Adama no longer has the entire respect of every single individual. [...] Now there is a President that Adama has to answer to, etc.
You obviously don't remember your Battlestar Galactica very well. Adama was never the absolute commander, he answered to the Council (I think, "of twelve" or "of thirteen," but my memory is fuzzy on that detail) and there were a number of times where riots broke out with people angry at Adama's decisions.
There were a number of leadership crises (most notably on two occasions, when the Battlestar Pegasus appeared and there were military disputes with Commander Cain, and when Count Iblis, that evil guy from the days of the Lords of Kobol, got involved) where Adama was forced to submit to the will of the political leadership.
What Adam had was charisma, powered by his belief in the writings left over from the Lords of Kobol, and it's clear that though he might no longer have the religious fervor of the original, he still has that charisma. I wonder what belief powers that charisma.
Anybody who believes that members of mainstream religions are "persecuted" in the US is seriously out of touch with reality and has no idea of what religious persecution actually is.
Does anybody know whether there are any revisions to the hardware, or if it's just the same box with another set of CPUs? I've been holding off on buying a G5, under the "never buy a first revision from Apple" rule.
That started less than 2 months ago. OS X 10.2 didn't ship with compilers, unless you ordered them specially.
Nonsense. You could get the dev environment for OS X since it was NeXTstep - it was included from the beginning. Excepting slimmer "upgrade" versions of the OS distributions, the one time they didn't hand a dev CD out to everybody, you could get it by downloading it(free registration) or by asking for a CD at an Apple store.
Look at it as Apple doing some preemptive education of its user base, teaching us to pay more attention.
It could be sorta bad. It's not obvious that Terminal is being replaced - you might guess it's something like sshd or apache and simply not care enough to check - or you might be one of those unsophisticated users who say "Oh My GOD! Apple says to install a security update now, don't know what this means but it must happen ASAP!"- if you tell it to go ahead and install without checking you can lose a session. Not that someone who doesn't know what Terminal.app is is likely to be running Terminal.
In any case, it's one of those things that you are only likely to do once.:)
The point is the flexibility you gain in being able to alter the kernel of the OS on which you're running your programs. While BSD is of course a different, older tradition, recall that the reason RMS got into the whole "free uber alles" thing was because he wanted to have the source to a printer driver, not because he didn't want to have to pay for one.
This ability could actually improve Max OS X's adoption by the enterprise - companies will know that they won't have to depend upon Apple to make any desired changes to the OS.
Running mass-market programs on an open source OS (and not under some sort of abstracted emulation layer) is an important holy grail. It'd be good to see, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple started playing games like using digital signatures to thwart (or at least impede) these efforts.
On a personal level, the really cool thing about this is that it turns every past purchase of a Heinlein book into monetary support of future space industry.
Yay! I've been paying to support the commercialization of space since I was 8 years old!
(Too bad Bill Gates doesn't care enough about space exploration. He really could be the man who sold the moon.)
My only hand-input device is a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet & mouse. It seems that if you don't have a traditional USB mouse attached, Mac OS X 10.2.8 "helpfully" assumes that you must be trying to connect a bluetooth mouth and launches a Bluetooth configurator for you.
Every.
Time.
I log in, and
Every.
Time.
I log out.
Man, this sucks. Not as bad as not booting, but it's a constant annoyance.
No, this was actually covered by an interesting notion in the FASA RPG and the novel The Final Reflection (One of only two ST novels I would recommend).
The idea was that Klingons aren't very good diplomats (or spies, for that matter), so in order to deal with other empires they created "fusions," hybrids between Klingons and that race. So the Klingons we were seeing in TOS were Klingon/Human fusions and the Romulans dealt mainly with Klingon/Romulan fusions, and so forth.
Somewhere after TOS, there was a radical change in political power and the fusions were either enslaved, executed, or died fighting. After that time, Klingons were ashamed of having even so polluted their blood.
Well, the thing is, my understanding was that while the new "mini-series" and the SciFi Channel is doing is a "reenvisioning," this new game is supposed to take place within the old continuity and has Hichard Hatch and Dirk Benedict doing voice talent (perhaps to game as "flashbacks?" Or maybe Richard Hatch plays Adama. We already know who Starbuck's father is, but I don't think Fred Astaire will be appearing.
According to this link above:
Set 40 years before the events of the television series, the Battlestar Galactica game tells the story of a young Ensign William Adama in his first assignment aboard the Galactica. As the young hero, players will have to turn the tide against an overwhelming Cylon fleet as they tangle with swarms of fighters in frenetic space combat over a series of story driven missions ranging from search and destroy and escort sorties to infiltration and
reconnaissance operations. To help tip the scales in their favor, players will be able to take control of five different ships including a Colonial heavy bomber and a Cylon Raider, each with their own unique flight models and weapons loadouts.
How odd. It sounds from the interview like the Exodus will have been happening when Adama was young.
However, in the TV Show/Movie, the Exodus starts with the Cylon betrayal at Caprica, when the Galactica gathers the survivors and high-tails it out of there. Morrison surely can't be unaware of this, so I wonder how he's going to put the search for Earth that far back?
