I'm still waiting for the Cocker Spaniel book. I don't care if it covers technology I'll never use. I just want an O'Reilly book with a Cocker Spaniel on the cover.
My new motto is: Don't let the modtards grind you down. I'd translate that to latin, but I don't know the latin word for "retarded moderators". Modtardi?
I suggest we come up with a new word: modtard. Are you modtarded? That was totally modtarded. Etc.
Check out the link. Ted Churchill was a very funny guy, and was an asset to any set for making the day go by more quickly. He is greatly missed.
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Thanks for the extremely educational reply. It's stuff like this that makes slashdot worthwhile. That and some of the jokes.
Some more Amiga trivia: The SFX on B5 were done by Foundation Imaging, for which they won an Emmy. Here's an interview of Ron Thorton, the founder of Foundation Imaging, on a B5 fansite.
Obviously, FI dropped use of Amiga a while ago, but they continue to use lightwave.
Oh! Just thought of another show that used the Amiga, toaster, and lightwave. Seaquest DSV! Remember that show, with Roy Scheider?
And one last bit. ..I knew a guy, not very well, that was using the Amiga's lumakeying capabilities, but I remember him complaining that it didn't have chromakeying (blue/green screen). Did this capability come later? This must have been circa 1990, because he was a neighbor in SF. I almost forgot about that.
Hmmmmm. I bet you could do that wirelessly using the vibration sensors attached to both sides of your head. I'd like to try this out, but my vibration sensors seem to be clogged. Would you hand me a Q-tip?
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OK, some of this I have heard before, but it's been awhile. Question: were patchlists anything like trap patching?
A friend of a friend got a 2500 and toaster just to get lightwave. We didn't see him for about a year after that, then when we did, he was full of crazy talk about fire and smoke effects. He's now a VP of something-or-other and a big FX house.
Anyway, he once explained why the video was so impressive on the Amiga, and I'm pretty sure I understood it at the time, but that was long long ago.
Totally OT, The Return of the Mac?
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I missed the first two installments of this slashdot story, i.e., The Fellowship of the GUI, and The Two Kernels. I can't find the links. Can anyone help me?
But, back to the point, OSX is damn good because NeXTStep was light years ahead of Windoze and System/Finder. If Steve had handled NeXT like he's learning to do at Apple, NeXT would still be around, Apple would not, and Bill Gates wouldn't be near as damn rich. IMO.
He's applying to Apple the lessons he learned at next and in his first term at Apple. I'm sure you're right, that he's still learning. And maybe others will point out how NeXTstep failed to take the world by storm, or how the company struggled, but in the end, Steve did get 400 Million for it. In purely business terms, it's hard to call that a failure. In terms of the impact on technology, Apple's purchase gave NeXTstep a rebirth, a second chance (coinciding with the Second Coming).
Damn, I should become Steve Jobs' Hagiographer. All these religious metaphors and analogies spring to mind unbidden! I guess I am a cult member. =)
It's worth mentioning that while Core Data is conceptually similar to EOF, but it shares zero code. Core Data is a brand new implementation.
It's too bad that software patents weren't allowed back then, because now NeXT could sue the pants off of Apple.
Oh, wait.
=)
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I wouldn't know. I mostly use Safari, Camino, and Firefox, in that order, and I use a plain vanilla FF. Strangely enough (or not), FF seems to be the best browser for my online banking needs. My bank doesn't allow me to transfer funds from one account to another with Safari.
Plugins aren't inherently terrible at the application level. Look at photoshop or aftereffects.
Hey, LK, are your ears burning? I mentioned you in a post today as an example of someone that I respected who had a valid reason to dislike/hold a grudge against Apple. My point was that not all anti-Apple people are trolls. =)
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I wouldn't know a registry from a hole in the ground. Sure, I've heard all about what a cluster fuck it is. The last time I used Windows enough to dick with the innards was back in the windows for workgroup days, and my personal hell back then was com ports and irqs. It didn't help that I was a noob, either.
So, I can't honestly compare windows registry to extensions. And back in the day, dicking with extensions was preferable to the sort of dicking I saw friends doing on their windows PCs. It's only since I started using OS X that I realize that I was in hell. Maybe someday another OS will come along and make me realize that OS X is hell. =)
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My first Mac was a Centris 650, which came with System 7.1p (I think it was called back then). IIRC, it blew away it's contemporary on the Windows side, Windows 3.1. I know jack shit about AmigaDOS, so I'll have to defer to your superior knowledge on that. I knew of a few people doing cool stuff with video on the Amiga, but the people I actually knew that were doing cool video stuff were using Macs, usually with cards that could cost three to five times the price of the host computer.
