Hey now... I didn't say there aren't still problems. I said it's as good, ney better than it's ever been.
I'll address the easy ones first:
"Religious thought being pushed in science classes" - Yeah and some parents are taking the school board to court about it, not to mention that this is a great example of our freedoms to begin with... having two differing views on something as seemingly unquestionable as evolution? Any totalitarian government would have squashed the opposing view long ago. Do you really want to live somewhere in which the worship of the almighty science is the only accepted religion? Yes, science is a religion... ie: a mythos which attempts to explain that which we can not explain from direct observation... (have you ever seen a molecule or an atom without the aid of some other tool you don't really understand? Most scientific theories are really only understood by the person who posited it and a few peers... very leap of faith for the vast majority of people).
What about the guy trying to get God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and winning in court (sure it's only been in it since the 50s).
"Free Speech Zones" - please, protesters are just pissed they can't throw eggs anymore... none of that impacts freedom of speech or of protest, it only impacts the ability of the protesters to get on TV (which they'd be on anyways if they scheduled an interview ahead of time). BTW with the internet as a freely available mass distribution channel for information, why do people protest physically anymore... maybe I'm not typical but seeing a bunch of disorganized people standing around with poorly drawn messages on their shirts does absolutely nothing for me..
Now for the tough one...
People are being held in military jurisdictions against their will and some of them, heck maybe all of them are innocent of wrongdoing, maybe not. Are you suggesting then that they were picked as patsies to make the rest of us feel like the government is 'doing something'? That's just stupid. Okay, so maybe they were part of a racially profiled 'clean sweep' type operation? Possibly. So they were in the wrong place at the wrong time... but why were they in the middle of a military operation? Really it doesn't matter because it's all about whether or not we can give our military the right to do these things or not. Can they detain people and hold them until it's proven they are not hostile? Can there be prisoners of war at all? If yes then there is no argument against this type of action. If no then there is no argument for this action.
The world is no longer bound by physical lines of engagement 'battle grounds', 'enemy lines' or anything to create artificial regions of civil versus military authority. This is THE reason why this type of thing is happening. Mobility and communication allow armies to be distributed geographically much like a team of open source developers. Nations of people with their own laws, cultures, beliefs, etc. are spreading out through the world but remaining connected as Nations with their own identity and feelings of sovereignty from geographically located government bodies... and they have armies to further their goals and protect their interests. This is THE reason why this type of thing is happening.
The last paragraph was an illustration of why our military is no longer limited in authority to designated 'combat zones' and why 'enemy combatants' could be people of any geographical citizenship. The nation/s the US are at war with do not claim a geographical base of power... they claim the whole world as the playing field for their power struggle.
Without geography to determine affiliation and realms of authority we are left with peer association and self-proclamation as determiners. When someone says, does or interacts with those whom we know to be part of this hostile nation, we must assume they are potentially hostile as well. We do this because there is no other way... and unfortunately it's messy. If only the rogue/hostile nation would stay
So how is this different from protests of the past 50 years? Hmm... sounds pretty tame to me, compared to the footage i've seen of protests from the 60s & 70s. Oh you won't ever get everything you want and the law won't be perfectly administered but overall this article actually demonstrates a marked improvement in the ability of protesters to practice their freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble.
Trapped between a park and a row of Vespas? Cry me a river...
BTW handcuffs are always too tight...
and in todays world a camera, recorder and any number of identification do not a person of the Press make... I can get all that at CompUSA for $500... including the hi-res printer I used to make 'authentic' looking credentials, especially to a cop in the middle of a protest;-p puhlease...
the reason they give out official press passes is that anyone could pass themselves off as press without it (hey I have a blog!!!! let me go, I'm press! Hey i have an internet Radio station... I'm press!).
Anyways.. those who were held longer than 33 hours should file a complaint and get a judgement of apology from the NYPD.
