Beware of people who say "If you want to be any kind of , you MUST learn ".
These people usually rely on periodicals like Infoworld to "keep up with the industry", "keep up with technology", and generally discern their heads from their asses.
I'd wager most systems analysts on earth haven't even heard of UML.
I'm also an electronic musician and have had good luck with USB audio adapters.
There are three rather good cheap ones out right now:
- The iMic which works on Win32 machines and run for $35, check out their stats at www.griffintechnology.com. 24 bit/48khz, etc.
As well as the somewhat cheap entries from Emagic and Roland/Edirol
All three support ASIO, I believe. I've never experienced any performance issues with USB audio devices, as the USB bandwidth is more than enough to handle audio tasks.
Screw the lunchbox, and just stick with the laptop, it's much easier to work from one computer, and if you're like me, you're surgically attached to your laptop.
In the meantime, Apple needs to get off their asses and speed up the OS X finder, and maybe update the BSD side to quasi-current technology.
OS X is nice, and very full-featured, now just optimize it a little, christ. I'd be much more happy if they had just stuck with the old interface and gradually worked in Aqua.
Remember, it's not all about getting new customers, it's also about not alienating and shitting on your existing customers.
I was a Bomb/Nav tech on the B-52's and can definitely attest to their resilience. While the airframe is old, they are running early 80's era technology throughout many areas.
The bombing systems run off of 3 computing units, each with as I remember four Z-80A processors. Data is loaded from harden (and sloooow) tape drives.
The Nav/bombardier compartment is on the first floor, but it does sit quite a ways back from the pilot. Underneath the pilot's is the main radar antenna.
The FLIR and STV systems were top. The FLIR was especially handy in the blizzard-ridden hellhole I was stationed at. We could use them to discern the sex of people from far away (different hotspots), and we could also located our boss driving the trick in a whiteout. He was a chain smoker, so we would just aim it out on the flightline, and wait for the telltale thin white heat line of a man driving a work truck with his cigarette hanging out the window....
Sgt. Barker if you're out there, give me a ring at:
greygent [at] absent [dot] org
I loved working on B-52's, they were excellent, quality planes...and I actually do miss the flightline life...
Working on B-1s...was another story. Nothing scares a pilot thats about to take off, more, than when an advanced avionics tech rushes up into the plane to fix a problem with a rubber mallet (sticky relays). when I was in the military, I read a report that stated as things stand, even though the B-1 is 20 years newer, the B-52 airframe will still far outlast the B-1.
Actually they are... do you think the EFF and various other folks actually give that much of a fuck about pirating DVD's? No, they're concerned about politicians being successfully lobbied to rob us of our constitutional rights.
Hell, I wore my DeCSS shirts long before I ever owned a DVD or a DVD player, for that matter. It's not about DVD's specifically, it's about our rights being eroded a small chunk at a time. "They came for the jews, and I did nothing, They can for the blacks and I did nothing, They came for me, and no one was left to help me" sort of thing. I think Jesse Helms of all people, said it best when asked why he was such a nazi bastard: (paraphrased) "If we bow down even a little now, they'll take more, later".
I don't particularly see why someone would waste so much time copying a DVD, when they could just buy it for $25. Hell, you can even rent it at Blockbuster before you buy it, to make sure you want to make the $25 investment into it. Try doing that with Windows XP legally.
Besides, do you think the average Mac user has the scruples to do ANYTHING beyond find and click the Install icon? No, they don't, and even if they did, they're Mac owners who invested a significant amount of their hard-earned cash into Apple, hoping at some point they'd finish Taligent, err I mean Copland, err I mean Rhapsody, err I mean OS X. It's not like they aren't Apple customers. It's not like some guy at home building a PC and pirating a copy of XP to run on it. These people gamble on Apple.
I personally purchased my Mac with great reservations about Apple's direction. I don't want to have my nice new G4/867 obsoleted in 6 months when OS X 10.5 with Aqua++ comes out. Even G3 users are fucked. OS X 10.1 on an iMac is painfully slow. Rhapsody was speedy.
No biggy, fed-b-gone.sourceforge.net will appear on the net shortly after the FBI starts using it, and every semi-witted criminal will use it. This program will detect and neutralize the FBI trojan and all will be back to square one.
Version 1.2 will have animated systray icons, audio alarms, and alphanumeric/SMS paging.
Also, this presents an exciting new opportunity for virus authors to try and mask their payloads as Magic Lantern.
