No doubt, loosing jobs is never a good thing. However, unlike factory labor, employers are forced to educate programmers. With factory labor education is highly discouraged.
Individuals in "3rd world" nations have to be literate, know english, understand higher math, etc in order to become an application programmer. Yet on the other hand, individuals that work in textile and auto manufacturing are given lengthly schedules and small pay checks that prevent them from being able to go to school. Children and adults can't afford the time or the money to attend something as simple as a public school.
Heck, many mexican manufacturers, which manufacture good for US based companies, force their female employees to take abortion pills or injections should they happen to get pregnant. Seriously. If they don't do it they'll usually be fired or beaten. Or they might simply 'disappear' on the walk home from work.
I really don't see how loosing tech jobs to tech-sweatshops is a bad thing. Tech work, unlike factory work, will actually educate people and give them options in life. Factories produce a horrible infinity-loop of cruelty and oppression that needs to be stopped.
Furthermore, as we've already seen, folks that are innovating are not farming out their work. Farmed work can actually cause a lot of problems for folks that are trying to make high quality products. Look at Quark and Macromedia. Their software now has more bugs and a much slower release schedule. As a result they are loosing customers.
The speed could be infinite. IBMs new complier is powered by rainbows, dreams, wishes, magic gumdrop sprinkles, and imagination. Theoretically speaking, you could bypass the rainbows, dreams, and wishes; while using a wrapper to off-load the burden of the magic gumdrop sprinkles to the flux capacitor. Then you could primarily focus your development on imagination... which would allow you to compile and run applications at a speed predetermined by your imagination.
I've also heard that the wishes and dreams can be fairly powerful tools as well. However, results may vary due to unfulfilled wishes and crushed dreams.
Well, when you have Photoshop, GoLive, Illustrator, BBEdit, iTunes, Mail, iChat, Safari, Mozilla, RBrowser, MacCVS, etc all open the same time... second processor becomes very very handy.
I typically never noticed the benefits of an MP box until I start doing web development or design on a single processor system. There are noticeable delays when switching between tasks... even on a fast machine.
But, hey, Apple has been selling MP boxes for years now. There are a lot of applications and games that take advantage of SMP on OSX.
Buying an MP system from Apple was the best thing I ever did. My Dual 450 g4 still feels like new to me (as long as I'm not playing games)... even with modern software.
No doubt, longhorn has a lot of polished widgets, images, etc... however the UI is cluttered and inconsistent. When I look at those screenshots I have to think about how things are supposed to work, as opposed to simply knowing how things work.
MS needs to look at what Apple is doing. Longhorn is a mess.
Now, I'm a geek with a Soc degree... And I think Microsoft is simply wasting their time studying news groups and BBs. For some stupid reason government and corporations only hire sociologist for BS two-bit studies with fairly insignificant or irrelevant findings.
What is Microsoft going to get out of this data? A new chat or email client? New MSN features? A fancy new search engine? New task bar icons with even more dialog bubbles that alert me every 5 minutes? Whoopdy freak'n do da!:/
(pssss... Microsoft... that should be the least of your concerns right now)
MS should hire more then one sociologist and have them analyze their product distribution / development model and Windows usability. Microsoft currently produces a fairly annoying operating system in an extremely inefficient way. Moreover, Microsoft's current tactics are the cause of a lot of lost money for that company.
Why not get some sociologists to look at Microsoft's business model, Microsoft's products, and the development of Microsoft's products? Microsoft could become a socially responsible company (and no, donating to a charity does not make up for all of the BS Microsoft does); Microsoft could have happy customers (like "Apple" happy... not "my computer hasn't crashed this month" happy); Microsoft's software could have fewer problems; and Microsoft could stop wasting money on multimillion dollar law suits that they bring upon themselves.
Business degrees, consultants, lawyers, and a few UI psychologists are not enough. They're another dynamic out there that MS is missing.
But hey, if MS wants to keep wasting money and keep pissing people off... by all means, they should keep doing what they're doing. It's only going get worse.
They're called Cluster Bombs... they're condemned by the UN, but we use them anyway. We used them in Afghanistan and killed thousands of innocent people.
