Again, this misconception, that Microsoft bought Apple. No, they didn't - they bought 150 million worth of AAPL shares but even then, Apple had net worth of over 4 billion dollars. As you can see, they were not in danger of being bought out. Also, Microsoft has liquidated those shares (at a tidy profit mind you), so Apple is completely un-tainted by it now. In fact, in case you haven't been following Slashdot recently, they're competing with Microsoft again.
They have the advantage of learning from 30-odd years of American and Russian spaceflight research. They've acquired a lot from public sources, and, like any good country with a strong military-industrial complex, the rest by subterfuge. Plus we know (and I say this as a simple statement of fact), the Chinese are excellent imitators. I predict rapid progress.
", it's been a bitch to try and get a copy of the Do Not Pedal List" -so I've had to drive rather than ride my tricycle while distributing my wares to my gang of armed thugs
WOONSOCKET, RI: In other news, users of popular peer-to-peer file-swapping networks like Kazaa, Bearshare, and Gnutella were shocked on Thursday by the announcement that these networks would also cease to provide unlimited downloads. "I'm going to go rob a record store" said Ken Schnizzle, bassist for the local Nirvana tribute band 'Seeping Brain Tissue', "because that's about the only way I can get unlimited music now!"
If you're using CPAN, you can create a custom bundle that CPAN.pm can use to clone your custom Perl library on a new system. It's a bit futzy, in my experience, but better than A) remembering what you need to install B) determining what you need to install by looking at the begininnings of half a dozen scripts and C) getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick
Yes. This happens with AFP-mounted drives too. I file a bug report with every point release of the operating system and I get the same response "We know about it". It must be a serious issue or they woulda fixed it by now. It's a real black eye on an otherwise exceedingly stable and usable (in my hands at least) operating system.
I've managed to figure out that the system is trying to re-establish communication with the drive, but it just fails to ever throw in the towel. Interestingly, when this happens, all carbon-based applications seize up, but Cocoa-based apps and all CLI applications continue to be functional.
If I could only find out what process what responsible for the hang, maybe we could kill -9 it with extreme prejudice and not have to force a reboot, but I've had no luck with that.
The Newton had a personal web server written from scratch as far back as 1996. I improved it from 1998 to 1999 and released it to much fanfare, including such features as built-in HTTP-based instant messenging and Newtonscript server-side includes. Heck, some guys with wireless modems in the bay area were able to use it to serve wirelessly. One guy liked it so much, he featured it in Wired mag (when Wired was still cool). The code was released under the GPL in the summer of 1999 and it's been taken and used for rather extensive development. Check out http://npds.free.fr/ for details on the continuing story of the earliest (and perhaps the coolest) handheld web server.
I hate to mention it, but a certain fruit-like top-10 computer manufacturer is shipping a microkernel-based OS RIGHT NOW. There are some that might argue that the number of units they're shipping makes them the largest UNIX vendor right now.
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen. Been married for six years myself and we even have a shorty who's 10 months old. It's great, especially if you have managed to find a fellow geekette who understands the need to have computer parts lying around the house, a poster of HAL 9000 in the bedroom, etc.
As for those criticising Taco's choice of proposal venue, it's his friggin' site, for crying out loud. If he wants to propose here, he damn well can. If you have a problem with it, you're probably bitter because you're D.I.H. on another Valentine's Day
I disagree. When you set out to repeat an experiment done by some other group, you treat the results with deep skepticism, just like you do your own. When you've eliminated, by careful and thorough choice of control experiments and excellent experimental technique, all other likely possibilities to explain a finding, you can then accept that finding as a tenative fact, subject to disproval at any time in the future.
Simple, dear boy. You need to work out your abs and gluts and back by grabbing your wife (or other s.o.) and giving him/her/it/them a good poking. This will do wonders for you, believe me, and as a side effect, you'll be away from the keyboard for at least 15 minutes (longer for some) which will help on it s own.
The greenhouse effect has NOTHING to do with skin cancer. You're thinking of the depletion of the ozone layer which is caused by chlorofluorocarbons released from aerosol cans and refrigerators. If half the population is going to die from the greenhouse effect (which is a plausible scenario), it's going to be from political turmoil induced by the climate-shift-induced change in location of the world's farmable lands.
My camera doesn't have a computer in it. Adding computers to a camera doesn't make it functionally better. The function is to image a scene, with a print as the end product.
Are you sure it doesn't? Does it have a light meter (the kind that show up in the view finder) ? If so, that's a simple analog computer, without which you would have to have a standalone light meter to be sure you could "image a scene" with enough light.
Does it have autofocus? If so, you can bet your life it has a computer onboard
I think you mis-define "computer". Just because you can't run Linux on it doesn't mean it's not a computer.