I would imagine that they probably look up things like Wine, Cheese, syphillis and Kylie Minogue whereas Americans are more prone to Pepsi, cheese, porn and Jessica Alba...;-p pretty significant difference if you think about the implied cultures.
OF course we have cheese in common but in France it's capitalized, cause in America cheese is something that comes in a can.
It's been four years... I still don't see these limitations you speak of, unless you're referring to Howard Stern being forced into a 500 million dollar contract w/ Sirrius Satellite.... (won't someone think of the children???)
Please elaborate on this. I just haven't heard of anyone's rights being limited. I still see war protests happening. I still see people speaking freely about whatever political views they have. I still see religious and areligious views being upheld in courts of law. I still see people getting due process (as much as at any time in US history and you could argue for more if you look at equal rights as a whole over the last 50 years). It seems to me we have less limitations than at any time in our history. Yes the same old arguements over what is included in those rights are still there... and being constantly redefined by our court system. If you're looking at the last 8 years... well it's almost over and a new Executive will be in office soon.. let's see if our Democracy/Republic will continue??? I'm betting it will and that we'll have just as much freedom as we do now and did 10 years ago, 20 years ago... maybe even more???
The US has a very long steep cliff to fall off before it gets anywhere close to China in terms of limited rights of the people.
Fortunately it looks like the people of China are coming up the hill to meet us rather than us sliding down to meet them, despite the boulders their government keeps throwing at them from the lofty heights of hypocrisy.
What's nice about using 3d for 2d animation is the ability to create everything to scale, keep it at scale and simply move it back into the distance (z-index) instead of 'faking it' by scaling it down. This makes depth much more plausible to the viewer and much easier to animate... think of it like a theater stage with a backdrop and stand up props, except that you have an infinitely deep stage to work with and unlimited 'tracks/layers' to put your props on.
If anyone wants to find out more tips on how to do things on OS X, go here:
"http://www.macosxhints.com/
Probably the most comprehensive and up to date list of tips/tricks/hints available and with an active community that discusses each and can help you find out why a particular hint, etc. isn't working perfectly on your machine.
uh, hello... this got modded insightful, you've got mod points too... I wonder what you'll do with them? Will you mod up people who share your views of how/. is full of group thinkers? or will you use them to mod down people who exhibit blatant group think? Which group? The one you belong to, possibly a minority, possibly just a silent majority... in any case you've just provided evidence that you are not wholly correct and if I had any mod points I would mod this 'overrated' simply for that fact.
To continue the devil's advocate role... apparently the Authors/Publishers have pre-Opted Out, by declaring in their license at the beginning of the published piece.. "No license is given to reproduce in digital form" or something along those lines. Google should respect this form of Opt Out not just because it's the law but because it is a specific request from the copyright holder.
Now the arguement against this is that the request made, ie: license, is standard on 99.9% of published media, which makes their plan a non-starter if they do respect it, other than to use a very brief, pre-determined and pointless excerpt from the writing... fair-use style.
So the question becomes, "Can a fair-use excerpt be dynamic based on a keyword search, wherein the excerpt is determined by a combination of meta-data about the writing and the presence of the keyword within the extracted excerpt?"
If so then I can do a search on "Biography Lincoln President Assassination" and get results from biographies of Abe Lincoln, with excerpts specifically taken from the sections wherein the author discusses his assassination... with maybe a listing of references total per book, so i can compare them and decide which one/s have the most relevant info on the topic.
Personally i think Google needs to set up a meeting with the Guild and a panel they decide on so Google can show them how the search tool works and demonstrate it's usefullness. They may change their minds about this.
Hey do you happen to know why the ISS isn't in geostationary orbit?
You bring up a good point there.
The problem I see with just having a central point of extension for both sides that stays in a fixed altitude orbit, is that the tether/elevator would have to extend a lot further into outer orbit than the tether going down to earth... gravity vs. velocity of centrifugal forces acting on the mass of the outer tether... I don't know what the order of magnitude difference in lengths would need to be... or else a significant amount of mass on the outer tether's endpoint.
