What the general public (and obviously many scientists) do not realize is that different classes of organisms have a higher or lower likelyhood of genetic transfer with other organisms. We do not see this much within ourselves but the nitrogen producing bacteria in the roots of clover has been shown to adopt genetic material from the clover. If the bacteria contains this new gene, how easy will it be transferred into a seperate plant species if a colony of that bacteria inhabit another plant? One easily extrapolate that genetic material of certain bacteria and plants is MUCH more transferrable than that of mammals and possible other "higher" organisms.
I read this in an old Scientific American article about 10 years ago so it is not new news.
At times, I think the only way to stop this is if we ALL start spamming so that the problem becomes so big that we bring the internet to its knees so we can get some laws passed.
God, I hate the stuff. The over sexualization of young girls. The goofy big eyes, the mannerisms with odd grunting and huhs. The pointy hair that could kill someone if they fell into into it. The mouths often being bigger than most of the face, the odd expressions that make no sense to us.
It is rare to find non offensively annoying animae.
My boss was one of the guys who built the Lunar Rover. For real, I'm not kidding. It weighed between 100 and 200 pounds and it could not hold up under earth's gravity. I was told that it unfolded from the lander and was designed to hold together on the moon's gravity which it did. So therefore, unless there was another fake moon buggy, the Rover had to be filmed running about in a lower gravity environment.
The slowness is in the gui. Probably because of perl messageing in the GUI. old g3s and machines with low video ram and conventional ram will be slow. the GUI shouldn't FEEL slow to the user. Check my other post on page 2. Search for Azav and you'll find it.
This is an important issue and I have been using macs since 1985. I have spent a lot of time trying to deal with X and it leaves much to be desired with regards to the user experience. In OS 9 and prior, you could butt up against the edges of the OS and it would not fail horribly. There was graceful failure. Not so yet in X. This leaves a bad taste in one's mouth when combined with the "perceived performance". In OS 7, there was a tenant of "percieved stability", ie the OS may not be stable but it must feel like it is. Well, OS X DOES have a perceived performance problem. Especially on G3 machines and those without enough ram or video ram. I feel that the messaging layer from the GUI to the underlying code is the problem here as Apple uses Perl to do the messaging. Hell, I write code in Director that is asynchronous and faster than Apple's OS X GUI. The finder is particularly bad here but the overall effect is that there feels like there is a layer of Molassas under the GUI. It feels sluggish and even if the code under OS X is fast as hell, the perception is that the GUI is not and the whole system is not. I have 10.2.1 on my G4 cube and two of my G3's but I almost never boot to it since OS 9 is just plain faster and the GUI feels better and doesn't punish me if I do something I should not. Lots of my associates love the unix under OS X and the GUI but I dislike the feel of unix and therefore it does not matter to me (cept with less crashes) for the most part.
A perl compiler would probably help to speed up the GUI on a per application basis but the facts are that you need a new ish video card for Quartz extreme, 512 meg of ram minimum and an 800 MHZ G4 for what I would consider to be percieved performance on par with OS 9 on my g3 500 laptop.
Even if it is not really slow, it sure feels slow. Slow enough to keep me in OS 9 for some time.
You should read up regarding data pipeline depths. Intel chips have a longer pipeline and this is not always a good thing. The chip used in macs today is not a PPC, but a G3-G4. These chips have shorter pipelines and can do more per clock cycle. So 800 mhz Intel 800 mhz Motorola.
The damn OS is slow enough already. We really need an extra 10 to 15% slower OS.
Where is my TYPE and CREATOR? OS X is A nice aqua interface with all the user hositility of Unix.
Unlike the old Os 9, where you could find your way and use it the way you like, you realyl have to use the OS the way it wants to be used. The friendly old (yet crash prone) mac os is gone and it REALLY sucks.
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What the general public (and obviously many scientists) do not realize is that different classes of organisms have a higher or lower likelyhood of genetic transfer with other organisms. We do not see this much within ourselves but the nitrogen producing bacteria in the roots of clover has been shown to adopt genetic material from the clover. If the bacteria contains this new gene, how easy will it be transferred into a seperate plant species if a colony of that bacteria inhabit another plant? One easily extrapolate that genetic material of certain bacteria and plants is MUCH more transferrable than that of mammals and possible other "higher" organisms.
I read this in an old Scientific American article about 10 years ago so it is not new news.
We fuck with nature in ways we do not understand.
Verio owes me $12,500 dollars for contract work that I will not get.
Granted, you can see they are not high on my list of preferred ISPs.
Be careful, don't let yourself get used.
Again.
Get fees upfront.
Jesus would have gotten himself creamed in business.
Besides using Director to do mac/pc development on windows 98...
I use one of my 6 macs. It is all about the UI and user experience for me.
EXCELLENT points Angelo. I particulary love this:
"The whole GNU/Linux movement just behaves as if 30 years of user interface design research never had happened."
Hell, I'll still use OS 9 till 10 gets its act up to speed.
File extensions are the spawn of the devil.
At times, I think the only way to stop this is if we ALL start spamming so that the problem becomes so big that we bring the internet to its knees so we can get some laws passed.
