Until the Mac has > 10% of the marketplace (wouldn't that be nice), all those mac-only boards will be more expensive than their PC equivalents.
Remember when Mac memory was different from PC memory? Didn't that suck? Remember when Mac keyboards were different from PC keyboards (ADB, etc)? Didn't that suck? Yeah, you could buy both, but the Mac ones were more expensive, and you didn't get all the same choices.
You don't want your local network having a public IP address, even if you do have a firewall and the best IDP system available. Why create the risk?
That argument makes no sense. 1. The parent poster clearly DOES want to have more public IP addresses. So do I. 2. Do you block all outbound connections from your NAT'd machines? That's the only way you could be more secure than blocking all inbound connections using a firewall. 3. If you want to keep NATing, go for it. IPv6 ain't gonna stop you.
Or maybe they'd all drive even faster. I daresay that's the more believable outcome given what has happened with the raising of highway speed limits.
Studies imply otherwise.
From http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html:
The results of the study indicated that lowering posted speed limits by as much as 20 mi/h (32 km/h), or raising speed limits by as much as 15 mi/h (24 km/h) had little effect on motorist' speed. The majority of motorist did not drive 5 mi/h (8 km/h) above the posted speed limits when speed limits were raised, nor did they reduce their speed by 5 or 10 mi/h (8 or 16 km/h) when speed limits are lowered. Data collected at the study sites indicated that the majority of speed limits are posed below the average speed of traffic. Lowering speed limits below the 50th percentile does not reduce accidents, but does significantly increase driver violations of the speed limit. Conversely, raising the posted speed limits did not increase speeds or accidents.
I trust the Justice Department to give each one of those detainees a fair and balanced trial.
I don't think the justice department is at all involved. I think it is strictly a DoD event now. If it was up to the Justice Department, they couldn't hold them like they are.
Oh, and when do you suppose they'll get that trial? It's been more than 2 years without so much as a charge.
Non US citizens have NO rights what so ever in our legal system
For an example of some rights, please see the Bill of Rights at http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html , which seems to apply to People, not Citizens.
"Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury...
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
So it would seem you're wrong.
If I was in battle taking pop-shots from a raghead, they would be dead without question.
Me, too. But none of the folks being held is accused of firing a shot. Have some of them commited crimes? I'm sure of it. But they are not being handled well.
I'm pro-apple and ex-next, but netbooting is hardly NeXT or Apple specific. Just about any unix variant will netboot. I've netbooted nextstep, solaris, and linux.
Just google for netboot bootp and tftp.
Can't see where anyone netboots windows, though...
Half of these things are unfeasible, since GTK+ is a toolkit and has to avoid having state that would tie it to a given environment.
BS. GTK+ is a toolkit, which is why it should be able to maintain state and use it in any environment it finds itself. What would it possibly have a problem with? Home directory button? If the current context has no home directory, disable the button. Favorite directories? Ditto.
And tree view with completable boxes is clearly the best approach to file selection. More importantly, the widgets have to be programmer-extensible (like Java's are, IIRC).
What on earth are you talking about? Just about every damn file dialogue box written in the past decade has been programmer extensible. What does that have to do with a tree view? Try a browser view sometime - speaking of "clearly the best"...
Damn, just borrow someone's OSX machine long enough to hit cmd-o and see how much better it can be. It's not like I'm suggesting anything new here - just better.
Sigh. You can see the problems with it just by looking at it on any system with a good dialogue (OSX, for example).
No favorite folders (buttons/popup). No home folder (button). Image3 shows PERFECTLY that you can't tell the full path in the window without scrolling up and memorizing the directories you're in, instead of left->right and seeing them all highlighted (treeview blows). Look at it - am I in my image directory, or bobs?
There are good file dialogue boxes out there - have been for years. STEAL THEM.
yeah, maybe this is flamebait, but mostly I'm tired of bad non-osx file dialogues.
So, a few quotes:...so I can't find any info on them yet...
