POSIX compliance would be nice. I know it's not going to happen, but it would be nice - for a Unix to not be POSIX-compliant is really quite a black eye for IT departments. This is one of the few areas where Apple failed to successfully blend the needs of Unix users with the needs of desktop consumer users.
Yes, you can use UFS filesystems under Mac OS X, but many Carbon apps, not to mention Classic, will fail to run - and the argument for using a Mac is substantially weakened if you're not going to be able to take advantage of the commercial software out there for it.
...than to open your mouth and remove all doubt, eh?
You really are just another fucking English major, aren't you, asshole?
Sound is slow. Really really slow. While the previous poster wasn't quite correct about computer signals going the speed of light in copper, it's still up there in terms of magnitude. Figure that the signal going through the computer is going to be going 1,000,000 times faster than the sound and you'll be in the right neighborhood. That's plently of time to emit a signal that's exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the original sound, presumably in the human hearing range of frequencies.
There are active sound cancelling technologies in products such as the BOSE headset mentioned. And if it can be done in hardware, it can be done in software running on the following generation of hardware.
Great Ghu save us from people who think they know more than they actually do!
No... don't confuse iMovie (for watching DVDs) with iDVD (for creating DVDs). iDVD's installer will refuse to install it unless the Superdrive is present.
You can manually pull the iDVD.dmg files off of the Quicksilver software restore CD-ROMs, but few people bother.
Why instead? You can get most of a debian distro on your Mac OS X by using fink. Hell, you can even run X11 on Darwin and eschew Aqua if you are so deeply in the Free-as-in-Stallman-uber-alles camp.
I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key.
Oh, please. It means nothing of the sort - different Unix vendors have been placing the Ctrl and Caps Lock keys in different places for years. Look at, say, 15 years ago - 1987 - DEC keyboards, IBM RT keyboards, Sun2 keyboards, and (the upcoming) Sun 3 keyboards were very different.
A truly long-time Unix user (vs. a "my favorite vendor's Unix" user) would be used to adapting to different keyboards and would get on to truly important personal preference wars, like emacs vs. vi, X11 vs. WM, or the OTBS.
You have considered the security aspects of this, right? You're adding whatever security issues AIM has onto your existing system. AIM is not exactly designed to have server-strength security in terms of authentication!
You might be better off using a web-based approach - using client-side certificates, you can at least have some measure of strong authentication between your mobile user and your server. Even better would be to use SSH.
I have a hard time thinking that you didn't consider these other options, so I'm really curious - what other factors are dictating an AIM-based solution? SSH is available for just about every platform.
(I'm planning to buy 10.3, which I expect to be another full-price upgrade announced at MacWorld next spring.)
I'm afraid you're setting yourself up for another substantial period of frustration,then. 10.3 will almost certainly be a free (or $19.95 for the media distribution, depending how you get it) upgrade for 10.2 owners, just as 10.1 was from 10.0.
Then 10.4 (or 11.0) will come out, and that will be another full-pay upgrade and you'll have another period of time where you'll be frustrated.
At least, that's would be most consistent with Apple's release schedule so far.
I'd advise biting the bullet and getting in synch with Apple... you'll be less frustrated in the end, IMO. Fighting Steve is a lost cause... Steve gets what Steve wants.
My favorite change: the printing system was been replaced with CUPS, allowing Mac OS X users with printers from companies who enjoy screwing Mac users (*cough* Epson *cough*) to use Gimp-Print drivers. Hoorah, open source support!
How to install the Gimp-Print drivers is detailed here. It's trivial.
Uhh.... do you think Palestineans are really the only (or even the most) worrisome group out there? Please, they are the least of the worries out there, they are only effective because of how desperate they are.
Four words: Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols.
Two more: Operation Rescue.
Do you know about the Weathermen in the 60s?
How about AUM Shinrikyo, the doomsday cultists who used Sarin gas in the Tokyo subways?
My point is that impoverished desperate people are not the only ones who do stupid, incredibly destructive things with any means at their disposal.
The problem with this debate is that people keep trying to frame it in terms of absolutes. Yes, of course it's impossible with a human society to completely stifle the flow of particular information to "appropriate people," no matter how you define them.
The question is, though, how difficult do you want to make it? Do you want every loon who wants this information to be able to get it, or do you want people to have to work a bit to get it?
The thing is, the harder it is to get, the fewer people will actually expend the effort to get it. Some information should take a lot of work to get, and for some of that information, the cost-benefit analysis says that it's worth expending a lot of effort to raise that difficulty as far as possible.
