Openoffice is now on my system. Yeah, it kinda screws up and Eudora is now my e-mail client. Not integrated you say? Well, I'm not deleting worms and virii off my system I say!
Screwed once, shame on you, screwed twice, shame on me.
BTW, this e-mail is copyrighted, so the Scientologists can't copy it [grin].
That sucks, OS 9 was the greatest OS apple released ever, so much faster then the slow ass OS X, plus the GUI was better, no stupid Dock, It sure will be missed by me....
Except that OS 9's ability to kill apps only worked (at best) 50% of the time and badly behaved programs could tie up the machine and the TCP/IP stack was dreadfully slow and the lack of preemption pretty much killed a lot of things.
Other than that, it was like having a razor blade slicing your eyeball. And no, I'm not a troll, in fact I'm on the Developer list.
OS/9 had its day in the sun. It was a setting sun and everyone knew it. Time to move on sparky to bigger and better things...
And fundamentally, an integrated desktop/OS is what they want. Most people see PCs as an appliance, one they can, but rarely, re-configure. And like all appliances, uniformity of operation and interface trumps flexibility for the vast majority of people.
Funny, that is not what reality seems to state.
Here is what reality sez:
First observation: People like to modify their environments to fit the moods/lifestyle/whatever. If this were not true, then all homes would be EXACTLY alike: beige with 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths and a $200,000 mortgage.
Second observation: Look at automobiles. I'll bet if you look in a parking lot, you will not find that every single car is beige. If fact, you will find that many, many, many of them are modified to fit the tastes, whims, or beliefs of the folks that drive them.
Third observation: The single best way to kill a product before it even leaves the drawing table is to ignore observation's number One and number Two. If it can be modified, people will do it. Even if it "voids your warranty" (pshaw, like they honor them anyway!).
PC's are FREQUENTLY reconfigured by the average Joe Sixpack. Why? Because that is the nature of the beast. Otherwise you will have to explain why the hell screensavers are so popular?
What it boils down to is that Alcoa must go up to the Texas Railroad Commission to get permission to mine. The Texas Railroad Commission ALWAYS sides on business. However, there is a wrinkle.
It seems that a group called Neighbors For Neighbors petitioned that there should NOT be a strip mine in their neighborhood (like good public citizens). So Alcoa has decided to play hardball.
Alcoa has petitioned that they should have access to Neighbors For Neighbors (NFN) membership list, access to the members property, access to the interior of their homes, and allow them to videotape. AND just to be on the safe side, they also wanted ALL of the social security numbers of the members.
We don't have to imagine what would happen should a MAJOR corporation decides to, say, play dirty tricks? With a social security number they can not ONLY get their credit history, but suggest to banks that these folks might be credit risks. In other words, imagine the worst that could happen.
Oh, and if anyone is wondering, the current Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neal USED to be the CEO of Alcoa.
As an aside, Alcoa and Enron use the same lawyers. Interesting, isn't it?
There are PLENTY of laws on the books that make it a crime to copy software (or any other copyrighted material for anything but fair use).
What the software and music industry seem to want is the Feds to establish "internet police" to relieve them of burden of prosecution. Perhaps this strikes some as sane, to me it just seems insane.
In an era when our legal and civil rights are being stomped on by business and government alike (for example Alcoa lawyers are attempting to seek that they have the right to enter the homes of folks who oppose an Alcoa stripmine) are we just to smile and say "please, limit my liberties a little more!".
This of course TOTALLY ignores the fact that unlike the U.S. superhighways, the information superhighway is international. Let's see how those "net cops" catch folks in Taiwan.
I do not condone stealing copyrighted material. But bad laws will not help the situation.
What I mean by that, is that they randomly attack the PC, while pointing out the stupid ways PC users attack macs.
No, most of us attack the WINborg - which usually meant PC's (unless you know of a MS OS that runs on the Mac?).
Most PC users I know, before OS X, didn't give a sh*t about macs, be they good or crappy machines.
Not true. "PC World" would frequently run editorials talking about the good things in Macs. Weird, huh? Mac users, in fact, are the harshest critics as they knew what they were talking about. Most Windroids don't.