They're really like a big'ol pinata filled with death instead of candy. They are incredibly inaccurate, and their un-detonated payloads look surprisingly a lot like the food packages that we air drop. ("ohh, finally, food.... -BOOM-)
Cluster Bombs are really the complete opposite of the bombs being talked about here on/.
Yes, I understand this is now fairly off topic and troll-ish; however I've had fairly good Karma for a few years. Allow me this small rant:) ---
Please. As for "liberal news." Personally, I think whether or not a media organization is conservative or liberal is irrelevant. Good information should have sound hypothesis' that are tested with the scientific method to the best of the researchers ability. Facts are neither conservative or liberal. They offer dates, motivations, actions, and outcomes.
I find it hard to believe that it is possible for this research process to take place when the organization that is conducting the the research is a) limiting itself to channels of data (ie you just can't get all of your military info from military PR guys, or hippies with picket signs) b) not allowed to show affiliates / sponsors within a bad light when they me be a possible variable and c) and told to focus on certain information when it is of befit to the media organizations profits.
But, shess, what would I know. I'm only someone with a political sociology degree, and extensive experience of research methods.
But as for Iraq, if you seriously think that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 then you need to look into some different media channels (perhaps some academic journals from infotrac or ebsco's web sites). Read up on why Bin Laden was exiled from Saudi Arabia; the US presence in Saudi Arabia, and our post WWII energy relationship the Saudi Monarchy.
Why this info isn't talked about on the 24 news channels...i don't know. But it there, it's interesting, you can hopefully avoid a lot of bias, and you're free to draw possible conclusions about our relationship with the middle east.
It's funny how Fox News is the most watched 24 hour news channel, as well as the news channel that -constantly- brags about being "the only 24 hour news channel to give you all sides of the story".
In reality, Fox news is no more then the channel with the best 'breaking news' graphics and most opinionated retards who fail to reference facts and/or (gasp) academic research.
Fox News is geared toward those who are ignorant, those who are malformed, and those who like to pay attention to shinny / loud things.
Fox News would never dare discus criminal offenses that could be in connection to their precious sponsors, board members, etc.
Yet, I see no reason why choice has to be sacrificed for standards when choice is taken into account during the development of standards (the mozilla project has quite a few examples of this). Moreover, I don't see why standards should be feared when they are developed in an open & democratic way.
All in all, if we are concerned about getting Linux onto Joe Average's desktop, it's not going to happen until file viewers, installers, and access to basic system functions/resources have a common workflow are more tightly integrated into the core OS. End users should be given the choice to opt for default GUI standards that have been established by some sort of consortium or group. These options should allow complete functionality without having to resort to a CLI. Moreover general installers/uninstallers, general navigation, and usability research should be incorporated into this default GUI. Choice for us geeks doesn't necessarily translate into choice for everyone else.
Now, I noticed that you compared OS X's GUI to Windows. Both OS's provide general users with a general UI that provided GUI access to just about every single system function. However Windows tends to go overboard and offer a lot of limitations. With OS X you don't have to use Apple's default web browser, file viewer, user interface, window manger, etc. You can download a different browser (however OS X comes with 2), use Apple's multiple file viewing options, download a completely different file viewer (heck there's even a 3d open GL file viewer), install Fink and then install KDE or Gnome, boot up into a CLI, view the CLI through a shell, etc etc.
The point is that there is a basic UI that exists for average computer users. You never have to use it if you don't want to.... but it's there. That's a choice that Linux lacks right now.
I's funny how the linux community tends to embrace hundreds of standards... yet no one is seemingly able to get the GUI geeks to come together to for some sort of Linux UI standards consortium.
Linux will never be as usable (GUI wise) as MacOS or Windows until a standard GUI path is chosen and development proceeds with tight integration to the core OS.
Right now everyone seems to be caught up in this "my software works better then yours" BS.
I've never had a problem with Apple desktops. Typically if something is going to crap out it is going to happen within the first few months. If your Apple desktop will make it through 1 year it will probably live to see the next 20 (or until it is turned into a Macquarium and sold on ebay)
However, laptops are different. The whole thing is a moving part;) Pixels die, optical drives get tweaked out of whack, power cords get tripped on, etc etc.
