As a mostly former Amiga user myself. (I still trot out the A4000 but mostly for supporting Amiga dieheards with problems:) I'd have to question the premises for your argument.
If you're talking about the iMac, it never was advertised as anything but a complete all-in-one machine for folks who'd never take a machine apart. It's still a great piece of work for the buck given that in the suped up system it's in someways very much like getting an Amiga with something approachinga built-in kid level Video Toaster in software.
If you're talking about the tower machines, there's plenty of options for expansion in the name of PCI cards as well as CPU upgrades from comapnies like Sonnet (which even makes a CPU/Firewire upgrade module for the original Bondi Imacs)
Externally, standard ports like Firewire, and built-in Ethernet in tower, iMac, and notebook configs answer a lot of expansion needs.
I guess I shouldn't mention the iRack then?
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The admin of the First Class BBS, Gamma Quadrant has taken a couple of rev a iMacs with dead CRT's and shoved the guts into this piece of hardware which lets you rackmount your iMac innards. Has extensions for all the necessities, VGA port, usb, etc.
The decision is not about your rights to your hardware, it's about the rights of a company to sell hardware that interfaces or is used to modify said technology. Those rights have nothing to do with the private ownership of the black box you have in your home.
If you buy a game you'll see it in legal speak, whether it's in unwrapping the game or placing it in a player the language will read those actions to be an implied consent to the license.
Conventional software is even more specific, you have to press that "ok" button for the software is installed and once you've done that, you've signed the EULA in a legally binding matter. When you buy a Dell or Gateway, Compaq whatever, the first thing that pops on the screen whe you plug in the box and switch it on is a EULA which is nearly impossible for the average Joe or Jane to bypass.
And yes, these EULAs in the above situations are legally binding in the United States and most other First World nations.
While Carbon is a set of libaries that were created to allow easier transitions of Classic apps into OS X, not all carbon apps can be run in Classic. In fact the more stable OS X applications tend to be ones that give up running in OS 9, especially when they are the size of Eudora and larger.
For the market that buys Photoshop, as opposed to bootlegging a copy, installing it on their machines, and then never touching it after getting lost among the menus, there IS no compeitition.
The GIMP and others are fine within their limits, but they don't even operate in the critical fields that Photoshop professionals call their bread and butter. And when you count in the plug-ins which are a cottage industry all to themselves, Photoshop isn't so much a program as an operating environment.
We had all three Klingon baddies from the original series show up in DS9 episodes brow-ridged and all. For those of you wondering about Worf's comment about the differing appearance of the Klingons on K-7, wonder more about what he called Kor's great victory on Organia.
As to the ridges vs. the non-ridges, either deal with it, or better yet, ignore it. If it had continuity it wouldn't be Trek!
Hey, if someone just walked on to your farm and blew up your grain silo for no apparant reason. (assuming the farmer didn't see any of the preceding action), I imagine you'd be a bit honked off! At least he did try to talk a bit before he shot the guy. Overall lack of communication didn't help either. Apparantly not everyone in the freaking universe has had translators implanted in them yet. (Ref: The Ferengi "Roswell" episode from DS9)
This one is a no-brainer. The NCC-1701 was the first FEDERATION Starship commissioned as Enterprise, a Federation ship as opposed to be strictly an Earth ship like the NX-01. The NX-01 wasn't counted for the same reason that the US Navy ships or the non-flying space shuttle aren't on the list, none of the above were ships of the Federation unlike April/Pike/Kirk's ship.
In the "Rihannsu" way, The Travelers who left Vulcan suffered so much and had so many losses, by the time they settled on the twin worlds of Romulus, they were down to so few that they had to make hard choices on how to set up their new home and what to keep. Ultimately like many SF colonists on hard times, they lost the bulk of their technology, and had to rebuild from scratch. That's a plausible scenario, especially if you consider that the forebears of the Romulans might have been the headstrong types who leaped before they looked and were too proud to ask their Vulcan relatives for help when things got tough.
As for apparant lack of Vulcan progress that's easy. They're long-lived and hew straight to a logical line, that means above all, compared to humans they're careful and deliberate, less prone to go into the wild tangents that are the frequent source of those "Eureka!" moments. So it's not surprising that their pace of technological change is much slower than that of humans or that humans would catch up and surpass quickly once given the chance.
I'm not even going to try to figure out how the TOS Romulans got around without the Klingon star drive technology.
