On an even furthur unrelated note, I wonder how many parties/terrorist plots are ruined by falling bullets. I bet it's a lot.
If it happens in the US from time to time (the link mentions 2 injuries in one year in one county) I'd guess that yes, it comes up from time to time. Wouldn't you feel silly...
I think even without resorting to figures down to a tenth of a percent, yes, the monopoly of MS is absolutely huge.
I don't trust -any- figures when it comes to percentages like these, and as both a Mac (OSX and previous OSs) and Linux user I'd like to see every gain I can - but anyone who goes into more detail than "MS has by far the largest share" is just throwing numbers around. Gaining an accurate idea of the amount of macs both new and old that are in current desktop use is hard enough, given you can only guess at the life cycle of older machines while adding on very recent sales - attempting to gauge the number of linux desktop installs is even more futile.
MS has a huge hold on everything - every little effort towards evening things with other options is worth it
I wouldn't be that surprised. A friend of mine teaches english to 5th and 6th graders, and insists "i before e except after c" is a rigid rule to be adhered to without fail
...and even the PSU & motherboard is all clipped into place. Not one screw in the entire case. Power supplies that go down to 28 watts and run all day quite happily. Apart from the "just because I can", that low-power usage is one of the bonuses of making one a web server.
...but it's taken a while for small boxies to make a return. One of my favourites (an obsession, even) are my Quadra 605s. Only marginally larger than the Lex reviewed, and about 8 years older.
One big bonus of the SFF pizzaboxes is the incredible ease of -getting- to components. All placed on one layer, there's no tangling of cables, or need to remove one major component to reach the others.
A pretty decent structure for a box that doesn't need to be constantly expanded/changed.
Like, what if a evolved chip only works properly at a range of 35-40 C ? Or more easly affected on electroic noise, or needs electronic noise? Like the circuit in this article, if there was no osculation nearby, it probaly wouldn't work would it?
This is the main thing to understand from these experiments - yes, they'd probably fail when removed from that environment, but then conventionally evolved life, which has adapted in the same way to use what's around it (Humans for example, in a most basic sense, use oxygen, certain foods, night/day to stay functioning and sane) are the same. Stick us in a different atmosphere, feed us nothing but one nutrient (say, caffeine) and keep it permanent nighttime, and we turn into coders.
My experiences are much the same. I worked on a helpdesk where we were required to know Windows networking to an ISDN connection, and the ins & outs of general diagnosis of problems before escalating to the higher-ups who actually had control over the system
Management saw "windows" and sent 20 of us off to MS Excel/MS Word introductory training for a week
Speeds should be measured by overall system performance, not the speed of the CPU.
Too wonderfully right. Nothing expressed this more to me than seeing the difference between a 1992 spec machine (33Mhz bus, 33Mhz ram, 33Mhz cpu, 33Mhz cache...etc) and a current spec machine, where every one of those (add in the drive speed and a few others here and there) are all operating at wildly different speeds. In one 2Ghz machine, how many different hertzes(!) do you have?
dana (having a horrific grammar day - but you get the idea:) a grrl & her server
He also found that the Fourth Amendment did not apply to the computers, "because they are the property of a non-resident and located outside the United States," or to the data -- at least until it was transmitted to the United States.
and
Finally, Coughenour rejected defense arguments that the FBI's actions "were unreasonable and illegal because they failed to comply with Russian law," saying that Russian law does not apply to the agents' actions.
That sounds scarily close to saying "US Law doesn't apply to our actions" and "Russian Law doesn't apply to our actions" so we'll do whatever we damned like...
Having worked tech support for 2 years, for phone-based support of pretty much anything computing-related in state schools, I have to say it gave me the usual "oh god you won't believe what people do" stories, but I always make sure I mention that I've seen some of the most incredible moments of inspiration from non-technical types. It's like you're there when someone first figures out something that you KNOW they'll use time and time again in the future - they just needed a little reassurance. It's nice.
Most people were normal, about 5% were complete and utter morons who shouldn't be allowed near computing equipment as part of their job.
