Partially correct... I think. I'm from North Dakota and I know that there is a decent sized group of farmers lobbying to legalize the growth and production of hemp. Government refuses to do it as, afaik, you cannot differentiate between hemp and the much higher-thc marijuana without resorting to chemical testing. But then again, marijuana grows naturally in North Dakota and the real good shit is coming across the border from Manitoba. (Seriously... you can walk across the friggin' border and no one would really know.)
From all I've heard, Apple is planning to unify MacOS X Server and Consumer, with no differentiation between the two, unlike NT workstation and server. (*cough* grab ankles). *not* including the terminal would be a major affront to the server market, a needless impairment.
'Scuse me, I am not a programmer and so understand very little behind the inner workings of most protocols.
Question: Why couldn't the maintainer's of the Kerebos spec, along with the OSS community be bastardly, and implement a different authentication protocol within the undefined bit? To me, it seems doing so would break MS's propietary version and place them in a situation where they must either drop their own, propietary extension, or lock access to only Microsoft products.
I know you're part of the whole Web Standards Project. A key plank in the platform seems to be fighting the placement of propietary interests above baseline support for standards, as seen in the recent IE 5.5 for Win-32 brouhaha. To me it seems that one could change a few words, and phrase the following question:
What is your stance on the apparent shift of the web from an open community to one ruled by territorialism and propetism, i.e. web and software patents?
Talk to your managers, and voice your concerns. Offer to retask yourself 9-to-5, working on other mindless drivel or goofing off, and implement the changes to your stat program on your own time. If the improvements are truly useful, and not propietary, it would be a fantastic motivation to update the source as well as advance the program in general. and hey, you might get paid to play quake for a few weeks;-)
AIWA's site is short on specs---anyone fathom a guess as to what format the CDs need to be in? Guessing it'll do ISO9660, but UDF would be cool. HFS+ very unlikely so, please everyone, damn me for burning 40+ CDRs of MP3s in HFS+ format. Damn me.
Back in the late '60s, when one of my uncles was still in high school, he and a few friends augered an entire truck-load of grain onto the roof of my high school. It was amusing, until they were forced to hand shovel several hundred bushels of spring wheat back *off* the roof.
I know this will likely get pushed aside by more net oriented questions, but what are you shooting for a body, lenses and film these days? I know, different tools for different occassions, but what is your most common setup?
Tangential adivce, applicable usually only at the University of North Dakota: DO NOT give your name, phone number, etc. to the Campus Crusade for Christ. Yea, they're raffling a futon---and they'll use your name and contact info to harass you about your religious views.
It's not the program, it's the OS. Someone has already said it more elequoently in a different post, but you will not see Mac using designers jumping to Linux simply because Corel bought Bryce and a few other programs off MetaCreations. No one here seems to be mentioning that the code needs to be ported to, Linux and be compilable on PPC distros. That's a decent sized hurdle, one that you're not going to see crossed for at least six months.
Also, don't neglect the investment designers have in software and hardware. I'm sorry, but there is nothing available on Linux that marries power and ease like Quark. The GIMP, when it comes to color pre-press work, isn't on par with Photoshop as one cannot (iirc, I haven't kept up with GIMP for a few months) tweak inking settings, set-up duotones, etc. --- these are very important features and, agreeably, it needs to be addressed in the Gimp. And the fonts... oh gawd the fonts. I easily posses over US$2000 of fonts, many designers have far more. (Adobe sells its entire font folio for US$8200.) Bitch and scream all you like, but I don't really see an OpenSource font movement (I'd be hesitant of the quality--there are already enough versions of Garamond running around, I don't think we need to see a Garamond or a Sabon fork) and translating fonts between platforms is notoriously difficult, just ask any Mac shop that's gotten a PC disk from a client.
And then there's the question of the hardware itself. Where is the driver for my $1600 neg scanner? My $2500 flatbed? Not there. How about a $50k wide format printer with a fiery RIP? No support. And, of course, color support and font scaling is spotty, making for prints that don't match what you've got on screen.
So, can you really expect Mac users to jump to Linux, especially if it would require dumping thousands of dollars of equipment, software, and fonts? I'm going to say no,but I know I'll be questioned;-)
Ach... forgot to mention that Java on the Mac has notorious compatibility problems with otherwise compliant java. Yeah this is Apple's bad, but a lot of it can be worked around if I'm not mistaken.
Sorry for appearing like an idiot who didn't read the FAQ.
It's very nice to see the Slashdot community reacting in such a concerned, social libertarian fashion. Most posts are to the extent of "Censorship is evil!" rather than, "They're gay... but censorship is still evil!"
No one has really brought the sexual preference issue into the fray, for good use or for flaming (haven't read the trolls, yet), and that's the way it should be. Sexual preference, in this debate, is irrelevant.
Being a Mac user and a non-programmer, I feel fairly well left out of the entire OpenSource movement. Of course I could always dump the MacOS in favor of LinuxPPC but, being a graphic designer who works both web and print, I cannot abandon programs such as Quark nor can I live without reasonable WYSIWYG rendering of fonts, something which Linux doesn't do terribly well with at the moment. (And not to mention reliable color calibration, but we won't go there.)
