Apple's iCal handles timezones correctly. All day events (like birthdays) are simply linked to a date. For other events you can specify the time zone on a per event basis. You do have to check the 'Turn on time zone support' box in the preferences though... but that's just a checkbox.
Some of the revisions of the old CRT based iMacs were convection cooled. They had no fans at all. The problem with doing that with a mini-tower case is that people tend to put things on top of a mini-tower... which would block the airflow... They got away with it on the iMac because its hard to put stuff on top of its curved top.
Joe Palmer designed alot of Mac hardware while working for Apple... moved on and designed the BeBox for Be...
http://www.josephpalmer.com/view/box.shtml...
Then one morning I tried to imagine what the Mac would look like running on CHRP. Take the Apple brand monitor away, was it still a Mac? Yes. I had proof. I had a Magnavox monitor on my Mac at home. Keyboard, Mouse? Yes again. Some of the workstations and PCs I'd used had really nice input devices. Oh oh. What made a Mac a Mac? time to look in the system. CPU? was 68K, now PPC. It could be changed again. Still a Mac. Memory? I kept needing more, but the memory SIMMs kept changing all the time anyway, so that's not it. I/O? well I would miss auto eject floppies, but by then most of my new software came either on CD ROM or was downloaded from the internet. Serial ports? The Mac serial ports were much better, but the PC ones were capable of everything I actually wanted to do. One after another the hardware "advantages" of the Mac were measured against the PC, and were found to be better but......
I'm going to call my lawyer... maybe he'll be able to figure out who I should sue for this. I mean, just because I'm a guy, doesn't mean that I shouldn't be a Tetrachromat... That's so unfair... If I had found this out as a child, think of what it would have done to my self esteme... Think of the children... It's all about the children...
Why do I think that? Many reasons:
1) I can't speek for other languages, but as one of those 300 Million Hindi speakers, I can tell you this; Very few people speak pure Hindi anymore. If you walk around India, you'll notice people speaking in a combination of Hindi, English, and possibly whatever the local language is (Marathi for where I'm from).
2) English is the language of commerce.
I don't have any hard numbers, but I'd wager that most of the worlds international business takes place in English.
3) English is the language of Science.
Much of the worlds Scientific output happens in English, or gets quickly translated into English, so that it can be shared w/ scientist world wide. There are very few world class scientist (in any field) who do not speak/read/write English. Doesn't matter what country... they do English.
4) The English speaking world (mainly America) produces more printed/published material than any else... by a wide margin. This has implications on the spread/sharing of ideas/stories/myths/CULTURE... I used to love watching the Scola TV network... I'd watch news broadcasts in some language that sounded like gibberish to me, and a few times a min. they'd throw out an English word... it was quite ammusing. (I'll never forget hearing something like this: "bla bla bla bla bla Sex bla bla Sex Education bla bla Penis bla bla bla Fucking bla bla bla Sexual... etc"):)
What about Proprietary Unixes... I'm thinking of one made by Altos in particular... I don't remember what they called it, but it ran on their own x86 based hardware (ie, not IBM-PC hardware, it just happened to use the same CPU)... I happen to have one of these boxes, and would be interested in the lineage of it's Unix...
NetBSD does NOT support the 5200/5300/6200/6300 (except for the 6300/160 and the 6360 which used differant motherboards). These are the old school Apple systems that didn't use PCI, or Nubus for that matter... According to http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/m odels.html NetBSD does not support these machines.
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/microsoft-conclusions.
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For those of us who don't fancy a GUI, check out http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/928951047/ it's a console web browser that supports frames (in converts them into a table, and then renders the table)... it even supports SSL...
Russia is simply the USSR with a new name and Government. So, any treaties made with USSR are still enforce. The Russian people simply elected a new government, and the new government replaced the old constitution...
Ask yourself this: Do we renegotiate all the treaties we've everytime we elect a new President/Congress (in esance, replacing our gov't)? Are we planning on renegotiating our treaties with the UK when they reform the upper house of their Parliment in the next few weeks? The House of Lords has been around (without much change) since the 14th century after all...