To me, it's one of those biggish 'doorway' discoveries. If we find life on mars, and it's a bit different to life on earth, then we have a "whoa... life's a bit more than we thought it was". Right now we have one and only one way of looking at life - how it appears to us terrestrially... Find something that's substantially different (in function, structure, or location) and there's possible proof that things do work a certain way
Other than that, science/technology/etc is all just "hey, that's cool", until a use is found for it.
The 5mb 7.0 download and the (ugh) 19 disk 7.5.3 download are both ones I've used on some of my macs - there are upgrades also - 7.1 to 7.1.1, 7.5.3 to 7.5.5, 8.0 to 8.1 etc, and newer.
And then there's the 2-floppy 6.0.8 full install:D
I don't want to sound like a bearer of bad news - and I'm not, just noting an issue that could prevent some projects (given an ideal world where the opensource community can run around buying old software) from being fully usable as open source. One of these affects what would otherwise be a free download from Apple - Mac OS 7.1, and Apple QuickTake driver software.
6.0.8, 7.0 and 7.5.3 are free downloads, but apparently 7.1 isn't, as Apple only licensed, but doesn't -own- the patents to some technologies included, but which were later not used. Similarly, it's apparently Fuji who own the patents to parts of the QuickTake software - meaning ftp.apple.com has an excellent library of older downloadable software, with a few notable exceptions.
Of course - if ten thousand people buy the source to something really fantastic that does contain a few patented bits, it's still a good thing... there's the ability to write-out what can't be freely distributed, and re-write parts that can.
(take all of this post with a grain of salt - I could be full of it) a grrl & her server
OK so there's a bunch of sites with no access to press passes as they may have had previously. Just what -does- a press pass give the holder?
I'm pretty neutral on the whole thing - except for daft huge bold text on some rumour sites saying they've been blacklisted from macworld. Makes it sound like there's no way to even get a look at the floor. I might get a bit more upset if I knew what benefit a press pass gave:)
That being said, if you sign a contract, and agree to limit your use to specific terms and conditions, expect it to be enforced.
I would still be *SO* tempted to rent a car, pull the satellite tracking 'bits' out, UPS them around the country for a few days, and pop them back in.
Then deal with the 'fine' for doing air transport plane speeds across 8 states:D. "Yes Ma'am, you appear to have broken a few laws by exceeding the speed limit by five hundred and... oh. Hang on a sec..."
I fell in love with the tactile clickety-click keyboards while at Uni in the early 1990s - and put up with quite a few people telling me to shut the hell up when I -really- got going on them. Pity. Not that anyone was particularly quiet on the things
Now having a mac with only a USB Pro Keyboard to keep me happy (and with its big fat keys it has its own kind of appeal) I don't have access to anything clickety - anyone know of USB keyboards with 'kick'?
There are no Quadras... where are all the Quadras?
Seriously - nice to see an online museum that ISN'T merely a collection of 80s personal computers. The more information about the common machines from the 50s and 60s the better - 70s boxies are well known relatively...
I doubt software vendors could continue to exist, if there were a level of performance required where NO bugs/faults were required. What may work though, especially when it comes to software like IIS and all of its fun vulnerabilities, is lemon laws similar to for cars.
A model of car needing a recall is no big deal - it's a bummer and an inconvenience most of the time, much as most software has the odd patch/upgrade for reasons of bugs appearing publicly. Continual faults/bugs/etc are a different matter entirely.
The notion also, of Unstable, Stable, Testing versions of software seems pretty sensible when it comes to the liability in open source software. Letting a user know what they're in for when using an Unstable product limits liability by saying "OK, this really could be crap" - miles more than IIS, to use one example.
Every so often I'll have a little laugh at people who're unnaturally fearful of new tech of some form - but I try not to poke too much fun. Sometimes though, articles like this one come along and scare me by going waaaay over my head. I want to crawl away somewhere and hide now.
Not being from the US where this is all happening, the prices are just numbers that don't mean too much - compared to similar systems, do walmart look to be passing on the savings over providing windows?.
