The initial problem when Appearance first came out was that few applications supported it. It wasn't a significant problem with the Platinum theme, as Platinum was relatively close to the traditional Mac OS look. But when what happened when non Appearance conforming apps appeared with the wilder themes like Gizmo and High Tech was a nightmarish mess even worse than the clash of Classic applications with the Aqua on the DP versions of OS X. Similarly, Apple is still working on finetuning the aesthetic and functionality aspects of Aqua and really does not want anyone tinkering with the window underpinnings, particurlarly if they plan on making changes later. It's similar to Apple's warining on developers to not explore the mezz slot in the early iMacs. Sure enough by the time the Rev D's came out, the mezzanaine slot was history, taking the upstart market with it.
..... The next generation or two of machines come out that smoke yours in the areas you want to do? Will you still be content to hang on to your old machine, when closed proprietary systems set up new "standards" that effectively orphan your machine from the 'Net, or whatever's up and coming to replace what you hold dear today?
What happens to the growth of Linux or any other alternative platform. when you can't go to a parts shop and build the Dream Machine of 2005?
What happens when you can't even buy a software license but have to RENT it month to month?
There are very good reasons why all life on Earth is carbon based and why we expect that if we do find extraterrestrial or extrasolar life, odds are it will be too. Carbon is the most agile and flexible element in the universe able to give or take up to 4 electrons in chemical bonding. Silicon and others in the Carbon family can theorectically do the same, but they're heavy and sluggish by comparison,. and if I'm not mistaken the Carbon family elements beyond Silicon aren't stable. And of course the heavier elements are that much more rare in proportion.
Read up a little on chemistry and biochemistry some day and you'll appreciate just how uniquely neat the element of Carbon truly is.
You've obviously have never worked at places like the National Resource Defense Council or at a PIRG. You've got people there working long hours for pay that's barely above minimum wage. They do it because they believe in the cause as much as when they were bright-eyed bushy-tailed college students hanging on every word of Ralph Nader, Green Peace, and the Sierra Club.
There actually was a time once not so very long ago that a good part of the reaon that people did good jobs was the pride in doing so.
What next? Does this mean that a teacher who's watched Capricorn One more than one time too many can opt out of mentioning the moon landings or the space program as part of American History because he/she believes that the space program was faked? Or has problems with Newton and so decides that the Theory of Gravitation should be off the course list. Or while we're at it, strike the Theory of Relativity as "Jewish physics".
A teacher who does not respect the fundamental precepts of scientific theory and debate should not be teaching science period, end of story. People who insist that so-called "creation science" be treated on an equal footing with true scientific thought simply don't understnad what science is supposed to be.
The cloners had the advantage that Apple was carrying all the R&D work for them. Also with smaller orders to fill, they were able to get more consistent deliveries from Motorola.
Also the cloners were supposed to grow Apple's market in the consumer field. Instead, they just poached the high-end pro users, cutting into Apple's market share at a point where they could not have sustained the loss.
There was a time and may yet be a time for Apple to try to do buisness the way Microsoft does it. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.
While Terminal is included in the Public Beta, it will not be included as a default part of the Consumer Release. The main reason is to make sure developers provide a proper GUI installer as opposed to forcing customers to use command line tools as was de rigor for X Server/Rhapsody.
Terminal will be available either as an Extras install from the CD or by download from Apple. As an out of the box solution, you can boot straight into Darwin by entering >console at the login prompt.
It's Galileo that's eventually going to be ditched in the Jovian atmosphere. Cassini is a newer probe being sent to do the same kind of missio at Saturn.
Cassini is taking a longer route than the previious Saturn missions because unlike the Voyager and Pioneer series, it has to arrive at Saturn at a slow enough speed so it can settle into orbit.
Americans working in France are subject to French law. Then again, even the French are idiot enough to think that they're going to be entirely successful at blocking everybody. They're aiming for the French equivalents of AOL and average ISP-using homebody.