Basic information about Reflections|Projections 1999:
This year from Friday, October 8 to Sunday, October 10, ACM will be holding its fifth annual Midwest student computing conference, Reflections | Projections. Reflections | Projections offers students from all over the Midwest a chance to interact with computer industry professionals and peek into the future of computing. In past years such noteworthy speakers as Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++, have spoken at the conference.
This year conference once again is hosting many great speakers. This year's keynote speaker is Larry Tesler. Tesler is the founder of Stagecast Software, which makes interactive simulation software. Previously, he was the Vice President of Internet Platforms at Apple Computer. At Apple he made significant contributions to the OpenDoc Object Model, Applescript, the Newton, along with a number of other major products. Previous to his time at Apple, Tesler was a researcher at the Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where he and his fellow researchers set the stage for a large amount of what is now modern computing. In addition to Tesler's keynote address, several other extremely noteworthy speakers will be attending the conference. Included amongst these speakers are Michael Abrash, one of the original authors of Quake, Eric Allman, inventor of Sendmail, Theo de Raadt, head of the OpenBSD project, Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, Astro Tellar, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning expert and author of the novel "Exegesis", and many, many more. In addition to the talks, there shall be several panels, a programming contest, and a very large job fair to be held on Friday the 8th in the Illini Union.
For complete information about the conference, take a look at http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference. Online registration is available there. The registration fee is $15, which includes entrance to all conference events, meals for the weekend, inclusion of your resume in the conference resume book, and a t-shirt.
Basic information about MechMania V: Vengaence Of The Slain:
One of the first major battles of, what are now called, the clan wars occurred within a small star system located in neutral space between clan territories. Each of the 16 Clans were separated by a highly toxic nebula, and located near the center was a rouge star system. The star of this system was highly unstable and the shield technology of the day could not stop the harmful array of cosmic rays. In such harmful conditions space battles had to be short and few. But within this star system was a lone forest planet?
Immediately each clan staked out territorities on this planet starting a new type of warfare, MechWar. The war continued for several years until a new breed of Mech was introduced. Warriors were adapted with major amounts of cerebral implants, leaving them more machine then human.
After over 50 years of war, all remaining members of the clans were driven out of known space. Most areas of clan space were terraformed and colonized within five years, leaving large amounts of scrap metal piling up in the nebula. One company decided they could make a killing by fitting ships with heavy shielding and collecting the scrap metal for recycling.
Everything was perfectly fine till they uncovered a warehouse buried under the sand on that small war-stricken planet. Still operating on backup power a signal was broadcast on all bands announcing the intrusion into the clan warehouse. None of the salvage team was ever seen again.
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Here's an amizingly simple way to fix those problems...
No $$ changes hands until BOTH parties sync their PDA's and send information about the transaction to Confinity... if the information coming into Confinity from both sides doesn't match, then you get a human involved to call all parties, and you sort the matter manually...
Okay Be is easier to use than linux. Thats right now, give linux time and it will get easier.
And my kitchen will only take two weeks to remodel (so claimed my land lord and the builder doing the work BEFORE they ripped out the floor and the ceiling and everything inbetween... it's been 3 weeks now...). I'm sorry, but this is a really weak argument. This argument has a name (though this term usually isn't associated with open-source software)... it's called "Vaporware" when MS, or any of the comercial vendors make this claim. And they get bitched at for selling "Vaporware".
I'm not saying it's not going to happen, Linux distributions are worlds apart today (just finished a RH6 install) from what they were when I did my first Slackware install (during the 0.9x kernel days... I remember using a stack of 45 AOL flopies to do this install)... thing are improving, but I've never seen an OS as ealy toinstall+config than the BeOS is today. Though I'd still claim that a properly set up Mac is still easier to use (after the install and setup) for you're average person than BeOS, WindowsXX, any Linux Dist, or any other OS I've ever tried (though there aren't many properly set up Mac's in the world)...
Once you have your linux box set up to do what you need it to do you really don't need to ever upgrade it.
