While I believe your intentions are in the right direction, creativity and imagination are not the same thing.
Creativity is the ability to produce, which would mean a child cobbling together a new toy, which some children accomplish taking apart several toys and making a new one, or creating a toy out of "non-toy" objects. Imagination just means the ability to think without boundaries. Meaning a child who pretends a train is a dog or that a patch of dirt is a lunar surface.
What you fail to realise is that we don't live in a frozen eco-system anyway. Deserts naturally grow bigger, coastlines naturally shrink, river deltas naturally grow into bays.
We had an ice-age devoid of human existence. The Missisippi River flowed backwards, emptied out a LARGE basin area in Cape Girardeua and created new run-offs. No human involvement.
If Mac OS X had something like Wine/WineX, but it was brain-dead simple to set up and worked with like 95% accuracy, AND it were advertised as a key feature of the Macintosh, then people would buy Macs instead of PCs.
Quick! Someone tell the OS/2 guys that getting another OS makers applications to run on your OS will sell it!
I fell in love with Macs in February of 98 (after building my own Souped-up AMD 486 DX/4 100) when I spent my college grant money on a Macintosh IIsi with a grey-scale screen.
I had about 10 people buy that issue of Wired for me as a gift because of the fucking phenomenal cover.
A lot of the ideas were tongue-in-cheek, not stupid, and others (like Rhapsody on Intel) were just short-sighted. Apple took notes on ways 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 29, 37, 38, 43, 44, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 62, 63, 70, 72 (with USB), 74, 75, 83, 84, 85, 91, 94, 95, 98, 100 (with Xserve).
People feel very passionate about Apple, one way or another, and that's always a good thing when people care about your product.
They just need to get better at convincing Average Joes WHY they should pay a premium for a Mac.
The problem people fail to see is that Apple is in the Luxury Computer market, and always has been (except for it's long-gone education relationship). Up until the end of the millenium, computers WERE a luxury. BMW, Mercedes, Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Veuve, Dom Perignon, Rolex, Cartier...the list goes on, none of these care that you want it but can't afford it and wish it were cheaper.
You just do what all the other ghetto folk do: buy the knockoff. In this case it's Windows.
It's security against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the patriot act modifies what is unreasonable, which is the problem.
I'm sure you're probably non-Arab, and most likely white, which is why you don't perceive this as a threat to your liberty.
I have a good friend who still has a close relationship with her ex-husband, who happens to be of Arab descent, but who is a French-born citizen. He is routinely harrassed when entering the country (from France), meaning poor treatment by customs, made to wait while all of his effects are searched, while I have French friends who are not of Arab descent that have never had any problems coming into the country. My friend's ex-husband has just come to understand he will always be targeted.
When will they find something that on you are I is deemed "normal/harmless" but on him is a terrorist weapon?
We have legislated big brother. Read the novel. As pointed out before, these are things we demonized Soviet Russia for doing to their people.
We have civil rights laws not to protect the people that aren't affected, they are there for those who are. Do not think just because MTV isn't telling you it's a problem that it's not a problem.
I honestly don't believe I'm important enough and/or interesting enough to have anybody read my e-mail.
You really think a person is going to be reading it? It will be passed through a computer program looking for certian keywords or phrases.
I have a large dragon tatooed on my left arm. It goes from about my elbow and crests at my shoulder. If I go through airport security with it covered up, I go straight through. Wearing the same clothes except with a sleeveless shirt or tank, I "beep" every time. WTF? I had a friend comment that it was probably my tattoo that made them stop me, after hearing some nonsense about how the al Qaeda or Iraqis or the boogey man du jour uses tattoos to communicate or something.
I'm beginning to think Orwell was just a little ahead of the time with "1984".
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
I think the "essential" and "temporary" parts are especially poignant in this case, as is this great quote:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Re:Undocumented API calls
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Sure. OS X has a couple of undocumented API calls 'CGSSetWorkspace' and 'CGSGetWorkspace' which allow you to split the window trees into different desktops and move between them.
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Believe me there is a lot in OS X that is undocumented and suggests interesting things.
I'm going to assume that the Workspace functions and the transition effects are for nothing more than Fast User Switching. I'd like to know how to change the effects like he did.
I'd rather see a simple-to-config protocol than a zero-config autodiscovery protocol.
Well, that's great for you, but I think an MP3 Player, TiVO, bluetooth device, whatever, would rather not have to configure itself, or be configured for what is basically one or two services.
What you're saying is you'd rather not have a stereo receiver but instead a tool to decide when and if your CD, turntable, DVD, TV can send sound back and forth.
All Rendezvous is doing is letting every device with services tell every other device it has them. Why would you need to configure that?
They also wrote a better 68040 emulator than Apple had back when parts of the OS hadn't been rewritten for PowerPC yet; that was SpeedDoubler. They also did a dual-platform Playstation emulator that was never perfect, but was good enough for a hundred-plus games, they even defended it against a Sony lawsuit.