The biggest difference that I have notices is the flexibility. The are many other changes as well, dir structure, shell options, program invocation, etc.. but as I seid the biggest difference I noticed was flexibility. With BSD it is "you" BSD and you can make it do what you want. With OS X it is Apples BSD, designed to do one thing and allow only limited functionality if that one thing is not what you are interested in.
Bullcrap! With the developer tools installed (a free download, mind you), I have de novo developed and/or ported software to do a whole host of UNIX-based DNA sequence manipulation tasks. These were traditionally big-iron programs in the past but with 500 Mhz of processor and 256M RAM, I can crunch genomes with the best of them. I don't think Apple had this task in mind specifically when they sent me the OSX beta, but nevertheless, it seemed to be readily adaptible. How was it you were defining "flexible" again?
Usually, it's fairly easy.
The problems I've had with the public beta have centered around the fact that Darwin was missing a few libraries and had sort of a goofy threading implementation. Also, a lot of config scripts don't recognize the darwin-1.2-powerpc machine/os type so sometimes I have had to tweak that manually. However, most of these problems are already fixed or will be fixed real soon now.
As for the shell prompt.. it doesn't use bash by default (since bash is GPL). However, there's nuthin stopping you from using it.
All in all, it feels like a pretty clean, pure UNIX. When starting Darwin development, I had experience using NetBSD and OpenBSD, and it was a pretty easy switch for me to make.
"it turns out human cloning is not possible right now. This is close to my area of research."
You've tried? Unless it's your area of research and you're a principal investigator, I don't know that you can make that statement. It's unscientific.
"The risks associated from harvesting that many eggs from one human would be high."
Since the egg is a simple repository for the nucleus, they don't all have to be from one woman.
"Turns out the success rates go dawn sharply as the genome gets more complex."
Relatively speaking, the genomes of all higher vertebrates are of the same complexity. Small changes rather than overall shifts in 'complexity' are responsible for what we observe as speciation from the general vertebrate body plan.
"Finally there is the telomerase issue..."
This has not been proven to correlate with decreased lifespan in the clones.
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Again, this misconception, that Microsoft bought Apple. No, they didn't - they bought 150 million worth of AAPL shares but even then, Apple had net worth of over 4 billion dollars. As you can see, they were not in danger of being bought out. Also, Microsoft has liquidated those shares (at a tidy profit mind you), so Apple is completely un-tainted by it now. In fact, in case you haven't been following Slashdot recently, they're competing with Microsoft again.
They have the advantage of learning from 30-odd years of American and Russian spaceflight research. They've acquired a lot from public sources, and, like any good country with a strong military-industrial complex, the rest by subterfuge. Plus we know (and I say this as a simple statement of fact), the Chinese are excellent imitators. I predict rapid progress.
", it's been a bitch to try and get a copy of the Do Not Pedal List" -so I've had to drive rather than ride my tricycle while distributing my wares to my gang of armed thugs
WOONSOCKET, RI: In other news, users of popular peer-to-peer file-swapping networks like Kazaa, Bearshare, and Gnutella were shocked on Thursday by the announcement that these networks would also cease to provide unlimited downloads. "I'm going to go rob a record store" said Ken Schnizzle, bassist for the local Nirvana tribute band 'Seeping Brain Tissue', "because that's about the only way I can get unlimited music now!"
I, for one, welcome our new robotic lizard overlords
If you're using CPAN, you can create a custom bundle that CPAN.pm can use to clone your custom Perl library on a new system. It's a bit futzy, in my experience, but better than A) remembering what you need to install B) determining what you need to install by looking at the begininnings of half a dozen scripts and C) getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick
Yes. This happens with AFP-mounted drives too. I file a bug report with every point release of the operating system and I get the same response "We know about it". It must be a serious issue or they woulda fixed it by now. It's a real black eye on an otherwise exceedingly stable and usable (in my hands at least) operating system.
I've managed to figure out that the system is trying to re-establish communication with the drive, but it just fails to ever throw in the towel. Interestingly, when this happens, all carbon-based applications seize up, but Cocoa-based apps and all CLI applications continue to be functional.
If I could only find out what process what responsible for the hang, maybe we could kill -9 it with extreme prejudice and not have to force a reboot, but I've had no luck with that.
The Newton had a personal web server written from scratch as far back as 1996. I improved it from 1998 to 1999 and released it to much fanfare, including such features as built-in HTTP-based instant messenging and Newtonscript server-side includes. Heck, some guys with wireless modems in the bay area were able to use it to serve wirelessly. One guy liked it so much, he featured it in Wired mag (when Wired was still cool). The code was released under the GPL in the summer of 1999 and it's been taken and used for rather extensive development. Check out http://npds.free.fr/ for details on the continuing story of the earliest (and perhaps the coolest) handheld web server.
