You have a weird definition of AI.
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Artificial Intelligence: "The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence."
You seem to be arguing that Deep Blue was not concious or sentient. I agree with both of those, but that's not what an AI is.
I know as a software developer myself if someone were to contact me with a recepie for a defect I didn't think existed with a "I made sure these steps wouldn't really work, just change it until it does" I probably would not put much effort into investigating.
And I'm willing to bet this exploit didn't make it to very many programemrs within Microsoft.
If it isn't announced yet, I wouldn't trust it. Considering Windows SMB support *was* announced and was a total mess, I'm not sure I'd trust software Apple didn't consider good enough to announce.
Startup seems slower if there's hard disc problems. The Finder is a bit slower at some things but faster at others. (In particular, I find scrolling to be much more responsive.) Microsoft Word is quite a bit slower. But Chimera is the fastest web browser I've ever used, Mail screams (now - it was a pig at first, but it seems to have built whatever caches it needed), MT Newswatcher is insanely fast, etc, etc.
I wonder how many people who complain about how slow it is have run top to see what's taking all the processor time...
Oh, in case anyone's curious: Powerbook G4 @ 500Mhz.
I mean, the premise is fine, but both of the two main reasons he talks about AREN'T TRUE! Just looking at the people who while about their favorite piece of cruft going away in Mac OS X should prove this. Take your pick: Trash on the desktop instead of in the dock, quick launch aliases in a highly hidden location (the Apple menu), applications strewn everywhere, etc, etc.
Also, the very idea of Microsoft inventing a good user interaction model is laughable. I don't know for certain which web browser first introduced tabbed browsing, for instance, but I know it wasn't made by either Microsoft or Apple. Ditto any number of interface features.
Let's move on to his examples, then.
He argues against having to save once. Well, I hate to break it to him, but I like to organize my documents. Further, I want to name it something very specific. Sure, applications can suggest a name, but when it comes right down to it for intuitive tasks computers are stupid. Even if we could get the intuition rate up to 95% I still wouldn't want one anticipating me in ways I can't see and correct. 5% error is unaccptable.
He argues a Quit commannd is unecessary and confusing. I have to disagree on this point, too. Perhaps it's not named the ideal thing, but let me use a simple analogy. When I want to put a nail into a wall, I go get my hammer. I line up the nail, smack it with the hammer more times than I'd care to admit, then... I put the hammer away. Computer applications are tools and need to be used the same way. As long as it is obvious the tool has not been put away and the way to put it away is obvious, it is an entirely intuitive operation. On these grounds, Mac OS Classic fails but Mac OS X passes. Apple got rid of the cruft. Microsoft also fails, because they try to make the ilusion of a tooless world but only succeed part of the time. Instead of having to find the tool, using it, then putting it away you need to find it, use it, find it, use it, find it, use it... and finding it is generally the hard part.
Yes, why DO you use file pickers for opening files? I almost never do! But when I do use one, I can't help but notice it looks exactly the same as the file manager. Further, Windows has an even better solution: Right clicking where you want to create the file.
I'm not going to bother with the fourth example. He scores a couple partial hits, but his average is way too low to bring the document back to respectability.
From Apple's site:
"SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW); writes DVD-R discs at 1x speed, reads DVDs at 6x speed, writes CD-R discs at 8x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 4x speed, reads CDs at 24x speed."
So yeah, it's slow compared to desktop drives. But not slow enough that I'd put my nose up at it.
I've used IB. I've also used every other tool I mentioned.
They all provide equivalent functionality, although I'll grant that VB has the reputation of being the weakest.
Please don't try to FUD me.
Password servers? I don't even know what those are, but I got the SMB file server and client on Mac OS X working with Windows XP without any problem at all...
I admit I have a Mac bias, but even so I found this part ridiculous "InterfaceBuilder is the only tool on earth that actually allows you to design and test professional UI with virtually no user code."
Off the top of my head... Visual Basic, Delphi, Prograph, RealBasic, C++ Builder...
The only trick was getting the APN right in both the phone and Powerbook. It actually worked first try, then somehow the phone lost the settings and it took me three days to get it to work again...
I wrote my own script while troubleshooting it, but the pintware scripts people are pointing out work great.
Except takes do the same thing, don't they? And with a tape, the first sign you get that the tape is hosed is when trying to watch that episode of Enterprise you recorded a few hours before so you could go out for all-you-can-eat prawns through wavey lines.
The video, not the prawns.
The needs of the Classic runtime have nothing to do with the native ABI.
As for targetting System 7.5 in schools... when most of the computers in use are LCIIIs and earlier, you don't have a lot of choice.
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Artificial Intelligence: "The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence." You seem to be arguing that Deep Blue was not concious or sentient. I agree with both of those, but that's not what an AI is.
I know as a software developer myself if someone were to contact me with a recepie for a defect I didn't think existed with a "I made sure these steps wouldn't really work, just change it until it does" I probably would not put much effort into investigating. And I'm willing to bet this exploit didn't make it to very many programemrs within Microsoft.
Now that the SDK is out, I hope to get a few basic ones together. Hopefully someone will beat me to it though! :)
And considering how busy I am, I think I'd rather write a script than a Cocoa bundle.
If it isn't announced yet, I wouldn't trust it. Considering Windows SMB support *was* announced and was a total mess, I'm not sure I'd trust software Apple didn't consider good enough to announce.
