1. The ya in the Russian is, if I am not mistaken, not pronounced that way after an l. So it's Solaris, not Solyaris. Perhaps a native speaker could clarify this?
2. A mediocre Tarkovsky film is still 300X better than a superb Hollywood film.
3. However problematic you might think Tarkovsky's Solaris is, the film is still startling. The camera work alone is worth the 169 minutes. And the relationship with the pseudo-Haris (= Rheya) is brilliantly handled. His use of B&W in the film is well managed. etc. ad naus.
hmmm. us Amiga users were hating IBM and Microsoft before Macs or Unix or X-Anything existed
Since UNIX predates Microsoft, I sincerely doubt that. The earliest work on UNIX dates to 1969. The zero date in UNIX is 1 Jan 1970. It was in use in a production environment by about 1971 or so. Microsoft was founded in 1975, iirc, after the Altair 8800 was created. The Apple II was out by 1977. The IBM PC and MS-DOS were released in August 1981; indeed, one can see influences from UNIX (and indirect UNIX influences through influences from CP/M) in MS-DOS. The original development of the Amiga began in 1982, and it wasn't released by Commodore (not its original developer) until 23 Jun 1985. X was developed in the mid-1980s according to the X.org website (later 1980s according to most other resources I found). Linus Torvald's famous email can be dated quite precisely, to 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT.
So one could argue that Amiga users were hating IBM before X users, Linux users, and OS X users, but that's about it. (Assuming that the "mid-1980s" date alluded to on the X.org site is after 23 June 1985).
ISS dates back to the Carter administration. That's what the space shuttle is supposed to be, well, shuttling people to.
Going to Mars without a real-time LEO simulation strikes me as very, very bad idea. Once you're on a semi-Hohmann orbit to Mars, there's just no way help is going to come.
It the Bush administration hadn't made it's first NASA-related decision the scrapping of the new Hab module, which would have allowed 7 crew members aboard at a time (think about it, this is a man-hours issue: 3 crew members spend 85% of their time maintaining the station; 7 would have spent about 40% of their time maintaining the station), there would have been far more science done. The shuttle and the station are both prime examples that cheaper is never faster, cheaper is never better.
It was clear when the Bush administration nominated a bean counter to run NASA that science and exploration were no longer matters of public policy. I'm just surprised it's taken them this long to find an excuse to end it.
How much do you want to bet that the next NASA budget will severely curtail manned spaceflight activities? They'll use the excuse that the shuttles are too old, and that they're waiting for the X-37 to come out.
Err, yes. NeXTstep was a mach microkernel with BSD userland. Almost exactly like Darwin. Surprising, eh? BSD arguably has more history than any other free unix like OS out there.
Seemed to me that though not expressed, the previous poster was implying that FreeBSD had more history on the desktop than Darwin. How many non-NeXT, non-Darwin desktop machines have there been? DESKTOP machines, not servers. Everybody and his brother had a Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX box in the local university computer lab when I was in school back in the 80s, but nobody had BSD on the desktop.
If you want to argue in favor of other BSD-based distributions, fine, do so (e.g., not everyone likes the Mach kernel); there's an argument to be made. But if you're going to use BSD's background to boost FreeBSD, you need to include it (and NeXT's) in evaluating Darwin's background.
Not to mention that they have a serious history behind them, and they (primarily FreeBSD) have been used extensively on the desktop.
More serious than the history of NeXT? On more desktops than Darwin (which is in every OS X desktop on the planet)? Please tell me you're talking about the GNU/ part of the distribution . . .
If he had just changed the word "open" to "shared," no one would be complaining. Certainly is should be on-topic, as while in an ideal world all source code would be open source and free, in an ideal world I'd be making $1B a year sitting on my but. One needs to find the most feasible compromise between idealism and necessity.
*Programmers are morally obligated to give the code to their users and allow their users to freely modify and redistribute the code.*
When did this happen?
Is [insert popular novelist here] morally obligated to give away his/her novels, allowing the readers to freely modify and redistribute the
Take out the "freely redistribute part," and I can see a difference here. The difference is this: a book is not as dependent upon platform as software is. Necessary changes to the platform (for instance, if the vendor for the OS goes out of business and support is needed, or the OS reaches supported endoflife) might break the code and require some fooling around with the source. Don't have that problem with a book, as long as the book is distributed using traditional media. If a book is distributed using non-traditional proprietary electronic media, on the other hand, then it has all the problems that software has.
The original posting should have made this point, as my original reaction was "why use Perl rather than AppleScript"; reading the article, I see there is a good argument in favor of using Perl along with AppleScript, but I imagine I wasn't the first one to go to the page with that thought at the top of my mind.
And, frankly, anything and everything will offend someone, somewhere. If you don't want it, don't enable the feature.
You're not getting my point, Zathrus. I'm talking from a marketing standpoint here, not a personal one. I know perfectly well how to exclude stuff from Amazon (don't have a TiVO), though I haven't been able to figure out how to exclude a whole category that mistakenly includes a handful of books I am interested in - but that's another story.
