Thanks for posting that. I have a Powerbook G4 1.25 and was thinking of upgrading to a MacBook Pro. My main reason (other than a lust for new toys) for upgrading would be for that significant impact on compilation time that I thought would be there. I'm glad to see that it's true. Now on to store.apple.com!
I understand your frustration. I've had similar experiences when googling for an answer to a technical question.
That said, outlawing blogs from search engines isn't a good idea, sometimes those blogs do have worthwhile information. The solutions are better indexing algorithms on the search engine side and more precise search expressions on the end-user side.
Keep an open mind - I know a friend of mine was a little upset at first because he couldn't start Apache with apachectl start. I was a little terse with him in reply, pointing out that Apple, champion of the GUI, could hardly expect a horde of headstrong OS9 GUI diehards to open up a Terminal to start a web server. Once I pointed him towards the Sharing tab, all was fine.
You actually can control apache from the command-line: `sudo apachectl start`
The parent post is funny, but I have to correct one statement that seems to be made more and more around here; that is, Apple just makes spiffy looking things and sacrifices usefulness for aesthetic success.
As a recent "switcher", what attracted me to the deviant lifestyle is the fact that the form is designed around the function in many Apple hardware and software products. This makes using a Mac (or an iPod) an enjoyable experience.
Actually, under certain circumstances the JVM will reclaim non-null references eventually. But you will still experience memory leak type symptoms until either you run out of available memory or the non-null references are cleaned up...
For any potential or actual Powerbook owners out there that have been tracking this issue it's significant news. Apple has been criticized for their, as usual, silent treatment regarding this technical fault and its resolution.
It's not on the main page, so quit yer bitchin. Oh, and you're telling me that $1099 (12" iBook) is more than you'd want to pay for a Mac laptop, which you appear to lust after?
I purchased a Powerbook in Dec 2003 from the Apple Store online. I, like you, was unsure about purchasing a Mac versus a PC. I even had the white spot problem show up several months ago, which Apple happily took care of for fee, and I can tell you I'm very glad I went with the Powerbook.
It's just been an excellent machine, overall. It definitely is a turn-off to discover hardware issues like this white spot thing, but as long as Apple takes care of the problem, there's really nothing for you be worried about in terms of the product quality.
If you're worried about having the white spot problem on your Powerbook, just know that the revision 2 15" AlBooks have been out for a few months now and the problem seemed to be resolved last January or so.
Everything you mentioned, with the exception of forcing members of a private organization to vote, IS illegal.
They can't require you to smoke weed, Smoking marijuana violates federal law.
they can't require you to work for less then minimum wage, It is illegal for an employer to pay less than minimum wage.
they can't require you to shoot cops, Again, shooting someone for the hell of it is illegal, no matter who you're shooting.
and they can't require you to vote. It's illegal to force or even reward anyone for voting. I've never heard of a law that prohibits this. If the student doesn't want to, then they don't have to; they have the option of receiving the professor's wrath or simply withdrawing from the class or even the school.
Because saying it's 'Google like' means that they're taking a search capability for one environment (WWW) and translating it to another environment (user desktop system).
That makes it sound like they're coming up with something new rather than simply copying Apple's new Spotlight feature that will be debuting in OS X 10.4.
I don't think there's anything wrong with implementing features of your competition's product, but come on, no need to tiptoe around the fact.
This whole left and right referencing scheme is very limited. I'm a USian and would call myself a Libertarian if I had to call myself anything at all, and I don't identify with either the "left" or the "right" in my country.
And based on the United States' popular left (Democratic Party) and popular right (Republican Party), I'm really not seeing much (any?!) difference anyway...
So does that mean if a large number of commercial applications are made for Linux they'll stop releasing a GPL'd version for that platform for fear of developers violating the license agreement?
From the article, discussing the MS Windows licensing decision, "Another point is the fact that Windows is a closed source Operating System. There is no community for Free Software development under Windows. The situation is very different from Linux, as you know. On Windows development usually happens as shareware or commercial software and we don't see that community evolving into producing Free Software."
Can you point me to a document where Trolltech states that they don't have a Free MS Windows version due to an umanageable amount of license policing?
I hear that... I'm just now starting to work on a project I'm coding in Python. I'd love to use PyQT, but one of my reasons for using Python is the portability. Why the hell would I choose a a cross-platform windowing API that is free (for non-commercial) for all but the OS family with the largest market share?
Yes, yes, it's their code and they can choose to do whatever they want with it. Well, I'll choose to use wxWindows instead...
It just kills me that they justify their GPL'd releases for Linux and MacOS X by helping the Free software community and yet it appears to be a completely alien idea to them (according to the interview) that just maybe there are some GPL developers out there that want to release software that runs on MS Windows.