If I do get one, however, I'm going to mostly steer clear of those longtime mac users and instead find people who got a mac for the same reasons I did.
And how does this differ from the "old guard" Mac user? I believe power and ease of use has always been the mantra of the Mac OS.
FORCE businesses into.biz and.com schools into.edu...
What about companies like Edison Schools which is a private corporation that is attempting to take over public education? Biz, Com, or Edu? DAMN! This is getting tricky!
And what about something someone hasn't even thought of yet?
Personally, I thought that the 'Net was run by US (not the United States).
As a Mac Developer (back when the 68K was the COOL processor), I too see.Net as yet ANOTHER attempt by Microsoft to takeover the 'net. Or, to clarify it a bit, I don't see any advantage to.Net (read proprietary) over current (read open).
Microsoft is NEVER going to be open. They have built their empire on attempting to coopt the best software - what they can't buy they attempt to bury it outright. They are in way too many markets, are way too fractured, and have, in may people's opinion, lost focus.
For those who still think Microsoft is in their best interests, bully for you. I personally, do not see them looking out for anyone but themselves. They have spent too much time, too much money and created WAY too many products that are buggy, are less than user friendly (have you ever attempted to deal with their engineers? The first thing they say is "bring up the console..." - uh, yeah, so much for GUI, eh?), and are getting more and more restrictive. I figure the NEXT OS will require a DNA sample and a small sacrifice of next-of-kin.
Personally, I think the world would be better off WITHOUT.Net, Microsoft, or Windows. There are better systems out there that don't puke twice a day, aren't released with 20,000 known bugs (I mean, how hard is it to do a damn spellcheck!), and lord knows how many security flaws!
Microsoft WANTS a Windows-only situation. They WANT to spy on consumers. They WANT to make us pay not only to purchase their expensive products, but pay again to use them. THAT is the future to them.
"Smithers, we have got those pencil-necked geeks by the testicles. Now the one-two punch and total domination will be ours. Fortunately, we can buy off the Justice Department..."
Okay, just one thing:
About a year ago or so I saw one of the security guys (wish I could remember his name) talking on one of the geek channels (we no longer get it, so I forget what it is called). He was from McAffee and his #1 complaint about Microsoft is that every year they invite him and other security experts up there and every year they tell Microsoft the same thing: GET RID OF VISUAL BASIC!
Perhaps it is me, but two months doesn't seem like a very long time to do "security reviews" ("you see a problem, Frank?" "Yeah, but at $5.00/Hour they don't pay me to fix problems, Joe...").
Okay, so let us say they DID review it. Did they fix anything? Or is it just on their ever-growing (read never-ending) list of problems they just haven't gotten around to yet (lets all give them a Round TUIT, eh?).
Personally, after seeing the level of "quality" shipped in some of the source for CE (drivers that hang, etc.), I've been underwhelmed at the code quality. I've seen Open Source that beats the pants off of it.
Ah, but whadda I know? I'm just brainwashed...
Okay, hold your arms out and recite after me: Brains...brains...brains...
As saying I REALLY LOVE Microsoft. No, really, I do, because, after all them being so huge and all, they could just wipe me out in a millisecond. So let me just say that Free Speech is for cowards (I would use another word, but I'm afraid of being sued by the pussies).
And in conclusion, I love, I mean I want to have really nasty monkey love, with ALL the corporations that I have shelled out good, hard money to for products that have either harmed me in some manner, destroyed the remaining ecosystem, or have made sure that the planet will be suitable for T-2.
Hey, I worked with the Apple folks on the PB of OS X (as an ADC member - legally!) and they are, from what I have been able to determine, a pretty good bunch of folks.
Personally, I see this as the fault of the kid. Had he just approached them and said "look, I'm under the age of 18, what can we do" I suspect the folks at Apple would have worked things out with him.
As it was, he signed a contract. He falsely identified himself as someone who could LEGALLY sign a contract. This is no different than using a bogus drivers license to get beer.
It does NOT mean that he can not submit code - it merely means that the process at the moment does not include a method. But these things can be worked out. Instead, people want to just light up the ol' flamethrower and start toasting without regards to facts (and the fact is, ANY contract can be modified, altered, or updated as long as BOTH parties agree).
