Now that Apple have introduced multi-button support in their OS, we can use them.
Did someone recently uncomment the mod_troll line in your httpd.conf file? =P (Support for multi button mice is not recent. I'm not sure but, but I think it's been around at least ten years. Come on, man! Are we going to get the kottke troll next?)
However, your point about the PB lacking a second button is valid. Until Apple rectifies this (if they ever do), I suggest looking at Sidetrack, a utility/pref pane that will give you the functionality that you desire.
Jason Kottke has a great post on the big-picture trajectory of Google's technical efforts . ..
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Google fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Firefox for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to search for some pr0n that I haven't already looked at. 20 minutes. At home, using MSN Search (Beta) and Internet Explorer, which by all standards should be a lot slower than Google, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
That whooshing sound either means you're being dive bombed by jet fighters or something else flew over your head.
I think what might have confused you is that Urusai started with a tenable and supportable position, that the right-wing conservatives aren't engaging in debate and aren't willing to compromise, and will steamroll anything in their path to get their way, using any means necessary.
Obviously, the sarcasm is in suggesting that WE use any means necessary to counteract this threat to our freedom from the right wing whackos.
So, maybe there wasn't really a whooshing sound, because I think you got it. You just aren't twisted enough to know that you got it.
And what an interesting publisher! Tyndale House Publishers publishes books with a Christian Fundamentalist agenda. Their most popular books are the Left Behind series, which describe the trials of living on earth Post-Rapture.
And I think you understate the problem. He doesn't refuse to participate in anything resembling a dialogue, he actively and intentionally sabotages any and all attempts.
I think the reviews, while often childish (and funny), are akin to posting "Rabid Dog" signs outside of a yard to warn passersby.
There's a Joni Mitchel quote that I'll have to paraphrase. "Back in the sixties, record execs were just as conniving and greedy as they are today. The difference is that they actually liked music back then."
So you're saying that you can hack the Darwin kernel source, compile it, and then install Aqua on top of it? That's news to me. (Your link didn't work, by the way.)
If you're referring to writing kernel extensions, then you are technically correct, and I didn't express myself well.
I think you hit the nail on the head. There are degrees of "tinkerability". What this project is calling for is a very deep level (should the user choose to go there) of tinkerability. And there are important reasons to have this option in developing nations.
Perhaps the most important reasons have to do with developing economies and technical infrastructure/resources. If 1% of the kids become interested enough to tinker and develop programming and other related skills, this would be a huge boost to their local economies.
I think Steve made a nice gesture, but OS X doesn't meet the needs of this project, being proprietary software. It meets my needs just fine, but I don't expect it to meet everyone's needs. And although one can go fairly deep into OS X, you'll still hit a wall after a point. For example, I cannot modify the kernel (if I were so inclined). I can't customize Darwin, then install Aqua on top of that.
Here's a better link to the actual project, not Rael's personal blog: Bloxsom
And, last time I checked, Bloxsom was written in Perl, not PHP, although there is a PHP implementation (IIRC).
One nice feature of Bloxsom is that it doesn't use a database back end. It uses the directory structure, and blog entries are merely text files placed in the appropriate directory (or folder, if you're using the Mac paradigm). The top line of the text file is the headline, all that follows is the entry.
Another nice thing about bloxsom is that while a base installation is very simple and barebones, it has a plug-in architecture, making it very customizable and extensible.
All in all, bloxsom is great for someone like me with just a little technical proficiency. I've set it up several times and played with it, but I never kept up with updating. I just don't have a need to share my every thought and experience with the world and I'm lazy.
However, I'm setting something up for a company with which I'm associated, and I'm considering using it for their News section. We might be setting up an OS X server, so we might even use blojsom, the Java port of bloxsom.
It's deja vu all over again. I am absolutely certain this is a dupe, but since it's such an old dupe, let's go easy on scuttlebutt. I mean, if a slashdot user can't find the original article, how can we expect an editor to find it? I don't think they even know that there is a search function here.