Google first hit: It seems to be an InterfaceBuilder-integration component; you can create various "controller" objects in IB and form various bindings/glue that would previously have had to be done programmatically. Apparently, this is resurrected functionality from EnterpriseObjectsFramework......NSController seems to be a bridge that plugs the M into the V of MVC. EG, its a C of MVC that automagically has tables filled from arrays, etc.
You're quite wrong. USB was designed to REPLACE serial ports, not to supplement them. Apple REPLACED it's serial and ADB interfaces with USB in one stroke, Wintel vendors STILL haven't done that except in their rare 'legacy free' models.
It's folks like you that make me look moderate. Thanks!
It can not be argued that USB appeared in PCs at about the same time as it did in Macs. Yeah, Apple tossed serial, but PC folks WERE moving in the USB direction - just not fast. As I've said in other posts, Apple made USB look good. Also note that PCs did get USB 2 support sooner than Macs - though I don't think it makes a helluva lotta difference, and it wasn't that much sooner.
So Apple DID blaze a USB trail, and IS doing so again with Bluetooth because of the excellent OS support for BT that it's had for well over a year now.
I don't think I'd call it's BT support excellent "for well over a year now." Yes, it had support. No, it didn't ship as a default interface until recently.
Again, BT is appearing in PCs and Macs at about the same time. Again, I expect that Apple will make it look good and that Wintel folks will catch up.
I can't get excited about either, but maybe it's a tivo thing... You have to try it to know how good it is.
Following up to my own post...
Isn't that a thought? What if TiVo went bluetooth? Interface with it via your phone or laptop. Program without having to bring the programming up on screen - or even turn on the TV. Hmmmm.
In other words, just like most Apple proponents claimed that Apple was the thing that really got USB going (even though I had a Packard Bell with USB a year before the first Apple systems did)... you're going to claim the same thing about Bluetooth, even though you can buy Acer laptops, Dell systems and laptops, and Gateway systems with Bluetooth built in.
Clue for you: they already do have support for bluetooth. Try looking on their websites.
No, the PC industry was slowly migrating to USB on it's own. I do think that Apple gave it a bit of a shove, but it was already on it's way. I think what Apple helped with most in that arena was software support. Win95/98 didn't support USB at first (I *think*). Apple made USB look GOOD.
What I do think Apple "really got going" is firewire. Of course it's still not nearly as popular as USB, but it is more popular than it was. (no, sony's efforts musn't be discounted)
To the matter at hand: bluetooth and bluetooth support. Apple will make it standard. They will have well integrated software and will make it shine. The PC industry (and especially windows) will take notice and catch up.
Your definition of "Plenty" is say, more than two?
You failed your read between the lines roll:-)
As of [the end of?] next year I expect that ALL Apple laptops will support bluetooth. Certainly all powerbooks. And a lot of the desktops - all the towers and maybe all the imacs as well. I tend to doubt the xserve will, though.
By the end of the following year I expec that Dell, Gateway, IBM, etc will have notebooks and desktops that support bluetooth.
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No, they don't. In fact, research shows that they:
Just thought I'd add a few random thoughts to the parent poster's.
Cheaper is a slightly different issue.
Cheaper is exactly the issue. If I had a billion dollars, I could buy anything I wanted for the Mac.
Availability is all about cost.
The components may or may not get cheaper, but they are available, and they will probably not become compatible any time soon.
PCI is a standard. VGA is a standard. OpenGL is a standard. Etc. What compatibility are you talking about?
To which I say "Economy of Scale".
Until the Mac has > 10% of the marketplace (wouldn't that be nice), all those mac-only boards will be more expensive than their PC equivalents.
Remember when Mac memory was different from PC memory? Didn't that suck? Remember when Mac keyboards were different from PC keyboards (ADB, etc)? Didn't that suck? Yeah, you could buy both, but the Mac ones were more expensive, and you didn't get all the same choices.
I want the same for vid cards, etc.
I'm curious to know what hardware you're talking about?
Not that I'm the original complainer, but...
It ticks me off that I can't plug in any video card I want.
How about sound cards - I dunno.
How about any cards?
There are plenty of USB devices that won't work (radio receivers and the like).