Looks a good idea so far, on two fronts - giving people an alternative to windows, and letting anyone who's a little more cluey to run an alternative system without having wasted cash on an OS they're not going to use. Thats the theory, nice if the practice holds up with lower prices.
I'll admit I simplified it a lot, but I don't see how this stands to change the definition of live.
I don't think it does either - you have a "live" performance that you can go see, and a "televised live performance" (or recorded live performance) which is the same effort/accomplishment without editing.
I don't think a virtual performance is near the same thing as seeing someone up on stage with all their human movements shared with us, or perhaps even reacting to an audience as some performances have (take Victor Borge for example) but it's an extension. A bit better than having a dodgy VHS copy of a performance, y'can have machinery in your own home play it all back for you... and for the truly obsessed, with far better quality in one sense than any traditional audio recording:)
Although the small increase in processing power may be far outweighed by the ease of use and stability of the Apple platform.
That "may be" is the big thing Apple are addressing. While there's no doubt there ARE things about macs that grab people (and being a fanatical user with 36 of the things myself I've been firmly grabbed!), there are also turnoffs. For people to be able to make decisions on what suits them best, whether it be linux/bsd/solaris/windows/macos/amiga/a tin can with a string/etc, they need to have the information. Just getting over the hurdle of "But it's a mac!" is the big thing. I find the best thing I can tell potential converts is "It's just a bloody computer!"... it has a cpu, ram, gui, I/O stuff... And let people see for themselves what they want. Taking a unbiased-seeming view kinda rubs off on people and opens their mind:).
After getting over silly little hatreds of what's just an inanimate electronic machine - some choose macs, some don't - and we're all happy:D
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On an even furthur unrelated note, I wonder how many parties/terrorist plots are ruined by falling bullets. I bet it's a lot.
If it happens in the US from time to time (the link mentions 2 injuries in one year in one county) I'd guess that yes, it comes up from time to time. Wouldn't you feel silly...
a grrl & her server
I think even without resorting to figures down to a tenth of a percent, yes, the monopoly of MS is absolutely huge.
I don't trust -any- figures when it comes to percentages like these, and as both a Mac (OSX and previous OSs) and Linux user I'd like to see every gain I can - but anyone who goes into more detail than "MS has by far the largest share" is just throwing numbers around. Gaining an accurate idea of the amount of macs both new and old that are in current desktop use is hard enough, given you can only guess at the life cycle of older machines while adding on very recent sales - attempting to gauge the number of linux desktop installs is even more futile.
MS has a huge hold on everything - every little effort towards evening things with other options is worth it
a grrl & her (mac AND linux) server
I wouldn't be that surprised. A friend of mine teaches english to 5th and 6th graders, and insists "i before e except after c" is a rigid rule to be adhered to without fail
He spells "wierd" constantly and it shits me.
...and even the PSU & motherboard is all clipped into place. Not one screw in the entire case. Power supplies that go down to 28 watts and run all day quite happily. Apart from the "just because I can", that low-power usage is one of the bonuses of making one a web server.
dana
a grrl & her server
...but it's taken a while for small boxies to make a return. One of my favourites (an obsession, even) are my Quadra 605s. Only marginally larger than the Lex reviewed, and about 8 years older.
One big bonus of the SFF pizzaboxes is the incredible ease of -getting- to components. All placed on one layer, there's no tangling of cables, or need to remove one major component to reach the others.
A pretty decent structure for a box that doesn't need to be constantly expanded/changed.
a grrl & her server
Like, what if a evolved chip only works properly at a range of 35-40 C ? Or more easly affected on electroic noise, or needs electronic noise? Like the circuit in this article, if there was no osculation nearby, it probaly wouldn't work would it?