But it is just a helluva' lot easier to flame 'em, right?
remember that the first IBM box was 'off the shelf' components
No, I that part I don't remember. You mind telling me WHICH companies "OEM parts"?
The original IBM PC we basically tore apart. We went through all of the drawings of the ORIGINAL IBM PC and there wasn't anything like it. It appears that the color and monochrome boards MAY have originally started out as one beastie - albeit a VERY BIG beastie.
Now perhaps we are talking about different "first IBM box", but considering the various ports on the puppy (remember the cassette port? Oh, the fuss that was made when they removed that on the XT's! [grin]).
Perhaps you are confusing the PC with Trash-80 which INDEED was hacked from various OEM parts.
It's similar to the emissions and seat belt laws in the 70's. TONS of people didn't like it, but now it's commonplace.
Huh?!?!
Let me see, seatbelts are proven to save lives. Emission laws are so we don't gas ourselves to death. Those have very real, measurable, positive effects.
The National Identity Card, on the other hand, reminds me a lot of Nazi Germany ("May we see your papers?"). Some think "1984", but I think "we don't trust you". Hell, let's just get a bloody bar code tattooed on our foreheads at birth!
I have to ask what do the folks that want this card expect to accomplish? How will it be measured? Can it be measured? So far, I haven't seen anyone who says it can. I just see police state dreamers...
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And what is to stop Hollywood from bringing Mr. and Ms. Pacman together for the first time? Will they go on a dot eating rampage causing Weightwatchers to picket them? Will Bruce Willis sign on as Mr.?
or it isn't. I believe it isn't.
First, the brain is a lousy calculator of acceleration. If it were that good, flight simulators (like pilots train in) wouldn't be able to simulate many of the effects that they do.
Second, we are poorly adapted to weightless environments (if you look at things from the anatomy point of view). Attempting to say "oh look how we do poorly there than on earth" is much like saying "oh, look how lousy a whale walks on land".
Finally, if you view it from an objective point of view (which I always do [grin]), what would be the point of hardwiring gravity in the brain? We didn't evolve catching baseballs! This is just plain silly.
And while we're at it, why are you banging those two halves of coconuts together?
As it says more about the authors frame of mind, than the state of GPL. Personally, I think, much like many, he is trying to put the "blame" of his decision to move away from GPL on others.
This is a pity.
I would have rather heard about the plight of what is WRONG with GPL than read someone whining (and that is seriously what some of it sounds like) because they feel inconvenienced by it. To that I say "grow up!".
GPL is a contract. If you don't have the balls to deal with it, then don't! But don't blame others because you have issues.
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Openoffice is now on my system. Yeah, it kinda screws up and Eudora is now my e-mail client. Not integrated you say? Well, I'm not deleting worms and virii off my system I say!
Screwed once, shame on you, screwed twice, shame on me.
BTW, this e-mail is copyrighted, so the Scientologists can't copy it [grin].
Except that OS 9's ability to kill apps only worked (at best) 50% of the time and badly behaved programs could tie up the machine and the TCP/IP stack was dreadfully slow and the lack of preemption pretty much killed a lot of things.
Other than that, it was like having a razor blade slicing your eyeball. And no, I'm not a troll, in fact I'm on the Developer list.
OS/9 had its day in the sun. It was a setting sun and everyone knew it. Time to move on sparky to bigger and better things...
Funny, that is not what reality seems to state.
Here is what reality sez:
First observation: People like to modify their environments to fit the moods/lifestyle/whatever. If this were not true, then all homes would be EXACTLY alike: beige with 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths and a $200,000 mortgage.
Second observation: Look at automobiles. I'll bet if you look in a parking lot, you will not find that every single car is beige. If fact, you will find that many, many, many of them are modified to fit the tastes, whims, or beliefs of the folks that drive them.
Third observation: The single best way to kill a product before it even leaves the drawing table is to ignore observation's number One and number Two. If it can be modified, people will do it. Even if it "voids your warranty" (pshaw, like they honor them anyway!).
