Where did you draw the assumption that people aren't using it much? Your rear end? I don't think there's any market data that shows that. Maybe your friends don't, but hell, I do, and I see lots of people using it. Hell -- Google just announced features for ice cream sandwich that match the transcription features of Siri, so Google may have had voice control features, but that's not a one-to-one analog.
Just because SRI demoed a mouse years before the Altos, Mac, or Windows, doesn't mean those computers are interchangeable. Computers and phones are more than feature lists on the side of boxes.
And for the record -- I use Siri all the time - WHILE DRIVING.
Simply put, Xirrus is the brand. They make wireless arrays, which are circular enclosures containing multiple antennas. Their OS is based off of Gentoo Linux, and they support passive capture, multiple SSID's, the ability to map nodes onto a floor plan, integration with internal as well as external RADIUS servers.
Simply badass. They generally target places like schools, hotels, convention centers, etc.. We just bought a bunch at my job (a school) and they simply kick-butt. They are not cheap, but after scouting what's out there, they offer a complete solution which is super easy to maintain and operate.
What? Where did that leap in logic come from? Sun had specific terms around using Java in embedded applications. It appears Google realized that, but perhaps felt by using Dalvik rather than a Sun JRE, they would be avoiding that.
Most mainstream Java programming, involves server-side applications. The outcome of this trial should have no bearing whatsoever on those mainstream uses of Java. At all.
If Java's mainstream appeal will be diminished by anything, it's the rise of alternatives (e.g., ruby, python, c#, etc.).
I don't know if you're spreading FUD, you're uninformed, or you just don't like Oracle. Either way, you're speculation strikes me as wild and baseless.
Is this Steve Balmer's fake account? Xbox a success? Not if you evaluate its impact on the stock (little profit == no big deal).
I think the issue is in there: core competencies. Yes, they've pushed their core competencies as far as they can. That's NOT the issue. The problem is he has not been able to extend them into anything else which can contribute meaningful profits. Phones: no. Gaming: no. Internet properties: no.
They're locked into a slow death march to irrelevance as the world changes around them, and they know it. That's the idea behind reinventing themselves with things like Azure, Kin, Xbox, etc.. I don't know about Azure's impact on profits, but I'd argue it's closer to their core competencies than the rest. The rest may be nice products or clunkers -- it doesn't matter because they're not gaining significant profits.
That is what Ballmer should have been able to accomplish: growing teams which can succeed at expanding Microsoft's core competencies. He's got teams, but those teams have been largely ineffective in terms of adding to the bottom line.
They can't use the excuse of "we got into this business before this stuff seemed dated" excuse 20 years ago to justify their state of suspended animation. If they don't change in 20 years, they'll look more and more like a time capsule from the 1990's (which they kind of already do).
Basically anyone who doesn't want an all-in-one, but doesn't want or can't afford a high end workstation. They have no offerings for that market. Two words: mac mini.
The problem with your argument is that the success of the Xbox is inherently tied to the success of their exclusive titles - specifically Halo (and now perhaps Gears of War). Were it not for those exclusive titles, the Xbox would most likely still be an also ran. This is often true of video game consoles. The parallel statement for music is rarely true - i.e. the iPod is probably not a success because of its exclusive tracks available via the iTunes store. Therefore, even if Microsoft did obtain similar kinds of exclusive content arrangements - as it did with the Xbox - it doesn't seem as if that itself would be enough to change it's current place in the music player marketplace. The dynamics which contributed to the ultimate success of the Xbox platform (and Windows for that matter) don't seem to apply to music players. People aren't buying the iPod because of exclusive content - they buy it because of the device itself.
Umm, sounds like a bad interpretation of Ayn Rand style "objectivism." Why would you guess his reference to efficiency was measured purely by the GDP? It seems as if the GPD is your metric in this case - and exactly the narrow definition the original post was criticizing.
Your gloom and doom scenario of "dumbing down" society having a catastrophic effect is flawed. It is dependent upon your sense of a just society where we are allowed to work less time. Your solipsism ignores the greater issues the original poster was referring to. These "slower" people don't just go away, and by ignoring them and their needs you are creating social problems. Philip Slater referred to this as "the toilet bowl theory" - it's the reason people moved to the suburbs. Societies ills are too difficult to solve, so just ignore them, or move away from them, or pretend they don't exist.
