> > Why announce this chip swap a year before it
> > will even begin for customers?
> I wondered about this one too. Especially after
> Jobs showed how easy it is to port apps.
Steve said that many developers were still on Metrowerks and need to migrate to XCode before that magic can happen. Also, we have to assume that with the Mathematica story, much like in a weight loss comercial "results may not be typical."
I have read reactions from several developers who say this will in fact be significantly more work. Game ports and Open Source ports were given as examples. And the later are the sort of folks you would have to leave completely in the dark if you used NDAs.
I wonder if we could get them to replace the "Recent" menu with "Piles" of recent folders. Wait, they're already looking at that.
I wish they'd actually do that. What I would really like is the ability to have the last dozen Albums I played in iTunes sitting in a pile on my desktop like that demo.
That's one thing I miss about physical CDs. If you pull it out you will tend to play it more, whereas the one line of text that represents the album can get easily looked over in iTunes.
I really don't remember the 68k to PPC transition being that horrible for the average user. I didn't even know it had happenned. I ran lots of apps on my PPC that I did on my old Mac classic. When I feel nostalgic I still play a few of those old games on my Tiger machine.
I don't know what to be more amused at: the fact that this was modded Insightful, or that all the posts correcting it were modded down.
In order to bring this back on topic let me point out that we should all know some things are said differently in Britain. For instance, they seem to think that "Prefect" is a good name for a model of automobile.
The guy in charge of the fourth season of Enterprise (Manny Coto)
Speaking of Manny Coto, how come there was no protest when Odyssey 5 got cancelled? I thought that show was very promising and enjoyable science fiction.
Do you honestly feel that your information, and the Internet, is safer in the hands of a private unregulated "not for profit" US registered company that is given it's power by the US government and gives most (if not all) of it's contracts for vital services to US for-profit companies?
Yes.
I trust the US legal tradition far more than I trust any other (with the exeption of the other British Common Law derivatives). I trust it because the US government is founded on the idea that freedom is primary and government exists to protect that freedom. Many many other contries have it the other way around: they grant freedom, but it is government that is primary. Now we don't always get things right and I am sure you can point to recent headlines for many examples, but these things tend to work themselves out here. I do not have that faith in the international community.
And before you go criticizing US anti-UN sentiment, realize there are some good reasons for it (most of which have nothing to do with Iraq). The UN is really just a treaty organization, not a real international gocernment. It doesn't try to be fair: consider that the permanent security council is essentially the nuclear club circa the institution's founding. And it doesn't try to represent the people of many countries: it lets dictators represent people.
Sure, it sucks that you have no legal standing when it comes to the internet, but Americans have good reason for not trusting others with it.
10.3 Finder took several leaps backward in my opinion.
On othe occasions people here have talked about how the Finder can be replaced with another app (like Terminal). Does anyone know if one can replace the 10.3 Finder with the 10.2 Finder and have it still work?
True, by a matter of degrees. But the point is that state money collection produces better results for an Ecclesia than does the collection-plate version American churches use. Many people will consider themselves members and give on the form who still never going to church and so would never give at the colllection plate.
I concede that defining this as state funding may be a culturally specific definition.
The rest are catholic, the truth being that most of them don't go to church, they are catholic because their parents were catholic.
This is one of the common features of an 'Ecclessia' (which is what I meant by State Religion). Because the church is connected to general society, people are by default thought of as members. Thus people who aren't really that committed to the church count themselves as members. In such cases affiliation is inherited just like ethnicity.
This is opposed to a 'Sect' (not a very good technical term IMHO) which requires a more voluntary decision to mantain membership.
Whereas in America, although the founding fathers were deeply religious types who set out from Britain with the intention of founding a religious community, there was no state religion
Although many of those who settled America did come with the intention of founding a religious community, enthusiasm waned as that ferver failed to transmit itself through generations. By the time of the Revolutionary War, the "Great Awakening" had passed. Although the Founding Fathers thought of themselves as Christian, they were mostly what we would now refer to as Deists. Much of the real religious fervor had been transmuted to other things. (A good read on the topic.)
When technology did arrive and the USA took the lead in technological development a lot of these small churches had their world views shattered. I think they're going through what the Roman Catholic church in Europe went through with Copernicus and Galileo, and displaying much the same unhealthy response.