This is true for ANY OS... It's equally aplicable to any Linux Dist and BeOS and NT and MacOS and Win 3.1 and Win 3.0 (my HS had a single Win 3.0 box because we had an old IBM scanner that wouldn't work with anything else) and Xenix and BSD 4.0 and OpenBLT and ANY other OS you can name. Sorry to be repetative, but I've seen so many people make this point, and only apply it to their favorite Linux Dist "because it's open source". Nobody is forcing you to upgrade your OS. Hell, my father's office had a Microsoft Xenix (yes Microsoft Xenix, a Unix flavor) box up for 10 years w/ almost daily use, and they still use it for old data... over the 10 years, the only things they 'upgraded' were some new dumb terminals and a new printer. The OS has never been upgraded. On the other hand, if you're concerned about security... or if the task the computer is doing changes, you may have to upgrade your system. Again, this applies to ANY OS...
His description of how Be is in fact an OS supportive of open-source is nonsense. You can be running windows and run all the gnu tools and use only open source applications just fine, but is windows to be described as open-source supportive in the same light?
Unless I'm mistaken, Microsoft doesn't ship with any open-source software. Nor do they actively support the development of open-source software for their platforms (perl may be an exception to this, I haven't had time to look into the MS-ActiveState stuff)... Be on the other hand is paying a developer to help the BeZilla project. They're helping out w/ egcs and cdrecord and other open-source project... They've released their sample code under a bsd-like license... etc.
Be is closed source, proprietary, centrally controlled all the way down the line.
since it seems that apple is moving to EGCS for OS X, I had a few questions...
What binary format does OS X Server use? What format will OS X use? even if they don't use PEF, will they integrate PEF support into the EGCS Linker? (hence, opening up their patent on PEF)... I'm assuming that they're going to be working with the EGCS folks to improve it's PPC code generation?
Quote from Wired article: "There is a delay between when the DJ scratches the record and when the sound happens, said Bastian: 'About 12 milliseconds.'"
>Why would BA want to support Macintoshes? They already support the iMac... other than the ugly case, there isn't any differance setting up an iMac or any other mac... What they do is write down the mac address, set up the machine to use dhcp, and tell there dhcp server to respond to the mac address... no very dificult...
So the cost of support argument makes no sense... if they really don't want to support macs, they could simply install the line, and not offer any support to users of "unsupported" os's... there are many other phone companies that do that...
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Apple's iCal handles timezones correctly. All day events (like birthdays) are simply linked to a date. For other events you can specify the time zone on a per event basis. You do have to check the 'Turn on time zone support' box in the preferences though... but that's just a checkbox.
Some of the revisions of the old CRT based iMacs were convection cooled. They had no fans at all. The problem with doing that with a mini-tower case is that people tend to put things on top of a mini-tower... which would block the airflow... They got away with it on the iMac because its hard to put stuff on top of its curved top.
Joe Palmer designed alot of Mac hardware while working for Apple... moved on and designed the BeBox for Be... http://www.josephpalmer.com/view/box.shtml ...
Then one morning I tried to imagine what the Mac would look like running on CHRP. Take the Apple brand monitor away, was it still a Mac? Yes. I had proof. I had a Magnavox monitor on my Mac at home. Keyboard, Mouse? Yes again. Some of the workstations and PCs I'd used had really nice input devices. Oh oh. What made a Mac a Mac? time to look in the system. CPU? was 68K, now PPC. It could be changed again. Still a Mac. Memory? I kept needing more, but the memory SIMMs kept changing all the time anyway, so that's not it. I/O? well I would miss auto eject floppies, but by then most of my new software came either on CD ROM or was downloaded from the internet. Serial ports? The Mac serial ports were much better, but the PC ones were capable of everything I actually wanted to do. One after another the hardware "advantages" of the Mac were measured against the PC, and were found to be better but... ...
Checkout NewtonQuake... It runs on the Newton 2000 or better...
I'm going to call my lawyer... maybe he'll be able to figure out who I should sue for this. I mean, just because I'm a guy, doesn't mean that I shouldn't be a Tetrachromat... That's so unfair... If I had found this out as a child, think of what it would have done to my self esteme... Think of the children... It's all about the children...