I might hold off on Apple care for an iBook since those are fairly durable... however I always get it for TiBooks (actually AiBooks now).
What about the postscript desktop?
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No doubt, my knowledge of 3D APIs and hardware is pathetic; however, what exactly do you mean by "fully OpenGL desktop"?
I thought Apple's intentions were to give users a postscript desktop. OpenGL is simply a window to unused 3D hardware that could be used in place of an expensive proprietary postscript coprocessor (ie; like those old NExT cubes).
Isn't quartz extreme no more than an openGL wrapper?
CRTs are not going away anytime soon. Sony and Mitsubishi will be making these things for a while. Nice CRTs still have much better focus, color accuracy, and pixel response times then LCDs.
It is technically impossible for LCDs to have the same quality potential that CRTs have. Moreover, CRTs are a lot cheeper... and you literally get more for less.
But if you do have a disability, have you ever tried an OS X machine with 'Zoom' enabled? It uses quartz to scale the desktop and therefore you don't need to change resolutions.
Here, this is from Apple: "Hardware-specific code still exists in firmware (ROM) in order to handle the computer's start-up activities. This code fits into one ROM called the Boot ROM. The Boot ROM has the hardware-specific code and description of the hardware needed to start up the computer, as well as to boot an OS and provide common hardware access services the OS might require. One part of the Boot ROM contains Open Firmware. This Open Firmware implementation is significantly improved over versions of Open Firmware found on older PCI-based Macintosh computers. In particular, the device tree and Open Firmware drivers are much more complete." http://developer.apple.com/technotes/t n/tn1167.htm l#Section1
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ehhh. Ya but this means Windows users won't really get any major new features for the next 1.5 to 2 years.
No doubt, loosing jobs is never a good thing. However, unlike factory labor, employers are forced to educate programmers. With factory labor education is highly discouraged.
Individuals in "3rd world" nations have to be literate, know english, understand higher math, etc in order to become an application programmer. Yet on the other hand, individuals that work in textile and auto manufacturing are given lengthly schedules and small pay checks that prevent them from being able to go to school. Children and adults can't afford the time or the money to attend something as simple as a public school.
Heck, many mexican manufacturers, which manufacture good for US based companies, force their female employees to take abortion pills or injections should they happen to get pregnant. Seriously. If they don't do it they'll usually be fired or beaten. Or they might simply 'disappear' on the walk home from work.
I really don't see how loosing tech jobs to tech-sweatshops is a bad thing. Tech work, unlike factory work, will actually educate people and give them options in life. Factories produce a horrible infinity-loop of cruelty and oppression that needs to be stopped.
Furthermore, as we've already seen, folks that are innovating are not farming out their work. Farmed work can actually cause a lot of problems for folks that are trying to make high quality products. Look at Quark and Macromedia. Their software now has more bugs and a much slower release schedule. As a result they are loosing customers.
The speed could be infinite. IBMs new complier is powered by rainbows, dreams, wishes, magic gumdrop sprinkles, and imagination. Theoretically speaking, you could bypass the rainbows, dreams, and wishes; while using a wrapper to off-load the burden of the magic gumdrop sprinkles to the flux capacitor. Then you could primarily focus your development on imagination... which would allow you to compile and run applications at a speed predetermined by your imagination.
I've also heard that the wishes and dreams can be fairly powerful tools as well. However, results may vary due to unfulfilled wishes and crushed dreams.
Well, when you have Photoshop, GoLive, Illustrator, BBEdit, iTunes, Mail, iChat, Safari, Mozilla, RBrowser, MacCVS, etc all open the same time... second processor becomes very very handy.
I typically never noticed the benefits of an MP box until I start doing web development or design on a single processor system. There are noticeable delays when switching between tasks... even on a fast machine.
But, hey, Apple has been selling MP boxes for years now. There are a lot of applications and games that take advantage of SMP on OSX.
Buying an MP system from Apple was the best thing I ever did. My Dual 450 g4 still feels like new to me (as long as I'm not playing games)... even with modern software.
they should tax extension cords too
Personally, I think it's the whole trying to 'charge for linux' that's getting you all the bad press.
