In some tests the emulated X server is faster than the Native XDarwin.
Really? I did the opposite and got my emulated RedHat to use XDarwin as it's window server via the network. Suddenly, it feel like native speed! I guess that might just be because the emulated x86 has less to do but it's a good trick to speed up emulated X-Window based unixes.
First of all, the news is kind of old, as AbiWord 1.0.1 was put out more then a week ago. (April 29, 2002)
Did you submit the news to slashdot? If you did and it got rejected then your comment is reasonable. If not, why didn't you? If everyone had your mentality then the only stuff on slashdot would be the stuff CmdrTaco finds.
Do you get a kick out of the elite feeling of knowing news no one else knows or are you just too lazy to fill out a submission?
Sorry if this sounds harsh, it's not meant to be a troll. I'm just sick of people whining about the fact that slashdot occasionally gets (oh the humanity!) week-old news. I can understand if it's news from the 70s or 1995 or if it's repeated but week-old?
The sad thing is with the current state of the USPTO you could probably patent your idea and have it granted. And have the media put you on a pedestal for helping the <stupid name>War on Terror<\stupid name>.
Always remember: if people like you don't innovate, the terrorists have won.
Is real research really that hard up for media attention? Is science not "sellable" unless is about transporters and FTL devices?
Not to mention that *every* scientific discovery reported must fight bioterrorism. This is really starting to piss me off. Example: that mobile phone hack that uses the RF chip to detect a protein (IIRC). This has obvious medical applications, as well as tricorder-style remote sensing applications. But what does the media hype its use as? It can detect... anthrax!!! Yippee. How many people did the anthrax kill? Now, how many die from salmonella poisoning? This is something that this hack could help detect, assuming salmonella has at least one unique protein.
Note: I may be way off on it's detection abilities but you get the point. The media is obsessed with a high-profile, low-incidence disease. Hell, more people die from the flu.
The other thing I forgot to say was that our schooling not only taught us to distrust news but also to treat it as info-tainment (slightly informative entertainment). So I basically agree with what you said 100%, I just didn't think to write it. What I was driving at was: We have to be told the truth, both sides, whether we like it or not. Ratings should not govern the decisions of news and current affairs shows.
The sad thing is that our education systems don't teach us to question the news. I remember being in my social studies class and we read the the news and treated it like it was all the facts.
Here in Australia, we in High School (senior year) had a term topic called "Representations of Truth" which basically drilled into us a distrust of everything the media says. Apparently, courses like this come up about every ten years or so but, usually, they're gone in a year or two. Someone doesn't like it.
IMHO, the article's right. The big problem is the one-sidedness of the media. The Egyptian youth only see pictures glorifying suicide bombers, while we only see pictures of barbarians who dared to attack the West, the torchbearer of everything that is good and just in the world </sarcasm>.
The people who said global media would bring peace weren't wrong. We just *don't have* a global media. We have two separate propaganda machines, one on the Islamic side (or wherever) and one on our side. We need full, unbiased reporting, not the fear and hate mongering that has filled our screens since September 11. The media shapes public opinion. Most people will believe what they're told to believe.
But then again, I'm just a kid. What would I know?
You do realize that it's not an out-of-the-box mach kernel in Mac OS X, don't you? Apple has gone for the compromise of loading the drivers and the whole BSD layer into kernel space along with the mach kernel. This got rid of most of the multiple trips across the kernel-user space barrier that you're reporting.
Have you got benchmarks for Mac OS X? You don't even say what version of mach it was.
Would you care to outline its exact problems, or is "but it's old" good enough for you? Most of the things you stated would require a bit of tweaking, not scrapping the VM and starting over.
Chimera has proxy support, it just doesn't have the preferences UI for it yet. Grab a terminal window and type "open ~/.mozilla/Profiles/Chimera/". You'll see a folder called [something].slt. Open it and open the prefs.js file in TextEdit. Put the following in it:
Since when does FP intensive code show the speed of an OS? Are you using math library calls? The math library that comes with Mac OS X is a straight C implementation taken from NetBSD while OS 9's is hand tuned PPC assembler. They're going to port it and ship it with Mac OS X one of these days (maybe it's in 10.1.4).
BBTW: I would love to get the new iMac in a different colour (leopardskin maybe?). If appple wants to really get the market by the throat that would a good move.
Apple still can't meet demand. They don't really need extra gimmicks. 150,000 iMac preorders in the first weekend (IIRC) and they've shipped 220,000 iMac to so far this year. Check out their financial report.
I specifically said holography. This would involve something like taking a normal hologram but instead of the photographic plate you have a very high res CCD. Later, you shine a laser on a very high res LCD (or what ever, not my field). Add in motion and you're talking about a lot of data.
perhaps i'm just low on creativity, but I can't imagine any way of capturing vide from real life with a system that isn't functionally equivalent to some finite number of video cameras.