There are certain topics which any marketing type will tell you are hot-button issues: political party, religious affiliation, sexuality, vi versus emacs. Unlike the last one, you are more likely to offend potential customers if you misidentify their political party, religious affiliation, or sexuality than you are to entice them if you identify them properly (significantly more; you'll maybe offend 3% of the population if you give them a copy of Business at the Speed of Light for Christmas, but you'll offend 60% if you give them a copy of al Quran for Christmas (those whose religious sensibilities are stronger than their curiosity, and those whose religious sensibilities cannot accept the idea of a Christmas gift in the first place)). And given the fact that there are more than two possible political viewpoints (a whole spectrum from Genghisid legalist to utopian anarchist), more than two possible religious affiliations, and more than two possible sexualities (straight/gay/bisexual + male/female), your odds of getting it wrong are greater than 50%. So a sensible marketer would stay clear of those topics.
versus Napster: they only sell the stuff the labels want to sell. On Napster, I could get live stuff, tracks that were on out-of-print soundtracks, b-sides, all sorts of stuff I couldn't buy from the record stores, Amazon, or CDNOW no matter how much money I was willing to spend. That's pretty much all I used Napster for anyway (I know, the typical Napster user just wanted to get the latest Eminem CD for free). I see nothing here that suggests that the record companies "get" this.
The key thing is not to profile for things that will offend people unless there's an opt-in somewhere: sexuality, religious beliefs, etc. And the filters for language are obviously way off: it shouldn't start recording stuff in Korean unless you've watched at least two or three shows in Korean.
One issue: Universal PNP
Another one: Windows Messenging Service (not MSN Messenger, but the alerter) lets anyone put a popup on your computer if they have the IP address or DN. Just lovely. This is a security issue because the popup can be used as part of a social engineering attack.
The list goes on and on.
Honestly, I've had about 3x as many crashes on XP as I have on OS X and RedHat 7.3. Which sounds bad... except I've had maybe 3 crashes on OS X. This in contrast to 98SE, which crashed every time I looked at it funny.
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he movie is in Russian, and Russian spelling rules forbid a normal "a" to come after an l, so it's Solyaris in the movie.
However, I believe the -ya is prounced -a after an l in Russian (native speaker please correct).
1. The ya in the Russian is, if I am not mistaken, not pronounced that way after an l. So it's Solaris, not Solyaris. Perhaps a native speaker could clarify this?
2. A mediocre Tarkovsky film is still 300X better than a superb Hollywood film.
3. However problematic you might think Tarkovsky's Solaris is, the film is still startling. The camera work alone is worth the 169 minutes. And the relationship with the pseudo-Haris (= Rheya) is brilliantly handled. His use of B&W in the film is well managed. etc. ad naus.
hmmm. us Amiga users were hating IBM and Microsoft before Macs or Unix or X-Anything existed
Since UNIX predates Microsoft, I sincerely doubt that. The earliest work on UNIX dates to 1969. The zero date in UNIX is 1 Jan 1970. It was in use in a production environment by about 1971 or so. Microsoft was founded in 1975, iirc, after the Altair 8800 was created. The Apple II was out by 1977. The IBM PC and MS-DOS were released in August 1981; indeed, one can see influences from UNIX (and indirect UNIX influences through influences from CP/M) in MS-DOS. The original development of the Amiga began in 1982, and it wasn't released by Commodore (not its original developer) until 23 Jun 1985. X was developed in the mid-1980s according to the X.org website (later 1980s according to most other resources I found). Linus Torvald's famous email can be dated quite precisely, to 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT.
So one could argue that Amiga users were hating IBM before X users, Linux users, and OS X users, but that's about it. (Assuming that the "mid-1980s" date alluded to on the X.org site is after 23 June 1985).
ISS dates back to the Carter administration. That's what the space shuttle is supposed to be, well, shuttling people to.
Going to Mars without a real-time LEO simulation strikes me as very, very bad idea. Once you're on a semi-Hohmann orbit to Mars, there's just no way help is going to come.
It the Bush administration hadn't made it's first NASA-related decision the scrapping of the new Hab module, which would have allowed 7 crew members aboard at a time (think about it, this is a man-hours issue: 3 crew members spend 85% of their time maintaining the station; 7 would have spent about 40% of their time maintaining the station), there would have been far more science done. The shuttle and the station are both prime examples that cheaper is never faster, cheaper is never better.
It was clear when the Bush administration nominated a bean counter to run NASA that science and exploration were no longer matters of public policy. I'm just surprised it's taken them this long to find an excuse to end it.
How much do you want to bet that the next NASA budget will severely curtail manned spaceflight activities? They'll use the excuse that the shuttles are too old, and that they're waiting for the X-37 to come out.
Err, yes. NeXTstep was a mach microkernel with BSD userland. Almost exactly like Darwin. Surprising, eh? BSD arguably has more history than any other free unix like OS out there.
Seemed to me that though not expressed, the previous poster was implying that FreeBSD had more history on the desktop than Darwin. How many non-NeXT, non-Darwin desktop machines have there been? DESKTOP machines, not servers. Everybody and his brother had a Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX box in the local university computer lab when I was in school back in the 80s, but nobody had BSD on the desktop.
