I guess I'm less picky. As long as I have my favourite tools available, I can work. All the chairs in Sun buildings are adjustable & quite comfortable. My Powerbook's 15 inch widescreen is big enough for my use, although the 20 inchers attached to the Sunrays do offer more screen real estate.
Anyway, the neat thing about the Java cards is that you don't have to recreate everything each morning because when you pull the card out of the Sunray, your session is frozen & when you stick it into another Sunray later the session is restored with all the running apps & files open exactly the way they were when you froze the session.
I'm one of those roaming Sun employees now and it actually seems to work quite well. In addition to the JavaCards that lets employees log into a SunRay and work from any Sun building, most of us have laptops that can be plugged into the network - Most Sun locations offer wireless too - when we need to sync code or check corporate email and such, while still allowing us to work on them without having to physically be in a Sun building. I've tried working from home as well as in a public library with free Net access for laptops, both with much success.
My team still meets weekly for lunch discussions but the rest of the time we use IM and email - with the occasional cellphone call - to communicate quite effectively. Today's generation of young University kids grew up on IM so they will have little difficulty adapting to using it over face-to-face contact with co-workers.
Aaaugh! You managed to misspell 'precedent' two different ways in your post. This would be acceptable from one whose native language is not English. However, your website indicates otherwise. You should really read what you have written before you hit that 'submit' button. While a few typos here and there can be overlooked, posts containing more than a few misspelled words tend to make their writers look uneducated.
I hope that the recent corporate scandals (Enron, Arthur Anderson, Worldcom, Johnson'n'Johnson) will force people to realize that they can't assume everyone will always follow the rules. There needs to be a reliable & convenient means of verifying that rules are followed or people will break them, hoping they won't be caught. If these 4 giant multinationals could get away with accounting malpractice of such magnitude for this long, there are bound to be others doing the same who haven't been exposed yet.
Similarly, unless it can be proven to the voting population that the election process works as advertised, they should not accept any claims that it does so at face value. Doing so is just begging to be scammed by people willing to take the small risk of being found out, especially when the prize is, in many cases, a great deal of political power.
Despite being a complete hack, the legacy MacOS was susprisingly stable under typical conditions. I have an old M68K Mac running MacOS 7.1 with MS Office and a few other small apps on it. People who have criticised MacOS for not having protected memory get invited to try & crash the machine. Many have tried and all have given up in frustration.
I didn't expect it to hold up this well because I know exactly how big a risk a lack of protected memory on a system running more than one program. However, this machine stands as a testament to how well a badly designed but well written system can stand up to tortue.
It's nice to know that the Woz is going to be formally immortalized in this way, although I'm sure he would live on forever in any case. Although he has been eclipsed by the iSteve in the public eye, Woz remains the true unsung hero behind the personal computing revolution.
Here in Canada, with only 30 million people, we have one of the lowest bandwidth costs in the world! I use ADSL for $35 Canadian/month (which is about $23 US) but I used to have an unlimited dialup connection for $12/month (also Canadian - aprox. $8 US). So, I don't see why a small pop. should make that much of a difference in a deregulated economy... Hell, we have better rates here than most yanks do!
The article mentions that Q will be touting the fact that Tru64 is binary compatible with Linux. How is this possible? Even if Tru64 uses the ELF format, there is still no way it can be binary compatible with an OS that runs on completely different hardware! Did he intend to say source compatible, which is not too far fetched, as most Unix systems are source compatible with each other thanks to POSIX?
What do you think these people are? Some kind of hive mind? Did you not conside that they will all have their own individual preferences, just as geeks in developed nations do?
Porting Mac software to another Unix will still be hard because most Unix systems use X, while the Mac software will be written to use Apple's new GUI API.
This will be the 1st time that a truly user-friendly Unix system will be publicly available. If Apple were 100% committed to their hardware, they wpould not have released Darwin. How about 95% committed? The other very important thing thet Mac users get is protected memory, which is sorely needed.
I think that for a successful transition to the new standard language, it will have to follow some sort of progression path from English, Mandarin & French the same way that java was designed to be familiar to C++ coders while simultaneously incorporating a host of new features.
No, you DO NOT have to use X with a 1 button mouse! 2, 3 & even 4 button mice are available for the Mac. Try not to post such condescending messages about topics that you have no knowledge of.
The politicians rarely pay any attention to what the geeks think. Now that the elections are drawing near, they want to convince the heads of the large tech companies that "they care". It's the same ballyhoo that they've always done. How many politicians do you think have ever used Linux, written a Hello World program or troubleshot a network?
BSD is less well-known than Linux (or GNU/Linux if you prefer) but it is a slightly more reliable OS and since it is binary compatible with Linux, there is no major shortage of apps for it (although I'm not sure if KDE and GNOME will run on it). My point, however, is that once people become familiar with Linux, it is relatively easy to switch over to one of the BSD variants. I think that once Linux has completed it's transition to a 'mainstream' OS, BSD will recieve more publicity.
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Google's Picassa is a great free image management tool.
I guess I'm less picky. As long as I have my favourite tools available, I can work. All the chairs in Sun buildings are adjustable & quite comfortable. My Powerbook's 15 inch widescreen is big enough for my use, although the 20 inchers attached to the Sunrays do offer more screen real estate.