Actually you'd be doing the same thing that Netscape and Microsoft used to do when the U.S. crypto export laws were tougher, and they had to determine the American origin of an IP befor you could download the 128-bit web browsers. There are tools that can locate where your IP number orginates from geographically. (I used a MacOS demo of one awhile back.)
What ebay would have to do is essentially put a flag on the auction items that would subject the item listing to the IP blocking filter.
Social engineering or incharacter deception is the major method of cheating in Diablo 2. The most popular one is the "waypoint"request where someone asks for a waypoint, character2 plips over to one. While his client is on delay loading the new level char1 who already had the waypoint enabled declares hostile on char2 ports over and starts whaling char1 while the former is still frozen.
Fortuinately since these mainly rely on trickery, they're alot easier to guard against as opposed to the super-hacked characters of the original game.
It's quite simple actually, the plan is to send up the usual unmanned cargo ship which will dock with the station and deorbit it. Presumably the craft will have extra fuel on board in place of supplies. They may send one more crew up to Mir to make sure it will remain in control during t he deorbit process. The target area is supposed to be a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.
Destroying it in orbit would wind up creating a cloud of space debris, adding to an already major space pollution problem. Not to mention leaving big chunks which wouild still come down eventually.
If you've read some of the Known Space stories, one of the planets described is Canyon, a low atmosphere planetoid that had a huge gash carved into it during one of the Man-Kzin Wars. The gash was deep enough that the atmosphere bascically sank into it and gave it roughly Earth-level pressure only in the giant canyon, hence the name.
You pretty much said it there. "Mars Attacks" was probably the last of the great drive-in movies. It really was meant for drive-ins. Unfortunately the last drive-in in New Jersey closed down about 4-5 years ago. It's a "park your brain at the door" kind of movie which can occasionally be a fun break from the uber-serious stuff.
Gods I miss those weekend movies, especially the cheap KungFu flicks and those Japanese monster flicks and those really weird Italian space operas. Kids today don't even have half the cartoons to choose from that we had.
Cosmic expansion is a bit more complicated and like it's been said , you have to divorce yourself a bit from Euclidean gemometry. It's notjust the universe that expands but space itself. The Big Bang is not an event that happened at a particurlarl point in space, it's more accurate to thing of the Big Bang as an event that happened everywhere at once.
Also check out the concept of "inflation" if you get a chance.
While light from an object travels to us at c no matter how fast the object is receding from us, eventually as the speed increases the light is red shifted so far down it becomes unobservable when the object's recession speed equals or exceeds c. Thus is defined the "observable universe". In practical terms it'll be somewhat less as our instruments for observation will always be a bit short of the thorectical ideal.
Galaxies in a large cluster do tend to collide with each other more often than those in a small group or "free" unbound galaxies. Spiral galaxies like ours get progressively more rare as the groups become larger. Usually though, the galaxies just pass right through each other and come out the other sides. Spirals involved in collisions tend to become elliptical galaxies as they finish. Galaxies only tend to absorb other galaxies when the relative encounter speed is low enough.
Clusters eventually tend to be dominated by a single large galaxy like the giant elliptical M81 which the rest tend to loosely orbit.
As a footnote, it's all but confirmed that the Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda are in a collison course. We should start seeing the effects in a few million years. Someone's modeled the upcoming collison, unfortunately I forget who.
Remember the AT&T breakup? After years of wrangling, they got exactly what they wanted, the jettison of local phone service and the retention of long distance.
The IBM case went on for over a decade. Despite occasional appearances, scandals, and when it all boils down, we're still largely (and thankfully) a nation of Law.