Still for green screen or blue screen on beta SP, this was much more cost effective than the proprietary solutions that cost a gazillion bucks.
OK, as I realized that I had strayed from the point, it occurred to me. . . I don't remember if they were using system 7 or 6 . . . some of it had to have been 6, since we're talking 1990. OK, fuck me, I think I just made your point for you. =)
One would assume such a thing would render the warranty dead and gone, though. Lots of folks seem to think the warranty is a big deal; myself, if I can buy/replace the part, warranty doesn't mean all that much.
I've actually found the Applecare extended warranty to be a godsend for my PB. The two times I've sent in my PB, not only did they fix the problem quickly, but they fixed other "little things" without my asking. (Bent titanium corner -- my fault -- one time, new keyboard another time because the f11 key had a blemish from a cigarette burn. The estimate I got from a Mac repair place was $400 to fix.)
However, I didn't buy nor need Applecare on my Desktop during it's first three years. And when a part failed, I was able to order the part through a local Mac specialist and fix it myself. I'm not sure what I'd do if I were buying an iMac or a Mac mini.
I don't know what I love more, the way you can be so cruel, or the way you hold me afterwards, as I sob softly into your shoulder.
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If Macs float your boat then more power to you but realize that for some of us Macs just make us cringe.
A good part of that is what you are most used to, you're more comfortable with and more efficient on. Now, if you'll just have a sip of this koolaid, and step on this nice bus that will take you to the Apple re-education center. . .
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Driver? I don't even know her!
~~rimshot~~
. . . Isn't that there isn't a need, but that they weren't pushing the hookers and booze angle.
Having an 'advanced user' preference pane to offer finer-grained control of things is nice, but it shouldn't be necessary for normals.
I've heard that OS X has had an 'advanced user' preference pane called Terminal for quite a while now. =)
I'm still waiting for the Cocker Spaniel book. I don't care if it covers technology I'll never use. I just want an O'Reilly book with a Cocker Spaniel on the cover.
No, he waited to avoid extra work. Haven't you heard? Laziness is next to godliness (at least in my book).
I guess you haven't heard. 10.3 Panther is snappier!!
And who doesn't like a snapping pussy?
My new motto is: Don't let the modtards grind you down. I'd translate that to latin, but I don't know the latin word for "retarded moderators". Modtardi?
I suggest we come up with a new word: modtard. Are you modtarded? That was totally modtarded. Etc.
Check out the link. Ted Churchill was a very funny guy, and was an asset to any set for making the day go by more quickly. He is greatly missed.
Thanks for the extremely educational reply. It's stuff like this that makes slashdot worthwhile. That and some of the jokes.
.I knew a guy, not very well, that was using the Amiga's lumakeying capabilities, but I remember him complaining that it didn't have chromakeying (blue/green screen). Did this capability come later? This must have been circa 1990, because he was a neighbor in SF. I almost forgot about that.
Some more Amiga trivia: The SFX on B5 were done by Foundation Imaging, for which they won an Emmy. Here's an interview of Ron Thorton, the founder of Foundation Imaging, on a B5 fansite.
Obviously, FI dropped use of Amiga a while ago, but they continue to use lightwave.
Oh! Just thought of another show that used the Amiga, toaster, and lightwave. Seaquest DSV! Remember that show, with Roy Scheider?
And one last bit. .
A car with a built in Theremin would be totally awesome.
You've inadvertently uncovered the military application of this technology, i.e., a shaped charge.
=)*
* Smiley for purposes of clueing in mods that it's a joke.
Hmmmmm. I bet you could do that wirelessly using the vibration sensors attached to both sides of your head. I'd like to try this out, but my vibration sensors seem to be clogged. Would you hand me a Q-tip?
OK, some of this I have heard before, but it's been awhile. Question: were patchlists anything like trap patching?
A friend of a friend got a 2500 and toaster just to get lightwave. We didn't see him for about a year after that, then when we did, he was full of crazy talk about fire and smoke effects. He's now a VP of something-or-other and a big FX house.
Anyway, he once explained why the video was so impressive on the Amiga, and I'm pretty sure I understood it at the time, but that was long long ago.
I missed the first two installments of this slashdot story, i.e., The Fellowship of the GUI, and The Two Kernels. I can't find the links. Can anyone help me?