Many of the denominations that react unfavorably to these challenges to their world-views are significantly younger than this. Many were shaped by relatively recent developments in Millenialist thought (1960s and beyond). The popularity of the Left Behind series of books and movies is evidence of a continuing connection.
France is a special case, and to my knowledge not a country to which this theory strictly applies. France's separation of church and state is conceptually different from the American concept of separation of church and state.
In the American version the state gets out of the way of religion, so as to give it full freedom. Secularism and atheism are given the same postition as are religion. Thus while public schools do not allow mandatory prayer, they also do not prohibit voluntary prayer.
The French government, on the other hand, places a greater value on secularism as part of the national identity. French unity was invoked by French politicians as a reason for the relatively recent banning of Muslim religious garments and large Christian crosses in French schools.
As for your other examples, see my cousin posts for a clarification of what I mean by monopoly, and state religion.
I assume you refer to Bush's "Faith Based Initiatives," which have indeed been questionably distributed. This phenomena is recent enough that it has not had an appreciable effect on the Religious fabric of America. It may also be challenged as unconstitutional.
See cousin posts for comment on Religion and state support.
When I say "a monopoly of sorts" I do not mean a literal monopoly. What I mean is that the church considers itself tied to the broader society and the ethnic group. This may be less true of current German churches. (I don't have the paper in front of me so I can't check examples, but as a point of fact, there are still many Lutheran churches in America that are specifically the Lutheran churches of German immagrants and their descendents, as opposed to Swedes or Norwegians and their descendents, so this strong connection existed once upon a time.)
Anyhow, having the state provide money collection for churches counts as state funding. That is service witrh real monetary value.
I used the words State Religion because they are non-technical, but it does not precisely convey what I mean. The current term used is 'Ecclessia,' which is a large denomination that ostensibly serves as the main church for an ethnicity. The Catholic Church in Spain, the Anglican in England and Lutheran churches in various Scandinavian countries are all typically considered to be 'Ecclessias' even when they no longer recieve official support from the state.
So it's not about the content of the religion, it's about the institution that loses acceptance.
That is definately part of it. As I said in my previous post, much of the new religious activity in the US is of a populist nature: the televangelists and Super-Churches are not bound to institutions. The churches that are starting to suffer in America are the old established institutional Protestant denominations.
This still leaves the problem of why the USA has been the only (supposedly:-)) developed country where this has happened.
Religious Studies people and Sociologists generally attribute this to the fact that America has no state support of religion. In European countries one church is usually given a monopoly of sorts; it is state funded and presumes to count all members of the dominant ethnic group as members. Because it has this safety net, the church is protected from having to keep up with the religious needs of the populace and as a result religion in general wanes in social importance.
In America, to the contrary, there is a thriving marketplace of religious institutions which have to keep up with the needs of their congregants. The result has been a recent wave of populist religious movements, including the so-called non-denominational "Super-Churches," Televangelists, and many Evangelical and Fundementalist denominations.
Most people unfortunately take it very literally, that's where the whole religion part comes in.
That's truer in America than it is other places because of our high number of Fundementalist and Evangelical Christians. Neither the Catholic Church nor any of the major liberal Protestant denominations believe in inerrancy -- the idea that the Bible is perfectly and literally true.
The bible in it's basic form probably pre-dates religion, it was only later that people began to see it as something more and worship it, like present day people do with Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTRs.
Not really. Much of the Hebrew Bible dates from around or after the destruction of the first Temple, so it was absolutely composed for religious purposes. It contains traditions that are centuries older which certainly pre-date the understanding of religion that its writers had, but even those stories began as a part of religion. To call the Bible a collection of fables and stories created only for the purpose of morality is a gross distortion of the Bible's very complex literary history.
I don't know how it works in your country, but I can tell you that it is not how it works here. I don't strictly go to an Ivy (we are on the West Coast) but my college is consistently ranked with and above schools that are considered to be Ivy.
I can tell you from first hand experience that most people, regardless of socioeconomic class had to work very hard to get in and very hard to stay in. Sure, the advantages that attend certain social classes helped some people out, but to turn that into some sort of social determinism is bullshit.
I certainly wouldn't be in the bottom 10% income-wise, but I went to a little rural public school. You talk about getting introduced to Linux by a schoolteacher. Shit, no one who taught in my high school even knew Calculus, much less Linux.
What got most of the people I know at college where they are now was an intense drive to do excellent work consistently and without any real need to. Sure, socio-cultural factors played a pretty large role in this motivation, but the work we've done because of it is no less real.