I'm sure you're frustrated that you have to work 40 hours a week because some guy with a GED needs something to do to keep him off the street - but the original poster's argument wasn't addressing GDP - it was pointing out how by ignoring these needs we are deferring their real expense (e.g. unemployment often leads to crime which is more expensive than minimum wage).
And this business about the "pressure to be brilliant" sounds like elitist nonsense. Brilliant people aren't made that way because of society's pressure - they are that way because of development issues. Parental involvement, good schools, good teachers, stimulating opportunities - these things lead to brilliance, not some vague source of social pressure. Children are rarely aware of these social issues in their developmental years, and that's where brilliance emerges - not suddenly in the workplace somewhere in their 20s.
And how is that different than if they hijack the website? Which, by the way, I'd assume would be the case in many scenarios like that since RSS feeds are often served by the same web servers serving a site. It's still an http server.
They're either hacking a server, or hijacking DNS or using some exploit which would still apply to a regular web site - just because the content is received via RSS does not necessarily make any of those scenarios unique to RSS. If somebody hacks Slashdot, and set up a lookalike site which sent malware to unsuspecting readers with lousy browsers and inadequate protection, the result would be the same - RSS itself doesn't present the problem.
Just because RSS readers often fetch content at regular intervals, does not substantially make it different than a user's set of bookmarks which are used frequently - if the source of the content is compromised, it may already be too late if the user isn't aware or is inadequately prepared.
RSS as a format doesn't require all attached enclosures to be automatically downloaded - that would have to be done by a poor implementation of RSS.
... anymore than a browser - as long as RSS is implimented so that the user chooses the RSS feeds to subscribe to.
Email often is the source of malware because email is passive - people are sent email, they don't choose it. Peer to peer as well is often a source of malware - people are exchanging files they believe have content they want and either are unaware of the risks or are willing to take them.
RSS is different than both of these. Unlike email the user has to CHOOSE to receive content via RSS, whereas email is directed towards the user. While it is similar to peer to peer software in that people may exercise poor judgement in selecting sources for RSS, I would think people would ultimately select from far fewer separate sources of content with RSS as opposed to peer to peer scenarios, and there are many sources of good RSS content from well known sources (e.g. Reuters, Slashdot, NYT, Air America, etc.).
How is this any more of a risk than a person visiting a questionable website which downloads malware?
If people are dumb enough to subscribe to questionable feeds without the proper precautions, RSS doesn't make this any easier.
Apparently you missed this article [Wired]. This library happens to be down the road from my job, and as youll notice, theyve been doing this for longer than the folks at the NYC Public Library. Id be curious to see which one is actually used more per capita (hint: I think the shuffles are more popular than the protected WMA files for which most people lack the correct player - per capita, of course).
We started using Subethaedit years ago, starting when it it was originally called Hydra. I work in a high school, and we have carts full of iBooks which we bring to classes. I started using Hydra when it first came out, and suggested to the teacher of our Creative Writing class that it may be useful in his class. We've been using it ever since.
We started using it to work on playwriitng. One child does one person's dialog, another takes another character's dialog, while another will do descriptions, and another will edit and correct.
What makes it work is rendezvous. The kids don't need to know ip addresses or hostnames - only usernames. We can setup several groups at once without making it into a major project.
Aside from the obvious benefits, it creates a transparent opportunity for the kids learn about group dynamics and working together in a way not many classroom activities do. Because the program works so simply, the kids focus on the work without thinking about the process of making it work together. There are other ways of accomplishing this, but nothing that's anywhere as simple as Subethaedit. I'm glad to see people are starting to see the usefulness of this approach. I'm amazed it's taken so long.
This book is amazing - absolutely one of PKD's best. It has a very creepy feel to it. The issues of identity, self, and addiction are brilliantly explored. Linklater hit a major homerun with Waking Life also explores the issues of self and identity brilliantly, using its unique rotoscoped look very effectively to enhance its exploration of these issues, making them in many ways more tangible than a simpler style of animation or a live action film could.
This story using this technique, with Linklater at the helm is BOUND to be amazing. It sounds like peanut butter and chocolate to me....
To top it off, I thought I read that Steven Soderberg is producing this film. While his name is attached to a lot of crappy films, he also made Schizopolis which has to be one of the greatest films ever made (also dealing with issues of self and identity). If you haven't seen it, see it - you're only hurting yourself if you don't....
