I know they still make a compiler/IDE for mac and windows development, and they used to be THE solution for classic mac apps.
I know that XCode is free and quality, but from what I remember of using CodeWarrior it seemed much more advanced from an IDE standpoint. Of course, that was years ago as a novice programmer.
Still, if you're expecting something to replace VS.NET (which is what, a $500 product) CodeWarrior is definitely comparable.
Anyone with a little more knowledge on this want to chip in?
And I'll trust a sub-$500 system no farther than I can kick.
*I* can build something for myself for that much, and have it be a nice-rock solid system. This means I do not expect some random company, no matter what their vendor discount, to be able to do so and make a profit on it.
The only component in those budget systems that isn't crap is the processor, and that's because there are only really two processor vendors. Cheap mobo, awful ram, maxtor "I lose data after six months" hd, etc, etc.
The return rates on low-end PC's for part failure at Best Buy are atrocious.
Would I prefer that apple's songs be completely restriction-free? Yes, no, I would.
Have I ever actually wanted to do something to one of my few iTMS songs that they wouldn't let me.
No, no, I haven't.
Therefore, I feel no real need to complain about them when there are so many other systems that actually *do* conflict with what I want to do.
If someone offers up something that has the song I happen to be looking for and fewer restrictions than apple, well, good for them, I might buy it. If it isn't annoying to use, at least.
It has nothing to do with idealism or fanboy-ism, just the simple fact that IMO a corporation can claim whatever restrictions they want on their product as long as I didn't want to do what they're restricting. If car companies said "no driving on the moon" I wouldn't really care, now would I?
Although I agree with you about the quality and longevity of Apple's hardware (my dad still runs a G4 400 with an upgraded HDD as a recording studio and sees no need for a new system), nothing says you need a new windows system, either.
I'm stuck on a Celeron 700 at work. Nothing CLOSE to my preferred dev environment, I assue you. However, for the test scripts they've got me writing in vbscript, I never have any speed issues. It serves its purpose perfectly well.
The truth of old hardware is that if properly maintained it will be exactly as good as it was when you bought it.
One of the most responsible young boys I've ever met taught me how to throw a tomahawk and went shooting with me. He was I think 8 at the time.
Teaching a kid responsibility and not allowing them to go unsupervised is what's important. I know my parents would let me watch/play things when they were around that they would never have approved of my seeing without them.
PS Yes, the little kid was from Kentucky. He also hasn't grown up to shoot himself or anyone else.
The overwhelming majority of p2p network use is unquestionably illegal in the USA, and the overwhelming majority of p2p users are unquestioningly violating the law.
The overwhelming majority of p2p users are a very, very large percentage of the total population of the united states. Probably almost everyone between the ages of 10 and 30 has done it at least once? At least it is similar to the number of people who have broadband. When that much of our population is doing something illegal, and doesn't consider it to be wrong, my question is... why is it still it illegal?
I'd like to see them actually sue every single person who has ever pirated a song for the full damages. See how well the court system does when tens of millions of otherwise lawful citizens are suddenly declared criminals.
But they know they can't win that battle, so they pick a few people to scare away the rest. If every p2p user voted as a block I have a feeling we might actually get somewhere. But then, when has any group of people under 30 managed to keep a movement together long enough to actually manage anything useful.
I've had it stop blinking, apparently finished, and then start again right when I go to put my hand on the thing. I'd honestly rather not have to think about it. I can also count a few times where it's an automatic eject-the-disk-without thinking thing. I've always managed to catch myself, but I've seen quite a few people who knew better lose data that way.
I mean, the computer KNOWS when it's done, I'm just guessing from a stupid light.
It's more like having a car that explodes if you hit the gas when a little light on your dash is blinking. A light that is both hard to see and intermittent.
Or you could just right-click on the drive itself and tell it to eject. That honestly makes more sense to me than pressing buttons on the front of my tower.
As for floppies, *I* haven't seen a floppy with a smart eject system on any PC I've used. They're all simple, stupid physical released buttons. I'd much rather have my system eject it when it's done working than have to sit and watch the LED on the drive to make sure it's done before I hit eject.
I honestly think it's more that part of being a "guy" is individuality, whereas it *isn't* in the standard definitions of a girl.
In some severe studies where a child showed very transgender attititudes (tom-girls and girly-boys) the girls were shown to be MUCH more receptive to the treatments.