Personal semi-rant. I was half-hoping that Archer would use Pike's term "Hyper-drive" instead of warp, but I guess that would have created a "branding" issue.:)
The stoppage of airline flights produced a tremendous backlog in essential flights, including medical-related ones. Organs that had deadlines had to be rerouted to lower-priority patients to avoid wasting them altogether.
There was a call for Americans to volounteer by giving up nonessential plane reservations. Jobs may or may have not had this in mind, but the Expo cancellation will help with this.
Don't keep patching a Linksys (or other router) if it works and is doing what you need it to do. Patches frequently are covering minor variances in hardware lots and if the box you have is considerably older, you might be doing more harm than good if it's been running well so far.
I used to run a software router (IPNetRouter) off a spare Mac. but I try to be as EnergyStar as I can and deemed using a separate machine just for routing to be an unacceptable waste of resources for a typical home setup that's doing nothing but providing net access for home machines. I have a LinkSys and have had good service with it. Although if I were shopping now, I'd give the Asante Friendlynet boxes a look with what might be better Appletalk support and a provision for abackup modem when your broadband goes down
There's nothing more amusing than watching Trekkies trying to rationalise the irrational. Epicycles in the Ptolomeaic model got nothing on this.
But here's my take. The episodes we watch are stories, legends, plain and simple. And like many legends (and accepted history) it's frequently in contradiction.
The Turing test as originally spelled out actually called for both the computer and the human to use teletypers. With that, you strip most of the human element out of said communication.
Theorectically, Eliza could past the Turing Test, but she's not the kind of speaker you'd want to spend that much time with.:)
The comparison to Windows licensing isn't very useful. Apple doesn't charge you separately for the OS that comes with the machine, unlike Windows licensing which is a separate purchase from a company separate from the manufacturer.
However the point should be made that current Macs (and many old ones) can now boot straight into LInux without entering MacOS at all.
That's odd. I'm playing on a 400mhz G3 and have no problems at all. Try ramping up the RAM real high. I have a half gig on my Blue and White and so I just added a 1 in front of the preferred memory setting and the expansion runs like a champ. In fact Battle.net seems more responsive now than before.
When I passed there 2 days ago, they had about a half dozen SE class baby Macs there which would probably go for the price of fleas. It's on Kennedy Blvd. just immediately north of the intersection of Paterson Plank road by the border of Jersey City and Union City.
While Jef Raskins got a free look by hiimself, when it cane for Steve and company to find what his favorite irritation was talking about, (Originally Jobs refused to go to Parc because Raskin had suggested it.) Xerox charged them through the nose for stock options. And what did they get? Not a single line of code, not one piece of hardware. They got an extended chance to look, poke, and ask questions, and they made the most of it. It wasn't long before they were tackling problems that had stumped the Parc Staff. And to this day, Apple (and Microsoft and anyone else who markets a commercial OS) still pays Xerox a license fee for use of a GUI.
LCD's currently suffer from two major flaws which make them unsuitable for the traditional Apple high end graphics market.
1. Variance. LCD screens are considerably less uniform in illumination from edge to edge compared to CRTs.
2. Calibration No one has developed a way to calibrate LCD's for accurate color. Ironicallly, although Apple invented ColorSync, a standard which is now cross platform and works hand in glove with ICC, whiat will now be Apple's standard monitor line will no longer be ColorSync compatible.
Two weeks before I heard the news, I read a big review feauture in NexGen, the one console gaming magazine not written for 12 year-olds. It was an excellent article which I recommend getting if it's still on the news shelves.
Sad to see that the box itself will never come out, it was one beautiful piece of silver sheen. I liked the placement of USB ports in both the front as controllers and the two in the back for other things, presumably USB modems and such.
I hope Indrema's successors take a look at this box and come up with something as beautiful as this baby.
Microsoft pays licensing tribute to Xerox, just as Apple, SGI, Commedore in the Amiga days, and everyone else who's does the GUI thing.
For it's own part, Xerox never imagined they could put out a GUI based workstation for under 70 grand, so it's hard to cast them as losers in a race they refused to enter. Considering how big they still are, they seem to be doing all right despite never entering the personal slavestation market.
Probably because there isn't such a built-in function in the BSD core or NeXTStep, you need to use the included Grab program for screen caps. It's not as elegant or functional as the built-in MacOS function but it'll get the job done.
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As a mostly former Amiga user myself. (I still trot out the A4000 but mostly for supporting Amiga dieheards with problems :) I'd have to question the premises for your argument.