PC's are FREQUENTLY reconfigured by the average Joe Sixpack. Why? Because that is the nature of the beast. Otherwise you will have to explain why the hell screensavers are so popular?
This literally JUST happened!
What it boils down to is that Alcoa must go up to the Texas Railroad Commission to get permission to mine. The Texas Railroad Commission ALWAYS sides on business. However, there is a wrinkle.
It seems that a group called Neighbors For Neighbors petitioned that there should NOT be a strip mine in their neighborhood (like good public citizens). So Alcoa has decided to play hardball.
Alcoa has petitioned that they should have access to Neighbors For Neighbors (NFN) membership list, access to the members property, access to the interior of their homes, and allow them to videotape. AND just to be on the safe side, they also wanted ALL of the social security numbers of the members.
We don't have to imagine what would happen should a MAJOR corporation decides to, say, play dirty tricks? With a social security number they can not ONLY get their credit history, but suggest to banks that these folks might be credit risks. In other words, imagine the worst that could happen.
Oh, and if anyone is wondering, the current Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neal USED to be the CEO of Alcoa.
As an aside, Alcoa and Enron use the same lawyers. Interesting, isn't it?
There are PLENTY of laws on the books that make it a crime to copy software (or any other copyrighted material for anything but fair use).
What the software and music industry seem to want is the Feds to establish "internet police" to relieve them of burden of prosecution. Perhaps this strikes some as sane, to me it just seems insane.
In an era when our legal and civil rights are being stomped on by business and government alike (for example Alcoa lawyers are attempting to seek that they have the right to enter the homes of folks who oppose an Alcoa stripmine) are we just to smile and say "please, limit my liberties a little more!".
This of course TOTALLY ignores the fact that unlike the U.S. superhighways, the information superhighway is international. Let's see how those "net cops" catch folks in Taiwan.
I do not condone stealing copyrighted material. But bad laws will not help the situation.
No, most of us attack the WINborg - which usually meant PC's (unless you know of a MS OS that runs on the Mac?).
Most PC users I know, before OS X, didn't give a sh*t about macs, be they good or crappy machines.
Not true. "PC World" would frequently run editorials talking about the good things in Macs. Weird, huh? Mac users, in fact, are the harshest critics as they knew what they were talking about. Most Windroids don't.
If I do get one, however, I'm going to mostly steer clear of those longtime mac users and instead find people who got a mac for the same reasons I did.
And how does this differ from the "old guard" Mac user? I believe power and ease of use has always been the mantra of the Mac OS.
Heh, yeah they do... it's called a new computer [grin].
What about companies like Edison Schools which is a private corporation that is attempting to take over public education? Biz, Com, or Edu? DAMN! This is getting tricky!
And what about something someone hasn't even thought of yet?
Personally, I thought that the 'Net was run by US (not the United States).
Microsoft is NEVER going to be open. They have built their empire on attempting to coopt the best software - what they can't buy they attempt to bury it outright. They are in way too many markets, are way too fractured, and have, in may people's opinion, lost focus.
For those who still think Microsoft is in their best interests, bully for you. I personally, do not see them looking out for anyone but themselves. They have spent too much time, too much money and created WAY too many products that are buggy, are less than user friendly (have you ever attempted to deal with their engineers? The first thing they say is "bring up the console..." - uh, yeah, so much for GUI, eh?), and are getting more and more restrictive. I figure the NEXT OS will require a DNA sample and a small sacrifice of next-of-kin.
Personally, I think the world would be better off WITHOUT .Net, Microsoft, or Windows. There are better systems out there that don't puke twice a day, aren't released with 20,000 known bugs (I mean, how hard is it to do a damn spellcheck!), and lord knows how many security flaws!
Microsoft WANTS a Windows-only situation. They WANT to spy on consumers. They WANT to make us pay not only to purchase their expensive products, but pay again to use them. THAT is the future to them.
"Smithers, we have got those pencil-necked geeks by the testicles. Now the one-two punch and total domination will be ours. Fortunately, we can buy off the Justice Department..."
This article is proof that way too many English Lit. majors don't have jobs.