This is the main thing to understand from these experiments - yes, they'd probably fail when removed from that environment, but then conventionally evolved life, which has adapted in the same way to use what's around it (Humans for example, in a most basic sense, use oxygen, certain foods, night/day to stay functioning and sane) are the same. Stick us in a different atmosphere, feed us nothing but one nutrient (say, caffeine) and keep it permanent nighttime, and we turn into coders.
a grrl & her quadra
My experiences are much the same. I worked on a helpdesk where we were required to know Windows networking to an ISDN connection, and the ins & outs of general diagnosis of problems before escalating to the higher-ups who actually had control over the system
Management saw "windows" and sent 20 of us off to MS Excel/MS Word introductory training for a week
a grrl & her server
On the kbase article apple advise you need a:
Mac OS X compatible computer
Note they don't say "Mac OS X compatible Macintosh"
They're making clones again!
brought to you by the reading-too-much-into-things dept.
a grrl & her server
Speeds should be measured by overall system performance, not the speed of the CPU.
:)
Too wonderfully right. Nothing expressed this more to me than seeing the difference between a 1992 spec machine (33Mhz bus, 33Mhz ram, 33Mhz cpu, 33Mhz cache...etc) and a current spec machine, where every one of those (add in the drive speed and a few others here and there) are all operating at wildly different speeds. In one 2Ghz machine, how many different hertzes(!) do you have?
dana (having a horrific grammar day - but you get the idea
a grrl & her server
looking at:
He also found that the Fourth Amendment did not apply to the computers, "because they are the property of a non-resident and located outside the United States," or to the data -- at least until it was transmitted to the United States.
and
Finally, Coughenour rejected defense arguments that the FBI's actions "were unreasonable and illegal because they failed to comply with Russian law," saying that Russian law does not apply to the agents' actions.
That sounds scarily close to saying "US Law doesn't apply to our actions" and "Russian Law doesn't apply to our actions" so we'll do whatever we damned like...
a grrl & her server
Having worked tech support for 2 years, for phone-based support of pretty much anything computing-related in state schools, I have to say it gave me the usual "oh god you won't believe what people do" stories, but I always make sure I mention that I've seen some of the most incredible moments of inspiration from non-technical types. It's like you're there when someone first figures out something that you KNOW they'll use time and time again in the future - they just needed a little reassurance. It's nice.
Most people were normal, about 5% were complete and utter morons who shouldn't be allowed near computing equipment as part of their job.
Obsessed with a Quadra
To me, it's one of those biggish 'doorway' discoveries. If we find life on mars, and it's a bit different to life on earth, then we have a "whoa... life's a bit more than we thought it was". Right now we have one and only one way of looking at life - how it appears to us terrestrially... Find something that's substantially different (in function, structure, or location) and there's possible proof that things do work a certain way
Other than that, science/technology/etc is all just "hey, that's cool", until a use is found for it.
a grrl & her server
The 5mb 7.0 download and the (ugh) 19 disk 7.5.3 download are both ones I've used on some of my macs - there are upgrades also - 7.1 to 7.1.1, 7.5.3 to 7.5.5, 8.0 to 8.1 etc, and newer.
And then there's the 2-floppy 6.0.8 full install:D
a grrl & her server
I don't want to sound like a bearer of bad news - and I'm not, just noting an issue that could prevent some projects (given an ideal world where the opensource community can run around buying old software) from being fully usable as open source. One of these affects what would otherwise be a free download from Apple - Mac OS 7.1, and Apple QuickTake driver software.
6.0.8, 7.0 and 7.5.3 are free downloads, but apparently 7.1 isn't, as Apple only licensed, but doesn't -own- the patents to some technologies included, but which were later not used. Similarly, it's apparently Fuji who own the patents to parts of the QuickTake software - meaning ftp.apple.com has an excellent library of older downloadable software, with a few notable exceptions.
Of course - if ten thousand people buy the source to something really fantastic that does contain a few patented bits, it's still a good thing... there's the ability to write-out what can't be freely distributed, and re-write parts that can.
(take all of this post with a grain of salt - I could be full of it)
a grrl & her server
wow.
All of a sudden this picture I did months ago seems all the more relevant...
a grrl & her server
OK so there's a bunch of sites with no access to press passes as they may have had previously. Just what -does- a press pass give the holder?
:)
I'm pretty neutral on the whole thing - except for daft huge bold text on some rumour sites saying they've been blacklisted from macworld. Makes it sound like there's no way to even get a look at the floor. I might get a bit more upset if I knew what benefit a press pass gave
a grrl & her server
That being said, if you sign a contract, and agree to limit your use to specific terms and conditions, expect it to be enforced.