In any case I'm sure there are some dedicated individuals crunching numbers.. should be interesting to see the solution.
How about using the ISS as a starting point? We (yes royal 'we') could add some bigger booster rockets to it and start dropping the tether slowly into the atmosphere while pushing it into higher orbit to compensate for drag... as the tether gets closer and closer to Earth ISS goes further out... maybe add some mass to it along the way at intervals as needed. It's even plausible that it could continue to perform it's current function of research vessel while this is going on.
Certainly some models would need to be generated and a few test satellites sent up to verify the models but it seems like it would be a lot cheaper than duplicating the effort already put in to get that much mass in orbit to begin with (not to mention a platform with motility and life support already in place for adjustment and monitoring of the project).
Okay, i also see that OES comes in two flavors, Netware and SUSE... so my marketing plan falls apart when the CIO looks at the config specs for the migration upgrade and says "Hey this is Linux, not Netware... is Linux good enough? How much will this cost us to migrate to Linux?" even though it will look and run the same... yeah, they just have to roadmap a planned stop to support for Netware and make sure the customers know that they have X months or years to make the switch if they want continued support, and stop selling the Netware option.
I guess my point is more along the lines of... they need to market OES under the Netware name if possible so that executives don't immediately balk... I know it's just a name, you know it's just a name but execs tend to think that a new name means a different product... in this case it's working against Novell, they attempted to inspire companies to buy the new and improved Netware via a new name that sounds better (it has the word Enterprise in it)... but it's apparently flown back in their faces by creating doubt as to it's maturity and stability as a product.
This makes me think that Novel should rollout an upgrade to Netware that is simply a rebranding of OES.... if they took enough time to port over the look and feel and made sure it 'behaved' the same way as the previous Netware but was actually an OES would anyone care...??
For 'higher-ups' it would be a lot more comfortable ie: the new name wouldn't scare them off. "Oh it's an upgrade? Great, that's way better than switching to some unproven platform! Buy it."
Novel could create documentation that looks just like Netware, etc. to complete the pseudo-illusion.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Nice to know you Netware, Long live Netware!
voila... problem solved. (though Legacy Netware engineers may still lose their jobs if they aren't up to speed on OES).
Here's something it sounds like you may never have GUESTS!
(or a social life but I won't mince words here)
Sometimes it's nice to have a clean open space to sit down and actually enjoy a meal or conversation with friends without having to plop them in front of the boob tube or cram them in fold out chairs between your server racks... gah!
Hey buddy... just don't go telling people about the FIRST RULE of fight club.... 'kay, I mean you're due for an ass whoopin' anyways but still don't be a 'tard.
Thanks for the reply... if you'd gottent the placement right it would have been modded up I'm sure... (strange how comments posted under already modded posts seem to then also get modded;-) one of the obvious failings of/. moderation system).
Anyways, it appears you are correct and I was wrong about the AppKit stuff... which makes my comment a little more speculative in nature.
What do you think of the overall hypothesis though?
I thought the comment regarding the yellow box implementation (sic Rhapsody era) was very interesting and plausible.
This idea is that with the switch to Intel, Apple will be porting (has already ported) and developers will be porting all their apps to Intel compile to run native... has to happen...
to continue...
iTunes on Windows has already introduced a significant amount of OS X AppKit codebase to Windows (on Intel of course)...
which means that anyone with iTunes on Windows is ready to run many of these soon to be available intel compiled OS X Apps inside Windows, ala Yellow Box (basically an OS X runtime space on Windows).
SO..... we will end up seeing all of the Apple consumer / free apps for OS X also running on Windows inside the YellowBox space at native speeds (cause they're built for intel) and an increasing number of developers using XCode to compile apps that run perfectly on both OS X and Windows/YellowBox and decreasing number of developers not doing so as there will be no performance hit or added overhead and thr upside is you hit two OS's for the price of one. Which also means consumers can pay for one license while being able to install their purchased software on both Windows and Mac.