Where have YOU been? This has been a part of Windows 2000 from day 1. Far longer than OS X or Aqua has been around (in development or otherwise). GDI+ is pretty nifty.
It is simply amazing how many people want to use GNOME together with Mac OSX
One guy on a Mac site writing about how great it is running GNOME alongside OS X != many people. At most, people may want to run it temporarily just to see what it's about.
The Mac OS X environment blows away GNOME in terms of functionality and usability. I know, I use them both regularly. Why add the bloated overhead of Xfree and GNOME over the somewhat bloated Aqua interface?
I remember owning the old Digitech (Newtek, Video Toaster, Digipaint 3) camera stuff for the Amiga way back when.
Since color cameras were still prohibitly expensive back then, they gave you a black and white video camera, with three color filters to hold in front of the camera while taking a snapshot. THIS is how you used their product! The program would then combine the color values into a color picture for you.
Old hack, but still neat. I might have to get me one of those Gameboy thingies, what with the digital cameras and plethora of audio sequencing software for it.
Nice comment, but there are a few points I feel I must correct.
1.) The only reason Sun is into "pluralism" is out of necessity. They would go under if they didn't. Granted, Solaris is a stellar OS, but Sun the corporation is easily as evil, or even moreso, than Microsoft. Right now, they're just the underdog, so it's an "an enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation.
Ask anyone administering a large solaris infrastructure what they think of Sun's openness. Sun also has some bone to pick with Microsoft, so they'll take cheap shots any chance they can get.
2.) I think Microsoft does believe in empowering the user. They may be a bit off-course, though. I still believe Microsoft's development tools are second-to-none, and their API documentation, for the most part is excellent.
Erm, I have an NVidia video card in my Mac already, thanks.
They don't need to team with AMD, their PPC platform is nice enough now. I went to the Mac world to ESCAPE the x86 crapform (not to mention a few other crap things (Hi MS)
Ah, to finally escape the MS monopoly and still have an immensely usable computer system for multimedia and productivity apps with mainstream support.
I fully expected the U.S. government to back down and let Microsoft go free. And what has Microsoft learned from all of this? Nothing. Why? Because they're "untouchable".
Burn in hell, Microsoft....
And I mean that as a former customer, not a Linux zealot.
Apple should thank Microsoft for the large influx of new customers they have been given. Microsoft's BS is the main reason I bought a nice new G4 instead of building a (cheaper, but crappier user experience) PC.
Of course, having UNIX/OS X finally run decently on it, with undoubtedly the nicest (note, I didn't say prettiest) GUI available for UNIX, had a large part to do with it.
The fact of the matter comes down to this. I tweak and code and hack with UNIX all day long at work. when I come home I want something that just works, but I'm fussy...I want the power of UNIX there when I need it, too. Sure, I could use 2000 or XP and cygwin, but I'm still locked into Microsoft's idea of what I want, not what I want.
I'm not a Microsoft hater, or an Apple evangelist at all. I love Windows 2000, it's reasonably fast and very stable, but I'm not going to support Microsoft when they pull these kinds of shenanigans, it's wrong.
I just got done with a fraud battle on Ebay and this page was of immense help, and eventually got me my full money back from the bastard who tried to swindle me:
http://www.mindspring.com/~bookdealers/ripoff.ht ml
Pay particularly close attention to the sections on reporting the fraud to the IFCC section of the FBI, and the Postal Inspector fraud complaint form.
In the postal inspector's case, when you file a fraud report, they notify the person that they're being investigated. This led to me promptly getting a $600 money order from the criminal in question. They actually had the money order to me in a day, and it cost them $25 to mail it. File reports galore, and try to get as much information about the person that you can.
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Beware of people who say "If you want to be any kind of , you MUST learn ".
These people usually rely on periodicals like Infoworld to "keep up with the industry", "keep up with technology", and generally discern their heads from their asses.
I'd wager most systems analysts on earth haven't even heard of UML.
So much for trying out JBuilder on my Java adventures.
Bye, Borland!
>I also don't think OSX, while being UNIX-compatible, should be called a version of UNIX
Check your facts.
Actually it SHOULD be called UNIX:
1.) It's largely based on BSD. Despite what lawsuits say, BSD IS UNIX, and always has been.
2.) Apple's OS X got the UNIX (R) "certification a long time ago [slashdot.org]. So both technically and legally, OS X is UNIX.
Let me also take this time to plug EM411, and excellent online community dedicated to electronic musicians. Loads of info and loads of cool people.
