Because like many who have good tech educations and a poor humanities education, he doesn't know shit about literature. No, one cannot just say the same things and call it progress, any more than in the sciences. His comment is as ignorant as a humanist claiming "it must be easy to get a PhD in the sciences, rather than in literature. In the literature you need to find something that hasn't been said about something else, while in the sciences you can just make things up as you go along."
Yeah, right, Apple investors forcing Steve Jobs to do something? Obviously TheDeal.com has never experienced the Reality Distortion Field (TM) full-force.
Look, do you think Taco reads every comment in every thread? The people modding the bugged bug report are readers, not editors. If you want to communicate with the staff about a software bug, the bug db is the place to do it.
s a stand-alone company, Apple's hardware unit could offer its users computers equipped with a Microsoft Windows operating system. That move alone, Kastner estimates, would double the company's market share.
I'd rather have a small (size of a PCMCIA ethernet card) WAP dongle that plugs in a modem line and/or ethernet line for use with my wifi enabled laptop and PDA.
Unicode works fine in any Cocoa app, including TextEdit, Safari, iCal, Finder, Address Book, Mail, the new Nisus beta, etc. The apps that have problems are all Carbon, because they don't invoke ATSUI properly: MS Office v.X, AppleWorks, Internet Exploder, etc. while BBEdit (which should know better) is spotty for some writing systems in some cases.
Even most of these apps can handle extended Latin, though. I'm guessing the poster didn't do his homework.
If Fink keeps building up steam (as it has been for the past 2 years), maybe that will convince Apple that it's worthwhile to support a few staffers to start porting UNIX cl tools to OS X.
It wouldn't cost very much to do it.
How do you define "not very much?" I'm thinking it would cost at least $75K/employee (including benefits, overhead, and indirect stuff), and take 3 employees 1-2 years to do. But IANAPM (I am not a project manager).
I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.
I don't. I think the AC doesn't yet know the difference between a command line interface and a command line tool. He'll learn, he's in the right place.
I'd shy away from making the Win98:WinXP::OS9:OSX analogy, if I were you. Too many lusers will take it too literally./p.
Yeah,/. is a weblog, not CNN. It's opinion, not journalism. That said, most of the stuff they post as "news" really is of interest as news.
On this issue, I know that the MP3s I have ripped (carelessly) with MusicMatch and the like that have little pops at the end; I imagined it was due to electronic noise from the encoding device (from my CD drive, for instance). I don't remember if I've heard them on anything from my Mac, though.
But it sounds from the discussion on Apple.com that the users have already identified the issue and suspect it's something firmware can fix.
A few were correct, though. Some rumor sites had drawings of 2gen iPods a couple of weeks before they came out, and/., for god's sake, had the first rumor of iTMS months, maybe more before it was released.
You've still got your PDA, only now, you've got a lot more storage space.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just integrate this into the PDA? In other words, have a single box that's PDA/Video Viewer/Music Listener/Cell Phone/Personal Server? With a wireless headset and a PDA-like front face?
Yeah, it's not a bad idea, but I'm still not sure this is (as the article suggests, rather than as you suggest) a PDA-killer.
A very simple point: one should not use words that one doesn't understand. Writing "wa lah," or whatever the original poster wrote, shows that the author doesn't understand the word he used. While the "ignorant yankee" bit was rather trollish, the grandparent post had a point.
There is no "heavy" influence of Spanish or Native American languages on American English. Perhaps a few hundred years down the road, yes, but not yet. So far English has picked up some vocab from them, little else.
The differences between Early Modern English and Modern English are mostly the result of gradual changes in the language's syntax as usage conventionalized.
Modern English could be described as a language with a vocabulary mainly derived from both Norman and Saxon and a syntax mainly but not exclusively derived from Saxon, but with both very heavily influenced by English's tendency to embrace and extend other languages.
And though I know that question was directed at the parent post and not at me, in case the question recurs, yes, I do know some Etruscan (insofar as anyone can be said to "know" a language which is only partially understood).
I'm on the train. I want to read a book. How do I do that with this box? Why, I need a PDA to do that.
I'm on the plane. I want to get some work done. 802.11x stuff is banned from use on the plane. What does this do for me?
I'm visiting a client's place of business. I want to pull up some data from my personal server. But they don't want me using any of their boxes because they're afraid I'll root out some company proprietary data while I'm on there. What does this do for me?
One cannot use a device with no I/O without other I/O devices around. This is basically just a souped up microdrive that I don't have to attach to anything.
Unenforceable. How do you track down the sender to collect the tax? How do you prevent non-tax-paying email senders from sending? What's to prevent a "free" internet from developing and eventually being overcome with spam?
The matrix is a great movie beacuse it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control. From Plato and the allegory of the cave to Nietzsche and is exploration of slave morality, this has been a dominant theme amongst the greatest philosophers
That's not what the cave allegory means. I speak as someone who has read the Politeia in the original. The cave allegory is about what the Hindus and Buddhists call the "veil of maya," the UNIVERSE catching us in its illusions, not society. For Plato one must use the intellect to reach beyond the shadows on the wall of the cave and see the real universe beyond, the universe of the forms.
