His history is interesting, but not definitive and not necessarily accurate. There was, for instance, a UNIX port to Lisa hardware somewhere in there. The Apple Library was full of strange documentation on micro-kernel projects (e.g., Vanguard) from as early as the mid eighties. They might be over at Stanford now, or buried off of Caribbean drive next to Weird Stuff.
"Copland" and "Gershwin" were external code names. The corresponding internal code names were "Maxwell" and "Marconi". The "Maxwell" effort was spread throughout the company with different components being in different stages of readiness. System 7 languished without updates (to the UI in particular) due to withholding features to appear in an "imminent" Maxwell release. There were a number of seeded releases; the first general Developer's Release (DR1), however, was never mailed to customers---the CD jackets sat in an empty office for 12 months.
Maxwell was too ambitious a project for the Apple of 1990-98. It never would have shipped. The technical ideas and underpinnings were good, but Management was risk adverse & development was so spread-out and balkanized there was little hope of a release unless some massively-gifted leader came forth to unify the effort.
Gil Amelio wasn't that guy. Neither was his pick to run engineering (who's name escapes me). Neither understood Apple and neither knew what the hell to do with their $10,000,000,000 company. Many months were spent considering weird operating system options. Rumors of the new OS direction were constantly flying (one week the rumor was "Chrysalis"---a winnowed-down version of the Solaris kernel---would serve as the new MacOS's kernel), but Amelio & friends never communicated effectively or established a direction. People kept working on technologies associated with the dead Maxwell project and the sands shifted around them.
(This shouldn't be viewed as an indictment of Amelio. He and his team could not lead a company like Apple, its employees and customers were so foreign to them that they were often perplexed when they weren't outright lost. Amelio did some useful stuff in a kind of "distant uncle" sort of way: he put an end to the Maxwell daydreaming and prepared the kids for a downward trajectory that happened to intersect that of another down-on-its luck computer company.)
That Apple survived---even in significantly reduced form---is amazing. That it remained an independent company and returned as an innovative force in the industry, is astounding. Now that there is a stable underpinning to the new OS, I hope someone treks over to the Santa Clara landfill, Stanford Library, or Apple SCM & reads through the (huge number of) Maxwell/Marconi requirements and design documents; there's some gold in there.
And so were a bunch of other government officials. It's a shame that there was no competent, professional, systematic elimination of those elements from the western security apparatus; instead we got boneheads like McCarthy...
Enough members of the western scientific and diplomatic communities were enraptured by Leninist/Stalinist dogma to further infect and destroy two generations of leadership. Western society teetered on a brink for a lot longer than it needed to because of it.
Cute, but being friendly only works when you're dealing with people who have an interest in being friendly, too. When you're dealing with folks who want to destroy you, your lifestyle, your society, and the underpinnings thereof, it doesn't serve you well.
Vietnam and "Palestine" are poor examples of "roll[ing] all your weapons and killing machines over a nation" for many reasons. The Israelis have not used all of their weapons in combating the "palestinian" terrorists who kill ruthlessly---albeit primitively---on an almost daily basis. The Americans never really committed to Vietnam. Had they, it probably wouldn't be a communist state whose residents flee at the least chance.
While you might wish to be torn to shreds, others value the society that ensures your right not to be so torn. And a select few find themselves dying for that each day. When Hitler came calling, the British didn't offer tea, I think we're better off for it.
True, but we have to remember that these people were dealing with a nascent technology under the most trying of circumstances. Good, decent, smart men (like Dr. Wood) honestly believed that it was not only useful, but necessary to continue to develop useful swords to plowshares technology for the survival of their nation and their way of life.
A great deal of research and technology flowed indirectly from the various bomb and missile programs into our daily lives, without---or despite---the efforts to corral and use the technology directly for "peaceful" purposes.
Still, as an Alaskan, I'm pretty glad they didn't nuke Cape Thompson. But maybe that cesspool at the end of Cook Inlet might've been a good idea...
This is such a simple problem I can't believe it continues to get press coverage. We live in a diverse, multicultural, multilateral world where the only real solutions embrace differences, ensure a variety of viewpoints are considered, and support disparate prescriptive valuations of action. In particular, we must support each asteroid's sovereign right of self determination vis a vis its trajectory through space-time. Until such a time as it can be conclusively shown that an asteroid does in fact possess a trajectory of mass destruction and has not undertaken the development of a process to resolve conflicts surrounding its alleged path, we cannot act lest we forsake the principles of multilateralism and state sovereignty that have produced peace, prosperity, and harmony throughout the world for the last fifty years.
