Well, here's my moderation points going away for this reply.
If you'd be a little more informed, you'd know from talking with Apple engineers (lite I do at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference) that Jobs actually has a say in everything.
He actually overseas both software and hardware development to the point of butting in on designs/features/implementation and repeatedly looks over your shoulder to make sure it's as he wants it to be.
At first, I'm told, this is nerve-wrecking and eventually, Apple engineerings rely on this and some actually appreciate it when comes the time where Jobs has nothing much to say about your product. Engineers told me, "it's at that point we usually know we have a winner".
(All jokes aside, I've not heard this specific comment about the Mac Cube:-)
Right... because it's Apple doing it, it's not wrong
No. Because Apple got shafted to much and repeatedly in the past that it's hard not to sympathise on their effort to keep that one bit of advance they've found for themselves.
Every time they had come up with something innovative (technically or purely esthetically), they got ripped off by cheap knock-offs.
I say it's about time for Apple to flex some legal muscles for a change and try to protect what they have.
And to those who complaint about iPods being locked to ITMS, well that's life. You can't put Honda engines in Hundai cars. That's just how it is.
There will come a day when there is a generation of folks who use ebooks and consider printed books cumbersome and an anachronism
My life. My diary. My memoires. My intimate memoires! Then after the second or third book, they all just want to satisfy their own vanity. To stand out from the crowd!
That's why we burn them Montag. We must burn them all!
Apple's Spotlight isn't a file system. It's a search engine that uses and maintains metadata stored in the file system.
HFS+ is the current OS X file system, and that of Tiger (next revision of OS X) as well. Spotlight uses HFS+'s built-in metadata support to enhance it's search capabilities. What Tiger offers more to application developers is an API to add metadata to documents, something that was limited until now.
I get up and it gets me down You got it tough I've seen the toughest around Oh can't you see me standing here I've got my back against the record machine I ain't the worst that you've seen Oh can't you see what I mean? Might as well jump (...Jump!) Might as well jump Go ahead jump (...Jump!) ahead ...wich I thought was particularly interesting a few years back. But now, it seems he's backtracking human's aspiration to jump outer space.
Prior to that on June 2, 2001 the craft tore itself to pieces during a trial run
Actually, it's the rocket launcher that veered out of control.
A plane takes the rocket+X43 into a given altitude, the rocket launches bringing itself and the X43 to about Mach 3 and then the scram jet can take action, bringing the X43 up to Mach 7 after separation from the rocket.
It's the rocket that failed on the first attempt. Not the X43-A.
So, how is it that they can effectively use flywheels on a moving ship? Wont the wave movement put unnecessary force against the natural gyro of flywheels, reducing their efficiency or the longevity of their bearings/axels?
There's nothing novel about hydrogen peroxide fuel. it's been used for ages and deprecated for solid-state fuels on rocket a while ago. It's only easy to manipulate.
The Space Ship One is the one using novel fuel, with a GEL consistency. it's been showcased on Space a while ago:
Plus those 'old' computers are a lot more durable than ones made today. The old XT keyboards were made from steel. Even into the late 1980s, IBM keyboards still had a steel plate underneath. The IBM PS/2s had steel cases, you could use the case in place of cinder blocks to raise up your car.
If you long this, Matias has build a mechanical keyboard called the Tactile Pro (google it buster). It's simply an awesome keyboard like they used to be. It's based on the same mechanical keys that Apple used to have on it's Apple Extended Keyboard (aka, Mac SE and Mac II era). They had to secure one million key switches from the manufacturer in order to keep them in production.
I'll be in the states in ten days. I'm bringing one of those babies back!
The canadian dollar once was worth more than a dollar 5 cents US:
(Sorry about the french quote: google it buster!)
Immédiatement après l'annonce faite par le gouvernement de la mise en flottement du dollar canadien, le taux de change s'inscrivit en hausse rapide, gagnant quelque 5 %, pour se situer aux environs de 0,97 $ É.-U. Il poursuivit sa progression durant tout l'automne 1970 et au début de 1971, s'échangeant dans une fourchette relativement étroite de 0,98 et 0,99 $ É.-U. En 1972, le dollar canadien se négociait à la parité avec le dollar américain. Il atteignait un sommet de 1,0443 $ É.-U. le 25 avril 1974.
(Taken from http://www.banqueducanada.ca/fr/dollar_livre/full_ text-f.htm )
The gist of it: april 24th 1974, the Canadian dollar was worth 1.04% US dollars.
The standard of living in Canada is no worse than in the US. Our salaries are generally lower, but it's on-par with the cost of living.