A hologram isn't made by taking lots of photos from different angles. I don't know why you'd suggest it for motion holography. You need to look up how holograms are made.
You honestly can't see how a holodeck-like virtual recreation of a medieval battle (or whatever) would take up a petabyte? How about a hundred recreations?
If we really do get 120TB drives, we won't talk about buying new ones very often
I don't know, how much space does full motion holography take up? Seriously, we'll fill the space with something. Not everyone will fill a 120TB dive of course but there are those of us who will change our habits subconsciously to use more disk space. We just need a "killer" app.
Practically every installer I run under OS X asks for my password. This is only slightly better than an OS (w2k) whose default configuration has everything running as an administrator. OS X installers that need system level access should simply tell me they don't have the right permissions then quit.
That doesn't sound like a very user friendly solution. You shouldn't be encouraging people to login into Mac OS X as root. And even if you did, the luser would just login into root to run the trojan. Making it annoying to install stuff as root shouldn't be considered security.
Also, Mac OS X installers that *don't* need root permissions shouldn't be installers, they should be drag-n-drop disk images,.sit archives, or.tar.gz archives. You should only use an installer if you need to put stuff in/System/ or any of the unix directories (/usr/local/bin/ etc). The reason why every installer you run needs a password is that they all *need* a password or they wouldn't use the installer. Of course I'm ignoring all the non-apple installers which aren't really installers, just glorified unarchivers.
The best thing is that, in rootless mode (X windows side by side with aqua windows), the X Windows inherit the drop shadows of aqua. Enlightenment running on OSX looks *far* better than Enlightenment running on linux.
I think this ad is targeting the users of the other commercial Unix boxen, eg. Solaris. Mac OS X can't really compete with Linux because it's not free and not as open. For those who don't care about the above, Mac OS X comes out on top. I think they're trying to grab the Unix workstation market.
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I wish that we would spend billions of dollars on getting some 'manned' craft to Mars... something a little more practical. something that the whole globe can engage in..
I mean trying to determine if a star 7 miles in diameter 8 billion light years away is made of sub-nuclear particles seems like an effort in futility..
Ok, so *you* can't see an *immediate* application of this science. Wow, that makes it worthless!
I bet research into silicon's semiconductor properties seemed an effort in futility in the early days. "It's not a conductor and it's not an insulator. What good is it?!"
Also, while I want to see a person on Mars, don't confuse it with real science. Sure, we'll find out a few more interesting things about Mars but it's exploration not cutting-edge science. Science isn't here for your entertainment.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but it is. You could of course just consider it pegged to the speed of light but not as cleanly as the metre.
Really? I did the opposite and got my emulated RedHat to use XDarwin as it's window server via the network. Suddenly, it feel like native speed! I guess that might just be because the emulated x86 has less to do but it's a good trick to speed up emulated X-Window based unixes.
Come on. You're not giving them enough credit. After all they've got hello world working fine. It's only a matter of time until it runs MS Office.
Did you submit the news to slashdot? If you did and it got rejected then your comment is reasonable. If not, why didn't you? If everyone had your mentality then the only stuff on slashdot would be the stuff CmdrTaco finds.
Do you get a kick out of the elite feeling of knowing news no one else knows or are you just too lazy to fill out a submission?
Sorry if this sounds harsh, it's not meant to be a troll. I'm just sick of people whining about the fact that slashdot occasionally gets (oh the humanity!) week-old news. I can understand if it's news from the 70s or 1995 or if it's repeated but week-old?
The sad thing is with the current state of the USPTO you could probably patent your idea and have it granted. And have the media put you on a pedestal for helping the <stupid name>War on Terror<\stupid name>.
Always remember: if people like you don't innovate, the terrorists have won.
Not to mention that *every* scientific discovery reported must fight bioterrorism. This is really starting to piss me off. Example: that mobile phone hack that uses the RF chip to detect a protein (IIRC). This has obvious medical applications, as well as tricorder-style remote sensing applications. But what does the media hype its use as? It can detect... anthrax!!! Yippee. How many people did the anthrax kill? Now, how many die from salmonella poisoning? This is something that this hack could help detect, assuming salmonella has at least one unique protein.
Note: I may be way off on it's detection abilities but you get the point. The media is obsessed with a high-profile, low-incidence disease. Hell, more people die from the flu.
One of the coolest games out for the mac is EV Nova. It's a simple 2D game that features very rich game play. It's rare these days. Sad.
