"While splitting water to get hydrogen and oxygen is not new, this product will likely make the technology more accessible to the masses and might hopefully show that hydrogen is a more attractive fuel than petroleum-based fuels"
what fuel do you think powered that electrical service, dude? not hydrogen.
I definitely think the parent author is on to something here. I was very surprised how often Roblimo interupted Martin. There's nothing more annoying than trying to follow an answer, and have it just cut off before it's finished.
This really was a pretty rough interview to read, despite the fact that I was really interested in it.
As for the bias, it was definitely showing. I have a bias myself, but really I do want to know what the guy has to say for his company. let him answer the questions since the forum here isn't a debate but an interview.
It won't be that difficult for Apple to recompile their core OS to x86. They use GCC, which means you can recompile all your frameworks, and let the linker do the work.
Mac OS X Developers aren't going to see much changes as long as they are using the Frameworks provided by Apple. Even if you are coding in C and you still enjoy doing your own memory management, you still won't see much difference because the OS is compiled using GCC. Which is a cross-compiler, BTW.
There is a reason that hundreds of./configure,make,make install software packages build in the darwin environment - GCC. So it's really not that far out of a proposition.
The big hurdle is going to be the hardware drivers. But Apple is already pretty good with them. Plug in a Dell flat panel VGA - OS X can recognize the freakin model number. The OS is well-made - the hardware abstraction kicks the shit out of windows, which is still backwards compatible with Win95. Imagine, all that CRUFT... gone!
Advertisers would more likely be interested in those who appear to be skinny because (and this isn't good science or sociology here) they clearly need more Big Macs.
Send that iBook back while it's still in the first 14 days and get yourself a powerbook, so you can avoid most of the nasty logic board and repair/replacement nightmares that take place, even for AppleCare customers (though some powerbooks also suffer from logic board problems, the iBooks have a logic board replacement program because it is so prevalent).
That Sophos antivirus has the somewhat incredible problem of not being able to remove and clean viruses on an infected host... but hey, at least we know they're there.
Im not sure if this is pro or con
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But the only thing 'bad' about style sheets is that you won't be able to support Netscape 4.7/4.8 anymore. Oh no! Actually, the netscape that installs with Solaris 8 and 9 gets so foobar'd by style sheets, well you have to see it to understand. But hey, it is 2004. I think we can handle them by now.
What's with the modding/modders? Is he/she really a Troll? There's nothing *wrong* with this person's opinion and they aren't disrespecting anybody.
I thought it was interesting enough of a view point to respond with the opposite view point. Thus, conversation ensues, regarding anime and fiction, here, on a Discussion Board. What's the big deal?
This is a good example of how modding can really stifle innocent discussion.
Is keeping it real the 'most' important thing? In being willing to dwell in the fantastic, one can be said to be exploring the reality of human nature.
I'm going to invoke the big one: "Neon Genesis Evangelion," and submit that sure Hideki Anno and Co. are presenting larger than life humanoid artificial life things, and man is trying to play god, but isn't that always the case? Isn't the frailty of life and the human heart the story they are trying to tell - rather than 'oh big robots! cool!'.
The first "Ghost in the Shell" was a little hard to follow seeon once, but I certainly got a lot more from it watching it again and reflecting than what you are describing above.
I would imagine the influx of U.S. capital might bring some paychecks to those who wouldn't otherwise have them, which can perhaps help them do their own thing?
Sure nothing stops people from being innovative...except maybe not having a place to live or food to eat.
I agree that CroTeam is a great example of innovation, but you should take into account that U.S. companies hiring Indians by the thousands in increasing numbers puts money into their tech sector than previously existed!
There exists I think an assumption that the tech industry in India is a legion of coders being handed work from foreign companies, grunting it out for lower wages. Do Indian techs feel that they have the opportunity now to become the producers, the designers, the ones who create businesses?
Frankafrank
I almost agree, but the problem with poor academic standards is that the degree earned by the hard-working students is depreciated in value. Which is something I think just about any comp sci undergrad has experienced.
I'll be fair. I like most of your answers. And I enjoy sharing like this.
we would have probably gone after Canada or Mexico or Saudi Arabia instead
That would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately, it would be a little more difficult to make invisible terrorist ties to Canada and Mexico. But I am actually a little surprised we didn't go after Saudi Arabia instead.
President Clinton knew about Iraq's terrorist links. According to this recently leaked memo, the CIA has been tracking an al qaeda/Iraq link for over 10 years.
