However, I've read that in certain types of brain surgery, all electrical activity in the brain must be stopped for some period of time, and then "restarted". The person thus loses all the short term memory, but keeps the long-term, because that isn't dependent on continuous electrical activity. When that person wakes up, is he still considered the same old person, or just a "replica"?
Um.. when I turn off my computer, everything in RAM gets deleted.. but I don't consider it a replica of the computer I had yesterday whenever I turn it back on.
Dave: Oh no, you're not bothering me, Derek, far from it. There's nothing I would rather do than just stand here and chat with you. You know, really get to know you?
Kevin: Look, I don't think there's any need to be sarcastic.
Dave: Oh, I'm not being sarcastic! Nooo! This is just a little speech impediment. I can't help it.
Yes, I think that downloading old games onto your Revolution is a cool idea, but a...uh...friend of mine tells me that I can emulate those games on my PC for free.
The nice thing about Cocoa is you don't accidentally put a Cocoa call into your cross platform C++ module, because Cocoa requires Objective-C or Objective-C++
Only a mac user can take a shortcoming like the lack of Cocoa C++ bindings and turn it into a feature.
To clear up any confusion: No *BSD uses a microkernel.
I think the problem is people don't understand what monolithic versus microkernel mean.
For example, a microkernel has *NO* filesystem code in the kernel. Something like the filesystem would be handed in *userland* not the kernel.
Meaning a daemon would be in charge of handling reading and writing files. The only thing the kernel would provide is direct access to the actual hardware.
A monolithic kernel that has modules is just a monolithic kernel that can swap stuff out. When you/sbin/modprobe vfat it's the *kernel* that handles reading/writing of FAT32 partitions.
In a microkernel, the code that handled reading/writing of FAT32 partitions would *never* be running in Ring0. It would be in userspace, not kernelspace.
Dashboard is a extension of the OS and more specifically is actually part of the dock process.
No. Apple extended Safari to make dashboard widgets work. You can embed dashboard-only code into a webpage and safari will render it.. no other browser will.
My response? "In the 22 years I've been alive, I've never found myself in that situation. Paying $20 or more a month to address the unlikelihood of it ever happening seems a little excessive."
Those of us who *have* been in that situation (stranded on the side of I10 between Phoenix and Tucson, in 114 degree weather) are glad that god invented cellphones.
Besides, a cellphone is cheaper than your home phone. Do you still have home phone service? Why? Cancel your home phone and get a cellphone.
I have a feeling that the anti-cellphone brigade is just trying to be hip. "I'm so much cooler than you because I don't need an electronic leash!" To which I reply "I don't suffer from that rare disease you have that requires you to answer any phone that rings. I can turn my cellphone off without suffering any ill effects"
This "friend of a friend" stuff aside, when you do experience a crash, you are clicking the little "send report" button, right?
It's not friend of a friend stuff. It's a co-worker. I'm looking at his powerbook right this second.
And yes, he submitted multiple reports.
Here's a fun bug for anyone running Tiger: turn on Magnification in the dock, right click on any icon, so the context menu pops up. Now move your mouse up and click on an application or the desktop to dismiss the context menu. The dock stays magnified.
Well, okay; we're up to 10.3.9, which is Panther with everything super-solid and shaken out. I like my computer working. I'll wait on Tiger until at least 10.4.3
I don't know about waiting for 10.4.3, but definitely wait for 10.4.1. My co-worker installed Tiger and is having a hell of a time with it. Safari2 crashes much more often than 1.3 did, and his iChat will crash whenever an iChat from Panther sends him a message (and it displays my messages from Gaim in Black text on a Black background). He's had to install AOL's AIM just to talk with his co-workers.
Tiger is probably the buggiest OS that Apple has put out since 10.0. MacNN has an 500 comment thread going on Tiger bugs. Plus it breaks a lot of 3rd party apps. Cisco VPN for example.
I can't believe how much shit MS got for breaking a few apps with SP2, when Tiger broke sooo much more.