Over time people start thinking "I really only use the free Apple Apps and all my installed and paid for apps will run on Macs, so why not buy a Mac?"
This could take less than 5 years but at least 2 years... just long enough for Game developers to start the process.
I use a little program called "Little Snitch" it is your basic network filter except it is active and dynamic. By this I mean that I don't have to go through huge documentation bibles looking up port number / protocol combinations to create a list of 'goodness'... I just let Little Snitch run, block every port on my machine and when one of my apps needs access to the outside Little Snitch asks me if I want to permit it!!!!!!
LS also asks me what sort of rules I want to apply to the application, ie: give appXYZ access to selected port/ all ports : selected server/ all servers : for just this once/ until the app quits/ forever.
It does the same thinng for incoming access requests.
This means that blocking all my ports by default doesn't impact the utility of my machine at all.
I recommend that anyone should check it out.. it provides all the power of having a dedicated network sysadmin for my local machine without the issues of another person trying to guess what i want to do all the time.
So to summarize, "Enumerating Goodness" is possible and indeed is a viable solution when you have a tool that lets you do it on the fly as you need it, instead of trying to precognitively guess what applications will be needed down the road.
The only case I can think of that could cause trouble is if you were to download a trojan that first altered your network filter to allow it access before doing it's dirty work. This is where a good AV tool that checks incoming connections through trusted ports like 80 and 25 would be required.
He's a man, he's a carrot, his hair is made of flame... and he's angry! Angry at crime!!!!! No not criminals, they are the innocent bystanders who have fallen victim to crime's insidious ways... and junk food, he's angry at junk food (because it contains so many empty calories, calories that could be put to use in any number of useful ways).
Flaming Carrot is a Dark Horse comics production, see it at a theater near you, coming soon!!!! DON'T BUY POPCORN! It's the emptiest of empty calorie containing junk food... it makes me sooooo angry!@%##!&* Yes, multiple punctuation marks angry.
(Wouldn't you rather see a movie about a crime fighting carrot man? I need money for booze so I can fight crime at the bar tonight. Please go see the movie if you hate crime, otherwise you're part of the problem, not the solution.)
I took a hit this year and took a job making only 50k a year but of course that's just my day job... I have already made an additional 20k this year on side projects.
Last year I was on unemployment after being laid off from a salary position making 60k a year but no side jobs to speak of... I held that position for 4 years before being laid off. I took my 9 months of UE pay plus severance and used it to plan and coordinate my wedding + honeymoon and help my mother buy a house.
All in all I've seen a net gain and I seem to be working about the same number of hours (the previous job was over 40 hours/week and my current day job is 40 flat w/ side jobs rounding out an even 50/week again).
The new job is supposed to give me a raise soon as they are a relatively new firm, just moving in to decent office space and finally enough employees to just do 40 hour work weeks and still make profit.
I'm a designer/web developer w/ some okay flash + actionscript know how and enough business acumen to sell some decent projects outside the day job...
but I'd like to start a Biodiesel refinery operation here in Orange County if anyone out there is interested in a joint venture... I'm a good speaker and can market the hell out of stuff... need someone with PhD in organic chemistry and someone else with MBA to satisfy the loan officers.
unh.. yeah, so anyone think biodiesel could be profitable in California???
AH the Mario Universe Theory... similar to ancient theories held by indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, first posited in the late 1980s by the acclaimed philosopher Nintendo.
I thought e-Ink was a spinoff from an educational research program.... I recall reading about their tech a few years ago in one of the science news aggregates... RIT or MIT or one of those...
Whoops, looks like E=Ink has removed much of the forward looking information from their site since the last time I looked at them... guess they are letting their partner companies make the big announcements.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey now... I didn't say there aren't still problems. I said it's as good, ney better than it's ever been.
