in their QC. They should stop manufacturing their goods in Taiwan.
People like to liken Apple products to BMW or Mercedes, but maybe it's more like Ferrari. Expensive, looking cool, but requires a lot of maintenance...
It's not just you. I noticed a bunch of Miyazaki elements: robots from Laputa or Nausicaa, the premise of a lone flying hero whose face is invisible on a retro plane from Rosso (or even Nausikaa). The scenes filled with all-wing flying machines may look like from Conan (if anyone knows this TV series, not to be confused with Arnold movie).
Still, even with all those elements, I wouldn't call the movie a rip off of Miyazaki. Certainly the creators were inspired by Miyazaki's works, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Miyazaki, too, was influenced by many other creators himself--Nausikaa was a Dune rip-off. etc.
Congratulations for getting a 5 digit ID :) I got 4 digit ID there :)
No one remembers when they launched slashdot.jp? Taco visited Japan to celebrate it.
Looks like not really many people remember when user id was first introduced. Lots and lots of people objected to the idea. Not many people wanted to create and ID. As for me, I decided to create one when this threshold business got into my nerve for not showing score -1 comments. Ancient history...
For those do not know, Panini is the author of the Sanskrit grammar. I don't quite figure why the article was linked here in this context. Sanskrit was dead for a couple of millennia, but it's not like it was lost. And it's not like if Sanskrit had not been dead, we would have had a much better computer language today.
One irony is that Paninikilled the Sanskrit language. He effectively made the language rigid by describing the grammatical rules so beautifully in about 4,000 sutras. If one does not compose a Sanskrit sentence following the rules prescribed in the Astadhyayi (Panini's sutras), it was not sanskrtam (purified). Thus the language became something that keeps changing, or something that has to be learned while growing up. It officially got the status of a dead language, not that it's bad.
On the other hand, think about this: modern linguistics started after the discovery of Sanskrit, including Panini's grammar. It actually helped forming many linguistic concepts. Modern linguists helped forming computer languages. Is it a surprise that there are many things in common?
One of my teachers, who happens to be the leading scholar in the field of Sanskrit grammar, always emphasized us that one of the big misconception about the grammar of Panini is that it dictates how to compose a Sanskrit sentence. He said, it is more of a tool to analyze grammatically correct sentence. It does not know syntax. It would appear that, say, a past participle stem from the root pac- may have derived by going through several Paninian rules, but the matter of fact was that there was the form pakta long before the grammar was formed.
Those mechanisms working in Panini's grammar is amazing and the logic behind it seems indeed like computer language. Still, an article like the one linked here is not much different from trying to find something that was not originally intended to show the supremacy of one civilization. Even the commentators of the grammar emphasize that the grammar is not the first but the speech was the first.
So, stop moaning about the death of Sanskrit as a language. A techie should be grateful that it was dead as a language, but frozen and kept. No wonder India can produce so many good programmars. For some, programming is something similar to what they have been doing for a couple of thousand years. By the way, I'm not an Indian or a programmar.
Another detail most people even don't notice but take advantage of in the Finder's behavior is that if you move the mouse as soon as clicking on a filename, it becomes editable. No click-wait-then click again necessary. Also, as long as you don't move the mouse, the file just remains selected.
I'm sure one can find hundreds of those niceties in OS X.
I was also very skeptical when I frist read the article. I actually remember reading newspaper articles about huge siberian pipeline explosion in Siberia that wiped out passenger trains back in the '80s. My memory was not clear as to exactly which year, though.
:(
According to this page, it appears that the explosion I remember happened in June 1989, rather than June 1982 as Safire states in the article. And that explosion did kill 575 people, as well as injuring 623 people.
There is no pipeline explosion in the USSR recorded in 1982.
Other than that, most search on "siberian explosion" brings up the Tungska explosion of 1908
So, Safire made up the story loosely based on the real event(s). That's my theory. Even if it was an incorrect date (1982 instead of 1989), he wrongly stated that no one was killed.
Some other people already have answered what Nozomi means, so, I won't repeat it.
I always found it was rather interesting how they named the bullet trains. The first generation of the bullet train (introduced in 1964) had two variants--Kodama (echo) and Hikari (light). Kodama was the slower one, making stops at every available station. Considering that echo travels at the speed of sound, I think the idea was to name bullet trains with something really fast. The Japanese word for sound would be ``oto,'' but that doesn't sound too great. I guess that was why they chose the name Kodama. That sounds nicer.
When the time came for them to introduce new, faster train, I suppose they were in trouble. For, they had already used the word for light. I think the choice Nozomi was rather ingenious. The hope or the will or just a thought can reache anywhere in an instance. I can think of the end of the universe now. Much faster than the light.
I'm afraid that they will have to introduce a new train, be it either a new generation of the Shinkansen or a maglev train. I'm curious what kind of name they will come up with at that time. Tachyon? Anti-matter?
That's the same thing as having the engineer who built a bridge to cross the bridge first. They'd make it darn sure that the thing is safe for a ride.
I don't want to be overtly critical, but the question does not make much sense.
Several questions:
What are those remote servers? Why does one need to have access to four servers? Are they X serve or just regular Macs that share files? If the former was the case, they should be running OS X Server, which I am not very familiar, but I doubt that four of them got Netinfo database corrupted.
Regardless of X-Serve or regular Mac, it does not seem very likely that one can install FreeBSD on them. Is there a FreeBSD distribution for PowerMacs? The last time I checked, OpenBSD was available, but not FreeBSD.
Also, if the problem was Netinfo, why he didn't just restore the corrupted Netinfo database, as described in the linked documents?
Why is root being disabled a problem? If one has a physical access to the machines, (s)he can always cmd+s to boot into the single user mode. sudo sh should work, too.
Overall, the post does not make much sense, does it? At least I'm a bit confused.