Discussions often get very technical.
www.em411.com
I'm also an electronic musician and have had good luck with USB audio adapters.
There are three rather good cheap ones out right now:
- The iMic which works on Win32 machines and run for $35, check out their stats at www.griffintechnology.com. 24 bit/48khz, etc.
As well as the somewhat cheap entries from Emagic and Roland/Edirol
All three support ASIO, I believe. I've never experienced any performance issues with USB audio devices, as the USB bandwidth is more than enough to handle audio tasks.
Screw the lunchbox, and just stick with the laptop, it's much easier to work from one computer, and if you're like me, you're surgically attached to your laptop.
Still not fast enough. I own an 867 quicksilver and a 667 titanium, and its like flying in an F16 everytime i boot into OS9 or use a win2k machine
That's great, new stuff, blah blah blah.
In the meantime, Apple needs to get off their asses and speed up the OS X finder, and maybe update the BSD side to quasi-current technology.
OS X is nice, and very full-featured, now just optimize it a little, christ. I'd be much more happy if they had just stuck with the old interface and gradually worked in Aqua.
Remember, it's not all about getting new customers, it's also about not alienating and shitting on your existing customers.
Hooyah!
I was a Bomb/Nav tech on the B-52's and can definitely attest to their resilience. While the airframe is old, they are running early 80's era technology throughout many areas.
The bombing systems run off of 3 computing units, each with as I remember four Z-80A processors. Data is loaded from harden (and sloooow) tape drives.
The Nav/bombardier compartment is on the first floor, but it does sit quite a ways back from the pilot. Underneath the pilot's is the main radar antenna.
The FLIR and STV systems were top. The FLIR was especially handy in the blizzard-ridden hellhole I was stationed at. We could use them to discern the sex of people from far away (different hotspots), and we could also located our boss driving the trick in a whiteout. He was a chain smoker, so we would just aim it out on the flightline, and wait for the telltale thin white heat line of a man driving a work truck with his cigarette hanging out the window....
Sgt. Barker if you're out there, give me a ring at:
greygent [at] absent [dot] org
I loved working on B-52's, they were excellent, quality planes...and I actually do miss the flightline life...
Working on B-1s...was another story. Nothing scares a pilot thats about to take off, more, than when an advanced avionics tech rushes up into the plane to fix a problem with a rubber mallet (sticky relays). when I was in the military, I read a report that stated as things stand, even though the B-1 is 20 years newer, the B-52 airframe will still far outlast the B-1.
Read the fucking article. They're using X10 shit and lamps. And your post got moderated +3!
Encoded not encrypted...there's a distinction.
What the hell does leverage mean, anyways? Absolutely nothing! It's a meaningless, generic verb that could mean anything, thanks!
> Are they trashing freedom-of-speech?
Actually they are... do you think the EFF and various other folks actually give that much of a fuck about pirating DVD's? No, they're concerned about politicians being successfully lobbied to rob us of our constitutional rights.
Hell, I wore my DeCSS shirts long before I ever owned a DVD or a DVD player, for that matter. It's not about DVD's specifically, it's about our rights being eroded a small chunk at a time. "They came for the jews, and I did nothing, They can for the blacks and I did nothing, They came for me, and no one was left to help me" sort of thing. I think Jesse Helms of all people, said it best when asked why he was such a nazi bastard: (paraphrased) "If we bow down even a little now, they'll take more, later".
I don't particularly see why someone would waste so much time copying a DVD, when they could just buy it for $25. Hell, you can even rent it at Blockbuster before you buy it, to make sure you want to make the $25 investment into it. Try doing that with Windows XP legally.
Besides, do you think the average Mac user has the scruples to do ANYTHING beyond find and click the Install icon? No, they don't, and even if they did, they're Mac owners who invested a significant amount of their hard-earned cash into Apple, hoping at some point they'd finish Taligent, err I mean Copland, err I mean Rhapsody, err I mean OS X. It's not like they aren't Apple customers. It's not like some guy at home building a PC and pirating a copy of XP to run on it. These people gamble on Apple.
I personally purchased my Mac with great reservations about Apple's direction. I don't want to have my nice new G4/867 obsoleted in 6 months when OS X 10.5 with Aqua++ comes out. Even G3 users are fucked. OS X 10.1 on an iMac is painfully slow. Rhapsody was speedy.
> Is waiting for fsck to finish really that much of a problem for you?
Yes, actually, when you're dealing with servers with 100's of gigs.