:D. "Yes Ma'am, you appear to have broken a few laws by exceeding the speed limit by five hundred and... oh. Hang on a sec..."
I would still be *SO* tempted to rent a car, pull the satellite tracking 'bits' out, UPS them around the country for a few days, and pop them back in.
Then deal with the 'fine' for doing air transport plane speeds across 8 states
a grrl & her server
I fell in love with the tactile clickety-click keyboards while at Uni in the early 1990s - and put up with quite a few people telling me to shut the hell up when I -really- got going on them. Pity. Not that anyone was particularly quiet on the things
Now having a mac with only a USB Pro Keyboard to keep me happy (and with its big fat keys it has its own kind of appeal) I don't have access to anything clickety - anyone know of USB keyboards with 'kick'?
a grrl & her server
There are no Quadras... where are all the Quadras?
Seriously - nice to see an online museum that ISN'T merely a collection of 80s personal computers. The more information about the common machines from the 50s and 60s the better - 70s boxies are well known relatively...
a grrl & her server
I doubt software vendors could continue to exist, if there were a level of performance required where NO bugs/faults were required. What may work though, especially when it comes to software like IIS and all of its fun vulnerabilities, is lemon laws similar to for cars.
A model of car needing a recall is no big deal - it's a bummer and an inconvenience most of the time, much as most software has the odd patch/upgrade for reasons of bugs appearing publicly. Continual faults/bugs/etc are a different matter entirely.
The notion also, of Unstable, Stable, Testing versions of software seems pretty sensible when it comes to the liability in open source software. Letting a user know what they're in for when using an Unstable product limits liability by saying "OK, this really could be crap" - miles more than IIS, to use one example.
a grrl & her server
Every so often I'll have a little laugh at people who're unnaturally fearful of new tech of some form - but I try not to poke too much fun. Sometimes though, articles like this one come along and scare me by going waaaay over my head. I want to crawl away somewhere and hide now.
a grrl & her server
Not being from the US where this is all happening, the prices are just numbers that don't mean too much - compared to similar systems, do walmart look to be passing on the savings over providing windows?.
Looks a good idea so far, on two fronts - giving people an alternative to windows, and letting anyone who's a little more cluey to run an alternative system without having wasted cash on an OS they're not going to use. Thats the theory, nice if the practice holds up with lower prices.
a grrl & her server
live.save-ebone.com
that has a counter that indicates how long is left until all's closed...
a grrl & her server
I'll admit I simplified it a lot, but I don't see how this stands to change the definition of live.
:)
I don't think it does either - you have a "live" performance that you can go see, and a "televised live performance" (or recorded live performance) which is the same effort/accomplishment without editing.
I don't think a virtual performance is near the same thing as seeing someone up on stage with all their human movements shared with us, or perhaps even reacting to an audience as some performances have (take Victor Borge for example) but it's an extension. A bit better than having a dodgy VHS copy of a performance, y'can have machinery in your own home play it all back for you... and for the truly obsessed, with far better quality in one sense than any traditional audio recording
a grrl & her server
Although the small increase in processing power may be far outweighed by the ease of use and stability of the Apple platform.
:).
:D
That "may be" is the big thing Apple are addressing. While there's no doubt there ARE things about macs that grab people (and being a fanatical user with 36 of the things myself I've been firmly grabbed!), there are also turnoffs. For people to be able to make decisions on what suits them best, whether it be linux/bsd/solaris/windows/macos/amiga/a tin can with a string/etc, they need to have the information. Just getting over the hurdle of "But it's a mac!" is the big thing. I find the best thing I can tell potential converts is "It's just a bloody computer!"... it has a cpu, ram, gui, I/O stuff... And let people see for themselves what they want. Taking a unbiased-seeming view kinda rubs off on people and opens their mind
After getting over silly little hatreds of what's just an inanimate electronic machine - some choose macs, some don't - and we're all happy
a grrl & her server