Often I feel as though the MacOS is neglected as a viable platform for OpenSource development because it's viewed as being a weaker platform because it lacks a CLI and has been, in the past, extremely unstalbe. Additionally the OS itself is decidedly closed (with the notable exception of Darwin), which tends to lead people away from OSS development.
What are your thoughts on this issue, the lack of OSS development for platforms other than Linux? Nothing would make me happier than to see a FreeNet client for the legacy MacOS and, of course, MacOS X.
First, Be started running on PowerPC hardware. The original BeBoxes had dual PPC 603 processors and generally looked really wicked. You can see one at http://www-classic.be.com/p roducts/bebox/dual603ds.html (the LEDs in front show relative processor activity. Very neat.)
Now what I'm wondering is why Be didn't make a personal release of PR5 available for the MacOS. So they can't get it to boot from an image, forcing you to install it on a separate partition---SO??? That's the way all the other PR releases have been and, frankly, I don't see any reason to not support the Mac seeing as there is a version of PR5 available for sale. And you can't argue 'support costs' because most people who install Be tend to know what the hell they're doing with their machines.
My... aren't we a tisch crabby? I didn't say anything was irrelevant. I said I couldn't make heads or tails of the post because it had been so obfusicated.
Slashdot is a news portal for geeks. Slashdot's mission is to post links to relevant news around the net. Slashdot's primary mission is to spread information.
Posts such as this, masking news in some twisted, somewhat racially slurred (it can be read into it), is violating a primary rule of communication: Communicate, damnit, or shutup. (Specifically it violates Paul Grice's {philosopher} Rule of Manner:)
Are we going to have to deal with this all day? I know you're editors, but it really seems to seem a bit unoriginal and quite annoying after the first April Fools post.
Geee... Babelfish doesn't have Hemo-ese listed amongst its translators. Damnit. And, Hemos, you've still got a few hours (on CST, at least) before it's April 1. How many other April Fools babies are out there?:-)
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Partially correct... I think. I'm from North Dakota and I know that there is a decent sized group of farmers lobbying to legalize the growth and production of hemp. Government refuses to do it as, afaik, you cannot differentiate between hemp and the much higher-thc marijuana without resorting to chemical testing. But then again, marijuana grows naturally in North Dakota and the real good shit is coming across the border from Manitoba. (Seriously... you can walk across the friggin' border and no one would really know.)
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From all I've heard, Apple is planning to unify MacOS X Server and Consumer, with no differentiation between the two, unlike NT workstation and server. (*cough* grab ankles). *not* including the terminal would be a major affront to the server market, a needless impairment.
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'Scuse me, I am not a programmer and so understand very little behind the inner workings of most protocols.
Question: Why couldn't the maintainer's of the Kerebos spec, along with the OSS community be bastardly, and implement a different authentication protocol within the undefined bit? To me, it seems doing so would break MS's propietary version and place them in a situation where they must either drop their own, propietary extension, or lock access to only Microsoft products.
am I making sense at all or am I in error?
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MS Herpes 1.0?
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Jeff --
I know you're part of the whole Web Standards Project. A key plank in the platform seems to be fighting the placement of propietary interests above baseline support for standards, as seen in the recent IE 5.5 for Win-32 brouhaha. To me it seems that one could change a few words, and phrase the following question:
What is your stance on the apparent shift of the web from an open community to one ruled by territorialism and propetism, i.e. web and software patents?
Just curious Jeff....
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Talk to your managers, and voice your concerns. Offer to retask yourself 9-to-5, working on other mindless drivel or goofing off, and implement the changes to your stat program on your own time. If the improvements are truly useful, and not propietary, it would be a fantastic motivation to update the source as well as advance the program in general. and hey, you might get paid to play quake for a few weeks ;-)
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Now we can watch the trolls:
All this at an even faster rate!
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AIWA's site is short on specs---anyone fathom a guess as to what format the CDs need to be in? Guessing it'll do ISO9660, but UDF would be cool. HFS+ very unlikely so, please everyone, damn me for burning 40+ CDRs of MP3s in HFS+ format. Damn me.
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Back in the late '60s, when one of my uncles was still in high school, he and a few friends augered an entire truck-load of grain onto the roof of my high school. It was amusing, until they were forced to hand shovel several hundred bushels of spring wheat back *off* the roof.
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I know this will likely get pushed aside by more net oriented questions, but what are you shooting for a body, lenses and film these days? I know, different tools for different occassions, but what is your most common setup?
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Ummm... yes, it's funny that it happens---but it does happen. Annoying, eh?
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Tangential adivce, applicable usually only at the University of North Dakota: DO NOT give your name, phone number, etc. to the Campus Crusade for Christ. Yea, they're raffling a futon---and they'll use your name and contact info to harass you about your religious views.
