Keep in mind that the Mach microkernel is not unix, it came from CMU. Some userland stuff came from the *BSD lineage, but calling OS X a "true UNIX" rings about as true as calling windows + cygwin the same.
What's your next guess?
In OS X, Mac schedules threads and allocates memory. That's about it. The rest of the kernel services in OS X either came from BSD, or were written in-house at Apple.
In a laptop, one of the things you pay for is light weight, and battery life. Are you seriously trying to tell me that the HP laptop you're talking about comes anywhere close to the size and weight of the MacBook Pro?
I do support out troops, and that's why I want them to only fight when congress has declared war, as it's set out in the constitution which they've sworn to preserve, protect and defend.
MS produces great products as much as they do a few bad ones.
You're way out of date there. The last great product from Microsoft was the Z80 SoftCard for the Apple II. They bought a few good ones since then, like the Flight Simulator.
The Lockheed Skunk Works (where Stealth technology was invented), has been working on the sonic boom problem for many years, and they have a project in progress to develop a business jet with a minimal sonic boom.
The intention is to make it quiet enough to get it licensed for supersonic travel over land.
Gil saved the company, there's no doubt about it. If he'd chosen Be instead of NeXT, then we'd be in the dark ages of Windows, with no hope in sight for an alternative. (Linux will not be an alternative until and unless they start aiming higher. "As good as windows" is a dismal level of aspiration for a GUI for persona computers.)
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I sometimes wonder if he was really as useless as he gets accused of being,
From what I've been able to piece together (although I didn't start working at Apple until after his time), he was unable to manage a company where people would say "yes" to what you told them to do, and then go off and do whatever the hell they wanted. Sculley let this happen, and trying to get a lid on it just about killed Spindler from stress.
When Steve Jobs came back, he made it very clear very quickly that people would get canned for behavior that was tolerated in the past. It doesn't actually take too many people getting the boot for everyone else to shape up.
If all the planes were controlled remotely by a large ATC network/AI combo then we'd be in business though:)
Well, they should be robotic, but centralized control would be a Very Bad Idea. Single point of failure for all the aircraft.
What I would consider ideal is GPS/DGPS for positioning, radar for ground sensing, and peer-to-peer negotiation for collision avoidance.
We're already at the point where college kids can afford to build UAVs that can fly better than a human pilot could. What we need are personal VTOL aircraft that can be safely operated by a drunk or a small child.
in a world with what 800 million cars I sure wouldn't that number of flying cars!
The collision hazard for a given number of vehicles is much less when 1) they're able to spread out in the air instead of being confined to narrow channels on the surface, and 2) they spend far less time in transit.
Navigating in 3D is a big win.
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Apple was never on the verge of shuttering its building, even though some pundits liked to pretend it was.
Actually, that's not quite correct. There was a low point in '96, when Gil Amelio pulled off a pretty amazing trick and got emergency bank funding from wall street. If the banks hadn't gone for his pitch, Apple would have been through. They were down to less than two months' worth of cash on hand.
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I can see that there's little point trying to change your mind by bringing facts to light. Have a nice day.
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Scientologists believe Allah is a pig-fucker.
WTF? The Scientologits claim that Allah is one of them?
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Scientology is a Criminal nut-cult.
Although all cults are nuts, not all cults are criminal.
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I guess it must be true if you read it on the mac site?
I see that you've made no attempt to refute the facts stated on that page. Mac OS X is certified as a UNIX operating system by the Open Group.
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mother gave him a cookie every time he fucked her.
So, you're saying that a PC is an extremely cheap whore?
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Keep in mind that the Mach microkernel is not unix, it came from CMU. Some userland stuff came from the *BSD lineage, but calling OS X a "true UNIX" rings about as true as calling windows + cygwin the same.
What's your next guess?
In OS X, Mac schedules threads and allocates memory. That's about it. The rest of the kernel services in OS X either came from BSD, or were written in-house at Apple.
Mac OS X is UNIX. Read and learn.
-jcr
They could compete with Dell's low end too, but it's more profitable not to.
