Last I heard, Apple was big into native-code-compiled Java, rather than the byte code variety.
When you take the Virtual Machine part out of it, Java's syntax is pretty well thought out -- I could think of worse languages to have a platform tied to.
Seems like pushing native-compiled Java could ultimately be a good way to win some bad enemies over at Sun, though.
So Steve Jobs wants to sell both his companies for a huge profit while retaining control of both of them, and come out of the whole deal as chairman of Disney, huh?
Gee, I didn't realize Steve and I had so much in common.
We pretty much know what happens to most of the characters from Episode I, unless they throw us any major curves.
Anakin: Becomes Darth Vader, is talked about in second trilogy, dies on second Death Star. Obi-Wan: Lives through slaughter of Jedis, becomes crazy old coot, lives on Tattooine, dies on first Death Star. C-3PO: Eventually gets built. R2-D2: Remains an ash can. Queen Amidala: The assumption is that she becomes Luke/Leia's mother and gets killed.
Really, the only character with room for development, who can have the kind of character arc that Luke had in the first movies, is Jar Jar. He's the one we know least amount, and he's the one who apparently has the farthest distance to travel, in the George Lucas/Joseph Campbell sense. Don't you get it yet? Star Wars, Episodes I-III, is the story of Jar Jar Binks!
He starts out as a bumbling, outsider nobody who can't get anything right. By the end of Episode I, he's proven himself to be an okay guy. In the next couple movies he'll continue to mature and advance, will become a major general or other figure, until finally by the end of the third movie...
Ten years ago, the masses were not being told what they could say. No one was being told what they cannot create (because the idea is already "owned" by someone else). No one was threatened with jail time because he re-sold some software.
Errr... let me guess. Throughout your formative years, your parents lived in a maze of underground caverns with the mutant cyber-wizards who were secretly plotting to overthrow the mega-corporations that dominated your collective's artistic freedom... and that's why you've never met, seen, or even heard of black people before -- right?
Slashdot: get over yourselves. And read something other than a s-f novel for a change, huh? (Hint: if it's published by O'Reilley, it doesn't count.)
Actually, I believe you're mistaken about George Clinton. I saw an interview with him once where he discussed the issue of sampling. (I believe this was around the same time Chuck D was still claiming "you can't copyright no beats," BTW.) And what he said in this interview was that, while it was true some artists' music was being used without compensation, he himself had never been sampled without getting paid for it. So he was more or less content.
The impression I got from Garfinkel and Spafford's fairly-accessible book "Practical Unix and Internet Security, 2e" (O'Reilly) was that, even if everything else in the book went completely over your head, you should at least understand that crack-this-box contests don't prove @!$%#$.
They've already got 'em! I saw a Samsung monitor at CompUSA this afternoon that looked like the equivalent of a 17" CRT. 1280x1024 resolution, too... and it exhibited none of the color distortion my PowerBook G3 screen shows when I shift viewing angles. Thweet!
Your whining about everyone else whining does not give me any more sympathy for your situation. You make your own bed. Either lie in it, or get the hell up.
(Honestly, people -- the folks who comment here that everyone needs to raise the bar for themselves... more compensation, fewer hours, better benefits, anything you can grab... are dead right.)
It may be #1 on the list of most-connected cities by Yahoo's criteria, but overall its communication infrastructure is terrible! So far there are no cable modems available in San Francisco. DSL coverage is good, but you deal with Pacific Bell -- and as near as I can tell, the particular branch of Pacific Bell with the worst overall service out of their entire market.
I have not had an acceptable voice phone line in San Francisco in something like 3 years -- meaning, either it's multiplexed using a box called a "dammel", or it has persistent (but intermittent) interference. Either way, the quality of the lines is so poor that you can't count on a consistent modem connection from them.
Meanwhile Pacific Bell offers great (read: competition-squashing) rates on DSL, but with a catch -- you have to use your existing, poor-quality phone pair for it.
Not that you'd want to get a new phone line for your DSL connection from Pac Bell -- installation appointments FREQUENTLY fall behind due date, because when the service tech arrives you're told there are no facilities to give you a phone. (Typically they blame "all those people with their modems and fax machines and their Internet".)
And don't get me started on my experience with a Pacific Bell Frame Relay connection. You can't even count on them sending the right encoding over the wire from month to month.
OK, telecom companies-- Yahoo! says San Francisco is where you want to be! Everyone here wants "in" on the Internet! Now somebody come and save us from this drought of decent service!
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Last I heard, Apple was big into native-code-compiled Java, rather than the byte code variety.
When you take the Virtual Machine part out of it, Java's syntax is pretty well thought out -- I could think of worse languages to have a platform tied to.