You don't want your local network having a public IP address, even if you do have a firewall and the best IDP system available. Why create the risk?
That argument makes no sense.
1. The parent poster clearly DOES want to have more public IP addresses. So do I.
2. Do you block all outbound connections from your NAT'd machines? That's the only way you could be more secure than blocking all inbound connections using a firewall.
3. If you want to keep NATing, go for it. IPv6 ain't gonna stop you.
NPR gets more folks than slashdot. One of my peer posters said CBS mentioned it as well.
There's some hope...
And NPR just ran a story on it
9 09 01
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=14
Or maybe they'd all drive even faster. I daresay that's the more believable outcome given what has happened with the raising of highway speed limits.
Studies imply otherwise.
From http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html:
The results of the study indicated that lowering posted speed limits by as much as 20 mi/h (32 km/h), or raising speed limits by as much as 15 mi/h (24 km/h) had little effect on motorist' speed. The majority of motorist did not drive 5 mi/h (8 km/h) above the posted speed limits when speed limits were raised, nor did they reduce their speed by 5 or 10 mi/h (8 or 16 km/h) when speed limits are lowered. Data collected at the study sites indicated that the majority of speed limits are posed below the average speed of traffic. Lowering speed limits below the 50th percentile does not reduce accidents, but does significantly increase driver violations of the speed limit. Conversely, raising the posted speed limits did not increase speeds or accidents.
I trust the Justice Department to give each one of those detainees a fair and balanced trial.
I don't think the justice department is at all involved. I think it is strictly a DoD event now. If it was up to the Justice Department, they couldn't hold them like they are.
Oh, and when do you suppose they'll get that trial? It's been more than 2 years without so much as a charge.
Non US citizens have NO rights what so ever in our legal system
For an example of some rights, please see the Bill of Rights at http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html , which seems to apply to People, not Citizens.
"Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury...
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
So it would seem you're wrong.
If I was in battle taking pop-shots from a raghead, they would be dead without question.
Me, too. But none of the folks being held is accused of firing a shot. Have some of them commited crimes? I'm sure of it. But they are not being handled well.
The US is still holding hundreds of "Enemy Combatants" offshore at Guantanamo Bay. No charges, no public hearing, etc, etc.
I'm sorry this is so offtopic, but it ticks me off.
I'm pro-apple and ex-next, but netbooting is hardly NeXT or Apple specific. Just about any unix variant will netboot. I've netbooted nextstep, solaris, and linux.
Just google for netboot bootp and tftp.
Can't see where anyone netboots windows, though...
Half of these things are unfeasible, since GTK+ is a toolkit and has to avoid having state that would tie it to a given environment.
BS. GTK+ is a toolkit, which is why it should be able to maintain state and use it in any environment it finds itself. What would it possibly have a problem with? Home directory button? If the current context has no home directory, disable the button. Favorite directories? Ditto.
And tree view with completable boxes is clearly the best approach to file selection. More importantly, the widgets have to be programmer-extensible (like Java's are, IIRC).
What on earth are you talking about? Just about every damn file dialogue box written in the past decade has been programmer extensible. What does that have to do with a tree view? Try a browser view sometime - speaking of "clearly the best"...
Damn, just borrow someone's OSX machine long enough to hit cmd-o and see how much better it can be. It's not like I'm suggesting anything new here - just better.
initial (not finalized)" don't you understand? The design work on this just started less than a month ago. Give them a chance.
To me, this looks like just about every other unix file dialogue. Bad.
They're posting mock-ups. There's no reason a mock-up should look this bad.
Again, this is all IMNSHO.
Sigh. You can see the problems with it just by looking at it on any system with a good dialogue (OSX, for example).
No favorite folders (buttons/popup). No home folder (button). Image3 shows PERFECTLY that you can't tell the full path in the window without scrolling up and memorizing the directories you're in, instead of left->right and seeing them all highlighted (treeview blows). Look at it - am I in my image directory, or bobs?
There are good file dialogue boxes out there - have been for years. STEAL THEM.
yeah, maybe this is flamebait, but mostly I'm tired of bad non-osx file dialogues.