No doubt, longhorn has a lot of polished widgets, images, etc... however the UI is cluttered and inconsistent. When I look at those screenshots I have to think about how things are supposed to work, as opposed to simply knowing how things work.
MS needs to look at what Apple is doing. Longhorn is a mess.
Download VLC for Windows, Linux, or OS X
:)
www.videolan.org
That's all I have to say
Now, I'm a geek with a Soc degree...
:/
And I think Microsoft is simply wasting their time studying news groups and BBs. For some stupid reason government and corporations only hire sociologist for BS two-bit studies with fairly insignificant or irrelevant findings.
What is Microsoft going to get out of this data? A new chat or email client? New MSN features? A fancy new search engine? New task bar icons with even more dialog bubbles that alert me every 5 minutes? Whoopdy freak'n do da!
(pssss... Microsoft... that should be the least of your concerns right now)
MS should hire more then one sociologist and have them analyze their product distribution / development model and Windows usability. Microsoft currently produces a fairly annoying operating system in an extremely inefficient way. Moreover, Microsoft's current tactics are the cause of a lot of lost money for that company.
Why not get some sociologists to look at Microsoft's business model, Microsoft's products, and the development of Microsoft's products? Microsoft could become a socially responsible company (and no, donating to a charity does not make up for all of the BS Microsoft does); Microsoft could have happy customers (like "Apple" happy... not "my computer hasn't crashed this month" happy); Microsoft's software could have fewer problems; and Microsoft could stop wasting money on multimillion dollar law suits that they bring upon themselves.
Business degrees, consultants, lawyers, and a few UI psychologists are not enough. They're another dynamic out there that MS is missing.
But hey, if MS wants to keep wasting money and keep pissing people off... by all means, they should keep doing what they're doing. It's only going get worse.
well... I posted that. And I didn't even know that was form futurama.
;)
Remember, sometimes a cigar is simply a cigar
I second that emotion.
They're called Cluster Bombs... they're condemned by the UN, but we use them anyway. We used them in Afghanistan and killed thousands of innocent people.
/.
They're really like a big'ol pinata filled with death instead of candy. They are incredibly inaccurate, and their un-detonated payloads look surprisingly a lot like the food packages that we air drop. ("ohh, finally, food.... -BOOM-)
Cluster Bombs are really the complete opposite of the bombs being talked about here on
Yes, I understand this is now fairly off topic and troll-ish; however I've had fairly good Karma for a few years. Allow me this small rant :)
---
Please.
As for "liberal news." Personally, I think whether or not a media organization is conservative or liberal is irrelevant. Good information should have sound hypothesis' that are tested with the scientific method to the best of the researchers ability. Facts are neither conservative or liberal. They offer dates, motivations, actions, and outcomes.
I find it hard to believe that it is possible for this research process to take place when the organization that is conducting the the research is a) limiting itself to channels of data (ie you just can't get all of your military info from military PR guys, or hippies with picket signs) b) not allowed to show affiliates / sponsors within a bad light when they me be a possible variable and c) and told to focus on certain information when it is of befit to the media organizations profits.
But, shess, what would I know. I'm only someone with a political sociology degree, and extensive experience of research methods.
But as for Iraq, if you seriously think that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 then you need to look into some different media channels (perhaps some academic journals from infotrac or ebsco's web sites). Read up on why Bin Laden was exiled from Saudi Arabia; the US presence in Saudi Arabia, and our post WWII energy relationship the Saudi Monarchy.
Why this info isn't talked about on the 24 news channels...i don't know. But it there, it's interesting, you can hopefully avoid a lot of bias, and you're free to draw possible conclusions about our relationship with the middle east.
Mac OS X users might want to try "Audio Hijack"...
;)
It'll let you record audio from just about any application.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/
It's really a great way to save high quality streaming Mp3, Real, WMP, and Quicktime audio. It's also a good way to pull sound bites from video
It's funny how Fox News is the most watched 24 hour news channel, as well as the news channel that -constantly- brags about being "the only 24 hour news channel to give you all sides of the story".
In reality, Fox news is no more then the channel with the best 'breaking news' graphics and most opinionated retards who fail to reference facts and/or (gasp) academic research.