That is interesting, especially considering the term 'Al Qaeda' is actually a term invented in 1998 after the Oklahoma City bombings to describe very loosely knit extremist organizations around the world. Now that we have given them an umbrella name to operate under, we have not only given their efforts focus, but allow independent groups completely unrelated to bin Laden to claim affiliation with this 'Al Qaeda' thing. It's this exaggeration which has allowed the current administration to link any terrorist group they please in Iraq back to bin Laden.
The Iraqis themselves are very optimistic about their future after Saddam. Why aren't you?
If Saddam had complied with the UN, we would know now, wouldn't we...
For some reason, I find it joyless to indirectly participate (via my tax dollars and due to the place of my birth) in the unilateral invasion of a country on anecdotal evidence. If we had given UN inspectors the time they requested instead of bullying the international community it is possible we could have resolved the situation without getting anyone killed. Is that too much to ask?
North Korea's actions have just confirmed why we have regarded them as a terrorist supporting rouge nation for years now.
Do you think it is worth putting that corner of the world in that much danger to prove that point?
Yeah- lets blame the US for everything. Many African nations are struggling with poverty- must be our fault. Theres no other explanation.
Our fault? If by that you mean imperialists then yes. This is an issue with a much longer backstory, but when you invade peoples lands and completely alter their ways of living without their consent and at the behest of the international community it tends to fuck things up. People have struggled to feed themselves in Africa since the beginning of time, perhaps. But now they have guns, tanks, armies, corruption (of course) and international debts. Desperation is the seed of corruption. Since the fall of the Taliban, many kurds have been forced into corruption - dealing opium - to survive because they are out of options. It would be a bald-faced lie to say our specific western cultural influence has not lead Africa to its current state.
If you had seen me shoot people in the past with a gun, and you had no evidence that I had got rid of my gun, then yes, you should shoot me if I threaten to kill you. That is the smart thing to do. We are not suicidal, after all
The smart thing to do would be to not hand out guns in the first place.
We are better off because a crazed dictator who is sworn enemy of the United States
Actually, we helped Saddam out quite a bit during the Iran/Iraq war in the 80's. We became his sworn enemy only when he invaded Kuwait and we realized that oil would be far cheaper in the hands of people we saved from invasion. And please don't give me that crap that we help everyone. Do you think we'd be in the middle east at all if the region's major export was corn?
with terrorist connections
Before or after we invaded Iraq? Nobody had any proof to this speculation before we invaded, but now we have created a self-fufilling prophecy. Of course terrorists are on his side now because they hate us and we invaded Iraq.
and an arsenal of weapons
Where exactly are these again? I'm curious.
a free and democratic Iraq will transform the entire region into a more stable and less hostile place.
A capitalistic Iraq will allow those who participated in the invasion to profit immensely from transforming the middle east into a "western" country. However only "western" in the sense of say, African nations in which we can lord impossible debts over their heads and force them into low wage labor.
We are better off because other crazy dictators have seen the results of Saddam's actions, and they are reacting to it (and at the same time they are proving that the Bush Doctrine works).
True. North Korea did react by announcing their intentions to blow up South Korea and Japan.
There are lots of weapons that are not accounted for. Are you really ok just waiting for them to be used before we anything about it?
If that sort of policy is acceptable, then it surely would be alright to assume you were carrying a gun, shoot you, only to find out later you didn't have one. BUT, you had the possibility of owning one. So, I had to shoot you.
As you may know (unless you're head was in a hole in the ground, like former iraqi leader), Saddam Hussein has been captured and taken to an 'undisclosed location at 9:15pm' last night according to CNN.
The presdibent is scheduled to give a speech at noon over the cable television networks and UHF, and these are my predictions for that speech:
1) "Merica, we have come a long way against the evil doo ers, but our work is NOT done."
2) "I can assure you that because of his capture, things will be radically diff'rent in I-raq, this is a new page in history for the I-rakki people. Everything is going to be okay."
3) "This is a symbol that 'Merica's War Against Terrorism is working, that we can meet our goals."
afaik, you troll someone who is off topic, posting pitcures of deranged anuses, etc. when i moderate, i try to do it with a sense of humour and keeping in mind that just because i disagree with someone's view doesn't mean they are a troll.
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There's nothing perfect about being bored at work, go with the exciting job if that's how you really feel about it.
"While splitting water to get hydrogen and oxygen is not new, this product will likely make the technology more accessible to the masses and might hopefully show that hydrogen is a more attractive fuel than petroleum-based fuels"
what fuel do you think powered that electrical service, dude? not hydrogen.