The problem with all of the analogies to brick and mortar stores and pre-digital music is that unlike b&m, there is no inherent advantage to having more than one store, as long as the store you use has what you want and allow you to use it in an acceptable fashion
Why would I care who the money goes to as a consumer? As long as I get what I want as conveniantly as possible. Rather than a program that lets me go to many stores (which to the customer, would only be distinguished by its invoice), I want a store that has everything I want.
Unlike physical stores, location isn't the issue, and since pricing tends to be similar across the board (with subtle variation) that's not much of an issue either. Selection is an issue, but only if the store you want to use doesn't have what you want?
Think for a second - why do you think the average customer wants a choice of 12 "stores" they can buy the same Brittany Spears song from? The answer is most customers don't care - they just want it to be easy.
I think Apple's move has made a lot of sense. People aren't begging them to use other stores because their store is so much more conveniant (if you already use iTunes, that is) and they probably already have the songs the person wants (if it's available as a legal download at all). Most people don't care too much about where their music money is going (especially if they tend to buy music from the big five labels) - they care about the conveniance of the process. Opening up the formats doesn't achieve that in any way.
The codec (H.263) isn't tied into the server - the buddy system is. However, iChat is very capable of video conferencing over a local area network without the help of any server at all. Rendezvous based messaging looks for buddies using Rendezvous (which is an open standard itself - zeroconf).
If this port wanted to, it could provide support for zeroconf and thereby allow compatibility with iChat clients over Rendezvous.
But the iTMS sells indie artists too, and quite fairly from what the above posts indicate. Perhaps you mistake Apple's attempts to keep it an open store (open in the sense of open to all types of music and books) with the policies of individual labels regarding their artists.
If anything, I'd think it'd be encouraging artists to abandon the major labels (i.e. your big shots in the RIAA) in lieu of the more equitable terms of indie labels. If the artist on the indie gets a fatter cut then the artist on Sony or Warner Brothers or EMI, then it would make more sense for artists to release through an independent label instead, since they both get equal treatment on the iTMS (i.e. they don't take money for better placement as opposed to traditional retail). In that way I see it as an opportunity for the little guy to stand on even ground with the big shots. Also take note that since they permit 30 second previews of all tracks and all tracks can be purchased individually, people have a much greater chance to try something new, perhaps something they never heard of before.
It's most likely that she would LIKE to be a lawyer. Law students are forbidden from giving out legal advice (I only know this because my brother-in-law made a BIG deal about this, and my sister who also went to law school said he was right).
I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar rules in place regarding para-legals or if she happens to be in law school (or aspired to someday).
Free speech is a myth at best. Don't believe me? Go to the movies and shout "fire" - you'll see how free speech is.
Just because you're not aware of her restrictions, doesn't make her a wuss.
Beyond all that, are you saying all of your peers in your field always agree with you? Can't you see how somebody doesn't need to be right just because of their job (or level of study/training/certification/professional status) and how somebody doesn't need a certain job to be right?
Apple's been offering a new OS once a year for $129 for awhile now (since OS 8 I believe), so this is not something new or sneaky. It's a fair price for a great product which you do not need.
However, if you don't want to pay somebody to keep your OS up to date, then you have to do the work yourself. Apt-get or port collections are certainly options, but I'm assuming you're either not familiar with linux or bsd, or you don't want to get muddy trying to learn more about them. They involve work(however theoretically, everything could be run via cron...). Resolving dependencies (for me) is rarely as simple and straightforward as promised. Apple makes updating very simple - especially for a unix derivative OS.
Beyond simply updating packages, KDE and GNOME don't evolve at the same pace as OS X in terms of Aqua as well as it's libraries Cocoa & Carbon. Apple pumps a lot of man hours into working with the user interface (as well as programming interfaces) and trying to constantly evolve it (expose being one visible example). They fund those man hours through your $129.
Is that important to you? No, then fire-up black-box or KDE or GNOME - you can do it using fink right on top of your 10.2.7 (or 10.2.8 rather) if you want, right alongside your Photoshop or your Excel or your Word.
Heck - if you really want to purge yourself, just boot straight to a commandline by logging in as >console and run X11 from the commandline.
But if you want to run a new application which has different requirements then what you currently have (e.g. newer hardware, newer/different OS, more memory, other software, etc.) you will make the choice whether or not this application is truly worth the additional investment of time and energy.
And all that has nothing to do with your hardware problems. If you've got hardware issues, you're covered for 90 days - call Apple and have it taken care of. If it's past 90 days, then the question is why did you wait? Or do you think wear and tear could have contributed? Laptops are so easy to break....
