Actually, the Newton was the fruition of some concepts dreamt of years before which were bound together into a concept design called the Knowledge Navigator.
This Knowledge Navigator also is the origin of Bill Atkinson's HyperCard and HyperScript language, the later being the ancestor of what became the AppleScript language.
I should have looked at the pictures before completing my previous reply.
The NeXT Cube fan is mounted on the back plate of the computer. it is connected with a rubber spring cord (much like keyboards). You can see that spring cord in one of the shots, but not the fan.
My Color Slab (aka, neXT Station Color) has a fan that blows air out from underneath the machine through the magnesium casing which has fins molded in, making the entire machine it's own heat sync. The noise coming out of that machine is average.
My NeXT Cube, however, has a central rear-mounted 4" fans that suck air from the front of the machine, from above the hard drives and through the power supply. The mother board is on the side, next to the Dimension video board. They don't generate much heat, but air circulation within the cubic magnesium enclosure is enough to keep the machine somewhat cool. But the fan is noisy. Mind you, not as much as it's aging drive (which I'll have to replace at some point).
This is the kind of issue that cries for a flamatory public debate.
On one side, the right to cure and get cured at a reasonable cost or, even, any expense.
On the other, right right to maintain a certain cash flow from products who carry a usually very expensive R&D cycle.
Patents on medical products are a touchy subject.
I think the pharmaceutical world needs a new kind of patent protection system. Something that allows any company, by law, to produce the covered material by a patent, but forcing them to return some royalties for the duration of the patent.
In other words, legally allow copying of patented products but enforcing a royalty payment to the inventor of the product.
This way, big research companies can be assured that their investments are covered, and patients are assured they'd get access to the care they require.
MPW, the "Mac Programer's Workshop", is a Unix-like development environment for Pre Mac OS X machines. It started a long time ago and was pretty neat and is now a discontinued product. you can still download it for free, and includes pretty good PowerPC compilers.
Anyhow, one of it's earlier compilers, Sc and ScPP by Symantec (it precedes the MrC compilers), had some nifty errors. Including my all-time favorite:
##ScPP: Too many errors; make fewer.
Another cool one was:
##ScPP: A type declaration was a total surprise to me at this time.
But didn't the predictions include the guesstimated one-time charges?
No, because you can't predict that you'll end up reorganizing the company the next quarter around (besides, that'd be stupid to announce). Nor can you predict acquisitions will go through. Nor could you divulge you'll be acquiring A company for N millions before it happens.
Hopefully, this is just an issue of absorbing the R&D costs [fool.com] of their new O/S. I'm not a Mac user, but some of my best friends are...
Read the earnings report yourself. They actually posted a 7M profit before one-time non-recuring changes due to an internal reorg and recent acquisitions.
Given this, they actually met their predictions. This is pretty good while other hardware manufacturers plummet.
With more than 4 billion in cash reserve, a net loss of 47M is just a good tax evasion for the next quarter.
Ups, and Darwin isn't supporting my hardware, damn. But then again Darwin itself is just as usable as DOS prompt from desktop view.
That's rubbish (I'm staying polite).
Darwin supports most (if not all) PCI Power Macs. It supports a variety of Intel based systems.
If your system is not supported by Darwin, it's up to you to bring whatever special drivers you require, or to make whatever modifications are necessary for the kernel to boot on your hardware. Your Open Source advocacy doesn't stand on a platform that's has it's sources online to anyone.
Stop bitching about some open source project if you're not willing to contribute to is.
And to set your totally uneducated record straight, Linux's no better than DOS either if it doesn't have X-Window on top.
Shove X-Window on top of Darwin, and you have a fully graphical OS.
Better yet: shove GNUStep on top of Darwin, and you get a clone of Mac OS X.
That's for keeping a good relationship with the petroleum countries.
Look, if you wont be spending as much on gaz, you got to spend that oil somewhere else. And that, my friend, is TIRES!
Imagine the amount of frictions those back wheels are gonna have eh?
But this car is also about money. If we're not going to spend as much money destroying the planet with gasoline, we might as well do it with a TRUCK LOAD of batteries!
And we might as well spend all our remaining money repairing dang expensive motor wheels for every frickin potholes we'll be ramming into, at 180MPH!
Coz that, my friend, is the green way. GO! Environmental-friendly cars! A new era is beginning.
(And for those moderators out there, this is called sarcasm.)
yes microsoft as microsoft own 51% of shares in apple since 1996 i think
Jesus! What kinda smoke have you been inhaling?
MS bought 150M $ USD worth of NON-voting shares of Apple back in 1996. That's peanuts. Apple was worth net 2.1 billion at that time.
That's nowhere near 51%.