God, I hate the stuff. The over sexualization of young girls. The goofy big eyes, the mannerisms with odd grunting and huhs. The pointy hair that could kill someone if they fell into into it. The mouths often being bigger than most of the face, the odd expressions that make no sense to us.
It is rare to find non offensively annoying animae.
Give me Chuck Jones or give me death.
Well, we all know that RI is the smallest state and therefore has less gravity than say, Texas.
:]
Doesn't anyone study basic physics anymore?
How did they build it? Don't know. I do know that my boss does have a few plaques from Nasa for some Apollo (or equivalents) on his wall.
I'll get some more info from him Monday. Too wiped today.
My boss was one of the guys who built the Lunar Rover. For real, I'm not kidding. It weighed between 100 and 200 pounds and it could not hold up under earth's gravity. I was told that it unfolded from the lander and was designed to hold together on the moon's gravity which it did. So therefore, unless there was another fake moon buggy, the Rover had to be filmed running about in a lower gravity environment.
Rhode Island doesn't count.
The slowness is in the gui.
Probably because of perl messageing in the GUI.
old g3s and machines with low video ram and conventional ram will be slow.
the GUI shouldn't FEEL slow to the user.
Check my other post on page 2. Search for Azav and you'll find it.
Hope this helps.
Same here! G3 500, 256 meg of ram, OS 10.2.1
Laggy thing.
I'd love a g4 upgrade and a video card upgrade for this beast.
8 meg of ram is not enough.
Oh and the more external firewire hard drives you have, the longer the "spinning gear" appears on startup and shutdown.
WARNING. Do not abort shutdown when the gear is spinning. I've lost two drives that way.
Don't now what goes on then but sure makes the OS seem fragile.
You can't switch applications in OS 9? You're kidding right?
I've done that about a hundred times today on my g3 500 powerbook.
Seems odd.
This is an important issue and I have been using macs since 1985. I have spent a lot of time trying to deal with X and it leaves much to be desired with regards to the user experience. In OS 9 and prior, you could butt up against the edges of the OS and it would not fail horribly. There was graceful failure. Not so yet in X. This leaves a bad taste in one's mouth when combined with the "perceived performance". In OS 7, there was a tenant of "percieved stability", ie the OS may not be stable but it must feel like it is. Well, OS X DOES have a perceived performance problem. Especially on G3 machines and those without enough ram or video ram. I feel that the messaging layer from the GUI to the underlying code is the problem here as Apple uses Perl to do the messaging. Hell, I write code in Director that is asynchronous and faster than Apple's OS X GUI. The finder is particularly bad here but the overall effect is that there feels like there is a layer of Molassas under the GUI. It feels sluggish and even if the code under OS X is fast as hell, the perception is that the GUI is not and the whole system is not. I have 10.2.1 on my G4 cube and two of my G3's but I almost never boot to it since OS 9 is just plain faster and the GUI feels better and doesn't punish me if I do something I should not. Lots of my associates love the unix under OS X and the GUI but I dislike the feel of unix and therefore it does not matter to me (cept with less crashes) for the most part.
A perl compiler would probably help to speed up the GUI on a per application basis but the facts are that you need a new ish video card for Quartz extreme, 512 meg of ram minimum and an 800 MHZ G4 for what I would consider to be percieved performance on par with OS 9 on my g3 500 laptop.
Even if it is not really slow, it sure feels slow. Slow enough to keep me in OS 9 for some time.
If you actually want to see how some capacitors are made, you may enjoy these links.
c ap acitor/howto/index.html
http://www.reynoldsindustries.com/product/7mica
http://www.energybeam.com/my-caps.html
Pretty interesting.
You should read up regarding data pipeline depths. Intel chips have a longer pipeline and this is not always a good thing. The chip used in macs today is not a PPC, but a G3-G4. These chips have shorter pipelines and can do more per clock cycle. So 800 mhz Intel 800 mhz Motorola.
These people are idiots. Can we please can it with the case mods, the "type R" stickers and paint can exhausts on computers?
Please?
Since this technology works on light interferance, it appears that it needs a light source. Something not mentioned on their web site.
It's pretty hard to see a butterfly in the dark, I'll bet these displays will have interesting color issues when the ambient light changes.
Or any motors either. Each motor has several magnets in it.
Or you could have magnets that are shielded.
Exactly!
These "pretty colored" fans are idiotic. Cool the damn computer and spend your money on that technology, not on how pretty the blades are.
The term "Monitor spanning" does not apply to macintoshes since you are NOT spanning one screen to multiple monitors.
The correct term is "multiple monitor support" because the macintosh has been built with support for multiple monitors from day two.
Please use the correct terminology.
My God. You sound exactly like me. Get out of my head you bastard.
I recall reading that Apple did hire the guy who did the BeOS journaling file system. Read into this what you will.
The damn OS is slow enough already. We really need an extra 10 to 15% slower OS.
Where is my TYPE and CREATOR? OS X is A nice aqua interface with all the user hositility of Unix.
Unlike the old Os 9, where you could find your way and use it the way you like, you realyl have to use the OS the way it wants to be used. The friendly old (yet crash prone) mac os is gone and it REALLY sucks.
File extensions are evil.