The printer issue sounds weird. Try printing straight over ethernet. If that works, do a software update to make sure you have the latest airport version, then run the airport admin utility in the utilities folder in applications, configure your base station, and see if it prompts you to update itself.
Just email Aspyr about SimCity 4 - they're a great company - they won't let you hang.
Having used it, the video is clean and crisp at speeds slower then 600kbps. I think the author's point was that with comparable bandwidth, you'll get a bigger (maybe not 640x480) and better image with ichat than messenger.
Umm... maybe you didn't look or the tech's down at the district ripped out all the good stuff, but OS X (especially with a new computer) comes with a ton of good useful stuff. Just from the GUI side, if you check out TextEdit, you'll notice that no only is it a decent text editor (especially if you use services) but with support for leading, font, spell-check, RTF, tab, and indent support, it's definitely a bare bones word processor enough for me.
There's also GNU chess with a nice gui, iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, Mail, and iSync.
On top of that, it includes a whole IDE for FREE - Project Builder (along with Interface Builder).
Also, Apple throws in a bunch of programs on the iBooks (Quicken, Deimos Rising, etc.) and the PowerBooks (OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, Art Directors Toolkit, etc.).
Of course, this doesn't scratch the surface of commandline apps that are in there, but it doesn't sound as if you were looking for those.
The numlock is a software thing. The mac ignores the state of numlock. I imagine the numlock is only there for people using Virtual PC or Linux/NetBSD.
And the reason the menu bar is at the top is easy - that way you can close and open documents without having to restart the application again. Mozilla on Windows means if I close the browser, I have to restart it. The alternative is the convoluted window inside a window technique Microsoft uses everywhere, such as in Word. The menu bar doesn't need to be repeated for every open document.
Now, if the application is not really document oriented (not all applications are) or if it has features that don't require interaction with the document, that's what a dock menu is for. I don't know if you're familiar with dock menus, but nice authors make frequent commands accessible from a menu attached to the application's icon in the dock.
Mail lets you check mail straight from the dock, Project Builder let's me make a new component or project from the dock, iTunes not only shows me what's playing, but it lets me pause, stop skip, or go back from the dock. Granted, those are all Apple applications, but Watson lets me check the weather, stocks, news, versiontracker, etc. all from the dock menu. Chimera - correction, Camino (kick ass browser!) lets me call up bookmarks from the dock.
Not all applications are taking advantage of them, but, the support for it is there, and good programmers will use it those situations for a non-document based applications major functions.
So, since dock menus reasonably address your need to have the menu bar always present and in the process removes the unnecessary repetition of menubars, I'd argue the single menubar approach is superior.
Besides, with overlapping windows, most of your menubars will be obscured (at least somewhat) anyway, thereby forcing you to click on it to reveal the rest. The dock is always in the foreground, so dock menus are always accessible.
How does this effect the rumor status for the old story about Apple possibly using that new fangled Power-4 chip by this summer? Is this the same chip in question?
Does anybody know if this is a 64-bit or 32 bit-processor?
I do like a few things about OS X, but I really don't see the overwhelming advantages you're claiming. OS X's primary interesting feature is a significant amount of eye candy.
I was responding to your generalized perception that compatibility is as huge an issue as you still perceive it to be, and OS X having it's own advantages over Windows and.net beyond simple eye candy.
In addition, I disagreed with your marginalisation of the mono project. I agree with your perception that they won't be a solution for compatibility, but by making libraries available they will enable programmers to take advantage of what is good in the.net api's.
Furthermore, I said
Objective C (written by Brad Cox) was trying to bring smalltalk like objected oriented functionality to C.
I then went on to clarify what aspects of smalltalk were relevant to the discussion here of the unique advantages of Cocoa/OS X vs..net/Windows.
No - you don't get it. I'm not arguing about SmallTalk being good, modern features originated with SmallTalk, or people writing cross platform code in SmallTalk. I'm suggesting that SmallTalk like object oriented functionality crossed with C is the common thread between Cocoa/Nextstep, Java, and C#/.net AND that Cocoa has the greatest lead time (where you suggested Microsoft), and Microsoft is late in the game..Net and C# were started well after Java and C# is often described as a Java "clone".
It's not about capturing the games audience - that is gone and was never anything outside windows or consoles. It's about creating new types of programs and making it easier to write networked applications (among other things).