No biggy, fed-b-gone.sourceforge.net will appear on the net shortly after the FBI starts using it, and every semi-witted criminal will use it. This program will detect and neutralize the FBI trojan and all will be back to square one.
Version 1.2 will have animated systray icons, audio alarms, and alphanumeric/SMS paging.
Also, this presents an exciting new opportunity for virus authors to try and mask their payloads as Magic Lantern.
Where have YOU been? This has been a part of Windows 2000 from day 1. Far longer than OS X or Aqua has been around (in development or otherwise). GDI+ is pretty nifty.
A win2k/OS X lover.
It is simply amazing how many people want to use GNOME together with Mac OSX
One guy on a Mac site writing about how great it is running GNOME alongside OS X != many people. At most, people may want to run it temporarily just to see what it's about.
The Mac OS X environment blows away GNOME in terms of functionality and usability. I know, I use them both regularly. Why add the bloated overhead of Xfree and GNOME over the somewhat bloated Aqua interface?
What does GNOME do that Aqua doesn't?
Will the real Wil Wheaton please stand up?
please stand up...
please stand up...
Now, dye your hair blonde, and make sideways pistol shooting motions with your hand, and be fellated by hordes of nerds.
I remember owning the old Digitech (Newtek, Video Toaster, Digipaint 3) camera stuff for the Amiga way back when.
Since color cameras were still prohibitly expensive back then, they gave you a black and white video camera, with three color filters to hold in front of the camera while taking a snapshot. THIS is how you used their product! The program would then combine the color values into a color picture for you.
Old hack, but still neat. I might have to get me one of those Gameboy thingies, what with the digital cameras and plethora of audio sequencing software for it.
Nice comment, but there are a few points I feel I must correct.
1.) The only reason Sun is into "pluralism" is out of necessity. They would go under if they didn't. Granted, Solaris is a stellar OS, but Sun the corporation is easily as evil, or even moreso, than Microsoft. Right now, they're just the underdog, so it's an "an enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation.
Ask anyone administering a large solaris infrastructure what they think of Sun's openness. Sun also has some bone to pick with Microsoft, so they'll take cheap shots any chance they can get.
2.) I think Microsoft does believe in empowering the user. They may be a bit off-course, though. I still believe Microsoft's development tools are second-to-none, and their API documentation, for the most part is excellent.
Erm, I have an NVidia video card in my Mac already, thanks.
They don't need to team with AMD, their PPC platform is nice enough now. I went to the Mac world to ESCAPE the x86 crapform (not to mention a few other crap things (Hi MS)
Is being a millworker, and picketing with your union for better pay and/or benefits wrong?
Ah, to finally escape the MS monopoly and still have an immensely usable computer system for multimedia and productivity apps with mainstream support.
I fully expected the U.S. government to back down and let Microsoft go free. And what has Microsoft learned from all of this? Nothing. Why? Because they're "untouchable".
Burn in hell, Microsoft....
And I mean that as a former customer, not a Linux zealot.
One example is the CIFS whitepaper.
"Common Insecurities Fail Scrutiny"
Apple should thank Microsoft for the large influx of new customers they have been given. Microsoft's BS is the main reason I bought a nice new G4 instead of building a (cheaper, but crappier user experience) PC.
Of course, having UNIX/OS X finally run decently on it, with undoubtedly the nicest (note, I didn't say prettiest) GUI available for UNIX, had a large part to do with it.
The fact of the matter comes down to this. I tweak and code and hack with UNIX all day long at work. when I come home I want something that just works, but I'm fussy...I want the power of UNIX there when I need it, too. Sure, I could use 2000 or XP and cygwin, but I'm still locked into Microsoft's idea of what I want, not what I want.
I'm not a Microsoft hater, or an Apple evangelist at all. I love Windows 2000, it's reasonably fast and very stable, but I'm not going to support Microsoft when they pull these kinds of shenanigans, it's wrong.
I just got done with a fraud battle on Ebay and this page was of immense help, and eventually got me my full money back from the bastard who tried to swindle me:
t ml
http://www.mindspring.com/~bookdealers/ripoff.h
Pay particularly close attention to the sections on reporting the fraud to the IFCC section of the FBI, and the Postal Inspector fraud complaint form.
In the postal inspector's case, when you file a fraud report, they notify the person that they're being investigated. This led to me promptly getting a $600 money order from the criminal in question. They actually had the money order to me in a day, and it cost them $25 to mail it. File reports galore, and try to get as much information about the person that you can.