Seems like pushing native-compiled Java could ultimately be a good way to win some bad enemies over at Sun, though.
And trying to do any decent 3D modeling at work on an 8086 might be a little trying...
Hey, Wizardry ran on a 6502, man! These modern 3D apps are all code bloat.
So Steve Jobs wants to sell both his companies for a huge profit while retaining control of both of them, and come out of the whole deal as chairman of Disney, huh?
Gee, I didn't realize Steve and I had so much in common.
We pretty much know what happens to most of the characters from Episode I, unless they throw us any major curves.
Anakin: Becomes Darth Vader, is talked about in second trilogy, dies on second Death Star.
Obi-Wan: Lives through slaughter of Jedis, becomes crazy old coot, lives on Tattooine, dies on first Death Star.
C-3PO: Eventually gets built.
R2-D2: Remains an ash can.
Queen Amidala: The assumption is that she becomes Luke/Leia's mother and gets killed.
Really, the only character with room for development, who can have the kind of character arc that Luke had in the first movies, is Jar Jar. He's the one we know least amount, and he's the one who apparently has the farthest distance to travel, in the George Lucas/Joseph Campbell sense. Don't you get it yet? Star Wars, Episodes I-III, is the story of Jar Jar Binks!
He starts out as a bumbling, outsider nobody who can't get anything right. By the end of Episode I, he's proven himself to be an okay guy. In the next couple movies he'll continue to mature and advance, will become a major general or other figure, until finally by the end of the third movie...
(SPOILER ALERT)
Errr... let me guess. Throughout your formative years, your parents lived in a maze of underground caverns with the mutant cyber-wizards who were secretly plotting to overthrow the mega-corporations that dominated your collective's artistic freedom ... and that's why you've never met, seen, or even heard of black people before -- right?
Slashdot: get over yourselves. And read something other than a s-f novel for a change, huh? (Hint: if it's published by O'Reilley, it doesn't count.)
Actually, I believe you're mistaken about George Clinton. I saw an interview with him once where he discussed the issue of sampling. (I believe this was around the same time Chuck D was still claiming "you can't copyright no beats," BTW.) And what he said in this interview was that, while it was true some artists' music was being used without compensation, he himself had never been sampled without getting paid for it. So he was more or less content.
My stepfather worked for UPS for 30 years; he claims they can't possibly deliver anything for rates competetive with the USPS.
The impression I got from Garfinkel and Spafford's fairly-accessible book "Practical Unix and Internet Security, 2e" (O'Reilly) was that, even if everything else in the book went completely over your head, you should at least understand that crack-this-box contests don't prove @!$%#$.
So why bother with them?
Exactly. It's the word "copyright" that does it for you... not the construct with the parentheses.
My bet is that the Mac OS 8.6 CD that ships with the G4s will install an "Enabler" to allow it to run. They always do that with brand-new hardware.
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They've already got 'em! I saw a Samsung monitor at CompUSA this afternoon that looked like the equivalent of a 17" CRT. 1280x1024 resolution, too ... and it exhibited none of the color distortion my PowerBook G3 screen shows when I shift viewing angles. Thweet!
Yeah, but all this is your fault.
... are dead right.)
Quit your damn job, already!
Your whining about everyone else whining does not give me any more sympathy for your situation. You make your own bed. Either lie in it, or get the hell up.
(Honestly, people -- the folks who comment here that everyone needs to raise the bar for themselves... more compensation, fewer hours, better benefits, anything you can grab
It may be #1 on the list of most-connected cities by Yahoo's criteria, but overall its communication infrastructure is terrible! So far there are no cable modems available in San Francisco. DSL coverage is good, but you deal with Pacific Bell -- and as near as I can tell, the particular branch of Pacific Bell with the worst overall service out of their entire market.
I have not had an acceptable voice phone line in San Francisco in something like 3 years -- meaning, either it's multiplexed using a box called a "dammel", or it has persistent (but intermittent) interference. Either way, the quality of the lines is so poor that you can't count on a consistent modem connection from them.
Meanwhile Pacific Bell offers great (read: competition-squashing) rates on DSL, but with a catch -- you have to use your existing, poor-quality phone pair for it.
Not that you'd want to get a new phone line for your DSL connection from Pac Bell -- installation appointments FREQUENTLY fall behind due date, because when the service tech arrives you're told there are no facilities to give you a phone. (Typically they blame "all those people with their modems and fax machines and their Internet".)
And don't get me started on my experience with a Pacific Bell Frame Relay connection. You can't even count on them sending the right encoding over the wire from month to month.
OK, telecom companies-- Yahoo! says San Francisco is where you want to be! Everyone here wants "in" on the Internet! Now somebody come and save us from this drought of decent service!
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