Just because you can own a press and communicate to a mass audience to it does not give you the right to mass-produce the latest Grisham novel and give it away. This is not about freedom of speech; it's about who owns the content of that speech.
Yes, they were, until last August. They key here is that AOL couldn't offer this kind of stuff until "it could prove that it was no longer the dominant player in free, public IM, or unless it opened its systems to interoperate with competitors." That 'or' gets them the leeway they need, along with the newer, more business-friendly (read: Republican) FCC board. They can probably show that they're no longer the dominant player by quoting Microsoft's own Messenger numbers back at them, which probably includes every XP installation out there as a user.
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I can see it now:
PHB: So, how's that big information thingy coming? Dilbert: The RFID database? PHB: Yeah, sure. Dilbert: Well sir, we've got a whole lot of data. But it turns out that in the entire world, there is only one woman, and she keeps changing her clothes. PHB: So I've only been rejected once. Good to know.
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The way it *should be*?
Oh yes, a police state is fine, as long as they work for it! Darn kids now days get off without doin' any work. In my day, we had to hoof it to follow them terrorists around, and we liked it! And so did the terrorists!
As others have said, *nix people tend to see AppleScript in terms of a scripting language, which it really isn't. What AppleScript is is a simple way to send Apple Events.
Apple Events are what drive most programs on the Mac. Button presses, Key Downs, 'New Document', etc. are all expressed in terms of Apple Events, or some more language-specific term (NSEvent in Cocoa) that maps cleanly to Apple Events.
AppleScript is basically a way to target and send these events. You tell an application to open a new document, and then tell that document to fill itself with text:
tell application 'MacFoo'
set doc to make new document with name 'Bar'
tell doc to set content to "I'm a document!" end tell
The syntax is verbose, granted. But that's because it's all a lie, really. AppleScript is written like the above, but is stored in a binary format that can be run, or disassembled to the above for modification. This binary format conforms to the OSA, the Open Scripting Architecture. Any language could in theory compile to it; it's a sort of bytecode.
AppleScript's main problem is that its documentation is horribly out of date and each Application defines it's own dictionary of commands, which is how it should be but makes finding the right commands difficult.
Disney closed its Florida animation studio, and moved whoever wanted to move to the Burbank studio, where all the animation of feature films was done until the late nineties (Mulan was the first Florida Feature). They consolidated their work, which is still kind of sad because the recent good stuff (Mulan, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch) has been Florida, while the not as good stuff has been Burbank. We'll see how it plays out.
ROTK 76. Frodo is wrapped in Sam's elven cloak (ROTK p.239) when he and Sam make their way up the slopes of Mt. Doom (ROTK p.264). Jackson has Frodo wearing his shirt but no cloak as he and Sam trudge up the slopes of Mt. Doom.
It occurs when you do not understand that the entire world is different than you, and so you decided that everyone should enjoy compiling their kernel, using vi/emacs to edit/etc files, and whatnot. It's fine if that's what you want to do, but not everyone does.
Gee, personally I hate Wal*Mart because they are a large company taking advantage of poor people, whose decent-pay union jobs were destroyed when the town store went out of business because they couldn't compete with Wal*Mart's non-union, shave-a-cent-because-we're-bigger techniques. Yes, yes, you can retort with whatever anarchosyndicalism you want, but the problem with Wal*Mart is not their exploitation of other companies, but of the people who work and shop there.
Wal-Mart: We sell everything everywhere, for cheap. Banks: We give money to people, and they give us more money back later. McDonalds: We make fast food that kids like and parents put up with. In-N-Out: We make fast food that everyone likes. Dell: We make cheap computers. Microsoft: We make software, and whatever else we want. SCO: We sue people.
Stop, stop, stop. You're going to try to tell us you had problems with any OS on an eMachine. Yes, and I have problems with any OS I try to run on my sneakers.
The only problem being that XLC doesn't support G3 Machines, so it would be impossible to create a binary that runs on any Mac, as is currently supported by GCC. In theory they could make separate binaries and install the 'correct' one, but that poses problems for systems booting off of external hard drives (which binary do you put on the drive?) and booting over the network. The ability to carry around a copy of OSX on your iPod is a powerful thing, and not one most people would give up lightly.