I am, by the way, a card carrying member of the ACLU. I'm just not a blind follower of absolutes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of the principle of academic freedom and the free exchange of information. But.
The fact is that some information, maybe not now but in the forseeable future, will be dangerous enough for one fanatic or lunatic to kill a very large number of people.
We're going to have to have a long, reasoned conversation about how to deal with this fact, and cries of "we're sanctioning ignorance" are just as unhelpful as cries of "think of the children!"
This doesn't mean that I'm happy with the way this administration is likely to approach this issue - I think it would be very good for the academic community to come up with a unified approach on this topic before a purely political solution is imposed.
Bottom line: yes, I'd like people to be ignorant of how to (for instance) engineer aerosol Ebola in their basements.
But recall that when Apple and Microsoft had the love-fest when Steve Jobs first returned to the helm, Apple and Microsoft agreed to cross-license their patents. So Apple's use of OpenGL is in the clear.
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That's probably why this company offers their own replacement warranty.
No shit, I trained mine 5 years ago and it's been great. She uses the toilet in the spare bathroom and neither of us have to worry about all the indignities of a dirty litter box.
Do not try to train it to flush, though. Seems that if you do this they decide that they love it and go and flush the toilet whenever they're bored...
There's an easy answer to the question, "Why not come out with a new computer?" This applies to anybody else in the industry as well as Apple.
Software is why most people buy and use computers - not many outside the geek community are interested in playing with a machine with no applications.
It's the software, stupid. A new system that was substantially different from the old ones (in a way that Dvorak, who pooh-poohs the substantial 680x0 -> PPC and Mac OS -> NeXT/Mac OS X transitions - the most radical transformations you can get while maintaining compatability, means) would not be able to seamlessly run old software.
BeOS was the last platform that looked like a major contender, and it didn't get anywhere. Why? As well as having no name recognition, there simply wasn't the body of applications for it.
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POSIX compliance would be nice. I know it's not going to happen, but it would be nice - for a Unix to not be POSIX-compliant is really quite a black eye for IT departments. This is one of the few areas where Apple failed to successfully blend the needs of Unix users with the needs of desktop consumer users.
Yes, you can use UFS filesystems under Mac OS X, but many Carbon apps, not to mention Classic, will fail to run - and the argument for using a Mac is substantially weakened if you're not going to be able to take advantage of the commercial software out there for it.
...than to open your mouth and remove all doubt, eh?
You really are just another fucking English major, aren't you, asshole?
Sound is slow. Really really slow. While the previous poster wasn't quite correct about computer signals going the speed of light in copper, it's still up there in terms of magnitude. Figure that the signal going through the computer is going to be going 1,000,000 times faster than the sound and you'll be in the right neighborhood. That's plently of time to emit a signal that's exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the original sound, presumably in the human hearing range of frequencies.
There are active sound cancelling technologies in products such as the BOSE headset mentioned. And if it can be done in hardware, it can be done in software running on the following generation of hardware.
Great Ghu save us from people who think they know more than they actually do!
iYou're iRight.
iSorry.
No... don't confuse iMovie (for watching DVDs) with iDVD (for creating DVDs). iDVD's installer will refuse to install it unless the Superdrive is present.
.dmg files off of the Quicksilver software restore CD-ROMs, but few people bother.
You can manually pull the iDVD
A truly long-time Unix user (vs. a "my favorite vendor's Unix" user) would be used to adapting to different keyboards and would get on to truly important personal preference wars, like emacs vs. vi, X11 vs. WM, or the OTBS.
I know sounds obvious, but...
You have considered the security aspects of this, right? You're adding whatever security issues AIM has onto your existing system. AIM is not exactly designed to have server-strength security in terms of authentication!
You might be better off using a web-based approach - using client-side certificates, you can at least have some measure of strong authentication between your mobile user and your server. Even better would be to use SSH.
I have a hard time thinking that you didn't consider these other options, so I'm really curious - what other factors are dictating an AIM-based solution? SSH is available for just about every platform.
- Make Nitrogen triiodide crystals and detonate them (the purple crystals explode when jarred)
- Electric pickle - make a pickle glow!
- Oobleck! Corn starch and water combine to make a substance you've got to handle to believe.