Besides, you're factually wrong to start with. BSD was a set of tools that sat on top of AT&T's Unix. It eventually grew so large it required only a few files to become it's own OS. That was the kernel. They eventually got that.
Mac OS X (or, Darwin, actually) is entirely FreeBSD (some tidbits of NetBSD too), except for the microkernel, which is Mach (no relation to "Mac").
And YES, Darwin/Mac OS X *IS* Unix, as it has licensed the trademark from the Open Group, the rightful owner of the trademark.
What makes a Unix is not the kernel. It's how the package operates and how well is follows the standards (such as but not limited to Posix). The Unix trademark is awarded upon proper registration and evaluation of the OS. There are costst involved, is is pretty much the only thing that keeps Linux being called a real Unix.
Most set top boxes today are sold near or even, at times, below cost. Face it: you can buy an XBox for the price of a cheap DVD player.
How they can get off with this is by charging a license fee to developers based on the number of units (games) those developer sell. This is common in this industry.
Now, if MS (or any other set top box manufacturer) lets anyone hack their machine so they run software for which they DO NOT receive royalties, then it makes THEM lose considerable amount of money and impairs them to sell the boxes at these low prices when a significant number of end users buy XBoxes just to run it as a cheap terminal or computer.
Given Palladium, one should expect MS to start making networking hardware.
by producing hardware that refuses entry from any non-certified applications and hardware, they further secure their world (aka, pockets) within the constraints of their Palladium (money-making) scheme.
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It's a common thing that when sending files to a service bureau for ripping, that you give the service bureau your fonts, or you make sure they are *embedded* in your postscript output. I have never heard that this is considered *copyright infringement*. Actually, that's illegal.
Your serice bureau is expected to be a licensee of whatever fonts it is required to output.
That's for font files themselves. Anything converted to mere outlines (aka, Illustrator's Convert to Path command) doesn't count as a font file (because it's not).
It's the font file that is copyrighted, and considered as program code. So, as such, font files get as much protection as a program (eg, Illustrator).
A few years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police thought fashionable to crack down on service bureau. I worked in one of them back then, and we got searched heavilly. They only found a couple of font files that clients had sent on their disks, but we were able to proved we didn't asked nor required them.
It provides printer-like setup and fax capabilities. Exactly what e've all been waiting for. it's a shareware, and makes use of OpenSource code like eFax.
It supports faxing my modem and web-based fax services.
THIS is the faxing solution that should have come bundled in the OS.
I have a hard time believing an Oracle equivalent will cost less (see 9i AS)
Given the XP Server + Exchange renewal fees, Oracle Calendar already costs less.
One thing you could say about Larry. Wether you like him or not, HE embraces Linux.
Oracle Calendar is basically Steltor's CorporateTime solution.
Oracle Collaboration Suite is a superset of our stuff added with other components on top of 9i. I don't have info on the price structure of all that. you'd have to consult the web site for that.
One thing you could say about Oracle CorporateTime; it runs on Linux. And that makes Bill upset.
WE actually did Netscape Calendar. The company was then called Corporate Software and Technologies.
We had spun off another company, Lexacom, because of contractual restrictions with Netscape.
When the Netscape contract ended, and we opted not to renew, we merged the two companies together and called the fused company Steltor. Then oracle bought us.
The software had evolved a lot since the NS Calendar days.
While this is by no means an open source solution, Steltor (recently acquired by Oracle) has a product that takes care of these points in your post; server side: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13; client side: 1, 2, 4.
And then some.
"Oracle CorporateTime" supports more OSes than any other solutions out there, is entirely open standards -based (I'll name iCal among dozens of others, since it's been mentioned), and has dev tools so you can create customized solutions.
I have good reason for predicting that, within a year, Apple will buy AOL from AOLTW.
I think methadone can help you with this.
AOL is worth about as much as Apple, and Apple needs to keep it's 4.3 billions worth of cash in it's balance sheet, for Apple is alone in it's market, and it needs the money to guard against dark times.
Back in the Apple Dark Ages (1994-1997), Apple's 2.1 billion in cash is what saved it (then, the iMac picked up the tab and the rest we all know about).
I could see Apple doing strategic alliances, but not a buyout of that magnitude.
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Fact: Darwin (and Mac OS X) supports multi-button mice.
Actually, the Newton was the fruition of some concepts dreamt of years before which were bound together into a concept design called the Knowledge Navigator.
This Knowledge Navigator also is the origin of Bill Atkinson's HyperCard and HyperScript language, the later being the ancestor of what became the AppleScript language.
I should have looked at the pictures before completing my previous reply.