You ought to be able to figure out the power requirements for a set of LEDs vs. a monitor yourself, though...
...in a few years.
I mean, microwaves have clocks. They don't actually need to know the time (except under rare circumstances). Ditto ovens, coffee makers, etc, etc.
Computers, though, actually need to keep track of the time. Most are set reasonably accurately. So why not?
Each winter here is a bit colder than the year before. Aside from crackpots like David Suzuki, I haven't really seen much support for global warming.
The mini ice age theory feels more correct to me. Of course, we'd better have things under control by the time its over...
Course, I could be totally wrong. It's not like I watch this stuff like I used to. I used to totally buy in to global warming.
Tough to say.
Startup seems slower if there's hard disc problems. The Finder is a bit slower at some things but faster at others. (In particular, I find scrolling to be much more responsive.) Microsoft Word is quite a bit slower. But Chimera is the fastest web browser I've ever used, Mail screams (now - it was a pig at first, but it seems to have built whatever caches it needed), MT Newswatcher is insanely fast, etc, etc.
I wonder how many people who complain about how slow it is have run top to see what's taking all the processor time...
Oh, in case anyone's curious: Powerbook G4 @ 500Mhz.
I mean, the premise is fine, but both of the two main reasons he talks about AREN'T TRUE! Just looking at the people who while about their favorite piece of cruft going away in Mac OS X should prove this. Take your pick: Trash on the desktop instead of in the dock, quick launch aliases in a highly hidden location (the Apple menu), applications strewn everywhere, etc, etc.
Also, the very idea of Microsoft inventing a good user interaction model is laughable. I don't know for certain which web browser first introduced tabbed browsing, for instance, but I know it wasn't made by either Microsoft or Apple. Ditto any number of interface features.
Let's move on to his examples, then.
He argues against having to save once. Well, I hate to break it to him, but I like to organize my documents. Further, I want to name it something very specific. Sure, applications can suggest a name, but when it comes right down to it for intuitive tasks computers are stupid. Even if we could get the intuition rate up to 95% I still wouldn't want one anticipating me in ways I can't see and correct. 5% error is unaccptable.
He argues a Quit commannd is unecessary and confusing. I have to disagree on this point, too. Perhaps it's not named the ideal thing, but let me use a simple analogy. When I want to put a nail into a wall, I go get my hammer. I line up the nail, smack it with the hammer more times than I'd care to admit, then... I put the hammer away. Computer applications are tools and need to be used the same way. As long as it is obvious the tool has not been put away and the way to put it away is obvious, it is an entirely intuitive operation. On these grounds, Mac OS Classic fails but Mac OS X passes. Apple got rid of the cruft. Microsoft also fails, because they try to make the ilusion of a tooless world but only succeed part of the time. Instead of having to find the tool, using it, then putting it away you need to find it, use it, find it, use it, find it, use it... and finding it is generally the hard part.
Yes, why DO you use file pickers for opening files? I almost never do! But when I do use one, I can't help but notice it looks exactly the same as the file manager. Further, Windows has an even better solution: Right clicking where you want to create the file.
I'm not going to bother with the fourth example. He scores a couple partial hits, but his average is way too low to bring the document back to respectability.
Just my two bits for what it's worth...
From Apple's site: "SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW); writes DVD-R discs at 1x speed, reads DVDs at 6x speed, writes CD-R discs at 8x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 4x speed, reads CDs at 24x speed." So yeah, it's slow compared to desktop drives. But not slow enough that I'd put my nose up at it.
Well, speaking a someone who lives a couple hours from Whistler, it's definitely a good place to spend a winter!
Well, I doubt that actually. A user with 128MB is going to hit the hard disc swap file a lot more frequently than one with 256MB.
I think it might only come with the iBook and iMac.
I've used IB. I've also used every other tool I mentioned. They all provide equivalent functionality, although I'll grant that VB has the reputation of being the weakest. Please don't try to FUD me.
Password servers? I don't even know what those are, but I got the SMB file server and client on Mac OS X working with Windows XP without any problem at all...
What problem are you having?
I admit I have a Mac bias, but even so I found this part ridiculous "InterfaceBuilder is the only tool on earth that actually allows you to design and test professional UI with virtually no user code." Off the top of my head... Visual Basic, Delphi, Prograph, RealBasic, C++ Builder...
Kylix 3 supports C++ code as well as Pascal. I haven't tried it yet but it should work.
http://borland.com/kylix/index.html
Of course, you'll have to port any C++ Builder VCL code to CLX.
I'm using the resulting supercomputer to search for other intelligent life in this hick town. So far it hasn't found anything.
...and a T68i.
The only trick was getting the APN right in both the phone and Powerbook. It actually worked first try, then somehow the phone lost the settings and it took me three days to get it to work again...
I wrote my own script while troubleshooting it, but the pintware scripts people are pointing out work great.
Logging in to Mac OS X as ">console" will switch to a textual login prompt.
Except takes do the same thing, don't they? And with a tape, the first sign you get that the tape is hosed is when trying to watch that episode of Enterprise you recorded a few hours before so you could go out for all-you-can-eat prawns through wavey lines. The video, not the prawns.
The needs of the Classic runtime have nothing to do with the native ABI. As for targetting System 7.5 in schools... when most of the computers in use are LCIIIs and earlier, you don't have a lot of choice.
I remember reading about this on the OpenTransportDev list well over a year ago.
No no, I mean One Click. What, exactly, have they patented? I don't understand that one at all.