I'm sure Apple's making a comfortable margin on the Mac Mini.
-jcr
That would be the eastern front which was kept alive by US war material supplies.
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in the first world war they came in late and did very little.
Except for making the Kaiser throw in the towel. It's not like he had any reinforcements available.
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It's a fact. Go cope.
-jcr
It goes both ways, of course. There's plenty of America-bashing in France, and the United States has saved France from the Germans twice.
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Can you point to a single recent example of Icahn taking greenmail?
I can, and just did point to an example of him attempting it right now.
-jcr
In a laptop, one of the things you pay for is light weight, and battery life. Are you seriously trying to tell me that the HP laptop you're talking about comes anywhere close to the size and weight of the MacBook Pro?
-jcr
Google might just be loving this.
Love it or not, I'm sure they're not afraid of it.
-jcr
He doesn't care about a merger, he wants Yahoo to pay him to fuck off. Look up "greenmail" on wikipedia.
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I do support out troops, and that's why I want them to only fight when congress has declared war, as it's set out in the constitution which they've sworn to preserve, protect and defend.
-jcr
I would ask the BC HRT: Is your mandate to preserve human rights?
It's to violate human rights while pretending to preserve them. Pretty much standard operating procedure for the "politically correct" crowd.
-jcr
The purpose of the law has never been to govern thought.. but expression.
Oh, well, that's such a relief! There's no law against thinking what I want to think, just against saying it? I guess it's not a problem them.
At issue is encouraging others to do so.
I'm going to encourage anyone who will listen to hate fascist thought-crime enforcers like you.
-jcr
MS produces great products as much as they do a few bad ones.
You're way out of date there. The last great product from Microsoft was the Z80 SoftCard for the Apple II. They bought a few good ones since then, like the Flight Simulator.
-jcr
The Lockheed Skunk Works (where Stealth technology was invented), has been working on the sonic boom problem for many years, and they have a project in progress to develop a business jet with a minimal sonic boom.
The intention is to make it quiet enough to get it licensed for supersonic travel over land.
-jcr
Gil saved the company, there's no doubt about it. If he'd chosen Be instead of NeXT, then we'd be in the dark ages of Windows, with no hope in sight for an alternative. (Linux will not be an alternative until and unless they start aiming higher. "As good as windows" is a dismal level of aspiration for a GUI for persona computers.)
-jcr
I sometimes wonder if he was really as useless as he gets accused of being,
From what I've been able to piece together (although I didn't start working at Apple until after his time), he was unable to manage a company where people would say "yes" to what you told them to do, and then go off and do whatever the hell they wanted. Sculley let this happen, and trying to get a lid on it just about killed Spindler from stress.
When Steve Jobs came back, he made it very clear very quickly that people would get canned for behavior that was tolerated in the past. It doesn't actually take too many people getting the boot for everyone else to shape up.
-jcr
If all the planes were controlled remotely by a large ATC network/AI combo then we'd be in business though :)
Well, they should be robotic, but centralized control would be a Very Bad Idea. Single point of failure for all the aircraft.
What I would consider ideal is GPS/DGPS for positioning, radar for ground sensing, and peer-to-peer negotiation for collision avoidance.
We're already at the point where college kids can afford to build UAVs that can fly better than a human pilot could. What we need are personal VTOL aircraft that can be safely operated by a drunk or a small child.
-jcr
in a world with what 800 million cars I sure wouldn't that number of flying cars!
The collision hazard for a given number of vehicles is much less when 1) they're able to spread out in the air instead of being confined to narrow channels on the surface, and 2) they spend far less time in transit.
Navigating in 3D is a big win.
-jcr
Apple was never on the verge of shuttering its building, even though some pundits liked to pretend it was.
Actually, that's not quite correct. There was a low point in '96, when Gil Amelio pulled off a pretty amazing trick and got emergency bank funding from wall street. If the banks hadn't gone for his pitch, Apple would have been through. They were down to less than two months' worth of cash on hand.
-jcr