The idea is about creating new types of applications. Extending what computers do, and for that, it is not about having maximum portability/compatibility, it's about having well developed, useful classes. SmallTalk and good OOP certainly facilitates writing certain types of programs. But the programs live or die by the quality of their libraries. How mature is.net? As mature as win32? As mature as Cocoa?
It's not the portability, it's about useful classes that work well. There has to be more to computers then email, word processing, browsing, kazaa, and games. Good classes make it easier to make good programs. Good programs sell computers.
Half of Java's problems are some of the classes really need to be redone (I'm still using 1.3.1, so I can't comment about 1.4). Cocoa's classes are very mature. They certainly make writing certain types of applications very easy. If that facilitates or enables new types of applications (not just porting existing applications), that
And I never said being able to research an api - I said have as to have access to it (suggesting the source, ambiguously I admit).
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Where did you draw the assumption that people aren't using it much? Your rear end? I don't think there's any market data that shows that. Maybe your friends don't, but hell, I do, and I see lots of people using it. Hell -- Google just announced features for ice cream sandwich that match the transcription features of Siri, so Google may have had voice control features, but that's not a one-to-one analog.
Just because SRI demoed a mouse years before the Altos, Mac, or Windows, doesn't mean those computers are interchangeable. Computers and phones are more than feature lists on the side of boxes.
And for the record -- I use Siri all the time - WHILE DRIVING.
Xerox received shares in exchange for rights to use intellectual property from PARC. The urban myth that it was stolen, is a lie.
Simply put, Xirrus is the brand. They make wireless arrays, which are circular enclosures containing multiple antennas. Their OS is based off of Gentoo Linux, and they support passive capture, multiple SSID's, the ability to map nodes onto a floor plan, integration with internal as well as external RADIUS servers.
Simply badass. They generally target places like schools, hotels, convention centers, etc.. We just bought a bunch at my job (a school) and they simply kick-butt. They are not cheap, but after scouting what's out there, they offer a complete solution which is super easy to maintain and operate.
What? Where did that leap in logic come from? Sun had specific terms around using Java in embedded applications. It appears Google realized that, but perhaps felt by using Dalvik rather than a Sun JRE, they would be avoiding that.
Most mainstream Java programming, involves server-side applications. The outcome of this trial should have no bearing whatsoever on those mainstream uses of Java. At all.
If Java's mainstream appeal will be diminished by anything, it's the rise of alternatives (e.g., ruby, python, c#, etc.).
I don't know if you're spreading FUD, you're uninformed, or you just don't like Oracle. Either way, you're speculation strikes me as wild and baseless.
Is this Steve Balmer's fake account? Xbox a success? Not if you evaluate its impact on the stock (little profit == no big deal).
I think the issue is in there: core competencies. Yes, they've pushed their core competencies as far as they can. That's NOT the issue. The problem is he has not been able to extend them into anything else which can contribute meaningful profits. Phones: no. Gaming: no. Internet properties: no.
They're locked into a slow death march to irrelevance as the world changes around them, and they know it. That's the idea behind reinventing themselves with things like Azure, Kin, Xbox, etc.. I don't know about Azure's impact on profits, but I'd argue it's closer to their core competencies than the rest. The rest may be nice products or clunkers -- it doesn't matter because they're not gaining significant profits.
That is what Ballmer should have been able to accomplish: growing teams which can succeed at expanding Microsoft's core competencies. He's got teams, but those teams have been largely ineffective in terms of adding to the bottom line.
They can't use the excuse of "we got into this business before this stuff seemed dated" excuse 20 years ago to justify their state of suspended animation. If they don't change in 20 years, they'll look more and more like a time capsule from the 1990's (which they kind of already do).
Two words: mac mini.
The problem with your argument is that the success of the Xbox is inherently tied to the success of their exclusive titles - specifically Halo (and now perhaps Gears of War). Were it not for those exclusive titles, the Xbox would most likely still be an also ran. This is often true of video game consoles. The parallel statement for music is rarely true - i.e. the iPod is probably not a success because of its exclusive tracks available via the iTunes store. Therefore, even if Microsoft did obtain similar kinds of exclusive content arrangements - as it did with the Xbox - it doesn't seem as if that itself would be enough to change it's current place in the music player marketplace.
The dynamics which contributed to the ultimate success of the Xbox platform (and Windows for that matter) don't seem to apply to music players. People aren't buying the iPod because of exclusive content - they buy it because of the device itself.
Umm, sounds like a bad interpretation of Ayn Rand style "objectivism." Why would you guess his reference to efficiency was measured purely by the GDP? It seems as if the GPD is your metric in this case - and exactly the narrow definition the original post was criticizing.