The researchers postulated that what you're trying to shove down a girl's throat includes "being nice to others, care what others think of you, etc." What's being shoved down a guy's throat to make him more manly is that he needs to be an individual. It ends up being counterproductive.
And so you end up with isolated nerdy guys who develop a pride in their nerdity. Even if they aren't encouraged to be nerdy, they're encouraged to be individuals. Girls really aren't.
As for guys in IT not accepting girls, I have never in *my* experience seen guys railing on girls because they were girls. They'll pick on them because they might be incompetent, but they do that to the guys just as hard, probably worse.
Is someone steals my CD, I have to convince the police its worth prosecuting, and they get due process and a court-appointed lawyer and whatnot.
If a random corp decides to sue me for "stealing" a CD's worth of music, there's no way I can actually afford to go to court, and so they get an instant $2k off me, whether I was guilty of the crime or not.
When the mafia does that they call it racketeering. I'm just waiting for someone to get that actually decided on in court.
There's also the issue that almost no one runs anti-virus on OS X. Why would they? Its like paying for cloud insurance.
So you make a worm that can hit OS X, no one's going to have any warning that they're system is infected. You could have quite a little zombie net, or steal a few passwords, before most people are even aware.
Note that they used OS X Jaguar, which is a whole point release behind the current Panther, which is itself going to be outdated within a couple months.
I've seen speeds as low as 1/2 that of firewire 400 in reviews of USB 2.0 hard drives and such.
I've heard that a lot of it depends on what devices you plug into USB. If my understanding's right, if you plug a mouse and a hard drive into the same usb, they each get half of the bandwidth all the time, whereas two firewire drives will share it more intelligently.
There is apparently a lot of overhead in firewire because it ensures that things will be delivered on time. Its part of what makes it good for video transfer. From what I've read, even with that it still out-performs USB 2.0 in most cases by quite a bit.
Of course, as others have noted, the hard drive on the iPod maxes out quite a while before the bus does.
What's fun is when teachers don't really think out projects entirely.
My high school tech teacher let us make an iMovie remake of the Matrix. This included watching the original Matrix (a rated R movie) in class, and then walking down the halls of the elementary school with black trench-coats, dark sunglasses and water pistols.
We got it completely finished before she realized what the school board might think of it and wouldn't let us show it to anyone.
Software for a school lab installation's pretty similar to what you'd want in a normal business.
I used to help admin a high school windows lab, and let me say this:
1) Most edutainment software, while entertaining, is really kind of a silly use for the systems. The only place it really helps is to get little kids used to using a mouse.
2) You almost never find specialty software useful after elementary school.
A good high school workstation needs:
1) A web browser - Firefox or Konqueror 2) An office suite - OpenOffice.org 3) A graphics editor - The Gimp 4) A code editor - Take your pick. I'd say something a bit easier to use for a beginning coder/HTML writer, though
Moreover, there should be a few systems in the school with 1) A dv movie editor - no idea on linux 2) An audio editor - ditto 3) Science tools for conducting lab experiments
If someone else wants to fill in those gaps, go ahead.
These obviously go where you'd need that specialization.
That's about it. What's *more* important for a lab is a system to deal with the fact that KIDS LIKE TO MESS WITH COMPUTERS.
They will change the desktop, delete important files, install crap, put keyloggers on just to play around, etc, etc.
There are a few ways to fix this: 1) Use restricted users or special software to keep them from doing any of it. 2) Have a script to re-image the machine every night.
I strongly recommend a combination of the two, leaning toward the second one. It works a lot better, and doesn't constantly annoy the students either.
I'll leave it to the linux gurus to suggest how you actually do this in linux, but I know that it can be done reasonably, and that these are the most important aspects of a high school computer lab. I think that any install recommended for this purpose doesn't need to show any flashy about linux, or how the students can compile their own kernels (although that is fun), but how it can set up an easy to use and maintainable lab much cheaper and simpler than doing the same thing in windows.
Especially push the "no MS Audits" thing. We used to waste *SO* much time worrying about those. According to my teacher, if we got caught with one unlicensed copy of anything on a system, they were legally allowed to confiscate the entire lab (although I was never entirely clear on who "they" were). Not having to keep track of MS serials sounds like plenty of reason for a switch to me, especially since you never use any of the special capabilities of Word or excel in high school that make OpenOffice migration difficult in the business world.