Oh, did you try searching for Roland Pippilongstocking stories? This seems like a Roland type story.
If it makes you feel any better, you probably did the smart thing buying the powerbook now when you need it, instead of waiting for the intels. The transition to intel is going to be a BIG transition, and you (and I*) will probably be much better off waiting for the second iteration of intel powerbooks.
*(My 12" PB just came in from Apple. I'm going in to work to pick it up today!)
Sounds like you gave it an honest shot and it just wasn't for you. Sure, you could try and tweak it with various methods and 3rd party applications, but by that point you're starting to do what you've already done on your favored linux distro. I don't think such tweaks would make you happy with OS X (although they do make some OS X users even happier).
As afar as that last of the PPC powerbooks goes, wait until the day the intel based powerbooks are out, and then start cruising the Apple Store special deals section on a daily basis or keep your eye on sites like dealmac.
[OK, my brothers, I have him distracted. Get the tar and feathers ready!]
It's not that crazy an assumption, at least not as crazy as you think.
If sales had remained the same, one might figure that this was the base of Mac users upgrading to new machines as needed.
However, Apple has experienced explosive growth in sales, and these customers have to be coming from someplace, i.e., it's not just previous Mac users buying a second or third machine. And that "some place" is either Windows or the shrinking pool of first time computer users. As most people that can afford to buy a computer already have one, I don't think this later group is important for sales growth, at least not the sales growth under discussion here. It's not statistically significant, nor is the number of people switching from a linux distro (or other *nix) to Mac.
I don't think the assumption is that big a stretch. Apple must be carving their sales growth out of somewhere. Is it that far fetched to assume they're carving it out of the Windows market?
But I fear that Apple is growing a group of computer idiots for users.
My how times have changed! I was once told by an employer that "Macs were for stupid people". (circa 1990)
And over the years, how many times have I heard that Macs were for "creative types", for graphics, and for idiots?
Thank you, OS X. We appear to have shed that stereotype. However, a core constituency of Macintosh has always been "a group of computer idiots", i.e., people who do not have the inclination, patience, skills, time, or smarts to figure out the intricacies. How and why these Mac users (non switchers) are different from your typical windows user is left as an exercise for the reader.*
Hah! We're giving away virtual holidays to any qualified person who is willing to listen to a short 30 minute presentation on virtual condo time sharing. We offer both PK and non-PK condo developments..
It bears mentioning that SCO has engaged in a delay strategy, although for what purpose other than to put off the inevitable it is not clear. As some have theorized, the longer they can avoid the unavoidable, the more opportunities there will be for stock manipulation.
At any rate, the court cannot dismiss these delays out of hand; without sound reasons for denying a delaying motion, the court opens itself up to appeals. Judges don't like to have their decisions reversed on appeal. It screws with their experience points or something. However, judges do have their limits, and SCO seems to have reached Judge Kimball's limit.
So all things considered, Doktor Memory is right. This case is proceeding at a reasonable pace.
That's pretty rich. I can't tell how far to the kookybiscuit right you must be if you think I (a moderate republican) am a communist. However, you have piqued my curiosity. Are you pro or anti-Hitler?
It is fruitless to argue with you, because you are a zealot. You will never change your mind, nor will you change the subject. My withdrawal from the argument is more akin to hiding when the Jehovah's Witnesses ring the doorbell.
If you wish to rehash the argument over copyrights ad nauseam , go find a willing victim. Your boorish attempts to kick an argument from me are bootless.
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Has anyone seen an actual link to the contest itself?
I've dug around the mozilla.org site, but all I found was this Stay Tuned! blog entry.
Now that Apple have introduced multi-button support in their OS, we can use them.
Did someone recently uncomment the mod_troll line in your httpd.conf file? =P (Support for multi button mice is not recent. I'm not sure but, but I think it's been around at least ten years. Come on, man! Are we going to get the kottke troll next?)