The Matrix's approach to this is more gnostic than Platonic. Read the Nag Hammadi Codices. The AIs and the master control of the Matrix (there's gotta be a master control somewhere, otherwise there would be nothing preventing Smith from getting what he wants - out) are Yaldaboath, and Zion's core computer is Sophia. There's a lot of gnostic symbolism in Dick's later work, so it wouldn't surprise me terribly if the W brothers had read some late Dick.
There are intersections, of course: in the Nag Hammadi codices you'll find a translation from Plato. But I wouldn't call the Matrix genuinely Platonic.
Better a nerd who makes 5 times as much in a year as the high school star football player who nowadays works doing snow plowing in the winter and landscaping in the summer, with a side job at the gas station.
Examples of good scifi: Blade Runner (duh), Solaris (original Russian version), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and anything but Stanislaw Lem or Jorge Borges.
1. You did mean "by," not "but," right? Obviously "everything but" Lem or Borges would be... almost everything.
2. Don't call him Jorge Borges. Either Borges or Jorge Luis Borges. His name is usually alphabetized (properly) under the Luis.
Otherwise, a terrific posting, though I think *Man in the High Tower* and *The Unteleported Man* are better than *Three Stigmata*.
Or use a tablet form factor similar to a Newton and the ability to play back QuickTime videos you could rip from your DVDs and you've got something all the Mac fanboys (self included) would drool over. Here's hoping they introduce one at Create/MacWorld/whatever.
But that was still the explanation in 1986, when I started buying my first CDs for $16. It was still the explanation in 1989, when CDs were.... $15. See what I mean? And now they average $18.
The very first CDs, yeah, were outrageously expensive (I remember seeing "Ghost in the Machine" locked up in a glass case at the local record store). But by 1986 or so, they were down to the current price or so, and have pretty much stayed there.
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Because like many who have good tech educations and a poor humanities education, he doesn't know shit about literature. No, one cannot just say the same things and call it progress, any more than in the sciences. His comment is as ignorant as a humanist claiming "it must be easy to get a PhD in the sciences, rather than in literature. In the literature you need to find something that hasn't been said about something else, while in the sciences you can just make things up as you go along."
Yeah, right, Apple investors forcing Steve Jobs to do something? Obviously TheDeal.com has never experienced the Reality Distortion Field (TM) full-force.
Look, do you think Taco reads every comment in every thread? The people modding the bugged bug report are readers, not editors. If you want to communicate with the staff about a software bug, the bug db is the place to do it.
s a stand-alone company, Apple's hardware unit could offer its users computers equipped with a Microsoft Windows operating system. That move alone, Kastner estimates, would double the company's market share.
And slice their profit margin by 90%, no doubt.
If this had been on Mac Rumors, about Apple, most of the postings would have been in favor.
I'd rather have a small (size of a PCMCIA ethernet card) WAP dongle that plugs in a modem line and/or ethernet line for use with my wifi enabled laptop and PDA.
Did you report it to the bug database - where it ISN'T OFFTOPIC?
Unicode works fine in any Cocoa app,
including TextEdit, Safari, iCal, Finder,
Address Book, Mail, the new Nisus beta,
etc. The apps that have problems are
all Carbon, because they don't invoke
ATSUI properly: MS Office v.X, AppleWorks,
Internet Exploder, etc. while BBEdit (which
should know better) is spotty for some
writing systems in some cases.
Even most of these apps can handle extended Latin, though. I'm guessing the poster didn't do his homework.
If Fink keeps building up steam (as it has been for the past 2 years), maybe that will convince Apple that it's worthwhile to support a few staffers to start porting UNIX cl tools to OS X.
It wouldn't cost very much to do it.
How do you define "not very much?" I'm thinking it would cost at least $75K/employee (including benefits, overhead, and indirect stuff), and take 3 employees 1-2 years to do. But IANAPM (I am not a project manager).
I believe the AC was trying to poke fun at Microsoft for moving away from command line while at the same time Apple is moving towards it. Compare Windows 98 to XP and OS 9 to OS X.
I don't. I think the AC doesn't yet know the difference between a command line interface and a command line tool. He'll learn, he's in the right place.
I'd shy away from making the Win98:WinXP::OS9:OSX analogy, if I were you. Too many lusers will take it too literally./p.
Yeah, /. is a weblog, not CNN. It's opinion, not journalism. That said, most of the stuff they post as "news" really is of interest as news.
On this issue, I know that the MP3s I have ripped (carelessly) with MusicMatch and the like that have little pops at the end; I imagined it was due to electronic noise from the encoding device (from my CD drive, for instance). I don't remember if I've heard them on anything from my Mac, though.