The other thing I forgot to say was that our schooling not only taught us to distrust news but also to treat it as info-tainment (slightly informative entertainment). So I basically agree with what you said 100%, I just didn't think to write it. What I was driving at was: We have to be told the truth, both sides, whether we like it or not. Ratings should not govern the decisions of news and current affairs shows.
Sounds a hell of a lot like a Mac OS X (or NeXT) nib file.
Here in Australia, we in High School (senior year) had a term topic called "Representations of Truth" which basically drilled into us a distrust of everything the media says. Apparently, courses like this come up about every ten years or so but, usually, they're gone in a year or two. Someone doesn't like it.
IMHO, the article's right. The big problem is the one-sidedness of the media. The Egyptian youth only see pictures glorifying suicide bombers, while we only see pictures of barbarians who dared to attack the West, the torchbearer of everything that is good and just in the world </sarcasm>.
The people who said global media would bring peace weren't wrong. We just *don't have* a global media. We have two separate propaganda machines, one on the Islamic side (or wherever) and one on our side. We need full, unbiased reporting, not the fear and hate mongering that has filled our screens since September 11. The media shapes public opinion. Most people will believe what they're told to believe.
But then again, I'm just a kid. What would I know?
sudo sh /etc/daily
/etc/weekly
/etc/monthly
sudo sh
sudo sh
Each of those commands will ask for your administrator's password.
Have you got benchmarks for Mac OS X? You don't even say what version of mach it was.
Would you care to outline its exact problems, or is "but it's old" good enough for you? Most of the things you stated would require a bit of tweaking, not scrapping the VM and starting over.
X is the roman numeral 10 not the letter X. It stands to reason that Mac OS 11 will be Mac OS XI. Has a nice ring to it.
user_pref("network.proxy.http", "proxyhost");
user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", portnumber);
user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);
Replacing proxyhost and portnumber of course. This works for me (verified with my squid logs).
You could also just copy your entire Mozilla prefs.js. It's at ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/ and so on.
Since when does FP intensive code show the speed of an OS? Are you using math library calls? The math library that comes with Mac OS X is a straight C implementation taken from NetBSD while OS 9's is hand tuned PPC assembler. They're going to port it and ship it with Mac OS X one of these days (maybe it's in 10.1.4).
Apple still can't meet demand. They don't really need extra gimmicks. 150,000 iMac preorders in the first weekend (IIRC) and they've shipped 220,000 iMac to so far this year. Check out their financial report.
perhaps i'm just low on creativity, but I can't imagine any way of capturing vide from real life with a system that isn't functionally equivalent to some finite number of video cameras.
A hologram isn't made by taking lots of photos from different angles. I don't know why you'd suggest it for motion holography. You need to look up how holograms are made.
You honestly can't see how a holodeck-like virtual recreation of a medieval battle (or whatever) would take up a petabyte? How about a hundred recreations?
I know that. My point was that Apple is discouraging the user from doing stuff as root whereas the parent seemed to be saying the opposite.
If we really do get 120TB drives, we won't talk about buying new ones very often
I don't know, how much space does full motion holography take up? Seriously, we'll fill the space with something. Not everyone will fill a 120TB dive of course but there are those of us who will change our habits subconsciously to use more disk space. We just need a "killer" app.
That doesn't sound like a very user friendly solution. You shouldn't be encouraging people to login into Mac OS X as root. And even if you did, the luser would just login into root to run the trojan. Making it annoying to install stuff as root shouldn't be considered security.
Also, Mac OS X installers that *don't* need root permissions shouldn't be installers, they should be drag-n-drop disk images, .sit archives, or .tar.gz archives. You should only use an installer if you need to put stuff in /System/ or any of the unix directories (/usr/local/bin/ etc). The reason why every installer you run needs a password is that they all *need* a password or they wouldn't use the installer. Of course I'm ignoring all the non-apple installers which aren't really installers, just glorified unarchivers.
For those who want to look deeper:
The IOKit especially is very cool.
Yes, you can. Try XDarwin.
The best thing is that, in rootless mode (X windows side by side with aqua windows), the X Windows inherit the drop shadows of aqua. Enlightenment running on OSX looks *far* better than Enlightenment running on linux.
I think this ad is targeting the users of the other commercial Unix boxen, eg. Solaris. Mac OS X can't really compete with Linux because it's not free and not as open. For those who don't care about the above, Mac OS X comes out on top. I think they're trying to grab the Unix workstation market.
Ok, so *you* can't see an *immediate* application of this science. Wow, that makes it worthless!
I bet research into silicon's semiconductor properties seemed an effort in futility in the early days. "It's not a conductor and it's not an insulator. What good is it?!"
Also, while I want to see a person on Mars, don't confuse it with real science. Sure, we'll find out a few more interesting things about Mars but it's exploration not cutting-edge science. Science isn't here for your entertainment.