Oh, come on! The General Lee wasn't even a robot car. It had actual hicks driving it! I don't even think there was a robot car on the show, unless you count Enis as a robot - which I do.
Speaking of which, the Mach-5 had the ability to have saw blades come out the front of it so you could drive through forrests, chopping down trees as you drive.
What I don't get is, wouldn't the tree stumps be a problem with that? What about the falling trees? Wouldn't some of them land on the Mach-5?
There was an interesting interview about the topic of why things are classified on NPR's program This American Life: Secret Government. They had a guy on (forget his name) who was in Clinton's cabinet and he spent time looking through classified documents and declassified things that didn't need to be secret anymore.
He said the items ranged from "Holy Cow! I can't believe we know this and I can understand why it is classified." to articles cut out of the newspaper and classified.
Clinton's policy was to try to release as much as possible and spend time/money to make a decision on old documents.
G.W. Bush's policy is to not release anything unless forced to by a court.
If Diefor example what would the outcome have been if the US citizenry had e-voting available to it when George W decided to invade a nation for its regions oil?
With Diebold's system in place, it would have been whatever W's henchmen pre-programmed.
Over the past couple of years, I have had three hard drives go bad in Mac laptops running OS X. Prior to OS X, I hadn't had any problems with drives going bad.
In each of these cases, the problem turned out to be a hardware problem and, no I wasn't shooting the computers out of a canon or something crazy like described in the article.
Do you think this is OS X, or could it be that today's larger hard drives are more prone to failure because they have a lot more sectors that each could go bad? (Or am I just unlucky?)
One machine (an iBook) started making a weird clicking sound. It has been sitting there all day with no one touching it and just suddenly starting making a weird sound. The hard drive never worked after that.
Another one I was developing on and it crashed such that I had to reboot the machine. (Not super uncommon when developing...) and the hard drive never worked again after that.
The third case was pretty similar. All three got replaced under warranty. Not sure what brand the HDs were. In all the cases, I tried recovery with Drive 10, which reported physical problems with the disk.
I have a first generation iPod 20Gb. It plays audible content just fine. I've used it with the iTunes Music Store - no problems.
I don't know what a Playlist on the Go is. (I never use playlists - I mostly browse by artist, then album and listen to the entire album. But people tell me I'm a purist.)
Under MacOS X, you can *sometimes* do a no-compile Localization, even if you are not the original developer.
I *know* that Office for Mac isn't exactly a well-behaved "normal" Mac app - heck, it isn't even a normal *Carbon* app. I did work at Microsoft as a Mac developer, so I am somewhat familar with the architecture of Office.
My suggestion is that they could look at the possibility of doing a no compile loc themselves, if they have Arabic support (very ironic!).
Both Arabic and Hebrew are hard to support because both require bidirectional (BiDi) text support. Meaning that text is layed out both left to right and right to left.
If your supporting international, French, Spanish are the easiest because you're still dealing with Roman character sets and one direction of layout. You just have to make sure you read the strings in from a resource someplace. Next hardest is Cyrilic languages like Greek or Russian. Next hardest is languages like Japanese where you need to have double byte characters or Unicode. The hardest is Arabic and Hebrew because of BiDi. People may often choose to do an Arabic version and not Hebrew because the market for Arabic is larger.
However, if you've put in BiDi support already and you're already internationalized, getting Hebrew to work shouldn't be insanely hard and could possibly be done by a third party, though there would probably be some bugs they couldn't fix (although they could report these back the MacBU and maybe work something out.)
Or they could use heavy handed "the customer is always right" tactics. Either way...
The point I was actually trying to make (albeit humorously) is that the "In God We Trust" crowd are trying to inject a very particular religious point of view. They often deny this when it is pointed out that there are Jews, Hindus, Muslims around.
It often seems that Christians are trying to do a "divide and conquer" on us non-Christians:
1. Turn non-christian religious types (Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormans) against atheists. 2. Turn Jews and Muslims against each other. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
That's right. It's bills like this that allow free loaders who had the nerve to be born without money to use the air, which industry needs for polluting.
As an atheist, I would be willing to leave the references to God in the pledge and on our money if we could put "We love our dark Lord Satan" on our coins.
Yeah. I think he's talking about within an app or module. If you need binary compatibility, then you need to start looking at some of the COM - like abstractions, what they do, and why.
The reason Microsoft has $40 billion in cash on hand is because they keep it on hand insteading of spending it on things like a building full of security experts constantly reviewing their code.
They use 50% contractors so they can lay people off at the drop of a hat and never take a PR hit for layoffs. When I worked there, they laid off half of our QA people even though they were annoucning record profits. Why did they lay them off? Cost cutting.
They also don't pay their developers anywhere near what Apple pays. That's why their OS is still way behind MacOS X. It will continue to be behind Apple in terms of features, innovation, and quality as long as that is true. The people they recruit tend to be average developers. Most of the devs I've met from Apple tended to be really brilliant.