I definitely think the parent author is on to something here. I was very surprised how often Roblimo interupted Martin. There's nothing more annoying than trying to follow an answer, and have it just cut off before it's finished.
This really was a pretty rough interview to read, despite the fact that I was really interested in it.
As for the bias, it was definitely showing. I have a bias myself, but really I do want to know what the guy has to say for his company. let him answer the questions since the forum here isn't a debate but an interview.
Oh you poor baby. I feel so bad for people forced to read Slashdot who don't like it and have nothing to contribute.
It won't be that difficult for Apple to recompile their core OS to x86. They use GCC, which means you can recompile all your frameworks, and let the linker do the work.
./configure,make,make install software packages build in the darwin environment - GCC. So it's really not that far out of a proposition.
... gone!
Mac OS X Developers aren't going to see much changes as long as they are using the Frameworks provided by Apple. Even if you are coding in C and you still enjoy doing your own memory management, you still won't see much difference because the OS is compiled using GCC. Which is a cross-compiler, BTW.
There is a reason that hundreds of
The big hurdle is going to be the hardware drivers. But Apple is already pretty good with them. Plug in a Dell flat panel VGA - OS X can recognize the freakin model number. The OS is well-made - the hardware abstraction kicks the shit out of windows, which is still backwards compatible with Win95. Imagine, all that CRUFT
So lighten up a bit. It would certainly be fun.
Advertisers would more likely be interested in those who appear to be skinny because (and this isn't good science or sociology here) they clearly need more Big Macs.
Send that iBook back while it's still in the first 14 days and get yourself a powerbook, so you can avoid most of the nasty logic board and repair/replacement nightmares that take place, even for AppleCare customers (though some powerbooks also suffer from logic board problems, the iBooks have a logic board replacement program because it is so prevalent).
By alienating folks like Verga and Armes, who have been the backbone of Apple's distribution network for the past 30 years
I read that, blinked, checked my calendar, and sho' nuff, it hasn't been 30 years. It's hard to take gratuitous embellishment seriously.
You would eat them? egads, man!
That Sophos antivirus has the somewhat incredible problem of not being able to remove and clean viruses on an infected host... but hey, at least we know they're there.
But the only thing 'bad' about style sheets is that you won't be able to support Netscape 4.7/4.8 anymore. Oh no! Actually, the netscape that installs with Solaris 8 and 9 gets so foobar'd by style sheets, well you have to see it to understand. But hey, it is 2004. I think we can handle them by now.
The very first anime I was exposed to! Late night on Sci-Fi Channel. I dind't know that Shirow did that as well!
I've been hooked since. Nothing on my television to that point had been quite as awesome or ridiculous and fascinating.
What's with the modding/modders? Is he/she really a Troll? There's nothing *wrong* with this person's opinion and they aren't disrespecting anybody.
I thought it was interesting enough of a view point to respond with the opposite view point. Thus, conversation ensues, regarding anime and fiction, here, on a Discussion Board. What's the big deal?
This is a good example of how modding can really stifle innocent discussion.
Is keeping it real the 'most' important thing? In being willing to dwell in the fantastic, one can be said to be exploring the reality of human nature.
I'm going to invoke the big one: "Neon Genesis Evangelion," and submit that sure Hideki Anno and Co. are presenting larger than life humanoid artificial life things, and man is trying to play god, but isn't that always the case? Isn't the frailty of life and the human heart the story they are trying to tell - rather than 'oh big robots! cool!'.
The first "Ghost in the Shell" was a little hard to follow seeon once, but I certainly got a lot more from it watching it again and reflecting than what you are describing above.
I would imagine the influx of U.S. capital might bring some paychecks to those who wouldn't otherwise have them, which can perhaps help them do their own thing?
Sure nothing stops people from being innovative...except maybe not having a place to live or food to eat.
I agree that CroTeam is a great example of innovation, but you should take into account that U.S. companies hiring Indians by the thousands in increasing numbers puts money into their tech sector than previously existed!
Frank
There exists I think an assumption that the tech industry in India is a legion of coders being handed work from foreign companies, grunting it out for lower wages. Do Indian techs feel that they have the opportunity now to become the producers, the designers, the ones who create businesses? Frankafrank
I almost agree, but the problem with poor academic standards is that the degree earned by the hard-working students is depreciated in value. Which is something I think just about any comp sci undergrad has experienced.
It seems you can make a wirelss antenna out of a pringles can.
You know, the things you can learn from Rob Lowe in Wayne's World are truly astounding. Now I'm off to learn cantonese.
If only there were a way to measure the bubble size before you spend the money on the champagne.