Once we are convinced of the need for action we must move swiftly and justly. A multiculturally diverse team of right-minded trajectory-of-mass destruction inspectors should---with the approval of the asteroid's leaders---undertake a thorough, unbiased appraisal of the asteroids' pathway from within the asteroid's borders. Should confirmation of an infringing trajectory be considered probable in an objective, unbiased appraisal by the team of inspectors, the body authorizing the mission should react quickly to form a commission investigating means by which a crisis might be avoided. These will be subject to the validation and authorization of a team of experts appointed for this purpose; these experts shall be culled from a socio-economically diverse pool of culturally unbiased individuals selected to ensure gender and race norms that correct for past injustice and bias. It is of the utmost importance that we endeavor to understand how we ourselves have brought about the environment in which an asteroid might find it necessary to destroy us; it is only through such understanding that we can develop a process that will prevent this asteroid from destroying us and, more importantly, ensure that future asteroids are not subject to the same oppression, humiliation, and denial that breeds destructive tendencies.
Both "news" stories are from an agenda-driven web site and read more like propaganda press releases than real news stores. Hemos was either asleep at the switch or has an axe to grind. Regardless, this is just nonsense.
I don't really understand the "I did this google search..." part of the post. Who was Bush supposed to appoint, some retard that can't read, spell, or understand simple plant cultivation? If there's a job with those requirements, "Anonymous Cowdog" should submit his resume & you could be his travelling secretary.
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Carry on as you please, you pranksters; roar with delight and malice--or dive again, pouring your emeralds into the deepest depths, and cast your edless white manes of foam and spray over them--everything suits me, for everything suits you so well, and I am so well disposed toward you for everything: how could I think of betraying you! For--heed it well!--I know you and your secret, I know your kind! You and I--are we not of one kind? You and I--do we not have one secret?
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His history is interesting, but not definitive and not necessarily accurate. There was, for instance, a UNIX port to Lisa hardware somewhere in there. The Apple Library was full of strange documentation on micro-kernel projects (e.g., Vanguard) from as early as the mid eighties. They might be over at Stanford now, or buried off of Caribbean drive next to Weird Stuff.
"Copland" and "Gershwin" were external code names. The corresponding internal code names were "Maxwell" and "Marconi". The "Maxwell" effort was spread throughout the company with different components being in different stages of readiness. System 7 languished without updates (to the UI in particular) due to withholding features to appear in an "imminent" Maxwell release. There were a number of seeded releases; the first general Developer's Release (DR1), however, was never mailed to customers---the CD jackets sat in an empty office for 12 months.
Maxwell was too ambitious a project for the Apple of 1990-98. It never would have shipped. The technical ideas and underpinnings were good, but Management was risk adverse & development was so spread-out and balkanized there was little hope of a release unless some massively-gifted leader came forth to unify the effort.
Gil Amelio wasn't that guy. Neither was his pick to run engineering (who's name escapes me). Neither understood Apple and neither knew what the hell to do with their $10,000,000,000 company. Many months were spent considering weird operating system options. Rumors of the new OS direction were constantly flying (one week the rumor was "Chrysalis"---a winnowed-down version of the Solaris kernel---would serve as the new MacOS's kernel), but Amelio & friends never communicated effectively or established a direction. People kept working on technologies associated with the dead Maxwell project and the sands shifted around them.
(This shouldn't be viewed as an indictment of Amelio. He and his team could not lead a company like Apple, its employees and customers were so foreign to them that they were often perplexed when they weren't outright lost. Amelio did some useful stuff in a kind of "distant uncle" sort of way: he put an end to the Maxwell daydreaming and prepared the kids for a downward trajectory that happened to intersect that of another down-on-its luck computer company.)
That Apple survived---even in significantly reduced form---is amazing. That it remained an independent company and returned as an innovative force in the industry, is astounding. Now that there is a stable underpinning to the new OS, I hope someone treks over to the Santa Clara landfill, Stanford Library, or Apple SCM & reads through the (huge number of) Maxwell/Marconi requirements and design documents; there's some gold in there.
Well, I guess not since nobody did...
But McCarthy was an unfortunate combination of those things that make a juicy target for the opposition.
