Even though I know you're joking, they did release (partial?) sources for Solaris 8, although it's no longer in effect for the average person. As others have noted, though, it wasn't and couldn't be GPLed.
I work in a K-12 too. We don't publish our e-mail addresses. My personal account gets basically no spam (unless you want to count the school board minutes that get sent to everyone...), although, for some reason, I have gotten spam at an address that was set up solely to provide tech support for the Intranet, and I would have though was even less likely to be targetted. The teachers, on the other hand, seem to really attract the spam.
The cable modem people in my area are pretty good about letting you think for yourself, especially when they noticed I had a router in my last apartment, but I was thinking of showing him to my SGI set up in the corner in my new apartment and telling him that was my computer, just to have a little fun.
Affective computing would transform machines from slaves chained to the limits of logic into thoughtful, observant collaborators. Such devices may never replicate human emotional experience.
Isn't thoughtfulness a distinctly human quality? The article seems to waffle between whether or not the ability to distinguish emotions implies the ability to have them. It may seem like a clear "no," but aren't we ourselves little more than a collection of relays and circuits, at least on the surface?
I work supporting 45 Macintosh users, among other things, for a non-profit. The reason we haven't even made the switch to 9 in all cases is a single proprietary database package which was custom-made for us. It is a 4D database running from a Windows 4D 1.5.x server which has outlived its life expectancy by over 3 years. As a scientific publishing house, we have very specific needs so there is no off-the-shelf product which meets them which also has a Macintosh client. I'm quite familiar with the elegance of Classic, but the client behaves erratically in anything newer than 8. That being said, my company has a compelling reason to stick with obsolete, inferior technology, at least for the time being: it works. In the future, we will use CITRIX for all of our proprietary needs. This post sounds like a reference to private consumers. What could a typical consumer want to do that couldn't be addressed by a Mac OS X environment?
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Even though I know you're joking, they did release (partial?) sources for Solaris 8, although it's no longer in effect for the average person. As others have noted, though, it wasn't and couldn't be GPLed.
I work in a K-12 too. We don't publish our e-mail addresses. My personal account gets basically no spam (unless you want to count the school board minutes that get sent to everyone...), although, for some reason, I have gotten spam at an address that was set up solely to provide tech support for the Intranet, and I would have though was even less likely to be targetted. The teachers, on the other hand, seem to really attract the spam.
Finally, I can plant some tomacco.
The cable modem people in my area are pretty good about letting you think for yourself, especially when they noticed I had a router in my last apartment, but I was thinking of showing him to my SGI set up in the corner in my new apartment and telling him that was my computer, just to have a little fun.
Affective computing would transform machines from slaves chained to the limits of logic into thoughtful, observant collaborators. Such devices may never replicate human emotional experience.
Isn't thoughtfulness a distinctly human quality? The article seems to waffle between whether or not the ability to distinguish emotions implies the ability to have them. It may seem like a clear "no," but aren't we ourselves little more than a collection of relays and circuits, at least on the surface?
I work supporting 45 Macintosh users, among other things, for a non-profit. The reason we haven't even made the switch to 9 in all cases is a single proprietary database package which was custom-made for us. It is a 4D database running from a Windows 4D 1.5.x server which has outlived its life expectancy by over 3 years. As a scientific publishing house, we have very specific needs so there is no off-the-shelf product which meets them which also has a Macintosh client. I'm quite familiar with the elegance of Classic, but the client behaves erratically in anything newer than 8. That being said, my company has a compelling reason to stick with obsolete, inferior technology, at least for the time being: it works. In the future, we will use CITRIX for all of our proprietary needs. This post sounds like a reference to private consumers. What could a typical consumer want to do that couldn't be addressed by a Mac OS X environment?
My iMac only has 96M RAM, which kind of rules out Mac OS X. I had Darwin on it for a while, but I still prefer NetBSD.