Of course, this could have been gotten around by using Bundles, which is a folder that acts like a double-clickable application. The structure is:
SomeApplication.app/ <-- The application
Contents/MacOS/SomeApplication <-- The OSX binary
Contents/MacOSClassic/SomeApplication <-- The OS9 binary
Contents/Resources/Blah.jpg
Contents/Resources/Foo.tiff
It chould be:
SomeApplication.app/
Contents/MacOS/SomeApplication <-- The generic binary
Contents/MacOS-G3/SomeApplication <-- The G3-optimized binary
Contents/MacOS-G4/SomeApplication <-- The G4-optimized binary
Contents/MacOS-G5/SomeApplication <-- The G5-optimized binary
Contents/Resources/Blah.jpg
Contents/Resources/Foo.tiff
When you double-click, it uses whatever binary is appropriate for the system. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for Frameworks, which lack the notion of platform. A rant to beat the lameness filter: this bundle format should be adopted everywhere. It allows for a folder to be used as an application, and to contain all the resources it needs to be used and run. Moving the folder moves the application, and the folder doesn't use any vodoo to keep the data together, as pretty much any HD format understands folders and files. In addition, the multiple-binaries trick (as shown above working with OS9/X and proposed for processors) would allow the same bundle to work on muluple platforms, so I could email you a zipped version of Office from my Mac that could work on your Wintel, no Java required. The support is in the Finder/Explorer/Browser, which needs to understand that 'double click on bundle' == 'find correct binary and launch it'.
Having listened to the conference call in question, this was said with tongue quite firmly in cheek. What's more, it was the first sentence of his answer, when he went on to say that if the market changed from the current position, of course they would be open to including other players/services.
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Just because you can own a press and communicate to a mass audience to it does not give you the right to mass-produce the latest Grisham novel and give it away. This is not about freedom of speech; it's about who owns the content of that speech.
Yes, they were, until last August. They key here is that AOL couldn't offer this kind of stuff until "it could prove that it was no longer the dominant player in free, public IM, or unless it opened its systems to interoperate with competitors." That 'or' gets them the leeway they need, along with the newer, more business-friendly (read: Republican) FCC board. They can probably show that they're no longer the dominant player by quoting Microsoft's own Messenger numbers back at them, which probably includes every XP installation out there as a user.
I can see it now:
PHB: So, how's that big information thingy coming?
Dilbert: The RFID database?
PHB: Yeah, sure.
Dilbert: Well sir, we've got a whole lot of data. But it turns out that in the entire world, there is only one woman, and she keeps changing her clothes.
PHB: So I've only been rejected once. Good to know.
The way it *should be*?
Oh yes, a police state is fine, as long as they work for it! Darn kids now days get off without doin' any work. In my day, we had to hoof it to follow them terrorists around, and we liked it! And so did the terrorists!
As others have said, *nix people tend to see AppleScript in terms of a scripting language, which it really isn't. What AppleScript is is a simple way to send Apple Events.
Apple Events are what drive most programs on the Mac. Button presses, Key Downs, 'New Document', etc. are all expressed in terms of Apple Events, or some more language-specific term (NSEvent in Cocoa) that maps cleanly to Apple Events.
AppleScript is basically a way to target and send these events. You tell an application to open a new document, and then tell that document to fill itself with text:
tell application 'MacFoo'
set doc to make new document with name 'Bar'
tell doc to set content to "I'm a document!"
end tell
The syntax is verbose, granted. But that's because it's all a lie, really. AppleScript is written like the above, but is stored in a binary format that can be run, or disassembled to the above for modification. This binary format conforms to the OSA, the Open Scripting Architecture. Any language could in theory compile to it; it's a sort of bytecode.
AppleScript's main problem is that its documentation is horribly out of date and each Application defines it's own dictionary of commands, which is how it should be but makes finding the right commands difficult.
Disney closed its Florida animation studio, and moved whoever wanted to move to the Burbank studio, where all the animation of feature films was done until the late nineties (Mulan was the first Florida Feature). They consolidated their work, which is still kind of sad because the recent good stuff (Mulan, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch) has been Florida, while the not as good stuff has been Burbank. We'll see how it plays out.
Radagast? That simple bird-taming fool? Why do you like that guy?