And Microsoft doesn't care. They consider Apple to be no threat to them and to be sort of their "research arm". And that's likely to continue to be the case as long as Apple's at a strategic disadvantage - which they definately in. As long as something doesn't cause the equilibrium to change, Apple can continue to have 3-5% marketshare and can continue to produce a higher quality, more expensive computer that will appeal to some folks.
Microsoft is obviously much more worried about Linux. From a strategic point of view, Linux is a good OS, it runs on x86 hardware, and there's not much stopping PC manufacturers from putting pre-loading Linux instead of Windows. Right now, its just customer expectation and ease of use. What I think they are afraid of is some leader emerging who will go through the time and effort of ironing out some of the usability problems that Linux has and using it as a club to beat microsoft to death. Who could do that? Maybe IBM?
Have the security problems cost them marketshare? Maybe some sales in servers went to Linux, so their turning on the PR machine and they are doing things internally to address security. (I hear this from friends who still work there.) Meanwhile, Longhorn's new graphics engine gets features Apple put into Quartz 3 years ago.
Average users just want to run Word and surf for pr0n and they can do that with Windows.
Yeah, OK. If you have that kind of time. Remember, you normally have to work to make money to live. So, you're taking a pay cut since you aren't billing for those hours and this ends being similar to paying a lawyer.
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RIAA: Downloading music is worse than stealing a car!
Kid's Mind: I've downloaded music already, so stealing a car must not be a big deal.
Kid (to friend): Let's do some crimes!
>eliminate all references to "Beetles"
What would be the point? Apple Records doesn't have any artist called "Beetles".
Are you sure you're not thinking of the "Beatles"?
Oh, come on! The General Lee wasn't even a robot car. It had actual hicks driving it! I don't even think there was a robot car on the show, unless you count Enis as a robot - which I do.
Speaking of which, the Mach-5 had the ability to have saw blades come out the front of it so you could drive through forrests, chopping down trees as you drive.
What I don't get is, wouldn't the tree stumps be a problem with that? What about the falling trees? Wouldn't some of them land on the Mach-5?
No, they wouldn't be able to move here and put themselves through school as taxi drivers to take our programming jobs.
Instead they'd have to put themselves through school as rodeo clowns.
There was an interesting interview about the topic of why things are classified on NPR's program This American Life: Secret Government. They had a guy on (forget his name) who was in Clinton's cabinet and he spent time looking through classified documents and declassified things that didn't need to be secret anymore.
He said the items ranged from "Holy Cow! I can't believe we know this and I can understand why it is classified." to articles cut out of the newspaper and classified.
Clinton's policy was to try to release as much as possible and spend time/money to make a decision on old documents.
G.W. Bush's policy is to not release anything unless forced to by a court.
Despite all of the progress in AI
I must have missed that.
If Diefor example what would the outcome have been if the US citizenry had e-voting available to it when George W decided to invade a nation for its regions oil?
With Diebold's system in place, it would have been whatever W's henchmen pre-programmed.
How long until I can buy a Concorde on eBay?
It's not Cocoa. QuickTime for Windows predates Cocoa on Mac. (Cocoa came from NeXT.)
You don't have *any* ads on British TV?
How much is the "license" each year? How many channels do you get?
Are there pledge drives?
No, it is what people say when societies *tighten* the rules.
And they should complain, as should anyone who's freedom is being taken away.
Yeah, any company in any lawsuit always spends 100% of the cash on hand to fight it. (And has no other revenue or expenses except the suit.)
Over the past couple of years, I have had three hard drives go bad in Mac laptops running OS X. Prior to OS X, I hadn't had any problems with drives going bad.
In each of these cases, the problem turned out to be a hardware problem and, no I wasn't shooting the computers out of a canon or something crazy like described in the article.
Do you think this is OS X, or could it be that today's larger hard drives are more prone to failure because they have a lot more sectors that each could go bad? (Or am I just unlucky?)
One machine (an iBook) started making a weird clicking sound. It has been sitting there all day with no one touching it and just suddenly starting making a weird sound. The hard drive never worked after that.
Another one I was developing on and it crashed such that I had to reboot the machine. (Not super uncommon when developing...) and the hard drive never worked again after that.
The third case was pretty similar. All three got replaced under warranty. Not sure what brand the HDs were. In all the cases, I tried recovery with Drive 10, which reported physical problems with the disk.
...and the Newton for Windows. And FileMaker. And pretty much everything Claris ever did.
And WebObjects. And *lots of other shit* that has at various times been released on Windows.
Once you get Windows users thinking "Apple", some will at least consider a Mac for their next purchase.
I have a first generation iPod 20Gb. It plays audible content just fine. I've used it with the iTunes Music Store - no problems.