Hmmm. Well, at least this might go some distance to explaining Adama's almost fanatical faith that Earth exists and the the fleet will be able to find it one day. Too bad Galactica 1980 was waiting at the end of the journey.:(
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There were a number of leadership crises (most notably on two occasions, when the Battlestar Pegasus appeared and there were military disputes with Commander Cain, and when Count Iblis, that evil guy from the days of the Lords of Kobol, got involved) where Adama was forced to submit to the will of the political leadership.
What Adam had was charisma, powered by his belief in the writings left over from the Lords of Kobol, and it's clear that though he might no longer have the religious fervor of the original, he still has that charisma. I wonder what belief powers that charisma.
Anybody who believes that members of mainstream religions are "persecuted" in the US is seriously out of touch with reality and has no idea of what religious persecution actually is.
Does anybody know whether there are any revisions to the hardware, or if it's just the same box with another set of CPUs? I've been holding off on buying a G5, under the "never buy a first revision from Apple" rule.
It might help to refresh everybody's memory. (Sigh) The stock rose 41 dollars on news of the acquisition... Those were the days...
Hmmm. "Slashdot editor" should have been on that list, I guess.
Look at it as Apple doing some preemptive education of its user base, teaching us to pay more attention.
:)
It could be sorta bad. It's not obvious that Terminal is being replaced - you might guess it's something like sshd or apache and simply not care enough to check - or you might be one of those unsophisticated users who say "Oh My GOD! Apple says to install a security update now, don't know what this means but it must happen ASAP!"- if you tell it to go ahead and install without checking you can lose a session. Not that someone who doesn't know what Terminal.app is is likely to be running Terminal.
In any case, it's one of those things that you are only likely to do once.
Uh... do you know of anybody running Mac OS X applications on Darwin? Every time I've asked about whether this is possible, the answer has been "no."
If yes, I'd love to see some docs on how to do it. If not, Darwin is not a solution to the problem I specified.
The point is the flexibility you gain in being able to alter the kernel of the OS on which you're running your programs. While BSD is of course a different, older tradition, recall that the reason RMS got into the whole "free uber alles" thing was because he wanted to have the source to a printer driver, not because he didn't want to have to pay for one.
This ability could actually improve Max OS X's adoption by the enterprise - companies will know that they won't have to depend upon Apple to make any desired changes to the OS.
Running mass-market programs on an open source OS (and not under some sort of abstracted emulation layer) is an important holy grail. It'd be good to see, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple started playing games like using digital signatures to thwart (or at least impede) these efforts.
False dichotomy, or meaningless question?
Right - and managed to get 100% of the African American Vote.
On a personal level, the really cool thing about this is that it turns every past purchase of a Heinlein book into monetary support of future space industry.
Yay! I've been paying to support the commercialization of space since I was 8 years old!
(Too bad Bill Gates doesn't care enough about space exploration. He really could be the man who sold the moon.)
Ask him to tell you about the time he stole a car.
No, really. It's a hilarious story. I used to work at Red Hat and he told it at a company gathering.
Your Powerbook already has an input device - the mousepad.
Thank you so much. You've just saved both a dual 1 Ghz G4 Powermac and a large window from destructive interference.
Do you have a Bluetooth transceiver? I'll bet that if you don't, Mac OS X doesn't try to configure it.
If you do, then, well, damn. I'm puzzled.
My only hand-input device is a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet & mouse. It seems that if you don't have a traditional USB mouse attached, Mac OS X 10.2.8 "helpfully" assumes that you must be trying to connect a bluetooth mouth and launches a Bluetooth configurator for you.
Every.
Time.
I log in, and
Every.
Time.
I log out.
Man, this sucks. Not as bad as not booting, but it's a constant annoyance.
No, this was actually covered by an interesting notion in the FASA RPG and the novel The Final Reflection (One of only two ST novels I would recommend).
The idea was that Klingons aren't very good diplomats (or spies, for that matter), so in order to deal with other empires they created "fusions," hybrids between Klingons and that race. So the Klingons we were seeing in TOS were Klingon/Human fusions and the Romulans dealt mainly with Klingon/Romulan fusions, and so forth.
Somewhere after TOS, there was a radical change in political power and the fusions were either enslaved, executed, or died fighting. After that time, Klingons were ashamed of having even so polluted their blood.
In case anybody starts thinking about how they might profit from an imminent decline in the SCOX short, The Motley Fool has an FAQ on shorting stocks.
I'd like to see a class action suit from shareholders of Linux companies against the SCO executives, for fraudulent stock manipulation.
They went after Martha Stewart for a hell of a lot less than this.
According to this link above:
How odd. It sounds from the interview like the Exodus will have been happening when Adama was young.
:(
However, in the TV Show/Movie, the Exodus starts with the Cylon betrayal at Caprica, when the Galactica gathers the survivors and high-tails it out of there. Morrison surely can't be unaware of this, so I wonder how he's going to put the search for Earth that far back?
Hmmm. Well, at least this might go some distance to explaining Adama's almost fanatical faith that Earth exists and the the fleet will be able to find it one day. Too bad Galactica 1980 was waiting at the end of the journey.
You're totally missing the point. You only "have to" if you lack the skills necessary to download postfix and install it yourself. It's Unix, dude.
The point is that the *default* of the OS is changing.
In any case, if you follow the link I posted you'll see what you would actually be paying for.