:-)
Anyway, the neat thing about the Java cards is that you don't have to recreate everything each morning because when you pull the card out of the Sunray, your session is frozen & when you stick it into another Sunray later the session is restored with all the running apps & files open exactly the way they were when you froze the session.
Good luck with your new job
Actually, most of us use Apple Powerbooks :-)
They're fantastic for Java development.
Yeah, they work fine now.
I'm one of those roaming Sun employees now and it actually seems to work quite well. In addition to the JavaCards that lets employees log into a SunRay and work from any Sun building, most of us have laptops that can be plugged into the network - Most Sun locations offer wireless too - when we need to sync code or check corporate email and such, while still allowing us to work on them without having to physically be in a Sun building. I've tried working from home as well as in a public library with free Net access for laptops, both with much success.
My team still meets weekly for lunch discussions but the rest of the time we use IM and email - with the occasional cellphone call - to communicate quite effectively. Today's generation of young University kids grew up on IM so they will have little difficulty adapting to using it over face-to-face contact with co-workers.
The Dell is missing Firewire & USB 2.0
That's a different matter altogether. Jay Peak & SOul Ride are NOT the same thing.
Aaaugh! You managed to misspell 'precedent' two different ways in your post. This would be acceptable from one whose native language is not English. However, your website indicates otherwise. You should really read what you have written before you hit that 'submit' button. While a few typos here and there can be overlooked, posts containing more than a few misspelled words tend to make their writers look uneducated.
I hope that the recent corporate scandals (Enron, Arthur Anderson, Worldcom, Johnson'n'Johnson) will force people to realize that they can't assume everyone will always follow the rules. There needs to be a reliable & convenient means of verifying that rules are followed or people will break them, hoping they won't be caught. If these 4 giant multinationals could get away with accounting malpractice of such magnitude for this long, there are bound to be others doing the same who haven't been exposed yet.
Similarly, unless it can be proven to the voting population that the election process works as advertised, they should not accept any claims that it does so at face value. Doing so is just begging to be scammed by people willing to take the small risk of being found out, especially when the prize is, in many cases, a great deal of political power.
Despite being a complete hack, the legacy MacOS was susprisingly stable under typical conditions. I have an old M68K Mac running MacOS 7.1 with MS Office and a few other small apps on it. People who have criticised MacOS for not having protected memory get invited to try & crash the machine. Many have tried and all have given up in frustration.
I didn't expect it to hold up this well because I know exactly how big a risk a lack of protected memory on a system running more than one program. However, this machine stands as a testament to how well a badly designed but well written system can stand up to tortue.
If you look at the list of charter members, you will notice that the Apache Foundation is among them.
Although nobody here seems aware of it, Amiga and Tao made a deal with each other earlier this year. Get the details here
It's nice to know that the Woz is going to be formally immortalized in this way, although I'm sure he would live on forever in any case.
Although he has been eclipsed by the iSteve in the public eye, Woz remains the true unsung hero behind the personal computing revolution.
Congratulations Steve!
Here in Canada, with only 30 million people, we have one of the lowest bandwidth costs in the world!
I use ADSL for $35 Canadian/month (which is about $23 US) but I used to have an unlimited dialup connection for $12/month (also Canadian - aprox. $8 US).
So, I don't see why a small pop. should make that much of a difference in a deregulated economy...
Hell, we have better rates here than most yanks do!
The article mentions that Q will be touting the fact that Tru64 is binary compatible with Linux.
How is this possible? Even if Tru64 uses the ELF format, there is still no way it can be binary compatible with an OS that runs on completely different hardware!
Did he intend to say source compatible, which is not too far fetched, as most Unix systems are source compatible with each other thanks to POSIX?
Well, MPEG-4 is just about ready to be published, I believe.
It is markedly different from MPEG-2.
What do you think these people are? Some kind of hive mind?
Did you not conside that they will all have their own individual preferences, just as geeks in developed nations do?
Porting Mac software to another Unix will still be hard because most Unix systems use X, while the Mac software will be written to use Apple's new GUI API.
This will be the 1st time that a truly user-friendly Unix system will be publicly available.
If Apple were 100% committed to their hardware, they wpould not have released Darwin.
How about 95% committed?
The other very important thing thet Mac users get is protected memory, which is sorely needed.
I think that for a successful transition to the new standard language, it will have to follow some sort of progression path from English, Mandarin & French the same way that java was designed to be familiar to C++ coders while simultaneously incorporating a host of new features.
No, you DO NOT have to use X with a 1 button mouse! 2, 3 & even 4 button mice are available for the Mac. Try not to post such condescending messages about topics that you have no knowledge of.
I can't think of any real geek who wouldn't want one of these babies - except someone who has one already.
The politicians rarely pay any attention to what the geeks think. Now that the elections are drawing near, they want to convince the heads of the large tech companies that "they care". It's the same ballyhoo that they've always done. How many politicians do you think have ever used Linux, written a Hello World program or troubleshot a network?
If you were trying to draw me into a flame war, you should have checked to see if I was a yank first, eh.
BSD is less well-known than Linux (or GNU/Linux if you prefer) but it is a slightly more reliable OS and since it is binary compatible with Linux, there is no major shortage of apps for it (although I'm not sure if KDE and GNOME will run on it). My point, however, is that once people become familiar with Linux, it is relatively easy to switch over to one of the BSD variants. I think that once Linux has completed it's transition to a 'mainstream' OS, BSD will recieve more publicity.