Those who use only windows at home and at school learn just that, how to use windows.
Force them them to use something else, and they no longer just know how to use windows, but how to use a *computer*.
I've heard it said that the best way to learn how to learn language is to learn many of them. This is why we teach spanish, or why a good CS program should involve several different programming languages.
The concepts for using any OS are the same, and that's what should be taught in school, not exactly where to find what button in Word. You wouldn't say that kids should skip reading Shakespeare because every newspaper in the country is a 100% modern English shop, would you?
You aren't required to press charges. However, if the police ask you for information on the crime, you'd be held in contempt for refusing to answer if the charges don't incriminate you.
The reporter cannot and should not be punished for reporting what he found out. He is completely protected under freedom of the press. And, look, that isn't what's happening. He isn't being sued for publishing the material at all.
However, whoever gave him this information broke the law. That makes the reporter a potential witness, who should have to give his knowledge. If you see someone rob a store, you're obligated to say that you saw them rob a store, whether you want to or not.
If you want to break contract, fine, that's your decision and the press can report on it all they want. However, nothing in the constitution says you get to be free from the consequences of your actions, or that anyone else has the right to hide you from the law.
I don't see what the problem is. If you disagree with a law, break it all you want, but that doesn't exempt you from the consequences of doing so, even if you consider yourself to be in the right. That's the part of civil disobedience everyone seems to forget.
My uncle just got his published by Publish America. I wonder if I should tell him, he's pretty excited about it. I don't *think* his book was too bad (it was fantasy).
Of course, I think he's found another publisher for the rest of the series, so maybe I shouldn't be *too* worried.
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I know they still make a compiler/IDE for mac and windows development, and they used to be THE solution for classic mac apps.
I know that XCode is free and quality, but from what I remember of using CodeWarrior it seemed much more advanced from an IDE standpoint. Of course, that was years ago as a novice programmer.
Still, if you're expecting something to replace VS.NET (which is what, a $500 product) CodeWarrior is definitely comparable.
Anyone with a little more knowledge on this want to chip in?
And I'll trust a sub-$500 system no farther than I can kick.
*I* can build something for myself for that much, and have it be a nice-rock solid system. This means I do not expect some random company, no matter what their vendor discount, to be able to do so and make a profit on it.
The only component in those budget systems that isn't crap is the processor, and that's because there are only really two processor vendors. Cheap mobo, awful ram, maxtor "I lose data after six months" hd, etc, etc.
The return rates on low-end PC's for part failure at Best Buy are atrocious.
A good point. But then, how can you have the permission requirement without a method of enforcement - a mandatory passport.
Would I prefer that apple's songs be completely restriction-free? Yes, no, I would.
Have I ever actually wanted to do something to one of my few iTMS songs that they wouldn't let me.
No, no, I haven't.
Therefore, I feel no real need to complain about them when there are so many other systems that actually *do* conflict with what I want to do.
If someone offers up something that has the song I happen to be looking for and fewer restrictions than apple, well, good for them, I might buy it. If it isn't annoying to use, at least.
It has nothing to do with idealism or fanboy-ism, just the simple fact that IMO a corporation can claim whatever restrictions they want on their product as long as I didn't want to do what they're restricting. If car companies said "no driving on the moon" I wouldn't really care, now would I?
Although I agree with you about the quality and longevity of Apple's hardware (my dad still runs a G4 400 with an upgraded HDD as a recording studio and sees no need for a new system), nothing says you need a new windows system, either.
I'm stuck on a Celeron 700 at work. Nothing CLOSE to my preferred dev environment, I assue you. However, for the test scripts they've got me writing in vbscript, I never have any speed issues. It serves its purpose perfectly well.
The truth of old hardware is that if properly maintained it will be exactly as good as it was when you bought it.
Agreed.
One of the most responsible young boys I've ever met taught me how to throw a tomahawk and went shooting with me. He was I think 8 at the time.
Teaching a kid responsibility and not allowing them to go unsupervised is what's important. I know my parents would let me watch/play things when they were around that they would never have approved of my seeing without them.
PS Yes, the little kid was from Kentucky. He also hasn't grown up to shoot himself or anyone else.