I live in a house that's worth 120,000 CDN. This same house across the border would sell for twice as much. A lot of things are cheaper in canada (ask any US car dealer!). Of course, some things sell for about as much as in the US (once converted), wich is what an earlier poster meant when he said that things from the US are usually very expensive for us (eg, gas price for example).
Concerning gas, they pay double and a half of what we pay here. But their salaries are much higher too.
That acutally fluctuates from a period to another... right this moment, a looney is actually only 75% of a buck, but it has not always been this way, nor will it be forever.
Dream on.
The canadian looney is artificially kept "low" by toying with the interest rates index to favor US exports, wich is the buyer of 90% of our exports.
Only once has the canadian dollar was worth more then the US dollar, and it proved disastrous for the economy.
Even for this, Apple has prior art in the Newton. YTou could click a word to select it, double-click ("tap") it to drag, or even double-click on scripted text to convert it to text, sort of like to take freehand notes without without the text recognition engine to later convert it.
a) Oracle moved from SUN to Linux and not from MS, so there is no loss there.
I work for Oracle. This statement above isn't quite true.
The majority of desktops are Windows machines, throughout Oracle (despite their office location). Most developers also have a Sun blade server in an off-site location where builds and source management is going on. There are exceptions (my group uses Macs among other things).
Oracle has a standard binary install for desktops, based on Windows. They call it the OBI (Oracle Binary Install or something like that). This is what they're replacing. Internal users get a new "OBI" that's based on Linux (I haven't seen it in our office yet, so can't comment on this).
We're not getting rid of our Sun machines. We're simply moving out of Windows and saving a bundle.
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"G" would be useful. :p
Gee.
And then we're complaining about loosing our jobs to India and other countries.
The Mach microkernel of Mac OS X scales up to 64 processors.
So? IBM still can't spew em out fast enough. Macs currently (and barely) ships with two processors only.
128 processor support isn't much of a selling point on Macs. For now anyway.
First Armadillo crashes a test vehicle, and THEN you link a video off their site directly on /., ultimately crashing their server.
You sick 'dillo.
Well, here's my moderation points going away for this reply.
:-)
If you'd be a little more informed, you'd know from talking with Apple engineers (lite I do at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference) that Jobs actually has a say in everything.
He actually overseas both software and hardware development to the point of butting in on designs/features/implementation and repeatedly looks over your shoulder to make sure it's as he wants it to be.
At first, I'm told, this is nerve-wrecking and eventually, Apple engineerings rely on this and some actually appreciate it when comes the time where Jobs has nothing much to say about your product. Engineers told me, "it's at that point we usually know we have a winner".
(All jokes aside, I've not heard this specific comment about the Mac Cube
Right... because it's Apple doing it, it's not wrong
No. Because Apple got shafted to much and repeatedly in the past that it's hard not to sympathise on their effort to keep that one bit of advance they've found for themselves.
Every time they had come up with something innovative (technically or purely esthetically), they got ripped off by cheap knock-offs.
I say it's about time for Apple to flex some legal muscles for a change and try to protect what they have.
And to those who complaint about iPods being locked to ITMS, well that's life. You can't put Honda engines in Hundai cars. That's just how it is.
There will come a day when there is a generation of folks who use ebooks and consider printed books cumbersome and an anachronism
My life. My diary. My memoires. My intimate memoires! Then after the second or third book, they all just want to satisfy their own vanity. To stand out from the crowd!
That's why we burn them Montag. We must burn them all!
For us to be happy, we must all be equal.
Apple's Spotlight isn't a file system. It's a search engine that uses and maintains metadata stored in the file system.
HFS+ is the current OS X file system, and that of Tiger (next revision of OS X) as well. Spotlight uses HFS+'s built-in metadata support to enhance it's search capabilities. What Tiger offers more to application developers is an API to add metadata to documents, something that was limited until now.
I get up and it gets me down
...wich I thought was particularly interesting a few years back. But now, it seems he's backtracking human's aspiration to jump outer space.
You got it tough I've seen the toughest around
Oh can't you see me standing here
I've got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh can't you see what I mean?
Might as well jump (...Jump!)
Might as well jump
Go ahead jump (...Jump!) ahead
Prior to that on June 2, 2001 the craft tore itself to pieces during a trial run
Actually, it's the rocket launcher that veered out of control.
A plane takes the rocket+X43 into a given altitude, the rocket launches bringing itself and the X43 to about Mach 3 and then the scram jet can take action, bringing the X43 up to Mach 7 after separation from the rocket.
It's the rocket that failed on the first attempt. Not the X43-A.
So, how is it that they can effectively use flywheels on a moving ship? Wont the wave movement put unnecessary force against the natural gyro of flywheels, reducing their efficiency or the longevity of their bearings/axels?
Exactly.