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actually the server seems quite peppy to me, and I'm in North Dakota, not exactly a hop off the backbone.
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Oooh hey---it's the first Microsoft "vaporbug". Lots of press releases spinning the story, but MS doesn't deliver. Jeez. Typical ;-)
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It's not the program, it's the OS. Someone has already said it more elequoently in a different post, but you will not see Mac using designers jumping to Linux simply because Corel bought Bryce and a few other programs off MetaCreations. No one here seems to be mentioning that the code needs to be ported to, Linux and be compilable on PPC distros. That's a decent sized hurdle, one that you're not going to see crossed for at least six months.
;-)
Also, don't neglect the investment designers have in software and hardware. I'm sorry, but there is nothing available on Linux that marries power and ease like Quark. The GIMP, when it comes to color pre-press work, isn't on par with Photoshop as one cannot (iirc, I haven't kept up with GIMP for a few months) tweak inking settings, set-up duotones, etc. --- these are very important features and, agreeably, it needs to be addressed in the Gimp. And the fonts... oh gawd the fonts. I easily posses over US$2000 of fonts, many designers have far more. (Adobe sells its entire font folio for US$8200.) Bitch and scream all you like, but I don't really see an OpenSource font movement (I'd be hesitant of the quality--there are already enough versions of Garamond running around, I don't think we need to see a Garamond or a Sabon fork) and translating fonts between platforms is notoriously difficult, just ask any Mac shop that's gotten a PC disk from a client.
And then there's the question of the hardware itself. Where is the driver for my $1600 neg scanner? My $2500 flatbed? Not there. How about a $50k wide format printer with a fiery RIP? No support. And, of course, color support and font scaling is spotty, making for prints that don't match what you've got on screen.
So, can you really expect Mac users to jump to Linux, especially if it would require dumping thousands of dollars of equipment, software, and fonts? I'm going to say no,but I know I'll be questioned
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Ach... forgot to mention that Java on the Mac has notorious compatibility problems with otherwise compliant java. Yeah this is Apple's bad, but a lot of it can be worked around if I'm not mistaken.
Sorry for appearing like an idiot who didn't read the FAQ.
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It's very nice to see the Slashdot community reacting in such a concerned, social libertarian fashion. Most posts are to the extent of "Censorship is evil!" rather than, "They're gay... but censorship is still evil!"
/. community.
No one has really brought the sexual preference issue into the fray, for good use or for flaming (haven't read the trolls, yet), and that's the way it should be. Sexual preference, in this debate, is irrelevant.
Glad to be part of the
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Being a Mac user and a non-programmer, I feel fairly well left out of the entire OpenSource movement. Of course I could always dump the MacOS in favor of LinuxPPC but, being a graphic designer who works both web and print, I cannot abandon programs such as Quark nor can I live without reasonable WYSIWYG rendering of fonts, something which Linux doesn't do terribly well with at the moment. (And not to mention reliable color calibration, but we won't go there.)
Often I feel as though the MacOS is neglected as a viable platform for OpenSource development because it's viewed as being a weaker platform because it lacks a CLI and has been, in the past, extremely unstalbe. Additionally the OS itself is decidedly closed (with the notable exception of Darwin), which tends to lead people away from OSS development.
What are your thoughts on this issue, the lack of OSS development for platforms other than Linux? Nothing would make me happier than to see a FreeNet client for the legacy MacOS and, of course, MacOS X.
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First, Be started running on PowerPC hardware. The original BeBoxes had dual PPC 603 processors and generally looked really wicked. You can see one at http://www-classic.be.com/p roducts/bebox/dual603ds.html (the LEDs in front show relative processor activity. Very neat.)
Now what I'm wondering is why Be didn't make a personal release of PR5 available for the MacOS. So they can't get it to boot from an image, forcing you to install it on a separate partition---SO??? That's the way all the other PR releases have been and, frankly, I don't see any reason to not support the Mac seeing as there is a version of PR5 available for sale. And you can't argue 'support costs' because most people who install Be tend to know what the hell they're doing with their machines.
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http://salon .com/ent/movies/review/2000/03/31/high_fidelity/in dex.html
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Ummmm... is this finally a for-real post?
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My... aren't we a tisch crabby? I didn't say anything was irrelevant. I said I couldn't make heads or tails of the post because it had been so obfusicated.
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Slashdot is a news portal for geeks. Slashdot's mission is to post links to relevant news around the net. Slashdot's primary mission is to spread information.
Posts such as this, masking news in some twisted, somewhat racially slurred (it can be read into it), is violating a primary rule of communication: Communicate, damnit, or shutup. (Specifically it violates Paul Grice's {philosopher} Rule of Manner:)
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Are we going to have to deal with this all day? I know you're editors, but it really seems to seem a bit unoriginal and quite annoying after the first April Fools post.
DON'T be a "First Post" troll!
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Geee... Babelfish doesn't have Hemo-ese listed amongst its translators. Damnit. And, Hemos, you've still got a few hours (on CST, at least) before it's April 1. How many other April Fools babies are out there? :-)
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