Once I knew that Tom Cruise was a $ceintologist, it made it damn hard to sit through a his movies without thinking "gee, he thinks the souls of dead aliens makes us do bad things"
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However, I've read that in certain types of brain surgery, all electrical activity in the brain must be stopped for some period of time, and then "restarted". The person thus loses all the short term memory, but keeps the long-term, because that isn't dependent on continuous electrical activity. When that person wakes up, is he still considered the same old person, or just a "replica"?
Um.. when I turn off my computer, everything in RAM gets deleted.. but I don't consider it a replica of the computer I had yesterday whenever I turn it back on.
In fact, I think you're thinking about a human's skin which is replaced on a regular schedule.
Just the outer layer. Otherwise tatoos would only last 7 years.
You can do some fairly good panoramas with a camera. Unfortunately, Apple's stitching software sucks.
A better solution is to use a reflective ball.. then use lens correction software to turn the spherical reflection into a full panorama.
Search for "Gazing Ball Panoramas" to get some examples.
Dave: Oh no, you're not bothering me, Derek, far from it. There's nothing I would rather do than just stand here and chat with you. You know, really get to know you?
Kevin: Look, I don't think there's any need to be sarcastic.
Dave: Oh, I'm not being sarcastic! Nooo! This is just a little speech impediment. I can't help it.
I keep hitting the L3 button by accident whenever I make a sharp turn
After repeatedly jumping out of the car while trying to take a tight turn I decided that Sony's controller is the most evil thing ever devised.
Handhelds were the last area they had a commanding lead over the opposition, and the PSP has blown that to hell.
Nintendo announced yesterday that the DS has outsold the PSP in japan 3 to 1.
Yes, I think that downloading old games onto your Revolution is a cool idea, but a...uh...friend of mine tells me that I can emulate those games on my PC for free.
Yeah, copyright infringement is soo much cheaper!
The nice thing about Cocoa is you don't accidentally put a Cocoa call into your cross platform C++ module, because Cocoa requires Objective-C or Objective-C++
Only a mac user can take a shortcoming like the lack of Cocoa C++ bindings and turn it into a feature.
Generic Racing Game:
Graphics...
X-Box:360 - 6 stunning cars on a track.
PS3 - 12 stunning cars on a track.
Oh Please. First of all, Sony is a bunch of liars.. they always have been. The PS3 won't be nearly as great as they claim it will be.
Secondly, since a lot of games are cross platform, it'll be:
X-Box:360 - 6 stunning cars on a track
PS3 - 6 stunning cars on a track.
That's the way it is now... developers dumb down to the lowest console to make a game cross platform.
He actually was playing it. They merely programmed the camera to zoom in on faces and really show off the graphics.
You got it backwards. He was moving the camera around, he was not playing it.
To clear up any confusion: No *BSD uses a microkernel.
I think the problem is people don't understand what monolithic versus microkernel mean.
For example, a microkernel has *NO* filesystem code in the kernel. Something like the filesystem would be handed in *userland* not the kernel.
Meaning a daemon would be in charge of handling reading and writing files. The only thing the kernel would provide is direct access to the actual hardware.
A monolithic kernel that has modules is just a monolithic kernel that can swap stuff out. When you
In a microkernel, the code that handled reading/writing of FAT32 partitions would *never* be running in Ring0. It would be in userspace, not kernelspace.
Dashboard is a extension of the OS and more specifically is actually part of the dock process.
No. Apple extended Safari to make dashboard widgets work. You can embed dashboard-only code into a webpage and safari will render it.. no other browser will.
As with most Python-related stuff, I'd take this unsigned anecdote with a grain of salt.
In Cleese's biography they mention that his grandfather's last name was indeed "Cheese".
Safari's code is capable of performing to publish specifications.
Microsoft's objective was to create their own specification.
Entirely different thinking.
So that's why Apple extended the spec with Dashboard?