However, your point about the PB lacking a second button is valid. Until Apple rectifies this (if they ever do), I suggest looking at Sidetrack, a utility/pref pane that will give you the functionality that you desire.
Who is the wiseguy that uncommented this guy's mod_idiot line in his httpd.conf?
Waitaminnit! You're geeky enough to go on about your internal (apartment) network's stability, but you don't know about wall paper?
Yeah, Boy! Wireless 2/0!
Oh, wait. That's an oxymoron.
Or to coin a phrase, bastandardizations.
From the OP:
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Jason Kottke has a great post on the big-picture trajectory of Google's technical efforts . .
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Google fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Firefox for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to search for some pr0n that I haven't already looked at. 20 minutes. At home, using MSN Search (Beta) and Internet Explorer, which by all standards should be a lot slower than Google, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
Uh, the 21st Century called. It wants its cellphones and wireless laptops back.
That whooshing sound either means you're being dive bombed by jet fighters or something else flew over your head.
I think what might have confused you is that Urusai started with a tenable and supportable position, that the right-wing conservatives aren't engaging in debate and aren't willing to compromise, and will steamroll anything in their path to get their way, using any means necessary.
Obviously, the sarcasm is in suggesting that WE use any means necessary to counteract this threat to our freedom from the right wing whackos.
So, maybe there wasn't really a whooshing sound, because I think you got it. You just aren't twisted enough to know that you got it.
And what an interesting publisher! Tyndale House Publishers publishes books with a Christian Fundamentalist agenda. Their most popular books are the Left Behind series, which describe the trials of living on earth Post-Rapture.
And I think you understate the problem. He doesn't refuse to participate in anything resembling a dialogue, he actively and intentionally sabotages any and all attempts.
I think the reviews, while often childish (and funny), are akin to posting "Rabid Dog" signs outside of a yard to warn passersby.
There's a Joni Mitchel quote that I'll have to paraphrase. "Back in the sixties, record execs were just as conniving and greedy as they are today. The difference is that they actually liked music back then."
So you're saying that you can hack the Darwin kernel source, compile it, and then install Aqua on top of it? That's news to me. (Your link didn't work, by the way.)
If you're referring to writing kernel extensions, then you are technically correct, and I didn't express myself well.
I think you hit the nail on the head. There are degrees of "tinkerability". What this project is calling for is a very deep level (should the user choose to go there) of tinkerability. And there are important reasons to have this option in developing nations.
Perhaps the most important reasons have to do with developing economies and technical infrastructure/resources. If 1% of the kids become interested enough to tinker and develop programming and other related skills, this would be a huge boost to their local economies.
I think Steve made a nice gesture, but OS X doesn't meet the needs of this project, being proprietary software. It meets my needs just fine, but I don't expect it to meet everyone's needs. And although one can go fairly deep into OS X, you'll still hit a wall after a point. For example, I cannot modify the kernel (if I were so inclined). I can't customize Darwin, then install Aqua on top of that.
Here's a better link to the actual project, not Rael's personal blog: Bloxsom
And, last time I checked, Bloxsom was written in Perl, not PHP, although there is a PHP implementation (IIRC).
One nice feature of Bloxsom is that it doesn't use a database back end. It uses the directory structure, and blog entries are merely text files placed in the appropriate directory (or folder, if you're using the Mac paradigm). The top line of the text file is the headline, all that follows is the entry.
Another nice thing about bloxsom is that while a base installation is very simple and barebones, it has a plug-in architecture, making it very customizable and extensible.
All in all, bloxsom is great for someone like me with just a little technical proficiency. I've set it up several times and played with it, but I never kept up with updating. I just don't have a need to share my every thought and experience with the world and I'm lazy.
However, I'm setting something up for a company with which I'm associated, and I'm considering using it for their News section. We might be setting up an OS X server, so we might even use blojsom, the Java port of bloxsom.
You think you're an idiot? I was hoping this would help my morning commute!
I like to believe that there is *literally* such a thing as "good" music.