If you're talking about the iMac, it never was advertised as anything but a complete all-in-one machine for folks who'd never take a machine apart. It's still a great piece of work for the buck given that in the suped up system it's in someways very much like getting an Amiga with something approachinga built-in kid level Video Toaster in software.
If you're talking about the tower machines, there's plenty of options for expansion in the name of PCI cards as well as CPU upgrades from comapnies like Sonnet (which even makes a CPU/Firewire upgrade module for the original Bondi Imacs)
Externally, standard ports like Firewire, and built-in Ethernet in tower, iMac, and notebook configs answer a lot of expansion needs.
The admin of the First Class BBS, Gamma Quadrant has taken a couple of rev a iMacs with dead CRT's and shoved the guts into this piece of hardware which lets you rackmount your iMac innards. Has extensions for all the necessities, VGA port, usb, etc.
The decision is not about your rights to your hardware, it's about the rights of a company to sell hardware that interfaces or is used to modify said technology. Those rights have nothing to do with the private ownership of the black box you have in your home.
If you buy a game you'll see it in legal speak, whether it's in unwrapping the game or placing it in a player the language will read those actions to be an implied consent to the license.
Conventional software is even more specific, you have to press that "ok" button for the software is installed and once you've done that, you've signed the EULA in a legally binding matter. When you buy a Dell or Gateway, Compaq whatever, the first thing that pops on the screen whe you plug in the box and switch it on is a EULA which is nearly impossible for the average Joe or Jane to bypass.
And yes, these EULAs in the above situations are legally binding in the United States and most other First World nations.
While Carbon is a set of libaries that were created to allow easier transitions of Classic apps into OS X, not all carbon apps can be run in Classic. In fact the more stable OS X applications tend to be ones that give up running in OS 9, especially when they are the size of Eudora and larger.
For the market that buys Photoshop, as opposed to bootlegging a copy, installing it on their machines, and then never touching it after getting lost among the menus, there IS no compeitition.
The GIMP and others are fine within their limits, but they don't even operate in the critical fields that Photoshop professionals call their bread and butter. And when you count in the plug-ins which are a cottage industry all to themselves, Photoshop isn't so much a program as an operating environment.
As it turned out, the Pathfinder came to the end of it's roll, pretty much perfectly vertical, so only a simple deflation sequence was needed.
We had all three Klingon baddies from the original series show up in DS9 episodes brow-ridged and all. For those of you wondering about Worf's comment about the differing appearance of the Klingons on K-7, wonder more about what he called Kor's great victory on Organia.
As to the ridges vs. the non-ridges, either deal with it, or better yet, ignore it. If it had continuity it wouldn't be Trek!
Hey, if someone just walked on to your farm and blew up your grain silo for no apparant reason. (assuming the farmer didn't see any of the preceding action), I imagine you'd be a bit honked off! At least he did try to talk a bit before he shot the guy. Overall lack of communication didn't help either. Apparantly not everyone in the freaking universe has had translators implanted in them yet. (Ref: The Ferengi "Roswell" episode from DS9)
This one is a no-brainer. The NCC-1701 was the first FEDERATION Starship commissioned as Enterprise, a Federation ship as opposed to be strictly an Earth ship like the NX-01. The NX-01 wasn't counted for the same reason that the US Navy ships or the non-flying space shuttle aren't on the list, none of the above were ships of the Federation unlike April/Pike/Kirk's ship.
In the "Rihannsu" way, The Travelers who left Vulcan suffered so much and had so many losses, by the time they settled on the twin worlds of Romulus, they were down to so few that they had to make hard choices on how to set up their new home and what to keep. Ultimately like many SF colonists on hard times, they lost the bulk of their technology, and had to rebuild from scratch. That's a plausible scenario, especially if you consider that the forebears of the Romulans might have been the headstrong types who leaped before they looked and were too proud to ask their Vulcan relatives for help when things got tough.
:)
As for apparant lack of Vulcan progress that's easy. They're long-lived and hew straight to a logical line, that means above all, compared to humans they're careful and deliberate, less prone to go into the wild tangents that are the frequent source of those "Eureka!" moments. So it's not surprising that their pace of technological change is much slower than that of humans or that humans would catch up and surpass quickly once given the chance.
I'm not even going to try to figure out how the TOS Romulans got around without the Klingon star drive technology.
Personal semi-rant. I was half-hoping that Archer would use Pike's term "Hyper-drive" instead of warp, but I guess that would have created a "branding" issue.