I'll address the easy ones first:
"Religious thought being pushed in science classes" - Yeah and some parents are taking the school board to court about it, not to mention that this is a great example of our freedoms to begin with... having two differing views on something as seemingly unquestionable as evolution? Any totalitarian government would have squashed the opposing view long ago. Do you really want to live somewhere in which the worship of the almighty science is the only accepted religion? Yes, science is a religion... ie: a mythos which attempts to explain that which we can not explain from direct observation... (have you ever seen a molecule or an atom without the aid of some other tool you don't really understand? Most scientific theories are really only understood by the person who posited it and a few peers... very leap of faith for the vast majority of people).
What about the guy trying to get God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and winning in court (sure it's only been in it since the 50s).
"Free Speech Zones" - please, protesters are just pissed they can't throw eggs anymore... none of that impacts freedom of speech or of protest, it only impacts the ability of the protesters to get on TV (which they'd be on anyways if they scheduled an interview ahead of time). BTW with the internet as a freely available mass distribution channel for information, why do people protest physically anymore... maybe I'm not typical but seeing a bunch of disorganized people standing around with poorly drawn messages on their shirts does absolutely nothing for me..
Now for the tough one...
People are being held in military jurisdictions against their will and some of them, heck maybe all of them are innocent of wrongdoing, maybe not. Are you suggesting then that they were picked as patsies to make the rest of us feel like the government is 'doing something'? That's just stupid. Okay, so maybe they were part of a racially profiled 'clean sweep' type operation? Possibly. So they were in the wrong place at the wrong time... but why were they in the middle of a military operation? Really it doesn't matter because it's all about whether or not we can give our military the right to do these things or not. Can they detain people and hold them until it's proven they are not hostile? Can there be prisoners of war at all? If yes then there is no argument against this type of action. If no then there is no argument for this action.
The world is no longer bound by physical lines of engagement 'battle grounds', 'enemy lines' or anything to create artificial regions of civil versus military authority. This is THE reason why this type of thing is happening. Mobility and communication allow armies to be distributed geographically much like a team of open source developers. Nations of people with their own laws, cultures, beliefs, etc. are spreading out through the world but remaining connected as Nations with their own identity and feelings of sovereignty from geographically located government bodies... and they have armies to further their goals and protect their interests. This is THE reason why this type of thing is happening.
The last paragraph was an illustration of why our military is no longer limited in authority to designated 'combat zones' and why 'enemy combatants' could be people of any geographical citizenship. The nation/s the US are at war with do not claim a geographical base of power... they claim the whole world as the playing field for their power struggle.
Without geography to determine affiliation and realms of authority we are left with peer association and self-proclamation as determiners. When someone says, does or interacts with those whom we know to be part of this hostile nation, we must assume they are potentially hostile as well. We do this because there is no other way... and unfortunately it's messy. If only the rogue/hostile nation would stay
So how is this different from protests of the past 50 years? Hmm... sounds pretty tame to me, compared to the footage i've seen of protests from the 60s & 70s. Oh you won't ever get everything you want and the law won't be perfectly administered but overall this article actually demonstrates a marked improvement in the ability of protesters to practice their freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble.
;-p puhlease...
Trapped between a park and a row of Vespas? Cry me a river...
BTW handcuffs are always too tight...
and in todays world a camera, recorder and any number of identification do not a person of the Press make... I can get all that at CompUSA for $500... including the hi-res printer I used to make 'authentic' looking credentials, especially to a cop in the middle of a protest
the reason they give out official press passes is that anyone could pass themselves off as press without it (hey I have a blog!!!! let me go, I'm press! Hey i have an internet Radio station... I'm press!).
Anyways.. those who were held longer than 33 hours should file a complaint and get a judgement of apology from the NYPD.
I would imagine that they probably look up things like Wine, Cheese, syphillis and Kylie Minogue whereas Americans are more prone to Pepsi, cheese, porn and Jessica Alba... ;-p pretty significant difference if you think about the implied cultures.