The NeXT Cube fan is mounted on the back plate of the computer. it is connected with a rubber spring cord (much like keyboards). You can see that spring cord in one of the shots, but not the fan.
The cord can easily be disconnected.
Yes, NeXT machines had fans.
My Color Slab (aka, neXT Station Color) has a fan that blows air out from underneath the machine through the magnesium casing which has fins molded in, making the entire machine it's own heat sync. The noise coming out of that machine is average.
My NeXT Cube, however, has a central rear-mounted 4" fans that suck air from the front of the machine, from above the hard drives and through the power supply. The mother board is on the side, next to the Dimension video board. They don't generate much heat, but air circulation within the cubic magnesium enclosure is enough to keep the machine somewhat cool. But the fan is noisy. Mind you, not as much as it's aging drive (which I'll have to replace at some point).
This is the kind of issue that cries for a flamatory public debate.
On one side, the right to cure and get cured at a reasonable cost or, even, any expense.
On the other, right right to maintain a certain cash flow from products who carry a usually very expensive R&D cycle.
Patents on medical products are a touchy subject.
I think the pharmaceutical world needs a new kind of patent protection system. Something that allows any company, by law, to produce the covered material by a patent, but forcing them to return some royalties for the duration of the patent.
In other words, legally allow copying of patented products but enforcing a royalty payment to the inventor of the product.
This way, big research companies can be assured that their investments are covered, and patients are assured they'd get access to the care they require.
MPW, the "Mac Programer's Workshop", is a Unix-like development environment for Pre Mac OS X machines. It started a long time ago and was pretty neat and is now a discontinued product. you can still download it for free, and includes pretty good PowerPC compilers.
Anyhow, one of it's earlier compilers, Sc and ScPP by Symantec (it precedes the MrC compilers), had some nifty errors. Including my all-time favorite:
##ScPP: Too many errors; make fewer.
Another cool one was:
##ScPP: A type declaration was a total surprise to me at this time.
But didn't the predictions include the guesstimated one-time charges?
No, because you can't predict that you'll end up reorganizing the company the next quarter around (besides, that'd be stupid to announce). Nor can you predict acquisitions will go through. Nor could you divulge you'll be acquiring A company for N millions before it happens.
Hopefully, this is just an issue of absorbing the R&D costs [fool.com] of their new O/S. I'm not a Mac user, but some of my best friends are ...
Read the earnings report yourself. They actually posted a 7M profit before one-time non-recuring changes due to an internal reorg and recent acquisitions.
Given this, they actually met their predictions. This is pretty good while other hardware manufacturers plummet.
With more than 4 billion in cash reserve, a net loss of 47M is just a good tax evasion for the next quarter.
So, where do I download source for Aqua?
Ups, and Darwin isn't supporting my hardware, damn. But then again Darwin itself is just as usable as DOS prompt from desktop view.
That's rubbish (I'm staying polite).
Darwin supports most (if not all) PCI Power Macs. It supports a variety of Intel based systems.
If your system is not supported by Darwin, it's up to you to bring whatever special drivers you require, or to make whatever modifications are necessary for the kernel to boot on your hardware. Your Open Source advocacy doesn't stand on a platform that's has it's sources online to anyone.
Stop bitching about some open source project if you're not willing to contribute to is.
And to set your totally uneducated record straight, Linux's no better than DOS either if it doesn't have X-Window on top.
Shove X-Window on top of Darwin, and you have a fully graphical OS.
Better yet: shove GNUStep on top of Darwin, and you get a clone of Mac OS X.
So stop yer bitching and start your coding!
And seriously, whats with the 8 wheel design?
That's for keeping a good relationship with the petroleum countries.
Look, if you wont be spending as much on gaz, you got to spend that oil somewhere else. And that, my friend, is TIRES!
Imagine the amount of frictions those back wheels are gonna have eh?
But this car is also about money. If we're not going to spend as much money destroying the planet with gasoline, we might as well do it with a TRUCK LOAD of batteries!
And we might as well spend all our remaining money repairing dang expensive motor wheels for every frickin potholes we'll be ramming into, at 180MPH!
Coz that, my friend, is the green way. GO! Environmental-friendly cars! A new era is beginning.
(And for those moderators out there, this is called sarcasm.)
yes microsoft as microsoft own 51% of shares in apple since 1996 i think
Jesus! What kinda smoke have you been inhaling?
MS bought 150M $ USD worth of NON-voting shares of Apple back in 1996. That's peanuts. Apple was worth net 2.1 billion at that time.
That's nowhere near 51%.
Besides, you're factually wrong to start with. BSD was a set of tools that sat on top of AT&T's Unix. It eventually grew so large it required only a few files to become it's own OS. That was the kernel. They eventually got that.