But, back to the point, OSX is damn good because NeXTStep was light years ahead of Windoze and System/Finder. If Steve had handled NeXT like he's learning to do at Apple, NeXT would still be around, Apple would not, and Bill Gates wouldn't be near as damn rich. IMO.
He's applying to Apple the lessons he learned at next and in his first term at Apple. I'm sure you're right, that he's still learning. And maybe others will point out how NeXTstep failed to take the world by storm, or how the company struggled, but in the end, Steve did get 400 Million for it. In purely business terms, it's hard to call that a failure. In terms of the impact on technology, Apple's purchase gave NeXTstep a rebirth, a second chance (coinciding with the Second Coming).
Damn, I should become Steve Jobs' Hagiographer. All these religious metaphors and analogies spring to mind unbidden! I guess I am a cult member. =)
The one company that might have pulled this off just sold their PC hardware division.
Can you suggest any other candidates?
It's worth mentioning that while Core Data is conceptually similar to EOF, but it shares zero code. Core Data is a brand new implementation.
It's too bad that software patents weren't allowed back then, because now NeXT could sue the pants off of Apple.
Oh, wait.
=)
I wouldn't know. I mostly use Safari, Camino, and Firefox, in that order, and I use a plain vanilla FF. Strangely enough (or not), FF seems to be the best browser for my online banking needs. My bank doesn't allow me to transfer funds from one account to another with Safari.
Plugins aren't inherently terrible at the application level. Look at photoshop or aftereffects.
Hey, LK, are your ears burning? I mentioned you in a post today as an example of someone that I respected who had a valid reason to dislike/hold a grudge against Apple. My point was that not all anti-Apple people are trolls. =)
I wouldn't know a registry from a hole in the ground. Sure, I've heard all about what a cluster fuck it is. The last time I used Windows enough to dick with the innards was back in the windows for workgroup days, and my personal hell back then was com ports and irqs. It didn't help that I was a noob, either.
So, I can't honestly compare windows registry to extensions. And back in the day, dicking with extensions was preferable to the sort of dicking I saw friends doing on their windows PCs. It's only since I started using OS X that I realize that I was in hell. Maybe someday another OS will come along and make me realize that OS X is hell. =)
My first Mac was a Centris 650, which came with System 7.1p (I think it was called back then). IIRC, it blew away it's contemporary on the Windows side, Windows 3.1. I know jack shit about AmigaDOS, so I'll have to defer to your superior knowledge on that. I knew of a few people doing cool stuff with video on the Amiga, but the people I actually knew that were doing cool video stuff were using Macs, usually with cards that could cost three to five times the price of the host computer.
Still for green screen or blue screen on beta SP, this was much more cost effective than the proprietary solutions that cost a gazillion bucks.
OK, as I realized that I had strayed from the point, it occurred to me. . . I don't remember if they were using system 7 or 6 . . . some of it had to have been 6, since we're talking 1990. OK, fuck me, I think I just made your point for you. =)
One would assume such a thing would render the warranty dead and gone, though. Lots of folks seem to think the warranty is a big deal; myself, if I can buy/replace the part, warranty doesn't mean all that much.
I've actually found the Applecare extended warranty to be a godsend for my PB. The two times I've sent in my PB, not only did they fix the problem quickly, but they fixed other "little things" without my asking. (Bent titanium corner -- my fault -- one time, new keyboard another time because the f11 key had a blemish from a cigarette burn. The estimate I got from a Mac repair place was $400 to fix.)
However, I didn't buy nor need Applecare on my Desktop during it's first three years. And when a part failed, I was able to order the part through a local Mac specialist and fix it myself. I'm not sure what I'd do if I were buying an iMac or a Mac mini.
Also, the Scion crowd, the Mini Cooper* crowd, the Nissan Z crowd, the Miata crowd, the Audi crowd, the VW crowd, etc. etc.
Hell, I even hear that the Nash Rambler crowd has been adopting the Mac!
I myself own a Ford Ranger, but I haven't found a crowd for it yet.
* Owned by BMW, and a no brainer for obvious reasons.
I don't know what I love more, the way you can be so cruel, or the way you hold me afterwards, as I sob softly into your shoulder.
If Macs float your boat then more power to you but realize that for some of us Macs just make us cringe.
A good part of that is what you are most used to, you're more comfortable with and more efficient on. Now, if you'll just have a sip of this koolaid, and step on this nice bus that will take you to the Apple re-education center. . .