OF course we have cheese in common but in France it's capitalized, cause in America cheese is something that comes in a can.
It's been four years... I still don't see these limitations you speak of, unless you're referring to Howard Stern being forced into a 500 million dollar contract w/ Sirrius Satellite.... (won't someone think of the children???)
Please elaborate on this. I just haven't heard of anyone's rights being limited. I still see war protests happening. I still see people speaking freely about whatever political views they have. I still see religious and areligious views being upheld in courts of law. I still see people getting due process (as much as at any time in US history and you could argue for more if you look at equal rights as a whole over the last 50 years). It seems to me we have less limitations than at any time in our history. Yes the same old arguements over what is included in those rights are still there... and being constantly redefined by our court system. If you're looking at the last 8 years... well it's almost over and a new Executive will be in office soon.. let's see if our Democracy/Republic will continue??? I'm betting it will and that we'll have just as much freedom as we do now and did 10 years ago, 20 years ago... maybe even more???
The US has a very long steep cliff to fall off before it gets anywhere close to China in terms of limited rights of the people.
Fortunately it looks like the people of China are coming up the hill to meet us rather than us sliding down to meet them, despite the boulders their government keeps throwing at them from the lofty heights of hypocrisy.
...a Beowulf cluster of... oh wait, this is a Beowulf cluster ;-p
What's nice about using 3d for 2d animation is the ability to create everything to scale, keep it at scale and simply move it back into the distance (z-index) instead of 'faking it' by scaling it down. This makes depth much more plausible to the viewer and much easier to animate... think of it like a theater stage with a backdrop and stand up props, except that you have an infinitely deep stage to work with and unlimited 'tracks/layers' to put your props on.
If anyone wants to find out more tips on how to do things on OS X, go here:
"http://www.macosxhints.com/
Probably the most comprehensive and up to date list of tips/tricks/hints available and with an active community that discusses each and can help you find out why a particular hint, etc. isn't working perfectly on your machine.
uh, hello... this got modded insightful, you've got mod points too... I wonder what you'll do with them? Will you mod up people who share your views of how /. is full of group thinkers? or will you use them to mod down people who exhibit blatant group think? Which group? The one you belong to, possibly a minority, possibly just a silent majority... in any case you've just provided evidence that you are not wholly correct and if I had any mod points I would mod this 'overrated' simply for that fact.
To continue the devil's advocate role... apparently the Authors/Publishers have pre-Opted Out, by declaring in their license at the beginning of the published piece.. "No license is given to reproduce in digital form" or something along those lines. Google should respect this form of Opt Out not just because it's the law but because it is a specific request from the copyright holder.
Now the arguement against this is that the request made, ie: license, is standard on 99.9% of published media, which makes their plan a non-starter if they do respect it, other than to use a very brief, pre-determined and pointless excerpt from the writing... fair-use style.
So the question becomes, "Can a fair-use excerpt be dynamic based on a keyword search, wherein the excerpt is determined by a combination of meta-data about the writing and the presence of the keyword within the extracted excerpt?"
If so then I can do a search on "Biography Lincoln President Assassination" and get results from biographies of Abe Lincoln, with excerpts specifically taken from the sections wherein the author discusses his assassination... with maybe a listing of references total per book, so i can compare them and decide which one/s have the most relevant info on the topic.
Personally i think Google needs to set up a meeting with the Guild and a panel they decide on so Google can show them how the search tool works and demonstrate it's usefullness. They may change their minds about this.
Hey do you happen to know why the ISS isn't in geostationary orbit?
You bring up a good point there.
The problem I see with just having a central point of extension for both sides that stays in a fixed altitude orbit, is that the tether/elevator would have to extend a lot further into outer orbit than the tether going down to earth... gravity vs. velocity of centrifugal forces acting on the mass of the outer tether... I don't know what the order of magnitude difference in lengths would need to be... or else a significant amount of mass on the outer tether's endpoint.