Your gloom and doom scenario of "dumbing down" society having a catastrophic effect is flawed. It is dependent upon your sense of a just society where we are allowed to work less time. Your solipsism ignores the greater issues the original poster was referring to. These "slower" people don't just go away, and by ignoring them and their needs you are creating social problems. Philip Slater referred to this as "the toilet bowl theory" - it's the reason people moved to the suburbs. Societies ills are too difficult to solve, so just ignore them, or move away from them, or pretend they don't exist.
I'm sure you're frustrated that you have to work 40 hours a week because some guy with a GED needs something to do to keep him off the street - but the original poster's argument wasn't addressing GDP - it was pointing out how by ignoring these needs we are deferring their real expense (e.g. unemployment often leads to crime which is more expensive than minimum wage).
And this business about the "pressure to be brilliant" sounds like elitist nonsense. Brilliant people aren't made that way because of society's pressure - they are that way because of development issues. Parental involvement, good schools, good teachers, stimulating opportunities - these things lead to brilliance, not some vague source of social pressure. Children are rarely aware of these social issues in their developmental years, and that's where brilliance emerges - not suddenly in the workplace somewhere in their 20s.
And how is that different than if they hijack the website? Which, by the way, I'd assume would be the case in many scenarios like that since RSS feeds are often served by the same web servers serving a site. It's still an http server.
They're either hacking a server, or hijacking DNS or using some exploit which would still apply to a regular web site - just because the content is received via RSS does not necessarily make any of those scenarios unique to RSS. If somebody hacks Slashdot, and set up a lookalike site which sent malware to unsuspecting readers with lousy browsers and inadequate protection, the result would be the same - RSS itself doesn't present the problem.
Just because RSS readers often fetch content at regular intervals, does not substantially make it different than a user's set of bookmarks which are used frequently - if the source of the content is compromised, it may already be too late if the user isn't aware or is inadequately prepared.
RSS as a format doesn't require all attached enclosures to be automatically downloaded - that would have to be done by a poor implementation of RSS.
... anymore than a browser - as long as RSS is implimented so that the user chooses the RSS feeds to subscribe to.
Email often is the source of malware because email is passive - people are sent email, they don't choose it. Peer to peer as well is often a source of malware - people are exchanging files they believe have content they want and either are unaware of the risks or are willing to take them.
RSS is different than both of these. Unlike email the user has to CHOOSE to receive content via RSS, whereas email is directed towards the user. While it is similar to peer to peer software in that people may exercise poor judgement in selecting sources for RSS, I would think people would ultimately select from far fewer separate sources of content with RSS as opposed to peer to peer scenarios, and there are many sources of good RSS content from well known sources (e.g. Reuters, Slashdot, NYT, Air America, etc.).
How is this any more of a risk than a person visiting a questionable website which downloads malware?
If people are dumb enough to subscribe to questionable feeds without the proper precautions, RSS doesn't make this any easier.
Apparently you missed this article [Wired]. This library happens to be down the road from my job, and as youll notice, theyve been doing this for longer than the folks at the NYC Public Library. Id be curious to see which one is actually used more per capita (hint: I think the shuffles are more popular than the protected WMA files for which most people lack the correct player - per capita, of course).
We started using it to work on playwriitng. One child does one person's dialog, another takes another character's dialog, while another will do descriptions, and another will edit and correct.
What makes it work is rendezvous. The kids don't need to know ip addresses or hostnames - only usernames. We can setup several groups at once without making it into a major project.
Aside from the obvious benefits, it creates a transparent opportunity for the kids learn about group dynamics and working together in a way not many classroom activities do. Because the program works so simply, the kids focus on the work without thinking about the process of making it work together. There are other ways of accomplishing this, but nothing that's anywhere as simple as Subethaedit. I'm glad to see people are starting to see the usefulness of this approach. I'm amazed it's taken so long.
eatmyjunk - the neighbors don't know what to think...
This story using this technique, with Linklater at the helm is BOUND to be amazing. It sounds like peanut butter and chocolate to me....
To top it off, I thought I read that Steven Soderberg is producing this film. While his name is attached to a lot of crappy films, he also made Schizopolis which has to be one of the greatest films ever made (also dealing with issues of self and identity). If you haven't seen it, see it - you're only hurting yourself if you don't....