The Mac OS X writes data to the machine's NVRAM on kernel panic, which is then retrievable and interpretable once the system reboots.
Yeah, that explains why sometimes when my powerbook kernel panics the time and date have been reset, along with the speaker volume.
Blowing out the NVRAM isn't a big problem though.. but it's nice to find an explaination.
My response? "In the 22 years I've been alive, I've never found myself in that situation. Paying $20 or more a month to address the unlikelihood of it ever happening seems a little excessive."
Those of us who *have* been in that situation (stranded on the side of I10 between Phoenix and Tucson, in 114 degree weather) are glad that god invented cellphones.
Besides, a cellphone is cheaper than your home phone. Do you still have home phone service? Why? Cancel your home phone and get a cellphone.
I have a feeling that the anti-cellphone brigade is just trying to be hip. "I'm so much cooler than you because I don't need an electronic leash!" To which I reply "I don't suffer from that rare disease you have that requires you to answer any phone that rings. I can turn my cellphone off without suffering any ill effects"
-99 cents to own a song for, essentially, forever...
-or $5 a month to rent it for, essentially, forever...
Ah, but Yahoo lets you buy the songs for 75 cents if you want. 99 cents for non-subscribers.
Meaning that Yahoo's model is just like Apple's model, except that they *also* offer a subscription option.
I bought my iPod (3G) before the iTMS was lauched, so it clearly was not designed to lock me into a particular service.
Nope, that was added later with firmware updates etc.
Which just reinforces the point that Apple is leveraging one monopoly (iPods) to secure another monopoly (online music sales).
Hmmm... that's rather surprising and non-Apple-like. FWIW, freetype can handle vertical subpixel AA as
well as several different subpixel orders
Not really suprising. Freetype2 is the *best* font rendering package available.. opensource or otherwise.
Freetype has been ahead of Apple's system for quite a while now.
It is ironic that after years of complaining about Linux's fonts, that Linux would have the best looking font rendering of any platform.
This "friend of a friend" stuff aside, when you do experience a crash, you are clicking the little "send report" button, right?
It's not friend of a friend stuff. It's a co-worker. I'm looking at his powerbook right this second.
And yes, he submitted multiple reports.
Here's a fun bug for anyone running Tiger:
turn on Magnification in the dock, right click on any icon, so the context menu pops up. Now move your mouse up and click on an application or the desktop to dismiss the context menu. The dock stays magnified.
About once every 2 months we see security patch. They now name them 200x.00y (x - year, y - patch this year).
So wouldn't that be once a month? Since this patch is 2005-005?
Or is it October already?
Well, okay; we're up to 10.3.9, which is Panther with everything super-solid and shaken out. I like my computer working. I'll wait on Tiger until at least 10.4.3
I don't know about waiting for 10.4.3, but definitely wait for 10.4.1. My co-worker installed Tiger and is having a hell of a time with it. Safari2 crashes much more often than 1.3 did, and his iChat will crash whenever an iChat from Panther sends him a message (and it displays my messages from Gaim in Black text on a Black background). He's had to install AOL's AIM just to talk with his co-workers.
Tiger is probably the buggiest OS that Apple has put out since 10.0. MacNN has an 500 comment thread going on Tiger bugs. Plus it breaks a lot of 3rd party apps. Cisco VPN for example.
I can't believe how much shit MS got for breaking a few apps with SP2, when Tiger broke sooo much more.
Absolutely, but I thought the whole point of a *nix foundation was proper separation of root and non-root
MacOSX is not unix.. it doesn't have a unix foundation. It's a mach microkernel with some FreeBSD apps installed.
OSX is really no different than Windows XP with Cygwin installed.
If a 30+ hour game can be finished in less than 30 minutes, which category does it go in?
It falls into the worst category ever: "Games that have been artificially extended"
Once I knew that Tom Cruise was a $ceintologist, it made it damn hard to sit through a his movies without thinking "gee, he thinks the souls of dead aliens makes us do bad things"
So that's who's to blame for Vanilla Sky!