Is that not exactly what he said RedHat did for him?
No, that's not even close to what he said RedHat did for him. What he said was:
So I downloaded and compiled Kino...
Then I found out that Cinelerra has been released at version 1.0!!! So I downloaded and installed...
I had to install an old version of libstdc++-3, but that was easy.
Sure, that's a lot less painful than it used to be - but as far as Joe Consumer is concerned, it's still voodoo. It's a long, long way from "I plugged in the camera, started iMovie, and it just worked."
You wrote, and I quote, "Clustering is expensive, time consummming for very skilled people and is generally only useful for mission critical software. Given that it is also a total bear to write and that the other BSD's are working on it why would Darwin take this on? What does it add to Mac? I guess I'm having trouble "imagining the possibilities"."
There's nothing in what you posted that addresses the topic at hand, which is whether or not the question of clustering should be included in the interview with JH. Your own opinion regarding the usefulness of clustering on the Mac, regardless of its merits, has no bearing on that particular discussion.
given that clustering isn't useful for Macs
That's not a given, it's just your opinion. But the real problem, and the reason for the "off-topic" moderation, is that you posted it despite the fact that the topic at hand was not an open discussion of the merits of clustering. That discussion will come later, if the question makes the cut. If at that point you wish to discuss the merits of JH's answer, that would be an appropriate thread in which to post your opinion on the subject.
I'll admit, it's a rather fine distinction. The point is, the first round of posts in any "Ask whoever" discussion is for selecting questions to ask, not for attempting to answer them. The time and place for a more general discussion of the subjects asked about, and of the interviewee's replies to the questions, is when the replies are posted.
Well, since you asked - Apple's DVI implementation is non-standard. To use an Apple DVI monitor with something other than a Mac, or vice-versa, you need an adapter.
Also, it's a bit misleading to include PCI and AGP in your list of "industry standards" that Apple supports. They do support the standard physical and electrical connections, but that doesn't mean you can take just any generic PCI or AGP card meant for a PC, and use it in a Mac. Many such cards use onboard firmware written in X86 assembly, and won't work in a PPC Mac; to be fair, neither will they work in one of Sun's PCI-based Sparcs.
Don't get me wrong - for the most part I agree with you. Apple has come a long, long way since the "skinny Mac," in which every single component was proprietary, right down to the nonstandard screws used to fasten the top to the chassis. Apple is due a lot of credit for the progress they've made - but let's not go overboard, and pretend that things are better than they really are.
Seems that Apple has a 100% monopoly on the Macintosh operating system
Yeah, and Chevy has a monopoly on Corvettes. Go get out a dictionary, and look up what the word "monopoly" means. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Every company has a monopoly on its own products. MS has a monopoly on computer operating systems - a whole class of products. Even that, in and of itself, would not have been illegal. MS went to court, not because they had a monopoly, but because they abused their monopolistic position in order to gain market share in other markets.
Oh wait, this is an anti-Mac article, not an anti-M$ article, guess my karma is headed down now
If your post gets modded down, it will be because it's idiotic bullshit, not because it's anti-Mac.
Seems that Apple has a 100% monopoly on the Macintosh operating system
Yeah, and Chevy has a monopoly on Corvettes. Go get out a dictionary, and look up what the word "monopoly" means. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Every company has a monopoly on its own products. MS has a monopoly on computer operating systems - a whole class of products. Even that, in and of itself, would not have been illegal. MS went to court, not because they had a monopoly, but because they abused their monopolistic position in order to gain market share in other markets.
Oh wait, this is an anti-Mac article, not an anti-M$ article, guess my karma is headed down now
If your post gets modded down, it will be because it's idiotic bullshit, not because it's anti-Mac.
There was a discussion of clustering and I stated that I didn't believe clustering was a useful short term objective
I read that post, and it wasn't posted in a discussion about clustering, it was posted in the Hubbard interview thread. The subject of that thread isn't how you or I would answer the questions that are posted, it's whether you or I think they're good interview questions.
Your post is a good example of what I said above. It didn't get modded as offtopic *because* what you said was true, it got modded as offtopic because, *despite* having some truth to it, what you said was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
I think part of the problem is the sheer amount of repetitive whining that gets posted there. Every thread seems to be an open invitation for comments about OS X's performance issues, or the need for a reboot after some OS updates, or the price of the hardware and/or the latest OS update.
The fact of the matter is, these arguments have been hashed to death. Posting yet another "OS X is slow" comment to the board is not an enlightening, informative, or funny addition to the conversation. It doesn't get modded down *because* it's true, it gets modded down *despite* having an element of truth to it, because it's just another tiresome attempt to start the same old arguments that most of us are sick to death of hearing.
I command-option-escaped out of the installer so I could reboot "later"...
where do I find the traceback info?