And honestly, If you really felt you didn't have to do exceptional work to get into that "good university" of yours, then maybe the ethical thing to do would have been not to go and leave the spot for someone who did deserve it.
What we have is a situation where basic medical needs are being covered by insurance, which means the customer is always losing (just like if you spend enough time at the blackjack table).
True. But one shouldn't overestimate this too much, since the loss basically works out to the interest you could have gotten on the money you paid for premiums. Most insurance companies have roughly equal amounts of inflow as premiums and outflow as operating expenses and payouts, so that the real money is made on investing the money during the time it is in the insurance company's hands. A non-failed market really wouldn't bear any higher premiums than this.
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> > will even begin for customers?
> I wondered about this one too. Especially after
> Jobs showed how easy it is to port apps.
Steve said that many developers were still on Metrowerks and need to migrate to XCode before that magic can happen. Also, we have to assume that with the Mathematica story, much like in a weight loss comercial "results may not be typical."
I have read reactions from several developers who say this will in fact be significantly more work. Game ports and Open Source ports were given as examples. And the later are the sort of folks you would have to leave completely in the dark if you used NDAs.
<Meatwad voice> The way you can tell is the markings </Meatwad voice>
I wish they'd actually do that. What I would really like is the ability to have the last dozen Albums I played in iTunes sitting in a pile on my desktop like that demo.
That's one thing I miss about physical CDs. If you pull it out you will tend to play it more, whereas the one line of text that represents the album can get easily looked over in iTunes.
I really don't remember the 68k to PPC transition being that horrible for the average user. I didn't even know it had happenned. I ran lots of apps on my PPC that I did on my old Mac classic. When I feel nostalgic I still play a few of those old games on my Tiger machine.
In order to bring this back on topic let me point out that we should all know some things are said differently in Britain. For instance, they seem to think that "Prefect" is a good name for a model of automobile.
Speaking of Manny Coto, how come there was no protest when Odyssey 5 got cancelled? I thought that show was very promising and enjoyable science fiction.
Yes.
I trust the US legal tradition far more than I trust any other (with the exeption of the other British Common Law derivatives). I trust it because the US government is founded on the idea that freedom is primary and government exists to protect that freedom. Many many other contries have it the other way around: they grant freedom, but it is government that is primary. Now we don't always get things right and I am sure you can point to recent headlines for many examples, but these things tend to work themselves out here. I do not have that faith in the international community.
And before you go criticizing US anti-UN sentiment, realize there are some good reasons for it (most of which have nothing to do with Iraq). The UN is really just a treaty organization, not a real international gocernment. It doesn't try to be fair: consider that the permanent security council is essentially the nuclear club circa the institution's founding. And it doesn't try to represent the people of many countries: it lets dictators represent people.
Sure, it sucks that you have no legal standing when it comes to the internet, but Americans have good reason for not trusting others with it.
On othe occasions people here have talked about how the Finder can be replaced with another app (like Terminal). Does anyone know if one can replace the 10.3 Finder with the 10.2 Finder and have it still work?
I concede that defining this as state funding may be a culturally specific definition.
This is one of the common features of an 'Ecclessia' (which is what I meant by State Religion). Because the church is connected to general society, people are by default thought of as members. Thus people who aren't really that committed to the church count themselves as members. In such cases affiliation is inherited just like ethnicity.
This is opposed to a 'Sect' (not a very good technical term IMHO) which requires a more voluntary decision to mantain membership.
Although many of those who settled America did come with the intention of founding a religious community, enthusiasm waned as that ferver failed to transmit itself through generations. By the time of the Revolutionary War, the "Great Awakening" had passed. Although the Founding Fathers thought of themselves as Christian, they were mostly what we would now refer to as Deists. Much of the real religious fervor had been transmuted to other things. (A good read on the topic.)
When technology did arrive and the USA took the lead in technological development a lot of these small churches had their world views shattered. I think they're going through what the Roman Catholic church in Europe went through with Copernicus and Galileo, and displaying much the same unhealthy response.
Many of the denominations that react unfavorably to these challenges to their world-views are significantly younger than this. Many were shaped by relatively recent developments in Millenialist thought (1960s and beyond). The popularity of the Left Behind series of books and movies is evidence of a continuing connection.