I hate to mention it, but a certain fruit-like top-10 computer manufacturer is shipping a microkernel-based OS RIGHT NOW. There are some that might argue that the number of units they're shipping makes them the largest UNIX vendor right now.
Emacs IS part of the default MacOS X install. Schweet, huh?
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen. Been married for six years myself and we even have a shorty who's 10 months old. It's great, especially if you have managed to find a fellow geekette who understands the need to have computer parts lying around the house, a poster of HAL 9000 in the bedroom, etc.
As for those criticising Taco's choice of proposal venue, it's his friggin' site, for crying out loud. If he wants to propose here, he damn well can. If you have a problem with it, you're probably bitter because you're D.I.H. on another Valentine's Day
I disagree. When you set out to repeat an experiment done by some other group, you treat the results with deep skepticism, just like you do your own. When you've eliminated, by careful and thorough choice of control experiments and excellent experimental technique, all other likely possibilities to explain a finding, you can then accept that finding as a tenative fact, subject to disproval at any time in the future.
Simple, dear boy. You need to work out your abs and gluts and back by grabbing your wife (or other s.o.) and giving him/her/it/them a good poking. This will do wonders for you, believe me, and as a side effect, you'll be away from the keyboard for at least 15 minutes (longer for some) which will help on it s own.
A massively parallel distributed "BUSHEL" of Apples.
The greenhouse effect has NOTHING to do with skin cancer. You're thinking of the depletion of the ozone layer which is caused by chlorofluorocarbons released from aerosol cans and refrigerators. If half the population is going to die from the greenhouse effect (which is a plausible scenario), it's going to be from political turmoil induced by the climate-shift-induced change in location of the world's farmable lands.
Are you sure it doesn't? Does it have a light meter (the kind that show up in the view finder) ? If so, that's a simple analog computer, without which you would have to have a standalone light meter to be sure you could "image a scene" with enough light.
Does it have autofocus? If so, you can bet your life it has a computer onboard
I think you mis-define "computer". Just because you can't run Linux on it doesn't mean it's not a computer.
It's an abuse of the word "scientific"
Don't forget the ask the next question...
Then who or what created God? Yes, I know, God is all-powerful and has always existed. The same could be said of the Universe.
The biggest difference that I have notices is the flexibility. The are many other changes as well, dir structure, shell options, program invocation, etc.. but as I seid the biggest difference I noticed was flexibility. With BSD it is "you" BSD and you can make it do what you want. With OS X it is Apples BSD, designed to do one thing and allow only limited functionality if that one thing is not what you are interested in.
Bullcrap! With the developer tools installed (a free download, mind you), I have de novo developed and/or ported software to do a whole host of UNIX-based DNA sequence manipulation tasks. These were traditionally big-iron programs in the past but with 500 Mhz of processor and 256M RAM, I can crunch genomes with the best of them. I don't think Apple had this task in mind specifically when they sent me the OSX beta, but nevertheless, it seemed to be readily adaptible. How was it you were defining "flexible" again?
Usually, it's fairly easy.
The problems I've had with the public beta have centered around the fact that Darwin was missing a few libraries and had sort of a goofy threading implementation. Also, a lot of config scripts don't recognize the darwin-1.2-powerpc machine/os type so sometimes I have had to tweak that manually. However, most of these problems are already fixed or will be fixed real soon now.
As for the shell prompt.. it doesn't use bash by default (since bash is GPL). However, there's nuthin stopping you from using it.
All in all, it feels like a pretty clean, pure UNIX. When starting Darwin development, I had experience using NetBSD and OpenBSD, and it was a pretty easy switch for me to make.
And if the object of your desire isn't an *adult*? Is it still adultery? ;-)
Yes, Amber, but this is all on a machine from *gasp* Apple that hasn't even been produced since 1998. How old is your Wince machine?
Also, the "Macintalk" port isn't a connector.. it's an OS-level high-quality text to speech engine "ported" over from MacOS.
"it turns out human cloning is not possible right now. This is close to my area of research."
You've tried? Unless it's your area of research and you're a principal investigator, I don't know that you can make that statement. It's unscientific.
"The risks associated from harvesting that many eggs from one human would be high."
Since the egg is a simple repository for the nucleus, they don't all have to be from one woman.
"Turns out the success rates go dawn sharply as the genome gets more complex."
Relatively speaking, the genomes of all higher vertebrates are of the same complexity. Small changes rather than overall shifts in 'complexity' are responsible for what we observe as speciation from the general vertebrate body plan.
"Finally there is the telomerase issue..."
This has not been proven to correlate with decreased lifespan in the clones.
The entire contiguous continent has been demoted to the status of island!
Or this.. http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/powerpc/