Oh, but you see, Gecko *isn't* fast enough. I've used Mozilla on OS X. IE on mac which is an EXCRUTIATING process is still faster than Mozilla. So obviously Apple picked the one that *was* the fastest. They used open source stuff, gave credit where it was due, and is giving their innovations back to the community. This is what most open source people have been DREAMING FOR for YEARS. It finally happens. A respectable company that ISN'T linux based uses open source and STILL gives back to it, and people get all pissy because it wasn't what everyone THINKS they should have chosen. I swear, some open source people are never happy. You remind me of those "emo" kids at the mall. Cheer the fuck up and be happy you still have a choice. Geez. And I'm not trolling or flamebaiting or anything. I'm just tired of this double standard crap that seems so prevalent whenever Apple does something good for OSS. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be wiping my Powerbook G4 of Gentoo Linux and putting Jaguar in, because PowerPC Linux runs like crap.
actually the project64 emulator seems to run every N64 rom I can find quite nicely. Even has to limit the framerate to the proper 60fps or it goes into "turbo mode" of 120fps. Speaking of which, now to play F-Zero X.
a small thumb sticking out of the back of a Powerbook G4, that wont fit in cases unless you take it out, and has a high chance of being broken off. Integrated not so much for desktops (which isn't the main focus of BT, portables are)
but for the laptops
english? Hmm. Never programmed that language...sounds like some kind of hokey scripting language...is it like Perl?:-P (and I'm a CS major at Rutgers. I did my two semesters of English, passed em with flying colors. I think I'll be fine. Now if I could just get throught this god damned calc...)
iLink is only on their DV cameras. Digital PHOTO cameras, are still USB. The only photo camera with firewire I've seen is one of them ultra-high end cameras that's up near the double digits in megapixels and cost around $3k when I saw it.
again, like I said, the segways themselves aren't that usefull, but the offspring of their technology will offer many kick ass things. Like maglev segways or hover skateboards (a la Back to the Future 2) or who knows...
first off. a horse is another mouth to feed. It's also a living organism with will of its own. If it doesn't WANT to run fast that day, you're shit out of luck, unless you feel like beating the crap out of a horse. Highly inefficient, compared to cars. Most cars today have ranges well over 100 miles (assume it's a 4-cyl sedan with ~20 miles to the gallon and a 12 gallon tank, thats 240 miles, average speed of 60 mph, total: 4 hours) try riding a horse like that. You'll kill it. Yes, the segway is efficient, but it does not a) travel faster than a car b) travel that much faster than walking so the efficiency arguement is kinda lost.
I can see it as a partial wheelchair replacement, for those that can walk but anything more than a block would be an exercize in frustration. Also it's too expensive for what you get. Hmmmm, pay three grand for the adult version of a razor scooter with a jetsons spin, or pay a hundered (or up to three if you want the nice suspension and whatnot) for a Bike that's only limited by your physical ability. And as you ride it you get stronger, so the bike gets faster the more you ride it. Segway does not.
However, I say don't try and kill off the Segway before it gets at least an attempt to penetrate the market and society. It's internals and the inventions neccessary to drive it (the auto-balance, etc) are valueable in themselves and can be applied to other fields. (robotics, aircraft, jet power snowboard, whatever)
Revolution? No. Nifty little invention that should make for some other interesting creations? Yes.
If there's any spelling errors or anything of that sort I appologize. Still trying to get used to typing on a natural keyboard again, and I'm a comp sci major, not an english major.:)
I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but this update seems to have killed the man command in the terminal. no matter what you type now man says "invalid option -- C" did this happen to anyone else, and can anyone else give me any tips on fixing it? How shall acheive my UNIX-Guru status without my precious man pages!? I mean, I just started growing this beard and not showering:-P
But wouldn't the journaling file system thing only be useful to those who format their drive with said journaling file system? Last time I checked you could just "upgrade" from ext2 to ext3...*shrug* just a thought.
A friend of mine just got the new top of the line Sprint Vision phone and in the debug menu is a Java app launcher. I've been commissioned to see if I can write a SSH client for it. It can do SHTTP so I dont see a problem. Check www.a500hacking.com for more.
Rutgers University for one. 30,000 users, covering all three campuses of Newark, New Brunswick, and Camden as well as the 5 sub-colleges that make up RU NB. Its not the main use and its mostly legacy as modern macs can do without it, but it's still there churning away, just as it has for years. How do I know this? I work for RU's Resnet. So cram your whiny BS.