Mac OS X (or, Darwin, actually) is entirely FreeBSD (some tidbits of NetBSD too), except for the microkernel, which is Mach (no relation to "Mac").
And YES, Darwin/Mac OS X *IS* Unix, as it has licensed the trademark from the Open Group, the rightful owner of the trademark.
What makes a Unix is not the kernel. It's how the package operates and how well is follows the standards (such as but not limited to Posix). The Unix trademark is awarded upon proper registration and evaluation of the OS. There are costst involved, is is pretty much the only thing that keeps Linux being called a real Unix.
How many registered users are there anyhow? Any count on active heads as well?
Sometimes, I feel like an old geezer having a user ID of 3264, when I see user IDs in the 6 digits range.
I think I can find one reason.
Most set top boxes today are sold near or even, at times, below cost. Face it: you can buy an XBox for the price of a cheap DVD player.
How they can get off with this is by charging a license fee to developers based on the number of units (games) those developer sell. This is common in this industry.
Now, if MS (or any other set top box manufacturer) lets anyone hack their machine so they run software for which they DO NOT receive royalties, then it makes THEM lose considerable amount of money and impairs them to sell the boxes at these low prices when a significant number of end users buy XBoxes just to run it as a cheap terminal or computer.
Given Palladium, one should expect MS to start making networking hardware.
by producing hardware that refuses entry from any non-certified applications and hardware, they further secure their world (aka, pockets) within the constraints of their Palladium (money-making) scheme.
Oh yeah, like this is going to please Greypeace!
Ever seen a zodiac ram into rocket?
It's a common thing that when sending files to a service bureau for ripping, that you give the service bureau your fonts, or you make sure they are *embedded* in your postscript output. I have never heard that this is considered *copyright infringement*.
Actually, that's illegal.
Your serice bureau is expected to be a licensee of whatever fonts it is required to output.
That's for font files themselves. Anything converted to mere outlines (aka, Illustrator's Convert to Path command) doesn't count as a font file (because it's not).
It's the font file that is copyrighted, and considered as program code. So, as such, font files get as much protection as a program (eg, Illustrator).
A few years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police thought fashionable to crack down on service bureau. I worked in one of them back then, and we got searched heavilly. They only found a couple of font files that clients had sent on their disks, but we were able to proved we didn't asked nor required them.
Yeah. I didn't realize this because I had a window covering up the single "message" word centered on the desktop.
All I get is a white desktop? My iChat is open: "mouser".
A few typos in there (dang coffee not kicking in yet).
I'm sure you all guessed it doesn't support faxing MY modem, but supports faxing BY modem.
Try PageSender available from Smile Software.
It provides printer-like setup and fax capabilities. Exactly what e've all been waiting for. it's a shareware, and makes use of OpenSource code like eFax.
It supports faxing my modem and web-based fax services.
THIS is the faxing solution that should have come bundled in the OS.
I have a hard time believing an Oracle equivalent will cost less (see 9i AS)
Given the XP Server + Exchange renewal fees, Oracle Calendar already costs less.
One thing you could say about Larry. Wether you like him or not, HE embraces Linux.
Oracle Calendar is basically Steltor's CorporateTime solution.
Oracle Collaboration Suite is a superset of our stuff added with other components on top of 9i. I don't have info on the price structure of all that. you'd have to consult the web site for that.
One thing you could say about Oracle CorporateTime; it runs on Linux. And that makes Bill upset.
WE actually did Netscape Calendar. The company was then called Corporate Software and Technologies.
We had spun off another company, Lexacom, because of contractual restrictions with Netscape.
When the Netscape contract ended, and we opted not to renew, we merged the two companies together and called the fused company Steltor. Then oracle bought us.
The software had evolved a lot since the NS Calendar days.
Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Steltor/Oracle.
While this is by no means an open source solution, Steltor (recently acquired by Oracle) has a product that takes care of these points in your post; server side: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13; client side: 1, 2, 4.
And then some.
"Oracle CorporateTime" supports more OSes than any other solutions out there, is entirely open standards -based (I'll name iCal among dozens of others, since it's been mentioned), and has dev tools so you can create customized solutions.
I have good reason for predicting that, within a year, Apple will buy AOL from AOLTW.
I think methadone can help you with this.
AOL is worth about as much as Apple, and Apple needs to keep it's 4.3 billions worth of cash in it's balance sheet, for Apple is alone in it's market, and it needs the money to guard against dark times.
Back in the Apple Dark Ages (1994-1997), Apple's 2.1 billion in cash is what saved it (then, the iMac picked up the tab and the rest we all know about).
I could see Apple doing strategic alliances, but not a buyout of that magnitude.
I give it 2 years before it makes it into the military.