The overwhelming majority of p2p users are a very, very large percentage of the total population of the united states. Probably almost everyone between the ages of 10 and 30 has done it at least once? At least it is similar to the number of people who have broadband. When that much of our population is doing something illegal, and doesn't consider it to be wrong, my question is... why is it still it illegal?
I'd like to see them actually sue every single person who has ever pirated a song for the full damages. See how well the court system does when tens of millions of otherwise lawful citizens are suddenly declared criminals.
But they know they can't win that battle, so they pick a few people to scare away the rest. If every p2p user voted as a block I have a feeling we might actually get somewhere. But then, when has any group of people under 30 managed to keep a movement together long enough to actually manage anything useful.
I think it might just be the way the computer is under my desk, half the time if I hit a manual eject the cd-tray bumps my fingers and closes again.
I've seen smarter eject systems on more "modern" floppy equivalents, but that's never been the standard floppy that people are making comparisons to.
Yes, hence the reference to the blinky light.
I've had it stop blinking, apparently finished, and then start again right when I go to put my hand on the thing. I'd honestly rather not have to think about it. I can also count a few times where it's an automatic eject-the-disk-without thinking thing. I've always managed to catch myself, but I've seen quite a few people who knew better lose data that way.
I mean, the computer KNOWS when it's done, I'm just guessing from a stupid light.
Har har, who actually uses the default mouse that came with their machine, pc or mac?
And control click is nice and handy, I've been using that since it was introduced in system 8.
It's more like having a car that explodes if you hit the gas when a little light on your dash is blinking. A light that is both hard to see and intermittent.
Or you could just right-click on the drive itself and tell it to eject. That honestly makes more sense to me than pressing buttons on the front of my tower.
As for floppies, *I* haven't seen a floppy with a smart eject system on any PC I've used. They're all simple, stupid physical released buttons. I'd much rather have my system eject it when it's done working than have to sit and watch the LED on the drive to make sure it's done before I hit eject.
I honestly think it's more that part of being a "guy" is individuality, whereas it *isn't* in the standard definitions of a girl.
In some severe studies where a child showed very transgender attititudes (tom-girls and girly-boys) the girls were shown to be MUCH more receptive to the treatments.
The researchers postulated that what you're trying to shove down a girl's throat includes "being nice to others, care what others think of you, etc." What's being shoved down a guy's throat to make him more manly is that he needs to be an individual. It ends up being counterproductive.
And so you end up with isolated nerdy guys who develop a pride in their nerdity. Even if they aren't encouraged to be nerdy, they're encouraged to be individuals. Girls really aren't.
As for guys in IT not accepting girls, I have never in *my* experience seen guys railing on girls because they were girls. They'll pick on them because they might be incompetent, but they do that to the guys just as hard, probably worse.
Has anyone taken these actual cases all the way?
I realize that copyright has been tested, I'm just curious what most judges would actually rule when they sue a college student for $4 billion.
Mostly, it'd be nice to see some legislative reform, but that's never going to happen.
Is someone steals my CD, I have to convince the police its worth prosecuting, and they get due process and a court-appointed lawyer and whatnot.
If a random corp decides to sue me for "stealing" a CD's worth of music, there's no way I can actually afford to go to court, and so they get an instant $2k off me, whether I was guilty of the crime or not.
When the mafia does that they call it racketeering. I'm just waiting for someone to get that actually decided on in court.
There's also the issue that almost no one runs anti-virus on OS X. Why would they? Its like paying for cloud insurance.
So you make a worm that can hit OS X, no one's going to have any warning that they're system is infected. You could have quite a little zombie net, or steal a few passwords, before most people are even aware.
Note that they used OS X Jaguar, which is a whole point release behind the current Panther, which is itself going to be outdated within a couple months.
I've seen speeds as low as 1/2 that of firewire 400 in reviews of USB 2.0 hard drives and such.
I've heard that a lot of it depends on what devices you plug into USB. If my understanding's right, if you plug a mouse and a hard drive into the same usb, they each get half of the bandwidth all the time, whereas two firewire drives will share it more intelligently.
There is apparently a lot of overhead in firewire because it ensures that things will be delivered on time. Its part of what makes it good for video transfer. From what I've read, even with that it still out-performs USB 2.0 in most cases by quite a bit.
Of course, as others have noted, the hard drive on the iPod maxes out quite a while before the bus does.
What's fun is when teachers don't really think out projects entirely.