Don't wanna read about Apple stuff? It's a simple option in your account.
only because we're too busy dodging STDs like a game of space invaders!:-P (This is a joke. NOT flamebait, NOT a troll. I go to the damned school. Its a joke us RU ppl have.)
Yeah. Now if he was a RU philosphy or art major, THEN I'd be worried.
Go RU! Our football team sucks, but our comp sci, elec. engineering and physics depts 0wnz j00.
3G is loosely based of GSM and those other european standards that aren't in America anyways (except with T-Mobile and Cingular and AT&T's recent breaks into it). The kind of phone you want (tri-band) that would work on GSM networks, AFIAK, theres only ONE Seimens phone that does both. Just wait for GSM to take over America and we're set.
I work for the computing department of Rutgers University. We secure our macs with assimilator, and we dont have many "misuse" issues. This is with G4 450Mhz towers and 700Mhz eMacs but I hear the system has been used for a while so I imagine your results would be similar
It's called "Project Builder" it has complete support for java. It's also free and comes on the Developer Tools CD for Mac OS X. It has support for CVS and other niftyy things I'd imagine you'd use. Check it out.
Sprint has jerked me around for the last time. I want to know when my contract expires so I can switch to T-Mobile (mmmmm SonyEriccson T68) and they charge me $3 just to talk to someone about my account, not to mention the minutes I use sitting on hold for their shitty hold service. Fuck them. Sorry. Not flaming or anything. I'm just venting. I've had it with them and this months bill from them will be my last.
I know this is kinda nitpicking, but Windows XP *does* have DVD playback support, through Windows Media Player. I wouldnt use it if you held a gun to my head, but it's there.....watching.....waiting.......now if you'll excuse me I have a pillow fort to go hide in
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Oh, but you see, Gecko *isn't* fast enough. I've used Mozilla on OS X. IE on mac which is an EXCRUTIATING process is still faster than Mozilla. So obviously Apple picked the one that *was* the fastest. They used open source stuff, gave credit where it was due, and is giving their innovations back to the community. This is what most open source people have been DREAMING FOR for YEARS. It finally happens. A respectable company that ISN'T linux based uses open source and STILL gives back to it, and people get all pissy because it wasn't what everyone THINKS they should have chosen. I swear, some open source people are never happy. You remind me of those "emo" kids at the mall. Cheer the fuck up and be happy you still have a choice. Geez. And I'm not trolling or flamebaiting or anything. I'm just tired of this double standard crap that seems so prevalent whenever Apple does something good for OSS. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be wiping my Powerbook G4 of Gentoo Linux and putting Jaguar in, because PowerPC Linux runs like crap.
MS Lisp? I bet $10 that much like calling Microsoft Micro$oft and calling VB "VD" this will get the insulting name...."microthoft" *rimshot* :)
actually the project64 emulator seems to run every N64 rom I can find quite nicely. Even has to limit the framerate to the proper 60fps or it goes into "turbo mode" of 120fps. Speaking of which, now to play F-Zero X.
a small thumb sticking out of the back of a Powerbook G4, that wont fit in cases unless you take it out, and has a high chance of being broken off. Integrated not so much for desktops (which isn't the main focus of BT, portables are) but for the laptops
english? Hmm. Never programmed that language...sounds like some kind of hokey scripting language...is it like Perl? :-P (and I'm a CS major at Rutgers. I did my two semesters of English, passed em with flying colors. I think I'll be fine. Now if I could just get throught this god damned calc...)
iLink is only on their DV cameras. Digital PHOTO cameras, are still USB. The only photo camera with firewire I've seen is one of them ultra-high end cameras that's up near the double digits in megapixels and cost around $3k when I saw it.
again, like I said, the segways themselves aren't that usefull, but the offspring of their technology will offer many kick ass things. Like maglev segways or hover skateboards (a la Back to the Future 2) or who knows...
first off. a horse is another mouth to feed. It's also a living organism with will of its own. If it doesn't WANT to run fast that day, you're shit out of luck, unless you feel like beating the crap out of a horse. Highly inefficient, compared to cars. Most cars today have ranges well over 100 miles (assume it's a 4-cyl sedan with ~20 miles to the gallon and a 12 gallon tank, thats 240 miles, average speed of 60 mph, total: 4 hours) try riding a horse like that. You'll kill it. Yes, the segway is efficient, but it does not a) travel faster than a car b) travel that much faster than walking so the efficiency arguement is kinda lost.