Why would I care who the money goes to as a consumer? As long as I get what I want as conveniantly as possible. Rather than a program that lets me go to many stores (which to the customer, would only be distinguished by its invoice), I want a store that has everything I want.
Unlike physical stores, location isn't the issue, and since pricing tends to be similar across the board (with subtle variation) that's not much of an issue either. Selection is an issue, but only if the store you want to use doesn't have what you want?
Think for a second - why do you think the average customer wants a choice of 12 "stores" they can buy the same Brittany Spears song from? The answer is most customers don't care - they just want it to be easy.
I think Apple's move has made a lot of sense. People aren't begging them to use other stores because their store is so much more conveniant (if you already use iTunes, that is) and they probably already have the songs the person wants (if it's available as a legal download at all). Most people don't care too much about where their music money is going (especially if they tend to buy music from the big five labels) - they care about the conveniance of the process. Opening up the formats doesn't achieve that in any way.
If this port wanted to, it could provide support for zeroconf and thereby allow compatibility with iChat clients over Rendezvous.
If anything, I'd think it'd be encouraging artists to abandon the major labels (i.e. your big shots in the RIAA) in lieu of the more equitable terms of indie labels. If the artist on the indie gets a fatter cut then the artist on Sony or Warner Brothers or EMI, then it would make more sense for artists to release through an independent label instead, since they both get equal treatment on the iTMS (i.e. they don't take money for better placement as opposed to traditional retail). In that way I see it as an opportunity for the little guy to stand on even ground with the big shots. Also take note that since they permit 30 second previews of all tracks and all tracks can be purchased individually, people have a much greater chance to try something new, perhaps something they never heard of before.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar rules in place regarding para-legals or if she happens to be in law school (or aspired to someday).
Free speech is a myth at best. Don't believe me? Go to the movies and shout "fire" - you'll see how free speech is.
Just because you're not aware of her restrictions, doesn't make her a wuss.
Beyond all that, are you saying all of your peers in your field always agree with you? Can't you see how somebody doesn't need to be right just because of their job (or level of study/training/certification/professional status) and how somebody doesn't need a certain job to be right?
Apple's been offering a new OS once a year for $129 for awhile now (since OS 8 I believe), so this is not something new or sneaky. It's a fair price for a great product which you do not need.
However, if you don't want to pay somebody to keep your OS up to date, then you have to do the work yourself. Apt-get or port collections are certainly options, but I'm assuming you're either not familiar with linux or bsd, or you don't want to get muddy trying to learn more about them. They involve work(however theoretically, everything could be run via cron...). Resolving dependencies (for me) is rarely as simple and straightforward as promised. Apple makes updating very simple - especially for a unix derivative OS.
Beyond simply updating packages, KDE and GNOME don't evolve at the same pace as OS X in terms of Aqua as well as it's libraries Cocoa & Carbon. Apple pumps a lot of man hours into working with the user interface (as well as programming interfaces) and trying to constantly evolve it (expose being one visible example). They fund those man hours through your $129.
Is that important to you? No, then fire-up black-box or KDE or GNOME - you can do it using fink right on top of your 10.2.7 (or 10.2.8 rather) if you want, right alongside your Photoshop or your Excel or your Word.
Heck - if you really want to purge yourself, just boot straight to a commandline by logging in as >console and run X11 from the commandline.
But if you want to run a new application which has different requirements then what you currently have (e.g. newer hardware, newer/different OS, more memory, other software, etc.) you will make the choice whether or not this application is truly worth the additional investment of time and energy.
And all that has nothing to do with your hardware problems. If you've got hardware issues, you're covered for 90 days - call Apple and have it taken care of. If it's past 90 days, then the question is why did you wait? Or do you think wear and tear could have contributed? Laptops are so easy to break....
The printer issue sounds weird. Try printing straight over ethernet. If that works, do a software update to make sure you have the latest airport version, then run the airport admin utility in the utilities folder in applications, configure your base station, and see if it prompts you to update itself.
Just email Aspyr about SimCity 4 - they're a great company - they won't let you hang.
Good luck....
Having used it, the video is clean and crisp at speeds slower then 600kbps. I think the author's point was that with comparable bandwidth, you'll get a bigger (maybe not 640x480) and better image with ichat than messenger.
Umm... maybe you didn't look or the tech's down at the district ripped out all the good stuff, but OS X (especially with a new computer) comes with a ton of good useful stuff. Just from the GUI side, if you check out TextEdit, you'll notice that no only is it a decent text editor (especially if you use services) but with support for leading, font, spell-check, RTF, tab, and indent support, it's definitely a bare bones word processor enough for me.