Fox News is geared toward those who are ignorant, those who are malformed, and those who like to pay attention to shinny / loud things.
Fox News would never dare discus criminal offenses that could be in connection to their precious sponsors, board members, etc.
How 'bout this?
e s_ devideon_soft
http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_driv
No, I understand that,
Yet, I see no reason why choice has to be sacrificed for standards when choice is taken into account during the development of standards (the mozilla project has quite a few examples of this). Moreover, I don't see why standards should be feared when they are developed in an open & democratic way.
All in all, if we are concerned about getting Linux onto Joe Average's desktop, it's not going to happen until file viewers, installers, and access to basic system functions/resources have a common workflow are more tightly integrated into the core OS. End users should be given the choice to opt for default GUI standards that have been established by some sort of consortium or group. These options should allow complete functionality without having to resort to a CLI. Moreover general installers/uninstallers, general navigation, and usability research should be incorporated into this default GUI. Choice for us geeks doesn't necessarily translate into choice for everyone else.
Now, I noticed that you compared OS X's GUI to Windows. Both OS's provide general users with a general UI that provided GUI access to just about every single system function. However Windows tends to go overboard and offer a lot of limitations. With OS X you don't have to use Apple's default web browser, file viewer, user interface, window manger, etc. You can download a different browser (however OS X comes with 2), use Apple's multiple file viewing options, download a completely different file viewer (heck there's even a 3d open GL file viewer), install Fink and then install KDE or Gnome, boot up into a CLI, view the CLI through a shell, etc etc.
The point is that there is a basic UI that exists for average computer users. You never have to use it if you don't want to.... but it's there. That's a choice that Linux lacks right now.
I's funny how the linux community tends to embrace hundreds of standards... yet no one is seemingly able to get the GUI geeks to come together to for some sort of Linux UI standards consortium.
Linux will never be as usable (GUI wise) as MacOS or Windows until a standard GUI path is chosen and development proceeds with tight integration to the core OS.
Right now everyone seems to be caught up in this "my software works better then yours" BS.
You should be PUNished for that bad pun ;)
Interesting... so how exactly does postscript/pdf play into this?
I've never had a problem with Apple desktops. Typically if something is going to crap out it is going to happen within the first few months. If your Apple desktop will make it through 1 year it will probably live to see the next 20 (or until it is turned into a Macquarium and sold on ebay)
;) Pixels die, optical drives get tweaked out of whack, power cords get tripped on, etc etc.
However, laptops are different. The whole thing is a moving part
I might hold off on Apple care for an iBook since those are fairly durable... however I always get it for TiBooks (actually AiBooks now).
No doubt, my knowledge of 3D APIs and hardware is pathetic; however, what exactly do you mean by "fully OpenGL desktop"?
I thought Apple's intentions were to give users a postscript desktop. OpenGL is simply a window to unused 3D hardware that could be used in place of an expensive proprietary postscript coprocessor (ie; like those old NExT cubes).
Isn't quartz extreme no more than an openGL wrapper?
Ya, but your music would sound fairly horrible since it had been compressed twice.
CRTs are not going away anytime soon. Sony and Mitsubishi will be making these things for a while. Nice CRTs still have much better focus, color accuracy, and pixel response times then LCDs.
It is technically impossible for LCDs to have the same quality potential that CRTs have. Moreover, CRTs are a lot cheeper... and you literally get more for less.
But if you do have a disability, have you ever tried an OS X machine with 'Zoom' enabled? It uses quartz to scale the desktop and therefore you don't need to change resolutions.
No dude... you're wrong.
t n/tn1167.htm l#Section1
Here, this is from Apple:
"Hardware-specific code still exists in firmware (ROM) in order to handle the computer's start-up activities. This code fits into one ROM called the Boot ROM. The Boot ROM has the hardware-specific code and description of the hardware needed to start up the computer, as well as to boot an OS and provide common hardware access services the OS might require. One part of the Boot ROM contains Open Firmware. This Open Firmware implementation is significantly improved over versions of Open Firmware found on older PCI-based Macintosh computers. In particular, the device tree and Open Firmware drivers are much more complete."
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/