However, there is such a thing as "bad" music.
It's not that far fetched. After all, their target audience is basically composed of robots.
I wonder if this will become a new twist on the Turing Test. Try to figure out if someone is a robot by what music they enjoy.
It's deja vu all over again. I am absolutely certain this is a dupe, but since it's such an old dupe, let's go easy on scuttlebutt. I mean, if a slashdot user can't find the original article, how can we expect an editor to find it? I don't think they even know that there is a search function here.
Oh, did you try searching for Roland Pippilongstocking stories? This seems like a Roland type story.
If it makes you feel any better, you probably did the smart thing buying the powerbook now when you need it, instead of waiting for the intels. The transition to intel is going to be a BIG transition, and you (and I*) will probably be much better off waiting for the second iteration of intel powerbooks.
*(My 12" PB just came in from Apple. I'm going in to work to pick it up today!)
Sounds like you gave it an honest shot and it just wasn't for you. Sure, you could try and tweak it with various methods and 3rd party applications, but by that point you're starting to do what you've already done on your favored linux distro. I don't think such tweaks would make you happy with OS X (although they do make some OS X users even happier).
As afar as that last of the PPC powerbooks goes, wait until the day the intel based powerbooks are out, and then start cruising the Apple Store special deals section on a daily basis or keep your eye on sites like dealmac.
[OK, my brothers, I have him distracted. Get the tar and feathers ready!]
It's not that crazy an assumption, at least not as crazy as you think.
If sales had remained the same, one might figure that this was the base of Mac users upgrading to new machines as needed.
However, Apple has experienced explosive growth in sales, and these customers have to be coming from someplace, i.e., it's not just previous Mac users buying a second or third machine. And that "some place" is either Windows or the shrinking pool of first time computer users. As most people that can afford to buy a computer already have one, I don't think this later group is important for sales growth, at least not the sales growth under discussion here. It's not statistically significant, nor is the number of people switching from a linux distro (or other *nix) to Mac.
I don't think the assumption is that big a stretch. Apple must be carving their sales growth out of somewhere. Is it that far fetched to assume they're carving it out of the Windows market?
But I fear that Apple is growing a group of computer idiots for users.
My how times have changed! I was once told by an employer that "Macs were for stupid people". (circa 1990)
And over the years, how many times have I heard that Macs were for "creative types", for graphics, and for idiots?
Thank you, OS X. We appear to have shed that stereotype. However, a core constituency of Macintosh has always been "a group of computer idiots", i.e., people who do not have the inclination, patience, skills, time, or smarts to figure out the intricacies. How and why these Mac users (non switchers) are different from your typical windows user is left as an exercise for the reader.*
*Maybe they're not all that different.
Hah! We're giving away virtual holidays to any qualified person who is willing to listen to a short 30 minute presentation on virtual condo time sharing. We offer both PK and non-PK condo developments..
It bears mentioning that SCO has engaged in a delay strategy, although for what purpose other than to put off the inevitable it is not clear. As some have theorized, the longer they can avoid the unavoidable, the more opportunities there will be for stock manipulation.
At any rate, the court cannot dismiss these delays out of hand; without sound reasons for denying a delaying motion, the court opens itself up to appeals. Judges don't like to have their decisions reversed on appeal. It screws with their experience points or something. However, judges do have their limits, and SCO seems to have reached Judge Kimball's limit.
So all things considered, Doktor Memory is right. This case is proceeding at a reasonable pace.
That's pretty rich. I can't tell how far to the kookybiscuit right you must be if you think I (a moderate republican) am a communist. However, you have piqued my curiosity. Are you pro or anti-Hitler?
It is fruitless to argue with you, because you are a zealot. You will never change your mind, nor will you change the subject. My withdrawal from the argument is more akin to hiding when the Jehovah's Witnesses ring the doorbell.
If you wish to rehash the argument over copyrights ad nauseam , go find a willing victim. Your boorish attempts to kick an argument from me are bootless.