Not to nitpick, but Apple's 68k emulator is based on the 68020, and Sony pretty much lost the battle with Connectix and bought the emulator from them. I doubt making Sony buy Virtual Gamestation cost Connectix that much money.
In theory, optomising C++ compilers is done for processors, whereas JAVA optimisations are done at the OS level. Makes sense to me then that JAVA would be faster with the amount of effort put into it to make it run faster.
Remember that they can pay for schools and hospitals (and fighter jets and wars... sigh) with the money they save.
It doesn't have anything to do with how much it costs or where the money could go, it has to do with a lobbyist from a company who can get some nobody senator to make it all happen.
Last election - I can't imagine Gore would have been a good choice, and Bush sure as hell was not a good one.
There were 10 other party candidates on the ballot as well as 3 independents. Don't give me that crap there was no one to vote for just because the other parties weren't on TV.
Voting is kind of like Wargames, except the only way to lose is not to play. If you don't like the democratic or republican candidate, vote for your favourite third party. It's the best way to get the message across you didn't like either.
Re:There'll be more of this before we're done
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walk up the stairs to the office and not take the elevator
Actually, unless you are going up quite a few flights, it's faster to walk the stairs than ride an elevator, especially if it's a busy building. Think about it.
The problem I see in most buildings is that the stairwells are not conveniently located to the elevator (nor convenient to anywhere for that matter). There's a few parking garages near where I live that the stairwells wrap around the elevator shaft. This makes it easier for access to the shaft (there's a few "doors" to it on the well) and it makes it easier to locate the stairs in an emergency.
Sounds to me like you can't tell the difference between morality and legality.
If you place second, middle, last in your class because someone else had better grades than you, that's one thing. It's quite another to have someone pay the teacher to flunk you out of school so they can be head of the class.
Why does a difference between morality and legality needs to be distinguished in such a case?
Well, if I am interpreting this correctly, a hardware bug that wasn't found until after production kept it from rocking our world. There was no hardware anti-aliasing.
However, good game play has always outsold whiz-bang graphics. Case in point: Game Boy.
unless it's essentially going to be a built-in PS3 with PVR capabilities
Well, sounds like enough to me. Plus e-mail is usually OK on a TV, I don't care what anyone says about text being unreadable, if that were the case, there'd be no such thing as RPG's. Text is unreadable at small sizes on current TVs. These will be HDTVs.
When I was going to buy my DVD player, I looked at the PS2 as being only $100 more than a DVD player (at the time) and that I also wanted to get another PS1. So it was the same price as a PS1 and a DVD player but played PS2 games as well. I will look at future players and equipment in the same manner.
God knows I own every Zelda game (excluding the 3D0 crap).
That was CDi crap. IIRC I read that the Zelda game on CDi (which Nintento just licensed the characters) there was no music it was that level of incomplete. Mario Hotel OTOH was pretty fun.
the donkey kong mario racer game that the last pic showed had your location on the track... big deal
That was just one game. The second screen is touch-sensitive if you'd RTFA about the DS instead of just looking at the pretty pictures. There's a game where you draw on the screen to control what's going on. While that may not be appealing to you, it's innovative.
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I think 100 Million worldwide is a lot, though.
That's 1 out of every 63 people on Earth. I think that's enough to say "Everybody". :-)
Creativity is the ability to produce, which would mean a child cobbling together a new toy, which some children accomplish taking apart several toys and making a new one, or creating a toy out of "non-toy" objects. Imagination just means the ability to think without boundaries. Meaning a child who pretends a train is a dog or that a patch of dirt is a lunar surface.
Some people are more creative than others and are most likely born that way.
We had an ice-age devoid of human existence. The Missisippi River flowed backwards, emptied out a LARGE basin area in Cape Girardeua and created new run-offs. No human involvement.
Quick! Someone tell the OS/2 guys that getting another OS makers applications to run on your OS will sell it!
I had about 10 people buy that issue of Wired for me as a gift because of the fucking phenomenal cover.
A lot of the ideas were tongue-in-cheek, not stupid, and others (like Rhapsody on Intel) were just short-sighted. Apple took notes on ways 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 29, 37, 38, 43, 44, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 62, 63, 70, 72 (with USB), 74, 75, 83, 84, 85, 91, 94, 95, 98, 100 (with Xserve).
People feel very passionate about Apple, one way or another, and that's always a good thing when people care about your product.
The problem people fail to see is that Apple is in the Luxury Computer market, and always has been (except for it's long-gone education relationship). Up until the end of the millenium, computers WERE a luxury. BMW, Mercedes, Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Veuve, Dom Perignon, Rolex, Cartier...the list goes on, none of these care that you want it but can't afford it and wish it were cheaper.
You just do what all the other ghetto folk do: buy the knockoff. In this case it's Windows.