That's how the memologists might phrase it. (Virus of the Mind)
In the American version the state gets out of the way of religion, so as to give it full freedom. Secularism and atheism are given the same postition as are religion. Thus while public schools do not allow mandatory prayer, they also do not prohibit voluntary prayer.
The French government, on the other hand, places a greater value on secularism as part of the national identity. French unity was invoked by French politicians as a reason for the relatively recent banning of Muslim religious garments and large Christian crosses in French schools.
As for your other examples, see my cousin posts for a clarification of what I mean by monopoly, and state religion.
See cousin posts for comment on Religion and state support.
Anyhow, having the state provide money collection for churches counts as state funding. That is service witrh real monetary value.
I used the words State Religion because they are non-technical, but it does not precisely convey what I mean. The current term used is 'Ecclessia,' which is a large denomination that ostensibly serves as the main church for an ethnicity. The Catholic Church in Spain, the Anglican in England and Lutheran churches in various Scandinavian countries are all typically considered to be 'Ecclessias' even when they no longer recieve official support from the state.
So it's not about the content of the religion, it's about the institution that loses acceptance.
That is definately part of it. As I said in my previous post, much of the new religious activity in the US is of a populist nature: the televangelists and Super-Churches are not bound to institutions. The churches that are starting to suffer in America are the old established institutional Protestant denominations.
Religious Studies people and Sociologists generally attribute this to the fact that America has no state support of religion. In European countries one church is usually given a monopoly of sorts; it is state funded and presumes to count all members of the dominant ethnic group as members. Because it has this safety net, the church is protected from having to keep up with the religious needs of the populace and as a result religion in general wanes in social importance.
In America, to the contrary, there is a thriving marketplace of religious institutions which have to keep up with the needs of their congregants. The result has been a recent wave of populist religious movements, including the so-called non-denominational "Super-Churches," Televangelists, and many Evangelical and Fundementalist denominations.
That's truer in America than it is other places because of our high number of Fundementalist and Evangelical Christians. Neither the Catholic Church nor any of the major liberal Protestant denominations believe in inerrancy -- the idea that the Bible is perfectly and literally true.
The bible in it's basic form probably pre-dates religion, it was only later that people began to see it as something more and worship it, like present day people do with Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTRs.
Not really. Much of the Hebrew Bible dates from around or after the destruction of the first Temple, so it was absolutely composed for religious purposes. It contains traditions that are centuries older which certainly pre-date the understanding of religion that its writers had, but even those stories began as a part of religion. To call the Bible a collection of fables and stories created only for the purpose of morality is a gross distortion of the Bible's very complex literary history.
[Ok. Time to get back to writing thesis]
thanks. i wondered why people always called the command key the "open-apple" key when it was the only apple on the keyboard.
Except that there isn't purchasing power parity.
Mac OS X is 129 US$ on the Apple Store.
Windows is 179 US$ on Amazon.
Worth noting that prices seem to be in Australian dollars, so the price gaps are somewhat less in American $.
Knowing calculus is more common. Therefore it is more likely that it can be taught in a given high school.
I don't know how it works in your country, but I can tell you that it is not how it works here. I don't strictly go to an Ivy (we are on the West Coast) but my college is consistently ranked with and above schools that are considered to be Ivy. I can tell you from first hand experience that most people, regardless of socioeconomic class had to work very hard to get in and very hard to stay in. Sure, the advantages that attend certain social classes helped some people out, but to turn that into some sort of social determinism is bullshit. I certainly wouldn't be in the bottom 10% income-wise, but I went to a little rural public school. You talk about getting introduced to Linux by a schoolteacher. Shit, no one who taught in my high school even knew Calculus, much less Linux. What got most of the people I know at college where they are now was an intense drive to do excellent work consistently and without any real need to. Sure, socio-cultural factors played a pretty large role in this motivation, but the work we've done because of it is no less real. And honestly, If you really felt you didn't have to do exceptional work to get into that "good university" of yours, then maybe the ethical thing to do would have been not to go and leave the spot for someone who did deserve it.
Yes, because instability in the major petroleum-exporting region of the world tends to lower the price of oil futures market so well.
True. But one shouldn't overestimate this too much, since the loss basically works out to the interest you could have gotten on the money you paid for premiums. Most insurance companies have roughly equal amounts of inflow as premiums and outflow as operating expenses and payouts, so that the real money is made on investing the money during the time it is in the insurance company's hands. A non-failed market really wouldn't bear any higher premiums than this.