The problem can be easily traced back to you not following instructions and rebooting when you were supposed to. If it wasn't a good time to reboot, you shouldn't have tried to install an update that requires one.
Yep. I *think* I first saw it on Saturday Night Live, so long ago that new episodes of Taxi were still being produced. I'd have given the comedian credit, if I could have remembered who he was.
Any bets on how long it takes for the new Mr. Roarke to show up as a Star Trek villain?
No takers here.:-)
My all-time favorite Star Trek villian is still Reverend Jim the Klingon. I kept expecting him to say "You want the, uhhh, Genesis Device, Captain, uhhh, Kirk? Uhhhh, okee dokee!"
Star Trek was just a massive metaphor for today's world.
ST is not so much anti-Christian as anti-religion. There have been quite a few comments by characters in the newer series (not classic, that I'm aware of) that humankind is "enlightened" and no longer indulges in "primitive superstitions" such as religion.
Oh, come on. Let's call it like it is, shall we? It's not "well meaning wireless activists," it's "cheapskate freeloaders on the lookout for free bandwidth."
Well maybe that's because warchalking isn't ILLEGAL
I get what you're saying here, and for the most part I agree. But technically, unless you own the building you're chalking, you could get arrested for graffiti, vandalism, or some such.
I remember looking on in horror as millions of people oohed an aahed over the emperor's new clothes.
You say that as if something has changed.
Around five years ago, I read an article in Byte magazine - I think it was by Jon Udell. The article described a concept that I thought was pretty neat: Writing a class in Perl that defines a web site as an object. Static pages are the object's properties, and CGI scripts are its methods.
Fast-forward five years. The same idea is now called "web services," and half the industry is oohing and aahing over it as if it's something new and innovative.
In my experience, loving what you do is the best reason in the world to not do it for a living. As soon as money and a boss enters the picture, everything changes. And let me tell you, it's a depressing experience to wake up one day and realize that the hobby you once loved has turned into a job that you hate.
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"Use a Mac, it Just Works."
Is that not exactly what he said RedHat did for him?
No, that's not even close to what he said RedHat did for him. What he said was:
So I downloaded and compiled Kino...
Then I found out that Cinelerra has been released at version 1.0!!! So I downloaded and installed...
I had to install an old version of libstdc++-3, but that was easy.
Sure, that's a lot less painful than it used to be - but as far as Joe Consumer is concerned, it's still voodoo. It's a long, long way from "I plugged in the camera, started iMovie, and it just worked."
Moderation. As it said in the write-up, the top ten moderated questions get asked.
You wrote, and I quote, "Clustering is expensive, time consummming for very skilled people and is generally only useful for mission critical software. Given that it is also a total bear to write and that the other BSD's are working on it why would Darwin take this on? What does it add to Mac? I guess I'm having trouble "imagining the possibilities"."
There's nothing in what you posted that addresses the topic at hand, which is whether or not the question of clustering should be included in the interview with JH. Your own opinion regarding the usefulness of clustering on the Mac, regardless of its merits, has no bearing on that particular discussion.
given that clustering isn't useful for Macs
That's not a given, it's just your opinion. But the real problem, and the reason for the "off-topic" moderation, is that you posted it despite the fact that the topic at hand was not an open discussion of the merits of clustering. That discussion will come later, if the question makes the cut. If at that point you wish to discuss the merits of JH's answer, that would be an appropriate thread in which to post your opinion on the subject.
I'll admit, it's a rather fine distinction. The point is, the first round of posts in any "Ask whoever" discussion is for selecting questions to ask, not for attempting to answer them. The time and place for a more general discussion of the subjects asked about, and of the interviewee's replies to the questions, is when the replies are posted.
DVI... what part of that is proprietary?
Well, since you asked - Apple's DVI implementation is non-standard. To use an Apple DVI monitor with something other than a Mac, or vice-versa, you need an adapter.
Also, it's a bit misleading to include PCI and AGP in your list of "industry standards" that Apple supports. They do support the standard physical and electrical connections, but that doesn't mean you can take just any generic PCI or AGP card meant for a PC, and use it in a Mac. Many such cards use onboard firmware written in X86 assembly, and won't work in a PPC Mac; to be fair, neither will they work in one of Sun's PCI-based Sparcs.
Don't get me wrong - for the most part I agree with you. Apple has come a long, long way since the "skinny Mac," in which every single component was proprietary, right down to the nonstandard screws used to fasten the top to the chassis. Apple is due a lot of credit for the progress they've made - but let's not go overboard, and pretend that things are better than they really are.
It's not just the real ones, though! I've seen some fake titties that were definitely works of art.
Troll, my ass.
Seems that Apple has a 100% monopoly on the Macintosh operating system
Yeah, and Chevy has a monopoly on Corvettes. Go get out a dictionary, and look up what the word "monopoly" means. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Every company has a monopoly on its own products. MS has a monopoly on computer operating systems - a whole class of products. Even that, in and of itself, would not have been illegal. MS went to court, not because they had a monopoly, but because they abused their monopolistic position in order to gain market share in other markets.
