I don't think the moderators are on crack: it takes a tremendous amount of time, effort and expertise to write an emulator, especially with the kind of features CherryOS claims to have. VPC has been around for a decade, and has had man-hours unnumbered put into making it usable.
The real kicker is the claim that the company emulates a G4, which seems highly unlikely for reasons too long to go into here -- read the rest of the thread for other posters' interpretations.
I'm skeptical, and so is the grandparent, and so should other readers. Extraordinary claims like the ones being made by an unknown company with no history demand extraordinary proof before they're accepted.
Given this context, I think the moderators are doing an acceptable job.
Semantic distinctions between words don't necessarily make the act any less wrong: call it stealing -- which Merriam-Webster online defines in 1 a as "to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully" or copyright infringment.
Theft or stealing has the implication of taking something when it's not yours to take, which can apply to software. Used colloquially, I think theft applies.
It's very easy to "get the full political spectrum" if one reads newspapers and news magazines, instead of the pre-digested, manipulative crap that generally passes for TV news.
Walter Mossberg, a fairly influential tech writer for the Wall Street Journal, wrote a piece that said it wasn't ready for prime time. His final words are "For now, though, it's more of a curiosity, or a tool for radio enthusiasts with a good sense of station schedules and time to invest."
I'm curious (assuming the original writer is reading this) about how that writer would respond to Mossberg's criticism.
I've got a Powerbook 1.5Ghz 15", and it feels as fast as any Windows laptop I've used.
As for intensive processing, I've noticed that.aac encoding in iTunes is fast and painless, as is DVD burning. Best of all, the system stays responsive in other applications while those tasks occur.
I can't speak to compiling speed because the most intensive program I've compiled is ~1000 lines of Java, which isn't much and didn't take long.
As the parent seems to imply with his last paragraph: YMMV.
I'm not old enough to have used computers in the 80s, but I've been using DOS and then Windows for as long as I remember.
And Windows has been frustrating for as long as I can remember. Linux, although more stable, brings its own nightmares with it. During summer upgrade time came along, and I bought a Powerbook. I get portability, power (relative to other laptops) and ease-of-use. If I must use Windows I have VPC.
In addition, I'm no longer tethered to the phone-home crippling of Windows and Office XP. The last two times I had to format and install those two (an experience I hope to avoid from here out), I also had to call MS central. I don't like being treated as a criminal when I'm trying to legally use products I bought.
In short, I don't want to sound like an Apple ad, but I'm quite happy with the Powerbook. That doesn't mean you should get one, or that there aren't reasons to stay with Windows, but I'm pleased. And so is the parent poster.
Which would be a massive PR blunder for any nation;
I disgaree with much of your post, but I'm going to focus on this part: NK doesn't care about a PR disaster. They have no compunction about starving their own people and creating concentration camps on a scale not seen since the Soviet Union; there is no indictation that they would have any qualms about using nuclear weapons in a war. Even if NK isn't in a war, they've demonstrated a willingness to sell virtually any technology they possess, and that may include operational nuclear weapons. As bad as invasion may be, it would still be better than The Bomb smuggled into Los Angeles*.
We can't ignore NK because ignorning the problem makes it grow: today they may have five nuclear weapons; tomorrow that number may jump to 20. Today they may have operational 2-stage missiles; tomorrow they may have true ICBMs.
Our approach to Islamic terrorism was ignore it and hope it goes away. The failure of that approach has already been demonsrated.**
* This doesn't mean I advocate invasion: I don't for a variety of reasons. I'm only presenting a hypothetical scenario and am not implying a future in which situation A OR B will happen, because obviously we live in a more complicated world than that.
** I'm not equating the parent poster's position to advocating for terrorism, and I don't think if you're not with us you're against us, or whatever else the current administration claims. But the threats (terrorism, NK), although not identical, both show a tendency to grow with time.
From everything that I've read, the plan in the event of North Korea's invasion is to let around 10,000 US troops die and let NK take most of the country until US reinforcements arrive.
Given the proximity of Seoul to NK and the firepower NK has sitting on the border, there is no other way. NK supposedly has an army of more than 1M. Even if the war were short (as in less than one year), 1M total causalities in SK would be probable.
This was actually much of what I thought: many of these "amatures" turn into professionals quickly. They use Linux as an example: if you look at the changelog these days -- or even anytime over the past five years -- you'll see lots of changes from people in big organizations. Like IBM. Or Transmeta, which employed Linus for quite a while. Or Red Hat.