Ummm... yeh... time to call a lawyer now...
:)
... It'll wipe out everything in it's way...
:)
Why do I think that? Many reasons:
1) I can't speek for other languages, but as one of those 300 Million Hindi speakers, I can tell you this; Very few people speak pure Hindi anymore. If you walk around India, you'll notice people speaking in a combination of Hindi, English, and possibly whatever the local language is (Marathi for where I'm from).
2) English is the language of commerce.
I don't have any hard numbers, but I'd wager that most of the worlds international business takes place in English.
3) English is the language of Science.
Much of the worlds Scientific output happens in English, or gets quickly translated into English, so that it can be shared w/ scientist world wide. There are very few world class scientist (in any field) who do not speak/read/write English. Doesn't matter what country... they do English.
4) The English speaking world (mainly America) produces more printed/published material than any else... by a wide margin. This has implications on the spread/sharing of ideas/stories/myths/CULTURE... I used to love watching the Scola TV network... I'd watch news broadcasts in some language that sounded like gibberish to me, and a few times a min. they'd throw out an English word... it was quite ammusing. (I'll never forget hearing something like this: "bla bla bla bla bla Sex bla bla Sex Education bla bla Penis bla bla bla Fucking bla bla bla Sexual... etc")
-Vik
What about Proprietary Unixes... I'm thinking of one made by Altos in particular... I don't remember what they called it, but it ran on their own x86 based hardware (ie, not IBM-PC hardware, it just happened to use the same CPU)... I happen to have one of these boxes, and would be interested in the lineage of it's Unix...
... so I guess it's still okay... :)
http://www. cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/23/decss.part2.idg/ index.html
Scroll down to the links at the bottom... it links to http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/.
NetBSD does NOT support the 5200/5300/6200/6300 (except for the 6300/160 and the 6360 which used differant motherboards). These are the old school Apple systems that didn't use PCI, or Nubus for that matter... According to http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/m odels.html NetBSD does not support these machines.
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/ microsoft-conclusions.html
For those of us who don't fancy a GUI, check out http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/928951047/ it's a console web browser that supports frames (in converts them into a table, and then renders the table)... it even supports SSL...
Russia is simply the USSR with a new name and Government. So, any treaties made with USSR are still enforce. The Russian people simply elected a new government, and the new government replaced the old constitution...
Ask yourself this:
Do we renegotiate all the treaties we've everytime we elect a new President/Congress (in esance, replacing our gov't)?
Are we planning on renegotiating our treaties with the UK when they reform the upper house of their Parliment in the next few weeks? The House of Lords has been around (without much change) since the 14th century after all...
Reflections|Projections 1999: Conference Page
Corporate Registration for Job Fair and/or Sponsorship
MechMania V: Vengaence Of The Slain: Programming Contest
Basic information about Reflections|Projections 1999:
This year from Friday, October 8 to Sunday, October 10, ACM will be holding its fifth annual Midwest student computing conference, Reflections | Projections. Reflections | Projections offers students from all over the Midwest a chance to interact with computer industry professionals and peek into the future of computing. In past years such noteworthy speakers as Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++, have spoken at the conference.
This year conference once again is hosting many great speakers. This year's keynote speaker is Larry Tesler. Tesler is the founder of Stagecast Software, which makes interactive simulation software. Previously, he was the Vice President of Internet Platforms at Apple Computer. At Apple he made significant contributions to the OpenDoc Object Model, Applescript, the Newton, along with a number of other major products. Previous to his time at Apple, Tesler was a researcher at the Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where he and his fellow researchers set the stage for a large amount of what is now modern computing. In addition to Tesler's keynote address, several other extremely noteworthy speakers will be attending the conference. Included amongst these speakers are Michael Abrash, one of the original authors of Quake, Eric Allman, inventor of Sendmail, Theo de Raadt, head of the OpenBSD project, Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, Astro Tellar, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning expert and author of the novel "Exegesis", and many, many more. In addition to the talks, there shall be several panels, a programming contest, and a very large job fair to be held on Friday the 8th in the Illini Union.