That would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately, it would be a little more difficult to make invisible terrorist ties to Canada and Mexico. But I am actually a little surprised we didn't go after Saudi Arabia instead.
President Clinton knew about Iraq's terrorist links. According to this recently leaked memo, the CIA has been tracking an al qaeda/Iraq link for over 10 years.That is interesting, especially considering the term 'Al Qaeda' is actually a term invented in 1998 after the Oklahoma City bombings to describe very loosely knit extremist organizations around the world. Now that we have given them an umbrella name to operate under, we have not only given their efforts focus, but allow independent groups completely unrelated to bin Laden to claim affiliation with this 'Al Qaeda' thing. It's this exaggeration which has allowed the current administration to link any terrorist group they please in Iraq back to bin Laden.
The Iraqis themselves are very optimistic about their future after Saddam. Why aren't you? If Saddam had complied with the UN, we would know now, wouldn't we...For some reason, I find it joyless to indirectly participate (via my tax dollars and due to the place of my birth) in the unilateral invasion of a country on anecdotal evidence. If we had given UN inspectors the time they requested instead of bullying the international community it is possible we could have resolved the situation without getting anyone killed. Is that too much to ask?
North Korea's actions have just confirmed why we have regarded them as a terrorist supporting rouge nation for years now.Do you think it is worth putting that corner of the world in that much danger to prove that point?
Yeah- lets blame the US for everything. Many African nations are struggling with poverty- must be our fault. Theres no other explanation.Our fault? If by that you mean imperialists then yes. This is an issue with a much longer backstory, but when you invade peoples lands and completely alter their ways of living without their consent and at the behest of the international community it tends to fuck things up. People have struggled to feed themselves in Africa since the beginning of time, perhaps. But now they have guns, tanks, armies, corruption (of course) and international debts. Desperation is the seed of corruption. Since the fall of the Taliban, many kurds have been forced into corruption - dealing opium - to survive because they are out of options. It would be a bald-faced lie to say our specific western cultural influence has not lead Africa to its current state.
If you had seen me shoot people in the past with a gun, and you had no evidence that I had got rid of my gun, then yes, you should shoot me if I threaten to kill you. That is the smart thing to do. We are not suicidal, after allThe smart thing to do would be to not hand out guns in the first place.
Cheers, and Happy New Year
Actually, we helped Saddam out quite a bit during the Iran/Iraq war in the 80's. We became his sworn enemy only when he invaded Kuwait and we realized that oil would be far cheaper in the hands of people we saved from invasion. And please don't give me that crap that we help everyone. Do you think we'd be in the middle east at all if the region's major export was corn?
with terrorist connectionsBefore or after we invaded Iraq? Nobody had any proof to this speculation before we invaded, but now we have created a self-fufilling prophecy. Of course terrorists are on his side now because they hate us and we invaded Iraq.
and an arsenal of weaponsWhere exactly are these again? I'm curious.
a free and democratic Iraq will transform the entire region into a more stable and less hostile place.A capitalistic Iraq will allow those who participated in the invasion to profit immensely from transforming the middle east into a "western" country. However only "western" in the sense of say, African nations in which we can lord impossible debts over their heads and force them into low wage labor.
We are better off because other crazy dictators have seen the results of Saddam's actions, and they are reacting to it (and at the same time they are proving that the Bush Doctrine works).True. North Korea did react by announcing their intentions to blow up South Korea and Japan.
There are lots of weapons that are not accounted for. Are you really ok just waiting for them to be used before we anything about it?If that sort of policy is acceptable, then it surely would be alright to assume you were carrying a gun, shoot you, only to find out later you didn't have one. BUT, you had the possibility of owning one. So, I had to shoot you.
sorry about the redundant intro there, this is post of something i put in another forum ;)
As you may know (unless you're head was in a hole in the ground, like former iraqi leader), Saddam Hussein has been captured and taken to an 'undisclosed location at 9:15pm' last night according to CNN.
The presdibent is scheduled to give a speech at noon over the cable television networks and UHF, and these are my predictions for that speech:
1) "Merica, we have come a long way against the evil doo ers, but our work is NOT done."
2) "I can assure you that because of his capture, things will be radically diff'rent in I-raq, this is a new page in history for the I-rakki people. Everything is going to be okay."
3) "This is a symbol that 'Merica's War Against Terrorism is working, that we can meet our goals."
4) "Vote for me."
afaik, you troll someone who is off topic, posting pitcures of deranged anuses, etc. when i moderate, i try to do it with a sense of humour and keeping in mind that just because i disagree with someone's view doesn't mean they are a troll.