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The initial problem when Appearance first came out was that few applications supported it. It wasn't a significant problem with the Platinum theme, as Platinum was relatively close to the traditional Mac OS look. But when what happened when non Appearance conforming apps appeared with the wilder themes like Gizmo and High Tech was a nightmarish mess even worse than the clash of Classic applications with the Aqua on the DP versions of OS X. Similarly, Apple is still working on finetuning the aesthetic and functionality aspects of Aqua and really does not want anyone tinkering with the window underpinnings, particurlarly if they plan on making changes later. It's similar to Apple's warining on developers to not explore the mezz slot in the early iMacs. Sure enough by the time the Rev D's came out, the mezzanaine slot was history, taking the upstart market with it.
.... but Dead Presidents.
While it may be true that your average Congressperson is for sale, there are good rental options.
..... The next generation or two of machines come out that smoke yours in the areas you want to do? Will you still be content to hang on to your old machine, when closed proprietary systems set up new "standards" that effectively orphan your machine from the 'Net, or whatever's up and coming to replace what you hold dear today?
What happens to the growth of Linux or any other alternative platform. when you can't go to a parts shop and build the Dream Machine of 2005?
What happens when you can't even buy a software license but have to RENT it month to month?
There are very good reasons why all life on Earth is carbon based and why we expect that if we do find extraterrestrial or extrasolar life, odds are it will be too. Carbon is the most agile and flexible element in the universe able to give or take up to 4 electrons in chemical bonding. Silicon and others in the Carbon family can theorectically do the same, but they're heavy and sluggish by comparison,. and if I'm not mistaken the Carbon family elements beyond Silicon aren't stable. And of course the heavier elements are that much more rare in proportion.
Read up a little on chemistry and biochemistry some day and you'll appreciate just how uniquely neat the element of Carbon truly is.
NASA is not an authoritative astronomica authority anymore than Wright Air Force Base.
NASA is not an authoritative astronomical authority anymore than Wright Air Force Base.
NASA is not an authoritative astronomical authority anymore than Wright Air Force Base.
... is that Pluto is the only "planet" discovered by an American, one Clyde Tombaugh if memory serves.
You've obviously have never worked at places like the National Resource Defense Council or at a PIRG. You've got people there working long hours for pay that's barely above minimum wage. They do it because they believe in the cause as much as when they were bright-eyed bushy-tailed college students hanging on every word of Ralph Nader, Green Peace, and the Sierra Club.
There actually was a time once not so very long ago that a good part of the reaon that people did good jobs was the pride in doing so.
What next? Does this mean that a teacher who's watched Capricorn One more than one time too many can opt out of mentioning the moon landings or the space program as part of American History because he/she believes that the space program was faked? Or has problems with Newton and so decides that the Theory of Gravitation should be off the course list. Or while we're at it, strike the Theory of Relativity as "Jewish physics".
A teacher who does not respect the fundamental precepts of scientific theory and debate should not be teaching science period, end of story. People who insist that so-called "creation science" be treated on an equal footing with true scientific thought simply don't understnad what science is supposed to be.
The cloners had the advantage that Apple was carrying all the R&D work for them. Also with smaller orders to fill, they were able to get more consistent deliveries from Motorola.
Also the cloners were supposed to grow Apple's market in the consumer field. Instead, they just poached the high-end pro users, cutting into Apple's market share at a point where they could not have sustained the loss.
There was a time and may yet be a time for Apple to try to do buisness the way Microsoft does it. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.
While Terminal is included in the Public Beta, it will not be included as a default part of the Consumer Release. The main reason is to make sure developers provide a proper GUI installer as opposed to forcing customers to use command line tools as was de rigor for X Server/Rhapsody.
Terminal will be available either as an Extras install from the CD or by download from Apple. As an out of the box solution, you can boot straight into Darwin by entering >console at the login prompt.
It's Galileo that's eventually going to be ditched in the Jovian atmosphere. Cassini is a newer probe being sent to do the same kind of missio at Saturn.
Cassini is taking a longer route than the previious Saturn missions because unlike the Voyager and Pioneer series, it has to arrive at Saturn at a slow enough speed so it can settle into orbit.