The stoppage of airline flights produced a tremendous backlog in essential flights, including medical-related ones. Organs that had deadlines had to be rerouted to lower-priority patients to avoid wasting them altogether.
There was a call for Americans to volounteer by giving up nonessential plane reservations. Jobs may or may have not had this in mind, but the Expo cancellation will help with this.
Don't keep patching a Linksys (or other router) if it works and is doing what you need it to do. Patches frequently are covering minor variances in hardware lots and if the box you have is considerably older, you might be doing more harm than good if it's been running well so far.
I used to run a software router (IPNetRouter) off a spare Mac. but I try to be as EnergyStar as I can and deemed using a separate machine just for routing to be an unacceptable waste of resources for a typical home setup that's doing nothing but providing net access for home machines. I have a LinkSys and have had good service with it. Although if I were shopping now, I'd give the Asante Friendlynet boxes a look with what might be better Appletalk support and a provision for abackup modem when your broadband goes down
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There's nothing more amusing than watching Trekkies trying to rationalise the irrational. Epicycles in the Ptolomeaic model got nothing on this.
But here's my take. The episodes we watch are stories, legends, plain and simple. And like many legends (and accepted history) it's frequently in contradiction.
The Turing test as originally spelled out actually called for both the computer and the human to use teletypers. With that, you strip most of the human element out of said communication.
:)
Theorectically, Eliza could past the Turing Test, but she's not the kind of speaker you'd want to spend that much time with.
The comparison to Windows licensing isn't very useful. Apple doesn't charge you separately for the OS that comes with the machine, unlike Windows licensing which is a separate purchase from a company separate from the manufacturer.
However the point should be made that current Macs (and many old ones) can now boot straight into LInux without entering MacOS at all.
That's odd. I'm playing on a 400mhz G3 and have no problems at all. Try ramping up the RAM real high. I have a half gig on my Blue and White and so I just added a 1 in front of the preferred memory setting and the expansion runs like a champ. In fact Battle.net seems more responsive now than before.
When I passed there 2 days ago, they had about a half dozen SE class baby Macs there which would probably go for the price of fleas. It's on Kennedy Blvd. just immediately north of the intersection of Paterson Plank road by the border of Jersey City and Union City.
While Jef Raskins got a free look by hiimself, when it cane for Steve and company to find what his favorite irritation was talking about, (Originally Jobs refused to go to Parc because Raskin had suggested it.) Xerox charged them through the nose for stock options. And what did they get? Not a single line of code, not one piece of hardware. They got an extended chance to look, poke, and ask questions, and they made the most of it. It wasn't long before they were tackling problems that had stumped the Parc Staff. And to this day, Apple (and Microsoft and anyone else who markets a commercial OS) still pays Xerox a license fee for use of a GUI.
LCD's currently suffer from two major flaws which make them unsuitable for the traditional Apple high end graphics market.
1. Variance. LCD screens are considerably less uniform in illumination from edge to edge compared to CRTs.
2. Calibration No one has developed a way to calibrate LCD's for accurate color. Ironicallly, although Apple invented ColorSync, a standard which is now cross platform and works hand in glove with ICC, whiat will now be Apple's standard monitor line will no longer be ColorSync compatible.
.... Technically it already has although the initial release is just a bit shy of passing the Mom test.
If you haven't guessed what I'm talking about, it comes in a 3 CD pack in a white box from Cuppertino. And it was released on March 24th of this year.
BSD lives on and it's got a promising, evolving gui called Aqua.
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Two weeks before I heard the news, I read a big review feauture in NexGen, the one console gaming magazine not written for 12 year-olds. It was an excellent article which I recommend getting if it's still on the news shelves.
Sad to see that the box itself will never come out, it was one beautiful piece of silver sheen. I liked the placement of USB ports in both the front as controllers and the two in the back for other things, presumably USB modems and such.
I hope Indrema's successors take a look at this box and come up with something as beautiful as this baby.
Microsoft pays licensing tribute to Xerox, just as Apple, SGI, Commedore in the Amiga days, and everyone else who's does the GUI thing.
For it's own part, Xerox never imagined they could put out a GUI based workstation for under 70 grand, so it's hard to cast them as losers in a race they refused to enter. Considering how big they still are, they seem to be doing all right despite never entering the personal slavestation market.
Probably because there isn't such a built-in function in the BSD core or NeXTStep, you need to use the included Grab program for screen caps. It's not as elegant or functional as the built-in MacOS function but it'll get the job done.