Red Hat is an especially interesting case: as amatures become more devoted and important, they eventually morph into professionals. Guys who make a small splash in open source tend to eventually merge their passion and job.
It works the other way around, too. Tons of the Mozilla guys came from Netscape.
As other posters have mentioned, musicians have always been amatures -- until they get someone to pay for their work. If a musician earns little money until his 20th birthday and gets a huge recording contract, is a fully different person at 20 + 1 day than he was at 19 + 364 days? The only difference is the money. The same thing happens with novelists: you're an amature until you convince someone to pay you for your stuff, and then you're a pro.
Plenty of novelists have English degrees or work as teachers or lawyers, just like plenty of FOSS developers have CS degrees, work in the industry, or are earning their CS degrees.
You mean the iPod, that delightful consumer electronics device that results in sexual activity, weight loss and annoying testimonials posted in internet forums.
Except that, as a college student, I can only say good luck getting peopl to pay. Other options for movie downloads include bit torrent and direct connect; at the University of Washington, for example, one can find virtually any movie and download it, locally, in less than 10 minutes.
Plus, a decent number of college students have a larger library of DVDs than books. Meaning that it's often even easier to borrow the DVD rather than buy or rent it.
I think that it's arguable at best that Sun has done more for FOSS than any other company; but you did forget Open Office (although Sun still sells Star Office).
Also, as other posters have pointed out, people with @sun e-mail addresses have contributed kernel pataches.
Yeah, well, my Powerbook saves +6 vs viruses, while my Linux box is immune. Unfortunately, the Linux box has really low charisma, even with its +2, LED-encrusted case.
We bought our stuff there. They died anyway. I must buy at distant chain stores now; the choice was taken away.
Those who choose to shop at chain stores take that choice away. In places without enough people to support smaller or speciality shops, chain stores tend to dominate -- and they bring their massive parking lots and familiar layout with them.
Saying "You can stuff that shit" doesn't make my comment any less true. You can choose to fight the forces at work in society or acquiese to them. It sounds like you've chosen the latter, since you say you shop at stores you dislike.
Sadly, you're part of the problem. When you shop at big box stores, the dollars you spend there aren't spent on whatever kind of store your post indicates you might prefer (small box store?).
Until there's more demand for high-density urban housing, sprawl is the answer. People can choose to live in cities. Some -- like Seattle, Boston, New York and Portland -- are especially viable for a car-less lifestyle. But that requires people who want to live there. Most people, including you, probably don't.
This has been harped upon since Jane Jacob wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Numerous urban development courses focus on the problems created by suburbia. When someone buys a tract house and shops at big box stores, they vote for precisely the kind of lifestyle you claim to lament in your post.
This isn't to say that I'm perfect or somehow superior. Still, I don't say "developers seem stuck in a rut" when I know that I'm part of the rut driving the market.
I've had an experience to the one you described, which in part swayed the reason I voted for Apple last time around: their OS is better than MS's, and for now they don't treat users like thieves.
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The real kicker is the claim that the company emulates a G4, which seems highly unlikely for reasons too long to go into here -- read the rest of the thread for other posters' interpretations.
I'm skeptical, and so is the grandparent, and so should other readers. Extraordinary claims like the ones being made by an unknown company with no history demand extraordinary proof before they're accepted.
Given this context, I think the moderators are doing an acceptable job.
As in move the mouse, get up, go get a soda, drink it, read a chapter in a book, and come back.
Theft or stealing has the implication of taking something when it's not yours to take, which can apply to software. Used colloquially, I think theft applies.
It's very easy to "get the full political spectrum" if one reads newspapers and news magazines, instead of the pre-digested, manipulative crap that generally passes for TV news.
I'm curious (assuming the original writer is reading this) about how that writer would respond to Mossberg's criticism.
As for intensive processing, I've noticed that .aac encoding in iTunes is fast and painless, as is DVD burning. Best of all, the system stays responsive in other applications while those tasks occur.
I can't speak to compiling speed because the most intensive program I've compiled is ~1000 lines of Java, which isn't much and didn't take long.
As the parent seems to imply with his last paragraph: YMMV.
And Windows has been frustrating for as long as I can remember. Linux, although more stable, brings its own nightmares with it. During summer upgrade time came along, and I bought a Powerbook. I get portability, power (relative to other laptops) and ease-of-use. If I must use Windows I have VPC.
In addition, I'm no longer tethered to the phone-home crippling of Windows and Office XP. The last two times I had to format and install those two (an experience I hope to avoid from here out), I also had to call MS central. I don't like being treated as a criminal when I'm trying to legally use products I bought.