For complete information about the conference, take a look at http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference. Online registration is available there. The registration fee is $15, which includes entrance to all conference events, meals for the weekend, inclusion of your resume in the conference resume book, and a t-shirt.
Basic information about MechMania V: Vengaence Of The Slain:Sponsored by Trilogy.
One of the first major battles of, what are now called, the clan wars occurred within a small star system located in neutral space between clan territories. Each of the 16 Clans were separated by a highly toxic nebula, and located near the center was a rouge star system. The star of this system was highly unstable and the shield technology of the day could not stop the harmful array of cosmic rays. In such harmful conditions space battles had to be short and few. But within this star system was a lone forest planet?
Immediately each clan staked out territorities on this planet starting a new type of warfare, MechWar. The war continued for several years until a new breed of Mech was introduced. Warriors were adapted with major amounts of cerebral implants, leaving them more machine then human.
After over 50 years of war, all remaining members of the clans were driven out of known space. Most areas of clan space were terraformed and colonized within five years, leaving large amounts of scrap metal piling up in the nebula. One company decided they could make a killing by fitting ships with heavy shielding and collecting the scrap metal for recycling.
Everything was perfectly fine till they uncovered a warehouse buried under the sand on that small war-stricken planet. Still operating on backup power a signal was broadcast on all bands announcing the intrusion into the clan warehouse. None of the salvage team was ever seen again.
For more information see: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/mechmania/
Here's an amizingly simple way to fix those problems...
No $$ changes hands until BOTH parties sync their PDA's and send information about the transaction to Confinity... if the information coming into Confinity from both sides doesn't match, then you get a human involved to call all parties, and you sort the matter manually...
I'm not saying it's not going to happen, Linux distributions are worlds apart today (just finished a RH6 install) from what they were when I did my first Slackware install (during the 0.9x kernel days... I remember using a stack of 45 AOL flopies to do this install)... thing are improving, but I've never seen an OS as ealy toinstall+config than the BeOS is today. Though I'd still claim that a properly set up Mac is still easier to use (after the install and setup) for you're average person than BeOS, WindowsXX, any Linux Dist, or any other OS I've ever tried (though there aren't many properly set up Mac's in the world)...
This is true for ANY OS... It's equally aplicable to any Linux Dist and BeOS and NT and MacOS and Win 3.1 and Win 3.0 (my HS had a single Win 3.0 box because we had an old IBM scanner that wouldn't work with anything else) and Xenix and BSD 4.0 and OpenBLT and ANY other OS you can name. Sorry to be repetative, but I've seen so many people make this point, and only apply it to their favorite Linux Dist "because it's open source". Nobody is forcing you to upgrade your OS. Hell, my father's office had a Microsoft Xenix (yes Microsoft Xenix, a Unix flavor) box up for 10 years w/ almost daily use, and they still use it for old data... over the 10 years, the only things they 'upgraded' were some new dumb terminals and a new printer. The OS has never been upgraded.
On the other hand, if you're concerned about security... or if the task the computer is doing changes, you may have to upgrade your system. Again, this applies to ANY OS...
And this is inherantly bad how?
since it seems that apple is moving to EGCS for OS X, I had a few questions...
What binary format does OS X Server use? What format will OS X use? even if they don't use PEF, will they integrate PEF support into the EGCS Linker? (hence, opening up their patent on PEF)... I'm assuming that they're going to be working with the EGCS folks to improve it's PPC code generation?
But you can't get to all of the cgi/asp/php3/etc... code that goes into the web page... if it was truely opensource, you could get to all of that...
just my $0.02...
-Vik
Quote from Wired article:
"There is a delay between when the DJ scratches
the record and when the sound happens, said
Bastian: 'About 12 milliseconds.'"
>Why would BA want to support Macintoshes?
They already support the iMac... other than the ugly case, there isn't any differance setting up an iMac or any other mac... What they do is write down the mac address, set up the machine to use dhcp, and tell there dhcp server to respond to the mac address... no very dificult...
So the cost of support argument makes no sense... if they really don't want to support macs, they could simply install the line, and not offer any support to users of "unsupported" os's... there are many other phone companies that do that...