Perhaps it is me, but two months doesn't seem like a very long time to do "security reviews" ("you see a problem, Frank?" "Yeah, but at $5.00/Hour they don't pay me to fix problems, Joe...").
Okay, so let us say they DID review it. Did they fix anything? Or is it just on their ever-growing (read never-ending) list of problems they just haven't gotten around to yet (lets all give them a Round TUIT, eh?).
Personally, after seeing the level of "quality" shipped in some of the source for CE (drivers that hang, etc.), I've been underwhelmed at the code quality. I've seen Open Source that beats the pants off of it.
Ah, but whadda I know? I'm just brainwashed...
Okay, hold your arms out and recite after me: Brains...brains...brains...
And in conclusion, I love, I mean I want to have really nasty monkey love, with ALL the corporations that I have shelled out good, hard money to for products that have either harmed me in some manner, destroyed the remaining ecosystem, or have made sure that the planet will be suitable for T-2.
Ahhhh, Liquid Met-al....
[sigh]
--- "I believe in freedom of speech as long as the other guy says what I want to hear" - Chief Justice William Rehnquist remarks on M$ suit
Personally, I think static is a good thing... hello, hello, I think I'm losing you...I can't hear anything your saying...
However, like many of their announcements, they couldn't place a time or date when it would be released...
Personally, I see this as the fault of the kid. Had he just approached them and said "look, I'm under the age of 18, what can we do" I suspect the folks at Apple would have worked things out with him.
As it was, he signed a contract. He falsely identified himself as someone who could LEGALLY sign a contract. This is no different than using a bogus drivers license to get beer.
It does NOT mean that he can not submit code - it merely means that the process at the moment does not include a method. But these things can be worked out. Instead, people want to just light up the ol' flamethrower and start toasting without regards to facts (and the fact is, ANY contract can be modified, altered, or updated as long as BOTH parties agree).
But it is just a helluva' lot easier to flame 'em, right?
No, I that part I don't remember. You mind telling me WHICH companies "OEM parts"?
The original IBM PC we basically tore apart. We went through all of the drawings of the ORIGINAL IBM PC and there wasn't anything like it. It appears that the color and monochrome boards MAY have originally started out as one beastie - albeit a VERY BIG beastie.
Now perhaps we are talking about different "first IBM box", but considering the various ports on the puppy (remember the cassette port? Oh, the fuss that was made when they removed that on the XT's! [grin]).
Perhaps you are confusing the PC with Trash-80 which INDEED was hacked from various OEM parts.
Am I showing my age yet?
Huh?!?!
Let me see, seatbelts are proven to save lives. Emission laws are so we don't gas ourselves to death. Those have very real, measurable, positive effects.
The National Identity Card, on the other hand, reminds me a lot of Nazi Germany ("May we see your papers?"). Some think "1984", but I think "we don't trust you". Hell, let's just get a bloody bar code tattooed on our foreheads at birth!
I have to ask what do the folks that want this card expect to accomplish? How will it be measured? Can it be measured? So far, I haven't seen anyone who says it can. I just see police state dreamers...
And what is to stop Hollywood from bringing Mr. and Ms. Pacman together for the first time? Will they go on a dot eating rampage causing Weightwatchers to picket them? Will Bruce Willis sign on as Mr.?
Second, we are poorly adapted to weightless environments (if you look at things from the anatomy point of view). Attempting to say "oh look how we do poorly there than on earth" is much like saying "oh, look how lousy a whale walks on land".
Finally, if you view it from an objective point of view (which I always do [grin]), what would be the point of hardwiring gravity in the brain? We didn't evolve catching baseballs! This is just plain silly.
And while we're at it, why are you banging those two halves of coconuts together?
[sigh]
That I have to reboot in the middle of vacuuming the carpet ("Shut it off! The cat is in there!").
You know I tried to get one of those Christian Science Monitors to go to 1024x768...
This is a pity.
I would have rather heard about the plight of what is WRONG with GPL than read someone whining (and that is seriously what some of it sounds like) because they feel inconvenienced by it. To that I say "grow up!".
GPL is a contract. If you don't have the balls to deal with it, then don't! But don't blame others because you have issues.
Sheesh!