Americans working in France are subject to French law. Then again, even the French are idiot enough to think that they're going to be entirely successful at blocking everybody. They're aiming for the French equivalents of AOL and average ISP-using homebody.
In Mayanmaar, the country formerly known as Burma, unlicensed posession of a modem is often a capital offense.
Actually you'd be doing the same thing that Netscape and Microsoft used to do when the U.S. crypto export laws were tougher, and they had to determine the American origin of an IP befor you could download the 128-bit web browsers. There are tools that can locate where your IP number orginates from geographically. (I used a MacOS demo of one awhile back.)
What ebay would have to do is essentially put a flag on the auction items that would subject the item listing to the IP blocking filter.
Social engineering or incharacter deception is the major method of cheating in Diablo 2. The most popular one is the "waypoint"request where someone asks for a waypoint, character2 plips over to one. While his client is on delay loading the new level char1 who already had the waypoint enabled declares hostile on char2 ports over and starts whaling char1 while the former is still frozen.
Fortuinately since these mainly rely on trickery, they're alot easier to guard against as opposed to the super-hacked characters of the original game.
It's quite simple actually, the plan is to send up the usual unmanned cargo ship which will dock with the station and deorbit it. Presumably the craft will have extra fuel on board in place of supplies. They may send one more crew up to Mir to make sure it will remain in control during t he deorbit process. The target area is supposed to be a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.
Destroying it in orbit would wind up creating a cloud of space debris, adding to an already major space pollution problem. Not to mention leaving big chunks which wouild still come down eventually.
If you've read some of the Known Space stories, one of the planets described is Canyon, a low atmosphere planetoid that had a huge gash carved into it during one of the Man-Kzin Wars. The gash was deep enough that the atmosphere bascically sank into it and gave it roughly Earth-level pressure only in the giant canyon, hence the name.
You pretty much said it there. "Mars Attacks" was probably the last of the great drive-in movies. It really was meant for drive-ins. Unfortunately the last drive-in in New Jersey closed down about 4-5 years ago. It's a "park your brain at the door" kind of movie which can occasionally be a fun break from the uber-serious stuff.
Gods I miss those weekend movies, especially the cheap KungFu flicks and those Japanese monster flicks and those really weird Italian space operas. Kids today don't even have half the cartoons to choose from that we had.
Cosmic expansion is a bit more complicated and like it's been said , you have to divorce yourself a bit from Euclidean gemometry. It's notjust the universe that expands but space itself. The Big Bang is not an event that happened at a particurlarl point in space, it's more accurate to thing of the Big Bang as an event that happened everywhere at once.
Also check out the concept of "inflation" if you get a chance.
While light from an object travels to us at c no matter how fast the object is receding from us, eventually as the speed increases the light is red shifted so far down it becomes unobservable when the object's recession speed equals or exceeds c. Thus is defined the "observable universe". In practical terms it'll be somewhat less as our instruments for observation will always be a bit short of the thorectical ideal.
Galaxies in a large cluster do tend to collide with each other more often than those in a small group or "free" unbound galaxies. Spiral galaxies like ours get progressively more rare as the groups become larger. Usually though, the galaxies just pass right through each other and come out the other sides. Spirals involved in collisions tend to become elliptical galaxies as they finish. Galaxies only tend to absorb other galaxies when the relative encounter speed is low enough.
Clusters eventually tend to be dominated by a single large galaxy like the giant elliptical M81 which the rest tend to loosely orbit.
As a footnote, it's all but confirmed that the Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda are in a collison course. We should start seeing the effects in a few million years. Someone's modeled the upcoming collison, unfortunately I forget who.
Remember the AT&T breakup? After years of wrangling, they got exactly what they wanted, the jettison of local phone service and the retention of long distance.
The IBM case went on for over a decade. Despite occasional appearances, scandals, and when it all boils down, we're still largely (and thankfully) a nation of Law.
There were dormant bacteria that survived being left on the moon for 2 years inside the Surveyeor 3 camera retreived by the Apollo 12 astronauts.