In short, I don't want to sound like an Apple ad, but I'm quite happy with the Powerbook. That doesn't mean you should get one, or that there aren't reasons to stay with Windows, but I'm pleased. And so is the parent poster.
I disgaree with much of your post, but I'm going to focus on this part: NK doesn't care about a PR disaster. They have no compunction about starving their own people and creating concentration camps on a scale not seen since the Soviet Union; there is no indictation that they would have any qualms about using nuclear weapons in a war. Even if NK isn't in a war, they've demonstrated a willingness to sell virtually any technology they possess, and that may include operational nuclear weapons. As bad as invasion may be, it would still be better than The Bomb smuggled into Los Angeles*.
We can't ignore NK because ignorning the problem makes it grow: today they may have five nuclear weapons; tomorrow that number may jump to 20. Today they may have operational 2-stage missiles; tomorrow they may have true ICBMs.
Our approach to Islamic terrorism was ignore it and hope it goes away. The failure of that approach has already been demonsrated.**
* This doesn't mean I advocate invasion: I don't for a variety of reasons. I'm only presenting a hypothetical scenario and am not implying a future in which situation A OR B will happen, because obviously we live in a more complicated world than that.
** I'm not equating the parent poster's position to advocating for terrorism, and I don't think if you're not with us you're against us, or whatever else the current administration claims. But the threats (terrorism, NK), although not identical, both show a tendency to grow with time.
From everything that I've read, the plan in the event of North Korea's invasion is to let around 10,000 US troops die and let NK take most of the country until US reinforcements arrive.
Given the proximity of Seoul to NK and the firepower NK has sitting on the border, there is no other way. NK supposedly has an army of more than 1M. Even if the war were short (as in less than one year), 1M total causalities in SK would be probable.
Exactly. That's why I'm voting in November, but not for Bush or Kerry. I'm voting for real change: a third party candidate.
Red Hat is an especially interesting case: as amatures become more devoted and important, they eventually morph into professionals. Guys who make a small splash in open source tend to eventually merge their passion and job.
It works the other way around, too. Tons of the Mozilla guys came from Netscape.
As other posters have mentioned, musicians have always been amatures -- until they get someone to pay for their work. If a musician earns little money until his 20th birthday and gets a huge recording contract, is a fully different person at 20 + 1 day than he was at 19 + 364 days? The only difference is the money. The same thing happens with novelists: you're an amature until you convince someone to pay you for your stuff, and then you're a pro.
Plenty of novelists have English degrees or work as teachers or lawyers, just like plenty of FOSS developers have CS degrees, work in the industry, or are earning their CS degrees.
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Plus, a decent number of college students have a larger library of DVDs than books. Meaning that it's often even easier to borrow the DVD rather than buy or rent it.
So is e; rounding makes calculations involving these values way easier.
Also, as other posters have pointed out, people with @sun e-mail addresses have contributed kernel pataches.
Yeah, well, my Powerbook saves +6 vs viruses, while my Linux box is immune. Unfortunately, the Linux box has really low charisma, even with its +2, LED-encrusted case.
I don't think the people a "level" scale would target would understand a logarithmic scale.
Debates ensue concerning whether it exists.
Well, quick review of your posting history indicates that you have contributed to Star Wars discussions.
-1 flamebait; insulting to lemmings and turnips.
You forgot this part:
and then i woke up.
Those who choose to shop at chain stores take that choice away. In places without enough people to support smaller or speciality shops, chain stores tend to dominate -- and they bring their massive parking lots and familiar layout with them.
Saying "You can stuff that shit" doesn't make my comment any less true. You can choose to fight the forces at work in society or acquiese to them. It sounds like you've chosen the latter, since you say you shop at stores you dislike.
Until there's more demand for high-density urban housing, sprawl is the answer. People can choose to live in cities. Some -- like Seattle, Boston, New York and Portland -- are especially viable for a car-less lifestyle. But that requires people who want to live there. Most people, including you, probably don't.
This has been harped upon since Jane Jacob wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Numerous urban development courses focus on the problems created by suburbia. When someone buys a tract house and shops at big box stores, they vote for precisely the kind of lifestyle you claim to lament in your post.
This isn't to say that I'm perfect or somehow superior. Still, I don't say "developers seem stuck in a rut" when I know that I'm part of the rut driving the market.
Well, 100% is still 100%.
I've had an experience to the one you described, which in part swayed the reason I voted for Apple last time around: their OS is better than MS's, and for now they don't treat users like thieves.