And so were a bunch of other government officials. It's a shame that there was no competent, professional, systematic elimination of those elements from the western security apparatus; instead we got boneheads like McCarthy...
Enough members of the western scientific and diplomatic communities were enraptured by Leninist/Stalinist dogma to further infect and destroy two generations of leadership. Western society teetered on a brink for a lot longer than it needed to because of it.
Cute, but being friendly only works when you're dealing with people who have an interest in being friendly, too. When you're dealing with folks who want to destroy you, your lifestyle, your society, and the underpinnings thereof, it doesn't serve you well.
Vietnam and "Palestine" are poor examples of "roll[ing] all your weapons and killing machines over a nation" for many reasons. The Israelis have not used all of their weapons in combating the "palestinian" terrorists who kill ruthlessly---albeit primitively---on an almost daily basis. The Americans never really committed to Vietnam. Had they, it probably wouldn't be a communist state whose residents flee at the least chance.
While you might wish to be torn to shreds, others value the society that ensures your right not to be so torn. And a select few find themselves dying for that each day. When Hitler came calling, the British didn't offer tea, I think we're better off for it.
True, but we have to remember that these people were dealing with a nascent technology under the most trying of circumstances. Good, decent, smart men (like Dr. Wood) honestly believed that it was not only useful, but necessary to continue to develop useful swords to plowshares technology for the survival of their nation and their way of life.
A great deal of research and technology flowed indirectly from the various bomb and missile programs into our daily lives, without---or despite---the efforts to corral and use the technology directly for "peaceful" purposes.
Still, as an Alaskan, I'm pretty glad they didn't nuke Cape Thompson. But maybe that cesspool at the end of Cook Inlet might've been a good idea...
This is such a simple problem I can't believe it continues to get press coverage. We live in a diverse, multicultural, multilateral world where the only real solutions embrace differences, ensure a variety of viewpoints are considered, and support disparate prescriptive valuations of action. In particular, we must support each asteroid's sovereign right of self determination vis a vis its trajectory through space-time. Until such a time as it can be conclusively shown that an asteroid does in fact possess a trajectory of mass destruction and has not undertaken the development of a process to resolve conflicts surrounding its alleged path, we cannot act lest we forsake the principles of multilateralism and state sovereignty that have produced peace, prosperity, and harmony throughout the world for the last fifty years.
Once we are convinced of the need for action we must move swiftly and justly. A multiculturally diverse team of right-minded trajectory-of-mass destruction inspectors should---with the approval of the asteroid's leaders---undertake a thorough, unbiased appraisal of the asteroids' pathway from within the asteroid's borders. Should confirmation of an infringing trajectory be considered probable in an objective, unbiased appraisal by the team of inspectors, the body authorizing the mission should react quickly to form a commission investigating means by which a crisis might be avoided. These will be subject to the validation and authorization of a team of experts appointed for this purpose; these experts shall be culled from a socio-economically diverse pool of culturally unbiased individuals selected to ensure gender and race norms that correct for past injustice and bias. It is of the utmost importance that we endeavor to understand how we ourselves have brought about the environment in which an asteroid might find it necessary to destroy us; it is only through such understanding that we can develop a process that will prevent this asteroid from destroying us and, more importantly, ensure that future asteroids are not subject to the same oppression, humiliation, and denial that breeds destructive tendencies.
Caution is right. The genes didn't jump anywhere.
Both "news" stories are from an agenda-driven web site and read more like propaganda press releases than real news stores. Hemos was either asleep at the switch or has an axe to grind. Regardless, this is just nonsense.
I don't really understand the "I did this google search..." part of the post. Who was Bush supposed to appoint, some retard that can't read, spell, or understand simple plant cultivation? If there's a job with those requirements, "Anonymous Cowdog" should submit his resume & you could be his travelling secretary.
Carry on as you please, you pranksters; roar with delight and malice--or dive again, pouring your emeralds into the deepest depths, and cast your edless white manes of foam and spray over them--everything suits me, for everything suits you so well, and I am so well disposed toward you for everything: how could I think of betraying you! For--heed it well!--I know you and your secret, I know your kind! You and I--are we not of one kind? You and I--do we not have one secret?
---NietzscheIt's early on for Movielink, but in its initial incarnation, its strictly Windows & Strictly IE. If you try anything else, you'll get:
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"Bay Aryan" was a little too obvious.