These are just a few, the sites I pointed at above have other similar projects. Have fun!Then 10.4 (or 11.0) will come out, and that will be another full-pay upgrade and you'll have another period of time where you'll be frustrated. At least, that's would be most consistent with Apple's release schedule so far.
I'd advise biting the bullet and getting in synch with Apple... you'll be less frustrated in the end, IMO. Fighting Steve is a lost cause... Steve gets what Steve wants.
Penny Arcade just covered this topic pretty well, in response to the fallout from the announcement that Starcraft: Ghost would be console-only.
Mind you, consoles are starting to support higher resolution output via component video to HDTV.
My favorite change: the printing system was been replaced with CUPS, allowing Mac OS X users with printers from companies who enjoy screwing Mac users (*cough* Epson *cough*) to use Gimp-Print drivers. Hoorah, open source support!
How to install the Gimp-Print drivers is detailed here. It's trivial.
...there are so many to choose from.
Pre-update, 10.1.5 had OpenSSL 0.9.6b 9 Jul 2001.
Post-update, 10.1.5 has OpenSSL 0.9.6e 30 Jul 2002
So, it looks like 10.2 will generally be vulnerable until Apple rolls out the Jaguar version of the patch.
Uhh.... do you think Palestineans are really the only (or even the most) worrisome group out there? Please, they are the least of the worries out there, they are only effective because of how desperate they are.
Four words: Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols.
Two more: Operation Rescue.
Do you know about the Weathermen in the 60s?
How about AUM Shinrikyo, the doomsday cultists who used Sarin gas in the Tokyo subways?
My point is that impoverished desperate people are not the only ones who do stupid, incredibly destructive things with any means at their disposal.
The problem with this debate is that people keep trying to frame it in terms of absolutes. Yes, of course it's impossible with a human society to completely stifle the flow of particular information to "appropriate people," no matter how you define them.
The question is, though, how difficult do you want to make it? Do you want every loon who wants this information to be able to get it, or do you want people to have to work a bit to get it?
The thing is, the harder it is to get, the fewer people will actually expend the effort to get it. Some information should take a lot of work to get, and for some of that information, the cost-benefit analysis says that it's worth expending a lot of effort to raise that difficulty as far as possible.
I am, by the way, a card carrying member of the ACLU. I'm just not a blind follower of absolutes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of the principle of academic freedom and the free exchange of information. But.
The fact is that some information, maybe not now but in the forseeable future, will be dangerous enough for one fanatic or lunatic to kill a very large number of people.
We're going to have to have a long, reasoned conversation about how to deal with this fact, and cries of "we're sanctioning ignorance" are just as unhelpful as cries of "think of the children!"
This doesn't mean that I'm happy with the way this administration is likely to approach this issue - I think it would be very good for the academic community to come up with a unified approach on this topic before a purely political solution is imposed.
Bottom line: yes, I'd like people to be ignorant of how to (for instance) engineer aerosol Ebola in their basements.
I was wrong, rebooting is required - for whatever reason, I wasn't warned that a reboot would be required before I installed the patch.
Whatever...
It's also available via software update panel in the preferences application.
Surprisingly, it does not require a reboot.
Mac OS X uses OpenGL...
But recall that when Apple and Microsoft had the love-fest when Steve Jobs first returned to the helm, Apple and Microsoft agreed to cross-license their patents. So Apple's use of OpenGL is in the clear.
That's probably why this company offers their own replacement warranty.
...and toilet train it.
No shit, I trained mine 5 years ago and it's been great. She uses the toilet in the spare bathroom and neither of us have to worry about all the indignities of a dirty litter box.
Do not try to train it to flush, though. Seems that if you do this they decide that they love it and go and flush the toilet whenever they're bored...
Heh. Obviously somebody didn't think so. Oh well, you can't please all of the people all of the time (or something like that)...
...that an English gallon is roughly 500 US gallons.
Not so impressive now, is it?
There's an easy answer to the question, "Why not come out with a new computer?" This applies to anybody else in the industry as well as Apple.
Software is why most people buy and use computers - not many outside the geek community are interested in playing with a machine with no applications.
It's the software, stupid. A new system that was substantially different from the old ones (in a way that Dvorak, who pooh-poohs the substantial 680x0 -> PPC and Mac OS -> NeXT/Mac OS X transitions - the most radical transformations you can get while maintaining compatability, means) would not be able to seamlessly run old software.
BeOS was the last platform that looked like a major contender, and it didn't get anywhere. Why? As well as having no name recognition, there simply wasn't the body of applications for it.