There's also GNU chess with a nice gui, iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, Mail, and iSync.
On top of that, it includes a whole IDE for FREE - Project Builder (along with Interface Builder).
Also, Apple throws in a bunch of programs on the iBooks (Quicken, Deimos Rising, etc.) and the PowerBooks (OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, Art Directors Toolkit, etc.).
Of course, this doesn't scratch the surface of commandline apps that are in there, but it doesn't sound as if you were looking for those.
The numlock is a software thing. The mac ignores the state of numlock. I imagine the numlock is only there for people using Virtual PC or Linux/NetBSD.
And the reason the menu bar is at the top is easy - that way you can close and open documents without having to restart the application again. Mozilla on Windows means if I close the browser, I have to restart it. The alternative is the convoluted window inside a window technique Microsoft uses everywhere, such as in Word. The menu bar doesn't need to be repeated for every open document.
Now, if the application is not really document oriented (not all applications are) or if it has features that don't require interaction with the document, that's what a dock menu is for. I don't know if you're familiar with dock menus, but nice authors make frequent commands accessible from a menu attached to the application's icon in the dock.
Mail lets you check mail straight from the dock, Project Builder let's me make a new component or project from the dock, iTunes not only shows me what's playing, but it lets me pause, stop skip, or go back from the dock. Granted, those are all Apple applications, but Watson lets me check the weather, stocks, news, versiontracker, etc. all from the dock menu. Chimera - correction, Camino (kick ass browser!) lets me call up bookmarks from the dock.
Not all applications are taking advantage of them, but, the support for it is there, and good programmers will use it those situations for a non-document based applications major functions.
So, since dock menus reasonably address your need to have the menu bar always present and in the process removes the unnecessary repetition of menubars, I'd argue the single menubar approach is superior.
Besides, with overlapping windows, most of your menubars will be obscured (at least somewhat) anyway, thereby forcing you to click on it to reveal the rest. The dock is always in the foreground, so dock menus are always accessible.
How does this effect the rumor status for the old story about Apple possibly using that new fangled Power-4 chip by this summer? Is this the same chip in question?
Does anybody know if this is a 64-bit or 32 bit-processor?
I do like a few things about OS X, but I really don't see the overwhelming advantages you're claiming. OS X's primary interesting feature is a significant amount of eye candy.
.net beyond simple eye candy.
.net api's.
.net/Windows.
I was responding to your generalized perception that compatibility is as huge an issue as you still perceive it to be, and OS X having it's own advantages over Windows and
In addition, I disagreed with your marginalisation of the mono project. I agree with your perception that they won't be a solution for compatibility, but by making libraries available they will enable programmers to take advantage of what is good in the
Furthermore, I said
Objective C (written by Brad Cox) was trying to bring smalltalk like objected oriented functionality to C.
I then went on to clarify what aspects of smalltalk were relevant to the discussion here of the unique advantages of Cocoa/OS X vs.
No - you don't get it. I'm not arguing about SmallTalk being good, modern features originated with SmallTalk, or people writing cross platform code in SmallTalk. I'm suggesting that SmallTalk like object oriented functionality crossed with C is the common thread between Cocoa/Nextstep, Java, and C#/.net AND that Cocoa has the greatest lead time (where you suggested Microsoft), and Microsoft is late in the game. .Net and C# were started well after Java and C# is often described as a Java "clone".
.net? As mature as win32? As mature as Cocoa?
It's not about capturing the games audience - that is gone and was never anything outside windows or consoles. It's about creating new types of programs and making it easier to write networked applications (among other things).
The idea is about creating new types of applications. Extending what computers do, and for that, it is not about having maximum portability/compatibility, it's about having well developed, useful classes. SmallTalk and good OOP certainly facilitates writing certain types of programs. But the programs live or die by the quality of their libraries. How mature is
It's not the portability, it's about useful classes that work well. There has to be more to computers then email, word processing, browsing, kazaa, and games. Good classes make it easier to make good programs. Good programs sell computers.
Half of Java's problems are some of the classes really need to be redone (I'm still using 1.3.1, so I can't comment about 1.4). Cocoa's classes are very mature. They certainly make writing certain types of applications very easy. If that facilitates or enables new types of applications (not just porting existing applications), that
And I never said being able to research an api - I said have as to have access to it (suggesting the source, ambiguously I admit).