So, a few quotes: ...so I can't find any info on them yet...
...NSController seems to be a bridge that plugs the M into the V of MVC. EG, its a C of MVC that automagically has tables filled from arrays, etc.
Google first hit:
It seems to be an InterfaceBuilder-integration component; you can create various "controller" objects in IB and form various bindings/glue that would previously have had to be done programmatically. Apparently, this is resurrected functionality from EnterpriseObjectsFramework...
I'd say that's more than "no info".
Google first hit:e r
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSControll
Come on, people...
Heh. Let me tell you why tapes are good. Tapes are very, very simple and well understood.
:-).
I never had a good time with tapes.
If a tape drive fails, just replace it, easy.
Easy and expensive.
Now, when a hard drive fails, what're you going to do?
Pull the drive, drop it in, and let the RAID stuff do it's stuff (and stuff
That seems REALLY unlikely, unless rsync is telling scp to use a faster cipher. Is it slow because the CPU is maxed?
Or maybe scp is trying to compress files that are already compressed?
You're quite wrong. USB was designed to REPLACE serial ports, not to supplement them. Apple REPLACED it's serial and ADB interfaces with USB in one stroke, Wintel vendors STILL haven't done that except in their rare 'legacy free' models.
It's folks like you that make me look moderate. Thanks!
It can not be argued that USB appeared in PCs at about the same time as it did in Macs. Yeah, Apple tossed serial, but PC folks WERE moving in the USB direction - just not fast. As I've said in other posts, Apple made USB look good. Also note that PCs did get USB 2 support sooner than Macs - though I don't think it makes a helluva lotta difference, and it wasn't that much sooner.
So Apple DID blaze a USB trail, and IS doing so again with Bluetooth because of the excellent OS support for BT that it's had for well over a year now.
I don't think I'd call it's BT support excellent "for well over a year now." Yes, it had support. No, it didn't ship as a default interface until recently.
Again, BT is appearing in PCs and Macs at about the same time. Again, I expect that Apple will make it look good and that Wintel folks will catch up.
Thanks for the correction!
I can't get excited about either, but maybe it's a tivo thing... You have to try it to know how good it is.
Following up to my own post...
Isn't that a thought? What if TiVo went bluetooth? Interface with it via your phone or laptop. Program without having to bring the programming up on screen - or even turn on the TV. Hmmmm.
Not that I have a tivo...
I agree with everything you said, except for the 802.11 part where it concerns small devices (like phones). I'd hat to have to debug that.
On the other hand, I have friends who have bluetooth. One has a phone and LOVES IT TO DEATH. The other has a keyboard/mouse and thinks it's the bomb.
I can't get excited about either, but maybe it's a tivo thing... You have to try it to know how good it is.
In other words, just like most Apple proponents claimed that Apple was the thing that really got USB going (even though I had a Packard Bell with USB a year before the first Apple systems did)... you're going to claim the same thing about Bluetooth, even though you can buy Acer laptops, Dell systems and laptops, and Gateway systems with Bluetooth built in.
Clue for you: they already do have support for bluetooth. Try looking on their websites.
No, the PC industry was slowly migrating to USB on it's own. I do think that Apple gave it a bit of a shove, but it was already on it's way. I think what Apple helped with most in that arena was software support. Win95/98 didn't support USB at first (I *think*). Apple made USB look GOOD.
What I do think Apple "really got going" is firewire. Of course it's still not nearly as popular as USB, but it is more popular than it was. (no, sony's efforts musn't be discounted)
To the matter at hand: bluetooth and bluetooth support. Apple will make it standard. They will have well integrated software and will make it shine. The PC industry (and especially windows) will take notice and catch up.
Plenty? Apple?
:-)
Your definition of "Plenty" is say, more than two?
You failed your read between the lines roll
As of [the end of?] next year I expect that ALL Apple laptops will support bluetooth. Certainly all powerbooks. And a lot of the desktops - all the towers and maybe all the imacs as well. I tend to doubt the xserve will, though.
By the end of the following year I expec that Dell, Gateway, IBM, etc will have notebooks and desktops that support bluetooth.