:)
I can see it as a partial wheelchair replacement, for those that can walk but anything more than a block would be an exercize in frustration. Also it's too expensive for what you get. Hmmmm, pay three grand for the adult version of a razor scooter with a jetsons spin, or pay a hundered (or up to three if you want the nice suspension and whatnot) for a Bike that's only limited by your physical ability. And as you ride it you get stronger, so the bike gets faster the more you ride it. Segway does not.
However, I say don't try and kill off the Segway before it gets at least an attempt to penetrate the market and society. It's internals and the inventions neccessary to drive it (the auto-balance, etc) are valueable in themselves and can be applied to other fields. (robotics, aircraft, jet power snowboard, whatever)
Revolution? No. Nifty little invention that should make for some other interesting creations? Yes.
If there's any spelling errors or anything of that sort I appologize. Still trying to get used to typing on a natural keyboard again, and I'm a comp sci major, not an english major.
Funny, I've used it on a 600Mhz G3 iMac, a 450Mhz G4 Tower, a dual 1Ghz G4 tower, and a 550Mhz Powerbook Titanium.
Yes, some ran faster than others. But I also wouldn't be using my Athlon 650 to do video editing. Thats what my Athlon MP box is for.
They were all acceptably speedy, so either you have high standards, or you don't have a clue.
tried repairing permissions, still nothing. *sigh* Now what?
I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but this update seems to have killed the man command in the terminal. no matter what you type now man says "invalid option -- C" did this happen to anyone else, and can anyone else give me any tips on fixing it? How shall acheive my UNIX-Guru status without my precious man pages!? I mean, I just started growing this beard and not showering :-P
But wouldn't the journaling file system thing only be useful to those who format their drive with said journaling file system? Last time I checked you could just "upgrade" from ext2 to ext3...*shrug* just a thought.
Wouldn't have C or C++ your precious Linux kernels use either :-P
A friend of mine just got the new top of the line Sprint Vision phone and in the debug menu is a Java app launcher. I've been commissioned to see if I can write a SSH client for it. It can do SHTTP so I dont see a problem. Check www.a500hacking.com for more.
Rutgers University for one. 30,000 users, covering all three campuses of Newark, New Brunswick, and Camden as well as the 5 sub-colleges that make up RU NB. Its not the main use and its mostly legacy as modern macs can do without it, but it's still there churning away, just as it has for years. How do I know this? I work for RU's Resnet. So cram your whiny BS. Don't wanna read about Apple stuff? It's a simple option in your account.
only because we're too busy dodging STDs like a game of space invaders! :-P (This is a joke. NOT flamebait, NOT a troll. I go to the damned school. Its a joke us RU ppl have.)
Yeah. Now if he was a RU philosphy or art major, THEN I'd be worried. Go RU! Our football team sucks, but our comp sci, elec. engineering and physics depts 0wnz j00.
Power strip?
well, when I bought a Titanium Powerbook, it came with a battery ($120 value) so there ya go.
:-P
:-D
What are you waiting for!? GET ONE!
Now can someone PLEASE port gentoo linux's emerge system to OS X!?
3G is loosely based of GSM and those other european standards that aren't in America anyways (except with T-Mobile and Cingular and AT&T's recent breaks into it). The kind of phone you want (tri-band) that would work on GSM networks, AFIAK, theres only ONE Seimens phone that does both. Just wait for GSM to take over America and we're set.
I work for the computing department of Rutgers University. We secure our macs with assimilator, and we dont have many "misuse" issues. This is with G4 450Mhz towers and 700Mhz eMacs but I hear the system has been used for a while so I imagine your results would be similar
It's called "Project Builder" it has complete support for java. It's also free and comes on the Developer Tools CD for Mac OS X. It has support for CVS and other niftyy things I'd imagine you'd use. Check it out.
Sprint has jerked me around for the last time. I want to know when my contract expires so I can switch to T-Mobile (mmmmm SonyEriccson T68) and they charge me $3 just to talk to someone about my account, not to mention the minutes I use sitting on hold for their shitty hold service. Fuck them. Sorry. Not flaming or anything. I'm just venting. I've had it with them and this months bill from them will be my last.
I stand corrected. Thank you. Mod that man up!
I know this is kinda nitpicking, but Windows XP *does* have DVD playback support, through Windows Media Player. I wouldnt use it if you held a gun to my head, but it's there.....watching.....waiting.......now if you'll excuse me I have a pillow fort to go hide in