In any case I'm sure there are some dedicated individuals crunching numbers.. should be interesting to see the solution.
How about using the ISS as a starting point? We (yes royal 'we') could add some bigger booster rockets to it and start dropping the tether slowly into the atmosphere while pushing it into higher orbit to compensate for drag... as the tether gets closer and closer to Earth ISS goes further out... maybe add some mass to it along the way at intervals as needed. It's even plausible that it could continue to perform it's current function of research vessel while this is going on.
Certainly some models would need to be generated and a few test satellites sent up to verify the models but it seems like it would be a lot cheaper than duplicating the effort already put in to get that much mass in orbit to begin with (not to mention a platform with motility and life support already in place for adjustment and monitoring of the project).
Okay, i also see that OES comes in two flavors, Netware and SUSE... so my marketing plan falls apart when the CIO looks at the config specs for the migration upgrade and says "Hey this is Linux, not Netware... is Linux good enough? How much will this cost us to migrate to Linux?" even though it will look and run the same... yeah, they just have to roadmap a planned stop to support for Netware and make sure the customers know that they have X months or years to make the switch if they want continued support, and stop selling the Netware option.
I guess my point is more along the lines of... they need to market OES under the Netware name if possible so that executives don't immediately balk... I know it's just a name, you know it's just a name but execs tend to think that a new name means a different product... in this case it's working against Novell, they attempted to inspire companies to buy the new and improved Netware via a new name that sounds better (it has the word Enterprise in it)... but it's apparently flown back in their faces by creating doubt as to it's maturity and stability as a product.
;-p
I'm not confused BTW, just ignorant
thanks for the education.
This makes me think that Novel should rollout an upgrade to Netware that is simply a rebranding of OES.... if they took enough time to port over the look and feel and made sure it 'behaved' the same way as the previous Netware but was actually an OES would anyone care...??
For 'higher-ups' it would be a lot more comfortable ie: the new name wouldn't scare them off. "Oh it's an upgrade? Great, that's way better than switching to some unproven platform! Buy it."
Novel could create documentation that looks just like Netware, etc. to complete the pseudo-illusion.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Nice to know you Netware, Long live Netware!
voila... problem solved. (though Legacy Netware engineers may still lose their jobs if they aren't up to speed on OES).
Here's something it sounds like you may never have GUESTS!
(or a social life but I won't mince words here)
Sometimes it's nice to have a clean open space to sit down and actually enjoy a meal or conversation with friends without having to plop them in front of the boob tube or cram them in fold out chairs between your server racks... gah!
Hey buddy... just don't go telling people about the FIRST RULE of fight club.... 'kay, I mean you're due for an ass whoopin' anyways but still don't be a 'tard.
If it was me I'd rather have the plate:
I8URPSY
just a personal preference...
Thanks for the reply... if you'd gottent the placement right it would have been modded up I'm sure... (strange how comments posted under already modded posts seem to then also get modded ;-) one of the obvious failings of /. moderation system).
Anyways, it appears you are correct and I was wrong about the AppKit stuff... which makes my comment a little more speculative in nature.
What do you think of the overall hypothesis though?
I thought the comment regarding the yellow box implementation (sic Rhapsody era) was very interesting and plausible.
This idea is that with the switch to Intel, Apple will be porting (has already ported) and developers will be porting all their apps to Intel compile to run native... has to happen...
to continue...
iTunes on Windows has already introduced a significant amount of OS X AppKit codebase to Windows (on Intel of course)...
which means that anyone with iTunes on Windows is ready to run many of these soon to be available intel compiled OS X Apps
inside Windows, ala Yellow Box (basically an OS X runtime space on Windows).
SO..... we will end up seeing all of the Apple consumer / free apps for OS X also running on Windows inside the YellowBox space at native speeds (cause they're built for intel) and an increasing number of developers using XCode to compile apps that run perfectly on both OS X and Windows/YellowBox and decreasing number of developers not doing so as there will be no performance hit or added overhead and thr upside is you hit two OS's for the price of one. Which also means consumers can pay for one license while being able to install their purchased software on both Windows and Mac.