If you want to argue in favor of other BSD-based distributions, fine, do so (e.g., not everyone likes the Mach kernel); there's an argument to be made. But if you're going to use BSD's background to boost FreeBSD, you need to include it (and NeXT's) in evaluating Darwin's background.
Not to mention that they have a serious history behind them, and they (primarily FreeBSD) have been used extensively on the desktop.
More serious than the history of NeXT? On more desktops than Darwin (which is in every OS X desktop on the planet)? Please tell me you're talking about the GNU/ part of the distribution . . .
Great idea mirroring the ordering page. Too bad you didn't mirror the requirements page, too
If he had just changed the word "open" to "shared," no one would be complaining. Certainly is should be on-topic, as while in an ideal world all source code would be open source and free, in an ideal world I'd be making $1B a year sitting on my but. One needs to find the most feasible compromise between idealism and necessity.
*Programmers are morally obligated to give the code to their users and allow their users to freely modify and redistribute the code.*
When did this happen?
Is [insert popular novelist here] morally obligated to give away his/her novels, allowing the readers to freely modify and redistribute the
Take out the "freely redistribute part," and I can see a difference here. The difference is this: a book is not as dependent upon platform as software is. Necessary changes to the platform (for instance, if the vendor for the OS goes out of business and support is needed, or the OS reaches supported endoflife) might break the code and require some fooling around with the source. Don't have that problem with a book, as long as the book is distributed using traditional media. If a book is distributed using non-traditional proprietary electronic media, on the other hand, then it has all the problems that software has.
Not actually intended to be trolly; Zathrus is usually pretty aware of things.
The original posting should have made this point, as my original reaction was "why use Perl rather than AppleScript"; reading the article, I see there is a good argument in favor of using Perl along with AppleScript, but I imagine I wasn't the first one to go to the page with that thought at the top of my mind.
And, frankly, anything and everything will offend someone, somewhere. If you don't want it, don't enable the feature.
You're not getting my point, Zathrus. I'm talking from a marketing standpoint here, not a personal one. I know perfectly well how to exclude stuff from Amazon (don't have a TiVO), though I haven't been able to figure out how to exclude a whole category that mistakenly includes a handful of books I am interested in - but that's another story.
There are certain topics which any marketing type will tell you are hot-button issues: political party, religious affiliation, sexuality, vi versus emacs. Unlike the last one, you are more likely to offend potential customers if you misidentify their political party, religious affiliation, or sexuality than you are to entice them if you identify them properly (significantly more; you'll maybe offend 3% of the population if you give them a copy of Business at the Speed of Light for Christmas, but you'll offend 60% if you give them a copy of al Quran for Christmas (those whose religious sensibilities are stronger than their curiosity, and those whose religious sensibilities cannot accept the idea of a Christmas gift in the first place)). And given the fact that there are more than two possible political viewpoints (a whole spectrum from Genghisid legalist to utopian anarchist), more than two possible religious affiliations, and more than two possible sexualities (straight/gay/bisexual + male/female), your odds of getting it wrong are greater than 50%. So a sensible marketer would stay clear of those topics.
This is what I mean by stupid profiling.
versus Napster: they only sell the stuff the labels want to sell. On Napster, I could get live stuff, tracks that were on out-of-print soundtracks, b-sides, all sorts of stuff I couldn't buy from the record stores, Amazon, or CDNOW no matter how much money I was willing to spend. That's pretty much all I used Napster for anyway (I know, the typical Napster user just wanted to get the latest Eminem CD for free). I see nothing here that suggests that the record companies "get" this.
The key thing is not to profile for things that will offend people unless there's an opt-in somewhere: sexuality, religious beliefs, etc. And the filters for language are obviously way off: it shouldn't start recording stuff in Korean unless you've watched at least two or three shows in Korean.
Are we calling for a return to Lynx? Or should we grow up and learn to live peacefully?
Some of us never left it.
One issue: Universal PNP
Another one: Windows Messenging Service (not MSN Messenger, but the alerter) lets anyone put a popup on your computer if they have the IP address or DN. Just lovely. This is a security issue because the popup can be used as part of a social engineering attack.
The list goes on and on.
Honestly, I've had about 3x as many crashes on XP as I have on OS X and RedHat 7.3. Which sounds bad ... except I've had maybe 3 crashes on OS X. This in contrast to 98SE, which crashed every time I looked at it funny.
Exactly. This is what saves a series from rotting into a goo pond once the fire goes out of it.
And I think a five-year (22 episode year) run for Farscape would be just about right. (Or Enterprise. Or Voyager ... oops, too late.
Glad we agree on that one.
Um, B5 was always intended to run only 5 years.
The girl is Malcolm's daughter. I would assume that her mother (prolly one of Malcolm's many ex-wives) was A-A.
I withdraw my nit!
The richest dude in India, Azim Premji, is a moslem. What was that about castes again?
Don't use the term Moslem, use Muslim. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
Excellent posting. It's amazing what damage a copy of "The Cosmological Anthropic Principle" can do in the wrong hands.