:-)
The army was first to have a working hyperjet "vehicle" in the form of a self-propelling shell (self-propelling once it left the canon tube).
This was discussed here on Slashdot about a year ago. You dig it up. I'm karma toped.
and that uses a novel propellant mixture
There's nothing novel about hydrogen peroxide fuel. it's been used for ages and deprecated for solid-state fuels on rocket a while ago. It's only easy to manipulate.
The Space Ship One is the one using novel fuel, with a GEL consistency. it's been showcased on Space a while ago:
Details here..
The 51st and 52nd states are Ignorance and Confusion, and they contain over half the population.
My theory on humanity has always been that half are idiots and the rest are hypocrites.
I'm from the third category.
More seriously though, it's amusing to see that a honest no-troll error like "53rd" generated as much troll-response. Mea culpa.
But hey. I couldn't name half the state names! For me, only a few are important. Like Delaware and Adirondack.
(Yes, that's bait! Eh!)
...still not available for the 53rd state: Canada.
Plus those 'old' computers are a lot more durable than ones made today. The old XT keyboards were made from steel. Even into the late 1980s, IBM keyboards still had a steel plate underneath. The IBM PS/2s had steel cases, you could use the case in place of cinder blocks to raise up your car.
If you long this, Matias has build a mechanical keyboard called the Tactile Pro (google it buster). It's simply an awesome keyboard like they used to be. It's based on the same mechanical keys that Apple used to have on it's Apple Extended Keyboard (aka, Mac SE and Mac II era). They had to secure one million key switches from the manufacturer in order to keep them in production.
I'll be in the states in ten days. I'm bringing one of those babies back!
Wouldn't you agree that a better-designed laptop is preferable?
Or how about a ventilated pad, instead of an insulator that's sure to keep all that escaping heat inside the machine?
For the price of laptops in general, I think none should have to cope with the relative mediocrity that those HeatPads (tm) impose on buyers.
Because it'll cook your laptop.
The canadian dollar once was worth more than a dollar 5 cents US:
_ text-f.htm )
(Sorry about the french quote: google it buster!)
Immédiatement après l'annonce faite par le gouvernement de la mise en flottement du dollar canadien, le taux de change s'inscrivit en hausse rapide, gagnant quelque 5 %, pour se situer aux environs de 0,97 $ É.-U. Il poursuivit sa progression durant tout l'automne 1970 et au début de 1971, s'échangeant dans une fourchette relativement étroite de 0,98 et 0,99 $ É.-U. En 1972, le dollar canadien se négociait à la parité avec le dollar américain. Il atteignait un sommet de 1,0443 $ É.-U. le 25 avril 1974.
(Taken from http://www.banqueducanada.ca/fr/dollar_livre/full
The gist of it: april 24th 1974, the Canadian dollar was worth 1.04% US dollars.
Yes and no.
The standard of living in Canada is no worse than in the US. Our salaries are generally lower, but it's on-par with the cost of living.
I live in a house that's worth 120,000 CDN. This same house across the border would sell for twice as much. A lot of things are cheaper in canada (ask any US car dealer!). Of course, some things sell for about as much as in the US (once converted), wich is what an earlier poster meant when he said that things from the US are usually very expensive for us (eg, gas price for example).
Concerning gas, they pay double and a half of what we pay here. But their salaries are much higher too.
I'd like to see you formulate a reply in french. Eh!
That acutally fluctuates from a period to another... right this moment, a looney is actually only 75% of a buck, but it has not always been this way, nor will it be forever.
Dream on.
The canadian looney is artificially kept "low" by toying with the interest rates index to favor US exports, wich is the buyer of 90% of our exports.
Only once has the canadian dollar was worth more then the US dollar, and it proved disastrous for the economy.
Even for this, Apple has prior art in the Newton. YTou could click a word to select it, double-click ("tap") it to drag, or even double-click on scripted text to convert it to text, sort of like to take freehand notes without without the text recognition engine to later convert it.
a) Oracle moved from SUN to Linux and not from MS, so there is no loss there.
I work for Oracle. This statement above isn't quite true.
The majority of desktops are Windows machines, throughout Oracle (despite their office location). Most developers also have a Sun blade server in an off-site location where builds and source management is going on. There are exceptions (my group uses Macs among other things).
Oracle has a standard binary install for desktops, based on Windows. They call it the OBI (Oracle Binary Install or something like that). This is what they're replacing. Internal users get a new "OBI" that's based on Linux (I haven't seen it in our office yet, so can't comment on this).
We're not getting rid of our Sun machines. We're simply moving out of Windows and saving a bundle.
No, you fool, we aren't helping. Wake up and actually look at the world you live on.
Get a clue stick and hit yourself with it. Hard. You totally missed the point.