Ok, I'm sure plenty of you have seen it, but for those of you that haven't check this (Quicktime format) out. If you weren't convinced that gaming on a Mac is totally awesome, you will be now!
I just had to correct your use of the "conservatives" descriptor; you implied that all conservatives believe there are/were WMD in Iraq or were even pro-war. I believe the descriptor you meant to use is "neo-conservative hawk". The liberals have even come up with a catchy, shortened version, "neocon". So now you can grossly overgeneralize and group people into one umbrella political group while sounding more hip.
Conservative bashing is so last year... It's all about the neocons now! You damn hippies need to get with the program...
Or you could just go to lewrockwell.com and learn something...
Most/.'ers have probably seen the name Declan McCullagh (the author of the articles) around. As previously mentioned, an editor could've added the link, but... Based on Declan's history, it's quite possible the linking to the DeCSS executable is just an example of how the DMCA is ridiculous.
As for the negative assumption that the author or editor who included the link will be fired, I doubt it. It's definetly a possibility, but I think News.com would rather keep the publicity in the case that some trouble happens.
Operation Northwoods was the plan the U.S. government came up with to frame terrorist attacks against both Americans and Cubans on the Cuban government.
Coincidence? Or, does Intel have a secret plan to take out AMD?;)
Though burning down a SUV dealership my not be the BEST way to stop "crimes against the planet" it is ONE way. Think of who pays for the destruction, the owners of the dealership who are selling SUV's who obviously don't have much concern for the environment, they just want to make money. This is also possibly discouraging some people from purchasing SUV's, knowing that people will commit violent acts in order to prevent the use of SUV's.
Oh, I know, this is all awful. Where is my freedom, where is my right to waste resources and consume, consume, consume?! The fact is, it's sad that people have to resort to violence in order to get people's attention about important problems that affect everyone, like pollution. Education is the most important tool to create an informed society that is active in government and social issues.
I personally support violent action as long as no people or animals are harmed.
Though the problem with vigilante justice may be that at times it is done more out of emotion than intelligence, justice from the government is being sold to the highest bidder.
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Thanks for posting that. I have a Powerbook G4 1.25 and was thinking of upgrading to a MacBook Pro. My main reason (other than a lust for new toys) for upgrading would be for that significant impact on compilation time that I thought would be there. I'm glad to see that it's true. Now on to store.apple.com!
I understand your frustration. I've had similar experiences when googling for an answer to a technical question.
That said, outlawing blogs from search engines isn't a good idea, sometimes those blogs do have worthwhile information. The solutions are better indexing algorithms on the search engine side and more precise search expressions on the end-user side.
The LGPL requires any distributed modifications of LGPL'd source code must be made available.
Nokia using a LGPL'd web library for their browser does not mean they have to release the source code for the browser.
`sudo apachectl start`
The parent post is funny, but I have to correct one statement that seems to be made more and more around here; that is, Apple just makes spiffy looking things and sacrifices usefulness for aesthetic success.
As a recent "switcher", what attracted me to the deviant lifestyle is the fact that the form is designed around the function in many Apple hardware and software products. This makes using a Mac (or an iPod) an enjoyable experience.
Actually, under certain circumstances the JVM will reclaim non-null references eventually. But you will still experience memory leak type symptoms until either you run out of available memory or the non-null references are cleaned up...
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Java supports various types of references, check here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang
For any potential or actual Powerbook owners out there that have been tracking this issue it's significant news. Apple has been criticized for their, as usual, silent treatment regarding this technical fault and its resolution.
It's not on the main page, so quit yer bitchin. Oh, and you're telling me that $1099 (12" iBook) is more than you'd want to pay for a Mac laptop, which you appear to lust after?
I purchased a Powerbook in Dec 2003 from the Apple Store online. I, like you, was unsure about purchasing a Mac versus a PC. I even had the white spot problem show up several months ago, which Apple happily took care of for fee, and I can tell you I'm very glad I went with the Powerbook.
It's just been an excellent machine, overall. It definitely is a turn-off to discover hardware issues like this white spot thing, but as long as Apple takes care of the problem, there's really nothing for you be worried about in terms of the product quality.
If you're worried about having the white spot problem on your Powerbook, just know that the revision 2 15" AlBooks have been out for a few months now and the problem seemed to be resolved last January or so.
You can't compare machines and medicines (physical objects) to software (abstract object).
Well, you _can_, but it makes for a poor argument.
Everything you mentioned, with the exception of forcing members of a private organization to vote, IS illegal.
