doing that with a Coolmaster case, DVD drive, old ATI9000 video card and I boot with a Geexbox CD, Plays most media into my stereo and old LCD MM projector.
just about every other tech advanced country has got it, or similar services. So the news is uninteresting or the US is as far behind as a 'free' market will allow.
we had cable TV for a year, only watched about 3 pay channels in the end. Not a big fan old shows and repeats. we have 6 free to air channels here, and we are still spending more time listening to radio. i can't see it being worth the money, I don't own an mp3 player I just have more to do
Time for schoolwork time for outside play time for computer, or TV
They must do their school work or no play or computer. They must spend time outside or with other kids, eg sport. or no computer time. when everthing else is done they can use the computer as much as they like. Dont fall into the 'I need a computer for school' and then not check it use, they will screw you if they can!
after decades of IBM buys Apple stories, could this be an Apple Buys IBM story? At this moment in history the two companies could link together. interesting times. I have just sold my very large collection of Mac stuff to a single collector and I'll end up with a single g5 iMac, after years of collectiing. 13 straight years of developer CDs, only missing 6 from the set. All gone... And now Apple and IBM may faux merge... I'm sure that the end of the world is neigh
My family is at the point of having the main large TV removed from the house, we have small cheap TVs to catch up on News, and a projection TV for DVD and Movies, but most of our entertainment is computer or organic based, like gardening (why?, what did you think that I meant??)
PCs are what they are because IBM did nothing to prevent their own design from being cloned. The whole basis for the PC industry in built on illeagly produced IBM compatibles that were cheap.
Most OS offer a way to show via the help system why an item is dimmed. The only thing dimmed is the mind of the writer, like only suppling 7 items but saying there are 10 in the title.
Wo Ho, I can remove a floppy halfway though a copy operation, oh yer, more power to me! Idiot! Software driven disk ejects stops idiots, the key strokes were there to eject a disk if you wanted to, but you were to lame to reseach the 'problem'.
They are only makeing the core Open source, like Darwin, Linux still has a much greater Application base to draw from and keep it going. When Doom3 does Solaris, then panic.
In Aussie BASIC, patent pending, the combined use of the IsCloseEnough and NotReally statements would negate the use of such an anti karma item as "IsNot"
Actually there must be a large number of extensions to the BASIC language that could be patentable, timee to dig throught the source code...
I own a Mac and a Linux box. Just because there are more PC games does not mean that they are good, just that game players buy more. Anything good and has a future usually comes out for Mac and or Linux, examples, UT2004, Quakex, etc.
Hard core gamers don't care about the OS, what matters is the hardware needed to run the game, and being able to customise that hardware, x86 wins, and it will for years to come, thanks to the rule of numbers, not because of Windows or Mac.
In Oz it is cheap to buy stuff but if gov charges were lower it would be easy. I could possbly get close to this figure now but not with a PSU and case. MoBo, CPU, RAM, Storage, mmm Ok, but I still got to power it up.
I am very aware of the difference, s/w and h/w. My point is that we now do inherently more complex tasks than we did on a 128k mac, and any sort of changes that are made to hardware to bring it up to date changes the original situation which is one where h/w and s/w are interdependant. The interface is more complex because we now do things like browse the internet, we generally didn't do this in 1984, we also have to cater to other peoples experiences, and what may be complex to one person is simple to another. My kids have been exposed to computers since 3 or 4 years old, I didn't see a real computer until I was 18. They will learn faster because of experience, the current UI is easy for them because they have experienced many UI, the problem that I see as a teacher and a user and a programmer is not that the UI sux, it's that people expect everything to be easy. It isn't, make something foolproof and only a fool will use it.
Part of the cost of all of this stuff is in Gov and import charges.
An all-in-one MoBo, CPU an RAM is easy, boot off a CD-ROM or flash device and work it as a thin client or just as a localised multi media box. So why not have the ISP provide more than an internet connection? why not have a central app server for a neighbourhood? That will make it cheap, decrease Virus problems, allow easy updates, drop user problems to almost zero (cause they cant fk with the system) Just a simple monthly subscription gets you all of the basic services, secure remote or local storage, and local or cheap remote bulk printing.
very feeble. Winows was a graphic environment for DOS, not an OS. So it need a command line, MacOS has no text-based layer in it's OS, so there is no value in having a command-line, a point that seems lost on most windows and mac people. MacOSX is built on NeXTSTEP and so inherits BSD, with W95 licencing parts of the NeXTSTEP interface, before Apple bought it, it's no wonder the two OS look and feel similar.
He has been down on macOSX looooong before MacOSX. He is a pureist and nothing will ever meet his high standards. So this article is nothing new. It was different when Mac started, when apps and things were simple, but none expected video editing, music production, CG movies on a machine and OS that ran in 128k of RAM. The market drives computing and features, I am sorry to say that the people have spoken and his simplicity is now found in my mobile phone, and not on my desktop.