But it sounds from the discussion on Apple.com that the users have already identified the issue and suspect it's something firmware can fix.
MiniDisc is a big deal in Japan. And I have one myself (live in NE US).
A few were correct, though. Some rumor sites had drawings of 2gen iPods a couple of weeks before they came out, and /., for god's sake, had the first rumor of iTMS months, maybe more before it was released.
You've still got your PDA, only now, you've got a lot more storage space.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just integrate this into the PDA? In other words, have a single box that's PDA/Video Viewer/Music Listener/Cell Phone/Personal Server? With a wireless headset and a PDA-like front face?
Yeah, it's not a bad idea, but I'm still not sure this is (as the article suggests, rather than as you suggest) a PDA-killer.
A very simple point: one should not use words that one doesn't understand. Writing "wa lah," or whatever the original poster wrote, shows that the author doesn't understand the word he used. While the "ignorant yankee" bit was rather trollish, the grandparent post had a point.
There is no "heavy" influence of Spanish or Native American languages on American English. Perhaps a few hundred years down the road, yes, but not yet. So far English has picked up some vocab from them, little else.
The differences between Early Modern English and Modern English are mostly the result of gradual changes in the language's syntax as usage conventionalized.
Modern English could be described as a language with a vocabulary mainly derived from both Norman and Saxon and a syntax mainly but not exclusively derived from Saxon, but with both very heavily influenced by English's tendency to embrace and extend other languages.
And though I know that question was directed at the parent post and not at me, in case the question recurs, yes, I do know some Etruscan (insofar as anyone can be said to "know" a language which is only partially understood).
How that for another ignorant Yank?
I'm on the train. I want to read a book. How do I do that with this box? Why, I need a PDA to do that.
I'm on the plane. I want to get some work done. 802.11x stuff is banned from use on the plane. What does this do for me?
I'm visiting a client's place of business. I want to pull up some data from my personal server. But they don't want me using any of their boxes because they're afraid I'll root out some company proprietary data while I'm on there. What does this do for me?
One cannot use a device with no I/O without other I/O devices around. This is basically just a souped up microdrive that I don't have to attach to anything.
Unenforceable. How do you track down the sender to collect the tax? How do you prevent non-tax-paying email senders from sending? What's to prevent a "free" internet from developing and eventually being overcome with spam?
Your penance is to read The Garden of Forking Paths aloud in a crowded room.
The matrix is a great movie beacuse it is the first and only movie to really focus on the use of illusion as a tool of social control. From Plato and the allegory of the cave to Nietzsche and is exploration of slave morality, this has been a dominant theme amongst the greatest philosophers
That's not what the cave allegory means. I speak as someone who has read the Politeia in the original. The cave allegory is about what the Hindus and Buddhists call the "veil of maya," the UNIVERSE catching us in its illusions, not society. For Plato one must use the intellect to reach beyond the shadows on the wall of the cave and see the real universe beyond, the universe of the forms.
The Matrix's approach to this is more gnostic than Platonic. Read the Nag Hammadi Codices. The AIs and the master control of the Matrix (there's gotta be a master control somewhere, otherwise there would be nothing preventing Smith from getting what he wants - out) are Yaldaboath, and Zion's core computer is Sophia. There's a lot of gnostic symbolism in Dick's later work, so it wouldn't surprise me terribly if the W brothers had read some late Dick.
There are intersections, of course: in the Nag Hammadi codices you'll find a translation from Plato. But I wouldn't call the Matrix genuinely Platonic.
Nietzschean, though, there you're onto something.
Better a nerd who makes 5 times as much in a year as the high school star football player who nowadays works doing snow plowing in the winter and landscaping in the summer, with a side job at the gas station.
Examples of good scifi: Blade Runner (duh), Solaris (original Russian version), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and anything but Stanislaw Lem or Jorge Borges.
1. You did mean "by," not "but," right? Obviously "everything but" Lem or Borges would be ... almost everything.
2. Don't call him Jorge Borges. Either Borges or Jorge Luis Borges. His name is usually alphabetized (properly) under the Luis.
Otherwise, a terrific posting, though I think *Man in the High Tower* and *The Unteleported Man* are better than *Three Stigmata*.
My point was that the "DRM" on MiniDisc is just hardware.
Or use a tablet form factor similar to a Newton and the ability to play back QuickTime videos you could rip from your DVDs and you've got something all the Mac fanboys (self included) would drool over. Here's hoping they introduce one at Create/MacWorld/whatever.
The only way to play back from a MiniDisk is with an analog plug; but that works as well as any other analog medium; better than acoustic, at least.
But that was still the explanation in 1986, when I started buying my first CDs for $16. It was still the explanation in 1989, when CDs were .... $15. See what I mean? And now they average $18.
The very first CDs, yeah, were outrageously expensive (I remember seeing "Ghost in the Machine" locked up in a glass case at the local record store). But by 1986 or so, they were down to the current price or so, and have pretty much stayed there.