Oh wait, this is an anti-Mac article, not an anti-M$ article, guess my karma is headed down now
If your post gets modded down, it will be because it's idiotic bullshit, not because it's anti-Mac.
Seems that Apple has a 100% monopoly on the Macintosh operating system
Yeah, and Chevy has a monopoly on Corvettes. Go get out a dictionary, and look up what the word "monopoly" means. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Every company has a monopoly on its own products. MS has a monopoly on computer operating systems - a whole class of products. Even that, in and of itself, would not have been illegal. MS went to court, not because they had a monopoly, but because they abused their monopolistic position in order to gain market share in other markets.
Oh wait, this is an anti-Mac article, not an anti-M$ article, guess my karma is headed down now
If your post gets modded down, it will be because it's idiotic bullshit, not because it's anti-Mac.
There was a discussion of clustering and I stated that I didn't believe clustering was a useful short term objective
I read that post, and it wasn't posted in a discussion about clustering, it was posted in the Hubbard interview thread. The subject of that thread isn't how you or I would answer the questions that are posted, it's whether you or I think they're good interview questions.
Your post is a good example of what I said above. It didn't get modded as offtopic *because* what you said was true, it got modded as offtopic because, *despite* having some truth to it, what you said was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
I think part of the problem is the sheer amount of repetitive whining that gets posted there. Every thread seems to be an open invitation for comments about OS X's performance issues, or the need for a reboot after some OS updates, or the price of the hardware and/or the latest OS update.
The fact of the matter is, these arguments have been hashed to death. Posting yet another "OS X is slow" comment to the board is not an enlightening, informative, or funny addition to the conversation. It doesn't get modded down *because* it's true, it gets modded down *despite* having an element of truth to it, because it's just another tiresome attempt to start the same old arguments that most of us are sick to death of hearing.
Could you please refrain from using "Im" instead of "I'm?" It makes my head hurt.
They were last seen on a ship and headed towards the Delta Quadrant.
That ship wouldn't have been shaped like a cube, would it, or perhaps a sphere? Was it travelling at transwarp speed?
I command-option-escaped out of the installer so I could reboot "later"...
where do I find the traceback info?
The problem can be easily traced back to you not following instructions and rebooting when you were supposed to. If it wasn't a good time to reboot, you shouldn't have tried to install an update that requires one.
... it leads to fucking carpentry.
Which leads to some really nasty splinters.
Man, if you absolutely must trash a perfectly good Mac, at least make something useful out of it.
Yep. I *think* I first saw it on Saturday Night Live, so long ago that new episodes of Taxi were still being produced. I'd have given the comedian credit, if I could have remembered who he was.
Sigh. You'd think that sooner or later, people would eventually realize that there's a difference between patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
:-(
Any bets on how long it takes for the new Mr. Roarke to show up as a Star Trek villain?
:-)
No takers here.
My all-time favorite Star Trek villian is still Reverend Jim the Klingon. I kept expecting him to say "You want the, uhhh, Genesis Device, Captain, uhhh, Kirk? Uhhhh, okee dokee!"
He's from Fantasy Island.
Star Trek was just a massive metaphor for today's world.
ST is not so much anti-Christian as anti-religion. There have been quite a few comments by characters in the newer series (not classic, that I'm aware of) that humankind is "enlightened" and no longer indulges in "primitive superstitions" such as religion.
Oh, come on. Let's call it like it is, shall we? It's not "well meaning wireless activists," it's "cheapskate freeloaders on the lookout for free bandwidth."
Well maybe that's because warchalking isn't ILLEGAL
I get what you're saying here, and for the most part I agree. But technically, unless you own the building you're chalking, you could get arrested for graffiti, vandalism, or some such.
I remember looking on in horror as millions of people oohed an aahed over the emperor's new clothes.
You say that as if something has changed.
Around five years ago, I read an article in Byte magazine - I think it was by Jon Udell. The article described a concept that I thought was pretty neat: Writing a class in Perl that defines a web site as an object. Static pages are the object's properties, and CGI scripts are its methods.
Fast-forward five years. The same idea is now called "web services," and half the industry is oohing and aahing over it as if it's something new and innovative.
Dude... you write like... William Shatner... speaks...
If you don't love what you do, then why do it?
In my experience, loving what you do is the best reason in the world to not do it for a living. As soon as money and a boss enters the picture, everything changes. And let me tell you, it's a depressing experience to wake up one day and realize that the hobby you once loved has turned into a job that you hate.
if you take a job you don't like just because you're promised big bucks, then you're a whore.
Now, let's get the terminology straight here. You're only a whore if you work for cheap. If you make big bucks, you're an escort.