Slashdot Mirror
isn't this developement 5+ years old? I remember seeing video of this stuff at least 3 years ago.
doing that with a Coolmaster case, DVD drive, old ATI9000 video card and I boot with a Geexbox CD, Plays most media into my stereo and old LCD MM projector.
just about every other tech advanced country has got it, or similar services. So the news is uninteresting or the US is as far behind as a 'free' market will allow.
we had cable TV for a year, only watched about 3 pay channels in the end. Not a big fan old shows and repeats. we have 6 free to air channels here, and we are still spending more time listening to radio. i can't see it being worth the money, I don't own an mp3 player I just have more to do
Time for schoolwork
time for outside play
time for computer, or TV
They must do their school work or no play or computer. They must spend time outside or with other kids, eg sport. or no computer time.
when everthing else is done they can use the computer as much as they like. Dont fall into the 'I need a computer for school' and then not check it use, they will screw you if they can!
after decades of IBM buys Apple stories, could this be an Apple Buys IBM story? At this moment in history the two companies could link together. interesting times. I have just sold my very large collection of Mac stuff to a single collector and I'll end up with a single g5 iMac, after years of collectiing. 13 straight years of developer CDs, only missing 6 from the set. All gone... And now Apple and IBM may faux merge... I'm sure that the end of the world is neigh
My family is at the point of having the main large TV removed from the house, we have small cheap TVs to catch up on News, and a projection TV for DVD and Movies, but most of our entertainment is computer or organic based, like gardening (why?, what did you think that I meant??)
(NSS=No Shit, Sherlock)
PCs are what they are because IBM did nothing to prevent their own design from being cloned. The whole basis for the PC industry in built on illeagly produced IBM compatibles that were cheap.
you spend how much to get access to music played by 90% of FM radio stations?? bah! TripleJ FM and web cast, ROX! www.triplej.net.au
Most OS offer a way to show via the help system why an item is dimmed. The only thing dimmed is the mind of the writer, like only suppling 7 items but saying there are 10 in the title.
Wo Ho, I can remove a floppy halfway though a copy operation, oh yer, more power to me! Idiot! Software driven disk ejects stops idiots, the key strokes were there to eject a disk if you wanted to, but you were to lame to reseach the 'problem'.
old news, but it is the weekend and they need to fill a page...
They are only makeing the core Open source, like Darwin, Linux still has a much greater Application base to draw from and keep it going. When Doom3 does Solaris, then panic.
In Aussie BASIC, patent pending, the combined use of the IsCloseEnough and NotReally statements would negate the use of such an anti karma item as "IsNot"
Actually there must be a large number of extensions to the BASIC language that could be patentable, timee to dig throught the source code...
You forgot the almost purchase of BeOS, just before Jobs returned.
I own a Mac and a Linux box. Just because there are more PC games does not mean that they are good, just that game players buy more. Anything good and has a future usually comes out for Mac and or Linux, examples, UT2004, Quakex, etc.
Hard core gamers don't care about the OS, what matters is the hardware needed to run the game, and being able to customise that hardware, x86 wins, and it will for years to come, thanks to the rule of numbers, not because of Windows or Mac.
that moderation for you, I made the same comment earlier and got a 0 and 'off-topic'
oooops, got carried away, well it was the obvious comment...
In Oz it is cheap to buy stuff but if gov charges were lower it would be easy. I could possbly get close to this figure now but not with a PSU and case. MoBo, CPU, RAM, Storage, mmm Ok, but I still got to power it up.
I am very aware of the difference, s/w and h/w. My point is that we now do inherently more complex tasks than we did on a 128k mac, and any sort of changes that are made to hardware to bring it up to date changes the original situation which is one where h/w and s/w are interdependant. The interface is more complex because we now do things like browse the internet, we generally didn't do this in 1984, we also have to cater to other peoples experiences, and what may be complex to one person is simple to another. My kids have been exposed to computers since 3 or 4 years old, I didn't see a real computer until I was 18. They will learn faster because of experience, the current UI is easy for them because they have experienced many UI, the problem that I see as a teacher and a user and a programmer is not that the UI sux, it's that people expect everything to be easy. It isn't, make something foolproof and only a fool will use it.
Part of the cost of all of this stuff is in Gov and import charges.
An all-in-one MoBo, CPU an RAM is easy, boot off a CD-ROM or flash device and work it as a thin client or just as a localised multi media box. So why not have the ISP provide more than an internet connection? why not have a central app server for a neighbourhood? That will make it cheap, decrease Virus problems, allow easy updates, drop user problems to almost zero (cause they cant fk with the system) Just a simple monthly subscription gets you all of the basic services, secure remote or local storage, and local or cheap remote bulk printing.
ha ha ha ha ha ha, they should have used a 840AV, and got an FPU included in the box and 40MHz, (80MHz in PC speak)
very feeble.
Winows was a graphic environment for DOS, not an OS. So it need a command line, MacOS has no text-based layer in it's OS, so there is no value in having a command-line, a point that seems lost on most windows and mac people. MacOSX is built on NeXTSTEP and so inherits BSD, with W95 licencing parts of the NeXTSTEP interface, before Apple bought it, it's no wonder the two OS look and feel similar.
He has been down on macOSX looooong before MacOSX. He is a pureist and nothing will ever meet his high standards. So this article is nothing new. It was different when Mac started, when apps and things were simple, but none expected video editing, music production, CG movies on a machine and OS that ran in 128k of RAM. The market drives computing and features, I am sorry to say that the people have spoken and his simplicity is now found in my mobile phone, and not on my desktop.
believe nothing...test everything.
been on slashdot before, but they may not have mentioned the Macs.