I'm sure you're probably non-Arab, and most likely white, which is why you don't perceive this as a threat to your liberty.
I have a good friend who still has a close relationship with her ex-husband, who happens to be of Arab descent, but who is a French-born citizen. He is routinely harrassed when entering the country (from France), meaning poor treatment by customs, made to wait while all of his effects are searched, while I have French friends who are not of Arab descent that have never had any problems coming into the country. My friend's ex-husband has just come to understand he will always be targeted.
When will they find something that on you are I is deemed "normal/harmless" but on him is a terrorist weapon?
We have legislated big brother. Read the novel. As pointed out before, these are things we demonized Soviet Russia for doing to their people.
We have civil rights laws not to protect the people that aren't affected, they are there for those who are. Do not think just because MTV isn't telling you it's a problem that it's not a problem.
You really think a person is going to be reading it? It will be passed through a computer program looking for certian keywords or phrases.
I have a large dragon tatooed on my left arm. It goes from about my elbow and crests at my shoulder. If I go through airport security with it covered up, I go straight through. Wearing the same clothes except with a sleeveless shirt or tank, I "beep" every time. WTF? I had a friend comment that it was probably my tattoo that made them stop me, after hearing some nonsense about how the al Qaeda or Iraqis or the boogey man du jour uses tattoos to communicate or something.
I'm beginning to think Orwell was just a little ahead of the time with "1984".
I think the "essential" and "temporary" parts are especially poignant in this case, as is this great quote:
I'm going to assume that the Workspace functions and the transition effects are for nothing more than Fast User Switching. I'd like to know how to change the effects like he did.
Well, that's great for you, but I think an MP3 Player, TiVO, bluetooth device, whatever, would rather not have to configure itself, or be configured for what is basically one or two services.
What you're saying is you'd rather not have a stereo receiver but instead a tool to decide when and if your CD, turntable, DVD, TV can send sound back and forth.
All Rendezvous is doing is letting every device with services tell every other device it has them. Why would you need to configure that?
Not to nitpick, but Apple's 68k emulator is based on the 68020, and Sony pretty much lost the battle with Connectix and bought the emulator from them. I doubt making Sony buy Virtual Gamestation cost Connectix that much money.
That a pretty interesting idea, since it's the only reason that makes sense why MS would want to buy Virtual PC.
I'm a polyhedron, you insensitive clod!
In theory, optomising C++ compilers is done for processors, whereas JAVA optimisations are done at the OS level. Makes sense to me then that JAVA would be faster with the amount of effort put into it to make it run faster.
It doesn't have anything to do with how much it costs or where the money could go, it has to do with a lobbyist from a company who can get some nobody senator to make it all happen.
I'm sure something similar happens in the EU.
Higher speeds do not attribute to accidents. That's a huge myth. Most fatal auto accidents are attributed to intoxication. Google it.
There were 10 other party candidates on the ballot as well as 3 independents. Don't give me that crap there was no one to vote for just because the other parties weren't on TV.
Voting is kind of like Wargames, except the only way to lose is not to play. If you don't like the democratic or republican candidate, vote for your favourite third party. It's the best way to get the message across you didn't like either.
Actually, unless you are going up quite a few flights, it's faster to walk the stairs than ride an elevator, especially if it's a busy building. Think about it.
The problem I see in most buildings is that the stairwells are not conveniently located to the elevator (nor convenient to anywhere for that matter). There's a few parking garages near where I live that the stairwells wrap around the elevator shaft. This makes it easier for access to the shaft (there's a few "doors" to it on the well) and it makes it easier to locate the stairs in an emergency.
I wish more buildings were built this way.
Even Microsoft has admitted that computer games are not where it's at. They had to come out with XNA so people would write games for Windows AT ALL.
If you place second, middle, last in your class because someone else had better grades than you, that's one thing. It's quite another to have someone pay the teacher to flunk you out of school so they can be head of the class.
Why does a difference between morality and legality needs to be distinguished in such a case?
However, good game play has always outsold whiz-bang graphics. Case in point: Game Boy.
Well, sounds like enough to me. Plus e-mail is usually OK on a TV, I don't care what anyone says about text being unreadable, if that were the case, there'd be no such thing as RPG's. Text is unreadable at small sizes on current TVs. These will be HDTVs.
When I was going to buy my DVD player, I looked at the PS2 as being only $100 more than a DVD player (at the time) and that I also wanted to get another PS1. So it was the same price as a PS1 and a DVD player but played PS2 games as well. I will look at future players and equipment in the same manner.
That was CDi crap. IIRC I read that the Zelda game on CDi (which Nintento just licensed the characters) there was no music it was that level of incomplete. Mario Hotel OTOH was pretty fun.
That was just one game. The second screen is touch-sensitive if you'd RTFA about the DS instead of just looking at the pretty pictures. There's a game where you draw on the screen to control what's going on. While that may not be appealing to you, it's innovative.