I don't know what a Playlist on the Go is. (I never use playlists - I mostly browse by artist, then album and listen to the entire album. But people tell me I'm a purist.)
The parent post is misleading. Apple does have Hebrew support in MacOS X and has been supporting Hebrew for many years. (And Arabic, too.)
Heck, they even demoed a Klingon version os MacOS X to really drive home how well they nailed international support in MacOS X.
The issue is Microsoft Office for Mac which is not an Apple product.
Under MacOS X, you can *sometimes* do a no-compile Localization, even if you are not the original developer.
I *know* that Office for Mac isn't exactly a well-behaved "normal" Mac app - heck, it isn't even a normal *Carbon* app. I did work at Microsoft as a Mac developer, so I am somewhat familar with the architecture of Office.
My suggestion is that they could look at the possibility of doing a no compile loc themselves, if they have Arabic support (very ironic!).
Both Arabic and Hebrew are hard to support because both require bidirectional (BiDi) text support. Meaning that text is layed out both left to right and right to left.
If your supporting international, French, Spanish are the easiest because you're still dealing with Roman character sets and one direction of layout. You just have to make sure you read the strings in from a resource someplace. Next hardest is Cyrilic languages like Greek or Russian. Next hardest is languages like Japanese where you need to have double byte characters or Unicode. The hardest is Arabic and Hebrew because of BiDi. People may often choose to do an Arabic version and not Hebrew because the market for Arabic is larger.
However, if you've put in BiDi support already and you're already internationalized, getting Hebrew to work shouldn't be insanely hard and could possibly be done by a third party, though there would probably be some bugs they couldn't fix (although they could report these back the MacBU and maybe work something out.)
Or they could use heavy handed "the customer is always right" tactics. Either way...
The point I was actually trying to make (albeit humorously) is that the "In God We Trust" crowd are trying to inject a very particular religious point of view. They often deny this when it is pointed out that there are Jews, Hindus, Muslims around.
It often seems that Christians are trying to do a "divide and conquer" on us non-Christians:
1. Turn non-christian religious types (Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormans) against atheists.
2. Turn Jews and Muslims against each other.
3. ???
4. Profit!
That's right. It's bills like this that allow free loaders who had the nerve to be born without money to use the air, which industry needs for polluting.
The map of China on the chinese news article clearly shows Taiwan as being part of China (which it is not).
As an atheist, I would be willing to leave the references to God in the pledge and on our money if we could put "We love our dark Lord Satan" on our coins.
That's all I ask, a little fairness.
When my Dad was in grade school (Oklahoma in the 1940s), he used to get beaten up regularly for not participating in the "voluntary" school prayer.
I'm sure the pledge is just as "voluntary".
Also, why is it that school kids have to say the pledge and prisoners do not?
Yeah. I think he's talking about within an app or module. If you need binary compatibility, then you need to start looking at some of the COM - like abstractions, what they do, and why.
The reason Microsoft has $40 billion in cash on hand is because they keep it on hand insteading of spending it on things like a building full of security experts constantly reviewing their code.
They use 50% contractors so they can lay people off at the drop of a hat and never take a PR hit for layoffs. When I worked there, they laid off half of our QA people even though they were annoucning record profits. Why did they lay them off? Cost cutting.
They also don't pay their developers anywhere near what Apple pays. That's why their OS is still way behind MacOS X. It will continue to be behind Apple in terms of features, innovation, and quality as long as that is true. The people they recruit tend to be average developers. Most of the devs I've met from Apple tended to be really brilliant.
And Microsoft doesn't care. They consider Apple to be no threat to them and to be sort of their "research arm". And that's likely to continue to be the case as long as Apple's at a strategic disadvantage - which they definately in. As long as something doesn't cause the equilibrium to change, Apple can continue to have 3-5% marketshare and can continue to produce a higher quality, more expensive computer that will appeal to some folks.
Microsoft is obviously much more worried about Linux. From a strategic point of view, Linux is a good OS, it runs on x86 hardware, and there's not much stopping PC manufacturers from putting pre-loading Linux instead of Windows. Right now, its just customer expectation and ease of use. What I think they are afraid of is some leader emerging who will go through the time and effort of ironing out some of the usability problems that Linux has and using it as a club to beat microsoft to death. Who could do that? Maybe IBM?
Have the security problems cost them marketshare? Maybe some sales in servers went to Linux, so their turning on the PR machine and they are doing things internally to address security. (I hear this from friends who still work there.) Meanwhile, Longhorn's new graphics engine gets features Apple put into Quartz 3 years ago.
Average users just want to run Word and surf for pr0n and they can do that with Windows.
For me, I'll stick with the Mac.
Yeah, OK. If you have that kind of time. Remember, you normally have to work to make money to live. So, you're taking a pay cut since you aren't billing for those hours and this ends being similar to paying a lawyer.