They can't require you to smoke weed,
Smoking marijuana violates federal law.
they can't require you to work for less then minimum wage,
It is illegal for an employer to pay less than minimum wage.
they can't require you to shoot cops,
Again, shooting someone for the hell of it is illegal, no matter who you're shooting.
and they can't require you to vote. It's illegal to force or even reward anyone for voting.
I've never heard of a law that prohibits this. If the student doesn't want to, then they don't have to; they have the option of receiving the professor's wrath or simply withdrawing from the class or even the school.
Because saying it's 'Google like' means that they're taking a search capability for one environment (WWW) and translating it to another environment (user desktop system).
That makes it sound like they're coming up with something new rather than simply copying Apple's new Spotlight feature that will be debuting in OS X 10.4.
I don't think there's anything wrong with implementing features of your competition's product, but come on, no need to tiptoe around the fact.
This whole left and right referencing scheme is very limited. I'm a USian and would call myself a Libertarian if I had to call myself anything at all, and I don't identify with either the "left" or the "right" in my country.
And based on the United States' popular left (Democratic Party) and popular right (Republican Party), I'm really not seeing much (any?!) difference anyway...
From the article, discussing the MS Windows licensing decision, "Another point is the fact that Windows is a closed source Operating System. There is no community for Free Software development under Windows. The situation is very different from Linux, as you know. On Windows development usually happens as shareware or commercial software and we don't see that community evolving into producing Free Software."
Can you point me to a document where Trolltech states that they don't have a Free MS Windows version due to an umanageable amount of license policing?
I hear that... I'm just now starting to work on a project I'm coding in Python. I'd love to use PyQT, but one of my reasons for using Python is the portability. Why the hell would I choose a a cross-platform windowing API that is free (for non-commercial) for all but the OS family with the largest market share?
Yes, yes, it's their code and they can choose to do whatever they want with it. Well, I'll choose to use wxWindows instead...
It just kills me that they justify their GPL'd releases for Linux and MacOS X by helping the Free software community and yet it appears to be a completely alien idea to them (according to the interview) that just maybe there are some GPL developers out there that want to release software that runs on MS Windows.
I installed the security update this morning on my 15" AlPB and I use CVS over pserver at work and have seen no problems.
Just did a commit and an update for the hell of it, works fine...
Because all I got was AC's who thought I was being serious, thought I would reply to my own post to clarify...
It's a JOKE! Watch the fucking video, or atleast go to the redvsblue site!
Ok, I'm sure plenty of you have seen it, but for those of you that haven't check this (Quicktime format) out. If you weren't convinced that gaming on a Mac is totally awesome, you will be now!
Props to redvsblue.com and their work.
I just had to correct your use of the "conservatives" descriptor; you implied that all conservatives believe there are/were WMD in Iraq or were even pro-war. I believe the descriptor you meant to use is "neo-conservative hawk". The liberals have even come up with a catchy, shortened version, "neocon". So now you can grossly overgeneralize and group people into one umbrella political group while sounding more hip.
Conservative bashing is so last year... It's all about the neocons now! You damn hippies need to get with the program...
Or you could just go to lewrockwell.com and learn something...
Most /.'ers have probably seen the name Declan McCullagh (the author of the articles) around. As previously mentioned, an editor could've added the link, but... Based on Declan's history, it's quite possible the linking to the DeCSS executable is just an example of how the DMCA is ridiculous.
As for the negative assumption that the author or editor who included the link will be fired, I doubt it. It's definetly a possibility, but I think News.com would rather keep the publicity in the case that some trouble happens.
Northwood is very similar to the name Northwoods.
;)
Operation Northwoods was the plan the U.S. government came up with to frame terrorist attacks against both Americans and Cubans on the Cuban government.
Coincidence? Or, does Intel have a secret plan to take out AMD?
The journey is worth more than the destination, hacker-san...
Use the other hand!
Though burning down a SUV dealership my not be the BEST way to stop "crimes against the planet" it is ONE way. Think of who pays for the destruction, the owners of the dealership who are selling SUV's who obviously don't have much concern for the environment, they just want to make money. This is also possibly discouraging some people from purchasing SUV's, knowing that people will commit violent acts in order to prevent the use of SUV's.
Oh, I know, this is all awful. Where is my freedom, where is my right to waste resources and consume, consume, consume?! The fact is, it's sad that people have to resort to violence in order to get people's attention about important problems that affect everyone, like pollution. Education is the most important tool to create an informed society that is active in government and social issues.
I personally support violent action as long as no people or animals are harmed.
Though the problem with vigilante justice may be that at times it is done more out of emotion than intelligence, justice from the government is being sold to the highest bidder.
"They ignore peaceful protests!" -Aus Rotten
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