The BBC is quite critical of the government doing the wrong thing
Correction: the BBC is critical of the government doing what the BBC believes is the wrong thing. You'll never see the BBC calling for a reduction in government power.
Gates was a big fish in a small pond back in the day. Try reading the code of that BASIC interpreter. BG can't hold a candle to Woz or Chuck Moore or Dennis Ritchie.
Well, maybe. What we know is that BG and Paul Allen delivered a BASIC interpreter to MITS in the mid-1970s. Only Gates and Allen know for sure who wrote what.
Look into what Bigelow Aerospace is doing. If you spin an inflated structure fast enough to get 1 G of acceleration, it's the same as doing so with a rigid structure.
I left with a sense that the environmental movement as a whole was going down the wrong road.
Fortunately, Greenpeace isn't the entirety of the environmental movement, just the loudest part. There are other organizations like the Nature Conservancy or Ducks Unlimited that do very fine work.
I think that's giving him far too much credit. Looks to me like he's a rent-seeking rat bastard who's hoping to make his fortune by getting the government to force us to pay for a "service" nobody needs.
That's not NIH syndrome you're describing. NIH is the practice of rejecting something regardless of its merits just because it's not an in-house project.
This situation kind of reminds me of when Apple dropped Display Postscript. At the time, I was very concerned that whatever they came up with for a replacement was going to be harder to use, offer less performance, etc. Turns out we did lose something in the DPS to Quartz transition, which was the ability to redirect the postscript commands to a remote host, but what we picked up in local display performance was more than worth it.
My need for ZFS isn't immediate and urgent, so I'm content to see what that team at Apple develops before I shed any tears for ZFS.
Do you mean like "ready to use if bug fixes are forthcoming", or "ready to depend on even if it's an orphaned project"?
I wish the guys who are continuing the public fork all the best. Not sure I'd consider ZFS on Mac OS X anything but a curiosity if it's not going to be supported by either Apple or Sun.
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The BBC is quite critical of the government doing the wrong thing
Correction: the BBC is critical of the government doing what the BBC believes is the wrong thing. You'll never see the BBC calling for a reduction in government power.
-jcr
Gates was a pretty good hacker back in the day.
Gates was a big fish in a small pond back in the day. Try reading the code of that BASIC interpreter. BG can't hold a candle to Woz or Chuck Moore or Dennis Ritchie.
-jcr
He developed an early version of BASIC.
Well, maybe. What we know is that BG and Paul Allen delivered a BASIC interpreter to MITS in the mid-1970s. Only Gates and Allen know for sure who wrote what.
-jcr
The thing is, the criticism they'll hand out will be like the BBC, bitching about how the government isn't doing enough.
-jcr
Look into what Bigelow Aerospace is doing. If you spin an inflated structure fast enough to get 1 G of acceleration, it's the same as doing so with a rigid structure.
-jcr
Of course, by the time we have the technologies you propose, we're just as likely to have ion propulsion that can get us there in less than a month.
-jcr
They really ought to call the next one "Windows, this time for sure!"
-jcr
Hey, I'm not going to be too upset about being modded down for reminding someone of Beckett. Thanks for the support, though.
-jcr
Fuck it, we're waiting for Windows 8
Also known as "Windows for Godot".
-jcr
Wait... Windows 7 is the vista service pack.
-jcr
Wallace is the guy that invented mass email spam.
No, he's not. He's just a rather large-scale perp. There were others before him.
-jcr
What will we roll up and shake at our dogs?
I get plenty of junk mail that's printed on tabloid sheets.
-jcr
Except that 4 officials from of the Church got suspended prison sentences. If there is another fraud scandal, they go directly to jail.
The cult has always considered people expendable. If they go to jail, David Miscavige will just appoint some other clowns to take their places.
-jcr
he looked at the licensing and saw that Apple was losing money because of it. So he killed the clones.
He also tried to negotiate with the cloners to make cloning feasible for the future. They didn't go for it.
-jcr
When you buy a Psystar mac clone you're buying a valid license of OSX, you're just not buying the mac hardware.
That license entitles you to run it on a Mac. It doesn't entitle you to run it on any non-Apple machine.
-jcr
Apple could care less if Joe User comes in, buys OS X [apple.com] , and makes a hackintosh.
That's not quite true. There's a difference between not caring and not having the manpower to do something about it.
-jcr
I left with a sense that the environmental movement as a whole was going down the wrong road.
Fortunately, Greenpeace isn't the entirety of the environmental movement, just the loudest part. There are other organizations like the Nature Conservancy or Ducks Unlimited that do very fine work.
-jcr
The western consumer values one thing above all else; price.
If that's what you believe, then you should never try to run a business.
-jcr
Kaspersky is at best a fool
I think that's giving him far too much credit. Looks to me like he's a rent-seeking rat bastard who's hoping to make his fortune by getting the government to force us to pay for a "service" nobody needs.
-jcr
That's not NIH syndrome you're describing. NIH is the practice of rejecting something regardless of its merits just because it's not an in-house project.
-jcr
This situation kind of reminds me of when Apple dropped Display Postscript. At the time, I was very concerned that whatever they came up with for a replacement was going to be harder to use, offer less performance, etc. Turns out we did lose something in the DPS to Quartz transition, which was the ability to redirect the postscript commands to a remote host, but what we picked up in local display performance was more than worth it.
My need for ZFS isn't immediate and urgent, so I'm content to see what that team at Apple develops before I shed any tears for ZFS.
-jcr
ZFS was basically ready to ship
Do you mean like "ready to use if bug fixes are forthcoming", or "ready to depend on even if it's an orphaned project"?
I wish the guys who are continuing the public fork all the best. Not sure I'd consider ZFS on Mac OS X anything but a curiosity if it's not going to be supported by either Apple or Sun.
-jcr
Sun's lawyers ruined it for everyone.
Are you telling us that Sun's lawyers don't obey Sun's management?
I've heard some bizarre things about Sun since Schwartz got the top job there, but that's really surprising.
-jcr
Apple and even professional users are happy with HFS+ especially after the addition of journaling.
No, Apple's quite aware of the need for something better than HFS+, and that's why they did all that work on ZFS. Bummer that it didn't work out.
-jcr
Actually, it's "the proof of the pudding is in the eating."
-jcr