Over time people start thinking "I really only use the free Apple Apps and all my installed and paid for apps will run on Macs, so why not buy a Mac?"
This could take less than 5 years but at least 2 years... just long enough for Game developers to start the process.
IMHO
Man is that wording pretensious... but anyways...
I use a little program called "Little Snitch" it is your basic network filter except it is active and dynamic. By this I mean that I don't have to go through huge documentation bibles looking up port number / protocol combinations to create a list of 'goodness'... I just let Little Snitch run, block every port on my machine and when one of my apps needs access to the outside Little Snitch asks me if I want to permit it!!!!!!
LS also asks me what sort of rules I want to apply to the application, ie: give appXYZ access to selected port/ all ports : selected server/ all servers : for just this once/ until the app quits/ forever.
It does the same thinng for incoming access requests.
This means that blocking all my ports by default doesn't impact the utility of my machine at all.
I recommend that anyone should check it out.. it provides all the power of having a dedicated network sysadmin for my local machine without the issues of another person trying to guess what i want to do all the time.
So to summarize, "Enumerating Goodness" is possible and indeed is a viable solution when you have a tool that lets you do it on the fly as you need it, instead of trying to precognitively guess what applications will be needed down the road.
The only case I can think of that could cause trouble is if you were to download a trojan that first altered your network filter to allow it access before doing it's dirty work. This is where a good AV tool that checks incoming connections through trusted ports like 80 and 25 would be required.
He's a man, he's a carrot, his hair is made of flame... and he's angry! Angry at crime!!!!! No not criminals, they are the innocent bystanders who have fallen victim to crime's insidious ways... and junk food, he's angry at junk food (because it contains so many empty calories, calories that could be put to use in any number of useful ways).
Flaming Carrot is a Dark Horse comics production, see it at a theater near you, coming soon!!!! DON'T BUY POPCORN! It's the emptiest of empty calorie containing junk food... it makes me sooooo angry!@%##!&* Yes, multiple punctuation marks angry.
(Wouldn't you rather see a movie about a crime fighting carrot man? I need money for booze so I can fight crime at the bar tonight. Please go see the movie if you hate crime, otherwise you're part of the problem, not the solution.)
I took a hit this year and took a job making only 50k a year but of course that's just my day job... I have already made an additional 20k this year on side projects.
Last year I was on unemployment after being laid off from a salary position making 60k a year but no side jobs to speak of... I held that position for 4 years before being laid off. I took my 9 months of UE pay plus severance and used it to plan and coordinate my wedding + honeymoon and help my mother buy a house.
All in all I've seen a net gain and I seem to be working about the same number of hours (the previous job was over 40 hours/week and my current day job is 40 flat w/ side jobs rounding out an even 50/week again).
The new job is supposed to give me a raise soon as they are a relatively new firm, just moving in to decent office space and finally enough employees to just do 40 hour work weeks and still make profit.
I'm a designer/web developer w/ some okay flash + actionscript know how and enough business acumen to sell some decent projects outside the day job...
but I'd like to start a Biodiesel refinery operation here in Orange County if anyone out there is interested in a joint venture... I'm a good speaker and can market the hell out of stuff... need someone with PhD in organic chemistry and someone else with MBA to satisfy the loan officers.
unh.. yeah, so anyone think biodiesel could be profitable in California???
AH the Mario Universe Theory... similar to ancient theories held by indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, first posited in the late 1980s by the acclaimed philosopher Nintendo.
;-p
One of my favorites
I thought e-Ink was a spinoff from an educational research program.... I recall reading about their tech a few years ago in one of the science news aggregates... RIT or MIT or one of those...
Whoops, looks like E=Ink has removed much of the forward looking information from their site since the last time I looked at them... guess they are letting their partner companies make the big announcements.