My high school tech teacher let us make an iMovie remake of the Matrix. This included watching the original Matrix (a rated R movie) in class, and then walking down the halls of the elementary school with black trench-coats, dark sunglasses and water pistols.
We got it completely finished before she realized what the school board might think of it and wouldn't let us show it to anyone.
Software for a school lab installation's pretty similar to what you'd want in a normal business.
I used to help admin a high school windows lab, and let me say this:
1) Most edutainment software, while entertaining, is really kind of a silly use for the systems. The only place it really helps is to get little kids used to using a mouse.
2) You almost never find specialty software useful after elementary school.
A good high school workstation needs:
1) A web browser - Firefox or Konqueror
2) An office suite - OpenOffice.org
3) A graphics editor - The Gimp
4) A code editor - Take your pick. I'd say something a bit easier to use for a beginning coder/HTML writer, though
Moreover, there should be a few systems in the school with
1) A dv movie editor - no idea on linux
2) An audio editor - ditto
3) Science tools for conducting lab experiments
If someone else wants to fill in those gaps, go ahead.
These obviously go where you'd need that specialization.
That's about it. What's *more* important for a lab is a system to deal with the fact that KIDS LIKE TO MESS WITH COMPUTERS.
They will change the desktop, delete important files, install crap, put keyloggers on just to play around, etc, etc.
There are a few ways to fix this:
1) Use restricted users or special software to keep them from doing any of it.
2) Have a script to re-image the machine every night.
I strongly recommend a combination of the two, leaning toward the second one. It works a lot better, and doesn't constantly annoy the students either.
I'll leave it to the linux gurus to suggest how you actually do this in linux, but I know that it can be done reasonably, and that these are the most important aspects of a high school computer lab. I think that any install recommended for this purpose doesn't need to show any flashy about linux, or how the students can compile their own kernels (although that is fun), but how it can set up an easy to use and maintainable lab much cheaper and simpler than doing the same thing in windows.
Especially push the "no MS Audits" thing. We used to waste *SO* much time worrying about those. According to my teacher, if we got caught with one unlicensed copy of anything on a system, they were legally allowed to confiscate the entire lab (although I was never entirely clear on who "they" were). Not having to keep track of MS serials sounds like plenty of reason for a switch to me, especially since you never use any of the special capabilities of Word or excel in high school that make OpenOffice migration difficult in the business world.
Those who use only windows at home and at school learn just that, how to use windows.
Force them them to use something else, and they no longer just know how to use windows, but how to use a *computer*.
I've heard it said that the best way to learn how to learn language is to learn many of them. This is why we teach spanish, or why a good CS program should involve several different programming languages.
The concepts for using any OS are the same, and that's what should be taught in school, not exactly where to find what button in Word. You wouldn't say that kids should skip reading Shakespeare because every newspaper in the country is a 100% modern English shop, would you?
I'd say to look into MMORPG's and see which one best supports voicechat or text to speech.
Most of the interface is mouse-driven, and they're at least generally somewhat turn-based, so you shouldn't have too much problems with twitch.
Especially if you got into more of the role-playing ones, you can have a ton of gaming just by talking into dragonspeak.
You aren't required to press charges. However, if the police ask you for information on the crime, you'd be held in contempt for refusing to answer if the charges don't incriminate you.
Under our law, this seems pretty simple.
The reporter cannot and should not be punished for reporting what he found out. He is completely protected under freedom of the press. And, look, that isn't what's happening. He isn't being sued for publishing the material at all.
However, whoever gave him this information broke the law. That makes the reporter a potential witness, who should have to give his knowledge. If you see someone rob a store, you're obligated to say that you saw them rob a store, whether you want to or not.
If you want to break contract, fine, that's your decision and the press can report on it all they want. However, nothing in the constitution says you get to be free from the consequences of your actions, or that anyone else has the right to hide you from the law.
I don't see what the problem is. If you disagree with a law, break it all you want, but that doesn't exempt you from the consequences of doing so, even if you consider yourself to be in the right. That's the part of civil disobedience everyone seems to forget.
My uncle just got his published by Publish America. I wonder if I should tell him, he's pretty excited about it. I don't *think* his book was too bad (it was fantasy).
Of course, I think he's found another publisher for the rest of the series, so maybe I shouldn't be *too* worried.