>OW!
I mean, WHO CARES?
I have named this "The Linux Users' Problem."
/etc files, and whatnot. It's fine if that's what you want to do, but not everyone does.
It occurs when you do not understand that the entire world is different than you, and so you decided that everyone should enjoy compiling their kernel, using vi/emacs to edit
They all live together in an underground bunker, and every night go out and fight crime!
What do you think is filling up all that flash memory?
That's it: blame the brits!
OW!
Gee, personally I hate Wal*Mart because they are a large company taking advantage of poor people, whose decent-pay union jobs were destroyed when the town store went out of business because they couldn't compete with Wal*Mart's non-union, shave-a-cent-because-we're-bigger techniques. Yes, yes, you can retort with whatever anarchosyndicalism you want, but the problem with Wal*Mart is not their exploitation of other companies, but of the people who work and shop there.
What should have been sent:
.......... ... ..gin to ..... .....rock.
Find Adirondack and begin to grind the rock.
What got through:
Find
The little guy's up there frantically searching for booze.
Google turns up one result for an effort in Australia, but I can't find any cost for the system, or a download link. There's also this post about a Python project, which appears to be talking about The Open Voting Consortium, which has a SourceForge project page.
So it seems that there are movements happening, but these don't seem to be getting anywhere quickly. Does anyone know of any other projects?
Isn't that the goal, though?
Have you seen Xgrid? Apple's easy-to-use plug-in interface for distributed computing. See slashdot story here
Examples:
Wal-Mart: We sell everything everywhere, for cheap.
Banks: We give money to people, and they give us more money back later.
McDonalds: We make fast food that kids like and parents put up with.
In-N-Out: We make fast food that everyone likes.
Dell: We make cheap computers.
Microsoft: We make software, and whatever else we want.
SCO: We sue people.
Stop, stop, stop. You're going to try to tell us you had problems with any OS on an eMachine. Yes, and I have problems with any OS I try to run on my sneakers.
The only problem being that XLC doesn't support G3 Machines, so it would be impossible to create a binary that runs on any Mac, as is currently supported by GCC. In theory they could make separate binaries and install the 'correct' one, but that poses problems for systems booting off of external hard drives (which binary do you put on the drive?) and booting over the network. The ability to carry around a copy of OSX on your iPod is a powerful thing, and not one most people would give up lightly.
Of course, this could have been gotten around by using Bundles, which is a folder that acts like a double-clickable application. The structure is:
SomeApplication.app/ <-- The application
Contents/MacOS/SomeApplication <-- The OSX binary
Contents/MacOSClassic/SomeApplication <-- The OS9 binary
Contents/Resources/Blah.jpg
Contents/Resources/Foo.tiff
It chould be:
SomeApplication.app/
Contents/MacOS/SomeApplication <-- The generic binary
Contents/MacOS-G3/SomeApplication <-- The G3-optimized binary
Contents/MacOS-G4/SomeApplication <-- The G4-optimized binary
Contents/MacOS-G5/SomeApplication <-- The G5-optimized binary
Contents/Resources/Blah.jpg
Contents/Resources/Foo.tiff
When you double-click, it uses whatever binary is appropriate for the system. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for Frameworks, which lack the notion of platform.
A rant to beat the lameness filter: this bundle format should be adopted everywhere. It allows for a folder to be used as an application, and to contain all the resources it needs to be used and run. Moving the folder moves the application, and the folder doesn't use any vodoo to keep the data together, as pretty much any HD format understands folders and files.
In addition, the multiple-binaries trick (as shown above working with OS9/X and proposed for processors) would allow the same bundle to work on muluple platforms, so I could email you a zipped version of Office from my Mac that could work on your Wintel, no Java required.
The support is in the Finder/Explorer/Browser, which needs to understand that 'double click on bundle' == 'find correct binary and launch it'.
And, to bring this back to the story at hand, Steve Jobs himself is a vegan (albeit one who occasionally eats fish).
Well, it can't do worse than "The Black Hole."
WTF? IIRC, DRM INRFPT.
Having listened to the conference call in question, this was said with tongue quite firmly in cheek. What's more, it was the first sentence of his answer, when he went on to say that if the market changed from the current position, of course they would be open to including other players/services.